The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 131, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1980 Page: 1 of 16
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Voter Turnout Good;
Run-Off Election Set
NEW RESTAURANT HAS RIBBON CUTTING-Ribbon cutting ceremonies were held last week at the new
Nyback's Rustic Rails Restaurant. A contest to name the restaurant was recently completed. Left to right are
City Manager Ron Cox; Houston White. Rusk Chamber of Commerce; City Councilman Jimmy Thompson and
Dana, Barbara and Dennis Nyback, owners of the restaurant, located on Hwy. 69 North, --photo by gloria jennings
Approximately 7,455 persons cast
ballots in the Democratic primary
election held in 26 precincts of Chero-
kee County Saturday. Run-offs will be
held Saturday, June 7 for three races.
Emmett H. Whitehead of Rusk will be
opposed by Jim Turner of Crockett for
the office of state representative,
District 15. Whitehead led in the
district total and carried Cherokee
County with 3,851 vote. Turner
received 2,712. Tommy Driskell, a
third candidate from Crockett,
received 820 votes in Cherokee
County.
Charles R. Holcomb led the ticket
for the District Attorney's race with
2,683 votes. He will be opposed by
LeRue Dixon in the run-off; who
received 1,764 votes. Candidates
Leland Sutton and Mike Sullivan
garnered 1,563 votes and 1,257 votes
respectively.
William Kennedy, incumbent
commissioner. Precinct One, will be
opposed by Robert J. Underwood on
the June 7 ballot. Kennedy received
881 votes to 757 for Underwood. A third
candidate, John Lee Lewis received
467 votes.
Jazz Concert, LectureTonight
"The Calvacade of American Jazz,"
a conversational history of jazz and
jazz styles in America, narrated by
eminent jazz historian and author
M.E. "Gene" Hall, and played by the
famous Swingin' Axes of Stephen F.
Austin State University in Nacogdo-
ches, will be presented at 8 p.m.
Campaign Helpers
To Meet Monday
A meeting of volunteers who are
willing to work in the re-election
campaign of Emmett H. Whitehead
for State Representative will be held
at 5:15 p.m. Monday, May 12 in the
council room of the Courthouse. The
ground level room is entered from the
south side of the square and has been
reserved for a brief meeting of
volunteers. A variety of assignments
that persons may assist with are
telephone calls to get out the vote,
letter writing, caravan participation,
posting of signs and one-to-one
contact.
"I am deeply indebted to those who
helped with the great turn-out of
voters last Saturday," states
Whitehead. "Our home folks of
Cherokee County are great people.''
All persons who can help in any
capacity are invited to attend next
Monday's meeting.
'Round Town
with Mrs. Roundabout-
If you're a registered voter in
Cherokee County, you don't
necessarily have to live here in order
to vote! Terry Lynn, daughter of our
neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Chapman, voted absentee all the way
from Belgium...and that's a long
distance vote which Himself was
delighted to hear about!
There may be some of us who are
not yet registered to vote...this little
reminder...you have a few hours
today (Thursday, May 8) In which to
hurry to the Tax Assessor-Collector's
office and sign up, if you want to vote
in the run-off election June 7.
Only if you drive around our part of
East Texas in the cool of the evening
and smell the delicious fragrance of
the honeysuckle blossom can you
appreciate the "feeling" of this
experience! Leaving the office rather
late on Tuesday, it was an unexpected
emotional reaction to the beauty, the
splendor of Nature! On the more
human side, as we progressed toward
our little hacienda on Bonner Street,
we noticed that the odor of
honeysuckle was momentarily
replaced by the odor of paint! And
then we remembered seeing and
waving to the Laniers that morning,
as they repainted the outside trim of
our neighbor's house, Vivian and Metz
Heald.
Now honeysuckle smells good,
probably as elote to Heaven as you
can get on this planet Earth. But paint
smells good, tool Because It says In Its
own way that somebody carea...and la
trying to maintain the beauty, In
another way I It was a strange, yet
«•mellow compatible, misture ol
odors. And that's the way we as
people are. Strange at times, yet
somehow compatible!
Since we last visited, via this
column, it is nice to tell you that
KPRC's "The Eyes of Texas"
featured our own Sarah Summers in a
program. One gentleman was so
moved by her talk about efforts to
restore our historic Catholic Church,
that he called Sarah and said he was
sending a contribution for its
restoration! We know that advertising
DOES pay! Rusk has been the
benefactor of so much publicity
because of Texas State Railroad that
it would be impossible to measure it in
dollars and cents.
We're lucky. Hiat's all you can say.
Take for instance, two really fine
friends who had been with us on the
caravan recently for the campaign of
Himself as your State Representative.
J. C. and Lola Banks went as far as
Mexia and then headed north to
Dallas. Their first action in that city
was to buy a newspaper. What did
they read? A fantastic "PR" job
urging folks to visit Rusk and ride the
Texas State Railroad. Isn't it funny?
You can drive around the world
looking for wonderful places to see
and things to do, and find that they're
right there In your own back yard.
And finally, this bit of optimiim.
Somebody remarked Monday that
Murphy'a Law la still in operation (If
anything can go wrong, it probably
will), but another one countered with
"U anything can go right, with the
help of God and friends, it will!"
Hurray for God' If w!
Until nest week? -row
Thursday, May 8 in the Cherokee
Theatre.
The concert and lecture is sponsor-
ed by the Cherokee Civic Theatre, Inc.
presented with the support of the
Texas Commission on the Arts and
Humanities and the National Endow-
ment for the Arts.
