The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1981 Page: 2 of 16
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PAGRTWO-THE CHEROKEEAN OT RUSK. TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL M. 1M1
IRS Penalizes '1 Do'
At a time when everything else is being
cut, we sure would like to see the "federal
tax on marriage" cut too.
Under the current IRS tax system, a
working couple must pay "extra" taxes if
they are married. It is as though the gover-
nment has put a federal tax on marriage.
To remedy this situation, Congressman
Jim Collins of Texas has introduced a bill
that would repeal the "marriage tax."
"The tima has come when this marriage
tax should be repealed," Collins said. "It
nmtaw no sense for the federal government
to punish marriage."
We sure do agree with Collins. Collins
cites some examples of the "marriage tax."
A married couple, with each partner ear-
ning $12,000 annually, must pay $566 more
in taxes than if they were single and only
living together. If each spouse makes
$18,000 a year, they must pay $1,301 in ad-
ditional federal taxes just because they are
married.
Not only does the tax act as an incentive
for young people to keep from marrying but
it hurts those couples who are just recently
married. Newly married couples must pay
the higher tax rate even if they were single
for part or most of the year.
Fot the family in which both parents are
wage earners simply because the family
could no longer exist on one salary, the
marriage tax is particularly devastating.
Hence, each spouse must work, but in-
flation And the so-called marriage tax
make the earnings of the second worker less
beneficial.
We agree with Collins, that the time has
come for this penalty on marriage to be
removed. Let's hope Congress does act
swiftly to correct the inequity-and maybe,
just for once, they could make it retroactive
so the IRS has to cough up a little.
wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
from _ # __
the... Lions Den
by E.B. Mustek, Jr.
ÍLetters To The Editor 1
Saw a bumper sticker today: This
Car Brakes for All Slit Skirts!
Lion President Allen Gilchrest
complimented Lion Glen Stanley on
his choice of clothes this week. Last
week he told him if he was going to be
the new Tail Twisher he would have to
dress better.
Reports were made on the Shot Gun
affair that we had and also the circus.
Seems that we did well on both.
From the Board of Directors
meeting we were asked to vote as a
club about participating 100 percent
with the Lions Crippled Childrens
Camp in Kerrville. This was passed
and that means that we will pay $10.00
to the camp for each Lion member.
This is great. It was also agreed to of-
fer two scholarships this year at $200
each and this is another very pleasing
thing the Lions are doing.
Lion George Dodd announced that
he would be meeting with a young
man and his parents about going to
the Lions Crippled Childrens Camp.
We sincerely hope that everything
will work out so that he may go and
enioy this great camp.
If you would like to coach a team in
baseball please contact Lion David
Long. He needs you.
Lion Winford Black says the word is
go on our meeting to honor the Peace
Officers of our area. This is to be April
30.
Lion Tom Ball asked that Lion
Lester Hughes get his Mustang in-
spected and we believe he will com-
ply.
Lion Ball introduced Mrs. Marilyn
Harris as our speaker.
Mrs. Harris is a speech therapist for
the Rusk schools. She does may things
- one of them is a hearing screening
program. She has to check every child
in several particular grades, check all
new students and also those that are
referred to her by teachers or paren-
ts.
She does an evaluation on children
on speech, hearing and also makes
eye tests.
The speech work is wiui children
who have defective speech. Some of
ths most common problems are
lisping, stuttering and voice dis-
orders. Most of the time stuttering
will cure itself as the child gets older.
We should never make fun of any
child that stutters or has defective
speech. This will only make life
miserable for them and they will just
quit talking.
With voice disorders written per-
mission must be secured from parents
before Mrs. Harris can work with
them. Language is a new area for
speech therapy, and much work is
being done in this field.
Regarding the hearing we have
three children in our school system
that have to wear hearing aids. This
presents all kinds of problems.
When the usual child goes into kin-
dergarten they will know about 2,000
words. When a child that has hearing
problems goes into kindergarten they
will only know about 200 words.
There are many other problems
that Mrs. Harris works with for our
children and we appreciate the won-
derful work she is doing. We certainly
appreciated and enjoyed the program
she presented to us.
Mother's reply to her daughter's
questions on the subject of
matrimony: "You'd better ask your
father's advice. He made a much
smarter marriage than I did." See
you Thursday Noon at the Rustic
Rails Restaurant.
RHS...'Gets By'
To: Rusk Independent School District
Board of Trustees
To: Citizens of Rusk Independent
School District
To: Editor: Rusk Cherokeean
Last Friday night, April 10, 1981 I
attended the girls Junior High and
High School district track meet at
Westwood High School in Palestine.
