The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1960 Page: 10 of 24
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The Cherokeean
PA6I TWO
OCTOBER 27, 1M0
'Whata The Next Miserable, Rundown,
Backward Toicn We Stop At?"
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STin CAPITA! NEWS
^EDITORIALS ★
Democracy's Mechanics
Volunteer Service Irreplacable
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Probably there have been few cam-
paign* in the history of American politic
which will match the 1960 campaign for
pure political confusion.
There have naver been so many varied
and conflicting issue* to test the party label.
Wor have parti and candidates ever had so
many blocs, and geographical and economic
Cleavage to which they must make appeals.
A vole-getting promise at one end of
the country is a liability at the other end.
John Kennedy upend, much of his early cam-
paign rationalizing his region. Richard
. Nixon had to take pains not to be anti-
Canholic and spend two days explaining the
"trver-zeal'rtis cabinet promises of his New
England - oriented running mate, Cabot
Lodge.
But through it all. an interesting pic-
No Frontiersman
The form letter from Ba ley T Tally.
M. D. of North Carolina, which arrived here
noted that it v>*a.- no: intended to be against
either Republicans or Democrats.
His principal m ssage was this:
"Can a democracy die? It is possible for
such a government as we have here in the
United .Stales—a government of the people,
by the people, and for the pwple—to perish.
The an w< r i* written in the pages of hist-
ory.
"Hi tory shows there arc nine steps
from the Ixrginning to the fal! of a democr-
acy History also records the average 1 ngth
of life for a democracy has been only 200
years Here are the nine steps: First, the
people go from bondage to spiritual faith,
from ¡ritual fai^h they move to courage,
from couragf they move to liberty, from lib-
erty they move to abundance, and from a-
bundan e hey become materialistic, instead
of spirr.uai. They 1 they have no need for
God . . . like the man in the Bible who nad a
graat harvest, so he tore down hi- bams and
built new ones and said, 'I'M NOT I.IKK
MY NEIGHBOR. I HAVE GREAT A-
BUNDANCE AND DO NOT NEED GOD.'
Ami then h , as we are now doing, move* to
complacency and then to apathy and depend-
ence, usually on the largess of centralized
government, which constitutes the eighth
step. Then the people take the final step into
the chains of bondage."
Front irsrnen don'ttalk like that. Dck--
tor.
LETTER TO EDITOR
tare begins to suggest itaelf. The South, re-
acting to pompous national Democratic lead-
ership. is no longer "solid". Nobody can pro-
mise to deliver so much as a county to one
column or the other
The peep I i of the South are virtually
the same people. Their interests are largely
the same. When their party once again re-
cognize* their interests, rather than con-
descending to accept their vote for the sake
of sentiment, th«y will return to that party
in numbers that will preclude any national
election anxiety.
The people of '.he South are like any
other people. They are not going to vote
against themselves. You can call it traitor-
ous, stupid, ignorant, anything you like. It
still remain - the plain mechanics of a demo-
cracy,
Progress in Communications
If -chools ha/1 progressed along with
raijo and TV stations, this week they would
have g .'ten a letter from a U. S. Senator
warning them that all complaints in con-
n ict i on with classroom teaching must be re-
ported promptly to a Senate sub-committee
within 21 hours and a follow-up report ad-
vising the senators the action taker; by the
school and the disposition in the handling of
said complaint.
Radio arui TV stations, you know, are
federally licensed. Therefore, this year saw
¿he advent of a "watchdog" committee to
"review and examir • . . information and
complaints concerning the dissemination of
news by such media."
The sub-commitbe's "request" to sta-
tions was made so it could "better assure
fulfillment of the national policy of fairness
and impartially in the use in political cam-
paigns of communications media operating
under i iovemment license . . '
In other words, the federal government
• -f'A "national poJiVy" in the^e We will
mourn the ay when all th - press is stan-
dardized, when "national policy" rules out
all pr> -• freedom, and when ed^ -ation. be-
< avisi' ¡t ha^ fe/leral 'íes. is -ubje<'te<l to
watchd'tgism.
But S«m. Varbrough, who is chairman of
th • Subcommittee on Freedom of Communic-
ations, •• not so extreme.
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State Board Of
Postpones Rate-
RATE DECISION POSTPONED—
State Board of Insurance voted 2-
to-1 not to adopt a recommended
19 3 per cent rate increase in cer-
tain type? of auto insurance
Board mernt^n ft W Strain and
Ned f'nte said they wanted lo
study the n<w safe driving plan
more before approving any rate
changes They have be*n at odds
with Board Chairman Penn J Jack-
son who has recently advocated
abolishment of mandator/ merit
rating To scrap ment rating, said
Dr Strain, would penaliie the TO
per cent of drivers who earn a dis-
count for good driving records
Board also refused by a 2-1 vote
to allow insurance companies to
disregard penalties against drivers
Insurance
-Hike Talk
By Vem Senford
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN—For years a high chain
Lnk fence marked the back bound-
ary of tile Austin State Hospital
grounds
Sturdy and forbiddng. with in-
turned barlx-d wire at the top, it
was a fence that suggested the
plight of the people it confined. It
waj a depressing, prison-like, mile-
long fence that paralleled Lamar,
one of Austin's busiest boulevards.
Now, each spring. Austinites
make a point of driving out Lamar
to see the mass of climbing red
rose* covering the fence. Today
this long stretch of roses is a sym-
bol of the change that has come
to state hospitals during the past
10 years a.s a result of volunteer
services
University engineering students
donated and planted the rose
bushes Thousands of people over
the state have landscaped the
grounds, redecorated the dining
halls and reception rooms, built
swimming pools, given parties,
conducted classes, wrapped gifts
ELECTION YEAR SAYINGS
and in hundreds of other ways
brought beauty and warmth to
state hospitals and schools.
