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SATURDAY, JULY 19th i* REA
Day for Rusk . . . This big event
always brings well over a thous-
and REA members to our city . .
As usual, the friendly folks of
Rusk are planning to roll out the
big carpet to welcome these fine
people to Rusk . . . Most of this
city's progressive merchants are
planning to stage some "very spe-
cial prices" for this event . . .
Give you more details on this next
week . . .
ROUNDAMOUT ENJOYED a
long talk with Jimmy Perkins last
Saturday . . . Jimmy left Rusk
Monday for a very busy two
month schedule . . . He begins a
month-long navy cruise aboard the
Aircraft Carrier SS Yorktown. He
is a Midshipman first class in the
ROTC Program at the University
of Texas. Jimmy will receive his
commission as an ensign in the
U. S. Navy in June, 1959.
After completing his cruise the*
early part of August, Jimmy will
attend the National Students As-
sociation in Delaware, Ohio. As
vice president of the University
of Texas student body, Jimmy will
head the delegation from UT to
the convention. Around 400 Uni-
versities of the United States will
send delegates to this training
conference.
Following the NSA meeting,
Jimmy will then go to Ashville,
North Carolina for the National
Convention for the Phi Delta The-
ta Fraternity. He is the official
delegate for the University of
Texas Chapter.
JIMMY PERKINS is one of the
finest young men Roundabout has
had the pleasure to know . . .
keep your eye on Jimmy Perkins,
he has one of t h e brightest fu-
tures of any young man that Rusk
has produced in a long, long time.
BLANKET CIRCULATION
An Estimated 13,000 People Will
Read This Publication, Based
On Circulation Figures.
The Rusk Cherokeean
TEXAS' OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, ESTABLISHED AS THE PIONEER JULY 5. 1U7
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VOLUME 111
RUSK, TEXAS
12 PAGES
JULY 10, 1958
NUMBER 3
SHOP IN RUSK
AND SAVE
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Pictured above are officers and directors of the Cherokee County Electric Cooperative Associa-
tion, who will be present for the big annual members meeting here July 19. From left, seated, are:
Joe S. Strickland, director; M. A. Florence, director; J. L. Bagley, president; S. W. Gary, vice-presi-
dent; E. W. Smith, director; standing, Fred Cosper, Jr., director; F. B. Braly, Manager; and Dudley
Lawson, attorney. L. B. McMillan, secretary, is not pictured.
MORE AND MORE candidates
are visiting Rusk these days . . .
Congressman John Dowdy was in
the office Saturday afternoon on
a "flying trip" . . . John says that
he is not going to be able to cam-
paign much as he will only be
able to get home over the week-
ends . . . Congress is still in ses-
sion, and it looks like it will
"hold forth" for several more
weeks . . .
OTHER candidates in the past
week were Jack Dies, in behalf of
his brother. Martin, Jr., who is
seeking the Senate position . . .
Ed. T. McFarland, also candidate'
for the Senate, was in Rusk the
next day . . . Frank Carpenter is>
also seeking this position, and is
making an active campaign . . .
Roundabout can say this, all three
are very good men, and the peo-
ple of this district have a tough
decision to make . . .
CHRISTMAS IN JULY? Well,
Mrs. E. R. Gregg is already think-
ing about Christmas for the needy
. . . She is collecting toys now . .
Mrs. Gregg is doing a wonderful
job as head of the Rusk Welfare
Association . . . Any one with old
toys, please send them to the'
Rusk Chamber of Commerce of-
fice, so that they can be repaired,
repainted, etc.
Brief Council
Session Recessed
Subject To Call
The Rusk City Council Tuesday
night held a brief meeting handl-
ing only a Jew routine matters.
However, the council was only
recessed at the end of the one-
hour meeting, subject to call of a
special meeting. A special ses-
sion was felt necessary in order
to prepare the way for board of
equalization meetings later this
month and other financial mat-
ters.
J. C. Williams, mayor pro-tern,
presided at the Tuesday night
meeting in the absence of Mayor
M. H. Norton.
Agreement was reached by the
council on number of minor mat-
ters, including, extending the mer-
cury vapor lighting north on Hen-
derson Street to the highway, and
placing street lights at other
points in the city.
