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Established Feb. 27, 1850 as the Cherokee Sentinel ~ Texas' Oldest, Continuously Published Weekly Newspaper
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Vol. 142, No. 3 - 12 Pages
Thursday, February 22,1990
Rusk, Texas 75785 25 cenls
NEWS BRIEFS
Soccer registration
Spring registration for the Rusk
Soccer League will continue from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Rusk
High School gym.
'Youths, who played soccer in the
fall, are already pre-registered. Cost
for the spring season is $25 per
child. Birth certificates must be
taken to registration.
Concert scheduled
Tbmmy Mabry and The New Life
Quartet will sing in concert at the
Hudson Chapel Community Church
at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 3.
The public is invited to attend
this special service and other serv-
ices of the church.
Art League meet set
The Alto Art League will meet at
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22 in the
fellowshiphall ofthe A. Frank Smith
United Methodist Church. The pro-
gram will be an oil painting demon-
stration by Karen LoStracca. The
meeting is open to the public.
Alto bands to play
A pop concert, presented by Alto
bands will be held at 7 p.m. Thurs-
day,Feb. 22attheAlto School Cafe-
teria. Refreshments will be served
following the concert.
N« admission will be charged, but
donations will be asked at the door.
Absentee voting
underway
Absentee voting is continuing
at the office of Fairy Upshaw,
county clerk, at the courthouse
in Rusk and at the Jacksonville
Activity Center through March
9.
Voting is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
weekdays and during the noon
hour. TTie offices will be open
Saturday, Feb. 24 and Saturday,
March 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Alto Fish Fry slated
The Alto Lions Club will hold its
monthly Fish Fry from 5 until 8
p.m. Friday, Mar. 2. It will be "all
you can eat" for $5.50 in advance or
$6 at the door and children under
eight eat free. The Ladies Auxiliary
and the Alto Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment will furnish desserts.
Registration
begins
for youth ball
Alto Youth Baseball registra-
tion will be held on the first two
Saturdays in March.
Signup for youngsters, ages
preschool through sixth grade,
will be in front of Rusk Federal
Savings and Loan Association
from 9 a.m. to noon March 3 and
10.
Center. The meal will include fried
Catfish, hush puppies, tomato rel-
ish, French fries, cole slaw and tea.
Tickets «re $6.96 and may be |
hush pup
nch fries, o
•t« $6.96 and may be pur-
member and at the First State Bank,
Citiiens Bank, Chapman's Phar-
macy i Memories or at thw iloof, Pro-
ceeds from the dinner will be dedi-
cated to the Kiwanis Scholarship
Fund.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
'Cinderella' to open
Cherokee Civic Theatre's produc-
tion of'Cinderella" will be presented
this weekend at the Cherokee The-
atre in Rusk. Curtain call is 7:30
p.m., Friday and Saturday and 2
p.m. Sunday, according to Marcel-
ette Broussard, director.
There are no reserve seats and
tickets can be purchased at Memo-
ries Antiques, Chapman Pharmacy
or James Holcomb's accounting
office in Rusk; and at Radio Shack
and Pazzazz in Jacksonville.
Susan Porter haB been cast as
Cinderella and Chris Couch as the
Prince. Dana Baker is Gladys, the
Fairy Goodmother.
Other cast members include
Chad Wootton as Harold, the mis-
placed rabbit; Brittney Nichols as
the Cloakmaker; Melissa White as
the Dressmaker, Katie Crysup asthe
Shoemaker; Joanne Goldfarb as the
Stepmother; Jeremy Ament as Pi-
erre; Teri Sands as the Queen; Gabe
Wootton as the King; Mitch Ballew
and Kristin Pickett as Trumpeters;
Matt Wilkerson as Blanche, a step-
sister; Jason Chastain as Agnes, a
step-sister.
Townspeople will be Mandy Gar-
ner, Scot Crispin, Bess Goldfarb, P.
O. Ford, Maria Murray, Andrew
Jackson, Amy White, Rodney Kelley,
Brian Lawson and Curt Porter.
The Mice will include Andrew
Jackson, Tiffany Ballard, Kayla
Jackson, Wendy Boone, Erica Le-
wis, Neal Bowen, Kerry
Pickett,Benjamin Clark, Jonathan
Richey, Lindsey Clark, Tara Richey,
Jill Cleaver, Sriram Srinivasan,
Holly Holcomb and Joy White.
The Soldiers will include Brandi
Ballard, Betsy Bowen, Jessica
Brooks, Heather Childs, Tiffany
Clark, Erin Hodges, Cecilee George,
Jennifer Hubbard, Paige Kelley,
Natalie Moore, Cristin Parker,
Sarah Scallon, Elizabeth Sorrell,
Leslie Tarrant and Robin Tarrant.
