The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 1972 Page: 2 of 16
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PAGE TWO-THE CHEROKEEAN OP RUSK, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1971
The Cherokeean
Ts Amend Or Not To Amend?
Voters will accept or reject 14 constitutional amendments on
the Nov. 7 general election ballot. One of these could put an end
to such a preponderance of decisions in the future.
lilis is proposal No. 4 which, if approved, would "grant
authority to the legislature to establish a constitutional revision
commission which would report its recommendations no later
than Nov. 1, 1973 and provide that members of the 63rd
Legislature would then be convened in January 1974 as a
constitutional convention to serve 60 days for the purpose of
drafting a new consittution for submission to the voters of
Texas."
Many have suggested that the present 96-year old document
should be revised and updated to suit present needs.
Amendment 4 has been criticized because some say it seems
to give the legislative branch an undue advantage over the
executive and judicial branches, although probably no more so
than in the present amendatory process. On the other hand,
many citizens think the Consitution should be updated in some
manner on specific or general principles. It may be a case of
"buy now or wait for a better offer" which may or may not be
worth waiting for.
Since the constitution was adopted in 1876, a total of 335
amendments have been proposed. However, in some elections
more than one proposed amendment was submitted in one
proposal, thus only 324 have appeared separately on ballots.
And Nov. 7 makes 14 more. So the vote goes on...until
legislators write a new document which will eliminate the
constant need for amendment. Need we say more about
Amendment 4?
The amendments on the general election ballot for Nov. 7 in
the order of appearances are listed.
1. To increase salaries of Texas legislators from $4,800 to $8,400
a year. (Most unbiased observers think a little increase would
be in order. Texas pays about one fourth as much as California.)
2. To abolish the Lamar County Hospital District. (Seems
there's no other way to legally handle this routine business.)
3. To require all justices of the peace to be paid on a salary
basis. (Smaller counties mav want to keep the fee system of
compensation.)
4. To direct the new Legislature to set up a commission to
revise the state constitution, meet in January, 1974 to consider
the revision and decide what proposals should bi submitted to
the electorate.
5. To allow certain tax exemptions for disabled veterans,
dependents and survivors.
6. To permit local governments to exempt not less than $3,000
of the value of residence homesteads of persons 65 or older from
local property taxes.
7. Women's rights verified by constitutional provision.
8. To provide four year terms of office for governor, lieutenant
governor, attorney general, comptroller of public accounts,
treasurer, commissioner of the general land office and certain
statutory state officers
9. To exempt directors of soil and water conservation districts
from constitutional prohibition against holding more than one
office.
10. To allow submission of constitutional amendments at
Special Sessions.
11. To provide a salary of $22,500 each for lieutenant governor.
and speaker of the House. (These officials now draw a
legislator's salary of $400 a month.)
12. To permit state employees to serve on governing boards of
school districts, cities and other local districts.
13. To raise to six per cent weighted average a year the
interest rate on bonds authorized by the constitution.
14. To enable counties to reduce their permanent school funds
and distribute the money to independent and common school
districts on a per scholastic basis.
Sipf Utory Memorial library
THE BOOK NOOK
By Gerald Chapman, Librarian
Upon my shelf they stand in
rows,
A city-full of human souls,
Sages, philosophers and drolls-
Good friends that everybody
knows.
The drunkard shoulders with
the saint;
The great are neighboring with
the quaint
And they will greet me one and
all
At any hour I care to call.
-Edgar A. Guest
Barbeque
To Honor
Candidates
Democrats from 1st Con-
gressional District will meet in
Mt. Pleasant on Saturday,
Nov. 4 for a barbeque honoring
Barefoot Sanders, democratic
nominee for U.S. Senate and
Wright Patman, 1st District
Congressman.
The event is sponsored by
James Allison of Cooper and
Mrs. Martha Crawford of
Deport, members of the State
Democratic Executive Comm-
ittee.
Festivities will begin at 6:00
p.m. with a barbeque dinner at
the Corthrew Elementary Ca-
feteria. Speeches by Sanders
and Patman will follow the
dinner.
Tickets of the campaign
barbeque are $5.00 and are
available from John R. Ad-
amson in Jacksonville.
