The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1987 Page: 3 of 4
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THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO, Sulphur Springe, Taxes, Frldoy, May 6, 1967—3.
County court records
Marriage Licenses
Claude Walter and Martha
Elizabeth Collins.
Larry Don Moss and Kathryn
Jackson.
David Michael Bryant and Cheryl
Lynn French.
Ronald Dale Smith and Robin
Reneau Palmer.
Jay Lynn Hicks and Johanna Sue
Easdon.
Holland Edward Springfield and
Nancy Lee Jeter.
Ralph Taylor Preuss and Lisa
Renee England.
Charles Wayne Crump and Billie
Danette Smith.
Divorces
There were no divorces granted
this week
Lend Transfers
Kenneth Bell and Bonnie Bell to
Rickey Godbolt and Anita Godbolt,
0 163 of an acre in the Douglas Ad-
dition.
Elmer Dial and Peggy Dial to Fred
ljndiey Sr, a tract in the Mary Ann
Bowlin survey.
Edgar B Weaver and Mavis
Weaver to John Michael Witt and
Sherri Lynne Witt, I>ot 24 of the J.C.
Jackson addition in the Mary Ann
Bowlin survey
Jeff Redding and Franees Redding
to Samuel Fountain and Sandra
Fountain, a tract in the Mary Ann
Bowlin survey
H Craig Kids and Bonni B Kids to
Paul H Kids and Vivian M Kids, I»t
12. Block 2 of Cedar Springs Addition
in the Mary Ann Bowlin survey
Janice Nelson and Aubrey Hum-
phrey to Dan Humphrey, 5 acres in
the F. Carroll survey, 100 acres in the
L. Brackeen survey, 9.7 acres in the
J.P. Daniel survey and 46.91 acres in
the Racheal DeSpain survey.
Janice Nelson and Dan Humphrey
to Aubrey Humphrey, 20 acres in the
I.C. Byrd survey, and a total of 130
acres in the L. Brackeen survey.
Pizzini Price to Kenneth Ward, a
tract in the Mary Ann Bowlin survey.
Juanita Smith O’Neill, Burton U.
O’Neill and Jackie C. Fletcher to Jay
Giusti and Donna Powell Giusti, a
tract in the G. Procello survey.
Roger Fouse and Joann Fouse to
Maurice White, Let 7, Block 5 of
Lincoln Heights Addition in the Jose
Y’Barbo survey.
Dewitt Loyd and Mozell Loyd to
Michael Scott Scroggins and Ala Kay
Scroggins, a tract in the Mary Ann
Bowlin survey.
Jose Luis Herrada and Guadalupe
Herrada to Stephen Roy Wyatt, 0.273
of an acre in the M.D. Jackson sur-
vey.
Stephen Roy Wyatt to Margie Helen
Bright, 0.273 of an acre in the M.D
Jackson survey.
Lannie R. Vaughn and Patricia A
Vaughn to Cecil E Walker and Faye
Cheree Walker, 1 acre in the
Nacogdoches University survey.
Buel Berry and Deolva E. Berry to
Randy E. Berry and Ricky B Berry ,
a tract in the Mary Ann Bowlin
survey.
J.L. Hodge and Corine Hodge to
Rose Mary Holliday and Billie Jean
Sanlin, a tract in the Mary Ann
Bowlin survey
Kathie Johnson, individually and
for Jamie Johnson, Christina
Johnson, April Johnson dnd
LaMarcus Stephens, minors, to
Veterans Land Board of Texas, 30.527
acres in the Thomas Norris survey.
Robert L. Johnson, Ronnie L.
Johnson, Ethel Mae Johnson, Harry
Johnson, Mae Jewel Thomas, Shelia
M. Dial and Naomi J. Randle to
Veterans Land Board of Texas, 30.527
acres in the Thomas Norris survey.
Kathie Johnson, individually and
for Jamie Johnson, Christina
Johnson, April Johnson and
LaMarcus Stephens, minors, Robert
L. Johnson, 34.015 acres in the
Thomas Norris survey.
Ronnie L. Johnson, Ethel Mae
Johnson, Harry Johnson, Mae Jewel
Thomas, Shelia M. Dial and Naomi J.
Randle to Robert L. Johnson, 34.015
acres in the Thomas Norris survey.
Rhonda J. Mobly to James M.
Mobly, 6.7741 acres in the M. Stewart
survey.
Judith Ann Perritt to Eddie Gene
Perritt. 1 acre in the Jasper County
School Land survey.
John £>. Perry to Henry H. Walters
and Nellie M. Walters, Lot 16, Block
a3 of Lincoln Heights Addition in the
Jose Y’Barbo survey.
