The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1961 Page: 1 of 14
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MlCt'OÍÜIU StTVitÜ 4 MUJ
P O Box HJH16 cor
Round..
Town
with Roundabout
GRADY DUPREE informs us
that he's in a bucket of hot
water, thanks to last week's is-
sue of the Cherokeean announc-
ing the give-away of some "reg-
istered" calves in a special
event at the Lions Club Rodeo.
Let it be said, we're most anx-
ious to clear up the matter by
saying that the calves are "reg-
istration quality," but do NOT
come with papers!
ANOTHER point which needs
clarification is the basis for1
selecting the competing boys
. . . each FFA chapter and 4-H
club in Cherokee County is re-
sponsible for selecting one
young man to enter.
GRADY, along with Round-
about and several thousand
other Rodeo fans, will be anx-
iously awaiting the big Rodeo
week-end . . . August 10-11-12.
BOY, WHAT A BEARI Young
Mac Lovelady is entertaining
all ears this week with the
story about the 500 lb. bear
killed near his grandparents
home at Hughes Springs. The
big, black bear is assumed to
have strolled into town from
a nearby thicket. Mac is car-
rying the picture and news
clipping now to prove his story.
Guess he met a few doubters
early in the week. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Love-
lady.
ALL-CITY
HOLIDAY
The Cherokeean p* coPY
TUESDAY, JULY 4
TEXAS OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, ESTABLISHED AS THE PIONEER JULY 5, 18*7
Serving The Greater Cherokee County Trade Area
VOLUME 113
14 PAGES
TWO SECTIONS
Thursday, June 29, 1961
NUMBER 2
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Agency Approves
On Airport;
Meeting Called
An August completion date is seen for the Texas High-
way Department's new S84,000 Rusk installation. In the
photo above work is progressing on the shop and service
area. The office building will be east of I his area. The
Shawnee Construction Company of Longview is in charge of
the project., being constructed at the intersection of U.S.
Highway 69 and the Atoy Road near the east city limits.
HOW DOES one thank a Good
Guy like Mr. Walter Deckard
for being so nice, such a fine
friend . . . always doing some-
thing for the other fellow.
Tuesday he brought Mrs.
Roundabout magnolia blossoms
. . . she has a special fondness
for them . . .
3 PER CENT
FOR A FINE FEATURE on
Cherokee antiquity be sure to
read the story and see photos
on page 4 this section . . . per-
haps it doesn't properly belong
in the antique category just yet,
but much can be seen of early
life in Cherokee County at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
Jenkins near Gallatin.
0
Rusk Classes
Planned for
Gallatin 7th
Seventh grade pupils at the
Gallatin Elementary School will
attend classes in Rusk begin-
ning this fall.
Superintendent Gerald Chap-
man said the school's enroll-
ment would not justify the
three teachers. Two teachers
1st State
Tells New
Save Plan
The First State Bank of Rusk
Wednesday announced a new in-
terest-paying savings account
exclusive a m o n g Cherokee
County banks.
First State President Lloyd
Pipes said the bank will begin
paying three per cent interest
on savings accounts on July 1.
The interest will be compound-
ed each quarter.
Pipes said the plan is de-
signed to offer a savings plan
which could be conveniently
combined with other bynk
transactions so that a patron's
accounts can be handled cen-
trally and simply.
First Slate is the only bank
in the county offering an inter-
est-paying savings plan. Its
three per cent is the top rate
paid anywhere in Texas, Pipes
said,
The bank will issue a bro-
chure July 1 explaining its new
plan which is termed "togeth-
erness". The term is descrip-
tive of the plan whereby the
customer maintains a checking
and savings account in one in-
stitution.
One of the most important
elements of the new plan is the
will remain to instruct the six ^af'' 'hat interest will be corn-
grades remaining. The Gallatin pounded quarterly, rather than
school will have an enrollment annually or semiannually,
of about 46 pupils next fall.
The Gallatin district was con-
solidated with the Rusk district
two years ago. High school pu-.
pils began attending Rusk i
High School and the elementary
school was retained in the Cial-,
latin community.
