The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1963 Page: 8 of 14
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BCrPW Club
Selects Two
Awardees
A business moot ins of the
Rusk B&PW Club was held
Thursday. May 9th in Communi-
ty Room of Rusk Federal Sav-
ings and Loan. Hostesses were
Mmes. Thelma Jones and Ruby
Deaton.
Others present included Pres-
ident Maudie Musick. Bernice ¡
Looney. Mable Horn, Ruby Ross, j
Gladys Evans. Billie MeVicker, t
Louise Cromwell, Lena Bell Pir-
tle and Rita Beckworth was a |
guest.
During the session, plans were
made to write letters of wel
come to three new members;
new membership fees were ap-
proved; and two scholarship
awardees were chosen to re-
ceive the club's nursing scho-
larship.
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HDC Discusses
Knitting School,
State Meeting
The Cherokee County Home
Demonstration Council m e t
Tuesday morning with Mrs
Nellie Sincletary, vice chair-
man. presiding in the absence
of chairman Mrs. .James Pries-
ley.
Five of eight of the county
clubs were represented.
One of the first items of
business was the acceptance of i
the resignation of Mrs. Bill
Avera, secretary. A committee i
of Mrs Ruvy Walker, Mrs. J.D. i
Rogers, and Mrs. Harvey Wat- J
kins was appointed to present
a name for her replacement at
the next meeting.
Those attending the Texas'
Home Demonstration Associa-'
tion meet in Center reported
on the trip An area meet is
scheduled in Trinidad August
5, 6. and 7.
Dates were set for the knitt-
ing school. It will be held in
Rusk June 2 and in Jacksonville
June 18.
Other discussion concerned
the three-day state THDA meet-,
ing which will be held in San
Antonio September 17, 18, and I
19. A chartered bus from this j
district will be taken to the!
meeting. The round trip ticket |
will cost $12 25 said Mrs. Irene ¡
Odem, county Home Demonstra-
tion Agent. Further information
may be obtained from Mrs.
Odem.
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P-TA BENEFIT
Hoedown
ComingTo
Maydelle
Maydelle P-TA members have
announced the presentation of
the Winona Hoedown again at
the Maydelle Gym, this Friday
evening, 8 p.m.
Proceeds are to be used to
help pay for basketball suits
for both boys and girls teams
at Maydelle.
Bob McGce will sene as em-
cee of the program, which is
to feature James O'Guinn of
Grand Ole Opry fame. Jim and
Louise, Bobby Duckworth, Joe
Gardner. The Texan Quartet,!
Bobby Stone, and all the regu- j
lar Hoedown members.
Admission is to be $1.00 for
adults and 25c for children.
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VISITS HERE
Mrs. M. B Ellis had as her
guests last Wednesday her son,
Elzie of Dallas and Mr. Lynn
Penny of Sacramento, Calif.
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GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY
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Foreign Work
To Be Topic
Of GA Tolk
An Associational Girls Auxil-
iary meeting of the Cherokee
County Baptist Association is
planned Saturday, May 18th at
i Central Baptist Church in Jack-
sonville. The meeting is sched-
uled from 2 to 4 p.m., and will
feature as guest speaker, Rev.
Lamoin Champ, pastor of the
South Side Baptist Church in
Palestine. Rev. Champ has just
returned from Japan, where he
| participated in the initiation of
the "New Life Movement". His
talk will bo in connection with
his work there.
I All Intermediate and Junior
¡ GA's are invited and urged to
attend this meeting, state local
: leaders.
THE CHEROKEEAN of Rusk. Texas
THURSDAY, MAY I , 1M! 'AO« «ICHT
Lionesses Elect Norma
Daniel President Thursday
The Rusk Lioness Club met i ginia Edwards was presented
May 9th at Pineview with Jean (the door prize.
Van Cleave and Jacque Whit- j Fourteen members were pres-
ten serving as hostesses. Cnt.
The tables held attractive ar-
rangements of spring flowers.
Invocation was offered by Nor-
ma Daniel.
The following slate of offi-
cers for the new year were
elected: president, Norma Dan-
iel; vice president, Norma
Black; secretary-treasurer, Joy
Slover; reporter, Opal Fitts.
These leaders will be installed |
in a joint meeting with the
Lions Cub on the evening of
June 13th.
