The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1973 Page: 8 of 14
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PACE EIGHT-THR CHEROKEEAN OF RUSK. TEXAS. THURSDAY. AUC.UST . 1973
County Food Stamp Program Begins
Nov. 1; Certification Starts Soon
Golf Associations Plan
Labor Day Tournament
Issuing of food stamps in
Cherokee County under the
U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture Food Stamp Program will
begin on Nov. 1. 1973, reports
Harry Trimble, unit supervisor
of the Texas Department of
Public Welfare for Cherokee
and Anderson counties
Oct. 31, 1973, will be the final
day for the Commodity Distri-
bution Program in the county,
Trimble says
The welfare department will
be responsible for certifying
applicants for food stamps, he
explains. Two welfare em-
ployees, Jim Roach and
Raynell Colville, are currently
training to take over these
responsibilities.
liie food stamp program will
have its office on North Main in
the V J. Long office building
next to the Par'-.s and Wildlife
office.
Certification for food stamps
is based on a graduated income
scale set up by the federal
governments.
Trimble reports that anyone
currently receiving public
assistance will be certified if
they choose to participate.
This includes some 3,200
persons served by his office at
present.
"The public assistance re-
cipients will have to make the
decision," he says. "They've
been getting commodities free.
They'll have to pay for food
stamps."
Trimble says the amount a
recipient pays for food stamps
is based on family income. He
gave as example a cost of $8 for
stamps with a purchasing
value of $33.
The food stamps are issued
in $5, $1 and 50 cent
denominations
They can be used in place of
money at participating food
merchants. Items which may
not be purchased with food
stamps include liquor, ciga-
rettes and most imports
(except bananas, coffee and
cocoa), Trimble notes
The merchants, if they
Maydelle Residents
Vote To Incorporate
Residents of the community
of Maydelle voted to approve
incorporation by a narrow
40-32 vote in an election held
Sa'.uday
County Judge Orvan B
^Jones called the election after
3i petition was received show-
Ting an interest in the incor-
iporation
C.: Maydelle is located nine
ilhiles west of Rusk on Highway
Í2M and boosts a population of
^approximately 262 persons
^There were R8 certified voters
Probation
Office Gets
éstate Grant
The probation offices serving
Cherokee and Nacogdoches
counties have received a total
of $73,699 from the Criminal
Justice Council as a result of a
grant awarded last week by
Gov. Dolph Briscoe
The two counties were
formerly served jointly by the
2nd and 145th District Courts.
Since the Legislature has
now separated these two
courts, the probation board
made up of District Judges
J W Summers and Jack
Pierce and County Judges
Orvan B Jones and Carl
Burrows met in Rusk last week
to break the budget down
between the two counties.
The Cherokee County proba-
tion office will receive $37,514
of the grant while Nacogdoches
County will receive $.'(5.183.
Bobby Sam Townley. chief
probation officer for the
county, reports that his office
total budget for the upcoming
year comes to $49,137 This
includes the grant money plus
county funds
Of this budget. $38,522 will
pay the salaries fjr himself,
and assistant chief, a probation
officer, a secretary and two
summer college interns, he
says.
Other budget items include
professional and contract ser-
vices, travel, equipment and
supplies and other operating
expenses
eligible to vote in Saturday's
election. The incorporated city
of Maydelle will cover two
square miles or 1,277 acres.
R.P. Bailey, a spokesman for
Maydelle citizens interested in
the incorporation, noted that
the action was taken because
"of a sewer emergent-v
brought about by the Parks
and Wildlife Department " The
Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment has a compoui. . in
Maydelle for prison inmates
working on restoration of the
Texas State Railroad. "We
plan to seek federal and state
grants for the sewer
emergency," says Bailey.
Returns of the election are
expected o be canvassed by
the Commissioners Court at
their meeting Monday.
After the election is canvass-
ed Judge Jones is expectged to
call an election for Maydelle
city officials. Officials to be
elected are a mayor, five
alderman and a city marshall.
"We have some tentative
candidates but nothing that
can be released at this lime,"
says Bailey.
