The Rusk Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1955 Page: 1 of 16
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VOLUME 107
THE RUSK CHEROKEEAN MARCH 24, 1955
16 PAGES
NUMBER 39
John Lester Is
Publicity Man
For Red Cross
John Lester, aDove. has been
serving this month as publicity di-
rector of the Red Cross Drive in
Cherokee County. Lester is mana-
ger of Southwestern Electric Serv-
ice Co. in Rusk.
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License Plate
Sale Is Very
Low In
Rodeo Caravans To Start Saturday
County's Children Will Receive Polio Vaccine
BIG BAPTIST BEVIVAL STARTS SUNDAY
Radio Station Planned In Rusk
Rusk Garden Club Wins First Place
In Projects Contest; 3rd District
County
Sale of license plates is alarm-
ingly low, says Watters Singletary,
Cherokee County Tax Assessor-Col-
lector. Only 4,000 have been issu-
ed as of Tuesday night. This leaves
an estimated 8,000 plates still to
he sold between now and March
31st, the deadline.
A penalty of 25 per cent will be
charged on all plates sold after
March 31st unless the owner will
sign an affidavit that they have
not driven the vehicle since the
deadline.
"We ar^ expecting a big rush,
and will keep our office open all
day Saturday so that the people
can come in and buy their tags,"
said Singletary.
Deputies are now selling the
tags in Jacksonville, Alto, Summer-
field, Wells and Troup. Folks in
these cities can contact Bill Sum-
mers and Vickie Simpson in Jack-
sonville; R. R. Stribling in Alto;
Mrs. Edwards in Summerfield;
Merle Duty in Troup; and William
Bailey at Wells for their license
plates.
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Garden Clubs
Report Sale
Huge Success
"Does it pay to advertise?" Ask
Mrs. Marvin Roten and Mrs. W. E.
Cabbert who are presidents of
the Rusk Garden Club and Daffo-
dil Garden Club. They report the
sale of Betty Crocker Cake Mix
and Flour last weekend a huge
success. Five cents on each box
sold was allotted to the Garden
Clubs, who had members in the
various grocery stores Friday and
Saturday to help sell these prod-
ucts.
The two presidents stated: "We
want to thank each member of our
clubs, the people who bought these
products, and the grocery stores,
for their advertising. We are very
grateful for your support and co
operation."
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Three File For
Two Places On
School Board
Three candidates have filed for
two positions on the Board of
Trustees for the Rusk Independent
School District. Incumbents Bill
Vining and Edwin Dickey are ask-
ing re-election, and LaMonte Teut-
sch is seeking a scat on the board
in the election called for Satur-
day, April 2.
Absentee ballots can be cast
now. The deadline for a candidate
to have his name placed on the
ballot was Tuesday. The deadline
to cast an absentee ballot is three
days prior to the election, which
is March 30th, according to Ger-
ald Chapman, Superintendent of
Schools.
The election will be held at the
City Hall between 8 a.m. and 7
p.m. O. M. Walker has been nam-
ed election judge.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Ezell of Fort
Worth spent the weekend with
Mrs. Ezell's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Isgate.
Texas Council o£ garden club was further honored
Garden Clubs meeting Tuesday in by winning 3rd place through
Palestine, the Rusk Garden Club their sponsorship of the Rusk Jun-
was paid the highest honor of the ior Garden Club.
year in the third district by win- The above picture shows Mrs.
ning first place in the therapy Marvin Roten, Mrs. J. C. Williams,
projects contest. !Sr., and Mrs. Esther Harrison at
This district which comprises work on their prize winning proj-
122 clubs conducts a therapy proj- ect, which is a Garden Club at the
ects contest each year. The local (Continued on Page 5)
"Old Betsey" Turned Out To Pasture;
Cherokeean To Get New Press Fri
A new newspaper press will be
delivered to The Rusk Cherokeean
Friday, March 25th. This new ma-
chine will enable the Cherokeean
to increase its page size to 8 col-
umns, and will greatly improve
the print and speed up the oper-
ations of publishing.
Installation of the new machine
will be done over the weekend.!
and next week's newspaper will be
published on it.
This winds-up an era with The
Rusk Cherokeean. The old press
has been with this newspaper be-
tween 30 and 40 years, and has
worked for many of this paper's
publishers.
Increased circulation made the
old press obsolete. It took too long
to do a days work. The new press
will publish the paper in just
about half the time of the old one.
