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Number 16
The Cherokeean
Texas' oldest weekly newspaper, established as the Cherokee Sentinel, Feb. 27, 1850
Rusk, Texas, Thursday, June 12, 1975
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RSH Record Budget
Reviewed at Meeting
Funding to provide qual-
ity treatment for patients
at Rusk State Hospital by
legislators of the 64th
session was reviewed by
State Rep. Emmett H.
Whitehead in a meeting of
directors of the Rusk
Chamber of Commerce
Monday.
"For the fiscal year of
1976, more than $12 million
was approved and it
increases to more than $15
million for 1977," stated
Rep. Whitehead. "We have
in the budget, funds to
provide an additional 417
positions over the two year
period, two new ward
buildings and funds tc
upgrade fire safety which
will certainly help in the
institution's certification
by the Joint Accreditation
Commission for Hospi-
tals."
In his report, Rep
Whitehead pointed to the
close call experienced
in the session when
members failed to accept
the recommendation of the
Joint Conference Com-
mittee, composed of five
senators and five represen-
CELEBRATION PREPARATION~Mrs.
Donna Sherman, right assistant coordi-
nator for the RSH Volunteer Services
Council, and Mrs. Signa Lucas, Day
Treatment Center staff member.
examine items collected for the July 4th
Celebration at Rusk State Hospital. The
Council is accepting contributions for the
July festivities which provides enter-
tainment for patients. staff photo
Rusk Citizens Ask
For Better Highways
Volunteers To Conduct
July Celebration at RSH
The Volunteer Services
Council for Rusk State
Hospital is planning an
annual Independence Day
Celebration for patients at
the facility.
The day-long event is set
for Thursday, July 4 and
will feature game booths,
concession stands, group
contests, musical enter-
tainment and picnic lun-
ches for the patients. The
activities are an annual
event sponsored by the VSC
through contributions of
gifts, food and money.
Harry Phillips, VSC
chairman, urges interested
individuals and organiza-
tions to assist in making
this year's celebration
more enjoyable for the
patients. Items needed
include handkerchiefs, toil-
etries, clothing, tobacco
and sunglasses. Gifts need-
ed for female patients are
makeup articles, panty-
hose, body powder, head-
scarves, perfume, purses,
hats, and cigarette cases.
Male patients need socks,
after shave and cologne,
billfolds, belts, ties and
shaving cream. Foodstuffs
needed for the celebration
included candy, gun, snow-
cone syrup, bananas,
ingredients for popcorn,
including the corn, oil. salt
and bags, snowcone cups
and fresh fruit.
Merchandise may be
delivered to the Volunteer
Services Council or mailed
to P.O. Box 318, Rusk.
Checks should be made
payable to the VSC and
marked "July 4th."
"The support of the com-
munity is the backbone of
our services," said Joe
Rozelle, VSC coordinator.
"We can always expect a
wonderful celebration
when we have the con-
tinuing support of our loyal
friends."
The Council is a non-
profit organization estab-
lished to serve Rusk State
Hospital patients.
The City of Rusk,
through the Chamber of
Commerce, will request a
hearing of the Texas
Highway Department in
Austin concerning
ipiprovements of Highway
84 East and Í10 North of
Rusk.
Mayor Morris Hassell,
city councilmen Johnny
Williams and Raymond
Cooper, and citizens Jim
Perkins, Glen Miller and
George Dodd, appeared
before the County Commis-
sioners Court Monday
morning to ask the Court's
support in the city's
request. County Judge
Orvan B. Jones produced a
letter from Barnes H.
Broiles of Jacksonville in
which that city requested a
hearing of the depart-
ment. Jones and members
of the Court agreed to
attend an Austin meeting in
support of projects in
Jacksonville and Rusk.
Another delegation of
citizens from Maydelle
requested that the Court
create a voting box in their
area. The voters are
presently required to
travel to Pierce's Chapel to
vote.
