The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1970 Page: 2 of 12
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PAGE TWO-THE CHBItOKBBAN OP
ing Today
With
Johnny McKay
County Agent
TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1970
"Misprirts"
How Will You Vite Oi Proposed Amendments?
Jack Stone of Wells, Cha
man of the Cherokee County
Program Building Commit,
tee, has called a meeting of
this committee and chairmen
of its sub-committees for
Wednesday, October 21, at
6;30 p.m. The meeting will
be in the Chronicter Club
Hunting Lodge near Forest.
The committee will review
the recently completed
"Written County Program",
They will also hear reports
by sub.committee chairm-in
concerning activities and
plans being initiated to solve
problem* relating toAgricuI-
•ure and Family Living th.it
are pointed out in the "Wri
tten Counry Program."
Members of rh« County ITo
gram Building Committee and
chairmen of the various sub
committee1- are receiving let -
'ers of invitation to the meet-
ing, according to Mr. Stone.
A cupper meeting is planned.
• • •
The Forestry «ub.com -
mittee of the Cherokee County
program Building Commute"
il planning a Forest Industry
Conference for November 5th
and 6th in Jacksonville. The
theme for the conference ac-
cording to I uman Holman,
committee chairman, will be
"The Growing Forest I-idus.
try' . A kick-off dinner is
planned for the night of Nov.
embfr 5ih. Concurrent work-
ships will be hold the morning
of November 6th reining to
timber management and mar-
keting, vocational rralning
■'C-ds, and wood-waste utili-
zation. Timber production
and industry tours will be
made in the afternoon.
A doren Industrial and pro-
fessional experts in their fi-
eld are being secured to as-
sist with the workshops.
Watch for more detailed In-
formation as final plans un-
fold.
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Mr. AllenGoforth encumbent
director from Zone 2 of the
Cherokee County SoilandWa.
ter Conservation Districtwas
re-elected for another 5 year
term Monday October 5th.
Mr. Coforth is also currently
serving as chairman of the
board.
The election was held at Dr.
T.dgar McPeak'' Swinelakei
Angus Ranch north of Ru'k.
Following the election the
group toured the ranch seeing
coastal hay and pasture pro.
duction, fescue for winter
grazing, a trial plot of coast,
cross.1 bermuda grass,
bahiagrass, s spring.dev-
elopment for livestock water,
coloniec of bees for crimson
clover pollination, barns,
herd *lres and replacement
heifers.
Dr. McPeak pointed out that
they had never had any troub-
le getting a reseeding of
crimson clover as some
others have. The bees plus
pulling cattle off in time to
get good healthy seed pod*
may be greatly responsible.
He also Indicated he was hav-
ing trouble with his coastal
bermuda chinning our until
he applied additional potash
as suggested by a soil sam
pie. This is a common pro-
blem thit many have with
coastal and a remedy that
very often solve the pro-
blem.
eeo
The" program and nominating
committee of the Cherokee
County Livestock men's As-
sociation met last week and
made final plans for their
annual meeting to be held in
Rusk the night of October
27rh. New officers and di-
rectors were nominated to be
voted on that night. Addit-
ional information will be re-
leased as final arrangements
are made concerning meeting
place and program. Since
this will be ladies night, a
program is being arranged
by Orvan Jones, program
chairman, that will be of sp-
ecial interest to them. Gall-
on Joónston, president of the
association, presided over the
nominating committee. Other
committee emembers present
were J. D. Kelsay, M. J.
Florence and Bill Avera.
• ••
Cattlemen should give sp.
eclal attention to cattle graz-
ing pasiures containing John,
songrass or sorgum type
plants. Prussic acid pols.
onlng Is a hazard both when
plants make sudden surges of
growth or when plants are
freshly damaged by frost.
Keep cattle off the*e pas.
tures, if possible, until they
completely cure following
frost. A few bites of a dam-
aged plant containing hydro,
cyanic acid may be fatal.
Sometime when you're feeling Important, sometime when
your ego's In bloom, sometime when you take It for granted
you're the best qualified in the room--Sometime when you
know that your absence would leave an unflllable hole, make
this simple experiment and see how It levels yoir sail.
Take a bucket, fill It with water, put your hand In it up to
the wrist. Take your hand out. and the hole that's remain.
Ing Is a measure of how you'll be missed. Now, you can
splash all you want In that water, make waves and ripples
galore. But take your hand our, wait a minute, and the water
is the same as before.
