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WELL, WELL . . . "Pappy" O'-
Daniel announced last night that
he is going to seek the office of
Governor of Texas again . . .
Whether he is going to be a "ma-
jor" candidate remains to be seen.
PRICE DANIEL has made Texas
an OUTSTANDING GOVERNOR,
and has EARNED his SECOND
TERM . . .
AS FAR AS RUSK and our State
Hospital are concerned, Price Dan-
iel has been one of the BEST GOV-
ERNORS we've ever had . . .
OVER $330,000.00 annual PAY
RAISES were given our Rusk
State Hospital employees under
Price Daniel's Administration . .
these raises went into effect in
September . . .
DONT BELIEVE this recession
will develop into a depression, but
Roundabout firmly believes that
Texas needs the STRONG and
CAPABLE leadership of PRICE
DANIEL in these trying times . .
RECEIVED A LETTER from
Congressman John Dowdy the oth-
er day giving a list of principal
and alternate candidates that have
been selected for entry into the
Naval Reserve Officers Training
Corps. Two of the boys on the
list are from Rusk, and Rounda-
bout congratulates Robert Lynn
Banks and Garland R. Marshall,
Jr. . . . both were selected princi-
pals . . .
Rusk Kiwanis Club's Junior Livestock Show Is Big Success
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The Parade of Grand Champions shown above took the big prizes at last Friday's Kiwanis Junior Livestock Show here. At left is shown Roy Westbrook of the Jack-
sonville FFA chapter with the grand champion gilt. Second from left is Malcolm Hanson, Rusk FFA, with his market hog grand champion. Tommy Roach of the Maydelle
FFA is pictured with his Grand Champion slaughter beef calf, and Clifton Oden, Jacksonville FFA, stands with his Grand Champion laying hens. See other photos of
grand champions on page 2.
Despite nippy weather late in
the afternoon and threats of rain,
several hundred persons turned
out last Friday afternoon and eve-
ning for the Junior Livestock judg-
ing sponsored by the Rusk Ki-
wanis Club.
And scores of county young-
sters, 4-H and FFA members,
showed up with their prize ani-
mals groomed for the four-divi-
sion show. Sponsors noted there
was no lack of enthusiasm or of
good livestock to be shown by the
youth of Cherokee county.
Following are the complete re-
sults in each of the four divi-
sions:
DAIRY
Dairy Cattle under six months
.lack Coats, J'vilie FFA, 2 red
and a white ribbon; Patsy Weeks,
Husk 4-H. blue; Jack Stanley,
J'vilie FFA, red; Charles Wilcox,
Rusk FFA, blue.
Dairy, 6 mos. to 1 yr.
David Weeks, Rusk 4-H, red;
Duane Weeks, Rusk ETA. red;
Walter Kirby, J'vilie FFA, blue—
Grand Champion; Danny Josey,
J'vilie 4-H, red.
Dairy Heifers Over 1 Yr.
And Light Springers
Joe Durrett, Maydelle FFA,
white; Alvin Ivey, Maydelle FFA,
white; Jack Stanley, J'vilie F'FA,
red; David Weeks, Rusk 4-H, red;
Duane Weeks, Rusk FFA, blue, re-
I serve grand champion; David
Weeks, Rusk 4-1 r, red; Connie
' Bailes, Jr., Rusk FFA, blue.
Heavy Springers and Dairy Cows
Patsy Weeks, Rusk 4-H, two,
blue and red: Duane Weeks, Rusk
FFA, white; Frank Waites, J'vilie
FFA, white.
BEEF CATTLE
Breeding Beef Bulls:
Richard Meador. J'vilie F F A.
1st place and Grand Champion;
Billy Davis, Ponta 4-H, second;
I J'vilie FFA chapter, third: Danny
Josey, J'vilie 4-H. fourth: Richard
Meador, J'vilie FFA, fifth.
Beef Female Under 18 Mos.
Charlotte Underwood, N. S. 4-H,
1st — Grand champion of Fe-
males; Billy Elsberry, J'vilie FFA,
2nd; Dean Fountain, Rusk FFA,
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BLANKET CIRCULATION
An Estimated 13,000 People Wil.l
Read This Publication, Based
On Circulation Figures.
