The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1981 Page: 1 of 18
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The Cherokeean
Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper Established as the Cherokee Sentinel, February 27,1850
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Texas State Railroad
Vol. 132 No. 42
Rusk, Texas—75785 Thursday, December 3,1981
18 Pages
Parade, Prizes Set
Saturday In R usk
> * First, second and third place prizes
will be awarded to the best floats in
the annual Christmas Parade in
downtown Rusk slated for 2 p.m.
Saturday.
Scheduled for appearance in the
parade were floats by the Rusk High
School Future Farmers of America,
the DECA Club, the Homecoming
Queen, the Spanish Club and the
Youth Chamber of Commerce.
Also slated to have floats in the
parade are Naturally Good, the MINI
A-CAT-A-ME, the Foreman Family,
Campfire, Headstart, The 4-H Coun-
cil, the Shriners, the senior citizens of
Alto, Rusk and Jacksonville, and the
Navy Color Guard.
The parade will also feature Santa
Claus who will be throwing candy to
the children. The Rusk Chamber of
Commerce sponsors the parade each
year.
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Mean Sting Face Bulldogs
The 1961 Mean Sting will face the
Garrison Bulldogs in Nacogdoches
Friday night in state quarterfinal
playoff games.
The Yellowjackets, who earned
their right in the quarterfinals game
after defeating the Hawkins Hawks on
penetrations last week, will face the
Bulldogs in Lumberjack Stadium.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
The game will be broadcast on
KWRWFM radio station with the pre-
gante show starting at 7 p.m.
Eastside Youth Set Rodeo
The young people at the Eastside
Baptist Church in Rusk are having a
rodeo playday Saturday at 10 a.m.
The playday will be held in the Ken-
nedy Arena on Bagley Road. All
proceeds will be donated to the young
people of Eastside for a Christian
retreat in Colorado.
Trophies and ribbons will be awar-
ded. For directions or information,
call 683-5501.
Old Toys Are Wanted
The Rusk High School Future Far-
mere of America chapter is asking
Rusk area residents to donate any old
or broken toys to them for a Christ-
mas service project.
The chapter will repair the toys and
give them to needy Rusk children this
Christmas.
People interested in making
donations of old or broken toys may
do so at the Rusk High School.
Donations may be taken to Voc-Ag In-
structor Clarence Kennedy in the
vocational agriculture building or
may be left at the High School office.
The route will be down Main Street
from the Citizen's Industrial Building
parking lot, around the courthouse
square and then returning to the star-
ting point.
Santa Claus will go to his house on
the courthouse square after the
parade to answer children's questions
and to have photos taken. Santa will
be at his house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
every Saturday through Christmas
and again Thursday, Dec. 24, for
Christmas Eve.
Three seven^foot Christmas
stockings filled with candy and toys
will be given away to some lucky
children Dec. 12,19, and 24.
Registration for the prize may be
made with any participating mer-
chant. Members of the Chamber of
Commerce Retail Merchant's
Division are sponsoring the giveaway.
RHS Has
6 Named
District
Rusk High School has six represen-
tatives named to the 1981 District 18-
AAA All-District team.
The six, three more than were
named to the team last year, are
seniors Donald Atkins and Lepoleon
Atkins and junior Randy Carter to the
offensive team and seniors James
Lewis and Keith Corl^y and junior
Brian Townsend to the defensive
team.
The meeting selecting the all
district team members was held
Monday in Westwood.
"We had some very good players on
our team this year," said Head Foot-
ball Coach Rick Largent, "and we are
very proud of the young men selected
to be on the All-District team."
Donald Atkins was named a guard
on the first team offense. His brother,
Lepoleon, was named a running back
to the first team and junior Cárter
was named a wide receiver on the
team.
On the first team defense, Lewis
was named a lineman, Corley a
linebacker and Townsend a secondary
back.
Both the Atkins brothers and Corley
were named by a unanimous vote of
all the coaches making the selection.
RHS also had four members named
to the second team offense and defense.
Shawn Walker as a tight end, Jerry
Hubbard as a wide receiver and Chip
Hart as a running back were named to
the second offense team.
Bobby Thrash was named a
lineman on the second defense team.
Receiving honorable mention from
Rusk were Kenny Finley, Richard
Black. RrurwR*m>H ami Kallvftrav
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Council Votes
To Keep Zones
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AT RHS-The creation of a float begins with
tissue paper and chicken wire! These members of Rusk High School's
Spanish Club are working on their entry for the Christmas parade
Saturday. From left are Chris Wimer, Bobby Goldsberry, Torri Mc-
Cain and front kneeling is Stephanie Dunlap. Kim Wells, Spanish in-
structor, Is sponsor of the club. -staff photo
Final Approval
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Redrawn county precinct lines were
given final approval late Monday af-
ternoon by the Cherokee County
commissioners court.
The commissioners began
measuring the number of miles of
county roads inside each precinct first
thing Tuesday morning. A revision of
the 1961-82 budget is slated for the
December meeting of the court. The
amount of money each precinct gets
for its road and bridge fund will be
determined by the number of miles In
each precinct.
