The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1986 Page: 1 of 24
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Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper—Established As The Cherokee Sentinel, February 27, 1850
Vol. 136, No. 49
Thursday, January 16,1986 — Rusk, Texas 75785
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Service Set
For PTA
. A Child Safety Program is plan-
.ned for the Monday evening Rusk
P-TA program Parents and
children can visit the Primary
campus anytime during the appoin-
ted hours of 7 to 9 p.m., according to
P TA President Jack White
White says there will be several
display booths for information on
child safety Rusk Police Chief
Randy Hatch will have a finger
printing booth to take and register
finger prints of young children The
McGruff dolls, recently donated by
the Lions Club, will be displayed
Another booth will have Helping
Hand decals for interested persons
to pick up
Parents are encouraged to attend
and bring their children While
there, they are asked to register for
their child's room
Banquet Is Slated
By Rusk Chamber Thursday
Ruskites
To Observe
Arbor Day
An Arbor Day Pragram, spoil
sored by the Rusk Garden Club is
set for 10 a m Friday at the Rusk
Footbridge Park A short
program will precede a tree plan
ting
All interested persons are in-
vited to attend as this is the first
city-wide activity to start the
Texas Sesquicentenmal year in
Rusk
Pecan and pine seedlings will be
distributed by Texas Forest Ser
vice
The program will include the
invocation and benediction by the
Rev Wayne Clute. pastor of the
Husk First Christian Church, a
song "Texas Our Texas'' by Mrs
Thelma Clute. a poem entitled
"Trees" given by Mrs Mildred
Holcomb. and a short message by
Rusk Mayor James Long
Bill Hose of the Texas Forest
Service will then make several
comments 111 connection with Ar-
bor Day
We 're Going To Have A Time!
Making plans for the annual Rusk Chamber of Commerce banquet set for Thursday evening are these officers
for the 1986 chamber year. From left are Ken Smith, president-elect: Jean Bryant, incoming president; and
Jack White, vice-president. MHMR Board Chairman Coke Mills is to speak. A Citizen of the Year, as well as
other honorees. will be announced during the evening's festivities. A reception begins at 6:30 p.m. and dinner
is set for " p.m. Tickets can be purchased from chamber directors or at the door. -staff photo
City Seeks Voter Opinions
About Home Rule on April Ballot
Rusk City Council members will
ask local voters to consider ap-
proval of home rule type city-
government at the April 5 election
Mayor James Long reported at
the Tuesday evening council
meeting that the city is now eligible
to make a change from general rule
government to home rule city
government
Under the general law type of city
government, the city can pass and
uphold only laws that are on the
books for the State of Texas.
However, with home rule gover-
nment. the city is allowed to pass
any law that is not in conflict and
w ill not violate a state law
Cities with population of 5.016 or
more can change to the home rule
type of government. Long reported
at the meeting
"We now have it'" City Manager
Doug Driggers said He said there
are sufficient water meter connec
tions and electric meters to justify
at least a population of 5.150 per-
sons living within the city limits
The national average population is
3 3 persons per household, he said.
"If we go home rule, we can an-
nex more property to the city."
Mayor Long said "We have been
talking about it and Doug is ready
to begin work on it," Long said
"We have been providing city
services to a lot of people." Coun-
cilman Mike Crysup said in
reference to those people living out
side the city limits who get city sei
vices
Driggers said the Mount Hope
area has been annexed and a group
brought in a petition Tuesday that
asked for water service out there
Paper work for the change will be
presented at the Feb 11 council
meeting. Driggers said He noted
the council will conduct a couple of
public hearings and then put it on
the city ballot By adding the issue
to the regular election ballot in-
stead of calling a separate election,
the citv will save some $8 oou t<>
$10.000. Driggers said. "To do this,
we have to get to work on it im-
mediately." he said.
In another matter, the council
approved the purchase of a used
dump truck for $4.975 and increased
expenditures for well repairs from
$9.800 to $15.391
The dump truck purchase will
come from Revenue Sharing Fun-
ds Financing of the additional ex-
penditures on the well renovation
will come from a certificate of
deposit designated for the water
fund
Driggers said bids w ill be opened
on Thursday for the sale of the old
furniture store building on the
square A meeting will be called
next week to consider acceptance of
a bid for the sale. Driggers said
Attending the meeting were
Mayor Long. Driggers, Councilmen
Edd Stover. Walter Session. Crysup
and Councilwoman Janie Scallon.
