Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 178, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 16, 2016 Page: 3 of 18
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City
Oct. 2016
Oct. 2015
2016 Year-to-date 2015 Year-to-date
$24,842
$26,244
$242,106
$271,785
$9,786
$10,036
$107,475
$101,073
$486,729
$542,989
$5,397,385
$5,552,600
RUSK CO.
tun-. A museum is preferable,
Customers, he wrote, were
Longview saw its rebate
just north of the four-way stop
percent for the year. Athens
in October with its $448,482.
Franklin said in Tyler, ETMC
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• Family Medicine
Convenient Access
• Accepting NEW Patients
fell
• Mon -Fri | 8am-5pm
• Pay bills and more
Outpatient Department of CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital
Rusk County Sales Tax Figures for October 2016
$432,275
$486,872
$4,631,954
$4,933,628
HENDER80N
$19,452
$19,554
$230,806
$242,560
ratum
$374
$283
$3,044
$3,634
Reklaw
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Trinity Clinic - Henderson are committed to building your medical
home and a lifelong partnership to ensure you have convenient access
to quality medical care that meets your needs.
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Providers
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For the year, Carthage has seen
its tax rebates decline 14.7 per-
cent.
compared to Kilgore and Hen-
derson.
windows along each side; elec-
tricity has been disconnected
for years, Clifford said.
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For her part, Clifford wants
to give the equipment away. She
over.
Joe Compton wrote a weekly
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1170 CR 3138 E., Mt. Enterprise, Tx (Located in Minden)
For info call 903-898-2361
CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic - Henderson
511 N. High | Henderson | TX 75652
903.657.7583
CHRISTUS®
TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES
Health System
in the home, such as a
parent, would require her own
membership.)
Jonathan Hosch, DPM* Chelsi Jackson, MD
Lori Wyatt, MD
average, which had jumped as
much as 162 points in the morn-
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Kenneth Stegall, PA Charles Perricone, MD
Meredith Hay, MD Deborah Franks, FNP-C
one time expressed interest in
taking on the project.
But that’s not the case today;
no one has the room required
May 1,1919, Clifford said. to properly display the vintage
According to Clifford, Comp- equipment, Clifford said.
At the very least, Clifford has
CELEBRATING
125 YEARS
rewwt. ■>,.. .... OBb'
lin said. 1
The EMT on the ambulance allow for instruction in medical
ships are $48 for ground ser- crew can make a judgment call training.
vice and $60 to include air if he feels it’s more important
transport.) to get the patient to a
• Podiatry*
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Silas Compton served as
owner and publisher until his played to connect local
Minden Baptist Church is celebrating
125 years of service to the Lord on
Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
Service begins at 10:30 am (no Sunday School).
Bro. Gary Newman, a former pastor, will be
delivering the sermon and special music presented
by guests. Lunch will be provided in the
Fellowship Hall following the service.
Mark your Calender and make plans to attend,
enjoy worship and fellowship with us!
grand- the way it’s supposed to work.” i
Scenarios mentioned Thurs- truck is here 12 hours daily.
ed on all of these machines,”
she said last week.
16-1696
member would county, which is Champion ter- moved to a different location <
have no out-of-pocket expense ritory. Franklin said 9-1-1 oper- in the city based on “historical Clifford said, until the late the building, Clifford said.
when transported by ambu- ators would dispatch a Cham- data” for calls. 1980s.
lance within the ETMC zone. pion ambulance to respond. Coverage will be adjusted for When Nellie’s linotype oper-
In Rusk County, that’s only
“I don’t want to be in the
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But it’s not that easy.
Stephen F. Austin State
ETMC reps answer questions on EMS service
member would still have no out- ambulances transported more
of-pocket expense and ETMC patients to Mother Frances last linotype, a machine that revo-
year than ETMC, which is locat- lutionized publishing until the located in the back of the
introduction of offset printing is the lead type that made up That included bound volumes
ETMC keeps two trucks sta- during the 1960s. two facing pages of that week’s of copies dating back as far as
When Joe Compton died newspaper. The press appears the 1920s, Clifford said.
Since then, Clifford has con-
Stocks finish Friday higher
after giving back big gains
Continued from Page 1A lost 1 cent to $1.57 a gallon,
we get, we get an offsetting Natural gas slumped 6 cents, or
weaker report.” 1.7 percent, to $3.29 per 1,000
The Dow Jones industrial cubic feet.
Goldman Sachs was respon-
sible for most of the Dow’s
ing, finished up 39.44 points, or gains. It rose $3.10, or 1.9 per-
0.2 percent, at 18,138.38. The cent, to $170.52 after Britain’s
Standard & Poor’s 500 inched High Court threw out a $1 bil-
up 0.43 points to 2,132.98. The lion lawsuit against the com-
Nasdaq composite gained 0.83 pany. Libya’s sovereign wealth
points to 5,214.16. fund had accused Goldman
U.S. crude oil gave up 9 cents Sachs of duping the fund into
to $50.35 a barrel in New York, making risky deals.
