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P*C£u-Tiln Cí
Inc.
'Round
Town
With
Roundabout
It was good to greet John-
ny Walker this week! The
former KTLU staffer is now
officially home...for good. Af-
ter a stint in the Navy more
recently at DaNang,Vietnam,
it must be good indeed for
Johnny., because he saw and
greeted his own little son for
the first time.
Roundabout hopes to have
more time for visits with
Johnny before he settles down
to employment with the rest
of us. He says he had many
experiences.,.all of them cre-
ating a deeper appreciation
for this country and its many
blessings.
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The Cherokeean
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SERVING RUSK
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VOL. 123
Rusk, Texas
THURSDAY. JUNE 11,1970
12 PAGES
NUMBER 1
Low Rent Housing Vote Slated, City
Thursday Night
'70-71 School Plans
Talked, Board Meet
Speaking of blessings, if we
don't get some rain soon, we
may all be more aware of the
old adage, "you never miss
the water until the well goes
dry." One of the city water
line* erupted last Sunday...
and briefly we had our own,
"old faithful." Finally, tem-
porary measures halted the
waste of water. But for a few
hectic moment^-, it appeared
the street would turn into a
lake. Appreciate the response
from many citizens with re-
gard to the trouble...because
left unattended.it could have
tremendously lowered the
city's available water supply.
V And again,,.speaking of help
the Cherokeean staff appre-
ciates all the help it can get
with news I Sometimes events
occur and unless you let us
hear from you, weneverknow
It,.,nor do your friends and
neighbors! Especially do we
appreciate the help given in
reporting baseball scores!
There are about 16 dozen
leagues, some of them play-
ing more than once a week
some even play two games
In one day! So...feel free to
call any of the scores in,
which concern you and yours!
Congratulations to the Lions
Club for staging such a suc-
cessful Youth rodeo last
week-end. Lucky again...no
serious injurlesl And they
had some mighty tough stock
to challenge the youth too!
Producer Hairgrove staged
a "hair-raiser" in thrills!
This note from the War De-
partment; She says the tel-
ephone number at Maximum
Security Unit is the same as
last year'* pay phone at the
swimming pool. Mr. Herbert
Nichols at MSU, has been re-
ceiving quite a few calls late-
ly, from people trying to get
the swimming pool! So ... if
you have 683-9293 as the pool
number in your old phone
book, FORGET IT!
T. R. Perkins
Commissioner
Perkins
Is Elected
Terry Perkins of Ponta is
the newly elected Commis-
sioner of Precinct 4. The
area encompasses the New
Summerfield - Reklaw - Pon-
ta portion of Cherokee Coun-
ty.
Perkins won Saturday's e-
lection by a margin of 591
to 490, over incumbent A.
O. Cameron who is com-
pleting his twelfth year as
that Precinct's commission-'
er.
Six voting boxes reported
totals in the balloting toCoun-
ty Clerk Mildred Fulton's of-
fice.
The official canvass of the
election was to be conduct-
ed this week by the Execu-
tive Committee of the Dem-
ocratic Party,
Perkins, along with county
judge-elect, Orvan B. Jones,
will be officially installed
January 4, 1971,
Four more faculty positions
for Rusk Independent School
District were filled Thurs-
day night, when the Board of
Education approved contracts
for Maggie Hughes, Sylvia
Sessions, Manuel Hernandez
and Judy Magruder Mayo.
Mrs. Hughes will serve as
school nurse; Miss Sessions
is to teach social studies at
the Sixth grade level; Mr.
Hernandez will teach physi-
cal science; and Mrs. Mayo
will teach Second grade.
The resignations of Mr. ami
Mrs. Ronnie Freshour were
approved in other discussion
of certified and auxiliary per-
sonnel for the 1970-71 school
year.
Board president Tom Sar-
taln presided at the meeting
attended by members Morris
Hassell, Marie Whitehead,
Gladstone Thompson, Don
Crysup and Dr. James Fish-
er; also superintendent Jack
Martin; principals Doyle
Brooks, M. R. Philbrick and
J. M. Boone; also schoolbus-
lness manager Bill Braswell.
THe Board approved appli-
cations of funds through Ti-
tle Programs I, II and III.
