The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1983 Page: 1 of 34
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The Cherokeean
Texas9 Oldest Weekly Newspaper
Established as the Cherokee Sentinel, Februar\ 27. 1850
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Vol. 134, No. 42
Rusk, Texas 75785 — Thursday, December 1,1983
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Parade Salutes Season
Entries Continue for Dec. 9 Festivity
Almost 30 groups have already in-
dicated they will participate in the
Dec. 9 Rusk Christmas parade.
The parade is set for 4:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 9 in the downtown area
Area bands will provide the music for
the event and twirlers, floats and
decorated cars with wind through the
Rusk streets.
The arrival of Santa Claus to the
Rusk scene will probably highlight the
event. This opens the annual Christ-
mas season in Rusk. However, vying
for top billing in the parade will be the
presentation of Chuck E Cheese and
his friends
Individuals and groups interested in
sponsoring a float, marching group or
decorated car should contact the
chamber office and make reser-
vations for a spot in the parade
Chamber representatives are seeking
entries from churches, school groups,
businesses, nursing homes and
others.
Theme for this year's parade is
"Christmas For the Young and Old
Alike." Cash prizes will be available
for the best three floats for that
evening in the fellowship hall of the
First United Methodist Church. Pan-
cakes. bacon, sausages, syrup and
coffee will be served during the
evening
Santa will be stationed at his house
on the square on Saturdays
throughout the Christmas season
Christmas stockings will be given
away on Dec. 10, Dec 17 and Dec 18
by the Retail Merchants Division of
the Rusk Chamber
GLENN MILLER ADDS Rudolf's red nose as he and other staff members at Mathews-Miller's make preparation
for the store's float in the annual Rusk Christmas parade on Dec. 9. From left are Miller, Glenn Stanley,
Katherine Thedford and Ruby Gentry. -staff photo
Bidding Under Study
For Publication of New County History
Eagles Get 14 Honors
To All District Football Team
By JOHN ALLEN TEMPLETON
Evaluation of bids and selection of a
printer for the new history of
Cherokee County is expected to be
completed in the Cherokee County
Historical Commission's called
meeting Dec. 13 in the county cour-
troom in Rusk.
The Commission devoted much of
its regular meeting time Tuesday to
studying the three bids the Com-
missioners Court opened Nov. 14, then
asked the chairman to seek
clarification of some points in each
bid before the Commission makes a
recommendation to the com-
missioners.
The new history of the county will
be the first in decades. It will include
an updated formal history of the coun-
ty, histories of the families in the
county, histories of businesses and
other historical records not published
previously. The new history will be
the Commission's major Texas
Sesquicentennial Year project and is
scheduled to be released as the
Sesquicentennial Year observance
begins in 1986.
Organization is advancing on the
county-wide Sesquicentennial Year
Committee. Representatives have
been named by three incorporated
towns as suggested leaders for the
unincorporated communities are
being studied before appointments
are made. The Commission expects to
make the appointments during
January and to follow that with a
county-wide meeting to begin obser-
vance plans. The Commission has
Heritage
Association
Meet Slated
Mrs. Jenny Bell will present a
Christmas Story at the Monday
evening dinner meeting of the
Cherokee County Heritage
Association at the Southern Gourmet
Restaurant.
Special Christmas music will be
featured during the program time.
Members are asked to take to the
meeting an unwrapped Christmas gift
for a Rusk State Hospital patient.
The board meets at 6 p.m.; dinner is
set for 6:30 p.m. and the program will
begin at 7 p.m.
been designated the county coor-
dinating agent for the Sesquicenten-
nial Year observance and will ask the
county-wide group to plan the
program rather than preparing one
without such participation. A
representative of the state com-
mission has offered to assist with that
planning.
Research work is well advanced for
historical markers for the Lynche's
Chapel Church, Harrison-Armstrong
Cemetery, Cold Springs Church and
Cemetery, and Mt. Zion Church and
Cemetery according to Mrs. Henry
Rose, marker committee chairman.
Markers have been approved for the
Confederate Army Training Ground
in Rusk, Burning Bush Colony at
Bullard, Primitive Baptist Church in
Wells and the application for a
marker for the Thomas J. Rusk Hotel
in Rusk is being revised to meet
requirements of the Texas Historical
Commission, she explained.
Delivery of the marker for the
grave of John J. Bowman, a soldier in
the Texas War for Independence from
Mexico, is expected soon and plans for
dedicating it will be made later, Mrs.
