The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1967 Page: 1 of 10
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With Roundabout
Roundabout is ready for
football. Our Fighting Rusk
Eagles begin play here Fri-
day night when they tangle
with the tough Van Vandals.
Van beat our Birds last year.
All accounts are that they
will be "tough" again this
season.
The Feathered Flock took
a few "lumps" when they
scrimmaged Palestine last
week. They've been "licking
their wounds", and are ex-
pected to be "ready" for
Van. Roundabout missed the
Palestine scrimmage, butun-
derstands the Kagles "mix-
ed it up" with the big, tough
Wildcats.
Two of Roundabout's good
friends are in Rusk Memor-
ial Hospital now. Bonnie Ni-
cholson underwent surgery to
remove part of his leg. Nick
is recovering, and should be
"up and about" before too
much longer. George Monroe
suffered a heart attack and is
taking tt easy.. .Roundabout
understands that George has
been pretty sick, but is on
the road to recovery now.
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VOL.. 120
RUSK, TEXAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1967
10 PAGES
NUMBER 13
Grace Braly and Bill Vln-
••See ROUNDABOUT l>g. 6
Police Get Tough
Citizens Asked
To Cooperate
With Firemen
Police Chief Dick Crippen
has advised that the problem
ol spectators following the
fire trucks and pairing in the
way of equipment has he-
come a major problem late-
ly.
He further states that he
and all men in the depart-
ment will begin immediately
Issuing tickets to those who
s iolate the law by following
fire tnicks or parking with-
in two blocks of fire depart-
ment apparatus.
The laws of the state pro-
vide fines of not less than
$10.00 for these violations.
The Chief further stated
that he understands every-
one s natural curiosity about
fires, but there is really no-
thing to see at the small
fires. However, when smoke
and flames indicate .i large
fire, if spectators would wait
10 minutes after the alarm,
all firemen would have ar-
rived by then, he suggested.
He also cautions spectators
to park at least two blocks
away and leave street open
for two way traffic and then
walk to within a safe dis-
tance to observe.
The Chief's parting words
were; 'If it was your house,
would you want spectators to
delay the firetrvick and fire-
men?"
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RI SK HIGH SCHOOI I ACL ICS 1967-68: Pictured from left
to rijrht, front row, Donald Emerson, Wyatt Tisdale, Mark
Scallon, Robert Tate, Bob Parrott, Billy Jack O'Neal, Bob
Clayton, Johnny Cox. Jimmy Richey, and Mike Fulton, Second
row; Rilly Wickware, Junior Adcock, Joe Abernathy, Danny
Berry, Ralph Johnston, Jim Summers Wayne Gulnn, Ronnie
l"erry, Mike Rlrlwell, and Johnny Emerson. Third row;
Coach Doug Jordan, Coach Mike Day, David Grimes, Mickey
McGulre, Chuck Gabbert, Phillip Jenkins, Terry Martin,
manager, Robin Rushing, Coach Doyle Brooks, Coach Dickey
McGaughey. Fourth row; Charles Dansby, Rudy Penn, Rodney
Black, David Norton, Johnny Spraggins, Darnond Wickware,
Jerry Poole, Charles Dear, Glen Wilcox, Gary Langston,
and Donnie Perry. STAFF PHOTO
To Cost 8268,000
24.8 Miles Of Improvements,
Also Bridges, Slated For Work
Some $268,000 will be ■-pent
io improve 24.Smiles ofhigh-
ways in Cherokee County,ac-
cording to Edwin Campbell,
resilient engineer with the
Texas Highway Department.
No l>eginning late for the
work has been set, but the
various project- were among
those approved for District
10.
The Texas Highway Com-
mission during their August-
September meeting approved
the expendiere of $1,878,500
for highway safety and bet-
terment and improvement of
the farm to market system
in the eight counties of Dis-
trict 10 with headquarters
in Tyler. District engineer,
W. W. Potter. Mated that
164.3 miles are improved with
the work including widening
of bridges and approaches,
additional asphalt surfacing.
widening of pavement and re-
construction and recondition-
ing of sections of highways.
Highway safety and better-
ment projects in Cherokee
County include two programs,
both on US 69; One in Jack-
sonville extends from Lin-
coln Street to South City Li-
mits, some 2.5 miles at a
cost of $72,000; also from
near FM road 343 in Rusk,
south for a distance of 8.1
miles at a cost of $90,000.
