The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1979 Page: 4 of 14
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PAGE FOUR THE CHEROKEEAN OP RU8K, TEXAS, THURSDAY. JANUARY 4. IM1
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1978: A Year of Action for Rusk and Area
Continued from P. 1
FEBRUARY)
An in-service workshop
was held at Rusk High
School for teachers of the
East Texas Adult
Education 12 county
cooperative. There were 86
participants.
Five people were named
to the Rusk Zoning Board.
Receiving two-year terms
were Jerry Smith, Maxine
Sessions, and Corry
Wallace, vice-president of
the board. Receiving one-
year terms were Scott
Jared and Frank Howell,
chairman of the board.
Cherokee County was
featured in the Fiftenth
Annual East Texas
Vacation Guide released
for national distribution by
the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce. Approximately
100,000 copies were printed.
The Cherokee County
Grand Jury no-billed 19
cases involving
misdemeanor patient
abuse at Rusk State
Hospital. District Attorney
Pete Menefee said that his
own reasoning was that the
grand jury felt the
Earl Scott Report on
patient abuse cases at RSH
had served as a deterrent
and that it would not serve
any useful purpose to
charge anyone further.
The Rusk City Council
agreed in a 3-2 vote to
subordinate the $52,000
owed them by the
American Religious Town
Hail Meeting Inc. and take
a second place on a lien put
on Rusk Memorial
Hospital. This allowed the
hospital to borrow $500,000
to make improvements.
The girl's basketball
season under Coach Buddy
Brashear ended with the
varsity finishing second in
District 21-AA with a 16-9
season record. The junior
varsity placed third in
district with a 11-5 season.
Coach Jim Morgan's
varsity boy's basketball
squad finished up with 2-3
district slate and a season
mark of 11-9. Coach Clark
-Pearson's junior varsity
went 4-1 in district
competition and 13-4
overall.
The Rusk Independent
Scí°t D&
school for three days
hazardous icing conditions
on the streets in Cherokee
County.
An increase in salary
from $13,560 to $16,000 a
year for Sheriff Danny
Stallings was finally
rejected after county
commissioners held two
executive sessions on the
matter.
Scurlock Hall on the Lon
Morris College campus in
Jacksonville was packed as
some 400 Ruskites attended
the 17th Annual Rusk All-
Sports Banquet. The J.L.
Hassell Enterprises award
for best girl athlete went to
Judy Shepard. Recipient of
the E.H. Whitehead Award
for best boy athlete was
Pat Riehy. The M.R.
Philbrick "Fighting
Heart" Award waa woo by
Greg Clay.
MARCH
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
opened up a new 90,400
square foot discount center
on U.S. Hwy. «9 South in
Jacksonville.
Longevity pay for county
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to
lack of
service in
subscriptions to the. IT* '
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APRIL
Cherokee County
Jnit of the American
employees, money
salary each month
&
depending on the amount of
time employed by the
county was voted down by
the commissioner's court
due to lack of money in the
budget.
Jim Jordan called for
public support in a
membership drive for his
ambulance company. Jor-
dan emphasized the finan-
cial loss sustained by his
company during its first
year of operation here.
"We must have the
people's support," said
Jordan.
The "Picture Ladies"
Program began its sixth
year at Rusk Elementary
School when local ladies
began showing their chosen
artists' paintings replicas.
The eight-week program
was sponsored by the Rusk
Elementary PTA and
involved second through
fifth graders.
A Motivational Educa-
tional Training employee
from Rusk is alleged to
have accepted $5,000 in
kickbacks from James H.
Bartless, owner of the de-
funct Tyler Career College
in exchange for federally
funded recruits steered to
the school, according to the
Rev. Eligha Walker of
1'Ier who told his story to
31 agents.
The Rusk Band Boosters
lot organized to raise
.9,000 of the $18,000 needed
to buy new band uniforms,
with the school board pay-
ins for the other half. A
"Super Saturday" was
planned where local civic
clubs would dash around
the square and compete to
see who would collect the
most money for the,
Boosters.
The City Council held a
public hearing as a prere-
quisite to filing for a grant
with the Department of
Housing and Urban Deve-
lopment. Town spokesper-
sons said that one of the
greatest needs of the1 city is
a community center facil-
ity which would be usuable
for recreation and other
civic purposes.
Rusk Independent School
District Superintendent
J.M. Boone told the school
board that the school dis-
trict needs an additional
four classrooms and that
within five years a total of
eight classrooms would be
needed.
The Cherokee County
Livestock Show collected
$10,295 to be used to build
the Cherokee County show
barn. Livestock was exhi-
Tyk
FBI
The
South Unit
Cancer Society
their goal of $5,000 by col-
lecting approximately
$5,700 during the door-to-
door cancer drive.
