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WEDNESDAY
November 12, 2008
Rusk, Texas ■ 50 cents
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RUSK DROPS OUT OF THE PLAYOFF RACE; ALTO &
JACKSONVILLE ADVANCE TO BI-DISTRICT
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Annual Thanksgiving
service is slated
Tuesday, Nov 25
Rusk citizens will gather at
p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, at the high
school auditorium for the annual
community Thanksgiving service.
The event is sponsored by the
Rusk Ministerial Alliance. Various
ministers from the community will
participate in this special service
of thanks.
Coats will be distributed
Saturday in Rusk
Women of the Rusk Church
of Christ are collecting coats and
funds to purchase coats for area
needy youngsters.
Coats will be distributed at
the church from 9 a.m.-noon
Saturday, Nov. 15. Those seeking
coats are asked to bring children
to try them on.
Persons who would like to
contribute toward the purchase of
coats or who want to donate new
or clean used coats can do so.
Contributions can be taken to the
church office on Main Street
Brad Guidry (front) and
Jordan Beard
Former Rusk
teammates help
rewrite record books at
Missouri S&T
Rusk's Brad Guidry and Jordan
Beard had a big day during Senior
Day at Missouri S&T this past
Saturday.
Guidry, a senior, set a school
single-game record with seven
touchdown passes as the Miners
defeated Southwest Baptist, 63-
23. He threw for 437 yards while
completing31 passes. He also ran
for 45 yards on five carries.
Out of those numbers, 201
yards and three touchdowns went
to Beard, a graduate student. The
two former Rusk High School
teammates connected from nine,
40 and 86 yards. In all, Beard
would catch eight passes for
the game.
Guidry and Beard's efforts
helped the Miners notch their
second-highest offensive total in
school history with 666 yards.
Missouri S&T, 6-4 on the
season, became the champions
of the Great Lakes Football
Conference with the win. They
finish their season this Saturday
at Truman State.
Weather Outlook
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mostly sunny
10% chance of rain
High: 72
Low: 55
CLASSIC HITS RADIO
KWRW - FM and KTLU - AM
Rep. Hopson is
apparent victor
Provisional, military
votes give incumbent
104-vote victory
By Terrie Gonzalez
Managing Editor
After adding provisional
and military votes to the
tight District 11 house race,
incumbent state Rep, Chuck
Hopson (D-Jacksonville)
is the apparent victor over
challenger Brian K. Walker
(R-Tatum) by a 104-vote
margin.
Late provisional and mili-
tary were counted Monday
in Cherokee, Houston and
Rusk counties which resulted
in an apparent net gain to
Mr. Hopson of two votes.
Panola County did not have
additional votes.
County government of-
fices were closed Tuesday at
press deadline in observance
of Veterans Day and the
Cherokeean Herald used
See STATE REP, pg. 6A
egulators close
Franklin Bank
By Robert Gonzalez
Staff Writer
Hie economic chaos that has
roiled the financial markets
in other parts of the country
hasnow directly affectedEast
Texas with the closing of all
Franklin Banks.
On Friday the Federal De-
posit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) closed all Franklin
Bank branches and allowed
deposits to be assumed by
Prosperity Bancshares of
Houston. In addition to the
deposits. Prosperity Bank
willpurchase $850 million of
Franklin Bank's fi.l billion
in assets.
Locally Franklin Bank has
branches in Rusk, Jackson-
ville, Palestine, Tyler and
Longview.
Closing of the banks was
necessitated by bad real es-
tate loans mother p arts of the
country. Franklin Bank was
negotiating for an infusion of
capital to allow it to stay open,
but was unable to secure the
additional cash.
Depositors have been told
their money is safe and all
See FRANKLIN, pg. 6A
Compost facility turns unwanted
debris, waste into fertile soil
By Quinten Boyd
Staff Writer
Dt's a job that Mike Rowe
and the crew at "Dirty
Jobs" would love.
The Neches Compost*
ing Facility of the Ange-
lina Neches River Authority,
located eight miles outside; of
Jacksonville on U.S. Highway
79, routinely gets dirty creat-
ing topsoil that can be used for
crops, yards and anything else
a green-thumbed individual
could want to grow.