City Secretary Dolores Bongard and
PW Director Orville Johnson
Rusk Citizens will gather Thur-
sday evening at the Rusk Junior
High School Cafeteria for the 45th
annual Rusk Chamber of Commer-
ce Banquet. Coke Mills, chairman
of the Texas Mental Health. Mental
Retardation Board will be speaker
for the 7 p.m. banquet. A reception
honoring Mills at 6:30 p.m. will
precede the banquet. The chamber
banquet program w ill be broadcast
live over the facilities of Radio
KTLU-AM. 1580
Highlighting the banquet ac-
tivities w ill be naming of the Citizen
of the Year Award Virginia Pen-
ney. the 1984 recipient, will make
the presentation.
The Citizen of the Year award has
been presented to outstanding Rusk
citizens since the first presentation
in 1966 to the late Raymond Cooper.
Others receiving the award have
been the Rev Dr. Jewel McClure.
Ralph Travis, the late Dr. W E
Gabbert, Johnnie McKay, the late
Gene Meyers. Mary Buchanan. Joe
Terrell. Emmett and Marie
Whitehead, Frank and Sarah Sum-
mers. George Dodd. Joe Ray
Ocker. Zula Pearson. Will Cumbee.
Tony Murray. Flossie and Charlie
Nixson and then last year. Mrs
Penney.
The Rev. Steve Plunkett. pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church
will serve as master of ceremonies,
introduce guests and offer the in-
vocation Outgoing Chamber
President Larry Long will extend
a welcome to those attending Mills
w ill bi' introduced by Bill Holland
Tommy Corley will sing the "Lord's
Prayer" as the benediction for the
program. Dinner music will he
presented by Laura Smith
Taking over the reins of office
from outgoing President Long will
be Chamber President Jean
Bryant Both will gi\e their
remarks during the evenings
festivities
Assisting Mrs Bryant with
leadership positions for the year
will be Ken Smith, president-elect.
Jack White, vice-president; Lester
Hughes, treasurer; Long, past
president, and George Dodd and
Tony Murray. Executive directors
New directors elected last tall in-
clude Manuel Aguilar. James
Cromwell. Tomniie Franks. County
Judge Robert McN'att. Glenn
Miller. Murray. Mrs Summers
and White They will join other
board directors Frank Bow den.
Mrs Bryant. Stanley Chapman.
Dodd. Hughes. Richard Johnson.
Dr. Jerry Ocker. Joe Rozelle. Tom
Ball. St phanic Caveness. Charles
Harwell. Charles Hassell. Smith.
Glen Stanley. Terrell slid Bobby
Tosh Outgoing directors arc
Wayne Guinn. Long. Joe Ray Ocker.
Marie Whitehead. Jimmy Thom-
pson Mike Sullivan. Doyle
Rasberry and Harold Porter
The turkey and dressing dinner
with all the trimmings will be
catered by the Jr lliuh Cafetería
Workers
Staff Member Is Named
To Fill Vacancy on R1SD Faculty
Michelle Murray of Rusk was
employed Monday evening by the
Rusk ÍSD Board to fill a teaching
vacancy at the elementary school
In other matters, the board adop-
ted the Discipline Management
Coming .Next Week!
A Report of the Rusk Volunteer
Fire Department's annual
banquet and officer
installation.
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Round Town
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Twice Monthly Not Enough
Commissioners Court Votes To Meet Each Monday
What's the most important thing
you put on EVERY day1 Your
shoes? Your boots0 Well they
help, that's for sure But the answer
1 want you to respond with is. "A
Smile!"
And today mine got
misplaced...for a little bit. Notice 1
didn't say "lost." I never lose
anything. I just misplace things!
That's a good cop-out, isn't it?
Back to the smile. I took it off to
brush my teeth. Now, I like to brush
my teeth, but it's hard to do while
wearing a smile! So. there I
was...brushing away, smile
removed, and totally alone in my
house. (Himself had already gone
to the work place!)
And it happened. Fear froze
toothpaste all over my teeth. The
adjoining bath's commode sud-
denly flushed. There just couldn't
be any one else in the domoclle but
me! Bravery prevailed. With no
thought of what to do, I simply
ruahed Instinctively toward the
source of the sound.
Maybe I was hearing things.
There was no evidence of a real, or
invisible, presence with me Hut a
closer ux«*'tdnMinn of the floor
revealed water all around "that
spot So the mop-up-procedure
was launched Once the linoleum
was good and dry. I deliberately
pulled the handle of "it" down and
expected to see more water engulf
my presence
Not so! When in such a quandary,
the logical mind takes over. In split
seconds. I remembered house
guests. The day before. Little
people's bath-time. Water in tub
tumbles every where when kids play
ducks! Right?
It was really no problem At least
no intruders, no emergency call to
the plumber After that it was easy
to finish the teeth, find my snnle
and get the day moving.