Tickets to the event are $5.00 for
adults and $2.00 for students. They
may be purchased at Nixson Phar-
macy, Tosh Insurance and Flowers 'n
Things.
Professor Hall has a 50 year career
in jazz and American Music Educa-
tion. He is a national figure in the field
of jazz education and is in constant
demand as a clinician, arranger,
historian and performer. His career
embraces the great years of "Big
Band" jazz.
Dr. Hall has been Dean of the Stan
Kenton Jazz Clinics, a guest speaker
at the Newport Jazz Festival and an
adjudicator for every important jazz
festival in the United States. In 1972 he
was the director of the American
College Jazz Festival at the John F.
Kennedy Center Jazz Festival.
Dr. Hall has been on the SFA faculty
for 11 years and served as Chairman
of the Music Department from 1969
until 1976. He has published in the
Encylopedia Britannica and all
important jazz music publications. He
is a published arranger and active
saxophone-clarinet performer. Dr.
Hall has lived the history of which he
speaks. His review is that of the
integral participant.
Director of the Swingin' Axes is
Darrell Holt, an East Texan. He is a
jazz performer, arranger, and com-
poser. Professor Holt holds degrees
Payment
Approved
Cherokee County Commissioners'
Court approved the expenditure of
$165,800 for the improvement of State
Highway 135 which extends north east
from Jacksonville toward Troup. The
Court also approved the right of way
easement for General Telephone Co.
of the Southwest for Precincts 1 and 3.
In other action, the Court approved
the bonds for Sheriff's Reserve
Deputies Bill Middleton and Sam
Chapman. Wells area ambulance
service will receive $2,100.
The commissioners also approved
the taking of $100,138 from Revenue
Sharing Funds, $25,662 from the right
of way fund, $20,000 from the general
fund and $5.000 from each of the
individual precinct funds to cover the
cost of the Hwy. 139 improvements.
Members of the Commisaioners
Court who approved the actions were:
Joe Henderson, William Kennedy,
Toby Sartain, Terry Perkins and
Judge OrvanH Jone .
The most decisive vote was award-
ed Allen Horton for the office of
sheriff. He received 4,800 votes to win
his first election term since the
appointment last year. Horton was
named by the Commissioners Court to
fill Danny Stallings' unexpired term.
Five other candidates for the
sheriff's office recieved votes as
follows: George Boynoff, 795; B. D.
Garner, 730; David Warren, 365;
Robert Batton, 222 and Phillip
Galloway, 543.
Linda Beard retained the office of
Tax Assessor-Collector when voters
approved her candidacy 4,502 over
Pat Bales with 2,937.
Alton Hicks, constable of Precinct
Two, defeated Claudie W. Jackson by
a margin of 1,186 to 214.
Buddy Temple, the winner state-
wide in a race for Texas Railroad
Commissioner, carried Cherokee
County 4,873 over John Poerner with
2,108 votes.
Cherokee County voters approved
overwhelmingly the candidacy of
President Carter in a popular vote.
Carter received 4,540 votes; Ted
Kennedy 835; Jerry Brown 178 and
1,563 voted "uncommitted."
Voting in Jacksonville, Rusk, and
Reklaw, Republicans gave Ronald
Reagan 139 votes, 88 for George Bush
and 32 voted "uncommitted."
from Stephen F. Austin and North
Texas State University. He is active
as a performer-conductor with
numerous appearances in the East
Texas area including Houston,
Shreveport and Dallas. He has toured
nationally and is in demand as a guest
clinician, adjudicator and conductor.
His compositions are nationally
known and his works for symphonic
orchestra have been performed by the
Cleveland Symphony and the Nash-
ville Symphony.
Mr. Holt has been on the staff of
SFA for a dozen years as a teacher of
jazz, music theory, compositon and
arranging. He is an accomplished
trumpeter and jazz pianist.
Student
Scores
Ready
Scores for the 1980 Stanford A-
chievement Tests for students grade
one through 11 in the Rusk Indepen-
dent School District will be available
upon parent request through the
school principals offices beginning
Monday, May 12.
The test reporting will be explained
by School Counselor Mrs. Rena Mc-
Gaughey during the Rusk Parent-Tea-
cher Association meeting at 7 p.m.
Thursday at Rusk Elementary School.
A $10 door prize will be given for the
room with the largest attendance.
First grade students will entertain
and new officers will be installed.
Recreation
Plans Set
Thursday
A city-wide recreation planning
meeting will be held at 5 p.m.,
Thursday, (tonight) at the Nat-
ional Guard Armory on Euclid
Street in Rusk. The purpose of the
meeting will be to organize plans
for a city-wide recreation pro-
gram.
Persons interested in organized
activities and sports for all-ages,
Including men and women, are
urged to be present. The goal of
the recreation program is to
provide a committee to help plan
sport programs in such sports aa
softball, jogging, tennia, volley-
ball, basketball and other activi-
ties.
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EMPLOYEE RECEIVES AWARD -Mrs. Belinda New, employee of
Rusk State Hospital, received the Superintendent's Award as
Psychiatric Nurse Technician of the Year during special ceremonies
during the Annual Open House at the hospital Friday. Presenting Mrs.
New with the award is Louis Furlong, assistant hospital
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION MADE-Helra Rlggs, left, was named
Psychiatric Aide of the Year at Rusk State Hospital during
ceremonies Friday during the Open House Presentation. The award la
sponsored by the Mental Health Association of Tyler and Dr. Dorothy
Scott, right, made the presentation. photo by Joe roseile
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The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 131, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1980, newspaper, May 8, 1980; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151436/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.