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Vol. 151, No. 35 - 22 Pages
Thursday, October 19, 2000
Rusk, Texas 75785
25 cents
Tony Murray
announces
retirement
M R1SD superintendent's
effective date is June 30
Following an executive session Tuesday
night, Rusk ISD Superintendent Tony
Murray announced to the school board
that he would retire at the end of the
school year. Mr. Murray's resignation will
be effective June
30,2001. There was no
letter of resignation
submitted, but will be
forthcoming, Mr.
Murray said.
He noted that he
had decided Tuesday
that he would retire.
"I have been thinking
about it for some time
and decided now is the
time. I love my job and
this has been my life,
but it is time," he said. Mr. Murray has 44
years of school experience. He began teach-
ing at Dialville and then moved to the
teaching staff at New Summerfield. In
1970 he was employed as superintendent
of New Summerfield. He came to Rusk
July 1,1978, as superintendent replacing
J.M. Boone, who retired. In other matters
coming before the board, the district's
investment policy was renewed with vari-
ous legal changes as recommended by the
state policy office. Investment training
providers for Mr. Murray and financial
secretary Lesa Jones were approved.
These include Region VII Training Cen-
ter and T exas Association of School Boards,
as well as others. Each must have 10
Please see RISD, page 9A
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Old Glory
Tony Murray
Taylor Clay destroys a tattered ftaa during a flag retirement service held by members of the American Legion,
VFWandBoy Scouts. Leaders ^ Barbara Cook and Debbie Jennings. "** '
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Burn ban
rescinder ?
The burn ban has now been lif't.i
Cherokee County due to the soa k i ny i
received Sunday night and all da\
day. A check with Rusk City Hall sh
that 1.42 inches of rain fell Sunday n
and 1.26 inches on Monday.
Texas has had its share of forest f : ■
during the past few months. The droi t-.v
conditions began early in the sum nn i
have continued into the fall season :
has been sparse and good soaking i
were required prior to the lifting of bur ■
bans throughout East Texas. Ban- h.v..
been enacted in most East Texas cm n
ties.
From July 16 to the end of September
Texas Forest Service and other State . n
Federal personnel responded to 1,185 In.
for 67,958 acres in the state. Within t
10-week period the Forest Service r<
sponded to more fire acres consumed t ha:
they would normally see in 2.5 ye;u
During just one week from Sept. :t it
total fire acres destroyed were 37.0H7
The yearly average, prior to 1996, for >ti-
fire acres was 26,376. Forest Service p< i
sonnel worked fires on more acres t
one week than they normally s:i w ii
year.
The average State KBDI (Keech Bi..
Drought Index) this year peaked on •
12 at 713. The average high tempcrii
for the state peaked on Sept. 9 w
reading of 107 degrees F.
Wildland fire occurred followed ;;
lar trend, peaking during the week *'
ing Sept. 3.
Resources mobilized to respond to ■
situation included, 1,840 personm
which 216 came from the Texas !•
Service; resources came from eight
Please see BURN BAN, page 9A
City transfers Hogg family archives to Singletary Library
The Rusk City Council meeting Oct. 10 at city hall
agreed to transfer the Hogg Family Archives from
the Jim Hogg Park to the Singletary Memorial Li-
brary.
A letter from Dr. Leon Bewley, president, of the
Hogg Family Genealogical Society, asked for the
transfer of the records.
Dr. Bewley said in his letter 'This facility served as
the focus for the organization of our Society and
much of our materials accumulated on the Hogg
Family have been stored there. However we are most
pleased that the City of Rusk is interested in having
these materials transferred to the Rusk city library.
Since these Hogg family materials have been acces-
sible to the general public while at the park office, we
feel that the move to the Rusk city library is the most
logical location to keep the materials accessible to the
general public.
"If the City of Rusk accepts the Hogg archives, we
do have one request. In the future, if the City of Rusk
finds the materials are no longer needed or that the
maintenance of the materials becomes a burden, or
for any other reason it is decided to dispose of the
materials, that every effort be made to return the
archive materials to John Garbutt, superintendent
of the Jim Hogg Historical State Park. Preservation
of these particular materials is of most importance to
us since so much of the material has been personally
researched and compiled by Mr. Garbutt."
The council failed to act on a recommendation from
the Rusk Planning and Zoning Board to locate a
manufactured home at the corner of Castner and
Guinn Place. Wendy Annette Pope has requested the
location of the home at the site where her former
home burned. She said she planned to tear down the
old house and move in a double-wide home on the lot.
A complaint letter from Bill and Barbara Berryhill
was received by the council. Mr. and Mrs. Berryhill
had contacted every member of the council concern-
ing Ms. Pope's request. They objected to the placing
of a manufactured home in the neighborhood which
has no mobile homes there.
The Berryhills objected because the proposed loca-
tion is situated at the northern entrance to the city
and should in their opinion, reflect the traditional
image which they believe is attempting to be por-
trayed with its Main street program and other tour-
ist and historically oriented events. "Rusk has a rich
history to preserve. The setting of a mobile home at
one of its major entrances would not contribute to
such preservation," they wrote.