Rose added. The same cemetery in-
cludes the grave of his brother, also a
•See HISTORICAL, p. 18
The 17AAA All District Football
team has been announced with Rusk
taking 14 spots and Crockett landing
19 places.
Rusk students selected were Tracy
Session, guard, first team offense;
Brent Monkress, end and Ronnie
Shepard, running back, second offen-
se team; Tyrone Johnson,
downlineman, Robert Grimes,
linebacker and Travis Sessions,
secondary, first team defense; Dar-
wain Dover, down lineman. Tommy
Geisleman, linebacker, Mike
Berryhill, secondary, second team
defense; and Jody Jordan, Rodney
Norman, Patrick Lewis, Bruce
Bradley and Tracy Anderson,
honorary mention.
Reception
To Honor
Dr. Glen
A reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Thur-
sday, Dec. 8 at the Rusk State
Hospital Day Treatment Center will
honor resigning Hospital Superinten-
dent, Dr. Robert S. Glen.
Glen submitted his resignation last
summer, effective Dec. 31.
The event is sponsored by the
Hospital Volunteer Services Council
and is open to all council members,
employees of the hospital and friends
of Dr. Glen, according to Joe Rozelle,
coordinator of volunteer services.
The teams are as follows:
First Team Offense includes: Cen-
ter, a tie between Steve Hooper,
Crockett Junior and Chris Strickland,
Fairfield Senior; Guards, Kevin
Holebrook, Crockett Senior and Tracy
Session, Rusk Senior; Tackles, Mike
Marr, Fairfield Senior and Darwin
Warren, Crockett Junior; Ends, Brad
Smith, Westwood Senior and James
Jones, Crockett Junior; Wide
Receiver, Paul Lewis, Crockett
Senior; Running Backs, Charles Bur-
ns, Crockett Junior, Jerry Williams,
Fairfield Senior, and Willie McElroy,
Fairfield Senior; Quarterback, Rusty
Folmar, Crockett Junior
Second Team Offense includes
Guards, James Lane, Westwood
Senior and Dwayne Bonner, Fairfield
Senior; Tackles, Ronald Ferguson,
Crockett Senior and Chris Mc-
Williams, Teague Sophomore; Ends,
Tracy Garrett, Fairfield Senior and
Brent Monkress, Rusk Junior; Wide
Receiver, Louis Bayne, Westwood
Senior; Running Backs. Ronald
•See ALL DISTRICT, p 18
Court To Seek Bids
For New Floor Covering in Annex
Round Town
with Mrs. Roundabout
In July-August we have what is
commonly known as ktog days.' The
interim which follows Thanksgiving is
known as 'turkey hash' days!
We cook and we eat with great gusto
on this festive holiday. But... there is
the day or days of reckoning! Thrifty
managers of the kitchen — the stove
and refrigerator — know that there
are many uses for all those left-overs!
Tasty, appetizing dishes, served up in
many disguises ... but nonetheless we
all know that it is really 'turkey hash!'
Well ... while doing some fall
housecleaning (which includes the
area of work around this typewriter)
there is a bit of 'hash' to be served up
in column writing!
And while the analogy may seem a
bit disgusting, it occurred to me this
day that the limbs on our quite
beautiful Chinese Tallow trees bear a
strong resemblance to the carcass of
the Thanksgiving turkey. A little
bare! Fall foliage peaks at the season
of Thanksgiving... In keeping with the
peak of the Holiday menu! And then
the leaves are gone!
So it's time to serve up left-overs!
Why should column writing be any
different, I ask of myself! In the spirit
of real, Housecleaning this week, I
can only provide some of the bits and
pieces gleaned from such an effort.
For Instance, this portion of wisdom
shared by Daughter No. I¡ "You have
pewtn you never dreamed of, you
can do things you never thought you
could do. There are no limitations in
what you can do except the limitations
in your own mind as to what you can-
not do. Don't think you cannot. Think
you can." On a card from her, this is
attributed to Darwin P. Kingsley.
A couple of other humorous items
unearthed in Housecleaning include
these: "A dime is a dollar with the tax
taken out:" and "Don't cross your
bridges 'til you come to them or you 11
have to pay the toll twee.'' (This is an
important bit of advice for thosf of us
who tend to cross bridges before we
come to them!)
