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RODEO TIME AGAIN in Rusk
. . . Lion Rodeo Chairman Bill
Sharbrough and his committee
have worked awfully hard to make
this the biggest and best Rodeo
ever staged in Rusk . . . Rounda-
bout takes his hat off to the Rusk
Lions and Lioness Clubs . . . both
organizations can always be de-
pended on to do a job well . . .
GLAD TO SEE BOBBY ESTES,
Rodeo producer this year, back in
Rusk . . . Bobby is one of the best
Rodeo Producers in the business,
snd fans in East Texas are assur-
ed of a fast moving show . . .
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VOLUME 111
RUSK, TEXAS
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AUGUST 7, 1958
NUMBER 7
Attend Lions Club
Rodeo August 7, 8, 9
Big 10th Annual Rusk Lions Club Rodeo
Will Be Kicked Off With Paiade Thurs.
JAMES BYNUM, a World Cham-
pion Steer Wrestler, has entered
this year's Rodeo, Estes told
Roundabout this morning . . . By-
num is one of the all time
"Greats" in the Rodeo business . .
COACH MACK PHILBRICK and
Jr. High Coach Bruce Pruitt are
attending the Coaching Clinic at
Houston this week . . . Won't be>
long before the old football is be-
ing kicked around on Mustek
Field . . . Roundabout hasn't had
the opportunity to visit with ei-
ther Coach Philbrick or Grimes
the past several months to get
"briefed" on what the Eagles'
prospects are this year ... Do
know this . . . Rusk has a tougher
schedule this year, and losses
were heavy via the graduation
route . . .
ROUNDABOUT HEARD GUN
SHOTS Monday night around 10
p.m., and naturally jumped out of
bed and went outside to sec what
all the shooting was about . . .
Porter Mitchell, Roundabout's
neighbor, was doing a little "Hoov-
er Hog" hunting . . . Five shots,
and the animal was dead . . .
MOST OF OUR "YOUNG-
STERS" don't know what a "Hoov-
er Hog" is, so old Roundabout
will tell 'em ... A "Hoover Hog"
is really an armadillo. The animal
got his nick-name back in the
great depression when Herbert
Hoover was president of the Unit-
ed States. A great many folks kill-
ed and ate them . . . Now, Porter
wasn't killing his "Hoover Hog"
for food, but to keep him from
tearing up his yard and ruining
his wife's beautiful flowers . . .
School Board
Adopts Same Tax
Rate For *58-59
The Rusk Independent School
District Board of Trustees Tues-
day night set the rate for 1058-59
at $1.50 — the same rate as last
year. However, the apportionment
was changed to some extent.
Superintendent Gerald Chap-
man explained that of each $1.50,
the amount for maintenance has
been cut from $1.25 last year to
$1.12%. Thirty-seven and one-half
cents will go for debt service in-
stead of the twenty-five cents last
year.
The board Tuesday night also
adopted the following retirement
policy:
"Beginning with the school year
1950-60, all school personnel who1
have reached the age of 65 or who
may reach this age during the*
1959-60 school year, will be retir-
ed at the end of the 1959-60 school
year. Subsequently, all school per-
sonnel will be retired at the close
of the school year in which their
65th birthday falls.
Also approved in the session
were plans for building a voca-
tional agriculture shop in the Ne-
gro high school. The 30x50 build-
ing, to be built of hadite, will cost'
slightly under $7000.
The current budget was amend-
ed in three instances: for instruc-
tion, capital outlay and bond serv-
ice.
Biggest item amended in the
budget was in capital outlay, to
provide for funds for the new
walkways at the elementary and
high school and for a store room
at the elementary school.
The amendment in instruction
was to provide for the new Negro
vocational agriculture teacher who
began work on July 1.
Hearing on the 1958-59 budget
was set for Tuesday, August 26, at
city hall.
SHOP IN RUSK
City Council Opposes State
Loan To Neches Authority
First Baptist Church Youth-Led
Revival To Be Held August 10-17
HARLES CONE
Employment High
Scored By Scott
Co.; 75 Working
The Scott Company, bouncing
back after a low in employment
early this year, is presently em-
ploying 75 people, Robert Scott
revealed this week.