Mary E. Adams Long and John L.
Long to William C. Zahn and
Charlotte R. Zahn, 1.5548 acres in the
E. Melton survey.
Coy Owens and Estelle Owens to
Rex Randolph, Weldon Watkins and
Richard Watkins, 30 acres in the E.S.
Emerson survey.
David A. Holt to Maevis L. Holt, Lot
3, Section 6 of Lake Highlands Ad-
dition in the Santos Coy survey.
City sells bond package
at favorable interest rate
The sale of the city’s $4.2 million
sewer bond package to Dallas in-
vestment firm Rotan Mosle Inc. and
Associates, was approved on first
reading Tuesday, according to city
secretary Sharon Ricketson.
The bonds, which will fund ex-
pansion of and improvements to the
city’s wastewater treatment plant,
will be sold with an effective interest
rate of 7.09562, the lowest bid of six
received, Ricketson said.
“All things considered, par-
ticularly with the flux in the market
right now, we’re all very pleased with
the interest rate we received,” City
Manager David Tooley said.
If the bonds had been sold a week
earlier, he added, 'they probably
would have sold for something
around the 8 percent range.”
The City Council Tuesday approved
a sales contract for purchase of
I
approximately 44 acres at $2,000 per
acre for land directly east of the
existing sewer plant that will contain
the expansion.
The bond package, approved by
voters in a March election by a large
margin, is the result of En-
vironmental Protection Agency
(EPA) charges leveled against the
city last July for sewer plant
discharge violations that will be
corrected through the plant ex-
pansion expected to be completed by
July 1988
The U.S. Congress set this deadline
in 1986 for all municipal treatment
facilities to be in compliance with
federal treatment guidelines.
The city began negotiations with
EPA in February for a “consent
decree" in which the city and EPA
agreed on the penalties for past
treatment plant discharge violations
and future penalties for further
violations.
City officials went to New York in
April to make presentations to the
Hospital addition
will house CAT-scan
Deaths
Wayne Mobley
Funeral services for William
Wayne Mobley, 55, of Route 4,
Sulphur Springs, were held Monday
in the Tapp Funeral Home chapel
with the Rev Jackie McQueen of-
ficiating Burial was in the Ridgeway
Cemetery
Pallbearers were Frank Uttlefield,
Ray Ferrell, Billy Joe Bain, W.L
Bowen, Bill Uttlefield, Travis Gene
Booth and G .W Bain
Honorary pallbearers were em-
ployees of Precint 4 and the Com-
missioners Court of Hopkins County
Mr Mobley died Saturday in
Hopkins County Memorial Hospital
He was bom April 25. 1932. in the
Peerless Community, the son of
Vivan E Mobley and Virgie Lee
Stevens Mobley He married l a veins
Stewart Oct 23, 1948, in Cumby She
survives
He had served as a County Com-
missioner for the past three years.
Other surv ivors include a daughter.
Mrs James < lands I Jackson of
Sulphur Springs; a son, Billy Wayne
Mobley of Sulphur Springs; three
grandchildren; a brother, David
Mobley of Sulphur Springs; two
sisters. Vickie Scott of Sulphur
Springs and Gloria Don Holt of
Garland
Terri Ann Koon
Funeral services for Tern Ann
Koon, 17. of Route 1, Brashear. were
held Tuesday in the First Baptist
Church with the Rev Charles Red-
mond officiating Burial was in the
Shirley Cemetery
Pallbearers were Todd Martin,
Bicchie Stillwagoner, Mark Motes,
1 arry Temples, Paul Pogue, Todd
Folmar, Jeff Massey and Morgan
Anderson
Mrs Koon died early Saturday
morning near Greenville from in-
juries sustained in an automobile
accident
She was bom Aug 13, 1969, in
Dallas, the daughter, of Alan Jordan
and Margaret Dixon Jordan. She
married Kris Koon July 19, 1966, in
Sulphur Springs. He survives.
She was a senior at Sulphur Springs
High School and a member of the
First Baptist Church.
Other survivors include her
grandparents, Ivy Dixon of Dallas
and Mr and Mrs. G.C. Jordan of
Melissa; a brother. Jay Alan Jordan
of Canton; a sister, Tammy Evelyn
Whitaker of Tyler; her parents, Alan
Jordan of Seagoville and Margaret
Morse of Canton.
Ruth Melton
Services for Ruth Melton, 93, of
Mount Vernon, were held Wednesday
in the Harvey Funeral Home Chapel
in Mount Vernon
Burial was m the Mount Vernon
City Cemetery with the Revs Travis
Darby, Mike Milbura and John Hicks
officiating
Mrs Melton died Monday at Terry
Haven Nursing Home in Mount
Vernon
She was bora Oct. 30, 1893, in
Texas, the daughter of George Melton
and Emma Seales Melton.