One of the first project of the
newly incorporated city will be
to secure a landfill operation in
cooperation with the county
"We also plan to clean up our
cits mow and improve the
streets," Bailey said in con-
clusion
New District
Attorney Has
Busy Schedule
Cherokee County's newlv-
appointed district attorney, Le
Rue Dixon of Jacksonville, is
really getting down to business
after two weeks in office
Dixon, who is district
attorney for the 2nd Judicial
District which now serves only
Cherokee County, has been
kept busy organizing his new
office and hiring a secretary.
He currently has 72 criminal
cases pending in which indict-
ments have already been
brought which he is attempting
to dispose of before the new
grand jury meets Sept 4
choose to participate in the
program, may redeem the
stamps at face value plus a
small percentage. Trimble was
not aware what the percentage
is.
He notes that all food
merchants in the county will be
invited in the near future to
attend a meeting where they
can learn more about the
program and decide if they
wish to participate.
The welfare supervisor
pointed out that his office will
only certify recipients. They
will then be given a card which
they must take to the post
office and the post office will
issue the stamps.
The cards are only good for
one month, Trimble says, but
he believes the stamps that one
receives can be redeemed at
any time.
Although there is no way of
determining how many per-
sons will take part in the
program, Trimble says he
"anticipates a big increase"
over the number of people who
participated in the com-
modities program, par-
ticularly among those who do
not receive public assistance.
The welfare office will begin
certifying food stamp recip-
ients soon and will make
determination of those to
participate by Oct. 23, 1973.
Persons receiving public
assistance from Jacksonville
will be served by the welfare
office in Jacksonville, Trimble
says. All other persons wishing
to participate in the program
or seeking further information
should go by the new office on
North Main when it opens or
call the welfare department.
The Birmingham Men's and
Ladies' Golf Associations of
Rusk are making plans for a
Labor Day weekend golf
tournanment here September
2-3. The announcement of the
tournament was made this
week by the two presidents,
A.M. Freeman and Mrs. Frank
Summers.
The 36 hole tournament will
include a championship flight,
medal play and four flights of
Jim Perkins
Is Graduate
Bank School
James I. Perkins, president
of the Citizens State Bank of
Rusk, graduated Friday, Aug.
3 from the Southwestern
Graduate School of Banking at
Southern Methodist University
in Dallas.
The course included two
weeks for three summers, six
banking problems and a thesis.
Perkins graduated in a class of
175 persons.
The classes are directed by
successful bankers and bank
specialists in Texas and the
United States. Subjects include
investments, economics, per-
sonnel, loan collections and all
phases of banking.
Graduation exercises were
held in MeFarland Auditorium
with Truett Smith, president of
the Texas Bankers Associ-
ation, delivering the main
address.
A dance followed at the
Dallas Country Club.
Dwain McClure Named
To Awards Publication
Billy Dwain McClure of
Baytown, formerly of Rusk,
has been selected as an
Outstanding Young Man of
America foi 1973, according to
Doug Blankenship, Chairman
of the Board of Advisors for the
national awards publication.
Dwain is a former Rusk
resident and is married to the
former Linda Weaver of Rusk.
He was nominated by the
United Methodist Church of
Baytown.
Now in its ninth year,
Outstanding Young Men of
America is an annual bio-
graphical compilation spon-
sored by leading men's civic,
service and professional or-
Cadet Hinton
Is Training
At ROTC Camp
FT KNOX, KY -For Cadet
Henry J. ("Big Joe") Hinton
Jr. of Jacksonville, the tough
physical conditioning at Army
Reserve Officers Training
Corps i ROTC i Summer Camp
is "no sweat
To the 6-2. 220-pound line-
backer from Sam Houston
State University at Huntsville,
the workouts at Ft Knox, Ky .
are everyday stuff.
Hinton. whose parents live
on Route 4. Jacksonville, is a
cousin of the Baltimore Colts'
Eddie Hinton and the New
York Giants' Chuck Hinton
He will enter the ROTC
Advanced Course this fall
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'Automobile repair
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AT CORNER OF WEST 6TH AND SYCAMORE
PHILIP JENKINS, owner
partnership low ball play. Tee
off time is 10 a.m. Sunday,
Sept. 2.
