The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1961 Page: 7 of 12
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The Cherokeean • Cherokee County Section
THE CHEROKEEAN of Rusk, Texas
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SAC BOMBER ROUTE
County Rail Workers Add To Economy
Cherokee County's sixty-nine
railroad employees contribute
$414,138 to the economy of the
atea each year, the Texas Rail-
road Association said.
But this figure may well be
conservative, the TRA release
asserted. It is based upon a con-
sumer report by the U.S. De-
partment of Labor, which shows
the average employee in all in-
dustries spends $6,002 each
year. The average pay of rail-
road workers this year is $6,270,
an increase of $1,661 in the last
five years.
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The TRA pointed out that ex-
penditures by employees is in
addition to large sums spent by
the railroads in purchase of sup-
plies, equipment and for taxes.
Latest figures available for
the railroads show that they
paid $49,292 in taxes in Chero-
kee County for the benefit of
schools, county and city opera-
tions and for road and bridge
funds in 1959, the release said.
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Otrice Loftis
Is Promoted
Specialist 4
VILSECK, GERMANY (AHTNC)
Otrice A. Loftis, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles II. Loftis, Rt.
2, Jacksonville, recently was
promoted to specialists four in
Vilseck, Germany, where he is
a member of the 663rd Ordance
Company.
An ammunition storage spec-
ialist in the company, he enter-
ed the Army in May 1959, com-
pleted basic training at Fort
Hood, Texas, and arrived over-
seas last August.
The 21-year-old soldier is a
1959 graduate of Fred Douglass
High School.
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My Neighbors
Jet Bombers To Descend Near Alto
For Series of Mock Air Attacks
OFFUT AFB, Neb.—Jet bomb-
er crews of the Strategic Air
Command will begin flying mis-
sions on Jan. 1 against simulat-
ed targets near Greenville, Miss.
They will use a low-level en-
try point near Alto.
The bombers will enter the
route at high altitude beginning
over Lufkin. But when they ar-
rive at the low-level entry point
near Alto, they will descend to
an altitude of between 1,500 and
2,000 feet and fly over a route
10 to 20 miles wide into the tar-
get.
At the target area near Green-
ville, radar bomb scoring equip-
ment mounted on an Air Force
train parked near the target
will score the accuracy of simu-
lated bomb drops by means of
None Filed With Demo
Chairman by Saturday
No candidates had officially New Summerfield area where
filed for places on the Demo-
cratic Primary ballot, County
Democratic Chairman A. N. Bar-
ber reported last weekend.
Barber said he does not ex-
pect many to file before the
first of the year although some
have been to talk with him.
He*said he has received sev-
eral inquiries on filing from the
Study of
Trinity
Supported
The Seventh District's two
unofficial candidates for con-
gressman endorsed develop-
ment of the Trinity River in
statements last week.
Congressman John Dowdy re-
marked that "In location and
extent there is no river system
better suited for development
to serve the needs of the people
than is the Trinity." Dowdy's
statements were made to the
hearing in Fort Worth on the
Trinity River basin.
Benton Musslewhite, Lufkin
lawyer, in a statement filed be-
fore the hearing termed the
forthcoming report on the pro-
ject "a blueprint for East Texas
development that all progres-
sive minded citizens can sup*
port with enthusiasm."
Dowdy told the panel that the
people of his district support
the development of the Trinity
basin. He noted that Texas sen-
ators and representatives of ri-
val parties have supported the
move.
"Its potentials in the indus-
trial life of this large and pop-
ulated section (East Texas) of
Texas defy the imagination,"
Dowdy said of the Trinity.
Musslewhite said the Trinity,
properly developed, can mean
"a new economic era of pros-
perity for East Texas."
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a commissioner will be elected
in 1962.
Farther, he said he expected
a number of interesting races in
the Democratic primaries this
spring.
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when I was a boy."
radio and radar signals.
SAC planes making the simu-
lated runs will be B-47, B-52
and B 58 bombers.
All target and route selec-
tions have been coordinated
with the Federal Aviation
Agency. Populated areas and
areas of heaviest air traffic will
be avoided.
The RBS Express, designation
for the mobile radar bomb scor-
ing site, will inject more realism
into SAC's training program,
providing crews with a wider
range of unfamiliar targets and
unfamiliar routes.
This will be done by moving
the RBS site to a new geograph-
ical location every 45 days to
simulate new and different tar-
get areas. With each relocation,
a new route, terminating near
RBS Express will be implement-
ed.
Low level bombing and navi-
gation training has been con-
ducted against fixed sites under
the code name "Oil Burner"
since November 1959, and these
will continue in use in addition
to mobile sites, to provide SAC
aircrews all-weather operational
training.
The RBS train v ll carry
about 65 Air Force personnel.
These will be radar and elec-
tronic technicians and person-
nel needed to operate the train
and furnish other support. Civil-
ian train crews will move the
train between target complexes.
Each train has 10 cars carry-
ing radar and communications
equipment, fuel and supplies.
Electronics equipment aboard
the train will be used to jam the
aircraft's radar during the bomb
runs against targets. Bomber
crews will use electronic coun-
termeasures to overcome the
jamming while attempting to
pinpoint targets.
The trains consist of existing
U.S. Army stock from the Ogden
General Depot in Utah.
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Moseley's Drug
"YOUR ONE-STOP DRUG CENTER"
RUSK TEXAS
The
Best wishes to you in the coming year.
witu our heartiest thanks
{or favoring us with your patronage
and good win.
Citizens State Bank
MEMBER F. D. I. C.
RUSK TEXAS
I Cherokeean
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Greetings
of the New Year
flying high an our hopet that your
Year wiU te e prosperous and happy o*$l
Bearden Furniture Co.
RUSK, JACKSONVIl
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The Smart Shop's
SALE!
AFTER CHRISTMAS
THRU SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30
LADIES DRESSES
REG. $11.95 to $14.95
REG. $15.95 to $18.95
BROKEN SIZES
NOW
NOW ONLY
$Q95
NOW 3
$1295
$coo
ONE GROUP SUITS BROKEN SIZES REG. $25.00
$1 n°°
NOW IV
ALL WINTER COATS eludes cashmere
30% OFF
ALL LINGERIE
20% OFF
LARKWOOD and GOTHAM
HOSE REGULAR $1.35
$0.30
3 PAIR 0
WOOL SWEATERS reg. $12.95 to $14.95
$095
NOW 51
WOOL SKIRTS REG. $12.95 to $14.95
$Q95
NOW 3
SHIP 'N shore
BLOUSES REG. $3.95
$088
NOW L
QUILTED and CORDUROY
HOUSE COATS
30% OFF
STETSON GLOVES
20% OFF
COSTUME JEWELRY
1/2 PRICE
FALL HATS reg. $8.95 to $12.95
$400
NOW 0
ALL SALES CASH - NO RErUNDS - NO EXCHANGE
The Smart Shop
WEST SIDE OF SQUARE
RUSK,TEXAS
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1961, newspaper, December 28, 1961; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150424/m1/7/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.