Seventh graders attended at |
Gallatin through the school
year just completed.
43 Cited By
Tax Board
Forty-three persons have been
cited to appear before the city
equalization board on July 11.
Members of the equalization
board are .T. R. Westbrook J.
P. Favaron and Abner Webb.
Negligent Homicide Charged Filed
After Two Die In Head-on Collision
City Files Action For
Condemnation of Parcel
Dickson Takes
Jacksonville
Police Post
Deputy Sheriff Willie J. Dick-
son, an officer with the County
Sheriff's Department since 1955,
will leave that post to join the
Jacksonville Police Department.
Dickson will probably make
the move the last of June. He
will fill a vacancy left by the
resignation of one of the police
department's patrolmen.
Sheriff Allen Dotson said he
regretted the loss of Dickson
but said ho believed the Jack-
sonville department will be be-
nefitted with his service.
A charge of negligent homi-
cide was entered Tuesday
against Bob Hollis, 32-year-old
Jacksonville Negro involved in
¿i head-on collision Monday
night which took the lives of
a Longview couple.
The charge, a misdemeanor,
was made by County Attorney
Paul Cox after a complaint filed
by Highway Patrolman George
McCardell, investigating officer.
Killed in the crash were Ger-
ald Ray Yancey and his wife,
Jean Walker Yancey. Their two-
year-old son, Jerry David, re- Lawrence Yancey of the U. S.
HOMECOMING
Best Yet,
Hoped At
Gallatin
The Gallatin School reunion
scheduled for Sunday, July 2nd
is expected to attract more
former students than ever be-
fore, announces Mrs. J. C.
Moore, member of the Arrange-
ments Committee.
"The noon hour with a lunch
spread under the large oaks,
where most of us played mar-
bles or built playhouses, will
be the highlight of the day,"
she said.
"We invite the newsmen and
their families, and appreciate
their splendid coverage of
previous years."
Cooperation in discarding pa-
per cups, etc. in containers will
be appreciated by the clean-up
committee. *
mained in critical condition in
a Jacksonville hospital from
head injuries received.
The accident occurred in the
Tecula community, about five
miles east of Jacksonville on
Farm Road 347.
McCardell said Hollis, driving
a 1957 sedan, attempted to pass
another car and rammed head-
on into the Yancey's 1961
Volkswagen.
Hollis and his wife, 25-year-
old Patsy Marie, were both ad-
mitted to Nan Travis Hospital
in Jacksonville with lacerations.
The third car, driven by Au-
brey Partin, 18, of Mixon, was
damaged extensively, but neith-
er Partin or his wife, Barbara
Ann, was injured.
Funeral services for Mr. and
Mrs. Yancey were held Wednes-
day afternoon in the Gragard-
Spraggins - Swofford Funeral
Chapel. The Rev. Barney Walk-
Air Force in El Paso and I)an
Yancey of Neches; and one sis-
ter, Miss Betty Sue Yancey of
Neches.
Mrs. Yancey is survived by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Walker of Palestine; her son,
Jerry David Yancey; two sisters,
Misses Linda and Woody Walk-
er of Palestine. She was the
former Miss Mary Jean Walker.
The first condemnation suit
for Highway 69 right of way
was filed by the city on June
23. The suit, filed in county
court, seeks to condemn .11 of
one acre of land belonging to
J. A. Eidson.
Cards Fall,
Yanks Take
League Lead
Little League Cardinals,
sporting an unblemished rec-
ord for the season, were top-
pled by the fourth place In-
dians last Friday 6-1.
On Tuesday, the second place
er, the Rev. Don Wells, and the 1 Yankees vaulted into League
Rev. Charles Haley, officiated.
Burial was in Earle's Chapel
Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers for Mrs.
Yancey were employees of the
Royal National Bank in Pales-
tine. Honorary pallbearers for
Mr. Yancey were employees of
Department 80 of Texas East-
man Co, Longview.
Mr. Yancey is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. I).