Plans are to begin publishing a
day earlier in the immediate fu-
ture. This gives advertisers an op-
portunity to offer their weekend
special for Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. It will also enable po-
tential customers more leisure
time to check over the outstanding
bargains advertised every week in
this newspaper.
This increased service has re-
sulted in increased cost of opera-
tions, and there will be a slight
increase in advertising rate. De-
tails and a rate card will be fur-
nished upon request.
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Rusk is going to have a radio
station in the near future. E. H.
Whitehead, publisher of the Rusk
Cherokeean and The Citizen, an-
nounces that he has filed his ap-
plication with the FCC this week.
Guy C. Hutcheson, consulting
radio engineer of Arlington, says
that he expects no difficulty in se-
curing the permit to obtain tho
frequency. IMans are to put the
station on the air shortly after the
permit is obtained from the FCC.
The studio will be located on
the square in downtown Rusk with
the tower at the edge of the city
limits.
Complete details will be an-
nounced at a later date, Whitehead
said.
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County Court
Activity Up
This Week Here
Rev. A. O. Jenkins, Port Arthur,
Texas, will be the evangelist in
Revival services at the First Bap-
tist Church, March 27 through Ap-
ril 10, announced Lonnie 11. Webb,
pastor.
Rev. Jenkins is a native of Mis
sissippi and lived in Louisiana sev-
eral years Ix'foro coming to Tex
as. Me surrendered to preach while
in business in Orange. Texas.
A graduate of East Texas Bap-
tist College, Marshall, Rev Jen-
kins held several pastorates in East
Texas before going to his present
location. Trinity Baptist Church.
Port Arthur. This spiritually pro-
gressive church has a membership
>1 I too and reported 115 baptisms
last year Much of the progress o£
lhis church is the result of the
energetic, consecrated leadership
tf this young man.
The morning worship will be
held at fi:45 for the benefit of the
vouiig people who are in school
aid those who work during the
day. The evening services will he-¡
«in promptly at 7:30 with .1 E. |
Hamilton directing the revival mu-j
sic Next Sunday night's service
will open the Revival
The public is cordially invited
to attend all of these services.
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bust place this
Mail Truck Is
Damaged Mondaj
In Accident
court has bOFl
week.
Cases disposed of Monday in-
rlude the following: Jack Cross,
charged with DWI, entered a plea
of guilty before the court and re-
ceived a fine of $100 and court
costs, given 3 days in jail, and a Tho mail truck turned over 1'-
six month suspension of his driv- miles north of Dialville Monday
er's license. morning shortly after 7 a.m., but
Fred Davis Ewing, charged with (he only injury was some baby
AVI, pled guilty, was fined $100. chickens. The driver was not in
'liven 3 days in jail, and a six jured.
month suspension of his driver's The driver said he was driving
license. toward Rusk with his regular mail
Marcellos Johnson entered a run, and the next thins he knew,
plea * of guilty on the charge of ¡the truck left the highway and
possession of liquor for the pur- turned over. The truck was badly
pose of sale. Since this was his' damaged Lée-McCarroll Chevrolet
Detailed plans now are being
worked out for the possible ad-
ministration of polio vaccine to all
of 1st and 2nd grade children who
will he eligible to receive it if it is
licensed. Dr. Cobble, C o u n t y
Health Officer, declared today.
There are 1,428 children in the 1st
and 2nd grades of Cherokee Coun-
ty.
As was announced by s t a t e
health officials, all first and sec-
ond grade pupils in public, pri-
vate and parochial schools in the
state and (if applies! all children
who were part of the test groups
in the 1954 vaccine field trial but
did not receive vaccine at that
time, are included in the planned
program, he explained. It also will
be available to others through phy-
sicians at the same time
Hut parents were warned by Dr.
Cobble not to jump to the conclus-
ion that the current planning in
dieated the vaccine already has
been proved effective.
"The vaccine which will be fur
nished by the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis is the same
vaccine that was given to 440,000
children last spring," he said. "We
I do not know yet whether it really
prevents paralytic polio Until Ap
ill. when wo will learn the results
of the evaluation study now being
conducted at the University of
Michigan, we cannot know if the
vaccine is effective.
"But we cannot wail until then
for planning for the protection of
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Rumors Fly As
Lawmakers Plan
Hospital Budget
.Judge Summers let,
a $100 fine and cost
Interest Light In Both City Elections
To Be Held Here April 5th & 8th
Absentee voting is rather light have no opposition. No opposition,
for both city elections slated the
first part of April, according to in-
formation from I. R. Aufricht, City
Secretary.
