The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1960 Page: 1 of 24
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INVITE ALL YOU folks tc
Rusk' big Dairy Day Friday . . .
But you better come back Satur-
day, too, for that's the day some-
body will win their summer's vaca-
tion . . .
COUNTYWIDE
NEWS COVERAGE
Combining the newsgathering facilities of Rusk and
Jacksonville agencies in the most complete local
news medium in Cherokee County.
The Cherokeean
TEXAS' OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, ESTABLISHED AS THE PIONEER JULY 5, 1U7
Serving The Greater Cherokee County Trade Area
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VOLUME 112
JUNE 16. 1960
24 PAGES
NUMBER 52
IT'S IN FLORIDA! And there'll
be a drawing for it at 4 p.m. Sat-
urday. But thafs not all. Between
2 and 4, dozens more gifts will be
given away . . . most of them valu-
able merchandise from these parti-
cipating stores (where you can still
register): Mathews-Miller, Mose-
leys, Georgia-Lynne Shop, Piggly
W i g g I y, Chapmans Pharmacy,
Bead's, Schochler Hardware, Dover
Sinclair, Verdi* Mae Banks, Ma-
gruder's Beauty Salon.
GRAND PRIZE is a one-week
vacation at the Rendale Hotel in
Miami, Florida. Up to four persons
can go . . .
SO BE THERE!
ALL RUSK WAS saddened this
week when 1H friend, Frank Coup-
land, passed away . . . Roundabout
knew Frank personally for many
years, and his good wife, Jewel,
has helped us put out a newspaper
all the years we have been in
Rusk. Our friend, Frank Coupland,
will be missed.
Southwestern Retreats
Again On Phone Rates
Airport Warrant
Notice Is Issued;
Name Committee
It's No Joke
The silver dollar held by Joann Dominey is for real. She won it by inviting Dairy!
Day Mystery Man J. C. Williams to have a glass of milk. The Mystery Men carry t w o
colors of cards. The one held by Joann indicates she mack; the right approach during
¡Rusk's dairy festivities. Another color means, "sorry, you should have offered me a glass
ACCEPTING THE hardest job in of mj¡k_ pictured with Joann and Johnny are Maurice Holcomb, Jacksonville dairyman;
Shelby Hood, manager of South Texas Producers Association; and Judson Perkins, Rusk
Chamber of Commerce manager.
By Lone Star
town were Ike Daniel, Shelby Hood
and P. O. HaHey. These three will
be the city's equalization board . . .
NOTICED SHATTUCK Grocery
has moved. Bob and Jewel left
their traditional square location
and have moved in on North Main
Street.
0
Kiwanians
Hear Talk
By Lilly
Rusk Kiwanis Club members
hoard Steve Lilly talk Tuesday a-
bout the Rural Development pro-
gram in Cherokee County,
He was presented by Jim Bagley,
program chairman for June.
President Bill Davis presided at
the business meeting in the Texas
Cafe.
Nineteen members were recogn-
ized for having attended church
last Sunday.
Final Rites Dairy Industry
Conducted, ■ ^ ■
f c coupiand To Be Recognized
eral services were held at ^0
In Friday Events
Funeral
2:30 Tuesday afternoon in the
Wallace Funeral Home Chapel for
Frank C. Coupland of Rusk. He
died late Sunday evening in Nan
Travis Hospital after a heart
seizure.
Rev. John Solomon of Houston
officiated at the final rites, assist-
ed by Rev. W. JI. Cheatham of
Rusk. Interment was in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
The 71 year old native of Rusk
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jew-
el Coupland and two sisters, Mrs
Lottie Priest and Mrs. Addie Cob- !
ble, all of this city.
(See FINAL RITES Page 5)
Of County Clerk
Deputy
To Get
Office
Old Court
Gathering
Mildred
The county's dairymen and the i
whole dairy industry of Cherokee
County will be recognized in a pair,
of observances Friday Both Rusk
and Jacksonville will have parades
and other activities in connection
with National Dairy Month.
Rusk's activities will begin at
3:30 Friday afternoon. It will be
made up largely of truck fleets of
South Texas Producers Association
of Rusk and the Big State Cream-
ery of Jacksonville. Dozens of
trucks as well as other entries are
History
Of Iron
Sought
A Lone Star Steel Company pul>
lie relations representative Mon-
day continued his search of histor
ical sites connected with the coun-
ty's iron industry, but he did not
indicate if his work here has more
than a historical significance.
On his second trip to Rusk in-
vestigating foundry sites and oth
ers connected with the county's
history, Allen Ramsey acknow-
ledged that his company's geolog-
ists are already at work here.
