The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1960 Page: 1 of 20
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SANDS OF TIME AND POLITICS
. . . Roundabout extends congratul-
ations to Mrs. James I. Perkins for
her ability to get a resolution pass-1
ed in Box M's precinct convention
Saturday . . . Thanks to Mrs. Per-
kins, she was able to talk the boys
in charge to pass a resolution en-
dorsing Senator Lyndon B. John-
son . . .
TWO YEARS AGO, there was
quite a hassel in good old number
14. The side Roundabout was on
got whipped ... As Roundabout
recalls, we were fighting hard
against the resolutions that we felt
came from the DOT headquarters
of Mrs. Franklin Randolph ... In-
stead, we offered a resolution that
14 go on record as backing our
great U. S. Senator Lyndon B.
Johnson, and our able Governor,
Price Daniel . . The liberals had
too many votes, however, so we
took a good licking. The resolu-
tions Mr*. Randolph and the DOT'S
wanted were passed . . .
ALL WAS QUIET in 14 t h i s
year . . .
ROUNDABOUT HAS ALWAYS
been a backer of Senator Lyndon
Johnson ... He was a personal
friend of Roundabout's dad, the
late E. H. Whitehead.
0
Band Concert
Set For Th is
Friday Night
The Rusk High School and Jun-
ior High School bands will be pre-
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20 PAGES
THREE SECTIONS
NUMBER 47
New Phone Rate Talks
May Explore Compromise
Alto OK's
Issue For
City ROW
ALTO-—In a city bond election
which drew more votes than had
been expected. Alto citizens over
whelmingly voted ;• new $60,000
street improvement bond
The city of Alto h&s been in
negotiation with the State High-
way Department for an extensive
widening and improvement on l;.
S. Highways C9 and State Highway
21, both of which are main city
thoroughfares.
"Most of the $60 000 will be used
to acquire rights of way the state
requires on such programs,' stated
Alto Mayor Frank Ed Weimar.
The town election drew 205
Tlu.sk State Hospital patients are pictured in trie luíale to tneir lirst performance in ¡ voters to the polls. Of that number,
last Friday's Open House observance. A full houso was present for each of the four hour-1195 \oted "for" the project, and
sented in concert Friday evening, jon^ programs.
Ma> 13th at 8 p.m. under the direc-
tion of Leon Tberiot.
Bandmaster Theriot has announ-
ced a varied program of music will
be played, with emphasis on Last Saturday's election cut into ton College, Stephen F Austin Col Patients of the hospital present-
marching overtures and popular the attendance figure of the Rusk lege, Panola County Junior College ¡ ed entertainment programs twice
music. State Hospital Open House, but and Lamar Tech were present. -each day. All four performances
Advance tickets to the concert officials said they were still quite | Visitors were taken on tours of attracted a full house. Awards prc-
are now being sold by Band mem- gratified" at the 1500 persons who the hospital, which included pat sentations to the year's outstand-
hers Prices are 50c for adults and came to the observance. ient wards. They noted several ex ing attendant, Mrs. Nell Abernathy, Seventy-one persons have beenj
25c for students. At the door prices The number lell below the figure hibits set up in wards and other and the outstanding Vurso Tech- j summoned for civil jury duty in
will be 60c and 30e. last year, but it was still above; departments. i nician, Mrs. Q. Belle Houston, were 145th District Court Monday. Six
Proceeds from this activity will average for the eighth open house According to guides and other made by Walter F Woodul, mem-1 suits have been docketed for the
be used to help defray the several observances held by the hospital, personnel, the response to the ob '"'r 'he board for State Hospi week.
expenses oí the band department Saturday's voting kept many peo- servance indicated sincere interest. 'n's iln(^ Special Schools and a One of the six, Grady C. Young
during the year ending, which in pie from the 47-county area from Visitors asked questions freely.' f°rmer lieutenant governor ¡vs. National \ugrape Company,
(ludes the purchase of equipment, attending. they reported. They were not su-, Raymond Vowel!, executive di-, has been passed. That suit is seek-
"We cordially invite everyone to Still the observance was describ perficial; rather they indicated a rector of the board, was introduced ing damages for injuries allegedly
attend." said Theriot. "It is our ed as one of the best and most vital interest. and spoke briefly He commended incurred when Young drank a
hope that you will enjoy the pro- successful in its purpose of inform Surprise was expressed also at Rusk Hospital Superintendent Dr. bottle of Nu^rape soda water He
gram, and of course the proceeds ing the public of the problems and what the program had accomplish-, Charles Castner for his service to | claims glass was in the drink.
will be appreciated by all of our accomplishments in the field of ed the mentally ill and to East Texas ; (See 71 CALLED Page 4)
music students." mental health.