They also gave approval for a
muscular dystrophy fund canvass
here in November.
Parolee Gets 10 Years This Week
Grand Jury Poses Great Contrast To
'Epauletted Fool' Said Gen. Rusk
Toys Needed For
Repair In City's
Xmas Program
If Community Christmas Tree
workers here have their way, un-
derprivileged youngsters in the
Rusk area will have a lot more
faith in Santa Claus this year—
may even believe he works all
year making Christmas toys.
An appeal has been issued for
persons who have toys that can
be repaired and repainted to
bring them to the Rusk Chamber
of Commerce, beginning now.
One of Santa's workshops is the
vocational agriculture shops in
Rusk High School. Agriculture
classes of Adon Duncan will re-
pair and repaint the toys in prep-
aration for the Community Christ-
mas Tree.
Work is planned to start with
classes this fall.
However, Mrs. E. R. Gregg,
chairman of the Christmas Tree
project, said toys need to be ac-
cumulated now, so that work
schedule can be planned.
Toys should be brought to the
Rusk Chamber of Commerce. Ade-
quate storage space has been of-
fered by Ide Hall.
Any kind of toys — tricycles,
dolls, toy cars, doll carriages, etc.
— will be greatly appreciated by
the little youngsters at Christmas,
Mrs. Gregg said.
Remarkable repair work on
the toys make them over into ex-
cellent gifts for the youngsters,
and many times are the "just
what I wanted" kind of gift that
the little ones find under their
tree. According to the workers:
The unwanted and unused toy at
your home may mean the differ-
ence in a good or a not-so-good
Christmas for some underprivileg-
ed youngster in Rusk.
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SHOP IN RUSK
Psychology Dept*
Head At RSH
Brice Davis assumed duties this
week as head of the Rusk State
Hospital psychology department.
Mr. Davis, from Ft. Worth, re-
places Grady Browning as depart-
ment head. Browning resigned re-
cently to continue his schooling,
lie is now at North Texas State
College. Denton.
Mr. Davis holds a Masters De-
cree in clinical psychology from
Texas Christian University. He
has 10 years experience in clini-
cal psychology
He moved here this week ami
lives at the Rusk Slate Hospital
The Grand Jury empaneled
here Monday is a far cry from
when a nod from "an epauletted
fool" meant a criminal sentence
from which there was no appeal.
The 12 members were told the
contrast in the stirring words of
General Thomas J. Rusk, for
whom Rusk was named, from an
address he made to a Nacogdoch-
es County Grand Jury over 120
years ago.
The remarks were read by Dis-
trict Judge J. W. Summers who
found the account in Nacogdoches
county records. Occasion for the
address was the first Grand Jury
ever empaneled in the infant Re-
public of Texas, which only a year
earlier had won its independence
from Mexico.
Place was in the Old Stone Fort
in Nacogdoches, which at that
time, according to Gen. Rusk, was
more than 100 years old. At that
time Nacogdoches county embrac-
ed what is now Cherokee county
and Gen. Rusk was a member of
the Nacogdoches county bar.
The soldier-statesman-jurist,
who is the benefactor of this
city's name, only a year prior to
his remarks on September 9, 1837,
was engaged in winning Texas'
independence from Mexico.
But speaking of the last trium-
phant days of the war, he said:
"That, Gentlemen of the Grand
Jury, was a proud day, but the
feelings I had then do not com-
pare with those I now feel. I see
now for the first time it has ever
been done in this country (the Re-
public of Texas), the imposing
spectacle of discharging a Grand
Jury in this house ... a short time
since, in this place, a man's rights,
his liberty, yea his life itself, de-
pended upon the nod of an epaul-
etted fool, from whose decision
there was no appeal."
Earlier in his talk, Gen. Rusk
stated: "This is one of the proud-
est days of my life. We have bat-
tled against the damages and dif-
ficulties of the wilderness, the
savage and of our common enemy.
But all this a savage might do.
"I have seen the enemy sweep-
ing in their train. I have seen
them met in their mad career by
a handful of freemen, and I have
seen the tide of war roll back to
its source and the bloody tyrant
go in chains an humble suppliant
for the poor privilege of being
beyond the day of his glory.
