Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 148, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1996 Page: 2 of 28
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JFage 2—CHEROKEEAN/HERALD of Rusk, Texas—Thursday, July 25,1996
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by Marie Whitehead
Cherokeean/Herald editor
Sunday was a sad day.
Computer passed away.
You've heard it said, "About
the time that I think I'm going to
make ends meet, somebody moves
the ends." And to that your writer
can add, "About the time that I
think 'a computer is really for me!'
it just quits. Dies." The moral to
this story is, "Hang on to your Big
Chief Tablet and No. 2 pencil."
The best news going is the first
stage of approval for a grant to the
City of Rusk for assistance in
sewer improvements/expansions.
You'll read this elsewhere, but it
doesn't hurt to share good news
twice. It needs approval by the
state at Austin before it is an
absolute reality.
Right along with sewer service,
fUture needs for.citizens include
housing and water. Perhaps, soon,
rain wül come to solve the latter
problem. Housing is something
that Bobby Tosh hopes to give a
boost in the near future. He has a
proposed sub-division on the table
for talk, which he wants to offer in
quality structures at affordable
prices "to the best people on
earth." Anyone can tell that he
loves his hometown.
Speaking of water, and wonder-
ing where has the rain gone, it
might be of interest to you, as it
was to us, to learn that it takes
seven inches of rainfall to replen-
ish one inch of underground, water
table level. This is according to
RSH Engineer Mike Cry sup. As
you ponder the area pond levels,
you can guess what is needed just
to get back where we used to be.
The distressing side of this is what
happens between the one inch that
goes down, and stays down, and
the seven inches that fall. It is
those middle six that become the
infamous "down side" of good
pews. Ah well, the good and the
bad.
Folks who are among the glad
and the sad include these. The
above referenced Mr. Crysup is
happy with wife Sissy that
daughter Katie is beginning a new
position in her chosen field of
study, marine biology. She will
work at Port Aransas, live in
Corpus like a happy little porpoise
with a purpose. She completed a
five-year degree plan last May at
UT-Austin.
Mr. C. was anticipating a fine
celebration at the reunion for RHS
Class of'66 Saturday. HopefUUy,
we'll get a fall report of those
present in the near tature.
Another happy note was shared
by Cotton Cruseturner of the
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Rusk Senior Apartments. He said
that after seven and one-half
months of wearing a cast on his
right leg, it had been removed! He
was especially pleased. His
parents are James and Fredna
Marie Cruseturner of Orange.
Casting about, you might say, is
Lou Anne Mannix who is
recuperatng from a recent auto
accident. You will remember her
from her business, Computers
Don't Byte, on the East side of the
square. More recently she has
been employed as a teacher at
Slocum. Everyone wishes her the
best in a quick recovery.
Margie Williamson passed a
milestone on the road to better
health when she attended services
at First Baptist July 14. It was
her first effort since last December
when prob-
lems in
walking
developed.
She still has a
way to go for
better vision,
but overall
she is vastly
improved. She has a good nurse in
Joe, the Better Halfl
Chloe Waddell continues to
hope for better days as tests are
returned without answers.
Therefore, more tests, with her
friends' good wishesl
Adam Birdsong enjoyed being
at home in Alto last week. He and
his friends called off the planned
trip to Cancun and opted for a
trip closer to home. As Adam's
spirits rise, so do those of all his
family and friends. He is a young
man of enormous faith and
courage.
Addis Williams called last
week to help with a phone number
for a cattle guard, after hearing
the Better Haifa need. In that
conversation, your writer learned
that she was among a fairly large
company of folks who moved to
Rusk about 1935, coming from
Bastrop with the Edwards
Sawmill. Among that group, still
residing in Rusk, she mentioned
Tenia Thompson, Dovle Curtía,
Eula Mae Daniels and herself, of
course. It would ba interesting to
coffee/visit with them and came
home almost green (with envy).
He said they report good rainfall
this year for their area of Louisi-
ana. And that's still good news,
just their good newel
Bro. Everett McCollum and
wife Lorene are still smiling,
figuring that they are probably
Rusk's youngest great grandpar-
ents! Young Kolby was born July
11 at Marshall and his Mom is the
McCollums Grand-Daughter!
Lorene has already been up to stay
a few days with the young family
and get them off to a happy start!