Brent crude, the international Bond prices fell. The yield on
standard, fell 8 cents to $51.95 the 10-year Treasury note rose
a barrel in London. to 1.80 percent from 1.75 per-
In other energy trading, cent. Higher bond yields also
wholesale gasoline added 1 cent help banks because they lead to
to $1.49 a gallon. Heating oil higher interest rates on loans.
a Friday football Corp, in California and moved
to Mount Enterprise in 2008 to death in 1956, when his young- munities.”
downtown and the Depot Nellie would handwrite articles
in her kitchen then carry them the Mount Enterprise Progress
That day, Franklin said, the next morning to the news-
a team of paper office in Nacogdoches to
finish up before Daily Sentinel ton began his newspaper career
as CHRISTUS Trinity Mother ETMC is donating an older staff would typeset them. back in 1895 and published the preserved her aunt and uncle’s
under certain circumstances. Frances, also in Tyler, or Good ground unit to Henderson High But time - and dementia, it Pendleton Journal, Crawford legacy with a contribution that
ETMC representatives encour- Shepherd in Longview. School where it will be used turns out - were creeping up on Grit, Granbury Graphic-Dem- funded the Nellie B. and Joe
aged those living outside city
limits but working inside Hen- patients to the hospital they
pion ambulance to respond. Coverage will be adjusted for
In addition to covering the community events, such as next at or quit, she went to the Daily other items you might find East Texas in Lufkin, which at
within Henderson city limits, cost of earning a patient to the month’s Syrup Festival, when Sentinel in Nacogdoches to get inside a vintage newspaper
Champion EMS, which previ- hospital, ETMC memberships thousands of visitors descend her paper printed. At night, office,
ously provided senice in Hen- also pay for transfer to anoth- on downtown and the Depot Nellie would handwrite articles Silas T. Compton founded
derson, still retains the con- er facility, regardless whether Museum on North High Street,
tract to provide coverage in the its ETMC’s main Tyler hospi-
remainder of Rusk County. tai or one of the other medical there will also be
Several questions on Thurs- facilities in East Texas, such EMTs on bikes.
day were related to coverage as CHRISTUS Trinity Mother ETMC is donating an
Sales tax rebates in Henderson continue to lag
Continued from Page 1A Jacksonville received percent and Tatum is down 4.8
to the previous year. $268,078 in October, an percent.
Carthage also saw a large increase of 2.4 percent. The
decrease in October, receiving Cherokee County city is up 2.6 increase slightly, up 0.7 percent
$282,031, down 9.4 percent, percent in 2016. to $2.25 million in October. So
In Rusk County, only Reklaw far this year, Longiiew is down
saw an increase in sales tax 3.7 percent, around $940,660.
rebates in October. Reklaw Tyler’s rebate was down
Other, similar-sized cities in received $374, up 32.29 per- 2.8 percent in October at $3.1
East Texas fared better when cent. million. For the year, Tyler’s
In October, Mount Enter- rebates have decreased 4.2 per-
prise saw its rebate dip 2.5 cent, representing a loss in rev-
Mount Pleasant saw a 9.5 percent, Overton was down 5.3 enue of a little more than $1.4
percent increase with its rebate percent and Tatum was down million.
of $468,023 and is up 7.9 0.5 percent. Statewide, Texas paid
In 2016, only Mount Enter- rebates of $425.5 million to cit-
received $429,224 in October, prise has seen growth in sales ies in October, an increase of
up 7.9 percent, and Sulphur tax rebates, with a 6.3 percent 5.5 percent. In 2016, rebates
Springs was also up 9.5 percent increase. Overton is down 10.9 going back to cities is $4.4 bil-
percent, Reklaw is down 16.2 lion, an increase of 1.1 percent.
Additionally, EMS will take with HISD’s growing health sci- Nellie Compton. In 199°? publi- ocrat and the Morgan News R. Compton Technical Writing
/ ’ ’ J ence program, Franklin said, cation of the newspaper ceased before moving his printing Lab at SFA. The dedication was
derson to buy memberships in request, within reason, Frank- The retired ambulance will be and its office and publishing business and settling in Mount held last week in Nacogdoches,
both ambulance services. lin said. parked at the high school and operation in Mount Enterprise Enterprise. As for the equipment iself,
(Champion EMS member- The EMT on the ambulance allow for instruction in medical were locked up. He took over The Herald, a Clifford said, “I’m trying to find
are $48 for ground ser- crew can make a judgment call training. And, for the most part, the local newspaper already in exis- a home for it, so it can be prop-
Franklin said ETMC will also building remained that way tence, and renamed it the Prog- erly displayed and used to edu-
nearby begin a “no texting and driving” until 2012, when Clifford finally ress. In the 1930s, he added the cate pwople about how news-
ETMC EMS also provides hospital and stabilized. Other- campaign Oct. 28 at HHS, fol- opened it back up. She had Cushing News. papers used to be made and the
coverage in Tyler and Smith wise, provided a patient in East lowing the pep rally that after- retired from her job with Intel Silas Compton served as role the small town newspaper
County as well as Henderson Texas isn’t requesting a trip to noon before a Friday football Corp, in California and moved owner and publisher until his played to connect local com-
County, Franklin said Thurs- San Antonio, ETMC will honor game,
day. the request.