The company is now in its peak
season, Scott said, and for a while
worked 90 employees.
Although this is the peak sea-
son and employment will drop
some, indications are that the
year-round business is steadily in-
creasing and that more employees
will be working steadily, he said.
The Company started opera-
tions here with some 20 employ-
ees. Subsequent growth and the
moving here last year of its Over-
ton plant in an expansion program
have coupled to give the company
a bigger steady employee force.
Bill Davis Talks
To Kiwanis Club
At Meet Thursday
Wm. E. Davis, Superintendent
of Texas Power & Light Company's
Striker Lake Generating Plant,
Was the principal speaker for the
regular noon luncheon of the Rusk
Kiwanis Club at Smith's Cafe.
The speaker gave the c 1 u b a
very informative talk on the new
industry for this area, and show-
ed colored picture slides of the
plant, which is just about com-
plete.
The Striker Plant made its first
electricity May 9th, and then op-
erated off and on during the re-
mainder of May. The plant has
been operating on a 24 hour per
day basis since June 29th. The
plant is capable of supplying all
the demands of its customers
within a 60 mile radius, the speak-
er explained.
A total of 35 are now employed,
and the big majority of these peo-
ple are now residents of Rusk.
Curtis McLeod was program
chairman. Kiwanis Club president
Ralph Travis presided at the meet-
ing.
Mrs. Chloe Wuddell and Mrs
Edith Ray Vick visited Mrs. Wad-
dell's son Tom, who is stationed
at Ft Hood,
The youth of the First Baptist
Church are putting the finishing
touches to preparations for their
annual Youth-led Revival which
begins Sunday, continuing through
the following Sunday, August 17.
Evangelist for the revival will
be Harles Cone, graduate of Jack-
sonville High School, East Texas
Baptist College and who is pres-
ently a student at Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth.
Mr. Cone is also pastor of a
church in Mt. Vernon.
Music for the revival will be led
by Jim Bob Griffin, minister of
music at the First Baptist Church,
Elgin, Texas. His wife, the former
Louverl Lloyd of Rusk, will be the
pianist and Ruth Marie Mayes
will play the organ.
There will be special music ren-
dered each evening by the Boost-
er Band (ages 6-11) and different
groups from the church as well as
by Mr. Griffin.
The young people of the Church
have organized into various com-
mittees to promote the revival.
Robert Watson is general chair-
man, and each of the four com-
mittees has two co-chairmen:
Fellowship committee — Mar-
garet Seale, Linda Watson; music
committee — Ruth Mayes, Letha
Jo Parsons; publicity committee—
Foster Webb, Jimmy Lovelady;
visitation committee — Eddie
Bailey, John Paul Watson.
The public is invited and urged
to attend the services which will
be held each evening at 7:30.
There will be morning services
Monday through Friday beginning
at 6:30 a.m. to be followed by cof-
fee and donuts in the church base-
ment.
There will be a brief fellowship
following each evening service.
Local Candidates
Report Total Of
$9,000 Expenses
Anyone considering a stint in
public office should perhaps first
peruse the statements of expense
filed by the handful of Cherokee
county candidates before and im-
mediately after the recent pri-
mary election.
The candidates, according to
their statements, spent a total of
$9,000 during the primary, and
one of the offices is not settled
yet.
This was spent during a cam-
paign when only about a half doz-
en offices were contested. How-
ever, 26 candidates filed state-
ments showing expenditures;
three candidates reported no ex-
penses.
Most of the expenses in each
case was accounted for by the fil-
ing fees — assessments made on
the candidates for election costs.
The fees ranged Atom $10 to $1,-
008.
Most typical expenditures were
in the neighborhood of $200 5500,
Outside of the three candidates
who had no expenses, the small-
est amount listed was $56.00; the
largest. $1,140.
Greatest amount spent in a sin-
gle race was $1,53? in the six-
candidate New Kummerfleld area
v'ommissuuums precinct.
Rusk's city council went on rec-
ord Tuesday night as opposed to
the application of the Upper
Neches Municipal Water Authori-
ty to get state assistance to build
the big dam at Blackburn Cross-
ing.