June and Rudy Cervenka
have been a-travelin' again. But
she paused long enough to share a
thought. Or perhaps these are
just words which are submitted aa
our own "food for thought."
Anyway, June says the message
was scrawled on the wall of a
structure identified as the Hanoi
Hilton in Vietnam: "Freedom has
a taste to those who have fought
and almost died for it, that the
protected shall never know."
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Herald
We completed our Summer Reading Club the July 17
with a party for the children who had turned in their
book logs. Certificates were awarded to Cassie Simmons,
Heather Cromer, Jerry Middleton, Autumn Middleton,
Steven Simmons, Jessica Russell, Crystal McClosky,
Mark Duran, Hector Duran, C. J. West, Kara Milligan,
James West, Ashley Crowley, Jacob Crowley, Tori
G re sham, Sarah Martin and Kinsey Gresham.
Storytime haa gone on summer vacation but it will
return Wednesday, September 4 , at 10:30 a.m.. The
programs are designed for preschool age children. If you
have kids or grandkids or nieces or nephews or neighbor
kids in this age group we would love to see you the first
Wednesday in September.
New titles at the Libraiy include Bob Woodward's The
Choice, about Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. If you are a
horror novel fan, Clive Barker's Sacrament should be on
your "to read" list. And Sandra Brown's newest, Exclu-
sive. has also arrived. Its the story of an investigative
reporter who looks into the apparent SIDS death of the
President's child following a phone call from the nations
First Lady. Olivia Goldsmith's Bestseller follows the
SteeL is a military thriller
,f'v-
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of five authors,
five novels, one publisher,
the suspenseful wait to
whose book will become the
bestseller..
Dale Brown's Sha
combining Stealth bombers, a super secret military unit
and nuclear weapons in the hands of one of the Middle
East's most dangerous dictators. James Lee Burke's
newest Dave Robicheaux mystery, Cadillac Jukflbw,
follows Dave's investigation into a 28-year-old murder.
Aaron Crown was convicted of the murder but claims he
is innocent. When a filmmaker who came to prove that
innocence is murdered, Dave is drawn into the case.
Part four of Stephen Kings Green Mile serial. The Bad
Death of Eduard Delarroix has also arrived. So has
Patricia Cornwall's newest, Cause of PeAth. Dr. Kay
Scarpetta is called out oh New Year's Eve to investigate
the highly suspicious death of reporter Ted Eddings.
Soon one of Dr. Scarpetta's assistants is the victim of a
most unusual shooting. The good doctor is also in
danger before the conclusion of this fast moving mys-
tery.
Don't forget that the Library is now on the Internet
and can do searches for you when you can't find the
information you want anywhere else.
Letters
to the Editor
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Media Creates Furor
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know how many families made
that trek across Texas and ponder
how their residency has benefitted
them and the rest of us. Addis has
endured a painful right elbow
almost two years now, following an
iiy'ury. To hear this spirited lady
when she calls in to Talk Time
Radio, you would never guess the
pain she suffers. But...she is a
survivor!
A note from dear Madeleine
Morgan last week expressed her
appreciation to all of us who "get it
out!" She is a pillar of strength in
this time of her husband Frank's
ailing health. Considering her
schedule, we are humbled that she
found the time to tell us "thanks!"
It is we who thank her and all of
our readers, especially you!
John Allen Templeton is
continuing to improve from
injuries sustained recently. In a
fall. Could have been worse, what
if he had been riding a horse?
Spouse Ginny is holding up well,
too, according to Ann Chandler
who has stepped in to Mr.
Templeton's shoes for the interim,
which will be brief!
Weekend visitors to Rusk were
Herschel and Sue Kyle of
Arcadia, La., here to visit all
their relatives, especially Affle
Kyle and Jimmie Westbrook.
The Better Half enjoyed a cup of
A False Crisis?
The furor over black church burnings was a creation
of the television news media. The constant barrage by
Jennings, Brokaw,
Rather and all of CNN
whipped us into a real
lather. All of us were
looking for a sinister
and cowardly group
to do some serious
castigation on.
Suddenly someone
bothered to look at
stats and found that
more white churches
than black had
burned during that
same period. It was
also discovered that the churches had burned for a
whole array of reasons and there was no pattern of
racism involved (CNN). Some of the churches were
burned by members of their own congregation.