The concert will be held in the According to
500 Finger 'Secret' Number
Fire Truck,
Faces
Same Bright Color
3rd Meet
Scheduled
By Council
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Hospital Observance Attracts 1500
ten "aguinst."
71 Called
For Jury
Duty Monday
High School Auditorium
School Orders
New Band Outfits
The Rusk School Board at its
May meeting ordered the purchase
of fifty new band uniforms. The
uniform"-- will b? delivered for use
registration, the
Gulf Coast area was well represent-
ed at the open house. F. leve n
schools and colleges brought bus
loads of pupils Psychology and
sociology students from Sam Hous
Mrs. J. E. Murray
On Teaching Staff
Three Run-0ffs Left By
Primary Voting Saturday
About five-hundred fingers twist-1 formation, since this line must be
I «I fa I 111 l
(d out the two "secret" digits on
their telephones in response to
Monday night's community fire sir
en Then about the same number
of faces took on the hue of a fire
engine.
For instead of finding out where
the fire was, the tape recorded
voice ehided: "You have dialed the
wrong number. Hang up and dial
again." Then the hint was dropped
that the illicit calls on this fire
department number were b e i n g
traced to their origin
The telephone number which
only 30 members of the fire de- ¡
partmont are supposed to know—I
lias been an open secret for a long!
time After Monday night's fire j
signal, 500 calls jammed the' equip |
inent for about 10 minutes. Yet,
there were only five firemen who'
were not on duty during the alert
The alarm was sounded about j
8 p.m. Twenty firemen were in the |
telephone office where Southwest j
ern Stales Telephone Plant Man
ager C B Yarbrough illustrated
how many people knew the num-
ber and were using it.
Five fireman were at the fire
station. The remaining five fire
men were either at home or about
their normal routine. But there
New Rusk couneilmen were
kept clear. It is to be dialed only ! confronted with the six-months-old
to report fires. And the person telephone rate dilemma Tuesday
who answers the fire alarm phone j "ight. They heard a brief summary
has been instructed not to give out u' proceedings through this year
information. He will only receive aM(1 th,'n s(,t !1 third meeting with
reports of fires. company representatives for next
The department Tuesday called Wednesday night.
attention to the announcements | Mayor Morris Hassell disclosed
over Radio Station KTLU that give ' recent conversations he has had
the location of fires immediately ¡ with representatives of the South-
after the alarm sounds. "You can j western States Telephone Company
get the information this way with which hinted at compromise bc-
out endangering anyone's life or tween the company's existing in
properly," the department state vestment return figures and the
inent said. rate it hoped to achieve with pro-
0 posed increases on city telephones.
However, an official city position
on (lie increases appeared far from
crystallized, 'I' h e unannounced
threat of company instituted court
action to achieve higher rates still
hangs over the council discussions,
together with the knowledge that
(lie city is financially unable to de-
fend itself in a suit similar to the
one brought against Jacksonville.
, The precedent set in that suit
Hundreds oi Rusk area people. ,js # lhreat to prolongcd
enjoyed a special two hour pro-j sfallinB 0f the company demands.
Saturday
Winners
Are Told
gram Saturday afternoon an
old fashioned jamboree which saw
many valuable prizes awarded by
Rusk merchants.
Winners names are listed here,
and winners are advised to visit
were 500 calls when there should the business listed by their names;
to claim their "Triple Treat" prize
have been, at the most, five.
The department explained the! ^ Green s !• ina Station
danger of jamming the line to the k"'ot
alarm recorder A maximum of 10 |
calls can be handled by the line
to the recorder at one time. If:
curiosity calls jam the line, then.
firemen will be delayed.