Commissioners Joe Hen-
derson and Bertis Watson
of the two precincts to be
affected, gave verbal con-
sent to the action. Formal
action will be made during
the regular July meeting.of
the Court in which Com-
missioners, Justices of the
Peace and voting pre-
See COURT, p. 12
talives. "In a day and a
half, I lived a lifetime," he
daid. Final passage of the
state's budget for the bien-
nium included $287.8 mil-
lion for Mental Health and
Mental Retardation in 1976
and $303.6 million for 1977.
He was high in his praise
for coleagus who supported
the record budget for Rusk
State Hospital, and Dr.
Robert B. Sheldon, RSH
administrator for his
cooperation.
The Chamber directors
were told "it took a lot of
people doing a lot of work"
to get this appropria-
tion for Rusk. Whitehead
offered gratitude for sup-
port from Mayor Morris
W.Hassell, Joe Terrell,
James I. Perkins and
Barnes H. Broiles for close
cooperation.
He was especially com-
plimentary of Rep. Roy
blake of Nacogdoches and
Rep. Mickey Leland of
Houston "whose help was
absolutely essential for us
to have obtained the
funding we received," he
said.
Council Talks Division
Of Rusk Into Precincts
Final *150,000
Approved for Park
Round
Town
Honndabout
Somebody's always
going some place, some-
body's always coming
home! And home is about
as far as Himself got at the
end of the 64th session of
the legislature last week.
Plans for a quickie vaca-
tion were scuttled in defer-
ence to business...but it's
nice to know that our
state's highway system is
in good shape for travel if
we had the time to go some
place!
If you haven't noticed,
and it would be difficult to
live in Rusk and not notice,
U.S. Highway 69 is getting
a new seal surface job.
Kind of like plastic
surgery, smoothing out the
wrinkles. Our Texas High-
way Department district
engineer, W.W. Potter of
Tyler, was In town last
week, and we enjoyed his
brief visit. Rusk and
Cherokee County are fortu-
nate to have the coopera-
tion of Mr. Potter and his
staff in maintaining very
good highways!
Our county is noted for
its scenic beauty and much
credit for this is directly
attributable to the fine road
system which allows some
excellent views of the
rolling hills.
Tripping all the way to
New York recently were
Mayor and Mrs. Morris W.
Hassell. It was a business
trip, of course, but we
asked him before he left to
see if he could locate that
"New York Minute" Gene
Kelley is always talking
about. The Mayor reported
that he was unable to find
same, but in the meantime,
we finally obtained a
description from Kelley.
He says, "A New York
Minute is 33 and one-
half seconds long." So, if
your days are getting
shorter you may be
operating on New York
minutes!
Back in the early part of
May, somebody remarked
that the month was
expected to produce rain
the entire period. Well, now
that May has come and
gone and June is well
underway, we really would
like to see the rain stop.
Obviously it is interfer-
ring with a lot of activities-
baseball, swimming, hay
cutting and you name it!
Until next week, keep
smiling...maybe this will
help: A mother rabbit
pushed for answers by her
small bunny said, "A
magician pulled you out of
a hat. Now stop asking silly
questions."
Final approval for
$150,000 in matching funds
to develop Phase II of the
Rusk City Park was
announced this week by
Gene Kelley, chairman of
the park's board of
managers.
The Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department noti-
fied Kelley by letter that
the funds had been given
final approval by the
Bureau of Outdoor Recrea-
tion, U.S. Department of
Interior.
Several months ago the
Rusk City Council author-
ized the application for
funds to be used to add 36
camper sites, 19 of which
are primitive, an addi-
tional restroom, tennis
courts, swimming pool and
a building for admissions
control.
"In addition to the letter,
we also received a check
for $19.800 matching funds
based on our last billing to
Parks and Wildlife," said
the chairman.
"We are now ready to
finalize plans and " speci-
fications to move forward
with the construction of
Phase II projects," he said.