Local survivors include four nieces.
Ruth Hoffman, Clara Waits, Georgia
Manning and Mildred Moody, and one
nephew, Homer Junior Melton, all of
Sulphur Springs
Thomas Bryant
Services for Thomas Layfette
(Tomi Bryant, 96, of 1333 Jefferson
St. were held Wednesday in Tapp
Funeral Chapel
Burial was in the Pine Forest
Cemetery
Mr Bryant died Monday in
Hopkins County Nursing Home
He was bora Nov. 21, 1890, in Pine
Forest, the son of Charles Wesley and
Alice F arrar Bryant
Mr Bry ant was a dairyman
He married Beula Ray in 1916 She
preceded him in death in 1969
He is survived by a daughter,
Romans Grant of Sulphur Springs, a
brother. Boss Bryant of Pine Forest;
two sisters, Mabel Parnell of Sulphur
Springs, and Louise Gipson of Dallas;
one grandson and two great-
grandchildren
formerly of Reilly Springs, were held
in Hopkinsville, Ky., with burial
following
Mr Ponder died Saturday, April 25,
m the University Hospital in Nash-
ville, Tenn., from injuries incurred in
a pedestnan-pickup truck accident
that occurred at 8 p.m. Friday, April
24, in Hopkinsville, Ky.
Among the survivors are his
mother, Mrs. E.S. (Lola) Ponder
Attlesey of Sulphur Springs; a sister,
Mrs. Norvell Webb of Houston; and a
brother, Dewitt Ponder of Idaho.
The Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital Board of Directors approved
the low bid Tuesday for a building to
be constructed to house a new CAT-
scan machine
The board accepted the low bid of
$72,996 from Stacener Construction
Co. of Mount Pleasant, in a special
meeting There were four other bids.
The building will be added onto east
side of the current facility, where it
will be part of the X-ray department,
according to Dan Noteware, assistant
administrator.
The contractor has assured the
hospital that the exterior of the new
building will match the exterior of the
existing facility.
Construction will start May 18, and
should be finished the first week in
August, Noteware said.
The board approved a purchase of
the CAT-scan in March, for $550,000,
to be paid in a five-year lease
agreement. The cost of adding on a
building to house the machine was
figured into the initial cost.
nation’s two top bond rating com-
panies -S- Standard & Poor’s and
Moody’s Investors Service — and
retained current ratings of AA and
Baal, respectively.
Partial funding for repayment of
the bonds was approved in April by
the City Council in the form of a
sewer rate increase of $1 effective in
April. The new sewer rate is $8.50 per
month for minimum usage of 10,000,
which was increased in the action
from 8,000 gallons. And the cost per
1,000 gallons used over the minimum
was raised from 90 cents to $1.25.
The council awarded the first
contract for improvements to the
plant in March for an effluent flow
meter that will measure the strength
of the treated water discharged from
the plant into Rock Creek and the
amount of water discharged.
Meter installation completion is
expected by the end of the month,
according to Ricketson.
A perusal of final blueprints for
plant expansion at Tuesday night’s
City Council session was the final step
in preliminary bidding procedures
for plant expansion, she said, and
advertisement for bids for plant
construction is forthcoming.
The city will actually receive the
$4.2 million within about 30 days,
Ricketson said.
Pogue to name
new commissioner
Hopkins County Judge Joe
Pogue said he will announce an
appointee this week to fill
the Precinct 4 commissioner’s
position left vacant by the death
of Wayne Mobley.
Echoettes
Mrs. W.J. Rex
Funeral services for Mrs W.J
i Dimple i Rex of Houston, formerly of
Reilly Springs and Commerce, were
held Saturday in the Houston
Graveside services were held Sunday
in the Rosemound Cemetery in
Commerce.
Mrs. Rex died Wednesday, April
29, at her residence.
The former Dimple Ponder is
survived by her mother, Mrs. E.S.
i Lola > Ponder Attlesey of Sulphur
Springs; a sister, Mrs. Norvell Webb
of Houston; a brother. Dewitt Ponder
of Idaho; and three daughters of
Houston;
Maurice Thomas Jr.
Funeral services for Maurice
Thomas Jr., 36, of Irving, formerly of
Sulphur Springs, were held Tuesday
at the Hinnant Street Church of Christ
with Jerry A. Taylor officiating
Burial was in East Caney Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Floy B. Sanders,
Rodney Sanders, Marsxell Adams,
Ron Patterson, Roy Childs and
Harold Childs.