Said the department: "It is gen
erally known that each one-minute !
delay in a fire alarm results in an
increase of 10 per cent in the
amount of damage to property.
The Paisk school board has em
Rusk voters will be called to the County's Hulon Brown and Ang Constable W R "Doc" Jordan
polls again June 4, to decide three (.j¡na County's Billy Lee Thomp stayed far ahead of his opponent,
in the 1960 HI school year, Su- ployed Mrs. J E. Murray of Reklaw run off races of immediate local son aro thf, candidates. C. E Yarbrough, in another local
perintendent Gerald Chapman said as a teacher in the Rusk school significance. Saturday's Primary County Attorney Paul (.'ox was contest Jordan won 1,312 to 881.
He described the uniforms as system next year vote resulted in run offs for Coun- renominated to his post by about The second primary, to decide
entirely new outfits, not similar Mrs. Murray will teach in the ty Sheriff, Precinct 1 commission- a 350 vote margin Cox polled! the run-off rarec will' L k«ih „„
to the present uniforms. They will ¡ primary grades, Superintendent .or and District Attorney.
For President
be a new style and color. Gerald Chapman said Wednesday. | More than 8,000 voters an es
timated 60 per cent of county vot
ing strength—went to the polls
lasl Saturday. They were drawn
f> B ■ (T ■ • by hotly-contested races on al
cignt conventions rass
votes. The three Sheriff candi
dates drew 8,081 ballots. Sheriff
Allen Dotson, seeking re-election,
fell 173 votes short of a majority
and was forced into a run-off with
Eight of twenty-four Cherokee Precinct 1 named eight dele- Raymond Teague Dotson polled
County voting precincts Saturday i gates (0 the county Convention 3 054 votcs Teague had 3,204 and
adopted resolutions in support of Saturd Mav I4 I)clegates arc: Homer Smith received 923
the Democratic nomination and t __ The Congressional race was sec
3,601
3.305.
Conventions Pass
Resolutions For Lyndon
votes to Bob
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Adamson s June 4. Absentee voting for this
election is May 1531.
The telephone company is ask-
ing for a 7.5 per cent return on its
investment It claims it is now re-
ceding only a 5.42 per cent return.
Couneilmen agreed to a meeting
with the company next Wednesday
night at 7.
RETAIN ENGINEERS
Farlier in Tuesday night's meet-
Moseleys Drugs Suzy Holcomb in« c'('unlcil'I'0,11 sP!it 0,1 continued
Brooks!,.re Brothers Audrey uf. <he engineering f.rm
which has handled most city en
gineering for the past several
years.
Mayor Morris Hassell introduced
several complaints he had received
concerning the firm. But the firm
was also defended for the numer
Stovall Cleaners—Ruby Stewart olls services il has rendered the
Sears Roebuck and Co Lot city
Hassell explained that the city
Morris II
Moses
The Smart Shop Bernice Looney
(¡carden Furniture—J P. Rich
KAN Root Beer Mrs Len Has-
sell
Ileal 1 Bros (J. ('. Willinghani
Texas Cafe -Pearl Pierce
¡When a life is involved, any delay I tj(, jIu(|son
can result in death. Webb's Dress Shop Morris! isn't considering firing them.
"The Fire Department urgently 1 Schwarz "They aren't employed."
requests that everyone adults and Manning Gro 4 Mkl I. 0 1 s The need to make a decision was
children refrain from dialing the n<>nrV pointed out. Two projects of the
fire alarm number The time saved Piggly Wiggly -Charlie J Brown city will need immediate attention
may save your house." Edna's Beauty Shop Mrs Len by engineers. After several ex-
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election to the presidency of Lyn
Jack Nichols, II L Green, Mrs. H
ond for voter attention. Congres-,
DOTSON 2B3 215 «0B 96 129 57 «5 5B 3^9 310 69 129 276 272 5** 60 W 31 33 87 39 25 21^ 1^8 89 395^
SMITH 19^ 32 zw B 3« 1 10 21 212 15 15 33 & p U 13 22 15 2 9 13 7 0 163 12 2B 9*
TEA0ÜE 131 1B6 62 115 ^ 3% PQ 161 M 107 k7 5S 10 21 61 ^2 V
don B Johnson. Texas senator, j 1- Green, Mrs. John F. Joplin, Mrs. sman John Dowdy was re-nominat
However, only 19 of the pre- Jack Nichols, C. C Skillern. Lewis ed in the Seventh District while
cinets had filed reports of thí ir | [Jaiiks. Mrs Lewis Ranks
conventions late Tuesday Reports A ]iVmcmb(.r do,eRatiotl, havinfí
were still due from Precincts 10.
