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VOL. 2
PHONE NO. 1
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1932
PRICE 5 CENTS
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Gilbert. Wade.
E. C. McCalp.
3 Acquittals in
One Week, Record
In District Court
4-H Club Boys
Are Back From
Fair at Dallas
4-H Club Girls
Leave Tomorrow
For Dallas Fair
Mrs. Martha McDonald, Expert,
Will Have Charge of
4-Day Program
LOCAL NEWS
SOCIETY
CHURCHES
CLASSIFIED
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New Street Will
Open Soon In
Crimcrest Area
The juries which performed
Fourth District Court last
venire
appear
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BANDIT SUSPECT WILL GO ON TRIAL MONDAY
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Speck Bucklan
Faces Penalty
Of Death Here
Cooking School
To Get Underway
Here On Tuesday
Fire Prevention
Week Will Extend
Through Monday
Jurors In Capital
Cases Summoned
In District Court
Failure of Circumstantial Evi-
dence to Convince, Con-
tributing Factor
ANNUAL CHARITY DRIVE TO START
IN HENDERSON ON OCTOBER 24TH
Life-Long Citizen
Notes Remarkable
Change in City
B. A. Robertson. Son of Pioneer
Family, Visits Friends in
Henderson
Man Wanted in Many Cities to
Be Tried for Part in
Beacon Robbery
Veteran City Employe
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jurymen
in two
for trial
in District Court have been issued
by the clerk and service has been
perfected by the sheriff’s office.
The 12 men who will pass on
the Spec Bucklan case in which he
is charged with robbery in fire-
arms and assault to murder as the
result of the third of the Beacon
Refinery holdups will be selected
from among the following, E. P.
Baker, Abe Hunt, C. B. Gray, M.
Brown, J. T. Allen, A. Ross Wy-
lie. R. T.- Pool, J. D. Blanton,
Clifford Ward, J. S. Taylor, J. F.
Ash, W. W. Buford, J. 8. Dud-
I ley, R. L. Jones, R. M. Cox, J. T.
Mrs. Perry Young of this city
has been notified of her appoint-
ment as co-chairman of Rusk
County in the state organization
for the National Democratic Cam-
paign. §he will work in cooper-
ation with L. T. Standard, County
Democratic chairman, who recom-
mended her appointment.
Notification of the appointment
was contained in the following let-
ter from Miss Margie E. Neal, co-
director:
"It affords me pleasure to advise
you of your appointment as Co-
Chairman of Rusk County in the
State organization for the Nation-
al Democratic Campaign, to work
alongside of, and in co-operation
with, your County Democratic
Chairman, Mr. L. T. Standard, who
has recommended your appolnt-
Each precinct shall then be or-
ment.
The plan of organization com-
prehends thp precinct as the unit
work. They will return to Hender- .
son tlie latter part of the week.
Superintendent Otis Armstrong ’
of the New Salem Sphool and Mias
Lotye Thomas, home demonstration
agent, will accompany the fortu-
nate girls on a school bus.
All of the 4-H Club girls have
■ent exhibits to the fair and they
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the same being organized with the
Democratic Precinct Chairman
and a woman Co-Chairman, (to be
appointed by yourself, with the ad.
vice and co-operation of the County
Chairman and each Precinct Chair-
man, respectively).
Immediately following the nam-
ing by you of the committee of co-
chairmen for the entire county, and
your receipt of their acceptance ot
the responsibility, you will please
forward the list to this office for
in
week
established a record for acquittals
Three defendants, two charged
with felony theft and one charged
with violating the prohibition law,
were freed by juries after lengthy
hearings.
The number of acquittals during
the past week was equal to all the
acquittals that were neturned dur-
ing the preceding 12 months.
ship which was created to servt
Rusk and Gregg counties for the
two year period starting January 1.
1083.
The new judge will be namsd.
from among the Gregg and Rusk
county bars. The latter is favored
to annex the position though gov-
ernor Sterling is not btlUVM to
have definitely committed himself
to any of ths applicants.
