The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1972 Page: 1 of 14
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SERVING RUSK
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With
Roundabout
The summer "slump ' in
activity around Rusk didn't
come to pass this year.
Roundabout can't remember
when we ve had so much ac-
tivity around our town during
the long, hot summer.
Mrs, Mary Buchanan and
Mrs. Gene Meyers are two
ladies with a "mission" these
days. They are working hard
to prepare for an East Texas
Regional Arts and Crafts
Fair. Over a hundred entries
have already been received.
Plans are to have several
thousand visitors to Rusk dur-
Int the event scheduled Oct.
27,29.
Roundabout and Cherokee
County lost a mighty good
friend last week when Clyde
White died. He was one of
our "solid citizens" and
leaver a host of friends. We'll
miss him.
Many of us can remember
events of 1957 and will re-
call that this was the year
•when many of the TP&L per-
sonnel began to move to Rusk.
Among them were Glen and
Vicki Lindsey. Mrs. E. G.
Tolar, who has maintained
contact with them after their
move to Dallas, told Round-
about that Glen is in serious
condition in the IntensiveCare
Unit. Methodist Hospital, Dal-
las. Some of the Lindsey's
frlend<- will want to write
them. The Tolars, and their
son Glen, like many Ruskites
are bck home from a vaca-
tion. They visited the Paul
Osbornes ( she Is their dau-
ghter, Phyllis) in Fayetts-
ville. North Carolina, toured
Washington, D. C. and stop-
ped over with friends, Lt.
Col. and Mrs. Paul Vander-
hook, in Shallman, Florida.
City Brochure
Delivery Set
For October 1
A new color brochure for
Rusk is expected to be de-
livered by Oct. 1, says Fr-
ank Howell, Chamber of Com-
merce manager.
The printing will include pic-
tures of points of interest in
Rusk. One side of the bro-
chure will appear as a lull
page ad in the upcoming Va-
cation Guide, a publication
of the East Texas Chamber
of Commerce.
Reprints of this page, back-
ed by other photos, have been
ordered through the ETCC.
A total of 25,000 were or-
dered, according to Howell.
"This is another project of
the Tourist Committee, ch-
alrmaned by Henry Guenzel."
said the CC manager,
"Requests for brochures are
received almost daily, and
• See BROCHURES, Pg. 12
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1972
14 PAGES
NUMBER 9
Arts-Crafts Fair Expanded
To Regional Scope This Year
TALK FAIR PLANS-.Rusk clvtc leaders have an at the site
discussion of needs for the Arts and Crafts Fair Oct. 27-29.
Frank Howell, Mrs. Fred Buchanan, J. D. Norton, Mrs. Wal.
ter H. Meyers, E. R. Gregg, h. H. Whitehead and George
Dodd consider such problems as parking, booth locations
and electrical facilities at the National Guard Armory,
STAFF PHOTO
Local Officers Suspect Narcotics Factory
Inventiveness Is supposed to
be the cornerstone of the A -
mertcan way of life but last
Friday morning four young
men carried their inventive-
ness a bit too far and now are
residing tn the County jail
for their efforts.
Rusk City Patrolman Joe D.
Hopper received an anony-
mous phone call last Friday
asking him to check on some
unusual goings on in a brown
one story frame house facing
north on Jordan Street which
is three miles west of Rusk
on Hwy. 84.
Acquiring some help from
Sheriff John Slover and Dep-
uty Sheriff Bob Van Ness
the officers investigated and
discovered a miniature nar-
cotics factory. The officers
made their raid at about 3
a.m. and caught Robert Lynn
Maddox, 22, of Fort Worth
with a marijuana cigarette
at the site.
The three officers said they
had never seen anything like
it before and weren't sure
what they had at first. They
found a three by six foot vat
with four burners under lt.
All the paraphanalia they
found was located In a tin
shed. The mixture was cook-
ing and had a brownish look
to It.
In their search the officers
turned up a bowl containing
marijuana, a bowl of pey-
ote. various pills, a need-
le, chemistry bottles and rub-
ber hoses, and lastly a bot-
tle containing a brownish Jl-
quld known as mescaline.
Possession of mescaline is
illegal as lt Is a narcotic
classified under the heading
hallucinogens which carries
with lt a misdemeanor charge.
Not believing the man to be
alone. Sheriff Slover arrang-
ed for another raid the next
day at noon. Sheriff Slover,
Deputy Van Ness and Tommy
Jones, as well as Jerry Mc-
Rae, County Game Warden,
Jerry Jones, Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control Agent, and Con-
stable Walter Burks conver-
ged on the Illegal site the
next day and arretted two
men. Arrested were Daniel
Wayne Roberts, 22 of Aus-
tin and James Paul Goolsbee,
21 of Piano. Along with Mad-
dox, the two men are believ-
ed to have been extracting
mescaline from peyote cac-
tus and adding the chemical
benzine to get the narcotic.