Now the moral to this quaint example, is do the very best
that you can. Live, laugh, love and be proud. . . but remem-
ber. . .there Is no indispensable manl
(Only a woman could have said it! She was Mrs. Ed Sydnor,
a former president of the Texas Association of Parliamen-
tarians.)
—marie whitehead
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Bts E. B. Mnsick, Jr.
Octeter 24th <s the i'ate to
remember-the big cele,
liration by the Rusk Lions
Club-The New Southern Motor
Hotel 7:30 p.m. Every Lion
and hi<- wife should be there
This is to be a celebration
that -ome did not believe
would ever happen-a 11 in-
debtedness of our rodeo a-
rena, two little league ball
parks and swimming pool paid
in kill. Lions Leon Pledger
and George Dodd have the
tickets-don't wait for them
to come to you-you look them
up. A notice to all wives-
this is a night of entertain-
ment that you will not want
to mlss-don't let your hus-
band talk you out of It.
About our indebtedness- it
would have never been paid
had It not been for the people
of Rusk supporting the Rusk
Lions Club in everything that
they undertook. To all, the
Rusk Lions Club says a grear
big THANK YOU.
I Ion Morris Elliott was pro-
gram chairman last Thurs-
day and presented Mr. C.A,
Oliver of Lon Morris Col
lege who spoke on "Campus
Unrest" - Five causes; 1.
Student unrest; 2. Radical Mo-
vement; 3. OjtrightCommun-
ism, 4. The Mirror of a
Changing Society and 5. Our
LLLU
A self-cleaning electric oven
gives you time for that
extra long beauty bath
Relax in bubbles up to your nose, if you like, while your
self-cleaning electric oven works for you, reducing
baked-on grease and grime splatters to a tiny pile of white
ash. Simply latch the safety designed oven door,
and set the dial. In just three hours or less, you'll have
a sparkling clean oven-automatically. And for less than
you may think with low-cost electricity from Seseo.
high schools are promoting
what happens in college. If
ever there was a time that
high school students needed
counseling it Is now. What
can we do about It? Don't
wait until something happens
to do something about it. We
need to review Federal aid to
schools. Sixty-eight percent
of those arrensted were on
scholarships from the Fed-
eral Government. It Is time
we said that college Is not
for some students. We must
be more selective of our staffs
in schools. Our security of-
ficers on college campuses
must have the same authority
to arrest as any other officer.
Federal aid should be with-
held for all schools having
trouble. It is time some pa-
rents knew what their child-
ren were doing. They need
both financial and moral help.
All the above thoughts of our
speaker -and he is a great one.
By the time a man under-
stands women he's no longer
interested. See youTtnirsday
noon at Plneview Restaurant.
(Editor's Note; The follow-
ing article was prepared by
Carl C. Cooper, Assistant
General Manager of the East
Texas Chamber of Com-
merce. On November 3 Tex-
ans will have an opportunity
to vote on seven proposed
changes to the Sute Constl-
tution. In brief form the
amendments are presented
here, along with statements
for and against each amend-
ment, with the hope that vot.
ers will study the amend,
ments more in detail before
election day.
AMENDMENT No. 1; Am.
ending Article V, Section I-a
of the Texas Constitution,re-
lating to removal, retirement,
or censure of justices, jud-
ges, and justices of the peace
under prescribed circum-
stances.
ARGUMENTS
FOR; Every judge is charg-
ed with the equitable enfor-
cement of law. The respon-
sibilities of the judges of
lower courts are no less sac-
red than those of the justices
of the appellatecourts;there-
fore, they should be answer-
able to the same rules deal-
ing with retirement, removal
from office, and public cen-
sure or private reprimand.
AGAINST; Except in rare
instances judges are elected
by the people and therefore
answerable to the people at
the polls. Therefore, the
expansion of the article is
unwarranted. Increasing the
power and scope of the com-
mission might also lead to
"witch hunts," and such ac-
tion could subsequently dis-
courage qualified persons
from seeking election to the
bench.
AMENDMENT No. 2: Am-
ending Article XVI, Section
20, Subsection to author-
ize the legislature to enact
a mixed beverage law reg-
ulating the sale of mixed al-
coholic beverages on a local
option basis.
ARGUMENTS
FOR; The proposed amend-
ment is not a wet-and-dry
issue because the sale of al-
Greenwood Is Named
To Go. ASC Committee
Clavis Greenwood, well
known New Summerfield cat-
tleman, was named to the
Cherokee Counry Agricultural
Stabilization and Conser-
vation County Committee by
delegates to ASC County Con-
vention held recently. Mr.
