The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1976 Page: 2 of 16
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PACE TWO-THE CHEROKEEAN OF RUSK. TEXAS. THURSDAY. APRIL M. IfM
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Commentary • • • News & Views
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One of the Free?
The Democratic Way is hailed right
along with Mother, Country and opple
pie as an American tradition. One of
the first oesthetic concepts an
American child learns is
"Democracy." Yet, in this
Bicentennial year, we keep hearing
overtones of issues which reflect
something ether then the individuo!
right of "life, liberty ond the pursuit
of happiness."
Imagine a committee of the Old
Patriots-George Washington, Ben
Franklin, Patrick Henry...gasping
over o list of such 1976 campaign
issues as Right to Work, federal land
usage regulations, the ever-growing
national debt, the inflated "Federal
Reserve Note"...Who would have
thought in 1776 that the fresh breath
of Liberty would be "sicklied o're"
with foul odor, manufactured as a
by-product of 200 years of abused
and misused legislation.
How ridiculous that in "the land of
the Free" one must argue for his
right to work where he wants,
negotiate his own salary, live where
he choses, do what he wants with his
own money and land, and share with
the poor, the orphan and the elderly
because his heart is in the right place
(not because the Government has
already taken it out of his check).
Are Americans weaker-minded than
their forefathers who carved out the
first roads, built the first log cabins,
and invented the automobile, the
telephone, and the airplane? Who, in
the last decades, has surpassed the
speed of sound, masterminded the
computer and walked on the moon?
Americans are capable. We can only
assume that Americans have allowed
a diminishing of personal liberties
because they chose not to be
bothered with the affair of governing
themselves.
In 1776, the patriots took up arms
to defend their Right to Choose. In
1976, as we observe the Bicentennial
of their victory, we have an
obligation to preserve that right. We
should take time to carefully review
each candidate and piece of
legislation, voice our opinion and
petition when necessary, and VOTE in
order to preserve our democratic
right to decide.
Guest Editorial
A Word of Caution
Accidents on Texas farms and
ranches claim more than 200 lives
each year. Nationally, there are
about 1,400 accidental deaths ond
140*000 disabling injuries per year
involving farm residents.
An agricultural safety engineer for
the Téxas Agricultural Extension
Service points out that recent studies
show that many farm and ranch
accidents are related to falls, use of
tractors and other machinery,
drowning, electrocutions, fire arms
and motor vehicles used in work
activities. About 30 per cent of all
farm and ranch injuries result from
falls.
Dr. Gory Nelson cites tractor
turnovers as causing the highest
fatality rate involving farm
machinery. In almost two-thirds of
these tractor related accidental
deaths, the victim first fell from the
tractor. This points out the
importance of a protective rollover
cab and seat belt.
"Although accident prevention
begins with the design of safe
equipment and facilities to fit man's
needs and capabilities, safe
operating procedures are also
paramount," emphasizes the Texas
AIM University System engineer.
Agricultural workers need to
recognize "high risk situations" and
conduct their work accordingly to
avoid accidents, maintains Nelson.
Poor work procedures that often
lead to accidents on the farm and
ranch include failure to secure
objects or machines from unexpected
movement, operating at an unsafe
speed, removing or making safety
devices inoperative, using defective
tools or equipment, using good tools
or equipment improperly, assuming
an unsafe position or posture,
working with hazardous materials,
using hands or feet instead of tools,
creating dangerous combinations of
objects or materials, and deviating
from recommended job procedures.
These are only a few of the many
unsafe practices that occur on farms
and ranches. Accident prevention
involves correcting these practices as
well as recognizing hazardous
conditions.
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News
County 4-H Contests will
be held Saturday. April 24
in the County Courthouse
Room in Rusk. Registra-
tion will be from 8:30-9:00
a.m.
4-Hers will compete in
contests such as: Public
Speaking. Share-the-Fun,
and Method Demonstra-
tions. Usually a 4-Her will
choose a topic relating to
his project. He simply
shows ways on how to
make or do something and
share useful knowledge.
The youth are judged on
subject matter, introduc-
tion, appearance, sum-
mary, presentation,
originality, and achieve-
ment of purpose. Mast of
the contests can be either a
team or individual effort
with the maximum time
Itength of 12 minutes.
For the Share-the-Fun of
Talent Contest, from one to
nine members can make up
the team. Also this contest
can last a maximum of six
minutes before the team is
penalized.
The winners in each
division of the County
Contests will have the
opportunity to compete in
District Contests to be held
at SFA University in
Nacogdoches on May l.
The public is invited to
attend and all youth from
ages 9-19 are encouraged to
participate.
The Craft 4-H Club met
April 6 for the regular
meeting at the home of
Mrs. M. D. Arrington.
Terry Arrington. presi-
dent, called the meeting to
order then Patty Corbell
led the 4-H motto and
pledge. The youth present
discussed the County Live-
stock Show and each
participant told their
placing, who bought their
calf, and how much it sold
for. Five new members
were present and are as
follows: Bobby Hamilton.