Yancey of Neches; his critically | Yankees
injured son, Jerry David Yan- I Cardinals
coy; his grandparents, Mr. and Rod Sox
Mrs. Joe P. Schochler of Neches¡ Indians
and Mrs. Cora Yancey of Jack- Giants
sonvillc; two brothers, James i Braves
leadership by handing the
Cards their second defeat, 92.
The Red Sox clung to their
third place slot, by winning!
from the Braves 17-5 in the last \
half of last Friday's activity . j
The Braves were also targets!
for the Giants who took a 211
triumph over the trailing
Braves.
Individual's
Share of City
Debt To Rise
With the issuance of new
bonds, Rusk's d c b t will be
chased up to $840,000. Present
indebtedness is $465,000.
The per capita (per person)
debt will probably lx- pushed to
an all-time high, but there is
more than one way to figure
per capita debt, and in Rusk
there is an extra way still.
Of the n e w $840,000 total
debt, $340,000 i in tax bonds.
The per capita tax bond debt,
figured oil the basis of official
population (4,900), is something
less than $70.
However, if you take away
2,000 persons—the approximate
number of state hospital pa-
tients counted in the Rusk pop-
ulation the per capita tax
bond debt goes up, to over $117.
Total debt ($840,000) figured
on a per capita basis and us-
ing the official population fig-
ure runs to more than $170.
Unofficial per capita debt
figures for other cities are:
Denison, $66.91; Dallas, $169.95;
Fort Worth. $132.31.
Rusk will issue $500,000 in
new revenue bonds, but
Standings
were:
Team
on Wednesday
The action was authorized by
a June 22 closed door meeting
of the city council.
One more suit may be filed
this week and negotiations may
be successfully concluded for
another parcel Thursday.
Eidson reportedly asked for
a $10,000 settlement for his
property, a figure the council
would not consider.
The eminent domain pro-
ceedings named three eommis
sinners to assess damages to
the Eidson property. They are
Harry Tosh, George Monroe
and Raymond Coopei#
Mayor Morris Hassell Wednes
day expressed confidence that
the right of way problems of
the city will be solved shortly
so work can begin by mid-
August.
City Attorney Wilson McVick-
er is handling the eminent do-
main proceedings for the city.
0
Leon Theriot
Resigns Band
Directorship
Leon Theriot, band director
at Rusk High School for the
past two years, resigned his
post effective Monday of this
week.
Theriot will become director
of the music program in the
Bridge City, Tex., school sys-
tem. Bridge City, near Beau-
mont, will he a Triple-A school
will next year.
retire $175,000 revenue bonds
in the same transaction. Tax
Rusk Superintendent Gerald
Chapman said the school is now
Won
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IMPROVEMENT CONTEST
Community Awards Made at Mon. Meet
|u<i|<c communities
were presented Monday night certificates.
to Cherokee County organized Awards were made during a
communities which participated meeting of the Cherokee Coun-
in community improvement ty Community Council at Jim
judging earlier this year. Hogg State Park. Council meni-
Cash awards were presented hers, their families, representa-
to representatives of Bulah, lives of agricultural agencies
Ponta and Central High com- j and other guests met for the
munities. Reklaw and New program and a covered-dish
supper.
received and America's best answer to
i the menace of totalitarianism.
0—
Crackdown on
Crockett St.
Traffic Told
Crockett Street speeding and
passing zone violations will gel
the attention of city policemen,
The community council is an chief H„mcr Smith said Mon
organization composed of offi ,|av
oers of all county organized smith said there is an unus
communities. Gradv Dupree, Uft| a,m,unl of speeding and
council president, introduced passing in a no passing zone on
the evening's program. Awards crockett Street Speed limit on
were presented by George Dodd. the street is 30 miles per hour,
sales representative for the Almost the whole distance to
Southwestern Electric Service the «ity limits is a no-pacing
Company of Jacksonville. zone
Jack Williams, chairman of Smith said Crockett Street
the Tennessee Colony (Andcr- residents, especially those with
son County) organized com- small children, had registered
munity, the state's first place complaints oí excessive speed
winner in community improve ing
ment judging this year, spoke Beginning this week, the city
to the group as he showed force will patrol the area more
bonds in the amount of $50,000 receiving applications for a
will be issued. These two is-! new director and schoolmen arc '
sues will be added to a pres- presently conducting interviews
ent tax bond debt of $290,000. of prospective directors.