Title I funds in the amount
of $67,735, if approved, would
be spent to give additional
instruction to the "under-
achieverc" in the form of
remedial math and reading
classes, from Kindergarten-
aged pupils through eighth
grade. Title II funds,applied
for in the amount of $1,584
would be used to buy books,
audio and visual materials
for*.the libraries. Title III
application funds were in the
amount of $1,285, on a 50-50
matching basis to be used
for purchase of lab equip-
ment.
Application of $81,000 for
the Adult Basic Education
program, was also approved
at Thursday's meeting.
In other business before the
group, approval was given to
construct a storage room at
the Elementary campus; ar-
rival date of another port-
able building for the Junior
• See SCHOOL, Page 6
Council Votes To Call
Election Tuesday, July 21
WE'RE THE CHAMPSI Julius Whit*, Pran-
ces Stover and Kim Qulnn were the high
point championship cowboy and cowgirls at
last week-end's youth rodeo. Julius is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. White, and a
second dm*, high point, all-arounder. Pran-
ces, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sto-
ver, and Kim, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Qulnn, tied
for the all-around trophy,
-staff photo
First Methodist
Rev. Ben A. Pierce
Tc Assume Pastorship
Action Packed Summer Ahead For Baseball Fans
There is an action packed
summer for the baseball fanfc
of Rusk. The Little League,
Girls' Soft Ball, Pony Lea-
gue, Trl-County League, and
Farm League are in full swing
with games almost every night
of the week.
Last Monday night, the Na-
tional League #1 tied the A-
merican League #2 in an ex-
citing game with a final score
of 10-10, Also in the same
night, the Cards were vic-
torious over .the Yanks! Up-
coming games for the Llt-
mmmi
tie Leaguers will be Thurs-
day, June 11, when the Braves
challenge the Red Sox and
the Indians vs. the National
League ff\. Friday, June 12,
the Yanks vs. the Giants and
the Amer. League #2 chal-
lenges the Cards. The sea.
son's standings for these
teams are the Red Sox, four
wins, one loss; Indians, one
win, three losses; Braves
three wins, one loss; Yanks,
one win, three losses; Amer.
League ffl., three losses, one
tie; National League #1, three
losses, one tie.
In the Girl's Softball the
Grasshoppers beat the Red
Devils with a score of 25-8
• See BASEBALL, Page 6
Mrs. Kate Stovall Honored
On Her Retirement-R.S.H.
Mrs. Kate Stovall of Rusk
was honored by tha social
service department and the
Unit 9 treatment team with
a farewell party recently,
The party was held In the
social Mtvice department
of the Rusk State Hospital,
Mr*, stovall retirad after
21 years service, beginning
in March of IMt, when the
began her work In the awl
al «enrice department.
versity in Nacogdoches where
she was a member of the
Alpha Chi, both as a grad-
uate and an undergraduate
student.
An approximate 78 hospi-
tal personnel came durinit
the morning party to honor
Mrs. Stovall. The hospital
patient % of different unit*
also bid her farewell.,
she wea
lift ef
with a
* a
Moving to Rusk this week
as new pastor of the First
Methodist Church is Rev, Ben
Allen Pierce, Rev. Pierce
succeeds the Rev, Howard
K. Williams who was assign-
ed to the Methodist Church
at Tomball during the recent
session of the Texas Confer-
ence,
Rev, Pierce is coming to
Rusk from the First United
Methodist Church in San Aug-
ustine, Texas. He began his
professional experience as
Associate Pastor of the First
Methodist Church of Bryan
and has served as pastor
of churches in China, Tex-
as; Newton; Wills Point; and
Cameron prior to moving
to San Augustine in 1969,
Rev. Pierce graduated from
high school at Texarkana in
1944 and entered Texarkana
Junior College that same
year. From 1944 to 1947 he
served inWorld War lias Chief
Radio Operator, following his
discharge he attended South-
western University and North
Texas State University,grad-
uatlng from there with a B,
A. Degree in political science
in 1950. He entered Perkins*
School of Theology imrnedl -
ately following his gradua-
tion from North Texa and
graduated with a B. D,
Degree in 1952,
The new pastor of the Rusk
Church was born November
2, 1926 in Texarkana. He and
his wife Patricia have three
daughters, Janet, 17, Kathy,
15 and Frances, 13. Rev.