Clinton got his political mileage out of this tempest
and the media got their allotted time filled all at the
expense of the black people that they victimized. There
are many black folks that even now believe that these
fires were caused by some secret group of "whiteys" hell
bent on racial hatred.
Now that the media hysteria is over and people be-
come aware that the whole thing was a false crisis,
apologies to the white people who were vilified and to
the black people who were exploited should be forthcom-
ing. I hear none.
It is unfortunate that Bill Clinton and his television
ironies chose to stir up that much racial divisiveness,
but if it helped with their ratings, I'm sure they believe
that it was justified.
Jerry Rix
Rusk, Tex.
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Volunteers + City Manager = Results
On Tuesday, July 16, more than
35 volunteers made up of men,
women and children from
Dickinson's 1st addition worked
through 95 degree heat, ants, poison
oak and briars to clean thick under-
growth and trash from a lot on the
corner of Martin Luther King and
Center Streets.
We want you to know that Mike
Murray, Rusk City Manager, was
there from beginning to end. Of all
the city managers Rusk has had,
Mike is the firet to show that he does
care.
We, the volunteers worked because
we live there and because we know
what abeautifUl community we could
have if more people were concerned.
We would like to say, thank you
Mike. Your kindness will never be
forgotten.
Maxine Session and
Dickinson's 1st Addition
Volunteers
Rusk, Tez.
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by Everett McCollum
special to the cherokeean/herald
We picked him up in a little town
just out of Austin. The ride back to
Groveton almost got the best of him,
but in about a week's time he had
made himself at home. He loved the
family and took an interest in our
things—especially shoes and base-
balls and gloves and socks.
In spite of the fact that he waa
from a large family with an impres-
sive heritage, when we picked him
up he had no name, so we helped him
decide on a name—Lord Samuel
Trafalgar. (That's "lord" aa in head
of a house or manor.) We nicknamed
him Sam.
Sam was a comedian from the be-
ginning. The first time he tried to
mark a tree he fell flat of his back.
He would get on the trail of some-
thing, and running with his nose to
the ground, he would run into trees
and walls. When we were putting
the roof on the camp house, we heard
a noise and looked and Sam was
halfway up the ladder.
Well, Sam had helped raise his
boy which is the highest good most
any dog can do. And things had qui-
eted down around the house to a
rather dull routine, so he mosied on
to wherever good dogs go.
I dont miss the dog hair in my
truok and garage, nor, do I misa the
53-centa-a-day Alpo habit that he
had nor most of the r*>m><jimibUiUea
of being a dog
owner.
But what I
do miss is not
having him
there to wel-
come me
home. Lorene and the kids always
seemed glad to see me when I re-
turned from a trip or even when I
came home from work in the evening.
Sam was glad to see me if I hadn't
been gone two minutes. At noon he
would be expecting me, lying at the
corner of the fence where he could
spot me aa soon as I came out of the
church, then the show was on.
The trouble with caring about
people or animals or most anything
else is that sooner or later they will
cause you pain. I know a young fel-
low who so loved that it cost Him His
life—a suffering death on a cross for
an old sinner like me.
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Rusk Police
investigate 3
vehicle wreck
Rusk Police investigated a three
vehicle accident at 12:24 p.m.
Wednesday at the intersection of
South Main Street (FM752) and Loop
343.
Assistant Chief Ronnie Miller said
a truck hauling oil field chemicals^
was traveling west on the loop when
a pickup truck stopped at the stop
sign and then failed to yield right-of
-way to the truck. The truck struck
the side of the pickup and then hit a
southbound suburban, stopped at
the intersection. The pickup truck
then left the roadway and hit a tree.
The pickup truck was driven by
Gordon P. Litzenberger, 60, of Luikin
Adrian Sanez, 34, of Longview, was
the driver of the oil field truck and
Pamela McClendon, 39, of Alto, the
driver of the suburban.
Litzenberger and Maria Litzen-
berger were transported to Ea t
Texas Medical Center Rusk via
ETMC ambulance.
A citation was issued to
Litzenberger for failure to yield
right-of-way.
The oil field truck received exten-
sive damage; the front end of the
suburban was knocked in; the piekup
truck received damages all over its
body, Miller said.
Investigating the aoeident were
Patrolman Keith Radoliff, Chief
Larry Robertson snd Asst. Chief
Miller.
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