As I watched the meet progress 1
became excited and was emotionally
moved by the desire and deter-
mination shown by Our athletes and
Our Mh grade team was in conten-
tion for the title down to the last race
of the night. Fairfield won the district
title with MM point to 157 points for
Rusk. Although the 7th grade and high
school teams were not in contention
for the district tiUe their deter-
mination never Waned. Coach
Peloquin and her 41 girls and Coach
Penix and his 20 girls are to
congratulated on a fine performance.
Since the track meet, several
questions have come to mind that 1
feel our school board and citizens of
R.l.S.D. should give some con-
sideration to.
question 1. Why do our students and
coaches have to compete and be ex-
pected to win against schools that
have 1st class facilities, while ours get
by on what is available?
Subject: A. Fairfield, Teague, and
Westwood have all weather tracks,
Jumping pits, and hurdles to practice
with. Rusk has a make shift track
with very limited facilites.
B. Rusk tennis teams has to com-
mute to the Junior High School and
use courts when they are available.
C. Our baseball team has to borrow
a field from the Lions Club and be
bussed, have a car, or hitch-hike to
practice.
D. The basketball teams, varsity
and Junior varsity both work out after
school in one gym, where neither
team can get the true benefits they
would get alone.
E. The football teams work out on a
empty lot, out of facilities you have to
visit to get a true discriptlon of. They
have to dress on game nighty and be
buased to the playing field.
question 2. Why do our Junior high
students where our future lies, have to
use facilities that were considered
inadequate years ago?
question 3. Every year our high
school competes in the one act play
competition within our district and
does quite well. Why do they have to
commute to the Junior High to prac-
tice and their fellow students never
get to see their performance?
question 4. We have one of the finest
high school bands in this area. Why
should they have to commute the Jr.
High to practice?
question 5. Why does the High
School have only 5 coaches, of which
one is assigned to girls full time;
while Malakoff and Westwood have 7;
Fairfield $; and Crockett hast.
question 6. Despite the above men-
tioned handicaps our students con-
tinue to be spirited, competitive, and
winners. What could they accomplish
with an equal opportunity?
I know the answer to all these
questions would boil down to one an-
swer. MONEY; but it seems to me
that the real cost is hidden.
A winning attitude, self confidence
and confidence in your fellowman is
developed through competition,
teamwork, and winning. The future of
Rusk Independent School District,
and our children lies in our hands, and
what we do in the near future.
It is my recommendation that we
the citizens of the R.l.S.D. and
trustees of the R.I.S.D. start im-
mediately to correct these situation
and start an adequate program, not a
get-by program, for the future. I have
discussed this situation with many of
my fellow citizens and we stand ready
to help you in any way we can.
Sincerely,
O.H. Bowling, Jr.
P.O. Box 521
Rusk, Texas 75785
'Wish I Could, Be in
Rusk '
I am enclosing a grocery list you
might like to print in the paper. Made
out to Daddy Box, my husband's
father. Also a picture of old Shady
Grove Church north of Rusk. It is near
where 1 was born in 1900.1 have a pic-
ture of me when I was six, sitting on-
the steps. This church is one of the
oldest in Cherokee County.
Daddy Box's father was buried in a
cemetery off the highway near Bulah.
Boxes Creek is named after his daddy
and two brothers.
I was three years old when my dad
and mother took me to Freedman &
Bros, store. Mother missed me and
found me in the back, eating sugar out
of a 100-lb. barrel. I was a brat then!
Box's Fort was named after the Box
family. I am sending you the picture
of the old church at Shady Grove.
Send it back if you will please. My
mother's folks are buried at this
cemetery.
I wish I could be in Rusk for the bir-
thday. I feel like I am almost as old as
Rusk. I enjoy your write up so much.
It is worth the price of the paper.
Your friend,
Maye Box
555 Seminar St., Apt. 135
Houston, Texas 77080
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thank you for
sharing with us a treasured piece of
history from the Rask business com-
munity! It Is planned for publication!
Also the picture of the charch as well!
And we wish you were here, too!
Sub Vet&.*S3ent Service'
Editor:
The Texas Chapter of the u.S. Sub-
marine Veterans of World War II is
trying to locate all submarine
veterans who served on U.S. SUB-
MARINES OR IN SUBMARINE
RELIEF CREWS DURING World
War II between bee. 7,1941 and Dec.
31,1948.
This year the Texas Chapter's state
convention will be in Galveston,
Texas on May 1, 2 and 3. All sub-
marine veterans and their families
are invited. Anyone knowing the
whereabouts of submarine veterans
are requested to notify them of this
reunion of shipmates. The following
weekend, May 8,9 and 10th there will
be a regional convention in Checotah,
OK. In September, the National Con-
vention will be held in Sacramento.