Greenwood was named to a
three year term and also
selected to serve as Chair-
man of the County Commit-
tee for 1971.
He will serve with Cecil M.
Carlfbn, Mt. Selman, Vlce.
Chairman, and W,T, Rogers,
Alto. Elected as alternate
counry committeemen were
M.D. Arrington and H. B.
Underwood.
Farmers and ranchers of
this county have elected a
total of forty-five ASC Com-
munity Committeemen and al-
ternates. ASC Community
Committees assist the County
ASC Committee In the admin-
istration of farm programs in
this county, such as cotton
and peanut acreage allot,
ments, feed grain bases and
agricultural conservation
cost.sharing measures.
Following are newly elected
ASC Community Committee-
men listed in the order of
Chairman, Vice-Chairman,
Regular Member, First Al-
ternate and Second Alternate;
ftillard Community; HL B.
Bickerstaff, D. L. Snow, Earl
Chandler, Albert Roach and
Joe C. Moore; Troup; John
Hedgecough, D. C. Gray, John
Owens, W, D, McElroy and
Jack Murray; Jacksonville:
M.D. Nunnally, Jr., J. P.
Walker, Odls Bass,L.J. Has.
sell and Stark Smith; New
Summerfield: Alton Lacy,
B. L. Gray, H. B. Under-
wood, L. B. Houghton and R.B.
Wiggins; MaydeHe; FredEz-
ell. A, C. Raoney, Allen Gay,
W.M. Grimes and Roy Bogle;
Gallatin; M.D. Arrington, Ho-
mer L, Jenkins, Fred Thomp-
son, Frazier Thompson and
Henry L. Corbell; Rusk; Earl
Maness, W.D. Wilcox, AbLlt-
tlejohn, R.R. Middleton and
D. J. Sessions; Alto; Charles
R. Murphy, Ralph Lindsey,
Billy Ray Johnson, P.D. Hol-
loway and M. O. Ftillllps;
and Wells; Clint Sessions,
Guy Goodwin, Ray Martin,
Bert Blalock and Roy Thomp-
son.
Pay Raises
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THE CHEROKEEAN
2ND CLASS POST AGE PAID
AT RUSK, TEX\S 7S7#5
PUBLISHED WEEKLY CM
THURSDAY MORNING, BY
E. H. WHITEHEAD ENTER.
PRISES AT 611 NORTH MA IN-
ST., RUSK, TEJÍAS 75? .
PHONE MS.22S?
SUBSCRIPTION RATESt
IN COUNTY - - W.00 Per Year
P. IS 5U Month*
OUT OP COUNTY. W.00 Pit
Y« r.
State employees want a 17
per cent pay raise within the
next two years. They ser-
ved notice of their desire
at the annual meeting last
week of the Texas Public
Employees Association.
T PEA's legislative pro-
gram for 1971 seeks a three-
step (10.2 per cent) raise
effective next September; and
a two-step (6.8 per cent)hike
the following September; plus
a 3.4 per cent merit raise
for half of the employees.
Al«o requested are "car-
eer incenttve" benefits—a
$10 a month automatic raise
after three years of service,
ranging up to $60 a month
supplement for employees
#lth 30 years' «ervlce.
Substantial pension benefits
also were included InTPEA'*
far-reaching legislative pa.
ckage which would give re.
tired employe * with 30
years' «ervice 50 per diem
and 13 cents a mile.
Amending the neeting from
Rusk were Mr. and Mrs. Doy.
le Rasberry, 4elegate«; and
Mrs. Anfte I eh risen and Mr*.
Irene Steitey attended a* «I.
remate*.
cohol has already been san-
ctloned by a majority of the
residents of the state; also,
a non .binding referendum
during the 1968 primary el-
ections resulted in a 40,000-
vote margin for mixed bev-
erages out of a total vote of
1.4 million.
The proposed amendment
would not force mixed drinks
on any locality since it re-
quires that any mixed-drink
law be on a local option el-
ection basis.
AGAINST; The proposed am -
endment would make alcoholic
beverages more readily a-
vailable.
The proposed amendment
would lead to an increase in
crime and in traffic deaths.
AMENDMENT No. 3; Auth-
orizing the legislature to
provide by law for the es.
tablishment of a uniform me-
thod of assessment of ranch,
farm, and forest lands based
upon the capacity of the lands
to mpport the raising of live-
stock or to produce farm and
forest crops.
ARGUMENTS
FOR; Farm real estate taxes
per acre have Increased by
more than 22 percent, ac-
cording to data compiled by
the Economic Research Ser-
vice of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, and
there is a need for the tax
relief for owners of such pro-
perty which the proposed a-
mendment would authorize.