The Upper Neches River Munic-
ipal Water Authority voted last
Thursday to apply to the Texas
Board of Water Development for
aid in financing the proposed
Blackburn Crossing Reservoir on
the Neches River. The dam would
be slightly over 30 miles from
Rusk and Palestine, and around
20 miles from Jacksonville.
Tyler voters turned down a pro-
posal to enter the Authority with
Rusk, Jacksonville and Palestine
several months ago.
The Upper Neches board's ac-
tion followed recommendations by
W. C. Jackson of Dallas, the au-
thority's fiscal agent; T. Carr For-
rest of Dallas, project engineer,
and Bryce Huguenin of Dallas, le-
gal counsel for the group. The
three were present last Thursday
and expressed belief that Black-
burn Crossing will qualify under
the new state program which
would permit the state to under-
write one-third of the huge proj-
ect's cost which is estimated to be
around nine a n d a half million
dollars.
In effect that would be a loan
to the authority. The board au-
thorized an immediate application
and will file it with the state
board as soon as possible.
Here is the Resolution as pass-
ed by the Rusk City Council:
RESOLUTION
A Resolution was introduced by
Alderman J. C. Williams, as fol-
lows:
WHEREAS, it has been called to
the attention of the Town Council
of the Town of Rusk that the
Board of Directors of the Upper
Neches River Municipal Water Au-
thority, at its Board Meeting on
July 31, 1958, voted to apply to
the Texas Board of Water Devel-
opment for aid in financing the
proposed Blackburn Crossing Res-
ervoir, and
WHEREAS, the Blackburn
Crossing Project, as now propos-
ed is in complete contradiction of
the original project and of prom-
ises and assurances made by the
Board of Directors of the Upper
Neches River Municipal Water
Authority to induce the voters
within the Authority to vote for
the issuance of combination Tax
and Revenue Bonds in the amount
of $9,500,000.00 (AS EVIDENCED
BY ATTACHED EXHIBITS), and
WHEREAS, the three member
cities of the Authority, Rusk,
Jacksonville and Palestine joined
together to form the Authority
with the definite intention of pro-
viding adequate water for each
city, and
WHEREAS, as now planned on-
ly a dam will be built with no
pipeline facilities to either of the
three cities with no plan or hope
of such facilities in the future;
such dam to be approximately 30
miles from Rusk, 30 miles from
Palestine and 20 miles from Jack-
sonville, and
WHEREAS, the voters of the
Authority were assured that only
$150,000.00 of the bonds would be
issued until sufficient contracts
for the sale of water were secured
to finance the balance of the proj-
ect. and
WHEREAS, after more than
two years NOT ONK GALLON OK
WATKK HAS BEEN SOU> OH
(Continued on Page 12)
LITTLE LEAGUE ALL-STARS — From Ictt, fi.'si rcw, Ronny McElroy, Roy Beck, Danny Christo- j
pher, Johnny Goff. Second row, Gary Harper, Bobby Edwards, Richard Johnr-on, Larry Bowman, Tom-
my Dean Martin. Third row, Travis Roten, manager, Joe Allen, R. L. Lusk, Robo Penn, Rickey Scott,
Dickey Wallace, Richard Holcomb, Bill Jones, manager.
Cherokee County Gets 5-Star Award
Little Factional Feuding Noted As
County Names State Demo Delegates
Two New Cases
Of TB Located,
Hospitalized
A report from the Cherokee
County Tuberculosis Association
reveals two new patients from
this county have been admitted to
the East Texas TB hospital at Ty-
ler. One patient has also been re-
cently discharged, with medical
advice.
Mrs. Edna Harkins, executive
secretary, also reports that Bulah
will be the first organized Rural
Development Community to take
the tuberculin skin test under the
new case finding program, spon-
sored by the County TB Associa-
tion.
Mrs. Floyd Brigham, registered
nurse, will administer the tests
with the assistance of Mrs. Har-
kins.
"This is a 48 to 72 hour process,
and is much more conclusive than
the Patch Test," pointed out Mrs.
Harkins.