Mrs. Black was awarded the!
day's free show tickets and Vir-
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Mj Neighbor*
Honoree at a party given by Mrs. Lawrence Clayton and
Mrs. Doug Jordan at the Clayton home Monday evening was
Miss Judy Ramey. Present at the pre-graduation event were
left to right Misses Diann Banks, Kathy Lindsay, Ruth Ann
To Serve As Interim Postor Here
Hill, brenda Hendricks, Mary Ann Mayes, Judy Ramey, Sue
Vining, Janis Nicholson, Sherrell Bothwell and hostesses
Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. Clajton and Miss Vivkie Jordan.
Dr. Jesse Rodman Wilson of
Wells, retired Presbyterian min-
ister, is to serve as interim pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church in Rusk, announces
Robert A. von Doenhoff, Elder.
Dr. Wilson's topic Sunday
morning is to be "A Sure Har-
vest.''
Until Scpctmbcr 30, 1958, Dr
Wilson was one of the secre-
taries of the International Mis-
sionary Council attached to the
Council's New York office. He
was born in Fort Worth, Texas,
on May 22, 1892. From the Fort
Worth High School, he entered
The University of Texas at
Austin, Texas, and was gradual
ed with Phi Beta Kappa honors
in 1915. Later, he studied at
the Southern Baptist .Theologi-
cal Seminary, at Columbia Uni
versity, and at Yale Divinity!
School. From Yale he received
a B.D. degree in 1921. in 1937,
Berkely Baptist Divinity School
conferred on him the degree of
Doctor of Divinity. For many
years he has been included in
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.
Dr. Wilson served for two
years as State Student Secre-
tary of the Texas State Y.M.C.A.
For one year he traveled for
the Student Volunteer Move-
To Present
Students In
Recital Sun.
Mrs. Maggie Baxter will pre-
sent her piano students in re-
cital at the Reklaw Baptist
Church, Sunday, May 19th. The
event begins at 2:30 p.m.
Mrs. Baxter and students ex-
tend a cordial invitation to the
public to attend.
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Wednesda)
Club Feted
At Lunch
Mrs J. C. Turney was hostess
to the Wednesday Social Club
May 8th at her home .
On arrival the guests were
served chicken salad, party
crackers, banana cream pie and
coffee.
Four games of 42 were played
by members, Mmes. Fallen Brew-
ster. Louis Butler, T. It. Cobble,
A. E. Elliott, C. H. Fitts. W.H.
Hanna, A. S. Moore, Forest Rea-
gan. M. 11. Schluter, John Wight-
man. Guests were Mrs. I). T.
Cavaness and Miss May Gibson.
Mrs. Elliott won high for club
members and Mrs. Cavaness won
high for the guests.
Hanna Real Estate Agency
In Cherokee County
Abstract Co. Office
Office Phone MU M044 RmModco Phono MU 3-4747
Almost new two bedroom, brick veneer home. Carpeted,
all utilities. Inquire for price.
Lovely, practically new, brick veneer home on hard sur
faced FM road. Living room, 16x24; 3 bedroom*; bathroom
0x12; has built in chest of drawers and dressing table;
combination kitchen and dining room; storage room 6'ixl2;
nearly 4 acres of land. Good well with pump, also ever-
lasting water on land. School bus and mail route. Inquire
for price.
Two small homes for sale. Each has 3 rooms and bath.
Ideal for 1 person or couple. One can be sold to be moved.
Brick veneer home with living room, combination dining
room and kitchen, 4 bedrooms, ceramic tile bath, carport
and storage room. One and one-half acres of land, spring,
well with pump and butane. Inquire for price.
50 ace tract, ideally located on 4-lane highway.
Large tract of land with running water. Long frontage on
Highway between Rusk and Maydelle.
FOR RENT: House, 3 rooms and bath, close in.
nu'nt among the colleges in
the United States. From 1921 ot
1926, he was a missionary to
Japan of the American Baptist
Foreign Mission Society. Re-
turning to the United States.
Dr. Wilson served for one year
as Associate General Secretary
and for eight and a half years
as General Secretary of the
Student Volunteer Movement of
the United Stales and Canada
In 1936, he became an Associate
Secretary of the American Bap-
tist Foreign Mission Society, and
on November 1, 1940, he be-
came the Home Secretary of
that Society. It was one of the
secretaries of the International
Missionary Council.
Dr. Wilson has visited Kurope
on several occasions and has
traveled around the world twice
in the interest of world mis-
sions. He has attended all the
major conferences < f the I.M.C.
—Jerusalem in 1928, Madras,
India, in 1938; Whitby, Canada
in 1947, Willingen, Germany,
in 1952; and Ghana, Africa,
over the year-end of 1957-1958.
