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Established Feb. 27, 1850 as the Cherokee Sentinel — Texas' Oldest, Continuously Published Weekly Newspaper
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Vol. 141 No. 17-16 Pages
Thursday, June 1, 1989
Rusk, Texas 75785 25cents
RHS graduation is Friday
LEADING THE Rusk High School graduating class will be, from
left, Jay Williams, valedictorian; Karl McArthur, salutatorian
and Brian Porter, third ranking senior. The class will graduate
at 8 p.m. Friday at Eagle Stadium. -staff photo
Approximately 83 Rusk High
School seniors will participate in
graduation exercises at 8 p.m.
Friday, June 2, at Eagle Stadium.
Leading the graduates will be
Valedictorian Jay Michael
Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Williams; Salutatorian Karl Edward
McArthur, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roland McArthur; and third
ranking senior Phillip Brian Porter,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Porter.
Williams has a grade average of
97.72 and has GPA score of 6.25 of
6.00. He is president of the Key Club
and a member of the student coun-
cil. He played baseball for four
years, was Junior Rotarían, class
officer, class favorite, participated
in the school choir one year, is a
member of the National Honor
See Advertisers' salute to seniors beginning p. 7
Society for two years and was
named sophomore of the year by
the Kiwanis Club. He is receiving
the State of Tefcas Valedictorian
Scholarship and the Cherokee
County Bar Association's scholar-
ship.
McArthur has a grade average of
97.33 and a GPA score of 6.25 of 6.00.
He is a member of the football
team, student council, Key Club,
Tennis Club, National Honor
Society, Junior Rotarian, Spanish
Club, UIL Science scholar, a mem-
ber of the golf team and basketball
team. He plans to study civil
engineering at the University of
Texas, where he is receiving an
engineering scholarship.
Porter has a grade average of
96.02 and has a GPA score of 6.25 of
6.00. He serves as student council
president, vice-president of the Key
Club, a member of the Tennis
Team, Yearbook photographer and
business manager, junior class
president, Junior Rotarian and
National Honor Society. He plans a
One bill lives, one dies
affecting county budget
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MAYDELLE HIGH School seniors will receive their diplomas in graduation exercises at 7 p.m. Friday
at the school gymnasium. In front from left are Sherry Goff George, Cinda Lawson, Jennifer Aletky,
Betty Brown, Lisha Munsinger and Paula Ford. In back from left are Rusty Lusk, Dewayne Bolden,
Jason Webber, Billy Shockley, Steven Height and Mica Balcom. Miss Aletky is valedictorian and Miss
Lawson, salutatorian. staff photo
Two bills affecting Cherokee
County were acted upon in the
closing days of the 71st session of
the Texas Legislature.
In a last minute shuffle, HB 157
was substituted for SB 1379 which
mandates 12 additional district
courts in Texas. Cherokee/Ander-
son will share one of these new
courts. On signature of Gov. Bill
Clements, the bill becomes law.
"I don't know how we can absorb
this extra cost. Our present district
court is budgeted in excess of
$131,000. Whatever the cost, we will
have tp pay our share with Ander-
son County," said Cherokee County
Judge Emmett H. Whitehead.
"All of this was done without con-
sulting my office or any of the
Commissioners," he said.
"The question may well become
one of whether or not we can afford
two district courts and a county
court-at-law, too," he said. "We
must pay for mandated services
such as the county jail, solid waste
Maydelle plans graduation, awards Friday
Maydelle ISD held its annual kin-
dergarten graduation and awards
night Friday evening. The kin-
dergarten each quoted a different
nursery rhyme and all sang songs
that the class had learned this
year.
Following this, academic awards
were given to the students with the
highest A average in each subject.
Citizenship, elementary A honor
roll, perfect attendance, Texas
Reader's Club awards were also
given. Special awards were given to
Randy Martin, as UIL science
sponsor and W. M. Edwards,
resigning superintendent, in ap-
preciation of his years as ad-
ministrator of MISD and Doris Min-
ton, retiring teacher, with 38 years
experience.
Awards with trophies included
Jennifer Aletky, Government and
Economics, Journalism, English
III, Citizenship and Highest High
School Average; Laura Grantham,
World History, Typing and Accoun-
ting; Albert Croft, Biology and
Chemistry; Cody Roach, C.L.A. I
and Star Greenhand Award; Tina
Acker, C.L.A. II, Consumer and
Family Economics; Betty Brown,
C.L.A III and Journalism; Sherry
George Goff, C.L.A. Ill and C.L.A.
IV; Mica Balcom, Fundamentals of
Math; Jennifer Locke, Consumer
Math; Jason Webber, Consumer
Math.