Food Stamp Ban
For Strikers Urged
Use of food stamps for
strikers, "constitutes a major
threat to effective collective
bargaining," according to
W. P. Gullander, president of
the National Association of
Manufacturers.
He urged Congress to pro-
hibit such payments which
are soon expected to reach
$320 million annually.
PARENTS' RESPONSIBILITY
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he
is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
Ask anyone w hat his most precious possession is, and he will almost
invariably say. ".My children." The desire for the welfare of our children
enables us to "move mountains". We will do anything, give them anything,
if we think it will help them.
one most important thing we can do for them, however, is to
instill in them a love of God, and a desire to
obey him. The church can help you in this
endeavor, inspire and strengthen you.
We invite you to take your family to church
this week. It may make a
great difference in the life
direction taken by your
children.
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Till Church it God i oppointid ojtncy in Mm
«oild lor ipnodint tht knowlidgi of Hit lov*
lor mon ond of Hit dtmond lor mon lo respond
lo thol lev* by loving hit neighbor. Without
Ihii grounding in Ihi lovi ol God. no govim-
mint or willy or woy of lift will long
ptrimrt ond thi frtidorm which wt hold w
dtor will inivitobly piriih. Thtrifort. t«in
from o nlflih point of vitar, ont should support
tht Church for tht sokt of tht wtllort of him
solf ond his lomily. Ityond thot, howtvtr
t try ptrson should uphold ond porticipott in
tht Church btcausi it tills tht truth about
mon i lilt, dtoth ond dutiny, tht truth which
olont will stt him frit to livt os 0 child of
God.
Coleman Adv. Str
Lyons Batane
Southwestern
Wallace
Gas Company
Electric Service
Company
Funeral
Home
Piggiy wJggiy
Pearman
Chevrolet
Company
Manning
Grocery
Citizens
Cherokee County
Cr«es
State Bank
Electric
Insurance
Cooperative
Agency
A very popular new book is
ON THE NIGHT OF THE
SEVENTH MOON, by Victoria
Holt. This book is now fourth on
the Best Seller list. According
to ancient Black Forest legend,
Loken, the God of Mischief, is
abroad in the world. On the
night of the Seventh Moon,
Helen Trant, a young English
woman visiting the land of her
mother's birth, found the
fulfillment of her fondest
dreams-and a tragic night-
mare. Mrs. Holt uses Helen
Trant's quest through jealous-
ies, intrique, unexpected dis-
coveries and unknown dangers
to produce another masterful
novel of adventure, suspense
and romance.
Another new book is TWO
FROM GALILEE, by Marjorie
Holmes, author of I'VE GOT
TO TALK TO SOMEBODY.
GOD.The author calls it the
greatest love story for the first
time. Never before has there
been a major novel about the
love between the two people
chosen by God to provide an
earthly home for his Son.
Never before has an author
attempted to reveal the human
aspect of the Holy Family
without departing from a
Sriptural base.
Thanks go to Rev. Grover
Talbert and to Mr. D'Arcy for
book donations.
Purdue Introduces
'Envoy' to Industry
A new concept of coopera-
tion between industry and
education has been initiated
between Hoosier industry
and Purdue University's
School of Engineering.
Ruddell Reed Jr. has been
appointed Ball Brothers Pro-
fessor of Engineering at
Purdue, whose job it will be
to work closely with Indiana
technical leaders to establish
a direct line of communica-
tions with the University.
The position, created earlier
this year by a gift from the
Ball Foundation, Muncie,
Ind., is believed to be the first
of its kind in any major uni-
versity.
By: E>B. Mustek,
Brake Power
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ANNOUNCING
THE GRESHAM'S
'BABY MISS" AMERICA'
CONTEST WINNER;
NAME: Stephanie Lynn
Gresham
STATISTICS:
HEIGHT: 18"
WEIGHT: 6 lbs. 12'4 oi.
CONTEST:
DATE: October 18. 1972
TIME: 4:52 A.M.
PLACE: \an Travis
Jacksonville, Texas
JUDGES: Vickie and Terry
Oldh/me/t
Lion President Raymond
Cooper and side-kick Rover
were absent last Thursday but
the Rusk Lions Club must go on
and it did with 1st Vice-
President Lewie Byers pres-
siding. Some great singing took
place under the leadership of
Lion JoEd Anderson. It was so
good that when he stopped the
other Lions added another
verse. It was so bad that it was
good that we had only one
guest Mr. Robert Moses.