Answering a question regard- “We don’t care which hospi-
ing mutual aid, Franklin said tai you request,” said Mignon
if an ETMC member calls an Adams, ETMC’s membership
ambulance and a Champion unit director,
responds to cover for ETMC, the
Continued from Page 1A
erage is $68 annually.
Adams said a membership would pay the Champion bill.
covers a husband and wife and “If our trucks are busy, we ed just across the street,
children under age 25 living honor memberships in that sit-
at home. (Another adult living nation,” Franklin said. “That’s tioned in Henderson 24 hours
a day, Franklin said, and a third in 1973 at age 61, Nellie took to be just as it was when opera-
\. over publishing the Progress tions came to a halt nearly 30 tacted a number of museums,
day include having a car crash From time to time, he said, an and The Cushing News, even years ago. More equipment can including the East Texas Oil
When coupled with health just outside city limits in the ambulance may be posted, or though she had little experi- be found in a room that was Museum in Kilgore and Depot
insurance, a member would county, which is Champion ter- moved to a different location ence. She made a go of it, too, likely added on to the back of Museum here in Henderson.
She’s also called the Texas
Reams of copy paper remain Historical Commission and
on shelves, as well as sundry reached out to the Museum of
Sunday, October 16, 2016 — HENDERSON DAILY NEWS — PAGE 3A
Finding a new home for an old newspaper
Continued from Page 1A care for her own ailing mother, est son Joseph R. Compton,
sister of Nellie Compton, wife who herself ended up in Rusk who was married to Nellie, took
of publisher Joe Compton - County to care for Nellie Comp-
would return to Rusk County ton, who died in 1999.
for visits. The equipment and supplies column named “Pick Ups” that
“I came in here as a kid, inside the Progress building was printed on the left hand
watching newspapers get print- hail from a different era of pub- side of the front page, Clifford
lishing, well before newspapers said. Well known for his sense
converted to cold type and off- of humor, Compton wrote out
Now, Clifford is looking for set presses such as the one used and published a “schedule for
a new home for equipment that today by the Henderson Daily callers” that included “2 sec-
dates back well into last cen- News and others. onds” allowed for stock salemen
Clifford first had to clear and “1 hour, 30 minutes” for
but anywhere would do just the building of cobwebs and friends inviting us out to eat.
fine if the equipment could be rodents, not to mention the
put on display for later genera- thick layer of dust that had welcome “24 hours per day,
tions to view. accumulated as well as stacks everyday.”
Once inside the building that of newspapers that made it all
sits along U.S. Highway 259 but impossible to navigate.
With help from others, Clif- hopes to find a museum that
in Mount Enterprise, it doesn’t ford boxed up copies of the could take on a display of this
take much imagination to envi- Progress and Cushing News size, if for no other reason than
sion the commotion that would and straightened up enough to to preserve a piece of history,
take place when it was time to allow someone room to safely both from the newspaper world
go to press. Now, the building find their way through the clut- of old as well as her family.
is lit only by sunlight coming in tered office. “I’m not trying to make any
Things appear to be just money off this,” Clifford said
as they were when Nellie was last week while directing a tour
forced to look elsewhere for of the office. “I’m trying to find
The Mergenthaler Linotype printing help. Heavy lead a good home for it.
machine sits just to the left of pages of type were already set,
the front door, exactly where it including what appears to be museum business,
was placed in 1942 when Clif- the church page for that week’s
ford’s great uncle Silas Comp- edition. Calendars on the wall
ton, paid $3,842 for its deliv- advance no further than 1989, helped take many of the old
ery. which is likely when Nellie newspapers that were left off
Today, there’s still handwrit- Compton began printing her Clifford’s hands. Linda Reyn-
ten copy from Nellie Compton newspaper in Nacogdoches, olds, Director of the East Texas
sitting on the keyboard of the Clifford said. Research Center at SFA, and a
On the Vaughn Acme press team from the school packed
room two vans full with newspapers.
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Linebarger, Les. Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 178, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 16, 2016, newspaper, October 16, 2016; Henderson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1236294/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rusk County Library.