In its fall report the Stat* Hos-
pital Volunteer Services Council
shows that volunteers gave 163.904
hours of time to state institutions
during the past year. Figured at
only SI per hour and adding in
contributions of food, ctething,
prizes, furniture, etc, volunteers
enriched life in state institutions
by more than $538,996 during the
year This does not count consider-
able sums collected for all-faith
chapeLs at several schools and hos-
pitals.
Last year. 36.000 citizens went
into 18 different state hospitals
and schools to do volunteer work.
Impact of these volunteers is
two-fold, says Miss Helen Colburn,
coordinator of volunteer services
for the State Hospital Board.
First, they help to create a plea-
sant environment which gives pat-
ients a better chance to respond
to medical treatment.
Second, the volunteers learn the
problems of the hospitals and
schools and are an effective force
in educating the community as to
needs and goals.
"Sute money can't be spent for
pictures or parties or «winuning
pools," said Miss Colburn. "it has
to go for beds and food. But these
other things are important Pati-
ents respond to environment, and
they respond to people. And they
know the difference between peo-
ple who are paid and people who
come to help them out of sheer
kindness."
Right now the volunteers are
getting ready for their biggett un-
dertaking of each year—Christmas.
It means securing, wrapping aad
tagging about 26,000 gifts to keep
up a three-year record of having
a gift for each patient in the state
system. It means decorations, trees,
parties and caroling. In some cases
it means setting up shops where
patients can get gifts to send to
their families—often more ardent-
ly desired by the patient than a
gift for himself.
involved in accidents presumably
not their fault. This must be de-
cided by a court, said Strain and
Price
Very few drivers seem to mind
paying higher accident insurance
rates because they are involved in
accidents But many do resent the
assessment of a penalty based on
traffic tickets issued. Especially
tickets they feel were not war-
ranted.
Still others contend that they
are insuring their cars against ac-
cidents and not insuring them-
selves against traffic fines There-
fore if they are paying a premium
for fines they should be reim-
bursed for those tines
The Candidate Declared . . .
DECAY OF CITIES
One of the significant develop-
ments of this campaign is the
amount of attention being focused
on the problem of America's cit-
ies, which are increasingly beset
by decay from within and the pres-
sure of suburbia from without.
Senator Kennedy all along has
placed mayor emphasis on Demo-
cratic programs to deal with
spreading slums and other urban
problems His effort to organize
a massive national attack on "the
new urban frontier, which exists
in every city of America and in
its surburbs, was given another
dramatic push forward at the
Urban Affairs Conference which
was held in Pittsburgh on Oct. 10
at the call of Senator Kennedy.
—Democratic Editorial Service
"I like fairy stones as well as
the next fellow, but let's not con-
fuse 'the house that Jack Built'
with the solid progress of the
Eisenhower Housing programs for
all the people of America."
U S Housing Administrator
Norman P. Mason, conceding a
prior concern with facts as op-
posed to fancies, thus accused Sen.
Kennedy of 'irresponsible state-
ments" before a recent housing
parley in Pittsburgh.
Denying any stalling on urban
renewal. Mason said that not one
Mayor present had a single
Urban Renewal Program that had
not been attended to.
—Political Reporter
(Republican)
THE CHEROKEEAN
Tnw' eldest weekly newspaper, lMt fe-
lis*^ by the K. H. Whitehead RnUr-
prineH.
B. H. WHITEHEAD, feMtor * Publisher
fil.KNN BROWN. Editor
MRS. E. H. WHITEHEAD. Office and
Boshuui Manager
entered xa mfimd «1am matter at ü10
in Rusk. Texas under act tf
March 3. 1879.
Any rroa«ouft reflation pe* t h «
character, «land in* or rep a ta lian af any
ptrvm. firm ar corporation whieh may
appear in the column* af tfcfc new .
pxp*r oill We corrected upon beta*
brought to the attention mt the pub-
lisher.
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Know Your Neighbors-
CHEROKEE COUNTY'S INDUSTRIES
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Town Has Prospered In Last 8 Years
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both have more than dou wronü Many people ha-.r been
<i in su ' And across the p.untMl i,j it But what party
street is another large service sta started this program'' It was not
tion The*e are just some of the ttu' 'tepublkaas, but the Kepubl-
We believe it a good idea to sit K
down once in a while and think t,
about what our town has done. Ks-
pe<:tally should that be true during
a political campaign, when people .
r . , , . improvement* I see in Rusk dur-
are trying to decide what poIiUcal R bli proiI>rrity wHh it because of the Democrat major
party has done the most for them, * " lU ,n thr Senate and House
and which one -ill continue to ^ ln ^ j pomn „
need more of this. J *errin wiuis
We know our farm program is Rusk, Texas
icans have tx-t'n unable to change
build America
In Rusk, and in the area sur
rwr.¿r.í Rusk, there has been
tttiilt íkS rw.ect years more beauti-
ful hornet than during all the
previous thirty years. These homes
run in sue from modest to more
than $40.000 in cost. Even ten
years ago, who would have
thought there would be such a
building program in Rusk:
Then let' think about our fin-
ancial institution During the past
eight years, the Tirst FMeral Sav-
ings and Loan has almost tripled
in amts. Our two fine banks
have more than doubled in de
ports.
v And what about business'' Take
í look around North Main and
Highway 00. There you will find
three of the finest automobile
dealerships in East Texas. Two
large, modern filling stations and
one oí the finest restaurants Then
come oa beck towards town There
is one dress factory, two nice groc-
ery stores. In and around the
square, there's KTLU—one of the
nected with the Busk Cherokeean,
which itself has more than tripled
in size daring the past eight
Our
have stayed in
and many of them have
8outh
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1960, newspaper, October 27, 1960; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150363/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.