October is membership
month and as of last Thursday,
we had three new members of
the six we were supposed to
have had. It is hoped that other
names were submitted before
Nov. 1st.
The Lions are taking part in
the Arts and Crafts Fair. Lion
Frank Merriwether was
chairman of the snocone and
cotton candy machines and
Lion Doyle Rasberry was in
charge of the turkey shoot.
Other Lions were in the cast of
the Supper-Theatre. Some may
turn up in Hollywood very,
very soon.
Coach Grady Dupree says
that there are still having
volley-ball every Tuesday
night and if you feel up to it let
it be known. For some reason
they are trying to trade Lion
Frank Howell for an undis-
closed amount.
Lion Jack Fitts made a
heart-breaking plea for the
money that members have for
light bulbs and if you don't pay
him by next Thursday he will
be forced to make your name
public. So there.
A big discussion concerning
the building of a skating rink
by the Rusk Lions Club. A
petition has been presented to
the Club with some 200
signatures of our youth asking
that this be built. The directors
of the Lions Club have discus-
sed it and will present it to the
Club next Thursday. Lion
Frank Howell thinks that it
may be possible to secure
funds from the Federal Gov-
ernment for this construction.
If it is built it certainly should
be constructed next to our
Lions Club Swimming Pool. We
would most certainly want our
projects all together if possi-
ble.
Several years ago when we
were in the Rodeo business in a
big way we wanted to move
this land by the swimming
pool. Of course as time went on
our professional rodeo began to
loose out and then the New
Southern Motel and Golf
Course was built on the land, or
part of it, that would have been
needed for this. We also need to
add playground equipment to
our park. All we have there
now is some that has been
donated to us and really has
seen its best days. We need to
1he 0(d1imwi
"The worst fault of a
motorist is his belief that he
has none.*'
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SALE
OUR ENTIRE STOCK
DOUBLE KNITS
SATURDAY ONLY
M" Wide
Our Regular
SS.tt - M.tV • U.tt
Quality Knits and Crapes
Jacquards, Mens wear,
Prints, Two and Three
Tones. Gigantic Selection!
I)is*"'"'l ill""
make a study of the equipment
and plan for a park that we will
really be proud of.
A small girl whose father
was a judge would often say
she was Judge Brown's daugh-
ter when someoné asked her
name. Her mother, thinking
this might sound snobbish, told
her not to make that sort of
reply, but simply to say that
she was Dorothy Brown. Later
someone asked her if she was
Judge Brown's daughter. She
replied, "Well I thought I was,
but Mother says not." See you
Thursday Noon Pineview Res-
taurant.
The Concorde, the super-
sonic transport manufactured
Jointly by France and Eng-
land, has turned to the United v
States for its brakes. The
brake discs ate supplied by
the Carborundum Company
to the Goodyear Aerospace "Uncle Sam gets moat of
Division which will install the our funds, so Washington,
brakes and test them in the D.C. should be named 'Fund
preproduction models. CHy,,M
THE CHEROKEEAN
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FIGHTING EAGLE
HEAD HUNTERS
GOOD GOING EAGLES! ANOTHER VICTORY...THIS ONE OVER MALAKOFF. LET'S
TAKE ANOTHER WIN FROM WHITEHOUSE THIS FRIDAY IN MUSICK STADIUM! WE
SALUTE THE TEAM MEMBERS WHO DEMONSTRATED EXCEPTIONAL EFFORT AND
SPIRIT. THIS IS A REALLY TOUGH TEAM AND WE URGE TOU TO RE PRESENT AND
HELP CHEER THEM TO A WIN OVER WHITEHOUSE FRIDAY HIGHT. SEVEN OF THE
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KEEP UP THE 0000 WORK, TEAM! WE'RE COUNTING ON TOU.
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'Eagle Head Hunters*
Great team effort, offensively and defen- which is required. Pictured front are Mark
Isively, earned this lucky seven "Head Richards, Tony Watson, Floyd McGowan and
I Hunter" emblems Friday night. These are Tommy Terrell. Standing are Ricky Rich-
Ikey people who played above and beyond that ards, Dennis Slaton and Ronnie McGowan.
THIS WEEK'S GAMES
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