The men are believed to
have been set up for possi-
bly three weeks before the
raid. The officers aren t sure
If the men had sold any of
their product here In Rusk
or elsewhere. The end pro-
duct of the boiling will bef
a white powder known as mes-
caline which is put In cap-
sules and taken as a pill.
All three men were brought
before Justice of the Peace
Abner Webb and charged with
possession of marijuana and
other unknown drug or drugs.
The bond was set at $5,000
and at press time none of the
men had met the bond andaré
residing in the County jail.
District 14AA
Eagles Begin Workouts August 18
With returning thoughts of
back-to-school come prepar-
ations for the 1972-73 foot-
ball season. Rusk is one of
eight teams In District 14AA
this year.
Coaches are getting ready
this week by attending the
Annual Coaching School In
Houston. They left Monday
and will return Thursday. At-
tending are Bruce Prultt,Da-
vid Hardy and Emmett Bat-
tise. Head Coach Doyle Bro-
oks and Coach Larry Mlnter
were unable to attend the
school.
Coach Brooks has report-
ed that shoes will be issued
and preliminary workouts will
begin on August 8. The first
day for pads will be August
18.
The Rusk Eagles face a ten
game s chedule this year, with
seven of these being District
games.
Schedule for the Eagles is as
follows; September 8, Van,
there; Sept. 15, Grand Sa.
line, there; Sept. 22. Crock-
ett, here; Sept, 29, open; Oct.
6, Westwood, hére; Oct, 13,
West Rusk, there; Oct. 20,
Hallsville here; Oct. 27, Mal-
akoff, there; Nov. 3, White-
house, here; Nov. 10, Brown-
sboro, there; and Nov. 17,
Lindale, here.
Teams in District 14AA are
Westwood, West Rusk, Halls-
ville, Malakoff, Whitehouse,
Brownsboro, Lindale and
Rusk.
Court Expects To Approve
Redistricting This Month
MALL BUSINESS--Cherokee County Star.
Iff John Slower is shown with the narcotles
haul from last Friday. The Sheriff Is shown
with • bowl of peyote, bowl of marijuana
pills, a" needle, chemistry cooking devices
and a brown bottle filled with mescaline 11.
quid. Three men have been arrested on the
narcotics possession. STAPF PHOTO
A plan for redistricting
Cherokee County, at least by
commissioner precincts, is
expected to be approved this
month.
"We have discussed enough
different plans that we feel
we will be able to pull these
together Into a modified plan
acceptable to everyone," said
County Judge Orvan B.Jones.
"Commissioner Bertis Wat-
son should be sufficiently re-
covered to attend a meeting
this month and we intend to
make a sincere effort to ac -
complish a plan for redis-
tricting, at least by com-
missioner precincts," he
said.
Redistricting will ultimately
Involve changes in the justice
of the peace precincts and
voting precincts.
Action of the Supreme Court
more than two years ago pre-
cipitated the change in coun-
ty government throughout the
U. S.
"This was not something we
wanted to do, and we have no
deadline. But lt must be done
and we hope to mato a step
in that direction this month,'
said Judge Jones,
"We are sincerely trying
with a give and take attitude.
No plan is going to be totally
pleasing to everybody, but we
feel that we can effect a sa-
tisfying compromise,' the
county official stated.
Public notice will be given
the regular Commissioners
Court meeting to approve a
redistricting plan. The
Court's next regularly sched-
uled meeting is Aug. 14.
County Airport*
Future Needs
To Be Evaluated
Suggested priorities for Im-
provements to the County Air-
port are expected this month
from W. O. Karpenko, chief
engineer for the Texas Aero-
nautics Commlsion, Austin.
A survey of present facili-
ties and a proposal for fu-
ture needs at the airport Is
being compiled by the engin-
eer following a meeting with
the Commissioners Court át
the Airport Friday.
'The establishment of pri-
orities must be made in co-
operation with the County Air-
port Committee, the East
• bee AIRPORT, Page u
Rusk's 1972 Indian Summer
Festival Is predicted to be
the biggest In the event's his-
tory by Chamber of Com-
merce officials who plan to
stage a Regional Arts and
Crafts Fair Oct. 27-29.
The term, "Regional Fair,"
is new to this year's acti-
vity Mrs. Walter H. Mey-
ers, coordinator, says,
"Heretofore we have held a
local arts and crafts fair as
our part of the countywide
Indian Summer Festival. We
are now going to develop this
fair into an areawlde event.
Everyone Is familiar with the
local fair and the state fair.
Regional fairs, still a rela-
tively new idea, offer a com-
promise in size between the
two. '
Expected growth of the fall
attraction Is based on the
number of requests for space
by exhibitors received to date.
"In response to invitations
by mail, we have already had
more than 50 replies asking
for applications for the res-
ervation of space, ' says Mrs.