The Rusk Cherokeean
TEXAS' OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, ESTABLISHED AS THE PIONEER JULY 5, 1847
SERVING THE GREATER RUSK TRADE AREA
VOLUME 110
RUSK, TEXAS
16 PAGES
MAY 1, 1958
NUMBER 45
SHOP IN RUSK
ON BARGAIN DAY
AND SAVE
COME RAIN or SHINE ... The
Friendly and Progressive Rusk!
merchants are going to stage one
of the biggest BARGAIN DAYS
ever Friday, May 2 . . . Rounda-
bout has looked over the many
SPECIALS offered by the partici-
pating stores, and can assure you
that Rusk is the place to shop this
weekend . . .
Rusk Merchants Stage
TWO "EXTRAS" will top-off
the day's activities . . .
CASH REBATES, 12 times dur-
ing the day Friday, May 2, will be
offered at the majority of Rusk
stores ... A radio is to be placed
by the cash register of the partic-
ipating stores . . . 12 times (6
times in the morning and 6 in the
afternoon) a bell will ring over
Radio Station KTLU ... if you
are in the process of having your
purchases checked out at the time
the bell rings, you get back half
your purchase from any of the
stores participating ... up to a
maximum of $5.00.
TWO EXAMPLES ARE: (1) If
your purchase is for $3.00, and
you are being checked out when
the bell rings over KTLU, you'll
get back $1.50 ... (2) If your pur-
chase Is for $10.00 or more, you'll
get back $5.00.
THIS IS A UNIQUE WAY the
merchants are saying THANKS
for trading with them.
LOOK OVER THE ADS in this
publication . . . shop all the stores
and save money . . .
PARTICIPATING STORES will
have the big double-page ad out
front so that you'll know at a
glance that they are taking part
in the big deal . . .
WIN $400.00 ... All you have
to do is carry 1,000 Silver Dollars
one mile, in one hand . . . With
each $5.00 purchase from any of
the stores participating in Bar-
gain Day, you'll be given a ticket.
THE SILVER DOLLAR DERBY
will be staged on the square in
downtown Rusk beginning at 1
p.m. The Police of Rusk have
agreed to assist in the Dollar Der-
by . . . 'Take-off" is at Johnny
Williams' Texaco Station . . .
State Hospital Open House Begins May 2
High Winds Hit County Tuesday Nite
Soil Conservation District Award
Winners Selected; Banquet May 16
Lions Club Elects
Corry Wallace As
New President
The Rusk Lions Club last
Thursday elected a new slate of
officers for the coming year. Cor-
ry Wallace, vice-president, suc-
ceeded to the club presidency.
Bob Persons is the outgoing1
president.
There were two candidates for
each of the other posts. Elected
were: Leon Pledger, first vice-
president; T. W. Parrish, second
vice-president; Oran Spence, third
vice-president; J. R. Westbrook,
secretary; C. B. Sharbrough. Tail
Twister; Keith Kennedy, treasur-
er; and Frazer Nolley, Lion Tam-
er.
The two directors elected were;
Dick Dickerson and John Lester.
Carry-over directors, who will con-
tinue to serve, are Billie Edwards,
J. R. Westbrook, Billy Roy Brown-
ing and Leon Pledger.
Installation ceremonies will be
held later in the year.
Outgoing officers at that time
will be: O. D. Blankenship, second
vice-president; Pete Grimes, third
vice-president; William B. Mc-
Swain, secretary; W. D. Draper,
treasurer; Lewis Banks, Lion Tam-
er; and Jim McKeown, Tail Twis-
ter.
Outgoing directors will be Clif-
ford Ham and Roy Isgate.
WE PULLED a Boo-Boo last
week . . . made a very bad mis-
take in an ad for Bearden Furni-
ture Co., Bearden's had cut the
price of the mowers 30 dollars,
but we made a mistake, and had
them cutting the price down $50.:
Roundabout regrets the mistake
happened, but appreciates the un-
derstanding by the many people
who answered the ad and Beard-
en Furniture Co. . . , fvery now
••td then, we pull blunders, so to*
give us i , .