But his purpose is research into
County Commissioners Monday
signed the notice of intention to
| issue $58,000 in warrants for a ¡
county airport. Later in the day,,
they appointed a seven-man com-1
1 mittee to implement the project.1
M G. Moore of Jacksonville was!
appointed chairman. Named to'
serve with him were. (.'. E. Peeplesl
|of Jacksonville; E. R. Gregg and'
Lloyd Pipes of Rusk; (¡us White-
man of Alto; and Clavis Tipton of,
New Summerfield. The appoint-
ments were subject to acceptance
by the persons named.
The notice to issue warrants said
the warrants were to be matured
City Bargains For 6.36
Return On Investment
The Southwestern States Telephone Company retreated
Tuesday night to the magic 6.3f> return-on-investment figure
in its rate increase negotiations and the City of Rusk iim-
; mediately accepted.
It. was the second compromise acceded to by company
representatives and it was the
IN RESIDENTIAL AREA
Building
Of Church
Opposed
Nearly fifty residents of the
the history of the
the a
Commerc
figure Rusk councilmen were
covertly holding out for.
T h <• company originally
asked for a 7.50 'return. Last
month they returned with a com-
promise proposal of 6.59. This fi-
gure was proposed again Tuesday
night, but the council still held out
for the rate awarded in the Jack-
sonville case by the 145th District
Court.
in December of 1964 | Bonner Park subdivision have put or Southwestern, negóüatV™the
It stated that "there is hereby. 'heir names to a petition opposing company. The city's first counter
levied for the current year, out of. 1 h e erection of a Pentecostal proposals directed to him sought
the Constitutional Permanent Im-I Church in Block 2 of that sub to pare down Individual telephone
provemcnt Fund of said county a ■ division. rales.
sufficient tax on each tax on each A three-member delegation pre Councilmen asked company re-
sented the petition to the City prescntatives to leave the chamber
Council Tuesday night. It asked while they discussed the question
that the city prohibit erection of further In the private delibera
churches and commercial est ah 'ions, councilmen agreed to ask
Bailments in the block. 'bat 25 cents be taken off the pro-
However, the city appeared pow Posed rates for two-party business
erless to take action Mayor Morris Phones and all residence phones.
Hassell said that, in his opinion, ¡ •' (- Williams then presented
the entire city would have to be!"10 l>roP°saI to the
one hundred dollars' assessed val-
uation of taxable property in said
county . . ."
The Commissioners Court in a
¡ special session last week approved,
the county's participation in an
ron history of a,rP°rt Project. Monday's move
area. Ramsey, with Chamber of K'',v^' "1C Pr<>-i('(t formal approval,
imerce Manager Judson Perk- rhe airport committee, when it
Dust
Deputy County Clerk
Fulton will become Acting County expected for the parade.
Clerk July 1. filling the vacancy Dairy princesses from Rusk and
to be left by Lima Musick. Jr.. who Jacksonville will distribute cartons
has been appointed County Audit
ins, sought out the site of the old
Philleo Furnace south of Rusk. He
I has been compiling a history
the iron industry in all of East
Texas.
He said his research included an
is confirmed, will also be named
in an order drawn up by County
of | Judge J. W Chandler outlining the
committee's duties and authority. \
Commissioners Monday alsoj
agreed that Deputy County Clerk . , , ...
,, eoslal church, through
Mrs Mildred V ulton, would assume „ , , ,
agent, has purchased
representa-
year s
II is reported that the
Court Holds Own
Cherokee County is twelfth in The list, compiled by the Texas
Texas for number of tax suits on Civil Judicial Council from inform-
its docket, according to the state's ation furnished by District Clerks,
ludiral statistics issued for 1959. showed that the county has other
The county had 896 old and new District Court litigation gathering
tax cases docketed on December dust, but no more generally than
31, 1959. other counties.
The state average for tax suits District Clerk Bill Parrott said
pending was 193.
On Phone
or.
Commissioners Monday morning
informally decided that the duties
of the office should devolve to Mrs.
Fulton, rather than making an in-
terim appointment to fill the vac-
ancy between July 1 and the Gen-
era! Election in November.
Her qualifications were certified
and Mrs. Fulton will make a bond
before assuming full duties as Act
i lie Clerk
erson and Cherokee County
said it was a Lone Star Steel pro-
of milk during the observance. j«'ct and he expected his findings
The event the first of its kind ,0 ,}e published in either book
to be observed locally —is being ("rm "r a series of articles.
held in connection with National: Ramsey remarked also that the Tht,y wcre fjIp(J jn connccti()n wj(h
Dairy Month, which is June. They company hoped to erect markers rjfíh( of.way acquisition
are to give recognition to the grow- at the historical sites with inscript- North section of the
ing dairy industry and its increas- ions identifying them. Asked point- Highway
ed prominence in the county econ edly if the project has more than. Rrn
omy. , a historical significance, he said
Cherokee County has 57 Grade- 11 ma.v tic with the plans already
A milk producers, according to announced by the company to loc-
Shelby Hood, manager of the South , atp ;i I'1*™1 i" 'his area if sufficient
zoned before il could take action "vps- " wus rt'lected when cham-
in this case Zoning, the council l)(r '"Wiations were resumed,
figured, would involve about a 'i,,('V('s sa|d <he company could on-
work. ! v ^ ccnts off the residence
4-part y phones, a move that would
have involved only about $531 per
year.