Rev. Birkelbach
To,Hold Revival
At Dialville
Beginning Monday. August 11,
is a revival at the Dialville Meth-
odist Church, to continue through
that week, announces Rev. Jack
Rogers, pastor.
Preaching for the services each
evening at 8 p.m. will be Rev. El-
wood Birkelbach, pastor of First
Methodist Church, Rusk.
Song service will be under the
leadership of Hugh Jones of Dial-
ville.
Rev. Rogers extends a cordial
welcome to all persons to attend
this series of Revival meetings
o —_
VISITS IN MISSISSIPPI
John Waddell. son of Mrs
Chloe Waddell is visiting his
grandparents in Mississippi. Mrs.
J. li- Chamhleo of Fulton. Miss
and Mr B D. Waddell of Belmont,
Mili
There was little hint of a fac-
tional skirmish Saturday as Cher-
okee county Democrats named an
uninstructed delegation to the
state convention in San Antonio
September 9.
Generally termed "liberal-loy-
als", as opposed to "conserva-
tives", had mo trouble naming the
slate to the convention, and was
deterred by no more than a point
of order raised by a spokesman
for the handful of "conserva-
tives".
The delegation will go unin-
structed and under the unit rule.
The resolutions committee com-
prising Dan Bus, chairman, Nor-
ton Walley, Dave Cole, R. W. Sum-
mers, Terry Perkins, Lamonte
Teutsch and C. C. Bearden, re-
ported no resolutions to be sub-
mitted to the convention and rec-
ommended that none be adopted
by the Cherokee county conven-
tion.
The single resolution read dur-
ing the convention came from the
conservative element and was read
from the floor.
The resolution e a 11 e d for en-
dorsement and support for Gov-
ernor Price Daniel's program. The
convention promptly voted to ta-
ble the resolution.
Four precincts — Henry's Cha-
pel, Forest, Reese, Pleasant Hill
— had no delegates answering the
roll call.
Delegates named to the state
convention were: (the following
are Mr. and Mrs. unless denoted
otherwise) Leo W. Tosh, Lewis
Banks, James Turney, Paul Cox,
L. G. Teutsch, Thomas Wallace,
Harold Miller, Dan Bus, E. C.
May, J. S. Lewis, C. S. Ousley, B.
H. Broiles, J. H. Peacock, Dave
Cole, Terry Perkins, W. E. Stone,
Sr., C. C. Gaston, A. L. Looney.
Also, Mrs. Helen Stewart, Bob-
by Butler, Mrs. Don Allcorn. R. G.
Sweeney, W. C. Wisener
Also Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Welch, Elton Grisham, Vester
Douglas, J. A. Eidson. T, W. But-
ler, Adon Duncan, Claude Chisum,
Charles L. Kerr.
Mrs. Nora Christopher, Mr. ami
Mrs J W Thompson. J. W Chan
dler. Clavis Tipton, H. H. Richey,
Marion Ross. W W Glass, Claude
Burke. Make Gannon. Kenneth
Dixon. Buster Rogers. I" C Hear
(Continued on Page 12)
Cherokee county has received a
five-star rating for its fiscal
standing in the year ending De-
cember 31, 1957. The award was
made by the Public Affairs De
partment of the East Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce.
The organization's judging is on
the basis of six areas. Cherokee
county failed to receive a star in
the item that compares the budg
et with actual expenditures. Ac
cording to the ETCC schedule
county expenditures exceeded the
anticipated budget by some $60,
000.
County fiscal operation did,
however, receive stars in the fol-
lowing five items:
* Ratio of net debt to assessed
valuations not above state aver
ages.
A Operating fund tax rate not
above state average.
* All funds operated on a cash
basis.
4 Net debt per capita not above
state average.
* Collected 95 per cent of cur-
rent taxes and/or 100 per cent of
current and delinquent.
In the item in which the county
was denied a star, actual expense
of the county was put at $756,-
631.23. The expense budget was
$696,721.06.
By comparsion the ETCC survey
noted that expenses have risen an<
nually in the past five years, from
over $475,000 in 1953 to $756,000
in 1957.