NSW IMPIOVI1 at PU t Fed-
iCotilinued on l*nge
Bulah, Ponta Are
Judged In Rural
Contest Friday
Almost everybody in the Bulah
and Ponta communities got into
the aet lust Fridav when judges
made the rounds oí the two com-
munities in the Rural Neighbor-
hood Progress contest.
lVnta people were HMV por cent
in entering the contest, while Hu
Uih tolks went tor it per cent,
still au outstanding percentage,
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It's been difficult, Soil Conser-
vation awards committeemen said,
but all but one of the 15 award
winners had been chosen Wednes-
day.
Awards are to be presented at
the annual Soil Conservation ban-
quet in the Jacksonville High
School cafeteria at 7:30 on May
lfi.
Committeemen called attention
to the extremely difficult judging1
that went into selecting the final
winners. Specifically, there were
rn a n y excellent reports in the
choice for Outstanding Future
Homemaker. Wanda Lee Johnson.
Jacksonville High School, was
chosen from among the other
very commendable Future Home-
makers.
The Outstanding Homemaker in
the district is yet to be named.
Other award winners were nam-
ed late last week as they became
known. Perhaps the top award to
be given this year will go to R. T.
Smith of Rusk, Outstanding Con-
servation Farmer.
Other award winners are:
Outstanding Reclamation Farm-
er, R. B. Wiggins, Rt. 5, Jackson-
ville; Outstanding Farm Forester,
Gilbert Odom, Rusk; Outstanding
Landlord-Tenant team: C. C. El-
liott and Walter Spencer, Rt. 3,
Troup; Most Influential Conserva-
tion Farmer, Will A. Lewis, Jack-
sonville; Outstanding Father and.
Son Team, R. R. Gray and Curtis
Gray, Henry's Chapel.
Outstanding Rural Minister, O.
R. Perkins, New Summerfield;
Outstanding couple in Rural Com-
munity Development, Mr. and Mrs.
Leahmon Hassell, Bulah; Outstand-
ing FFA Boy, Johnny Fondren,
Maydelle; FFA Land Judging
Team, Green Hands of the Jack-
sonville chaptcr first, New Sum-
merfield second and Maydelle
third.
4-H Land Judging team, William
Fnvmons, James Morris and Callie
Smith, Gallatin; Outstanding 411
Club boy, Robert Newland, Wells;
Outstanding 4-H Club girl, Wanda
Sessions. Wells; Outstanding Fu-
ture Homemaker, Wanda Lee
Johnson, Jacksonville.
Jack Timmons of Shreveport
l.a., swll he the principal speaker
sit the event The awards commit
j tee is composed of (' Met* Ueald,
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Winds of tornadic force ripped
through the timberlands around
New Summerfield early Tuesday
evening, damaging homes, timber
and outbuildings.
The freakish path of the storm,
described after a survey by Coun-
ty Sheriff Allen Dotson, led many
to believe the area was struck
with a series of tornadoes.
Sheriff Dotson toured the area
Wednesday morning for a closer
look at the damage. He said the
main force seemed to be traveling
in a northeasterly direction about
a mile and one-half north of New
Summerfield.
The winds, which had a tornado
effect, demolished a garage at the
Grady Underwood home and scat-
tered debris from the garage for
about three-fourths of a mile in
the direction of the storm.
It appeared to have picked up
Underwood's wife's car and turn-
ed it upside down. It also flipped
a ton and a half truck about three
times, doing extensive damage to
both vehicles.
The roof ot the Underwood
house was also damaged and sev-
eral windows were sucked out.
Roof was completely torn off a
tenant house about one-fourth
mile away.
Dotson said what appeared to be
a second tornado left a path in a
northwest to southeast direction.
The last sign of the path was near
Striker Lake.
A house and barn belonging to
Jimmy Thames was also reported
to be damaged, as were a number
of other sheds and outbuildings.
A good deal of timber was
blown down, Sheriff Dotson said,
especially on the H. B. Underwood
place on Highway 79. He also not-
ed that some of it was twisted off,
further evidence that the storm
may have been a twister.
