The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1972 Page: 1 of 12
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'Round
Town
1U PER ISSUE
With
Roundabout
Iftiere are bugs and then
there are bugs I The one that
took up residency in Round-
about s already tired body is
a "tuffy." But a little rest
never did hurt anybody...so if
you find yourself in the same
position of playing host to an
uninvited germ go tobed! You
might even remember what
it's like to read, sleep and re-
lax!
The staff is doing quite
well...makes a boss wonder,
"Am I really necessary?"
Have you ever said or writ-
ten something that made per-
fectly good sense to you, but
to somebody else it had en-
tirely different meaning?That
happend last week in the The
Cherokeean's headline to the
flea market story. After it
appeared in print, "Flea Do-
nations Needed,'' ir must have
motivated somebody to action
because Chamber manager
Frank Howell has issued a
plea for ' flea donations' to
stop. He says the Chamber
Flea Market Committee now
has all the fleas it needs and
they would appreciate It if ev-
eryone who left hound dog1- at
the Chamber office would come
pick them up.
It just goes to show you nev-
er knwv where to scratch for
news. Ffcit the Chamber can
usually be counted on...
Speaking of the flea market,
that event is scheduled for
May 5-6 That week-end i*
also set for the observance of
open house at Rusk State Hos-
pital. And.,.if you are a reg-
istered voter. May 6 is "yotir
day" to exercise that ureat
American privilege!
Congratulations are due
Rusk High School students
who participated in the dis.
trict winning one-act play!
Also the members of thegolf
team for their district
victory. Roth groups com-
pete at the regional level
April 20.2?. The Cheroke
ean is always glad to see young
people try. It's even better
when thev win'■
This weekend Rusk wel
come5 former students of
Rusk Academy and Rusk Ju-
nior College. T'hi' makc the
ninth meeting for the Exes and
from what we hear it get s hig
ger and better every year'
Do you think there would be
any conversation if the at.
tenders were forbidden to'-ay,
"do you remember?'" Thai s
what it's all about'
Circle May 4 on your calen,
dar, too. The Soil Conser-
vation Awards banquet will
honor, among others. Rusk's
own Dr. W. E. Gahbert. The
event is to be held at 7;30
p.m. in the Jacksonville High
School Cafeteria.
If Roundabout can persuade
his bug to join the Chamber's
fleas, he 11 see you again
soon, round town.
The Cherokeean
Texas' OlcUst Weekly Newspaper, established At the Pioneer July 5.1847
&ERVING RUSK
WITH DISTINCTION
FOR 124 YEARS
VOL, 124
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1972 1
1' PAGES
NUMBER 45
City Buys Armory,
Truck, Talks Paving
I Two New Councilmen
Installed Tuesday Night
BANQUET DICNATARIES; The Honorable
Bob Bullock, Secretary of State of the State
of Texas, center, was well received Tues-
day evening as he delivered a politically
ornated speech at the Cherokee Wildlife As-
sociation Banquet. Bullock was introduced
bv Jack Stone, right. Chairman of Parks
.md Wildlife CommP - ion. Henry Westbrook,
left, wa-- Master of Ceremonies for the event
and i Presi lent of the A ociation.
ST A FI- PHOTO
Bullock Talks Politics At
Banquet, Awards Presented
A very politically orn3ted
speech by the Honorable Bob
Bullock, Secretary of State of
the State of Texas, was hear-
the State of Texa', w.t1
heard bv some 300 persons
attending 'he Cherokee Wild-
life Banquet l úe1 lay evening.
The annul! event w.r held
at 7;00p.m. in 'tie Fellowship
Hall of First Me-hodit
Church.
In his very open and ir.itik
political talk Bullock referred
to himself as the "Ha'che?
Man for Governor Preston
Smith", lie further noted he
felt the people should know
''what's wrong ml what's ri-
ght with State Government.
Everyone ir, Au-Mnha some,
thing to hide. We've ill got
dirty linen." He le crilied
Austin i i very 'complex
thing". He expressed qui'e
vividly iii viewpoint or. the
¡nibernatori.il candidate- in
the present race.
Absentee Balloting
Begins In County
Absentee voting for the May
6th 1 )ernocratic Primary will
officially begin Mondav, Ap-
ril l"th and end on I'tie- lav,
May 2nd, according to Mrs.
Mildred Fulton, County Clerk
Resident" of Cherokee Coun-
ts' must cast their absentee
ballot in the County Clerk
office in the Courthouse in
Ru-k. A doctor'- statement
saving a voter is unable to vi.
sit the Countv Clerk' - office
would entitle that voter tocast
hi - ballot by mail.
Voter registered in Chero-
kee County who live outside
the County may also vote by
mail, but they must vote be-
fore a Notary Public.