"That, Gentlemen of the Grand
Jury, was a proud day. but the
feelings 1 had then do not com-
pare with those 1 now feel."
lien. Rusk then spoke of the
"epauletted fool", the uniformed
Mexican juror-judge, who, with
the nod of his head, could arbi-
trarily mete sentence to those un
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Ray Milton Fonza, indicted
Monday by a Cherokee county
Grand Jury on a charge of expos
ing person to child under 16, Tues-
day morning pleaded guilty to the
offense and was sentenced to 10
years in the State penitentiary.
Sentence was passed Tuesday
morning by Judge J. W. Summers,
Judge of the Second Judicial Dis-
trict, after Fonza pleaded guilty
and waived trial by jury.
The 27-year-old negro was on
parole at the time of the offense
June 19. He had earlier been con-
victed of burglary. He was origi-
nally from Smith County.
The offense occurred in a home
in which Fonza was living, near
Troup, just inside the Cherokee
county line.
According to statements made
by District Attorney Robert Mur-
phy at the trial, Fonza exposed
himself to an eight-year-old girl,
one of the family with which he
was living.
He was arrested June 20 after
complaint had been entered.
The Grand Jury Monday had
only the one case to consider for
indictment and met for one hour
and forty-five minutes, near rec-
ord for briefness.
The single indictment was
pointed to by the Grand Jury
members as an excellent record
for the county, since usually there
are more cases at Grand Jury ses-
sions.
The report commended the citi-
zens themselves and the Cherokee
County Sheriff's Department for
the good record.
State Plans 10 Miles Per
Y ear of Road Construction
In County for NextlO Years
Over One Thousand REA
Members Will Be In Rusk
For Annual Meeting July 19
Cherokee County Ranked Third In
State In Pine Seedling Planting
Red Sox Lead
Little League;
Braves Win Tues.
The Red Sox remain masters of
the Little league here, holding a
6-0 won-loss record, well ahead of
the nearest challenger, the Cardi-
nals, who have a 5-3 record.
The Braves advanced a half
game to put themselves out in
front of the Giants Tuesday night.
They rolled over the Giants 17-3
in the Little League contest.
Following are team standings
after Tuesday night's game:
Team W L Pet.
Red Sox 6 0 1.000
Cardinals 5 3 .625
Yankees 4^4 3K- .562
Braves 3V4 54 .389
Giants 3 5 .375
Indians 0 7 .000
VISIT IN ARKANSAS
Mrs. Ottice Houston of Houston,
Miss Pauline King and Miss Beu-
lah Allen attended a house party
in Ozark, Arkansas as guests of
Miss Mary Agnew. They also vis
ited in Kureka Springs and Kay-
etteville
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TRADI AT HOMS
Lions Plan For
Biggest Of 10
Annual Rodeos
Rusk Lions Club members are
planning one of the greatest per-
formances in a decade of fine ro-
deos, as they complete arrange-
ments for an expected 12,0(¡p ro-
deo fans.
Rodeo Chairman Bill Shar-
brough Tuesday said the Club ha«
13.000 tickets for sale and antici-
pate the 12,000 attendance, based
on attendance in 10 previous ro*
deos.
A few decisions on gifts and
prizes are yet to be made. Shar-
brough said, but otherwise plans
are complete for the three-day
event August 7, 8, 9.
Repair on the box seats is about
complete, he said, including the
asphalting underneath.
Remaining now is the several
rodeo caravans to cities and towns
in the area, publicizing the rodeo.
Caravan schedule is as follows:
Friday, August 1: Alto, Slocum,
Elkhart, Palestine, Jacksonville,
Turney, Gallatin.
Saturday, August 2: Wells, Luf-
kin, Apple Springs, Groveton,
Pennington, Crockett, Grapeland.
Monday, August 4: Reklaw, Mt.
Enterprise, Timpson, Garrison,
Nacogdoches, Cushing. Sacul.
Tuesday, August 5: Ponta, Sum-
merfield, Troup, Arp, Overton,
Kilgore, Henderson, Laneville.
Bob Estes, who produced some
of the most successful rodeos
here, will stage the 10th Annual
performance. Estes, from Baird,
Texas, has a good rodeo reputa-
tion in East Texas, and especially
in Rusk. His specialty acts will be
auditioned within t h e next few
weeks by the Lions Club commit-
tee to determine which will ap-
pear here.