No one in the area reported
sighting a funnel, but the effects
afterward — a freakish path, nar-
row lanes of destruction, and
twisted timber — led many to be-
lieve it was one or more torna-
does.
It struck in the New Summer-
field area l>etween 7:30 and 8:00
p.m. Tuesday night.
Highway 110, between New
Summerfield and Troup, was tem-
porarily blocked us the winds
threw trees in the road. Clearing
operations were about completed
before midnight, however.
It was reported, also, that the
storm struct near Jacksonville in
'the Griffin community, where a
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J. 1. Perkins, Jr.,
Elected Veep 0i
UT Student Body
In what was described as one of
the "hottest" elections seen at the
University of Texas, James I. Per-
kins, Jr., of Rusk, was elected
new vice-president of the Student
Association.
While one of the hottest elec-
tions on record, the vote tally was
the fourth highest ever recorded
in a UT election.
As Representative party candid-
ate, Perkins won over the Student
Party's Lorence Bravenec by a
vote of 2193 to 1927.
Perkins has served as president
of the Freshman Council, member
of the Student Assembly and as
associate justice of the Student
Court.
He is also president of the BBA
Student Council, is on the Union
3oard of Directors, a member of
Silver spurs, secretary of Phi Del-
ta Theta fraternity. He also serv-
ed on the Student-Faculty Discip-
linary committee, NROTC and as
co-treasurer of the campus chest.
Two Eagles Vie
In State Track
Finals Friday
Two Husk High school athletes
will he competing tor state chain
pionship track honors Fridav and
Saturday at the state meet in \us
tin Qualifying in the regional
meet to compete in the champion
ship meet at Memorial Stadium on
the t'niversity of Texas ctunpu*
were Ikev Frazer and Gerald Cole
man
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Friday and Saturday this week
the Rusk State Hospital expects to
play host to more than 1500 visi-
tors as the institution stages its
Sixth Annual Open House.
The "Pastor's Clinic on Mental
Illness" will be held on Thursday.
Pastors from the East Texas Gulf
Coast Areas have been invited to
attend.
Guided tours for the visitors
will begin at 9 a.m. and continuo
through 4 p.m. on each of the two
days of the Open House. And pa-
tients will present a program in
the Chapel at 9:30 and 2:30 on
Friday and Saturday.
Visitors attending the Sixth
Annual Open House at Rusk State
Hospital will note many changes
in the physical surroundings in
the past year.
Five wards have been complete-
ly renovated. Old iron gratings
have been removed, relieving the
prison-like atmosphere in the dor-
mitories. Pleasant n e w color
schemes have replaced the drab-
ness of a bygone area.
Hospital spokesmen also point
out:
There is a new organ in the
chapel, a contribution from the
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority and the
Junior Chambers of Commerce.
Other volunteers have contrib-
uted new high-fidelity music
equipment to augment the Reha-
bilitation Therapy department's
Music Therapy program.
A new hobby shop has been
added to the two existing Occupa-
tional Therapy Shops, making
this essential therapy available to
patients on intensive treatment.
And one ward now has a com-
plete beauty shop as a contribu-
tion of the Houston Mental Health
Association. A complete new serv-
ice — Vocational Rehabilitation—
has been added for the benefit of
the patients. Sponsored by the
Texas Education Agency, its pur-
pose is to assist recovered patients
in finding gainful employment up-
on release from the Hospital.
During the two-day observance,
the Mental Health Associations in
the Rusk State Hospital 36-county
district will provide visitors with
Mental Health Information.
Dr. Charles W. Castner, super-
intendent of the Hospital, said:
"We wish to extend to each and
every one of you a cordial invita-
tion to attend the Open House. It
is your opportunity to become bet-
ter acquainted with the services
the Hospital provides for patients*
suffering with mental illness."
The Hospital serves Htt countie*
i in the Kast Texas and Gulf (oast
areas which send patients here for
i treatment Ot mental illness.