Mayor
Lufkin
lot in
Morris Hassell then re-
that the city at large was
area bounded by Texarkana, Jeff- . ,. . ,.
duties as Acting County Clerk on i , „ , „ „ ,
He July 1. when the resignation of ?uIoCk 2 ,of Bonner Park Manv of c« «d ,
County Clerk Elina Musick, Jr.,1 residents of the area object, well aware of the 6.36 return-on-
becomes effective. "n e grounds that it would de investment awarded to the General
And they were told that eight va,u<^<heir property and for other Telephone Company in a lawsuit
Texas Producers Association. Last 'ron oro can be obtained.
She told the Commissioners J'ear "H'>' produced 12,935,037 An earlier announcement by the
Court Monday she has no intention Pounds of milk, for which they company said a new method has
of seeking election to the office in w< paid $083,111.62. This is ex been discovered which makes the
the General Election. That appear- ilusiv<' of the salaries paid to em- processing of East Texas iron ore
condemnation eases had been filed. cons'('cratlons.
The petition Tuesday was pre
for the sentcfl hy C L Manning, Guv
county's ' hapman and B. F. Weatherly.
69 improvement pro-' Early in the hearing, John ()
Summers moved that a zoning pr"
gram be started by the city, with
the Bonner Park area g"tting firsl
consideration. Bui after more dis
cussion, he amended his mot;
to propose a comprehensive zon
i m
f lorida Vacation?
City Does
Lots Of
T a I king
the tax suits pending are those f'd 10 bt' a consideration in appoint
' which have accumulated over in« a successor to Musick since it
many decades, Some have been was felt "'at whoever was appoint-
paid or have otherwise become otl would have an advantage should
(See DAHtY Page 5)
Welcome New One
YOU MAY WIN
Be in Rusk from
2 4 P.M. Saturday
more practical.
in
District Court.
Why not find a rate bttween
6 36 and 6.59?" Reeves suggested.
Councilmen indicated they would
go no higher than the 6.36.
"Then would you accept a 6.40
per cent return?" Reeves asked.
Mayor Hassell countered: "Could
you go to 6.36?"
Reeves argued that figuring
rates may be made complicated by
ing program be studied, asking j accepting an art>itrary per cent-
the advise of the Texar, League of aRo fi?ure,.and asked thc city to
Municipalities
moot, but occasion has not arisen
for dismissal.
On December 31, 1959, there
j were 882 tax suits which had been
on the docket for more than five
>ears without trial. The state aver
age was 133.
SUIT COSTS
But the courts serving the coun-
ty appear to be gaining slowly on
You might conclude that Rusk j the docket.. In 1959, for example,
is a gabby city, seeing that it 22 tax suits were filed and 32 were
places about 11.750 telephone disposed of.
calls per day. And they're call- On the average it cost a little
ing more all the time less to have a suit tried in Chero-
Bill Sharbrough said that the kee County, The average cost in
last three-day survey of the Rusk Texas to try a contested civil case
exchange's traffic showed 35,115 was $48.41 in 1959, but it was
calls went through the equip- $42 75 in Cherokee County For un-
ment contested suits is was $12.35 local-
Local people place an average ly and $17 25 state average
of 472 calls per day, Sharbrough DIVORCES
reported The courts here disposed of 126
The exchange makes a regular divorce suits in 1959 resulting in
(heck every three months, but 69 divor.es granted But 134 eases
lately it has run the three-day were still pending at the end of
>tud> every month The surveys the year This w, three less than
ills the IH7 pending at the start of
month 1959 Filed during the
alls keeps I2'l .si ,!,* for divorce
(Ill CIVIL SUITS
show
num her
that thr
e mere..sin:; everj
The 11,750 daily ' ca
.■ equipment runnir
r cent of rapacity S
id The wa> traffic i
would crowd capad!
d of the year, he n<
not fur the addiiior
■ar were
rhrou
.row i rt
he decide to seek election to the
office.
Several potential candidates for
the office are reportedly gathering
signatures for petitions to have
their names printed on the (Jen
eral Election ballot.
The commissioners Monday ac-:
cepted the resignation of County
Clerk Musick, effective June 30.
He will become the County Audit-
or, succeeding J. Finan Smith,
whose resignation from the office
is effective June 30
Baptists
To Meet
The monthly meeting of the ('h
erokee County Baptist Brother
hood Association is scheduled to-
night at Mixon
A prominent Houston physician.