Pierce enjoys fishing, hunt,
ing and golfing.
Rev, Williams and his family
will laava Rusk Thursday
morning for Tomball. Ha haa
bean pastor of tha Rusk church
for the past three years.
Members of the church will
welcome their new paatoramt
hi family Prlday evening at
a rover* dish dinner In M.
loeihlp Hall at i
te the
Drive Gains
In Past Week
Reporting the progress of
the ChamLer's Industrial
Fund Drive, Chairman George
Dodd estimated the total funds
and pledges at $3,910,00 this
week.
Me said approximately
$2,290,00 in pledges made,
"Some of our people have
signed one year pledges,
others two years and more,"
he explained.
"It's Just a matter of in-
dividual decision, because we
know everyone will want to
do all they can to help our
community grow, lndustrl.
ally,"said Dodd,
Two sites are under option
for purchase on Highway 84
west.
A total of $11,000 is anti.
clpated for the total project
but Initially, the committee
was seeking $3,500,
'The drive looks real good
at this point," was the chair-
man's enthusiastic comment.
Low Rent lHiblic Housing
issue will be decided by a
vote of the people. This de-
cision was made at Tues-
day night's regular city cou-
ncil meeting. All council -
men voted to give the peo-
ple an opportunity to vote
for or against the project.
Election is set for July 21.
If approved, the federally
financed housing would give
the city around 100 new hou-
sing units. The city would
be approved for an addition-
al 100 units if the need was
sufficient.
Total cost of the project
would Pun in the nelghbor-
8'Field
Liquor Vote
Petition
Is Filed
Monday, the Commissioners
Court of Cherokee County was
presented a petition by Mayor
Charles H. Warren of New
Summerfield.
The petition requested the
Court to call an election for
"off-premise" sale of alco-
holic beverages in the Incor-
porated city of New Summer-
field. The petition was signed
by more than the minimum
required number of qualified
voters In Summerfield,
Voting strength of the area
seeking the election Is re-
ported to be 147, Over 40
signatures were on the pe-
tition.
According to County Judge
J. W. Chandler, the court
accepted the request, and has
it "under consideration."
The matter is expected to
be given further considera*
tion at the Court's meeting
next Monday, he advised.
"At the moment. It looks like
they're entitled to the oppor-
tunity of bringing the issue
to a vote," said JudgeChand.
lar.
hood of nearly two million
dollars If all federal Ainds
were utilized.
No local taxes will be us-
ed. The entire project is fi-
nanced by the government.,
Former councilman J, P.|
Acker and attorney Robert
von Doenhoff attended the cou-
ncil meet Tuesday In behalf
of the project.
Mayor E, H. Whitehead told
them that the council had in-
formally agreed to bring the
question before the people
with an election and theques-
tlon was when to call the
election date. After somedls-
cussion, the July 21st date
was selected.
The Mayor then appointed
Mrs. Margaret Beckworth,
Mrs. Kate Stovall and Mrs,
Jewel Coupland as election
officials. The council approv-
ed the appointments with a
5-0 vote.
Paving of several streets
was approved. Simon Tray,
lor was low bidder. Begin,
nlng on Dixon Street at sec-
ond bridge, past railroad
tracks and east to intersec-
tion of Center Street, a dis-
tance of 1655 feet and 21 feet
wide. Total cost $5,213,25,
Council agreed to re.top
Sixth Street, from Lone Oak
to Intersection of Hall Street.
Also a short distance of Hall
Street will be paved from the
Intersection of Sixth Street
to prevent water getting un-
der existing pavement.
City crews will handle this
paving under direction of Ci-
ty Utilities Director J. D.
Norton,
City crews will also re-top
Dixon Street from the inter,
section of Lone Oak, around
the football field to the sec-
ond bridge.
Other business coming be-
fore the council Included;
1,) Approved sending three
members of the local Fire
Department to the annual
Firemen's School at College
Station at a cost of $150 per
man. This reduces fire In-
surance premiums for the
citizens,
2,) Agreed to pay the day
fireman $25 per month ex-
tra to stay on the Job dur-
ing his lunch hour so that
the city police would not be
responsible for driving the
•See COUNCIL, Page 6
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