Tax Collection Efficiency
Efficiency of tax collection was
awarded a star, with the following
explanation given: The star is aw-
arded when the county's current
tax collections are 95 per cent or
more of the 1956 levy, or when
the total taxes collected (includ-
ing both current and delinquent
collections) amount to 100 per
cent or more of the 1956 levy. The
percentage for the tax year end-
ed June 30, 1957, in Cherokee
county was 91.36 and the total
percentage is 109.16 per cent.
The tax levy in 1957 was $323,-
891.64. Valuation in the county in
1957 was $28,294.281. Assessed val-
uation in the county has risen
more than 71 per cent in 10 years,
due generally to increased con-
struction and oil activity.
No Deficit Funds
None of Cherokee county's
funds ended the year with deficit,
and this was the basts for another
star according to the survey The
county ended the year with total I
(Continued on Page W
As Rusk Lions have been saying
for weeks—"It's Rodeo Time In
Rusk."
And Thursday night scores of
top hands will begin a three-night
tussel with some mean rodeo crit-
ters, vying for the some $2,700 in
prize money and entry fees.
Lions will devote most of the
day Thursday to kicking-off the
Tenth Annual event, expected to
draw some 12,000 fans frcm over
the East Texas area.
The Club's noon luncheon will
serve to whoop-up town-wide op-
ening day enthusiasm and with
afternoon parade, will set the
stage for the first performance at
8 Thursday night.
The luncheon will be held in
the Youth Center building. Rodeo
Chairman Bill Sharbrough said ev-
eryone may attend. Plates are
SI.25 each.
District Governor Johnny Mc-
Leod and wife of Jasper will also
be present for the luncheon and
other kick-off activities Thursday,
as will Allen Caldwell of Jackson-
ville, former district governor.
At 5 Thursday afternoon, t h e
colorful Rodeo parade will begin
to roll, following its traditional
path. It will begin at the court-
house annex and move west. It
will leave the square at the south
east corner on West Fifth Street
for a turn around that block, and
re-enter the square from South
Main.
Parade entries include floats,
cars and others by more than a
dozen Rusk businesses and organi-
zations. County Sheriff Allen Dot-
son will be parade marshall. The
Rusk High School band is also ex-
pected to march. ,
At 8 Thursday night the first
performance of the three - night
event will open. It will be built
around the five standard events
of bareback b r o n c riding, calf
roping, saddle bronc riding, steer
wrestling and bull riding.
As one of the rodeos approved
each year by the Rodeo Cowboys
Association, the Rusk Lions Club
Rodeo is a world's championship
contest, open to the top contest-
ants from the United States and
Canada.
The rodeo here will be in the
sport's major league, according to
information from the Association,
and it will be conducted under na-
tionally recognized rules that gov-
ern the competition at the na-
tion's oldest and largest contests.
Each season the international
titles are awarded by the point
award system of the Association,
which credits each contestant with
a point for every dollar won in
competition at all approved ro-
deos. The cowboys with the most
points in each event at the sea-
son's end are the champions.
To tempt the top hands here to
try the broncs, bulls and steers,
the Rusk Lions Club Rodeo has
posted a purse of $1,500, or $300
prize money in each standard ev-
ent. The entry fees of the con-
testants, added to the purse, are
expected this year to swell the
total by another $1,200.
Bobby Estes of Baird, Texas,
will produce the rodeo. Tom Had-
ley of Kerrville will announce.
Rodeo color and comedy this
year will feature new specialty ta-
lent, plus a local act. Royce Hud-
son will be this year's clown.
There will also be a trained bull
act, and Frank Gilbert and his Ro-
man Horse act and his stagecoach
act.
A highlight of the three nights
will be the Lions Club Past Presi-
dents' ride, featuring most of the
following past presidents:
Bob Persons, E. B. Musick, Jr..
Lloyd Pipes. L B. Stovall, Glad-
s t o n e Thompson, Charles M.
Pierce. Al Elliott Frank Gillespie
and O. M. Walker.
In addition to t h e entertain-
ment. Sharbrough said the Lions
Club this year will give away
three $100 door prues $100 each
night ami a Shetland pony.
(Continued on Pag 12)
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