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Summonses to the
who will act this week
capital cases scheduled
being a get-together place to Have
a good time, ths Kiwanis Chib
now does much to serve their
community,” Mr. Shortass said.
Mr. Shortest complimented the
local club highly for the commun-
ity work they have put over, but
he advised them to work slow, so
as to accomplish something def-
inite. He stated that it was best
for a new club, to go blow but be
sure of their programs. !
Mrs. Lake Cannon, local piano
instructor and Miss Whittington,
violinist, presented a musical pro-
gram.
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SECTION
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One of the moat Important ses-
sions of the Criminal Division of
the Fourth District Court to be
held since its creation will get un-
derway Monday morning when the
State will place on trial T. J.
(Speck) Bucklan, alias Speck Mar-
tin, alias Spec Beckham, notorious
robber.
Faces Death Penalty
Bucklan faces a maximum pen-
alty of death in the electric chair.
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35 Rusk County Star Pupils to
Spend Week at Encampment
as Guests of Fair
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formed to start off jhe year 1932.
The lowest number of licenses
issued was in March, August and
September, when only 36 couples
took the for better or worse vow.
Following are the records for
each week-
October—26.
November—29.
December—88.
January-—86.
February—32.
March—2d.
April—35
May—29.
Jun*—27.
Jaiy—27. /.Ldl
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December took the honors during
the past year. During this month
a total of 38 were issued licenses
in Rusk county.
Seven men had as their Christ-
mas presents, brides, this number
embarking on this,date to set a
record for a single 24-hour per-
iod. January was a eJose eecond
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The five Rusk county 4-H Club
boys who spent the past week at
the Educational Encampment in
Dallas, have returned to the city
along with County Agent R. H.
Brison who accompanied them on
the trip. The exhibits of the local
boys were warmly praised by the
officials of the-Texas State Fair,
whose guests they were during
their entire stay in Dallas.
Those’ who made the trip were:
Robert Kelly, Minden; Tommy
Thredgill, Mt. Enterpriee; James
Hays, Henderson; Henry Jones,
Mlrxlen and Clifton Freeman
Crims Chapel.
357 COUPLES MARRIED IN RUSK
COUNTY OVER 12 M0NTH PERIOD
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The annual drive for charity
funds with which the needy of the
community will be taken care of, '
will get underway a week from to-
morrow, it was announced Satur-
day. The Federated Church So-
cieties will conduct the canvassing.
The present week will be devoted
to advertising the approaching
campaign. Announcements will be
made at all churches, at church
society gatherings, in the picture
shows and at meetings of all clubs.
Those in charge of the drive
point out that the demands dur-
ing the coming winter will be
heavy. While the funds raised in
this manner will be utilized first
for the needy of this community,
it will of course, be necessary to
lend some aid to worthy tran-
sients who find themselves in dire
straits here.
Mrs. S. L. Ramsey will be gen-
eral chairman while those in charge
of the drive in the various sections
of the city and community will be
as follows:
Southwest Henderson — Mrs. W | Hahrell, J. Drennon, W. A. Eaton,
T. G. Hembiee, Julian Vincent, J.
C. Honeycutt, M. E. Burk, A. W.
Carlisle, J. H. Fitzgerald, H. D.
Armstrong, W. T. Newton, A. P.
Nelson, Gordon Pruitt, Leon
Leath, Emmett Strong, Mack R.
Vinson, F. H. Bryant, H. W. Rog-
ers, Alvin Peter.'on, John Gallo-
way, O. R. Armstrong, Arthur
Gray, Tom Smith, I. W. Kid, El-
bert Sparks, S. E. Moyers, James
Montgomery, Elmer Pool, T. B.
Arnold, Frank Hubband, C. IL
Pitner, Chris Hale, G. W. Luke,
Fred Newton, T. J. Farmer, ll L.
Jones, Mack Craig, Dock Willard,
G. A. Gibson, G. W. Burton, Wil-
lie Thompson, George Strong,
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man identified as Bucklan ImmadU L .
ately cracked him over ths hs«« •
with a pistol, knocking him un --
conscious. He will be one of the 1
witnesses against the defendant.