CA.
The Cherokeean
Texas Oldest Weekly Newspaper,
Established as the Cherokee Sentinel, Feb. 27,1850
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For full information, please contact
J.A. "Jim" Woodall, Texas State
Secretary, P. O. Box 1388, Galveston,
TX. 77553-Phone (713) 785-7910 home,
or Office, 763-886?.
U.S. submarines operated under a
news Blackout" during World War II
and became known as "The Silent
Service." Comprising less than 1 per-
cent of the military forces, our sub-
marines accounted for 80 percent of
all the Japanese ships sunk by all for-
ces combined. While doing so, we suf-
fered the highest casualty rate of any
U.S. Force in action in the Pacific
theatre of operations. Losses totaled
52 U.S. submarines from all causes
and the loss of 3505 officers and men
for a 30 percent casualty rate.
In addition to erecting memorials to
our lost boats and shipmates,
displaying WWII submarines, etc., 52
college scholarships are awarded
each year to dependent children of
U.S. submarine veterans of WWII
members. Time and health is taking a
steady toll of our members. Please
contact Mr. Woodall at once.
To Begin Walking'
Hello,
This Florida family could not han-
dle the cold weather in Colorado. So
after two months of trying to adjust,
we decided to "winter" in Florida.
We're sure glad we did.
We're physically and emotionally
ready to start the second half of our
trip. We plan to begin walking at
Alamesa, Colorado no later than May
1. Then we should arrive in Oregon by
early August.
We hope you are healthy and hap-
py!
Sincerely,
Lou and Mike Warriner and boys
303 NE 8th Ave.
Gainesville, Fla. 32801
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you don't
recognize the name on the above let-
ter, we want to remind our readers
that this is the couple featured in The
Cherokeean and The Herald last fall.
The husband-wife team and two sons
came through Rusk on a walk from
Florida to Oregon. Their note explains
their progress snd their yet to be
fulfilled ambitions. Good luck to the
family as they continue their walk
across America!
'Used a Handgun'
Our President lies wounded, felled
by a bullet fired from a "Saturday
Night Special." This favorite weapon
of the assassin was easily obtained at
a Dallas pawnshop.
In all but one of eleven
assassinations and attempted
assassinations of Presidents or
Presidential candidates, the assassin
used a handgun. Presidents Lincoln,
Garfield, and McKinley were slain.
Candidate Robert Kennedy was
killed. Governor George Wallace is
crippled. In September 1975 alone,
President Ford's life was threatened
twice by assassins wielding han-
dguns. Now President Reagan has
been shot.
Must we bury another President
before the Congress acts to pass an ef-
fective national handgun control law?
Together we can make the Congress
act now to control handguns. Join with
us today.
Sincerely,
N.T. "Pete" Shields
Chairman
Handgun Control, Inc.
81018th Street. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
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1814 REDBUD STREET
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS 75961
If you are working on a family who
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MARRIAGE RECORDS 1852 through
1859; 1861 - 1893 - 94; 1903-04; 1906-07.
This book contains 95 pages, soft
cover, off-set printing, surname in-
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age at time of marriage, residence
and place of birth. If your family was
in Adair County, Ky. I know you will
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from above address.
1 am hoping someone in Texas will
be of some help to me. My mother's
maiden name was MC GOWAN. Her
father's named was Joseph Elisha MC
GOWAN, bor 13 Oct. 1899 in Bristol,
Texas. Joseph married Vuria Love
BIRD 17 July 1919. I think they were
married in Bristol and my mother
was born in Bristol in 1930. Both Vuria
and Joseph died in Houston, Texas. I
need some information about their
parents and brothers and sisters and
any descendants. I have names of
parents, but no dates or names of
places. My mother seems to hp vet.
forgotten most of the detalla of her
grandparents Joseph's parents were
Robert Joseph MC GOWAN and Susie
BROCK. Vuria's parents were George
Walter BIRD and Nellie Mae THOM
WON,
Dehra Buckman, 1813 Carmel
Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado
MHO
I am soaking any dearendanta of ihe
CONWAY family of Shelby and Hmk
Counties in Texas. My great-
grandfather, Thomas CONWAY
married Sarah Frances HOYLE in
1854 in Rusk County. Is he the Thomas
CONWAY shown with the Henry and
Sarah CONWAY family in the 1850
Census of Fayette Co., Tenn.? Other
children shown are: Caroline (it is
said Thomas had a sister named
Caroline who married a RICHARDS)
Busha (f); William and Levin H.
CONWAY. The Alfred and John
Salt
&
Pepper
Park Poor Texas
Texas is park poor. Simply put.