Honorary pallbearers include
members of the Sulphur Springs High
School Class of 1969, Weldon Wright,
Ronny Kelly, Marvin Clayton, Larry
Clayton, Johnny Thomas, Dennis
Marsh and Harry Sims.
Mr. Thomas died Friday in
Parkland Hospital. Dallas.
He was born Sept. 7,1960, in Kansas
City, Mo., the son of Maurice (Bob)
Thomas and Jessie Childs Thomas.
He married Yvette Sanders Aug. 20,
1965, in Sulphur Springs. She sur-
vives.
He was a welder with Trinity In-
dustries in Irving and a member of
the Church of Christ.
He served in the U S. Army during
the Vietnam conflict where he
received a Purple Heart.
Other survivors include a daughter,
Angela Marie Thomas; two sons,
Samuel Thomas and Odell Pitts; his
grandfather, Herman Childs of
Sulphur Springs; and Ms parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Thomas of Sulphur
Springs.
Kenneth Ponder
Terry Jordan Koon
Funeral sarriras for
(Corky) Ponder of Hopkinsville, Ky.
Walton Pullen
Funeral service for Walton (Buck)
Pullen, 68, of Dallas, the brother of a
Sulphur Springs resident, were held
Friday in the Wildwood Baptist
Church in Mesquite with the Rev
M V. Pruett officiating Burial was in
Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas.
Mr. Pullen died Wednesday in
Baylor Hospital in Dallas
He was bora Feb. 27, 1919, in Wood
County, the son of Ira Pullen and
Anneta Douglas Pullen.
He was a paint contractor and an
Army veteran of World War II.
He had lived in the Dallas area
since 1946
Survivors include his wife, Anita
Pullen of Dallas; a son, Gregory
Pullen of Dallas; a daughter, Tanya
Denise Pullen of Dallas; two
brothers, Waymon Pullen of Sulphur
Springs and Jimmy Pullen of Dallas;
two sisters, Mary Wilkinson of Dallas
and Margaret Pickering of San
Diego, Calif.; and two grandchildren.
Linnie Johnson
Services for Mrs. Linnie Johnson,
75, of Mount Vernon were held
Thursday at Harvey Funeral Home in
Mount Vernon. ’
Burial was in Liberty Cemetery
with the Revs. W.P. Stewart and
Nursing Home in Mount Pleasant.
She was born May 16, 1911, the
daughter of C.E. White and Nettie
Smith White.
She is survived by her husband,
Sammy Johnson of Mount Vernon;
two sons, Charles Johnson and Jerry
Johnson, both of Parley; three
daughters, Linda Johnson at Lawton,
Okla., Betty Johnson and Wanda
Johnson, both at Purity; father, C.E.
White of Mount Vo
Harold White of
sisters, Winnie Turrenttne at Winn-
abero and Gertrude Whoa das at
Winnahnrn mu ,,,i .a m -a- -__-a
wmnaooro, rour granaefuiaren and
two great-grandchildren
HOPKINS COUNTY received
$4,215.02 from liquor sales tax
revenues for the first quarter of 1967,
according to information released by
State Comptroller Bob Bullock. The
City of Sulphur Springs received
$3,784.80. The City of Como received
$178.33.
DR. JOHN H. Anthony, president of
Collin County Community College,
will be the commencement speaker
May 16, at the East Texas State
University graduation exercises. The
ETSU commencement will be held
for an expected 530 graduates at 7
p.m. in Memorial Stadium. Anthony
is in his third year as president of the
McKinney college. He has lectured
throughout the country at various
universities including UCLA, Oregon
State, and Northern Illinois.
BECKY GOSSETT Castleberry,
daughter of Jim and Jo Gossett of
Sulphur Springs, was graduated
summa cum laude May 3 from St.
Mary’s University in San Antonio.
She received a bachelor’s degree in
arts with an emphasis in elementary
education. She is listed in the 1987
Who’s Who of Outstanding
Graduating College Students of
America and was valedictorian of the
1982 graduating class of Sulphur
Springs High School. She is currently
teaching second grade in San An-
tonio.
Lisa Self of Sulphur Springs an-
nounces the birth of a daughter at
2:35 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, in Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital.
HOPKINS COUNTY residents who
own farms that have been in con-
tinuous agricultural production for
100 years or more and ownership has
remained within the family are asked
to participate in the Texas Depart-
ment of Agriculture’s 1967 Family
Land Heritage Program. Contact
County Judge Joe Pogue at 885-3926
or Historical Society President Jeff
Campbell at 885-5424. Deadline is July
15. A certificate and sign will be
presented to the owners in November
in Austin.