Bucklan faces charges of rob-
bery by firearms, felony theft and
assault with a deadly weapon.
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R. A. Sparler, remodeling
house, N. Jackson St., $675.
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NEW CITIZENS
E. Norvell.
Southeast
Garland Farmer.
Northwest Henderson — Mrs
Charley Lacey.
Northeast Henderson
Norman West.
Oil Field Area — Mrs.
Myers.
The soliciting and collection of
subscriptions will start at 9 a. m
October 24. Sponsors of the drive
have asked that citizens collect all
the old clothes, beddings, and even
clean rags that they may have
available for the cause of charity
All assistance of this kind will sim-
plify the problems facing the city
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BUILDING PERMITS
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May Name Judge
For Rusk, Gregg
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Counties Soon
Reports from Austin indicats
that Governor Ross Sterling w)J
soon make known the name of the
attorney who will fill the judge* ,;
With the News-Herald-Palace
Theatre Cooking School only one
day away, increasing interest is
being manifested by the ladies of
Rusk county, and indications are
that there will be an extremely
largo attendance at the opening
session, which will be held start-
ing at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning
at the Palace Theatre.
Mrs. Martha McDonald of Dal-
las, who comes here very highly
recommended as an artist of this
profession, will have complete
charge of the school, giving all
lectures and making the demon-
strations throughout the four days
of this gala affair. She will give
those in attendance instructions
which will be of inestimable val-
ue to them in the preparation of
their foods.
There is romance aplenty for
the kitchen housewife, if she but
learns how to find it. Mrs. Mc-
Donald will teach everyone at-
how to find “kitchen ro-
at the News-Herald-Pal-
The first installment of a
thrilling serial, “Call of the
West,” written by R. G. Mont-
gomery, cowboy author of Mon-
arch Pass, Colo., appears today in
The News-Herald and will appear
regularly each day in subsequent
editions of the Daily Herald.
Start with the first chapter and
follow it through. It will grip you
from the start and entertain you
to the end.'It is a story that
brings thrills. Don’t miss a single
chapterl
Elmer Goodwin, building frame
residence, 615 E. Webster Walk,
$250.
J. C. Aldridge, building brick
storage house, N. Marshall, $400.
Fire Prevention Week in Hen-
derson, which was carried on last
week will extend into the first part
of this week.
A small portion of the program
which was laid out by the local
Fire Prevention committee, was not
completed Saturday night, and the
work will be carried on through
Monday.
Inspection of the downtown busi-
ness section, was not completed
due to the fact that Eugene Lacy,
city fire marshal, has for the past
few days been very taisy with a
state inspector, besidesYhe several
fires in this vicinity, and has not
had time to complete the inspec-
tion. This work will be completed
Monday. After this is finished the
suburban business houses will be
inspected.
The fire drills in the schools
which was a part of the program
have not as yet been held, and will
be carried out Monday.
The Fire Prevention posters
were to have been judged today
but the winners names could not
be learned. They will be announ-
ced later. Mayor O. 8. Rogers
will present the prizes Monday.
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R. G. Montgomery (left),
Monarch Pa*i, Colo., where much
of the action takei place in Mont-
gomery's new serial.
B. A. Robertson, a resident of
Rusk county since his birth in the
Monroe community 66 years ago
and member of a pioneer family in
this section, was in Henderson yes-
terday meeting his friends and ex-
amining the recent improvements
in the city.
"Times certainly have changed
in a period of over 60 years,” he
said. “I have watched Hender-
son's growth as the years went by,
but I never dreamed that it could
be the city I have found today.”
Mr. Robertson, a retired farmer,
lives midway between Henderson
and Longview. Although not the
oldest man in the northern part
of the county, he is by far the old-
est person who has lived continu-
ously in that section. His father,
J. F. Robertson, came to this rec-
tion from Monroe, Georgia, in
1849, and was one of the first set-
tlers in the county.