15 16 "3 and 24 delegate votes, will go to the
Endorsing Johnson were pre convent ion from Precinct 14 in
cincts 3, Jacksonville; 14. Rusk; 13 Rusk Delegates are C J Spinks.
Jacksonville; 20, New Summer
field: 22. Gallatin; 27. Ponta 31
Rusk; 32. Jacksonville
Most were a simple statement to
Mrs (' J Spinks, Mr and Mrs El-
ton Grisham, Mr and Mrs Harold
Miller. Mr and Mrs Theodore Wei
ch. Mr and Mrs Tom Sherman Mr
losing the county by a small mar
gin
The incumbent Dowds led the
county in earlj returns from the
smaller boxes But Crook overtook
his lead later in the evening with
the returns from big Jacksonville
and Ru^k boxes. The County vote
was 3.688 for Crook and 3.540 for
Dowdy However. Dowdy was re
JO 1B3 71 5B 21 1B 33 55 3^ 32 200 230 50
'5...173 36 66 Í6 90, 36 32 g?1 22 3.
ADAMSON 199 165 «99 72 1>*9 31 'tH 1+2 1«0 '+71 63 1k
22Í 392 236 WO TO 110 56 61 63 Si 6 2^ Wj _
TMPSON 93 6? 216 12 5>t 10 20 20 1 0? 119 17 70 fe 6^ 15 11 9 13 1^ 33 6 12 79 55 1^ 12 !
PIERCE 75 56 139 12 56 11 13 5 85 110 22 37 Í 7** 53 20 19 11 6 11 36 9 7 ü2 M-2 l.a 1<
SROWH 1*23 291 1016101 16>t 67 7S 7B W 2^.M5 2¡fB 71 97 M-1 31 61 B2 ^5 ''+5 3.3Ü IBV W 5501
3M5 213 91+9 97 1W 70 62 hZ V01 465 76 16« 390 187 J1 92 35 38 70 98 35 62 303 266 B7 W51
ko 210 ig? Ik Ul g %l 21 IfcÍ29 182 58 42 28 16 39 60 25 10 207 226 5« 31&5
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the effect that the precinct would ,,n'l ■'v'rs \esier Douglas Mr arid nominated to Ins congressional
support the Johnson candidacy
Hut Jacksonville Precinct 3 was
more articulate as were Precincts
27. Ponta. and 22 Gallatin which I'ortis
adapted identical resolutions
FtuskPrecinct I ^invention ,t
dopted a revolution from the Hu-
inev, ,uid Professional Women
i luti thoh appealed fm < pul le
tal rtahu for women and for
law rhange that would remove ni;
•iwrnU' mequi'i'*. .tsd ir.duinitii
Mrs Adon Duncan Mr and Mrs
M H Philhrick. Mr (iladys (.nod
«011 Mr and Mrs Leo Tosh C A
Mr and Mr1- E ' Beck
Mr ,ind Mr-i Jai k Kitts
lira I v chairman «>f Ru-k
ried election of
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«•eat by defeating ' rook in the <1 is
trie! :i7 273 to 32,304
Late returns Saturdav riight
rl> ided run off < indidati s for Pre
' in' i I commissioner Reid Jones
l<'I the In kel in (he sex en t and
id.ite raí i a ith 7B2 wiles llerlis
VV i' ■ < it i iin-i i| nut Thomas Wal-
lace lor 'Me run nil spot Walson
recen erl .(77 !o Wallace
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Tli- i.lher run off r. i will he
MOORE
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JOHES
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WALLACE
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1960, newspaper, May 12, 1960; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150340/m1/1/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.