Di Bill Jester is scheduled to
••peak tn the atheriru: Mr Jester
is the -on of the late I>r T C
Jester prominent Baptist leader
■ ho died a decade ago
The dinner is scheduled i.. b"..m
Alto To Honor Departing Doctor
Zoning would involve prepara-
tion of a city map, estimated to
cost several thousand dollars, and
detailed study of each area to be
zoned.
The city could offer no immedi
ate help to the Ronner Park resi
dents and left !he situr.tion to
private negotiations.
ALTO- Alto area people Satur-
day night will extend a farewell
tribute to its beloved Dr. R. E.
Rossman and at the same time wel
come a new doctor to town.
The area's citizens will express Dr. II. I>orain Evans, new doctor ital in Longview for the past year. I Mrs. Bob Hatchctt and Mr. Hatch ) they would then write a letter of
their appreciation to Dr. Rossman for the community, will be pre- He ;■ . a graduate ol Baylor Univ-1 ett of Houston, and her daughter, - acceptance.
at a Doctor's Appreciation social, sented and welcomed at the affair, eruty ind he completed his med-1 Mrs Carl Everett, of Gladewater
sponsored by individuals and Dr. Evans will move to Alto short- -0
groups of Alto. The affair will be ly after July 6, according to Alto'VISIT MRS. WIGHTMAN
held in the Alto High School gym-1 Baptist Minister, the Rev. Bill5 Guests of Mrs. John Wighlman
nasium beginning at 7:30 Satur- Morgan. Dr. Evans has been county ¡ last wookend were her sisters, Mrs.
day evening. physician with the County
pass an ordinance stating that new
rates would be effective, not to
exceed 6.40 per cent return on
investment. "Then we could figure
out the rates, either 6.37, 6.38."
"You can figure that 6.36. Now,
I know," Mayor Hassell argued.
Reeves still plugged for the
640 and John O. Summers was
joined by other councilmen in flat-
ly rejecting anything above 6.36.
Finally Reeves said that if the city
would pass an ordinance accepting
the 6.36 return, he would notify
the
company's Brown wood head-
Hosp- j James Ryman and Mr. Ryman and quarters and if they accepted it
TPEA Head To Speak For
Hospital's Homecoming
Jehu II Hollyfield, president of
the Texas Public Employees Assoc
laiion, will be the speaker for the
annual Rusk State Hospital home
turning Monday night
Hollyfield will speak to an ex
peeled 200 former and retired em
piny ees and others in the
prog ram of the event
Former employees will
i/.ed.
The event is sponsored annual
ly by the Hospital's TPEA chapter
Mayo Starkev will be master ot
evenini
Of
i eretnonu
gifts will
er empli
erest dlsl
the
• ■sent
br charle
riiii. ml. ni
mil
During the program,
pre-i nted to the form
ee traveling the farth
nee ini urn to the nent
ildest former employee
ícpI school at the Southwestern
Medical College in Dallas.
He and his wife Charollet have
one son, Paul.
I)r Rossman, who has served
Alto for the past six years, will
go to Houston June 27 where he
will begin advanced study at the
University of Texas Medical
Branch Dr Rossman and his wife.
Mar> have four children. Mike.
Pat, Cindy and Mark
Everyone m central and south
( herokee County has been issued
a special invitation to alltend tlv
event Saturday night Free refresh-
ments will be served
(See SOUTHWESTERN Page 5)
Condemnation Hearings
Slated For Eight Cases
A three man commission will Route 2, Bullard, L. J. Pope of
conduct condemnation hearings Route 4. Jacksonville; W. W. Bo-
in eight cases June 23 Involved one of Mt Selman, T. J. Temple,
is property for right of way for the of Mt Selman, Fred Kirby of Mt.
widening of Highway 69 between Selman, and L M. Turney and
liill W.'il Shalluck is gi
chairman of the observance
Mor an. associate chairman,
char.1, ol the program Jame.
it.it i"
fl 15
¡hill
of pres.
'hi the r\
riera I
Itev
Is III
Dov
lain íes
wine'
Jacksonville and Bullard
The commission will hear part
íes tu the proceedings who have
disagreed on the value of the pro-
perty or damages offered Hear-
ings will he in the County Court
room beginning at ti Commission
members arc Allen Goforth, W It
Hooper and L E Martin
Defendant* are R V Dublin. Jr.
oi Jacksonville, W F llraly of
Cecil Carlton
Amounts of land that will be
al feeted m each case are as fol-
lows.
Dublin, 2.65 acres; Hraly, 0.70
acres. Pope. I 02 acres; Boone, 11-
98 acres and 04 acre; Temple, 0.40
acre: Turney, 35 acre and an ease-
im nt oil 0.21 acre: Carlton, .17
acre: Kirby. 0.27 acre and 1.91
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