In addition the local rodeo will
feature five events: Bareback
bronc riding, saddle bronc riding,
calf roping, bulldogging and bull
riding.
The Lions Club Rodeo is Rodeo
Cowboy Association approved.
Members of Chairman Shar-
brough's rodeo emmittee are: Bur-
nell Stovall, Oran Spence, Clyde
Baker, Bud Parrish, Ed Stover,
Dub Summers Wayman Pierce
and Buddy Hinton.
Cherokee county ranked third
among counties in the state in
number of new pine seedlings
planted during the 1957-58 sea-
son, according to announcement
by the Forest Management de-
partment of the Texas Forest Ser-
vice.
Sixty-nine planters in the coun-
ty put out 2,802,000 seedlings.
The plantings were made from
seedlings distributed by the Tex-
as Forest Service and do not re-
flect plantings from seedlings ob-
^ifved from private sources.
''''Cherokee county was ranked
fcehind Cass and Rusk counties in
number of seedlings. During the
past winter, more than 38.500,000
pines were set out in East Texas.
They were planted on about 43,-
000 acres of forest land.
East Texas landowners set out
about 10 million pines on 1J.QOO
acres of land under the Conserva-
tion Reserve phase of the Soil
Bank Act.
Cass county landowners headed
the list of counties for number of
trees set out. planting some 5,-
200,000. Rusk county was next
with nearly 3,000,000. Ranked be-
hind them, other leading counties
in the order of total number of
trees set out were Cherokee. Up-
shur, Nacogdoches, Wood, Bowie,
Houston, Newton, Polk, Hardin
and Harrison.
This is the first year that North-
east Texas counties have headed
the list.
Production of the seedlings fell
about 10 million short of demand
last season. But the Texas Forest
Nurseries have increased output
and anticipate having about 50
million seedlings available for the
next planting season.
Feature Asks
Trade At Home'
I
The Rusk Cherokeean this weck;
has added a new feature to its I
columns designed to point up the
advantages of trading at home.
Entitled "How Bout That", the
cartoon • type feature points out
a lot of good reasons for seeing
your home town merchant first
The feature may be s e e n this
week on the back pave of this i>
suv. and it will be carried for the
next 52 weeks in the Cherokeean
Methodist Camp
To Be Attended
By Rusk Youths
Ten young people of First Meth-
odist Church have registered for
a week's camp at Lakeview. near
Palestine.
Attending will be young people
from the Nacogdoches-Palestine
District.
According to Mrs. Vickie Lind-
sey, church secretary, those plan-
ning to go from here are Eliza-
beth Gibson, Nancy Guinn. Dixie
Guinn, Jimmy Thompson, Bill
Vining, Jr., Mike Crysup, Paul Os-
borne, Joe Rozelle, Walter Ver-
million and Harold Allen Travis.
Deadline for registration was
July 8th.
The group will be at Lakeview
front July 21st through 25th The
program will include inspiration-
al services, recreation, and the
teaching of crafts.
VISIT HIRI
Mr anil Mrs A M llobbs of
Greenwood. Miss,, visited Mrs
Ruby Mas.>ev over the weekend
Mrs Hobbs is Mr* Massev's sts-
,vr rt.
Crowds will begin flowing into
Rusk next Saturday, July 19, when
the Cherokee County Electric Co-
operative Association holds its an-
nual members meeting.
Attendance this year is expect-
ed to attract more than the esti-
mated 1000 who signed up at the
meeting last year.
Actual attendance, however,
was said to be higher, since many
individuals did not sign, while
others came in groups or fami-
lies for which only o n e person
signed.
F. B. Braly, manager of the As-
sociation, said attendance grows
some annually. Invitations have
been mailed to all 5,129 of the
Association members.
The meeting will begin in the
Cherokee Theater in Rusk at 10
Saturday morning, when the main
business will be the report of of-
ficers, directors and committees
and the election of three direc-
tors of the Association.
S. W. Gary, George H. McMillan
and J. F. Cosper, Jr., have been
nominated for directors.
In addition, traditional door
prizes of electrical appliances will
be made this year. The number4
has been increased by three this
year, from 15-18.