Danny Wilbanks, Star Chapter
Farmer; Melissa Hassell, Child
Development II; Bruce Pittman,
Life Management Skills; Holly
Watson, Child Development I.
Jr. High awards include Shawn
Straney, American History - 8,
Science, Language Arts, Reading,
Math, Highest Jr. High Average;
Chris Dover, Social Studies - 6,
Language Arts, Science and Art;
Justin Rhodes, Texas History - 7,
and Science; Missy Minches,
Language Arts 7, Computer
Literacy and Math; Farrah
George, Health and Art 6; Jennifer
Stewart, Elementary Honor Roll;
Tracy Locke, Elementary Citizen-
ship Award; Jennifer Bingham, Jr.
High Citizenship Award; Tonya
Acker, Highest Elementary
Average.
Receiving certificates were Stacy
Purcell, Most Improved in TEAMS
tutorial; Citizenship Nominees,
Scott Lewis, Farrah George, Lisa
Wolf, Billie Dowling, Ronnie
George, Chris Dover, Jenny
Graham, Sabrina Wilbanks, Robbie
Wilburn, Patty Goff, Shawn
Straney, Jackie Russell, Danny
Wilbanks, John Rhodes, Bruce Pit-
tman, Albert Croft, Tina Acker,
Bobby Croft, Forest Wells, Malisa
Musick and Willie Edwards.
Highest Average, first grade,
Miranda Williams; second grade,
Bryan Stewart; third grade, Jen-
nifer Stewart; fourth grade, Tonya
Acker and fifth grade, Willie Ed-
wards.
Perfect attendance includes
Rusty Lusk, Tina Acker, Cody
Roach, Wayne Goff, Bill Acker,
Sabrina Wilbanks, Chris George,
Tonya Acker, Malisa Musick, Tony
Wilburn, Kari King and Marcia
Wink.
Kindergarten graduates were
Jesse Funkenbush, Joey Funken-
bush, Kari King, Tammy Lopez,
David Parker III, Chad Roberts,
Brandi Stewart and Forest Wells.
Texas Reader's Club awards also
were given to students in grades K-5
who qualified for the honor.
UIL certificates were given to
participants and winners in district,
regional or state compititions.
and increased costs of indigent
health care for an estimated ad-
ditional $350,000."
Another bill, HB 3189 killed in the
Senate, was sponsored by Rep. Dick
Swift. It mandated Cherokee Coun-
ty to increase the salary of Court at
Law Judge LeRue Dixon from
$40,921 to $58,832-a 43 percent hike.
Learning of Swift's action May 23
concerning the salary hike bill for
Dixon, the County Commissioners
Court held an emergency meeting
the following day. Judge Dixon was
present for the session and prefaced
a prepared statement with these
comments.
"Several of my friends had
suggested to me that since I had
failed twice to get a salary increase
approved by you, that perhaps I
could get some help from Austin,"
Dixon stated. "I have not seen the
bill, I do not even know its number,
but if I could vote with you, I would
certainly vote for your resolution to
kill the bill."
Members of the court expressed
shock and amazement that the set-
ting of his salary would even be
considered, much less mandated, at
the state level. "We just don't have
representation at Austin," Com
missioner E.R. (Bob) Gregg said
with anger.
Dixon says when he took office he
was lead to believe that his salary
would be set like any other court at
law judge in adjoining counties.
In answer to that County Judge
Emmett Whitehead reported to the
court that when the court was
created only $50,000 was budgeted
for a court-at-law..the county
budget was strained financially.
Since that time the county judge's
office has taken on a mandated In-
digent Health Care program. By
employing a 20-hour-a-week worker
at $5 per hour to work the program,
the judge's office has saved tax-
payers some $50,000. Also the coun-
ty judge supervises the Emergency
Management program. The county
recently secured $250,000 through a
federally funded disaster program.
•See STATE MANDATES, pg. 2
Pate family rejoices, Nikki is home
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By: SUSAN PATE
Nikki is home! For two weeks
anyway. She graced the Fair on the
Square with her presence late
Saturday afternoon. I was working
in my booth around 5:30 when I
heard, "Aunt Sue Sue!" when I tur-
ned to see, there little Nikki was,
holding her mother's hand, hob-
bling down the sidewalk on the Court
House Square! Something like a
huge bubble welled up inside my
chest, and for a few minutes, I
couldnt't speak because of the
overwhelming emotion I felt. She
walked with help, very slowly, but
she was so glad to see the people she
loves, and to see home for the first
time in over six weeks. What a thrill
to see that precious red ponytail
bobbing once again!