Farm to Market roads sl-
ated for improvement are the
following; FM 1248, southwest
of US 84, construct three
bridges and widen approach-
es, at a cost of $50,000; FM
road 347 between Dialvllle
and US 84f construct two bri-
dges and widen approaches
at a com of $35,000; FM 2493,
from US 69 south of Bullard
to FM 177, 5.1 miles, seal
RAIN HAMPERS CONSTRUCTION - Falling
moisture wad met with mixed «molton in
various quarters of the community Monday
night and Tuesday, This section of drought-
stricken I . « Texas wns blessed with 2
inches rainfall during Monday night. Pos-
sibly no one seriously objected to the pre-
clptatlon, though It did hamper efforts of the
I tensón Construction Company on alte of
the new high school. STAFF PHOTO
coat, cost of $7,500; FM 177
from Mt. Selman to Mixon,
5.0 miles seal coat, cost of
$7,500; FM 346 from Smith
county line to FM 855, 4.1
miles, seal coat, cost of
$6,000.
Work in the various sec-
tions of Cherokee County will
be under the supervision of
Senior Resident Engineer Ed-
win Campbell, Senior Main-
tenance Foreman George T.
McCown of Jacksonville and
Senior Maintenance Forman
Loarn Simmons of Rusk.
State-wide the program
calls for the improvement of
5,182 miles at an estimated
construction cost of $39.8
million and right of way cost
of $137.5 thousand. Work will
include 859 projects in 212
of Texas' 254 counties and
460 projects are on farm
to market roads in 170 coun-
ties.
The safety and betterment
portion of the program calls
for work on 2,408.9 miles
of highways at an estimated
cost of $22.2 million. Pur-
chase of 9,8 miles of right
of way will cost an addition-
al $17.7 million.
Hal C. Woodward, chair-
••See ROADS Pg. 6
Five Cases Are
Recorded In
Clerk's Office
Five cases were listed in
County Clerk Mildred Ful-
ton's criminal docket for the
past week.
Charged were;
J. C. Johnson, Whiskey
sale;
Jerry Wayne Allen, Driv-
ing While License Suspend-
ed;
Mack Kemp, D.W.I, He pled
guilty to the charge and was
fined $100 and court costs,
plus a 3 day jail sentence.
David C. Taylor, D.W.I.;
Dela Mae Teston, D.W.I.
Pled guilty, fined (100 and
court casts, and a 3 day
jail sentence.
Play For Pay
The Cherokeean's annual
Football Contest, sponsored
by Rusk's sports-minded
business people, begins this
week.
Cash prizes of $7.50, $5.00
and $3.00 will be paid each
week to the persons guessing
the most winners.
The contest has been an
annual feature of The Chero-
keean for, the past 10 years.
Over three thousand entries
were counted during the sea-
son last year.
All details are published
on page 3, Section 2.
Eagles Kick-0ff
Season Friday
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Board Meet, Thursday
School Budget Set
For Public Hearing
A budget in excess of one
million dol!ars-$l,381,009.00
to be exact-is to be submit-
ted for public hearing at
Thursday night's meeting of
the School Board for Rusk
Independent School District.
According to Jack Martin,
school superintendent, the
budget figure above, includes
Assumes New
Duties With
County Agents
Miss Elizabeth Craven has
joined the Extension Service
staff here in the capacity of
Assistant Home Demonstra-
tion Agent for Cherokee Co-
unty.
She fills the vacancy creat-
ed by the resignation of Mrs.
Sandra Risinger, who assum-
ed the duties of Home De-
monstration Agent of Ange-
lina County this month.
The new Assistant Agent
is a native of Crockett. She
graduated from high school
there, and received her de-
gree from Sam Houston State
College last May.
She is a member of the
Baptist Church, and is living
in the J. p. Acker Garage
Apartment on Palestine St.
Wreck Early
Wed. Is Fatal
To Rusk Woman
A head-on collision at 6:40
a.m. Wednesday claimed the
life of a Rusk resident, Mrs.
Ann Gardner Bible. The 29-
year old woman was enroute
to work as a registered nurse
at Tyler Medical Center, when
her *65 Plymouth met head
on with a '64 Buick sedan,
driven by Robert Glen Hed-
rick of Jacksonville. The Hed-
rick car, traveling south,
veered into the wrong lane,
setting up the accident, ac-
cording to investigating High-
way Patrolmen from the Ty-
ler office.