County Tax Asse- sor-
Collector Mr I inda Beard
ha reported that approxima-
tely 13, ISO persons are eli-
gible to vote in the Demo-
cratic Primary,
Bullock also discussed such
. sues of the day as the Sharp-
-town Scandal, Gu- Mutcher,
ind Mu-tang l -land. He also
pointed out he wa- in favor
of splitting the Parks and
Wildlife Department.
Cherokee Wildlife Associa-
tion president Henry West-
brook of Ru-k wa- the Mas-
ter of Ceremonies for the
evening. He recognized such
h-tinguised guests as Dis-
trict Judge ind Mr . J. W.
Summer-; District Judge and
Mr-. Jack Pierce; County Ju-
!ge and Mr- . Orvan B. Jones;
County Commissioners Ber
ti - 1 Watson and Terry Per
,kins; Rusk State Hospital Su
perintendent Dr. 1 exT.Neill;
County Sheriff and Mrs. John
B. Slover; District Attorney
David Adams; County Attor-
ney Wilson McVicker; State
Representative and Mrs
Jame- 1 . l.ovell; Represen,
tative Don Adams; Mayor and
Mrs. fitter Garrison of Luf
kin; I arlNishet, former May
or of I ufkin; and District Su
pervisor of Parks and Wild-
life Jack Fisdale and Mrs.
Tisdale.
F F. Hicks of Wells pre-
•see BANQUET page 10
RUSK JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPS of 1927 and
their coach were photographed prior to their state victory
on December 9th of that year. In freezing 20 degree wea -
ther, the Rusk Indians in a scoreless game were declared
winners, based on a total of 10 first downs for their cause,
compared to 3 for Weather ford College, champs of the Eas-
tern Division of Texas Junior College conference. Rusk In-
dians pictured her®, left to right, fron row, are: William
Merrill, Doyle Bagley, Buster Starkey, Curtis Spinks. Hear*
Tabb, Joe Black, and Bill Swazy, second row, same order
Tom Stone, Jack Jones, Arthur Davis, Harris Campbell, Lowell
Kelly, Cloyd (Bat)Bivins, thrid row. Dr. Austin F.. Hill, Cyrus
Shaw. Rudolph Miers, Ralph Jones, Ernest Holmes, Dan Heard,
Frank Roper, Barfteld Nettles, Jack Modesset, and Coach Bill
McCluney.
Grand Jury
Impaneled
Tuesday
The Grand Jury of Judge Jack
Pierce's 145th District Court
was empaneled Tuesday mor-
ning and began its investiga-
tion of criminal matters for
the current term.
Enpaneled were A G. Acker,
Jr., Robert Sadler, Ronnie
Lee and J. R. Greene, all of
Jacksonville; F. L. Brewer,
Sr. of Troup; James Blanton,
Marshall Bynum, and Grady
C. Singletary, all of Alto;Tru -
man A. Foster and 1. M.Dan-
iel, of Rusk; A. M. Walley Jr.
of New Summerfield; and Les-
ter A. Patterson of Bullard.
Grady C. Singletary was na-
med foreman of the Gland
Jury.
The Grand Jurors are me-
eting with District Attorney
David Adams of Nacogdoches
for this term of court to con-
sider criminal matters.
The grand jury panel was
named by a jury commission
composed of W. E. Bailey and
J. A. May of Jacksonville and
Glen Miller of Rusk.
College
Reunion
April 14
"In the hills ofEasternTex-
as. In the Cherokee hills of
Texas, is the school we love
most dearly; it's the best one
in the land. Nature's own de-
sign for a college; its walls
are filled with knowledge,and
its campusl O most clearly
There was never one so grand.
"Our own Rusk College, so
dear, We all love you. To
God and to Nature most dear,
To all you're true. . We'll
revere the glorious name;
Honor thee too; Shout thy
praise again and again, For.
ever. Eternity through."
These words to the Rusk
College school song will live
again during the annual Rusk
Academy and Rusk Col-
lege reunion to be held in
Rusk this weekend.
Activities this year will get
underway with registration at
the New Southern Motor Ho-
tel on Friday, April 14th at 1;00
p.m.
The Nacogdoches humorist.
Bob Murphev, will regale the
group as principle speaker at
their banquet Friday evening
at 6:30 p.m. at the Pineview
Restaurant. Judge T. J. High,
tower of Liberty will be the
entertaining emcee.
Saturday morning the re-
union plans call for registra,
tion at 9;00 a.m. at the First
•See REUNION Page 10
¡Bullock Talk
[To Be Heard
The speech by Secretary
of State Bob Bullock made
at the Cherokee Wildlife
Banquet Tuesday evening
may be heard in Its en-
tlrlty over Radio Station
KTLU at 9:00 a.m. Thurs-
day morning.