Although few Texans are aware of
it, our state has only 0.15 acres of park
per person. That figure puts Texas
48th among the states in dedicated
parklands.
Not a whole lot to brag about there,
huh.
To help remedy that problem, the
Texas Conservation Foundation was
created by the legislature. The foun-
dation accepts gifts of land, money or
other valuables. The agency, which
was founded in 1969, holds these gifts
in trust until the state or local gover-
nments can afford to take them over
and operate them.
Because this is a voluntary
program, the foundation has greater
freedom than other state agencies to
deal with property. Foundation staff
will help donors receive the
maximum tax advantages for their
gifts.
But the benefits of the donation go
beyond the tax advantages. The
knowledge that a portion of Texas has
been saved for future generations of
Texans is the major reason for all
donations.
To make a gift, contact the Texas
Conservation Foundation, 1300
Guadalupe, P.O. Box 12845, Austin
78711, telephone (512) 475-0342. Aa«
CONWAY families are also shown
1850 in Fayette Co., Tenn. All of these
CONWAY families appear 1860 census
living near Timpson, Shelby Co.,
Texas. My Thomas lived in Rusk Co.
through 1900. Thomas and Sarah
CONWAY had the following children:
1. John Thomas married Lula
BROOKS (my grandparents). 2. Mary
Frances married 1st George YOUNG,
married 2nd Ben C. CHAMNESS, Sr
3. Elizabeth married A.P. BROOKS,
4. Caroline married James GEORGE,
5. Martha married John Robert
WYATT, 6. Susan married W.P.
WILLIAMS, 7. Nancy married Elbert
Williams, 8. Julie married Ben C.
CHAMNESS, Jr., 9. Cornelia married
Charlie BISHOP. Any information
will be appreciated.
Zelma Conway Sherman, 27 Can-
terbury, Orange, Texas 77630.
'Would like to know if anyone is
searching a RITTER lineage which
contains "Tex" RITTER? Need also
any information on DISON. The
family lived in East Tx. and raised 5
children in Henderson. Please send
SASE. All will be answered. Am also
doing research on MEYER, JULIAN,
WELLS, MOORE, RICHARDSON,
ALDERSON, CARROLL, (O)RAF-
FERTY, SHIELDS, HOWARD Will
exchange data on these.
Carroll Meyer, 562 Hichborn
Street, Vallejo, Ca. 94590.
Information wanted on Cornelia A.
(GRAY) DIXON or her husband. She
was bom in Russellville, Ark. 1855.
She married a Mr. DIXON from
Texas. They lives in Texas ca 1874 and
had a child, Charles F. who was born
in 1876 Texas. She was a widow in 1880
and she moved back to Ark. between
1876 and 1880. She was the daughter of
William T. and Harriet GRAY of
Arkansas.
Mrs. Mary R. Gray, 12 Viejo Way,
Novato, California 94947
Need help with Nancy Ann O'NEAL
who married John F. KIMMEY 24
Dec. 1854 in Newton Co., Texas. Lived
in Newton Co. 1860; Montgomery Co.
1870. Believe she divorced and
remarried. Would like to hear from
someone having information on Nan-
cy Ann.
Doris Samford, 1607 Willowview, La
Porte, Tx. 77571.
\
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librarian
Hello!
Thank you Raymond and
Mildred Vermillion for your con-
tribution in memory of Alton
Houston. As always we appreciate
these donations.
We had a very successful
National Library Week. We laun-
ched sixty helium balloons with
rockets that carried the message-
"If found, please contact
Slngletary Memorial Library,
Rusk, TX." Lisa Welch won our
bookstacking contest. She piled 42
old books before they fell over-this
was quite a stack of books.
We have a new Weatern In this
week-Buffalo Medicine by Don
Caidsmith. This book will bo
welcome by our many patrons who
road Westerns. Another now
Western Is Sklaaer, by P.M.
Parker This story Involves the
kidnapped granddaughter of the
richest man in the vaUey A whole
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but one man knew the desert and
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alone could, especially if the prize
was Beth Manderfield, the kidnap-
ped granddaughter.
"All that I am," said Lincoln, "I
owe to my Angel Mother." "Which
mother?" he was once asked.
"Both," he replied.
A great deal has been written
about Abraham Lincoln but little
about the two women who were the
greatest influences in his life: his
mother Nancy and Stepmother
Sally. This book is entitled Lin-
coln's Mothers by Dorothy Clarke
Wilson
Thank you Zelwanda Hendrlck
for your donation In memory of
Mrs. Monte Ford. This book Is
titled Adventures la Prayer by
Catherine Marshall Included in
thla book aro refroahii*. insights
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