Site of the accident was
three miles south of Tyler
on Highway 69.
Hedrlck Is listed as "fair"
at Tyler Medical Center. Mrs.
Bible was pronounced dead
on arrival at the Tyler hos-
pital.
Mrs. Bible was the wife
of Jerrell Bible of this city.
They had moved to Rusk from
Tyler about six months ago,
according to local sources.
Final arrangement* were
pending at press time.
Navy Announces
Examinations For
Officer Training
The U.S. Naval Recruiting
Station, Palestine, announced
today the 22nd Annual Nation-
al Competitive Examination
for the Regular Naval Re-
serve Officers Training
Corps will be given on Dsc,
9, 1967,
MISS ELIZABETH CRAVEN
operational expense^ for the
entire district, and building
costs for a new high school
now under construction.
Proposed costs of opera-
tion include salaries, teach-
ing supplies; textbooks, tr-
ansporation for students, op-
eration of plant and utilities,
maintenance, retirement of
debt, health service, insur-
ance, election costs, new bu-
ilding expenditures, and oth-
er administrative expenses.
The budget to be submit-
ted is based' on a 1966-67
valuation of $13,381,588. A
tax rate of $i.85 per $100
valuation is divided; $1.35
maintenance and debt ser-
vice $.50,
Total local revenue col-
lections are expected to to-
tal about $236,600, accord-
ing to the proposed cost of
operation plan. Various oth-
er revenue sources-county
andstate-account for the bal-
ance of anticipated revenue
in the sum of $398,359. The
building fund includes $794,
250 for costs of construct-
ing a new high school.
Routine business matters
will occupy the remainder
of the meeting's agenda, said
Martin.
The primary business, he
said, will be the adoption
of the proposed budget for
1967-68. "It is an estimate
based on as much fact as
we can get," he explained.
City Budget Hearing
Set For Sept. 12th
A budget hearing for-the
city government has been an-
nounced for next Tuesday,
September 12 according to
Kendrick Frazer, city secre-
tary. He reported the hear-
ing would be held In con-
junction with the City Coun-
cil's regular meeting on that
date.
The body is to convent at
7*30 p.m. in City Hall.
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Host Van
In Musick
Stadium, 8:30
The Rusk Eagles will tac-
kle the Van Vandals at 8;30
p.m. this Friday night, Sept-
ember 8, at Musick Stadium.
Coach Doyle Brooks told the
Cherokeean that the game is
"completely in the dark", as
Van did not scrimmage this
year.
Starters for the Eagles in
the Van game will include
returning lettermen quarter-
back, Mike Blrdwell and half-
back, Johnny Emerson. Char-
les Dear will hold down the
other halfback position; how.
ever, the fullback position
is still open, with conten-
ders Including Billy Jack O'-
Neal and Robert Clayton. Mike
Fulton and Terry Martin will
be filling guard positions.
Rudy Penn and Johnny Sp-
raggins will be the starting
tackles and David Norton and
Johnny Richey, will fill the
ends. Center, Glen Wilcox,
completes the tentative start-
ing line-up, however, the co-
aches agreed that if at all pos-
sible, every boy on the team
would get a work-out in the
game.
Birdwell, a member of the
'66 All-District team, saw
quarterback action in three
Rusk encounters.
Emerson was a frequent
ball carrier as a sophomore
last season and will be count-
ed on heavily this year for
ground action. He's also an
able pass catcher.
As a sophomore, -180 lb.
Rudy Penn held down a tackle
position on the '66 Eagle teairu^
The Vandals, on the other
hand, have nine returning sen-
ior lettermen, but only th-
ree juniors on the team. The
Vandal's coach, Mai Fowler
says that half of the var-
sity squad will be made up
of sophomores.
With five returning defen-
sive starters. Van's stren-
gth during the early weeks of
testing will rest on their "ex-
perienced defense". However
Van appears weak in the de-
fensive secondary. The Van-
dals offensive action will be
seen from backfield letter,
ment Ken Ayers, Keith Wr-
ight, Dale Burgess and Jackie
Nations.
All in all, the Friday
night game appears to be
••See FOOTBALL Pg. 4
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EVEN THE PRESIDENT BUYS A TICKET!
quarterback Club secretary - treasurer Henry
Westbrook has the pleasure of aelltitg Club
President Hugh Richey a ticket of member.
ship in the
port the athletic
leadership of the
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1967, newspaper, September 7, 1967; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150721/m1/1/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.