CATCHES BIGGEST CRA P-
PIE: John Spiers received the
1st place award in the Chero-
kee Wildlife Association
Crappie contest. Hewaspre.
sented his award by A. R.
Bice, Sr. The cr.ippie weigh -
ed two pounds, two ounces.
STAFF PHOTO
RHS Drama
Group Wins
First Place
A one act play taking place
in an Old We-t Cemetery gave
the Rusk High School Drama
team fir r place in Di-'nct
competition Monday at An
gelina Junior College in I uf
kin. Rusk High also boosted
the BestActre -andha !three
of the cast member- name.I
to the All Star Cast.
Karen Carter wa- named
Best Actres- for her por
trayal of Tildy, an old wo-
man of the West. Named to
the All Star Cast were Fran-
ces Stover, Elmer Beckworth
and Tim Turney.
The play, ''Whisperin' Im-
ages" was written by Mrs.
Zula Pearson of Rusk.
Action is centere ! aroundan
old West Cemeterv. Caleb,
an old timer, read-- the epi-
taphs along with a commen-
tary on how things "used to
be' . Three scenes among the
cemetery "inhabitants ' are
enacted.
The cast consists of Caleb,
•See DRAMA Page 10
Purchase of the National
Guard Armory Building, a new
fire truck and discussion of
Increased pay to city police
men and free paving of Beale
Street sparked a three hour
session of the City Council
Tuesday night.
The meeting was the first for
two new members, Maurice
Higgins and Jamie Weaver.
M. M. Guinn, city attorney,
administered the oath of of-
fice to Higgins and Weaver a -
long with reelected council-
man, Gene Kelley.
ARMORY PURCHASE
E. R. Gregg, long-time civic
leader, appeared before the
Council and urged the City's
considerationof the purchase
of the armory from the Texas
National Guard Armory
Board.
"We're getting a structure
valued at approximately
$140,000 and five acre of
land for the ridiculous price
of $9,019.92. I strongly re-
commend your consideration
of the purchase of this faci-
lity for community use,'' said
Gregg.
The TNG Board had an-
nounced its plans to accept
bids for the property and
offered the City of Rusk first
option. Members voted unan-
imously to enter a lease-pur-
chase agreement with the TNG
Board on a motion by Council -
man Raymond Cooper, secon-
ded by Councilman J. C. Wil-
liams.
FREE PAVING
Irwin Conley, representing a
group of Beale Street re-
sidents, met with the Coun-
cil.
"Since the election there has
been a little difference in thi-
nking out there, a= some think
the new council will pave the
street for nothing," said Con-
ley.
"Some who originally agreed
to pay their share of paving
costs have dropped out. It
is their understandingthat the
council will use state sales
tax funds to pave streets,''
Conley added.
Mayor E. H. Whitehead re
plied, 'The city has never
paved any street free. You
must treat citizens of a
municipality all alike. Some
people may have misunder-
stood the paving of Butler and
Euclid Streets. Both of these
were paved at no cost to pro-
perty owners by the county be-
cause the law permits the
county to pave inside the city
limits when the road under-
consideration connects either
state or national highways.
"The city crew did assist
with these two streets in an
effort to get maximum bene-
fit from county assistance.
The city hauled gravel tobotfi
projects, is my inderstan.
ding."
The mayor said that concer-
ning city sale- tax funds, the
city only gets about $4S,000
per year from this ource.
■'Because of tnis new mon-
ey we were able to lower all
ad valorem taxes, raise sal-
aries of city employees and
extend city service-.-," he
said.
"We have another :na:or
project facing us and that is
the development of water for
future ase. W. R.Nichols has
given the city two water wells
worth about $100,000. It will
require about $175,000 to get
the water into the city, If we
have spent all our monev pa.
ving streets and the citizens
hit their water tap and get
air instead of water, I don't
want to be here. You must
have ample water if you want
to build your town,' explained
the mayor.
Councilman Kelley offered
a motion to make Beale Stre-
et residents the same prop-
osition again, but keep other
paving projects at this year's
cost price of one-third to
property owners on either
side of a street and the city
one third.
Councilman Williams gave
the motion a second which
passed 4-0 with Councilman
Weaver abstaining.
Councilman Raymond J. Co-
oper added, "We can't pave
at no cost to property own-
ers without having to go up
on taxes."
FIRE TRUCK BIDS
Bids were received by the
Council for the purchase of
a new fire truck to serve the
WELCOMES NEW COUNCILMEN: City
Attorney Malcolm Guinn, left, welcomes new
Aldermen to the Monday meeting of the Rusk
City Council. Elected to terms on the Coun-
cil, and making their first meeting since the
election, were Jamie weaver ana Maurice u.
Higgins, right Re-elected to another term on
the Council was Gene Kelly, third from right.
STAFF PHOTO
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