Only two votes have been cast
in city election in which Rusk vot-
ers will elect a Mayor, two alder-
men. city attorney, city secretary,
and city marshal. Mayor W. H.
Hanna is the only incumbent fac-
ing opposition. Houston White is
seeking this job. J. C. Williams,
incumbent, and Felton Banks, both
.seeking a position as alderman I meter election.
developed for City Secretary, I. F.
Aufricht, City Attorney Morris
Hassell or C. E. Jay, city marshal.
Parking meter question which
will be settled by Rusk voters Ap-
ril 8th, has only one absentee vote
as of noon Wednesday.
Deadline to vote an absentee
ballot is 3 days prior to the elec-
tion warns Aufricht. This means
that April 2 is the deadline to
vote absentee for the City elec-
tion, and April 5 for the parking
Mrs. M. B. Ellis Is
Hostess To Stitch
& Chat Club Thurs.
first offense
him off with
of court.
Tuesday activity in the court!
was a jury trial of Laverle Wil-
liams. charged with the contribu-
tion to delinquency of a minor.
The man was found guilty of fur-
nishing a minor with liquor and
fined S100 and costs.
Troy Kirnbrough, charged with
DWI, pled guilty and was assessed
a $50 fine, 3 days in jail, and a
six month suspension of his driv-
er's license.
Activity Wednesday was a boun-
dary dispute in Alto between
Charles Frank Wallace and C. D.
Schochler. Schochler charges that.
Wilson willfully moved stakes of
a surveyor. This case is by jury
trial, and no verdict had been
reached as of 3 p.m. Wednesday.
and
Bishop Hines To
Conduct Service
In J'ville Sunday
Mrs. M. B. Ellis was hostess to
the Stitch and Chat Club at her
home Thursday afternoon. There
were ten members present.
House decorations were pink
roses and ivy. Chicken salad,
snacks, apple pudding topped with
whipped cream and coffee were
served.
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SHOP AT HOME
Bishop John E. Hines of Austin,
4«ril) conduct confirmation services
at the Trinity Episcopal Church
in Jacksonville, Sunday, March 27,
at 11 a.m.
All members of St. Luke's Epis-
copal Church of Rusk will attend
this service, and all other inter-
ested persons are invited.
A dinner, honoring the Bishop
will follow the morning service
at Brady's cafe.
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Mr. and Mrs. Roy Isgate attend
ed funeral services for Mr. Roy
Conway at Lindale Thursday, Mar.
17. Mr. Conway was Mrs. Isgate's
brother-in-law.
Cd rushed to the accident
hauled the truck in.
Mail service in Husk ran around
an hour late Monday due to this
accident.
Dave Urdal Not
Badly Injured
In Wreck Sat.
Dave Urdal of Rusk miraculous-
ly escaped serious injury when his
1049 Pontiac Station Wagon's steer
ing mechanism failed Saturday
night, and the car overturned sev-
eral times. The car was almost
completely demolished in the acci-
dent which occurred about 4 miles
south of Rusk on U. S. fifi Urdal
was driving north.
Urdal explained that he attempt-
ed to make a left turn with the
highway but the car failed to re-
spond.
The wreck was investigated by
the Cherokee County Sheriff's De-
partment and Rusk Police Depart-
ment.
"Plugging Along"
The joint Flower Show "Fun
With Flower*," sponsored by the
Rusk Garden Club end Daffodil
Garden Club is slated for April
16th.
Rusk Kiwenis Club's 7th annuel
Junior Livestock Show will be
staged Saturday, April 25th.
Ruskl East Texas' Rodeo Capl-
toL does it again! An ell girl Ro-
deo, set for April 7-8*9.
"Easter Parade," Beta Sigma
Phi sponsored Style Show will be
presented this Friday night, 8 p.m.
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Rumors are flying as to what ap-
propriation the House Bill will
give the Husk State Hospital, but
nothing official can be learned
Latest unofficial report is that
the Rusk State Hospital will oper
ate <m a budget of approximately
$2,10,0,000 next year. This i a cut
>1 around $740,000 of the money
asked for by the Rusk SI ¡i t <• llos
pital.
The above budget is npproxi
ma tel.y the same as the hospital
operated on two years ago It had
•o operate on $1,023,000 last year.
The legislative budget board
recommended $2.35 per patient per
day for the Rusk State Hospital,
and the Executive Budget Hoard
recommended $2.00. Rumor has it
that the figure somewhere in be-
tween, probably $2.2. T li e Rusk
State Hospital asked for $3.00 per
patient per day.
No information can be obtained
as to what the Senate version is,
but it is believed somewhat high-
er than that of the House.