An entry fee of $15 has been
set which will include a Sunday
night dinner.
O'iiwta mav attend the dinner
dinner for a nominal tee.
"Persons may rent carts for
$8 per day with prior
reservations," say the presi-
dents. Deadline for registra-
tion is Aug. 28." "Anyone
wishing to enter the tourna-
ment should send the entry fee,
cart fee, motel reservations if
needed and certified handi-
cap," the association presi-
dents say.
Trophies and prizes will be
awarded.
Richard Janes
Training Aboard
Navy Destroyer
SAN DIEGO-Richard N.
Jones, son of Dr. Frank N.
Jones of Alto helped his U.S.
Naval Academy shipmates in
winning 3 first-place finishes
during the Pacific Midshipmen
Training Squadron 73 sports
competition held here.
He is a 1970 graduate of Alto
High School.
Jones is on his summer
midshipman training cruise
aboard the San Diego-based
destroyer USS Hamner.
COURT
Continued from Pg. 1
After Commissioner Perkins
indicated that many of his
constituents he has talked to
see no benefit to themselves by
improving the airport, several
people spoke on the need for
educating the public
Some of the points made
were that an improved airport
would bring more business and
industry to the county, add to
the tax rolls, and provide more
jobs and money.
Rep. Whitehead noted that if
it were not for the airport, he
could not have gotten the large
appropriation he did for Rusk
State Hospital because he
could not have persuaded
members of the Appropria-
tions Committee to visit the
institution.
County Judge Orvan B.
Jones said Tuesday that he has
not been formally notified that
representatives of the group
plan to appear at the Monday
meeting but added that they
"don't have to."
He pointed out that the
Commissioners Court meet-
ings are open and anyone can
come and speak to the
commissioners.
Items tentatively on the
agenda for the meeting, Jones
said, include setting a date for
the public hearing on the
county budget and recording
the results of the incorporation
election in Mavdelle.
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ganizations. The Awards Vol-
ume features the accomplish-
ments of approximately 7,000
young men of exceptional
abilities and achievements
from across the country.
Criteria for inclusion in
Outstanding Young Men of
America are service to others,
professional excellence, busi-
ness advancement, charitable
activities and civic and profes-
sional recognition. The young
men chosen for this distinction
are between the ages of 21 and
35.
Nominations for the awards
publication are made by civic
organizations, Jaycee chap-
ters, college alumni as-
sociations and military com-
mandants.
The 1973 edition of Outstand-
ing Young Men of America,
scheduled for publication and
national distribution in Oct-
ober, will include a special
introductory message by Lieu-
tenant General Alvan C.
Gillem, II Commander, Max-
well AFR, Montgomery, Ala-
bama.
4 Arrested
For Theft of
Police Shotgun
Four young men, two of them
from Gallatin, were arrested
last week following the theft of
a shotgun from a Rusk police
patrol car
Charges were filed last
Friday in the court of Justice of
the Peace Abner Webb against
Michael Gene Odom and Bruce
Wayne Gibson, both of Gal-
latin. Michael Scott Thomas of
Houston and Kevin Walter
Silvers for theft over $50.
Silvers was reported to be in
the Air Force and no home
address was listed in the court
record
Rond had been set for each of
the four men at $1,500. a
sheriff's department spokes-
man reported Tuesday that all
but one of the men was out of
jail on bond
The sheriff's office said the
theft took place about 2:30 a.m.
Friday while Rusk City Patrol-
man Joe Dee Hoppe was
having coffee at Reed's "Never
Close" Cafe.
Charges were also brought
during the last week against
Danny Boy Hill and Lonnie M.
Sims for auto theft. Addresses
for both were listed in Judge
Webb's records as Tyler.
Sheriff's Deputy James C.
Spurgers reports the two men
were returned to Cherokee
County from Sheffield in West
Texas and a pickup allegedly
stolen in the county was
recovered
One of the pair was free on
bond Tuesday, Spurgers says.
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The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1973, newspaper, August 9, 1973; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151030/m1/8/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.