NAVY SEAMAN Recruit Rodney
G. Morris, son of Marvin and Marie
Morris of Cooper, has completed
recruit training at Recruit Training
Command in Great Lakes, 111. During
Morris’ eight-week training cycle, he
studied general military subjects
designed to prepare him for further
academic and on-the-job training in
one of the Navy's 85 baric fields.
Gregory, Sharon and Candace
Ferguson announce the birth of a son
and brother, Logan Zachary, at 7:59
a.m. Wednesday, April 29, in Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital. The new
infant weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and
was 20 inches long. Grandparents are
Donald and Jo Spencer, Scott
Ferguson of Sulphur Springs and Ella
Harkins of Hugo, Okla. Great-
grandparents are Velma Spencer of
Sulphur Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Stanfield and Mr. and Mrs. Scott
Ferguson Sr. of Hugo, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bishop and
Lyndon of Emory announce the birth
at a daughter and sister, Lacey
Breeann, on Monday, April 27, at
Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. The
new infant weighed 7 pounds, ,44*
ounces. Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Marshall Bishop of Emory and
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Skelton of
Sulphur Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Steward of
Cumby announce the birth of a son at
10:10 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in
Hopkins County Memorial Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mosely at
Winnsboro announce the birth of twin
daughters Friday, May 1, at 12:42
p.m. and 12:43 p.m. in Memorial
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Otto of Sulphur
Springs announce the birth of a son
Friday, May 1, at 12:29 p.m. in
Memorial Hospital.
_Mr. and Mrs. Dannie Vaughn of
daughter Friday. May 1. at 9:91 pjn
in Memorial Hospital
' Mr. and Mrs. Frat Davis returned
Thursday from a two-week tour of
historical sites on the East Coast.
They attended the national con-
vention of the DAR in Washington,
D C. On Sunday, they attended an
Ardis family reunion in Davisville,
Fla., where they were joined by Mr.
and Mr. Harris Ardis, formerly of
Sulphur Springs.
PAUL LAWRENCE found an usual
bit of correspondence while working
on his farm in Como. Lawrence found
a piece of paper attached to a string
— that had once been tied to a balloon
— hung on a staple in a fence post.
The balloon had drifted northeast
from Kerrville, which is in the Hill
Country west of San Antonio. The
note was from Blakely Ohmers, a
third grader at Tom Daniels
Elementary School there. Lawrence
called Blakely and found out that
balloon had made the longest trip.
HOPKINS COUNTY Com-
missioners Court will not meet in a
special session Friday, as previously
planned. One of the two items that
was to be considered — chairs for the
Civic Center — will have to be
resolved by the Civic Center board.
The other item — additional
telephone lines for the Courthouse —
will be discussed at the next regular
meeting.
SHRINERS WILL be taking
collections in Sulphur Springs Friday
and Saturday to benefit their hospital
programs. The men will be stationed
along city streets for the event.
Travis Spencer, treasurer of the local
club, said all of the money collected
goes to the Hella Shriners Club in
Dallas where 95.9 percent of the
funding is forwarded to the hospital
program.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Morris and
Derrick of Sulphur Springs announce
the birth of a son and brother, C.W.,
at 7:19 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at
Baylor Medical Center. Grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Sherman
Morris of Sulphur Springs and Mr.
and Mrs. Eld Cooper of Mineola.
Great-grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
E.M. Owens of Grand Prairie and Mr. *811 $10 winners,
and Mrs. H.B. Cooper of Mineola.
Great-grandmother is Mrs. E.L.
Owens of Hico. Great-great-
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Ferrell of Sulphur Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Ferguson of
Sulphur Springs announce the birth of
a son at 7:59 a.m. Wednesday, April
29, in Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Tianchai Henson of
Winnsboro announce the birth of a
son at 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, April 29,
in Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital.
FIVE COMOPICKTON students
won prizes in the Wal-Mart coloring
contest. Travis Rowland won first
place in the 11-year-old category, and
received $25 and a bottle of vitamins.
Amy Carr won first in the 10-year-old
division and received $25 and a bottle
of vitamins. Troy Min ter, Ryan
Edmondson and Joetta Brown were
Mr. and Mrs. Monty Wells of
Emory announce the birth of a son at
1:17 |>.m. Saturday at Memorial
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Jones and
Graham welcome the arrival of their
son and brother, Wilson Bennett.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs
Charles W. Jones of Inno, S.C., and
Mr. and Mrs. Willard T. Nutt of
Groesbeck. Great-grandmother is
Mrs. David H. Jones Sr., of Durham,
N.C.
tftr Hopkins Contifj grip
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