Meyers.
The Fair will be held for the
fifth consecutive time in the
building previously used as
the National Guard Armory,
"Obviously our building will
not accomodate all the exhib-
itors this year, so we plan
to erect tents on the sur-
rounding grounds, ' explain-
ed the coordinator.
The promotion of a fair of
such magnitude has necessi-
tated some new approaches.
One of these was the forma-
tion of an advisory board.
Persons who are actively In-
volved with other local fairs
have been asked to serve.
The board Includes Phil Da-
vis, chief of community re-
lations, Texas Tourist De-
velopment Agency in Aus-
tin; Howard Rosser, mana-
ger of the Department of
Tourism, East Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce in Long-
vtew; .Mrs. Russ Tickner of
Conroe; A. C. Gentry of Ty-
ler; Reese Kennedy ofNacog-
doches; Mrs. Ralph Summers
of Pasadena, formerly of
Rusk; and Ancel Nunn of
Palestine.
Members of the advisory
board will meet with the lo-
cal fair board Aug. 10 at the
New Southern Motor Hotel.
Mrs. Fred Buchanan is
chairman of the 1972 Arts and
Crafts Fair. Mrs. Paul Cox
Is co-chairman.
"A meeting of the two boards
will, hopefully, produce some
more new Ideas and thinking
for the success of our fair,"
says Mrs, Buchanan.
"In the next few weeks we
will finalize plans for dif-
ferent kinds of publicity in-
cluding brochures, posters,
and utilization of all news
media," she said.
Details are being worked
out with the city adminis-
trators and officials of the
Lions Club to allow visitors
with camper trailors to use
some of the parking area at
the baseball park.
"We are negotiating with
several groups for musical
entertainment during the fair
and we hope to offer some
dramatics during that week,
end,' added the chairman.
The committee is also con-
cerned with matters of park -
Ing, finances, booth construc-
tion and the erection of
streamer signs across the
highways.
i "We have every reason to
feel quite optimistic. The ear-
ly response Indicates enthu-
siasm by exhibitors and with
the aid of publicity we think
we can attract'thOusands of
persons," said Mrs. Buch-
anan.
The fair was changed from
a previously scheduled Nov-
ember date to Oct. 27-29 to
prevent conflict with five oth -
er area fairs.
• See ARTS t CRAFTS, Pg. 12
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Or. James T. Rountree, right, la a new member of the staff
at Rusk State Hospital. He began duties Tuesday, Dr. Felix
Peebles clinical director at RSH, pictured left, expressed
pleasure to have Dr. Rountree and Dr. Jones join the staff
here. STAFF PHOTO
Dr. Frank Norrls Jones of Alto has Joined the staff at Ruek
State Hospital. Addition of Dr. Jones increases rhe dental
clinic at Rusk State Hospital to three. Dr. Sexton Broussard
and Dr. Charle^ Derrick have been here for a number of years.
STAFF PHOTO
Two New Doctors Join
State Hospital Staff
Two men have been added
to the medical staff at Rusk
State Hospital, according to
Dr. LexNelll, superintendent.
They are Dr. James T. Roun-
tree of Big Spring and Dr.
Frank Norrls Jones of Alto.
Dr. Rountree will serve in
the medical section. Dr. Jones
works In the Dental Clinic
of the Institution.
A veteran of state service,
Dr. Rountree has been as-
sociated with Mental Health
and Mental Retardation for
nine years. He was on the
staff of Big Spring State Hos-
pital before transferring to
RSH. He has served on the
medical staffs at Austin and
Kerrvllle Institutions. He was
medical director at the San
Angelo Center at Carlsbad,
Texas.
A native of Ea>=t Texas, Dr\
Rountree received his BS de-
gree at SMU and his MD at
Baylor Medical at Houston.
He was born at Carthage.
He Is married and the fa-
ther of three children j Bt.
linda, age 14; Mike, age 13;
and Brenda, age 8. The fam-
ily are member'- of the First
Christian Church.
Dr. Jones is well known in
this section of Cherokee
County. He has been a den-
tist in Alto for nearly five
years, and has been active
in civic affairs.
He served the Alto Lions
Club as president last year.
Dr. Jones "^ays he will con-
tinue to practice denistry In
Alto in the evenings.
He received hi4 degree from
the University of Missouri
School of Dentistry.
An oral surgeon, he com-
pleted his intern and resi-
dent training at the Univer-
sity of Nebraska Medical Col.
lege at Omaha, Nebraska.
Before coming to Cherokee
County, Dr. Jones practiced
dentistry in Odessa 11 years.
He Is married and father of
two sons: Hud, age seven;
and Ricky, age 20. who Is in
the U. S, Naval Academy.
The family are members
of the Church of Christ in
Rusk,
• See RSH, Page 12
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