And the children will be treat-
ed to a free movie and refresh-
ments during the morning. This
will be staged at the Rusk High
School.
The business session of tho
meeting is expected to be com-
pleted by noon, Braly said, since
reports will be at a minimum this
year.
Rusk traditionally opens its
doors to the hundreds of Coopera-
tive members who attend the
meeting each year from a multi-
county area. Signs this year point
to a larger-than-ever welcome to
the visitors, many of whom stay
over after the meeting as visitors
in the city.
The guests will be mailed free
parking cards, good for all-day
parking in Rusk Saturday.
Morris Hassell, ■ Chamber o£
Commerce president, will extend
Rusk's welcome to the visitors at
the meeting in the Theater.
Local Group At
Woodlake Baptist
Camp This Week
Attending the Pinewoods Bap-
tist Encampment at Woodlake this
week from First Baptist Church,
Rusk are James Donald White,
Henry Verbick, and James Ver-
bick, members of the Royal Am-
bassadors. Also with them is Tom-
my Jordan of Dallas, cousin of the
Verbick boys.
Charles Ringaman. youth direc-
tor of the church, accompanied
them as counselor.
Dr. Bradford Curry. Central
Baptist Church, Jacksonville, pas-
tor, is serving as camp pastor
Song leader is a former Rusk
citucn. Robert Murray, who is
now music director of the New
London Baptist Church
The local group left Monday
and will return this Kvidav after
noon
In order to keep pace with high-
way needs, Cherokee county sho-
uld have ten miles of new high-
way construction each year for
the next ten years.
The estimate was made in a let-
ter from D. C. Greer, State High-
way Engineer, to County Judge J.
W. Chandler received here Tues-
day.
Judge Chandler in May headed
a delegation before the Highway
Commission in Austin seeking
State plans for highway construc-
tion in Cherokee county in an ef-
fort to coordinate County p 1 a n-
ning with State plans.
Chief motive behind the action
was right-of-way acquisition for
the road program, the responsibil-
ity for which rests with the coun-
ty, with the State paying half the
right-of-way costs.
Possible bond issue was also
talked, when the county had in
hand the State's construction
schedule.
Greer stated in his letter that,
to keep pace with the highway
needs — as correlated with the
highway income — an estimated
10 miles of new highway improve-
ment should be made in Cherokee
county each year during the next
10 years.
"This would mean that in the
ten-year period approximately
100 miles of new highways, re-
quiring either new or additional
right-of-way. should be placed un-
der construction if local funds for
right-of-way were available,"
He outlined specific plans aS
follows:
"In general, this would contem-
plate approximately 60 miles of
four-lane divided highway devel-
oped by the addition of two addi-
tional lanes to the present road.
"The construction is estimated
to cost S4.108.000 and will in-
volve 48 miles of widened right-
of-way. We would contemplate 26
miles of wide two-lane reconstruc-
tion, costing $1,300,000 and in-
volving 20 miles of additional
right-of-way. Such a program
would contemplate about 15 mileá
of highway street development in
the incorporated cities and towns
throughout the county, based up-
on the cooperative endeavor be-
tween the county and/or the ci-
ties and the State.
"This is estimated to cost the
State approximately $2.000,000.
Over this period we estimate that
approximately 25 miles of com-
plete new highway not heretofore
constructed should be develop-
ed."
Following the May 22 meeting
with the Department officials,
Greer said that the Department
directed that a thorough study ofi
Cherokee county be made.
According to his letter, the
Commission came to the follow-
ing conclusions:
"The Commission concurs with
t h e Cherokee county delegation
that a great deal of highway work
is needed in Cherokee county. In
order to accomplish these needs
over the next period of years, ade-
quate right-of-way will be neces-
sary and t h e Highway Commis-
sion is hopeful that Cherokee
county will place itself in a posi-
tion financially to take advantage
of these improvements as they
come in logical order through our
programs of development."
Greer concluded: "The Highway
Commission sincerely appreciates
the efforts of your group to im-
prove t h e highway situation in
Cherokee county, as well as your
continued interest in the highway
program, not only of Cherokee
county but of the entire state."
Greer's letter indicated the
county would need to obtain some
ION miles of right of way in the
10 years This is the mam tssuo
as tar as the county is concerned,
since (o obtain the maximum con
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