But now that the day is over, I
find my smile is not stay ing in place
too well. There is nobody at my
house to spill the water! They went
home. Guess you'd call it a feeling
of happv-kind-of sad-glad.
Hang on to YOL'R smile' 1986 has
barely started! We can expect some
of those frozen frowns ol fear but
it's the smile that will serve us hest
in the new year!
Until next week? -nm
Cherokee County Commissioners
will meet each Monday at 10 a m
Action to increase the regular
meeting dates from the second and
fourth Mondays of each month to
every week was approved Monday
morning by an unanimous vote of
the commissioners court
Commissioners met in executive
session to hear a report from a jail
site commission, composed of
Commissioner Robert Underwood.
Precinct 1. Sheriff Allen Morton,
John Biggs and Gary Adamson of
the Environment Concept lnc ar-
chitectural firm No action was
taken concerning the jail site
following the executive session
In other matters coming before
the commissioners, a resolution
allowing for exchange of law enfor-
cement officers for undercover in-
vestigations with other law enfor-
cement agencies was approved.
The establishment of a procedure
for payment of salaries, health in-
surance and etc. to employees who
are collecting workman compen-
sation insurance was postponed un-
til after a check is made to deter-
mine what other counties are doing
in similar circumstances
A county employee is currently
turning her workman compensation
payment back into the county
general fund She is then issued a
regular payroll check with
retirement and insurance paid She
fell in the courthouse in October and
is currently recovering from a
broken ankle
Commissioners agreed to m-
•See COUNTY page 12
Candidates Keep Filing
For Positions on Primary Ballot
Cherokee candidates who have
filed with John Robert Adamson.
Cherokee County Democratic
Chairman, since Jan T include in-
cumbent Commissioner Toby Sar-
tain. Precinct 2; Incumbent Chris
Parsons. Constable. Precinct 2; H
C Si Williams, candidate for
Justice of the Peace. Precinct 2.
Incumbent Justice of the Peace
Buddy Lacy. Precinct 3. Incumbent
Justice of the Peace Bobby
Caveness. Precinct 4
Those who filed last week for
places on the ballot are Incumbents
County Judge Robert McN'att.
County Clerk Fairy Upshaw.
District Clerk Mavis Parn 't. Coun-
ty Treasurer Diann Norton, Com
missioner. Precinct 4 Frank Ross
and Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace
J P. Acker III Other candidates
asking for places on the ballot List
week were Alton J Hicks, can-
didate for Commissioner. Precinct
2. Archie Cook, candidate for
Justice of the Peace. Precinct 1.
Patricia Mathis. candidate for
Justice of the Peace. Precinct 1
Designating themselves as cam-
paign treasurers with Fairy Up-
shaw. County Clerk, are Mrs Up-
shaw, Mrs Parrott, Mrs Norton,
Sartain. Ross. Acker, Lacy.
Caveness. Cook, Rix and Williams
Other filing campaign treasurers
include Mrs Mathis designating
Roger Mathis as treasurer. Nell
McN'att for Judge McN'att; Norma
Parsons for Constable Parsons,
and Alton Hicks has designated
Juanita Hicks for his campaign
treasurer
Peace Justice Precinct 2 James
Hardin has named Hetty Hardin as
his campaign treasurer
Program for the district Copies ol
the program will be given to each
parent at the beginning of the 1986
87 school year Parents will also get
a copy of their child's campus han-
dbook. The discipline management
information will have a sheet for
the signature of the parent This
form will be returned to the school
Discipline Management has been
discussed at several board
meetings held during the past few
months The adopted program musl
be submitted to the state agency by-
Jan 31. according to School
Superintendent Tony Murray.
Campus discipline person for
each of the four Rusk campuses will-
be the principal. Authority of the
discipline persons was outlined
The 27-page document outlines
rights and responsibilities of
students, parents, administrators
and teachers Parent-teacher con-
ferences are addressed as well as
parent training workshops,
scholastic penalties and student
code of conduct including school
jurisdiction, dress code, vandalism
and damage to school property,
hazing and tobacco use.
drug alcohol use, weapons,
assaults, disruption of classes and
lawful assembly, publications of
written materials secret societies
and miscellaneous items
General guidelines for addressing
discipline penalties are discussed in
the document as well as discipline
management techniques and
categories of offenses How to
determine incorrigible conduct is
outlined and home based in-
struction. unexcused absences and
student handbooks are discussed
The document goes on to outline
discipline management training,
alternative education programs
teacher removals and recommen-
dations, temporary removals for
other reasons and removal to alter-
native education programs and ex
plusion
Also included in the document are
discussions of interrogations and
searches, police questioning of
students, arrested students,
physical restraint, corporal
punishment and in-school suspen-
sion
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