Mr. and Mrs. Berryhill have owned the lion
1901 Guinn Place for 16 years but reside
West Loop South No. 280. Bellairi 77101.
A request was denied to locate a mobile home
at a site off Crump. The property is owned b>
Black who is selling the property to Juliana Lot
Houston. Ms. Lopez said she wanted to put
mobile home park, but did not have plant f ■
establishment. She presented pictures if a
home park that her friends operate in Hons,
said she plans to move to Ku.sk in the future,
in a year. JoEd Anderson, realtor, spoke on
Lopez's behalf before her arrival, but she spe
herself after she arrived
Please see CITY OF RUSK, page 9A
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Vandals strike Rusk
High, paint obscenities
H $500 reward offered
by Crimestoppers
Cherokee County Crimestoppers has
offered an award of up to $500 for infor-
mation leading to the arrest of persons
connected with vandalism at Rusk High
School.
The vandalism occurred either Satur-
day night or Sunday morning at Rusk
High School. Obscenities were sprayed
painted onto the concession stands, track
and high school buildings including the
main building, band hall and agriculture
building.
Most of the vandalism was done on
brick buildings, which made clean up ex-
tremely hard. School crews worked all
day Sunday removing the vulgar language
on the school property. A machine was
borrowed from the City of Jacksonville to
sand blast the paint from the brick build-
ings. The concession stands and track
were painted.
Tony Murray, superintendent, said he
was notified of the incident by local police
early Sunday morning.
Cost to the district should run between
$1,000 and $2,000 which will include the
cost of school maintenance personnel for
two or three days of clean-up and the coat
of paint.
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Fire Truck
Treat
Students at Rusk
Primary School were
treated to rides on a
city fire truck last weoi
Fire Chief David
Parsons visited the
school and presented
program on fire safety
He distributed sacks ol
pencils, coloring boot,
etc. to the students. All
students took a ride oi
the fire truck. Pictured
are students from one
of the Pre-Kindergartp
classes.
East Texas Regional Planning Water Group completes 50-year plan
The East Texas Regional Planning
Group has completed a two-year effort
giving the 20-county region its first com-
prehensive regional water plan in his-
tory.
The 50-year plan, developed by a group
of laymen and water professionals, will be
forwarded to the Texas Water Develop-
ment Board to be merged with 16 other
regions in a statewide water plan to be
considered by the Texas Legislature.
The East Texas region includes all or
portions of Anderson, Angelina, Chero-
kee, Hardin, Henderson, Houston, Jan-
per, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton,
Orange, Panola, Polk, Rusk, Sabine, San
Augustine, 8an Jacinto, Shelby, Smith,
Trinity and Tyler counties.
The East Texas plan includes these pro-
jections:
• The population of the region is ex-
pected to grow by nearly 59 percent be-
tween 2000 and 2050, adding more than a
half-million people to the region.
• Water demand in the region is ex-
pected to grow from 750,000 to 1.2 million
acre feet by 2050. An acre foot is 325.851
gallons or enough to cover one acre of la nd
to a depth of one foot.
• The region's fastest growth will be in
the Lufkin-Nacogdorhot* area, which is
expected to add 110 percent more rest
dents. The Tyler area's population is ex-
pected to grow by 89 percent and the
Beaumont-Orange area will increase its
population by 31.7 percent.
* Despite the region's population growth,
its needs for municipal water needs will
remain almost unchanged until 2050,
largely because water conservation prac-
tices are expected to be more widespread.
• Industrial water needs will become
the region's fastest growing need, princi-
pally because of expected industrial de-
velopment.
The plan projectf that the region will
have enough water available for its needs
under the current growth projections al-
though the plan projects some contrac-
tual shortages. The region's lead engi-
neering consultant, Gary Graham of Beau-
mont, said these exist only on paper and
can be remedied by contract extensions.
To meet future water needs, the group
recommended four basic strategies:
1. Expand existing water sources, such
as groundwater.
2. Make voluntary redistributions in
the water supply system, such as those
used by manufacturing, irrigators, and
others where water needs may be less-
ened.
3. Develop new water sources by build-
ing Lake Eastex. which already has a
state permit for a 10,000-acre impound-
ment on Mud Creek in Cherokee and
Smith counties, and by using surplus sup-
plies existing in Houston County, Lake,
Lake Murvaul. Lake Palestine, Lake
Rayburn. Toledo Bend Reservoir and the
Sabine River.
4. Extend existing water supply con
tracts in some areas with the Lower Ne<
Valley Authority and the Sabine Ri\
Authority
Notingthat water levels of some ground
water aquifers in East Texas n ' I
cessively low, the group said aquite?
ter storage and recovery method* ma\
also be needed before 2050
The regional group said it prefers lm
groundwater conservation districts o\■-•
state control of aquifers as a mean '
dealing with excessive withdrawn!
The group recommended 13 sites in I '-t
Texas for potential new reservoir*, ii ♦!«•>
are warranted by water needs in ih« fu
ture.
Plaste see WATER GROUP page
*
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Whitehead, Marie. Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 151, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 2000, newspaper, October 19, 2000; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168666/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.