Tracy Hendrix. Billy
Mayo. Charles Simmons,
and Clifford Simmons.
A summer outing will be
discussed at the next
meeting on May 4. The
meeting was closed with
the prayer
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THE DAILY PHONE 7
November 1809 BURNED
TO DEATH
"Widow of Thomas
Fagan Places Lighted
Tapers Upon His Grave
Houston. Texas Nov. 5th.
"A most distressing
accident accurred today at
Harrisburg. It ended the
life of an estimable lady.
Mrs. Fagan, widow of the
late Thomas Fagan. Her
home was near Harris-
burg. and during the day
she visited the cemetery to
place flowers upon the
grave of her late husband.
She also placed some
lighted candles near the
flowers and in moving
about to complete the
decorations her dress
caught fire from the
candles. The screams of
her little children and a
little negro boy attracted
the attention of Capt. Folk,
whose home is not far
away. He hastened to the
place, but upon arrival
found that she was dead.
She was heavily dressed
and when her skirts caught
fire the flames soon
encircled her, and death
was doubtless caused from
inhaling the red tongues of
the cruel flames. She
formerly lived in Eastern
Texas and was a Mrs.
Pruett, from which mar-
riage she left three
children to combat the
asperities of a cold world.
She leaves a number of
friends in this part of the
state, who will be shocked
to hear of her untimely
death."
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Seeking information on
John KIRBY who was born
October 27,1817. Mr. Kirby
was a farmer and owned
laftd in Kentucky.
He disposed of his
interests and moved to
Texas in 1854: settled in
Dallas County on the last
day of November. He
improved the land in
Dallas County where he
lived 16 years. His death
occurred 19 July 1870. His
wife died 30 March 1862.
The Monroe County, Ken-
tucky 1850 census shows
John and Anna J. with the
following children: Andrew
(11), Nancy (9), Benjamin
(8), James (4) and Julina
(8 months)
John and Anna are
buried in Big A Cemetery,
Dallas County.
Kathryn Kirby, 1500
Sylvan Drive, Apt. 112,
Hurst, Texas 76053.
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THE DAILY PHONE 24
November 1899
"Jack Roberts, son of A.
C. and Lou ROBERTS, was
born in Angelina County,
Texas February 10, 1882,
and died November 8,1899.
"Pearl Roberts,
daughter of A. C. and Lou
Roberts, was born in
Nacogdoches County,
Texas September 21, 1884
and died in the Sealy
Hospital at Galveston, and
both of typhoid fever. Both
were young, being 17 and 15
respectively. 'Tis too sad
that both should be cut
down in the prime of their
young lives, but in this
great bereavement the
parents have the sympathy
and prayers of all good
people.'"
Volunteer View
By: Donna Carolan
Assistant Coordinator of Volunteer Services
Rusk State Hospital
Ah yes. how well I remember my first course in
college psychology! During the entire four months
we discussed many, many things, and the one that
kept hitting home so hard was that of "abnormal
thinking and behavior." Now at first this had me
spooked, for I could see so much of myself and of my
family and friends in these. And not that we are so
but-of the-ordinary people. Quite the contrary. The
whole point is that of degree.
Yes. the degree to which one perceives paranoia,
grandiose thoughts, delusions, insecurities, even
hallucinations, and other such experiences...this is
the secret. Yes the degree. For we all to certain
extents experience them all. throughout our lives,
more poignantly at specifically stressful times
perhaps, but we do experience them. So my
question is this: if we can still efficiently function
day by day. especially if we receive joy from living
without causing anyone any negative experiences,
then why worry about our paranoia, our
insecurities, any of these experiences, unless they
get sn nut of control that they impede our day by day
effectiveness and eventually may even call on
hospitalization as a necessity? Why not just accept
them, if they are held in perspective, as part of our
idiosyncrasies, not being overly concerned with the
quesiion of our own sanity, and get on with the
business of living?
So you may ask. "If we all have experiences, then
why are some of us working at a state hospital while
others of us are being treated here?" Again, we
cannot repeat enough that it is a question of degree.
The persons whom are being treated here are much
like you and I with the possible exceptions of
physical handicaps and or that they have not, either
as of late or as of many years, been able to function
day by day in a manner efficient to themselves.
Constant siress perhaps has made them extremely
anxious or nervous: they repeatedly are hearing
their long-dead father speak to them: they
thoroughly believe themselves reincarnations of
Cleopatra's favorite cat or whatever: or maybe
they experience the auras of trees.
All of these may seem rather humorous, but we as
mental health workers must not question the
Tightness of wrongness of what our patients choose
to belive in. Who are we to do this, even as
spokesmen for consensual validation? There is too
much that no one knows for sure, even if truth
shifts Rather it is our duty to bring these
individuals to an optimum level of physical health
and to offer them the opportunity to bring their
briefs into a proper enough perspective to operate
with themselves and others efficiently and
hopefully creatively. What is sanity if not this?