J. F. Robertson established the
first post office at Monroe, which
was then known as Center. He(
was called back to Monroe, Geor-
gia, for a time to settle an estate,
and upon returning to Texas found
that the )spst office that he had es-
tablished pad been abandoned. He
immediately started another, and
as Center, in Shelby County, had
originated while he was away, he
called the new post office Monroe
for the town in Georgia he had left.
The elder Mr. Robertson died In
1876. His son ran a country store
for some time, as his father had
done, but later started farming on
the land his father had owned, and
is now living with his wife on the
old home place. He has two child-
ren, Arnold Robertson and Mrs.
Jim Still. Arnold and Mr. gtill are
members of the Gaston Consoli-
dated School faculty.
Mr. Robertson remembers Hen-
derson when it was made up of a
court house and two or three busi-
ness houses. He attributes its pres-
ent progress to good roads, and is
an ardent believer
traveling facilities.
Mr. Robertson is
Rusk County News’ earliest sub-
scribers, and says it is by reading
this newspaper that he keeps up
with his Henderson friends.
Mrs. Perry Young
To Lead Fight for
Democracy Here
Cupid’s darts struck the hearts*with 86 ceremonies being
of 357 couples in Rusk eounty
during the 12-month period start-
ing October 1, 1931 and ending
September 30, this year, records
in the office of the Rusk county
clerk shows.
Generally June leads in
number of ventures on that
pertain sea of matrimony,
See Robber yon Page 2 ’
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Kiwanis Field
Representative
At Club Friday
Edwin S. Shortess, field gerv-
ice representative of the Kiwanis
International, was a guest of the
local Kiwanis Club at their regu-
lar weekly luncheon Friday.
Mr. Shortess works out of the
Chicago offices of the Kiwanis
International, and is making a
tour of Kiwanis Clubs throughout
the state.
He made a brief talk to the lo-
cal club on the attitude now taken
in their activities. “Rather than
first installment of
; serial, “Call of
written by R. G.
tending
mance”
aco Theatre Cooking School, Oc-
tober 18 to 21 inclusive.
Refreshments will be served
daily as well as the many prizes
that are to be given throughout
the four days.
Mrs. McDonald will give lec-
tures and demonstrations in all
branches of the culinary art. She
will also give hints in economy in
buying and marketing as well as
in the actual preparing of the
dishes.
Mrs. McDonald, on her arrival
here tomorrow, will start at once
on an inspection of the local mar-
kets to gather information for her
series of marketing hints.
“I plan to make these market-
ing 'tips’ strictly local, to fit the
needs of Henderson housewives,”
she says.
"I think half of the job of cook-
ing is done with the market-
basket; and for that reason that
utilitarian article — the market-
basket—Is going to have a big
part In my school here,” Mrs.
part In my school here,”
McDonald said.
The News-Herald and the Pal-
ace Theatre, along with Mrs. Mc-
Donald are extending a personal
invitation to every housewife in
Henderson and Rusk county to at-
tend this cooking school every
day.
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George f
Lloyd Gentry, J. P. Jones,
Kelley.
The following special
has been summoned to
Wednesday to hear the murder
trial of J. W. Davenport who is
charged with killing Will York in
the latter’s home: .Virgil Beall,
Perry Hughes, Taft Maddox, Cur-
tiss Bassett, Horace Culp, C. A.
Brooks, E. M. Roberts, E. G.
Goad. H. L. Davidson, Jeff Mer-
cer. Charley Derrington, J. P.
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Early Monday morning 35 Rusk
county 4,H Club girls will depart
for Dallas wtfere they will spend
the Week in attendance upon the
Educational Encampment to be
held at the Texas State Fair.
The girls won the privilege to
make this trip and be the guests ot
the fair officials because of the ex-
cellent averages they compiled dur-
ing the past year in their 4-H Club _
Long Service on City Council
Gives C. C. Rayford Title of
“Watchdog of City Treasury
The prosecutors have not announ-
ced what penalty they will seek
but it is generally believed that
they will ask that no leniency Be
shown the defendant.
