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CHEROKEEAN/HERALD of Rusk, Texas - Wednesday, February, 2003 - Page 3
What do county constables do
for their money?
LETTERS
I have been wondering how
long it was going to take for the
commissioner g court to find out
that Jerry Rix Was absolutely
right a couple of years ago.
In his letter to your paper he
stated that the constables do
very little for their $28,000 a
year salary.
I have been trying to get Pet.
•3 Constable George Black for
two and a half years to give
out citations on the Nuisance
Law. I finally got him to write
five citations out of 15 property
owners that are still in violation
of the law. The fine can be as
high as $200 a day.
Ihave given him $20for gaso-
line to get him to come work my
area I have the canceled check
for proof. I have filled out the
paper work for him. And I have
rodewith him to show him
where the proper tie s are. All he
has had to do is sign his name.
I've kept the records of when he
was supposed to follow up on
the offences. I have the pictures
to prove the violations; I have
not been successful in getting
him back to my neighborhood
for over six months now.
Every time I call he always
say s he will be here next week or
will tr y and come Friday, which
neither hnvcevcr got here. I've
called my commissioner Moody
Glass trying to get him to help
me. I also called Judge (Harry)
Tilley when he was in office
trying to get his help. I called
Pet 3 Justice of the Peace James
Morris for his help.
Maybe if this newspaper
would investigate this it might
hght a fire that the people are
sick and tired of paying for
work that the constables are
elected to do.
-K >SIK SCHOOLCRAFT
Bullard,
Kudos to local newspaper
Just a note to compli-
ment you and your staff
on your Feb. 5 issue of the
Cherokeean/Herald.
Your coverage, well-written
articles and color photogra-
phy certainly were a credit
to Texas' Oldest Weekly
Newspaper.
We look forward to our
weekly issue. Keep up the
good work.
J.C, MURPHY
San Antonio
Book fair was a huge success
Local business owners
answered the call when Rusk
Primary School recently asked
them to make a difference in
students' lives.
The students and faculty
would like to thank Citizens
1st Bank, Cherokee Animal
Clinic, Southwestern Abstract
Company, Rusk Donut Shop,
Brookshire Brothers in Rusk
and Jacksonville for their
very generous donations
during our recent book fair.
The school profited more than
$800 in books for the library
and $1,300 in cash.
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appreciation as you visit these
businesses.
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Rusk
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Recent letter blurs the truth
I agree with Kenneth
White's recent letter on one
point alone. We all wish
Bush Sr. had finished the
conflict with Iraq. No one
wishes it more than Bush
Jr., and I believe he is
determined to erase that
error. Can anyone suppose
that Junior will back off from
war now, after spending bil-
lions to put the armyinplace.
only to allow a temporarily
repentant Saddam to res-
urrect his threat at a later
date? History would crucify
Bush. Too many lives have
been disrupted, too many
threats hurled, too much
money spent.
We need their oil to real-
ize a good return on our
military investment. Jr. has
led us across the Rubicon.
Truman did not fir e the ultr a
arrogant McArthur because
Douglass believed in victory
over communism. McArthur
wasfiredbecause he insisted
on taking the war to China
and wanted to use the A-
bomb. The world understood
the use of this weapon during
a fight for national survival.
But to use them against a
country which has not
attacked your own opens a
whole new rule book.
Mr. White assumes that
with or without nuclear
weapons we would have
won the war on China's turf.
Maybe. Or maybe we would
still be fighting them. In a
war of attrition, a nation of
300 million cannot realisti-
cally hope to defeat a nation
of over a billion people. War
often comes down to the com -
mitment level of the people
being invaded. We didn't lose
the war in Vietnam because
of JaneFonda (Tsthere never
to be forgivene ss for her long
repented error?).
We lost Vietnam because
they were willing to pay a
horrible price to send us
packing. After the Japanese
and the French, they wanted
no foreign domination. It
seems a little arrogant to
me that we assume that
democracy will work any-
time, anywhere.
I always believed that
we needed to be fight-
ing injustice, rather than
communism. Sometimes,
communism was injustice.
But more often then not,
it was some brutal dictator
hke Batista or Somoza, we
supported simply because
he described himself as anti
communistic. If Mr. White's
only criteria for a good leader
is that he be a capitalist,
picture us under a Kenneth
Lay with Saddam's person-
ality wish I could see things
as simple as communist/bad,
anything else/good. When
Castro forced doctors and
teachers to leave Havana
for the countryside to serve
the needy, he did good. When
he reneged on free elections,
he did bad. When Mao Tse
Tung eradicated prostitu-
tion, dope deahng and foot
binding, he did good. When
he began the culturalrevolu-
tion, he did bad.
I did not know there was
anyone alive who would
praise JosephMcCarthy. His
communism baiting tactics
ruined many innocent lives,
and made the Salem witch
trials look sane. He was
finally discredited by Con-
gress. I find it wonderful
that the USSR was dissolved
without the use of nuclear
weapons. Where would we
be if we had used them? The
anger of Mr. White obscures
his vision.
RAY CRYER
Rusk
Is junk in the
eye of the
beholder?
About three weeks ago, a
law officer came to my house
and informed me about some
property I own on Highway
69. He said the people hving
in the house need to clean up the
yard, and do something with the
two cars out front that weren't
running. Theyconsideredthem
junk cars.
I was told if they didn't
clean it up, the county would
come out and clean it up and
present them with the bill. He
said there hadbeen a complaint
made about it.
A few days later I was going
to Alto, and just outside of the
city limits on the right, there
are two houses with old cars out
front of them and what appears
to be garbage as well as trash
all over the front yards.
What I want to know is
does the law apply to every-
one or does the color of your
skin make a difference? I am
making a written complaint to
you about them.
JAMES COLLINS
Rusk
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