Guest at the Ball include Sesil
Chavez, Whitney Graham,
Shawnna Huttash, Jenna Jackson,
Rhonda Maddox, Grace Youn, Scott
Crispin, P.O. Ford, Andrew Jackson,
Rodney Kelley, Brian Lawson and
Curt Porter.
Mrs. Broussard is assisted by
Gloria Dotson, music director and
Jill Swink, choreography.
'Waltz Across East Texas
CINDERELLA AND PRINCE CHARMING are portrayed
by Susan Porter and Chris Crouch. The two will be
among the stars in the Cherokee Civic Theatre
production of Cinderella to be presented at 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 23 and 24 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Cherokee
Theatre in Rusk. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased
at Memories Antiques, Chapman's Pharmacy and
James Holcomb accounting office in Rusk; and The
Radio Shack and Pazzazz Boutique in Jacksonville.
Motorcoach tour planners from
17 states this month will embark on
a 1,875 mile tour of a 55-countyarea
of East Texas as guests of cooperat-
ing cities and the East Texas Tour-
ism Association. Rusk will be one of
the 32 cities visited, with the tour
group arriving in the area at 9 a.m.
Saturay, Feb. 24, according to Robert
Gonzalez, president of the Rusk
Chamber of Commerce, hosting
organization.
The tour group is scheduled to
board the Texas State Railroad
excursion train at Maydelle at 9
a.m. and arrive at the Rusk depot at
9:45 a.m. The group will leave Rusk
at 10:30 a.m.
Billed as "Waltz Across East
Texas," the eight day, seven night
tour begins Feb. 21 at the Dallas-
Fort Worth airport and is the 10th
such marketing effort by ETTA to
introduce tour planners to the re-
WISD athletic fund gets gift
KELVIN COLBERT was
named elementary Stu-
dent of the Month at Wells
Elementary. He received
a plaque from Principal
Richard Hawthorne at the
district's February board
meeting.
Wells ISD has received a $500 gift
from Champion International,
Lufkin, for its athletic fund. Trus-
tees heard the news during the
board's regular monthly meeting
Feb. 15. The money will be used in
the school's baseball program this
spring. Perry Muse, Wells superin-
tendent, expressed appreciation to
Don Carver, an employee of Cham-
pion and a community member and
parent at Wells for his efforts in
securing the gift for the Bchool.
Kevin Colbert, a seventh grader
and the son of Danny and Marilyn
Colbert, was named Btudent of the
month at Wells Elementary. He was
presented with a plaque by Princi-
pal Richard Hawthorne. High Bchool
student of the month for January
will be announced next month.
Trustees approved installation of
a pipe barrier on the south and east
sides of the gymnasium. For the
second time in the past few months,
automobiles have rammed into the
side of the gym doing damage to the
brick construction.
Hawthorne and Administrative
Assistant Debbie Johnson both re-
ceived an additional year on their
contracts to carry a two-year con-
tract
An ice machine will be purchased
for the cafeteria and fencing at the
new elementary wing will be rein-
stalled as a security measure.
SuperintendentMuse was named
the authorized representative for
the National School Lunch a nd Child
Nutrition Programs and the annual
performance report for the 1988-89
school year was approved.
A bid for $107.50 was accepted
from Mackey Joe Pounds to pur-
chase surplus desks, pianos and
tables and a bid of $750 was ac-
cepted from Joe Gonzales ofThresh-
old, Inc., for a surplus school bus.
Trustees gave approval for plac-
ing a portrait of Winnie Wisener in
the new administrative wing. Mrs.
Wisener served as a teacher, princi-
pal and finally superintendent for
Wells ISD in the 1940s and 50s.
Muse reported that the annual
board retreat was being planned for
a later date and that damage to the
gym floor, sustained when frozen
pipes burst, was being repaired.
gion first hand, reports Howard W.
Rosser, executive director.
NTA's 1988 Economic Impact of
Motorcoach Tours on North Amer-
ica report shows the industry grew
from $8 billion in 1984, to $12.8
billion in 1988, a 60 percent in-
crease.
Rosser says that the report figur-
ing 38 passengers per busload,
shows a direct impact of $4,531 and
an indirect impact of $2,718. That's
a total of $7,250 per day per busload
or $190.34 per passenger and worth
competing for, he Bays.
Overnight stops will be in
Richardson, Texarkana, Tyler,
Beaumont, Clear Lake, Houston and
Corsicana. A marketplace on Feb.
26 in Clear Lake will provide an
opportunity for cities and hoteliers
from more than 50 cities involved in
the group tour program to meet the
operators face to face in seven min-
ute sessions to tell about their par-
ticular attractions and facilities.
The September Fam tour gener-
ated significant business for East
Texas, says Rosser, with one city
getting 12 tours through January
with others scheduled. "The value
compounds as satisfied customers
come back for repeat tours."
"More and more senior citizens
are seeing America by motorcoach
and our purpose in these tours is to
afford tour planners a look at whast
they want—new and unique places
to discover and er\joy—such as East
TexaB," Rosser says.