The constitutional amend-
ment approved by the voters
in 1966 has not provided tax
relief urgently needed by
farmers and ranchers who use
for agricultural purposes,
land which has greatly In-
creased In value due to its
potential use for other pur-
poses, such as urban dev-
elopment. The proposed am-
endment would enable the leg-
islature to provide such re-
lief.
AGAINST: Enabling legis-
lation for the proposed am-
endment has not been passed;
therefore, the voter has no
idea how far the legislature
may go in providing property
tax considerations to the own-
ers of farm, ranch, and timber
lands.
The proposed amendment
could result in a tax celling
for rural lands while urban
Texans and businesses would
be In a category that might
possibly have to pay more
taxes.
AMENDMENT No. 4j Amend,
ing Article III, Section 51-b,
Subsection to reconsti-
tute the State Building Com-
mission as a three-membei
appointed commission.
ARGUMENTS
FOR; The governor, attorney
general, and chairman of the
Board of Control do not have
the time to consider all of
the details of the additional
duties imposed upon them as
ex officio members of the
State Building Commission.
AGAINST; Since the State
Building Commission makes
recommendations concerning1
the expenditure of large sums
of public money, it would seem
inadvisable to change its pre-
sent membership of elected
officials responsible directly
to the people to an appoint-
ive membership which is an-
swerable to the voters only
through the governor.
AMENDMENT No. 5; Auth-
orizing any county to issue
road bonds in an amount not
to exceed one-fourth of the
assessed valuation of the real
property in the county under
certain conditions,
ARGUMENTS
FOR; Construction and main-
tenance of sufficient roads
and turnpikes to meet the
traffic needs of rapidly grow-
ing Texas have been ham-
pered by the constitutional
debt limit and the require-
ment of a two-thirds vote of
the qualified electors. The
proposed Amendment No. 5
would alleviate this situation,
AGAINST; The majority vote
requirement of the proposed
amendment would make it too
easy for a bond election to
pass. When bond elections
are called with the timing
selected to assure turnout of
only those in favor of an
issue, a majority of the vo-
ters could, in fact, be dis-
enfranchised.
AMENDMENT No. 6t Am.
ending Article XVI. Section
51, to increase the value of
the homestead exempt from
forced sale from $5,000 to
110,000.
ARGUMENTS
FOR: Under present pro-
perty values, a 200-acre ex-
emption on rural land is a
more favorable exemption
than the $5,000 now permitted
by the constitution for an ur-
ban homestead or a business
homestead. Also, since the
exemption depends on value*,
at the time of designation as
a homestead, the rapid in-
crease in values in recent
years has created great in-
equities for comparable pro-
perty of the same current
value which would be allev-
iated by the adoption of the
proposed amendment.
AGAINST: Since homestead
exemptions are often abused
by violating the intent of the
constitution and permitting
the hoarding of extensive as-
sets beyond the reach of cred-
itors with just debts, a large
exemption of $10,000 as pro-
posed by Amendment No. 6
could increase the opportunity
for abuse.
AMENDMENT No. 7; Auth-
orizing the legislature to pro-
vide for consolidating offices
and functions of government
and for performance of gov-
ernmental functions by con-
tract between political sub-
divisions in any county.
ARGUMENTS
FOR: Adoption of the pro-
posed amendment would per.
mit counties to do away with •
costly duplication of services
by consolidation, under which
one governmental unit could
be authorized to make as.
sessments for all political
subdivisions through an equal
and fair assessment ratio, .
thereby providing more equit- 1
able apportionment of ad val-
orem taxes. Such consoli-
dation would also result in
coordinated planning to meet '
the demands of growing,
metropolitan areas.
AGAINST; Adoption of the
proposed amendment wouldbe
the first step toward over-
centralization of government
at the county level. It could
result in too much authority
resting in the hands of a few.
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
Music Appreciation
I am not a musician, but as I write this I think back and realize how my taste in music
has changed. Early in life, it took only the simplest childhood jingles to please me, then
in school I was trained and taught to appreciate more intricate music. All through life I
feel that my knowledge of .. and appreciation for music has grown and matured.
Through study and help from others, I have also grown as a Christian and have a better
appreciation of my Lord.
My knowledge of. and love for God increases with each church worship service
This way of life and worship. I would recommend to anyone. Won't you try it
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Eleetrie Service
Funeral
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Pearman
Chevrolet
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Manning
Groeery
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Cherokee County
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