In Beacon Holdup
The charges against Bucklan ,,
grew out of the third of a series >
of holdups which were perpetrated
at the Beacon Refinery plant on" ; J
the Kilgore highway.
He is alleged to have been one of -
the two thugs who staged an early
morning holdup of truck drivers
waiting to have their tanks toad*' ’
ed, and then invaded the Beacon
Refinery offices where employes
were forced to turn over their mon. •
ey in addition to two shotguns and '
a pistol.
Knock Man In Heed
A truck driver from Houston1 w is
a little too slow when he was crm<*
raanded to "throw ’em up” a-xi n
man identified as Bucklan
By ANNIELENE NUTT *
Service on the city council since
Henderson was incorporated over
twenty years ago has earned for
C. G. Rayford, mayor pro tern
throughout this period, the title of
"The Watchdog of the City Treas-
ury.” In a long term of service
equalled in point of years by no
other city official, Mr. Rayford has
been one of the leading advocates
of civic progress tempered by
economy in city administration,
and as a result Henderson has one
of the best financial records of any
city its size today.
On May 17, 1911, the population
of Henderson voted to incorporate
the town and run its affairs in a
business-like manner. The special
election carried by a large major-
ity, and the first session of the
council was held two days later.
The first aidermen were Rade Kan-
gerga, Dr. D. P. Richardson, C. G.
Rayford, E. F. Crim and the late
A. B. Graham. Mr. Graham was
the first secretary and E. B. Al-
ford was mayor.
Describes Early Conditions
“There was much to be done by
the new council,” said Mr. Rayford
in recalling the condition of the
newly incorporated city. "There
were no sidewalks, and the paths
used for walking became so muddy
in wet weather that pedestrians
bogged up to their knees. There
was no plan for toying out the
streets, and what we had were in
a deplorable condition. So the first
council and those following in suc-
ceeding administrations set about
to improve these conditions and to
pass many ordinances that would
benefit the people.”
Although Mr. Rayford has a re-
markable memory for events and
days, he refers to the old city min-
utes for more detailed information.
The first business of the new coun-
cil, according to the records which
are now ragged and yellow with
age, was the appointment of C. N.
Rogers as city marshal. On these
early minutes is recorded the first
board of equalization to pass on tbe
rendition of property for the year
1912: P. D. Chapman, R. V. Ray-
ford and Hall Wood.
Street Improvements
According to Mr. Rayford, each
aiderman and the mayor acted as
road and street commissioners,
having the necessary improvements
made in their respective wards
Claying the streets was the extent
of repairs in these days. Purchase
of a road grader was authorized in
1912, and a surveyor was employed
by the city to lay off sidewalks.
Mr. Alford was again elected
mayor in the second city election,
held April 1913. It was in this
year that C. L. Lacey became city
secretary and T. J. Arnold city at-
torney.
C. N. Rogers became city tax as-
sessor and collector at this time,
and he made the following valu-
ation <of Henderson property: Per-
sonal. property, $700,870; real
tate, $269,250; total $970,120.
Waterworks System
The highlight of Mr. Alford's ad-
ministration was the passage of a
A new street to be called Morn-
ingside Avenue, is to be opened in
the Crimcrest subdivision accord-
ing to the Hancock Realty Com
pany, developers. Grading is now
under way and, within a few days,
residential lots will be offered tc
the public.
In announcing the new project,
Mr. Hancock states: “Crimcrest is
developing into what we think will
be one of the most desirable resi-
dential sections in East Texas
What was once an ordinary tract
of acreage is now dotted with fine
homes and ip another step in the
progressive development of Hen-
derson. We are going to continue
to improve Crimcrest by making
it easy for people of moderate
circumstances to own their homes.”
Prices on Morningside Avenue
lots are to be set at very low fig-
ures in order to attract purchas-
ers and insure quick sales. >
The purchase plan is of unique
nature, which will enable any
thrifty person to own one or more
lots. Taxes will be payed until
lot payments are completed.
In common with all Crimcrest
Lie usual protective restrictions
will apply to Morningside Avenue
Opening announcements will ap-
pear in an early issue *f thfa pa
per.
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