The Rusk High School
Student Council beaded a
school-wide effort to raise
funds for a sign identifying
the «ffy of the school at
the entrance off South Main
Street. The red and white
school colorsign waa built
by the school's vocational-
agriculture department
Sixteen new members
were enlisted for the Rusk
Chamber of Commerce
during their ■««——t mem-
bership drive.
Four civic clubs, Rotary,
Evening and Noon Lions
and Kiwanis collected
$2,344 for the Band Boos-
ter's Club during "Super
Saturday" activities.
The Rusk girls golf team
downed Palestine West-
wood to win the District
21-AA title. Members of the
team were Lisa Gilchrest,
Carla Bostick, Lindy
Ocker, Kim Harris, and
Vicki Jordan.
Sixteen Rusk High School
Students took honors at the
National Spanish Contest
on the campus of East
Texas Baptist College in
Marshall. Rusk students
took first place in first
year, second year and third
year divisions.
The Rusk city fathers
unanimously elected to
concentrate the city's
$267,000 grant request to
HUD in the Southeast
(Addition) area of Rusk.
The Rusk Boy's "A" Golf
Team came from 12'
strokes down to overtake
second place Fairfield and
earn a trip to the Regional
Golf Tournament.
J.M. Boone, Rusk Inde-
pendent School District
superintendent, announced
that be would retire effec-
tive Jdy 1 after 41 years in
school teaching and ad-
ministration.
A five-members Ambu-
by"^^R^t^tyl?«nKil
aggreed to recommend
that the city purchase an
ambulance and operate a
voluneer emergency ser-
vice out of Rusk Memorial
Hospital.
The Rusk Boys Tennis
Team took first place in
District 21-AA competition
and advanced four netters
to the regional meet. The
girls team finished third,
and advanced one girl to
Karen Hamilton, Jackson-
ville 4-Her, was crowned
show queen.
The Jordan Ambulance
Service of Shreveport, La.
announced that it would
withdraw it services from
the Rusk area. Don Crosby,
county ambulance mana-
ger for Jordan, said that
pull-out was due to a
the regional play-c
The Rusk City Council
elected to send a letter to
the Jordan Ambulance Ser-
vice asking him to refund
members'fees or else face
a class action suit for not
fulfilling his promised ser-
vice.
Rusk's school board
voted 6-1 in a secret ballot
to review all the creden-
tials of certified personnel
in the school system to see
if one of them would be
qualified to assume the
soon -'to.- be vacated
superintendent's post.
MAY
The Rusk school board
decided to seek applicants
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Jacksonville
for a new superintendent
outside the school
Steve Cooper, 33, former
Van Alstyne football coach
was named as new head
coach of the Alto Yellow-
jackets by the Alto In-
dependent School District.
Robby Fountain was
named by COACH and
ATHLETE magazine to the
PREP ALL-AMERICAN
Football Yearbook for
1977-78.
Hie Independent Cattle-
man's Association of Che-
rokee County sponsored a
rodeo at the Cherokee Ri-
ders Club arena on the Atoy
Highway.
The trend of Cherokee
County voting during the
Democratic Primary re-
flected agreement with
most statewide choices.
Jimmy Jordan offered an
additional ambulance as a
back-up unit to his service
after complaints from the
community. Ken Worley.
Rusk Memorial Hospital
administrator, offered to
run the unit out of RMH
with volunteers from the
hospital.
Rusk High School gra-
duated 107 students during
commencement exercises
at Musick Field. Larry
Littlelohn was named
valedictorian, David
Draper as salutatorian and
Betty Corley as third
highest student.
Ronnie Brooks was re-
cognized as a National
Merit Finalist. Michele
Halbert received the Beta
Sigma Phi Award and Julie
Townsend garnered the
Business and Professional
Womens Noon Club Award.
Suzie Struhall received
the Beta Alpha award and
Paul Ballard took home the
M.R. Philbrick Award.
LJddy Dement was awar-
from the BA^V^OuSTanS
Joanne Hunter received a
scholarship from Baylor
University.
City councilmen ordered
Cindy Jennings, meter
maid, to check every park-
ing meter in Rusk every
hour on the hour and to give
parking tickets each hour
if the vehicle was illegally
parked in a space. _
Susan Buchanan was
chosen to participate in the
America's Youth in Con-
cert 1978 European concert
tour sponsored by the Uni-
versal Academy for Music.
JUNE
Coach Gary Turner's
Eagle baseball team
defeated Van by 4-1 to
advance to the Bi-District
play-offs with Hooks.
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The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1979, newspaper, January 4, 1979; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151313/m1/4/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.