Just as the cook in me kitchen can-
not possibly clean out the left-overs in
one meal, I cannot clean out the left-
overs in column writing with one
column! So I will conclude with this
offering of humorous help from the
UPI style book. (This is one of several
guides for better writing!)
It offers the sage advice. The entry
burro, burrow reads, "A burro is an
ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground.
As a journalist you are supposed to
know the difference."
At this point In the prelude to
Christmas, I am not sure I can
distinguish the difference. But I know
thai I am suppoaed to! And. yes, I do
know when the turkey carcass begins
to look like the bare, Chinese Tallow
trees! And when Dog Days turn Into
Holidays!
Until next week? niw
J
By a vote of 3 to 2, Cherokee County
Commissioners authorized County
Judge Robert McNatt Monday to seek
bids for new floor covering at the
courthouse annex.
The authorization came after a
motion by Joe Henderson and second
by Frank Ross to seek the bids. Coun-
ty Judge McNatt voted for the bid
asking. Commissioners Toby Sartain
and Robert Underwood voted against
the proposal
Sartain explained to other com-
missioners that cost of the project
would be high.
McNatt reported at the meeting
that the county has some $30,000
budgeted for courthouse repairs.
Some had already been used for other
repairs, he noted Sartain said he
thought it was $21,000 prior to useage
of a portion of that budgeted item
Sartain said he knows the floors need
repair, but he wants to wait to see how
much is left at the end of the fiscal
year
In another matter to come before
the commissioners was presentation
by A B "Bud" Ridgley of Ridgley
Aviation concerning plans for use of
land adjacent to the county airport.
Ridgley says he owns that land next to
the airport and wants to construct a
hanger and sell lots for construction of
other hangers with access to the air-
port runway. Ridgley said he feels
this would attract persons wanting to
construct hangers with access to the
airport The Cherokee County Peace
Officers Association would also like to
purchase one to three acres to build a
permanent structure, he said.
The plans will be presented to the
Cherokee County Airport Advisory
Board and possibly to the county air-
port engineer
Reports were heard from Jack
White and Joe Daniel of the Cherokee
County Extension Service
Formal Opening Set
By Rusk Firm Friday, Saturday
ON HAND TO GREET visitón for the LAI Ford Mercury Grand
OprniuM un KrWay and Saturday will be Jim and Dan l ade, father *un
vo-ownera. The new Ford-Mervur> hume will he w> dtaplay lor the open
houae from * a.m. teSpm both day* -atafl photo
Open House for L & L Ford-Mercury
at the company's new home on U.S.
Highway 69 North has been set for
Friday and Saturday, according to
Jim Lade, company president
Tours of the facility are planned
from 8 a m. to 5 p m. both days.
Construction of the new facility
began in July and the company was
moved to the new site in October
The Lades came to Rusk on Aug I,
1981 when they purchased the For-
d dealership. Jim Lade is president of
the Rusk facility and his son, Dan ser-
ves as vice-president and operator of
the business Dan Lade and his wife
Melody moved to Rusk in January,
1982 They now have a 13-month old
daughter. Danielle.
Ford business is not something new
to the Lade family. Jim Lade has been
associated with Ford Motor Company
since 1960, when he went into business
with his brother-in-law at Frankston.
In 1975,,he and his son, James Jr took
over the Frankston dealership. Later
Dan entered the dealership there too,
the senior Lade says
James Lade Jr. continues to
operate the Frankston dealership
with Jim Lade also serving as
president of that company.
Also instrumental to the operation
of the entire Lade business is Louise
Lade, wife and mother of
the Lade men "She's the reel boss,"
the senior Lade aays
Ude saya his family is proud to be a
part of the Rusk community "Rusk
has been good to us and we appreciate
the fine support of its people," he
notes "We believed in the continued
growth of the Rusk area when we
came to Rusk and we certainly still
believe in it now," he says.
The Lades represent some 34 yean
as Ford dealers. The company is ser-
vice oriented and all memben of the
family are interested in servicing the
products they sell.
The 72,000 square foot spacious
plant includes a mechanical depar-
tment and front end alignment, as
well as body and paint shop. The
Lades own 41* acres at the site. "We
feel we already have the basics for
total service, but there is certainly
plenty of room for expansions," Lade
says.
Stockholders
For Scholarship
To Meet Dec. 5
The annual stockholden meeting
for the M R Philbrick Scholarship
Fund will be held at ft: IS Dec. S in the
Rusk High School library
All i --
•om an invited lo i
to Tony Murray, president of the cor-
poration
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