Nikki, as stated last week, un-
derwent surgery for a live skin
graft. This procedure involved
grafting her left elbow to her
stomach. Also, during this surgery,
the metal appliances that contained
the pins and other metal apparatus
holding the bones of her left leg and
foot in place were removed. Nikki
was then put in a body cast from the
top of her left shoulder down to her
hips. Her left leg and foot were then
placed in a rigid, hard cast from her
lower thigh on down. The body cast
comes under Nikki's right armpit,
allowing her use of her right arm.
The hard leg cast allows her to put
weight on her left leg without har-
ming the bones, and also provides a
little more stability for her, since
her balance is thrown off due to the
loss of her left big toe, and the fun
ction of her second toe. However,
she has had several bad tumbles
and falls in her effort to try to be in-
dependent.
June 15, Nikki is scheduled to un-
dego her ninth surgery. Her body
cast will {be removed, and the live
graft will be viewed and evaluated.
If successful, her arm will then be
cut away from her stomach'leaving
skin on the arm, and both sites will
bte closed. At that time, future steps
will be lined out and planned.
Nothing is taken for granted. Every
step is 'touch and go' from here on.
On the way to the Fair on the
Square, after Nikki had found out
that she was going to get to go, and
that her brother Joey was there, she
was so excited. She exclaimed, "I
love people!." Sunday morning, she
and her uncle Jan joined in together
for a song for the congregation. One
of Nikki's very favorite songs is
"Little David." She had us sing it to
her in the emergency room the eve
of the accident; she had uncle Jan
sing it while in the hospital in Tyler.
He had to sing it over the phone
several times, and again in the
Scottish-Rite Hospital's isolation
room. So it came as no surprise that
she would want to sing it her first
time back in church. It so closely
describes Nikki's own quest for
recovery, and goes like this: " 'The
battle's not mine,' saith little
David. 'Lord, it's Thine, I'm in
Your favor, I've given it all to you, I
knew not what to do but I'm so glad
you let me see, You're really all
that I need, for the battle's not
mine, I give it to You. Lord it's
Thine!'"
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Nikki—at home with her hero/brother, joey
career in Engineering and Science
and will attend the United States
Military Academy at West Point.
Other students graduating with
honors are Tonya Willingham
Christine Harrison, Celeste Zehren
and Jane Lee Scallon.
Members of the National Honor
Society are Jennifer Leigh Curtis,
Miss Harrison, McArthur, Neilician
LaNae Peters, Porter, Lisa Gail
Sanders, Miss Scallon, Williams,
Miss Willingham, Ronny Gregg
Wofford and Miss Zehren.
Swimming Pool
opening slated
The Rusk Lions Club Swimming
Pool will open for the summer at 1
p.m. Saturday. The pool is
scheduled to be open from 1 to 8
p.m. daily except Wednesdays and
Sundays when the pool closes at 5
p.m.
Admission is $1.50. Season passes
are $30 for families and $5 for each
child.
Swimming lessons begin June 12.
Dr. Bergin slated
as speaker for
Wells graduation
Dr. Victoria Bergin, Deputy
Commissioner for Curriculum and
Program Development, for the
Texas Education Agency will be the
Commencement speaker for the
Wells High School Graduation on
Friday, June 2.
The program will start at 8 p.m.
in the Wells School Auditorium.
Eight grade Promotion Exercises
are scheduled for Thursday, June 1
at 7 p.m. in the Welis School
Auditorium.
June 1 is the last day of school in
Wells. Students will have an early
dismissal time.
Public hearing
set by Trustees
of Maydelle ISD
Trustees of the Maydelle ISD will
conduct a public hearing at 6 p.m.
Tuesday at the Maydelle School
Gym. The hearing is being held
concerning the proposed detach-
ment of the Anderson County por-
tion of the school district, which
would then be annexed to the
Slocum ISD. A similar hearing will
be held June 5 at Slocum.
A petition signed by a majority of
the registered voters, living in the
Anderson County portion of the
district, has been presented to both
Maydelle and Slocum school boar-
ds.
The Maydelle school board will
meet following the public hearing.
Alumni and
ex-student assn.
slates reunion
The Booker T. Washington Alum-
ni and Ex-Student Assn. of Alto will
celebrate its third school reunion
June 16,17, and 18.
A schedule of events includes
Friday night, 7 p.m. Chit Chat;
Saturday, 7 a.m. breakfast, 1 p.m.
picnic at Martin and Skinner's
Place, 7:30 p.m. banquet; Sunday
11 a.m. worship services.
Former students are asked to
register now by calling 409-858-4527,
858-4820 or 858-4692.
Jr. High graduation set
Graduation exercises will be held
at 6:30 p.m.. Friday. June 2 for the
Eighth Grade Class of Alto Junior
High. Rev. Ben Bounds will be
featured speaker
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