"On completion of work
now approved, we have a
value of $404,400 invested in
this recreational facility,"
Kelley stated.
The project is being
developed on a 50-50
matching basis between
the City of Rusk and the
state and federal agencies.
The board is to meet at 7
p.m. Tuesday in
Community Room of First
State Bank. Other mem-
bers include James P.
Richards, Johnnie McKay,
W.D. Draper, Frank Sum-
mers, J.W. Carter and
Mmes. Gene Meyers, Mary
Buchanan and Marie
Whitehead.
Possibility of Rusk being
divided into precincts for
the election of council
members was discussed at
the regular meeting of the
council Tuesday night at
the city hall. Mayor Morris
W. Hassell told the council
recent federal court rulings
could not be ignored. He
a^ked council members to
be thinking about possible
divisions.
After some discussion, it
was agreed that the mayor
would contact the federal
bureau of census, and
request population break-
down of the city.
Gene Kelley, chairman
of the city park board,
reported to the council that
an additional $75,000 in
federal BOR funds had
been approved. "This
money will enable us to
complete phase two of the
park," he said. This money
will be matched by local
funds.
Two tennis courts, a
swimming pool, an addi-
tional shower and rest
room, secondary roads and
additinal camp sites are
included in phase two.
"We hope to have the
park completed by the
spring of 1976," the
chairman said.
When completed, the
Rusk city park will have a
$404,000 investment. Texas
Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment is spending over five
million dollars for the
steam operated tourist
train. Bids were opened
last week for the $625,000
maintenance complex. It is
anticipated that bids for
the $300,000 depot will be
opened in the next few
weeks.
Other business coming
before the council
included:
1. Larry Lusk of Texas
State Guard in Jackson-
ville discussed with the
Council the formation of a
Company C of the guard in
See COUNCIL, p. 12
"We can look forward to
the advancement of this
facility's position in Texas
as an outstanding center
for the care and treatment
of the mentally ill," said
Rep. Whitehead.
His report was called by
Chamber President James
I. Perkins, "the best in our
organization's history."
New homes for doctors,
new construction for pa-
tients and increased wages
at the facility are assured.
One new ward building is to
house the civil commit-
ment patients and another
is to be built for the
females criminally insane.
See RSH. p.12
imMx-m.
Fred Buchanan
1st State
Elects New
Director
Fred Buchanan, mana-
ger of Cherokee County
Electric Cooperative Asso-
ciation, has been elected a
director of First State Bank
in Rusk. His election
became official at a
meeting of the bank's
board yesterday (Wednes-
day).
"We are happy to have
him associated with us as a
director," said First State
Bank president, Joe
Terrell.
Buchanan has managed
the electric cooperative
here for seven years. He is
a member of the General
Services Committee of
Texas Electric Coopera-
tives, Inc. and is a past
secretary of the state
association's Board of
Directors.
Buchanan and his wife
Mary reside in Rusk with
their two children, Susan,
14, and Julie, 11.
TOUR M8U-Members of the Rusk Chamber of Commerce
Industrial Relations Committee enjoyed a tour of Rusk
State Hospital's Maximum Security Unit Monday after-
Left to right are Donald Clayton; CC Manager Roy
Conner; Mike Crysup; State Representative Emmett H.
Whitehead; Dr. Jim Hunter, unit physician; Chamber
President Jim Perkins; Committee Chairman Henry
West brook and JoEd Anderson. staff photo
Park Board
Meet Set
The Rusk City Parks
Board will hold a meeting
at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the
Community Room of First
State Bank.
Final plans on Phase I
and beginning plans for
Phase II of park con-
struction will be discussed.
Board members are
Gene Kelly, Mrs. Mary
Buchanan, Mrs. Marie
Whitehead, Frank Sum-
mers, James P. Richards,
Johnnie McKay, J.W. Car-
ter., Bill Draper and Mrs.
Gene Meyers.
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