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SHOP AT HOME
Rusk's Lions Club is presenting
another "first" in East Texas
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
April 7, 8, and 9th. when the shute
opens on the All Girl Rodeo in this
city.
The first caravan publicizing
this event will leave Rusk, Satur-
day, March 26th, 1 p.m. Everyone
who can is urged to go and take
as many cars as possible.
Between 35 and 50 gin contest-
ants will be in Rusk to enter six
events: bull riding, bareback rid-
ing, brone riding, calf roping, rib-
bon roping, barrel racing and cut-
ting horse contest. The girls will
be competing for $1,800 in prize
money. Any girl may enter the Ro-
deo upon entry feo of $20 per ev
cut for Hie three nights.
An outstanding girl clown will
risk her life for the entertainment
of fans when she appears as a bull
fighter. She is a great entertainer,
too, and will assure a fast moving
show at all times.
Other recent appearances for
the All-Girl Rodeo have been Den-
ton and Dallas. The fame of these
girls is spreading fast, and their
reputation in these rodeo events
is spreading like wild lire.
This Rodeo Is approved by the
Girls Rodeo Association, under the
outstanding leadership of Jackie
Wortbinglon of Jacksboro, prcsi
dent of CHA and Nancy Bragg of
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Other girl rodeo stars slated to
appear include: Blanch Altizer of
Dryden, Ruby Gobble, Wickenberg,
Ariz., Margaret Owens, Rankin,
Texas, Cookie Forester of Arling-
ton, Texas, Eddie Moore of Long
Beach, Calif., a n d many others,
from all parts of the great South
west.
"As far as we have been able
to learn, this Is the first time an
all girl rodeo has ever been pro-
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Hendrick Service
Station Robbed
Saturday Night
Lloyd Hendrick s Texaco Serv-
ice Station was broken-info last
Saturday night, and the thief got
away with a MH revolver and the
cigarette machine with around 8
cartons of cigarettes, Hendrick
said he had less than $2 00 in cash
in the register that was taken and
i good flashlight.
Hendrick noticed that bis busi-
ness had been broken into when
he opened for business around 6:30
Sunday morning. He Immediately
notified the Cherokee County
Sheriff's Department. The cigar-
ette machine was recovered be-
tween Rusk and Alto on U. S. 69.
The burglar gained entrance by
forcing open the transom over the
front door, and stripped the lock.
Damage was reported as light.
He was a disappointed man. The
cigarette machine had just been
emptied of cash.
"The son of a gun can do lots oC
smoking, though," said Hendrick.,
Dress And Sports Wear To Be Shown
By 8 Stores In Style Show Friday
The latest in spring apparel will
be shown Friday evening, 8 p.m.,
at the Junior High Auditorium,
when "Easter Parade" is present-
ed. The style show, sponsored by
Omicron Gamma Chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi, will feature dress and
sports wear from eight participat-
ing stores.
Modeling for Webb's, Mathews-
Mrs. James Fisher, Mrs. Paul Potts,
Beth Meyers, Emily Singletary,
Mrs. Fred Liggett, Sally Ramey,
Mrs. Dub Summers, Helen Pierce,
Ann McCarroll, Mary Ann Tosh,
Barbara Westbrook, Jo Ann Mor-
row, Mrs. Elmer Ball, Maxine Beas-
ley, Ann McCluney.
Advance tickets, 50c for adults
and 25c for children under twelve.
Miller, The Smart Shop, 3 Bcall I have been sold by members of the
Bros. 3, Jones Dress Shop. Bon
Hester Shop, Rusk Dry Goods and
Joe B. Copeland Dry Goods, will
be: Judy Faye and Lila Jean Long,
Jan and Jimmy Thompson, George
E. Stretch, III« Ann McKellar, Sue
Banks, Oren Bowling, Mrs. Sher-
lock Holmes, Mary Ann Beard, Do-
lores Miller, Beverly Ann Stretch,
'Felda Courtney, Linda Kay Hewitt,
Mr. Waymon Pearce, Kay Webb,
Mary Pennington, Linda Mclntyre,
Sorority and participating mer-
chants. The tickets will also be
sold that night at the door.
Door prizes will be awarded dur-
ing intermission. Cake, coffee and
soft drinks will be served by mem-
bers of the Sorority. In addition,
musical entertainment will be pre-
sented at intermission.
"We have been rehearsing this
week, and the show promises to be
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Whitehead, E. H. The Rusk Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1955, newspaper, March 24, 1955; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150070/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.