Workers at the authority
use; their product, called Soil
Therapy, to maintain several
test gardens on the premises.
In the midst of dirt, machinery
and not far from the highway
mustard greens, cabbage, broc-
coli, collard greens, peppers
and tomatoes grow to prove the
merits of Soil Therapy.
Well, except the tomatoes,
but those were lost through no
fault of Soil Therapy.
"The cold snap that came
through a few weeks ago got
our tomatoes," said James
Henry, who is over sales and
promotions for ANRA. "We only
had one left and it's not very
See DIRTY WORK, pg. 9A
Two parts wood
waste is blended
with one part waste
water sludge and
saw dust and left to
sit for 15 days
This device, known
as a windrow
turner, drives over
each row of the
blend, aerating the
mixture
Step 3:
The blend is then
sent through a deck
screen, which sifts
out 3 yards per
load. Particles less
than one inch in
diameter are used.
The finished
product is piled up
tested and allowed
to sit for 30 days
before being sold as
topsoil to the Dublic.
CITY OF ALTO
5 gas regulator stations targeted
for repair at $57,000 projected cost
Alto hoses 'Robin Hood' plan to assist volunteer fire departments
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By Quinten Boyd
Staff Writer
The city of Alto has decided to fix
their gas problem.
At Monday night's monthly city
council meeting, the council voted
unanimously to repair five gas
regulator stations in Wells and put
aside money in next year 's budget
to repair gas lines in the Preston
Street subdivision in Wells.
The regulators that are slated
to be repaired have been in place
since 1964.
"There are five stations and all
five are leaking gas, so the stations
are in need of repair," said City
Secretary Hattie Hamilton.
City officials said that Texas
Railroad Commission Safety In-
spector Bob Reed will visit the
site on Dec. 29 to make sure that
repairs are progressing on the gas
hnes, If they are not progressing,
Mr. Reedhas the option of shutting
the gas hnes down.
The city will use $57,000 to fix
the five regulators and put aside
$178,000 in next year's budget to
fix the Preston Street subdivision
hnes.
Fire Chief Terry Black discussed
a plan to create an emergency
service district. The plan was pro-
posed by smaller fire departments
and volunteer fire departments to
share the money generatedby taxes
among the 11 fire departments in
Cherokee County
''Basically, there'll be a big pot
and a boar d of director s who decide:
where the money needs to go, " Chief
Black said.
Thefire departments in Jackson-
ville and Rusk had already heard
and declined the plan.
"It seems like a 'Robin Hood t ype
situation," said Counci I member
Randy Selman.
Chief Black said that he and the
Alto Fire Department were not
for the plan, which would have in-
creased taxesby seven cents within
the Alto school district. The city
council unanimously voted against
the proposal.
Council members said that
they may support the plan if an
equal amount is given to each fire
department instead of giving the
resources on a first come, first
serve basis.
Chief Black gave an example of
one such district in Smith County
which divides the money equally
to each department.
"I could see supporting it if it was
done that way or in another Way,
but the way it's described, I can't
see it," said Councilmember Bob
Pearman.
The council also heardfrom Carey
Palmer, who suggested starting an
Economic Development Council
in the city of Alto at September's
meeting, Mr. Palmer said that they
had already completed the first
step, which was creating a board
of directors.
See CITY OF ALTO, pg. 6A
CHEROKEE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
County buys
4 patrol cars
Commissioners breeze through
light agenda
By Gloria Jennings
Staff Writer
Cherokee County Commissioners approved
a bid from Bill McRae Ford of Jacksonville
for the county's purchase of four police cars
for the sheriff's department. The bid price
was $20,797 for each vehicle.
County Judge Chris Davis was authorized
to sign document s to finance the new vehicle s
at Citizens 1st Bank in Rusk. Also, Judge
Davis was authorized to sign necessary
documents to finance two new Mac dump
trucks approved for purchase earlier by the
commissioners court.
Commissioners approved an agreement
with Dr. Mark Race to provide primary
health care service at the county health
department.
The renewal of an ingress and egress permit
for five years was approvedfor RidgeAire Inc.
See COUNTY, pg. 6A
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Whitehead, Marie. Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 159, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 12, 2008, newspaper, November 12, 2008; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152860/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.