Hospital officials say the Open
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Fri
Great Buys Plus Prizes To
Be Offered Area People
Tyler To Vote
On Becoming New
UNMWA Member
The Upper Neches River Munic-
ipal Water Authority Blackburn
dam and reservoir may become a
four-city project, if Tyler citizens
May 15 elect to enter the Author-
ity.
In an Authority directors meet-
ing late last week W. A. Pounds,
chairman of the Tyler Chamber of
Commerce water resources com-
mittee, presented a petition to the
board signed by some 1,000 Tyler
residents favoring that city's en-
try.
Fifty signatures are required to
call a special election on the is-
sue. Accepting the petition, the
board set the election for May 15.
Tyler's entry will call for nam-
ing nine Tyler members of t h e
Authority board. They will join
the nine now representing Rusk,
Jacksonville and Palestine.
Authority members at last
week's meeting also heard E. R.
Gregg, Sr., Rusk member of the
board, say he was submitting his
resignation from the board for
personal business reasons. He ten-
dered his resignation to Gov. Dan-
iel April 18 and it is to become
effective on that date.
Gregg was one of the group who
laid the initial groundwork for
the 6',2-million dollar project. The
board expressed its regret at his
resignation. Members approved
resolutions expressing apprecia-
tion to Gregg for the invaluable
service he has performed for the
Authority and for this section of
East Texas.
Tax Collector Phillip H. Gray re-
ported to the board at the meet-
ing that he had collected $2,558 in
Rusk, $12,780 in Jacksonville; and.
$12,457 in Palestine in the last
tax year.
A financial statement, given by
Webb and Herrell, Palestine ac-
countants, showed that, in 195t>.
the authority received $150,000
from the sale of bonds, $8.957.04
in taxes Disbursements were SIH,-
1 for land purchased includ-
ing attorneys fees, abstract and
recording; $27.50 tor bond issue
expense; S-iM.74, tax collection ex-,
peiiM' $2&00 telephone and tele-!
>.;raph: S7 5i^& for retirement of
short term loan; S1WU7 interest
on loan, .uul $9tt,&M) worth of V.
S Treasury bills
Here again, the second of Rusk's
Bargain Days this Friday will of-
fer a festival of values, merchants
say, that will be augmented by a
festival atmosphere to be brought
on by the "Dollar Derby" compe-
tition and a chance for a refund
everytime a customer makes a
purchase.
The two new ingredients of Bar-
gain Day have been added as fur-
ther attractions to what Rusk bus-
inessmen said was an already suc-
cessful trades day last month.
Reduced prices on almost every
needed item will again be the fea-
! ture of Bargain Day as merchants
take the opportunity to feature
sales and specially-reduced items.
The Bargain Day organization,
headed by J. P. Favaron, re-em-
phasized the fact that the busi-
nesses realize that the buying
public must be offered genuine
bargains to be attracted as Rusk
shoppers. They said the organiza-
tion felt merchants had cooperat-
ed admirably to offer popular
items at a saving unmatched in
the area, thereby creating the in-
ducement required to make the
city a shopping center for this
area.
Two new features have been
added to Bargain Day this month
that are expected to add some-
thing of a carnival flavor to the
monthly event.
The Dollar Derby holds out the
■chance of winning $400 to the per-
son who can muster the brawn to
tote a sack containing 1000 silver
dollars one mile in one hand,
without resting the sack on part
of his body, stopping and resting
or otherwise fudging on the sim-
ple rules of the contest.
The only entry requirement is
a $5 or more purchase at one of
the stores participating in Bargain
Day. It will be a derby-stvle event!
and the first person to cross the
finish line will win the $400. The
prize will be split in event of a
tie.
The second new feature, utiliz-
ing the facilities of Rusk's Radio
Station KTLU, will offer shoppers
the chance at a refund of half
their cash purchase up to $5.
Here is the way it will work:
A radio is to be placed by the
cash register of the participating
stores. Six times in the morn-
tin; and six times in the afternoon
a bell will ring over KTLU. The
person who is in process of having
his purchase checked out at the
cash register when the bell rinus-
will get back half the price of hi
purchase up to a maximum of Sift
The two new features are ex
pected by merchants to add to (he
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