I was just thinkin
MMMifrom a reader
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Who says "things ain't much like they used to be?"
Well, many things aren't, but people pretty much remain the same, human
nature being what it is. We're maybe smarter (a little), maybe lazier (a lot)
Mrs. Ethel Bishop of Rusk brought in an excerpt from a 1939 edition of The
Cherokeean which compares, perhaps too well, with what people and things
are and aren't today. Frank L. Main was publisher at the tune. We share it
with you.
"Too much talk and too much heat,
Too much corn and too much meat,
Too much cotton and too much oil,
Too. many hours that we don't toil,
Too many highways, too many cars,
Too many people behind too many bars,
Too much poverty, too much wealth,
Too many people in too little health,
Too much politics, too much booze,
Too many wearing high heeled shoes,
Too many loafing, too many bets,
Too many failing to pay their debts,
Too many spending their dough on gas,
Too many talking of European sass,
Too many living beyond their means,
Too many buying canned corn and beans,
Too many sowing too many wild oats,
Too many candidates just looking for votes,
Too many people who don't give a damn,
Too many depending on Uncle Sam,
Too many poets, too much prose,
Too many girls without underclothes,
Too much reform, too much law,
It's the darndest mess you ever saw."
(author unknown)
Confusing? Well, maybe not nearly as the young man returning home
at the end of his first semester at a Seminary.
"Well, how was it, son?" his Dad asked.
"Wow. am I all mixed up!" the son replied. '"Tjs and 'taint, you can and
you cain't. and you're doomed if you don't."
Ah, so!
from the
Lion's Den
By E. B. Mustek, Jr.
There are two very
dependable ways to finish
an automobile: use
lacquer-or liquor. Our
guest last week was Mr.
LaRue Dixon, District
Attorney 2nd. Judicial
Distirct of Texas. Lion
President Grady Dupree
reported that the Lions
District Pins with the
Cho-Cho on them will
be ready at the next
District Meeting which will
be April 24 & 25th. The
Motocross will be over by
the time you read this but
much work was done in
"irikproving the track and it
was hoped that a large
number of persons would
enter the events. Many of
the Lioness helped with the
judging and scorekeeping,
and we do appreciate that.
Our program was pre-
sented by Mrs. Mary Dixon
from Jacksonville. She is
the wife of our District
Attorney and has been in
the photography business
professionally for about Vh.
years. She deals exclu-
sively in childrens photos
and has made quite a name
for herself in this field. In
February, 1976 she entered
her first formal competi-
tion and all the photos she
entered were selected to be
shown in Washington, D. C.
which we understand is
some honor indeed. She
presented many beautiful
pictures with a background
of beautiful music. We just
do not realize how beautiful
so many things around us
really are. Mrs. Dixon
stated that we are just too
busy to enjoy beauty
around us and this was a
"Welcome To My World"
and such a beautiful world.
There were so many
beautiful pictures shown,
the mountains, some with
snowcapped; beautiful
birds; the beautiful sun-
sets, grasses, fruit, water,
sailboats and occassionally
a beautiful church. These
pictures would just fade
away as another scene
came into viewing. Mickey
Mouse even appeared
along with Peter Rabbit,
then a close-up of colored
Easter Eggs; a beautiful
tree in the sunset and our
own Texas Flag. The
butterfly-have you noticed
recently how pretty they
can be? These photos were
outstanding so much so
Church Slates
Revival
Rev. Billy Conway will
be the guest evangelist at
the Memorial Missionary
Baptist Church's revival
services beginning Apr. 18.
The church, located on
Ryder Road in Rusk will
hold nightly services at
7:30 p.m.
Song directors will be
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lloyd of
Rusk.
Pastor, Rev. A. D.
Munsinger invites every-
one to attend the services.
that the Lions were
completely quiet through
the entire showing. And
this is unusual. Many of the
pictures were made in
Texas and then some were
made in other states. Mrs.
Dixon and her brother
made them all and they
have to be great with a
camera. One of the finest
programs we have ever
had and we hope that Mrs.
Dixon will bring us another
in the very near future. It
was one of those fashion-
able cocktail parties at-
tended by some of the
biggest manufacturing
agents in New York. To
liven up the party, the host
had thoughtfully invited a
group of pretty models to
circulate with the male
guests. One of the models
had been captivated with a
certain elederly tycoon
who happened to manu-
facture electrical appli-
ances, and he spent the
evening telling her of his
vast holding and exploits
in the commercial world.
"I certainly would like to
work in your office," she
remarked. "Well, I think
that can be arranged,"
answered the tycbon.
"Drop around to my office
tomorrow morning and I'll
make you a proposition."
"Listen, Buster," she
replied quickly. "The
propositions will have to
wait-until after I get a job
in your office!" See you
Thursday Noon New
Southern Motor Hotel.
1ASTE
He gave His life, the ultimate gift, for our
sins. Go to the church of your choice this
Easter Sunday and rejoice in the risen Christ.
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