He was also an accredited visi-
Joins Staff
As Coach At
| Henderson
Charles Franklin, Rusk High
School assistant football coach
and head basketball coach, has
tendered his resignation, to ac-
cept a position on the coach
ing staff at Henderson.
Franklin in announcing his
new position as backfield coach
for Henderson said today, "I've
enjoyed teaching here, living in
Rusk, and feel that it was a
step-up in my coaching career.
We'll regret leaving our many
friends."
The Henderson School Board
recently named Coach Jack Fry
Athletic Director with a two¡
year contract, and authorized his
re-organization of the athletic j
department.
Henderson plays in District;
7AAA.
Franklin will also carry some
. teaching assignments in his new
job.
1 As a member of the coaching
staff here, the Eagles his first
year hail a 6-3-1 record, and
this past season posted a 9-2
record.
Coach Franklin and Mrs.
Franklin are members of the
Rusk First Methodist Church,
and she was an active member
of the Omicron Gamma Chap-
ter of Beta Sigma Phi.
Mrs. Franklin will also teach
at Henderson, in the Elemen- j
tary School.
He is a native of Carlisle.
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Schools Are
Relatively
Free Of TB j
TB tests in the Rusk Schools,1
first grades, eighth and Seniors,
plus 90"! of the faculty and
cafeteria worker at the white
schools and the entire system
of George Bradford Colored
j school, have been held.
Mrs. Edna Harkins, executive
director of the County TB As
sociatifm reports that of this
| large group tested, only one
reactor was found—a teenager
in the Bradford School. A fol-
low-up test has been made
She noted that it is impor
tant for persons to remember
that once found a reactor to
TB testing, thai person should
have frequent and regular tests
made.
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Mrs. Jack Partridge had as
guests Mother's day. Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Mehaffey and (laugh-
1 ler Nancy of Rockdale.
tor to the Fvanston meeting of
the World Council of ('burches
in 1954, and a consultant at the
North American Conference on
Faith and Order in Oberlin,
September 1957.
Among Dr. Wilson's writings
are tile following; MEN AND
WOMEN OF FAR HORIZONS.
1935; FORWARD THROUGH
THE AGKS. I.,., ; THE CHUB
('II SERVES THE WORLD.
1941. AMERICAN BAPTISTS
OVERSEAS. 1954; I AM A
CHRISTIAN (Revised Edition
1954); LIGHT IN A DARK
WORLD, 1957. Dr. Wilson may
now be addressed, Cedar
Springs Road, Wells, Texas.
Band Sponsors
Twirling Camp
The Rusk High School Band
will sponsor ils second annual
Twirling Camp May 27 through
31 according to I.ester Hughes,
director.
The camp will be held on the
high school campus, in the band
hall, and the gym.
Instructors for the week-long
! camp will be Georgaune Thomp-
! son. Baytown: and Muida Shoe-
maker. Baytown. Cost of the
training school is $5.00.
Instruction will be given be-1
ginners, intvrmediatcs, and ad- ¡
vanced students in separate!
groups.
A program will be held Fri-
day afternoon for each group to
perform as well as individuals. ¡
In the individual contest, com-
petition will be in strutt, time
tosses and Little Joe flips.
Awards will be given in each
classification.
New Senior MYF
Officers Are
Recently Named
New officers of Senior MYF,
First Methodist Church, have
been elected.
They are: president, Mike Mc-
Kay; vice president, Stephanie
Cox; secretary, Nancy Guinri;
treasurer. Norleine Morgan; and
MY fund, Dotty McClure.
Sorority To
Hold Final
Meet Monday
Mines. Sue Kyle and Joy
Slover are hostesses Monday
night for the final meeting of
iliis fiscal year of Omicron
Gamma Chapter of Beta Sigma
Phi.
To meet at 7:30, members
I will bear a talk on "Substance
for the Art of Life"- The Beau
tiful'. by Martha Ramey.
Why Pay Real?
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WITH A LONG TERM
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Rusk Federal
SAVINGS AND, LOAN
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; * lbs 59'
HUNT'S
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NO. 21 CANS
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5
NO. 1
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s "m 29'
FRESH CHUCK
ROAST
¡ 45'
FOREMOST
Mellorine
\ GAL.
35'
DR. SUTTON
Dog Food
LIMIT 6
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• Seat edges rounded
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I Brilliant, lasting colon
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• larqe seats—19"
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• Steel frame under
seat for solid support
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1963, newspaper, May 16, 1963; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150496/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.