Alto Yellowjackets scheduled for district playoffs
By: JEAN LOWRY
VSC meets
Wayne Pianta will be speaker at
the noon Thursday meeting of the
Rusk State Hospital Volunteer
Services Council. Members of the
council will meet Thursday noon in
the social room of the Rehabilita-
tion Terapies Building.
Kiwanis set Fish Fry
The Rusk Kiwanis Club is spon-
soring an "all you can eat* Fish Fry
on Friday, Feb. 23 at the Rusk Civic
snter. The i
There's excitement in the halls at
Alto High School. The Yellowjacket
Basketball team is going to playoffs
Friday night! They are playing
against Hull-Daisetta in Corrigan.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Head Coach Bill McDowell, 29, in
his second year coaching at Alto
with a 38-22 record says, "We want
to put some basketball banners on
the wall. We want to establish a
basketball tradition here thatis just
as strong as football. It might take a
while, but getting in the playoffs is
a start." According to McDowell, Alto
only has two basketball trophies.
One for winning district in 1969 and
again in 1975.
Alto finished second in district
23AA with a 23-8 record behind
state-ranked Grapeland. Last year,
the Yellowjackets made a big turn-
around witha 15-13 record, the first
winning season in a decade.
According to McDowell, the fans
have been showing up at the games,
both home and on the road in great
numbers. "Its been neat having a
packed gym at home and on the
road, " McDowell says. "The fans
are really excited, this is all so new
to them and me too." Cody Sell, a 6
foot 5 senior post says, "The fans
make me want to play harder and
score more points."
When asked how he felt about the
large turnout of fans, Kevin Parker,
a 6 foot U sophomore says, "When 1
look in the stands and see the fans,
they make me want to win."
Before McDowell came to Alto, he
coached at Jacksonville and Mes-
quite. He gives a lot of credit to
Jacksonville Head Basketball
Coach, John Alexander.
According to McDowell, "I was
starting to form opinions on coach-
ing and what my teams would do
when I got to be a head coach. His
teams did what won games; that is
play good defense and rebound. I
learned alot about teaching in
Jacksonville. I had one year at the
high school and one at the middle
school. I picked up a lot of things, it
was exciting to coach under a man
like John Alexander. I was really
pleased to get that chance."
McDowell goes on to say, "I
learned the value of defense. The
other day we scored 81 points against
Groveton, but our top scorer just
had nine points. It was all off re-
bounding and defense forcing turn-
overs and gettinglayups on the other
end. We are very defensive oriented,
we get a lot of points that way."
McDowell goes on to say, "This team
is 10 deep, everybody can play. My
second five is quicker than my start-
ers. I can change to fit the situ-
ation."
"Coaching helps these players,"
says McDowell. "Before I got here
nobody really worked on basketball
and taught fundamentals. They are
getting better all the time. I might
have made a difference, but you
don't win ify ou don't have the horses.
I feel like we have a pretty good
team."
McDowell thinks Altoshouldhave
a good team in the years ahead. The
junior varsity went 7-7 with all fresh-
men, and the eighth grade won dis-
trict. According to McDowell the ex-
perience of the playoffs will carry
over and help next season. "We've
already done more than anybody
projected."
ALTO YELLOWJACKETS Derrick
Cody Sell No. 10. and Nikita
Richarda No. 28. Kevin
No. 10.
No. aa, shooting is
by Joseph tarrant
McDowell gives a lot of credit to
Bobby McGallion, the head coach
and athletic director. "He wants to
be successful in every sport."
McDowell goes on to say, "I think
everybody is proud of the kids for
making it this far, and I think that
we can win the playoff game against
Hull-Daisetta. If we don't, we've had
a fine year." McDowell says the kids
are excited and would like to make
the playoffs a habit.
Top players for the Yellowjackets
include Cody Sell, 6 foot 5, senior
post, 19 points and Beven rebounds
a game; Robert Reagan, 5 foot 10
junior wing, 19.5 points, four re-
bounds; Howard Richardson, 5 foot
8junior, nine points per game; Kevin
Parker, 5 foot 11 sophomore wing,
eight points per game; Earsley
Wade, 6 foot 4 junior post, 18 points,
nine reboundB a game; Derrick
Richards, 6 foot 2 senior post, 12
points, seven rebounds and Nikita
Hodges, 6 foot li, sophomore wing,
six points and six rebounds.
Other players are Derick Dicker-
son, Arthur Hackney and Crispin
Skinner.
Sell and Wade score inside while
Reagan is a 50 percent 3-point
shooter.
When asked how he felt about the
game Friday night Cody Sell says,
"We've practiced hard and we're
ready a nd willing to do what it takes
to win."
Kevin Parker's feeling about the
(«layoff game is, "You should play
ike you have all year, with a hard
defense. Make the right decisions
and keep a cool head and do what
you have to do to win *
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