STANDS AFTER 137 YEARS
Dream Began A
Perpetuated By
When Crecnbcrry Jenkins led boys took their long knives re-
h:s family into the wilderness sembling cane blades and hack-
that was to became part of Cher- ed their way due north through
okee County, and made camp dense and tangled forests to a
where there was no water, his tree Mrs Jenkins had dreamed
wife had a dream. about. Beneath it was a spring
Next morning he and t h e bubbling cold water.
Prominent in the eommunJIy award*
presentation program were, from left. Ue irge
Dodil. In v fruit of New Hope, (out Dttd
son of IteMutt, Mi r> Nell llobbitt o| I'unta,
it\id\ Mnpr' e. chairman of
*nn of Central High, and
Distiii k Agent,
lliilah Jtm Wil-
Wallet St nit,
slides of his community's ac-
tivities and improvements
Tennessee Colony " he s.nd
i* a enmmunlU of 37 families
dedicated to the proposition
that all good things come from
i ,od
Dodd. before the award*
presentation, eited the com
inunit) organisation* as ,i
source ot strength and stability
lre<|uenll>, he said
Smith reported that traffic
violations on the past weekend
teu Patrolmen
u
i lure*
were relativel
issued i\ tnl
No nil wa*
iflernoon
street v
lis took
d«v
I l ik
mil
in a Sun
on lone
child ip
it of gear
its ,l«ll S>t
i.ULLNULIÜtY JENKINS
Contract
Talk Set
Thursday
The Federal Aviation
Agency has approved the
$64,957 bid on the Chero-
kee County airport sub-
mitted in a Commissioners
Court meeting last Friday.
The bid was submitted
by Dan Pennington of
Grapeland and was subject
to final approval by the FAA.
A meeting will be held
Thursday by commissioners,
Pennington and FAA Engineer
Bob Boswell to work oil terms
of the contract, County Judge
J. W. Chandler said Tuesday.
The contract may not be com-
pleted Thursday, but approval
of its terms is expected to be
given.
The contract for the airport
will include paving, dirt work,
grading, fencing and clearing
of approaches, Committee
Chairman M. G. Moore said
Monday.
Arrangements for other fa-
cilities, such as a hanger and
fueling stations, have not been
considered, but Moore said dis-
cussions on them will begin at
the next meeting of the com-
mittee.
He said that in his opinion
the best plan would be to lease,
the service facilities as conces-
sions. But he emphasized that
no action has been taken in
this direction, inasmuch as Che
committee has spent its time
up to now in acquiring land for
the site.
Construction on the airport
is expected to begin immed-
iately after the contract is
signed Pennington has told the
county and committeemen that
he has equipment available to
begin work.
Legend
House
A legend was born thai day
more than 137 years ago. But
it took some years to complete
it. One might say that it is still
going on.
About seven miles from Rusk,
near Gallatin, Mr. and Mrs. Lon-
nie Jenkins live in the same
sturdily constructed house built,
tliev reckon, 137 years ago by
Grcenbcrry Jenkins and his fam-
ily.
They've made some additions
and improvements, but they've
also made distinct efforts to
preserve its hand hewn char-
acter.
Ixinnie Jenkins is the grand-
son of Grccnberry Jenkins. Ho
has lived in the house all of his
57 years I lis father, the late
S A. (Delphi Jenkins, was Ixirn
in the north room of the house
and died, at 92, in the same
room, He had never lived any
other place.
The story of the old house
and its relics of another era is
the story of a wild country be-
ing tamed.
The first Jenkins family ended
their long trek from Alabama
b) first finding the big stooped
post oak tree towering above
a spring fed stream Just a Mrs.
Jenkins had dreamed.
Then the\ set a I tout building
a house It Maa a btv house eon*
kidcriitK (hat thev had to hew
See UftKKN, Page 4
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1961, newspaper, June 29, 1961; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150398/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.