The commissioners, meeting in
regular session, agreed on a plan
which divides Ward 4 of the City of
Jacksonville between Precinct 3 and
4. The Lake Jacksonville area and the
West Mixon community were placed
in Precinct 3 which is represented by
Joe Henderson of Jacksonville.
Early Monday morning, Henderson
had requested the court change the
dividing line for the Ward 4 split to in-
clude a fire station in Precinct 3. The
station, Henderson said, has been
used as a voting box "since the year
One."
Henderson said the change would be
covered by an alternate plan which
the court had considered earlier but
had rejected because the difference
between the populations in the precin-
cts was higher than desired.
Federal provisions require a dif-
ference between precincts which is
less than 10 percent. The alternate
plan was 7.3 percent and the adopted
plan is 3.8 percent.
However, when the alternate plan
requested for consideration by Hen-
derson was reviewed carefully, it was
determined that the fire station
would still be in Precinct 4 under it.
"It's a pity for Terry (Perkins, Pet. 4
commissioner) to get two (fire
stations) in there when he only needs
one," County Judge Orvan B. Jones
said.
When the commissioners met early
Monday, the court disagreed over the
placement of the station.
"Our job la to provide everybody
with an opportunity to vote," Hender-
son said. "This change provide*
everybody with a place to vote."
"Now, I'll be honest with you, Joe,"
Jones aaid. "We've fought it down to
wheru all we have la a 3.8 percent
variance and we have gone over It
many timet. Maybe I'm prejudiced
because I've already done the work
the other way and done It several
times, bul I'm opposed to changing
the Uae to put just one tire station In
your pmtiHt."
"All the lime we've spent on this
thing will not be worth anything if it's
not done right," Henderson said.
"I think it's more right just like it is
except your losing a voting box,"
Perkins said.
The court had already redrawn the
lines once to include the justice of the
peace office, the jail and the tax office
in Precinct 3. Henderson said that the
change to include the fire station
would be the same type of change.
"There won't be one hill nor hair
disturbed," Henderson told the court.
Jones said the justice department
would not look as favorably on the
change of the lines for a city block
which was almost entirely open ex-
cept for a fire station as it would for a
city block which was almost entirely
covered with a public place that would
•See REDISTR'CTING, page 18
Rusk City Councilmen unanimously
agreed Tuesday night to retain the
city zoning ordinance. The council
also voted to appoint a study commit-
tee to make recommendations for
upgrading the city's present zoning
ordinance. The committee will be ap-
pointed at the Dec. 8 city council
meeting.
City residents packed the council
chambers to state their opinions con-
cerning a proposal to repeal the
zoning ordinances now in existance in
Rusk. All those present were heard from
with many saying they feared that if
zoning is repealed the city would be
left wide open for the public housing
complexes.
Mayor James Fisher, in recom-
mending that the council retain
zoning for Rusk, asked those in the
delegation to work with the council in
developing industrial and commercial
property.
The present zoning ordinance con-
cept is to keep business one block
from the courthouse, he said. "Most
cities have developed along the high-
ways—I hope you will work with the
council to develop business and in-
dustrial property," he said.
Mayor Fisher went on to say that
Rusk State Hospital has some 1,500
employees with 50 percent living
outside Rusk because they can't do
business in Rusk.
"We all are aware that Rusk people
trade outside town. Our sales tax is
not in line with inflation. We had a
four percent increase in the last
reporting period," Fisher said. "The
city is pinched for funds and has dif-
ficulty in paying its employees and we
have a fine bunch of employees. There
are volunteers, who receive no pay,
(all members of the council serve as
volunteers with no pay.) I would like
to see progress.
"Many cities have business on the
highways, maybe this isn't the proper
place to put business, but we aren't
planning to put in industries that
belch smoke over the neighborhood,
but just something to give us some
jobs. We can't depend on the state
hospital, the county, and city to
provide employment for all our
people," he said.
The mayor went on to say that the
city and coiinty are losing funds
through cuts in Revenue Sharing and
CETA and the only way to provide
employment is through development
of the business community.
James Lade, owner of the L&L
Ford-Mercury dealership who had
previously asked for rezoning of a
piece of property pledged his support
to make Rusk go forward.
"It's time to bury our differences
and move forward in developing
Rusk," Lade said. He said he had ad-
ded two new employees to his
business and expected to add seven to
nine more new positions at his
business.
During the public hearing, the
majority of those attending spoke in
favor of retaining the city's zoning.
Billy Middleton, a property owner,
said he had purchased property in
Rusk when zoning was in effect and if
zoning is removed his property value
would be lowered.
Leo Quimby inquired if councilman
Ken Peloquin resided within the city
limits, because property around
Pekxjuin's home was outside the city
limits. Peloquin reported that prior to
his purchase of his property, that par-
ticular property had been annexed.
Lindy Lankford said she was in
favor of the zoning ordinance and was
against the repeal of the instrument.
She said most of her neighborhors had
been against the luxury apartments
being built in the neighborhood and she.
felt they would be against the reopfcof
the zoning ordinance.
Louis Nelms said he lived on Eu
Street and there was a vacant lot
front of him that could be usedj
other than residential purposes i
zoning ordinance was repealfi
said he moved to Rusk eight
ago and had worked on the present
ordinance for about 1 Vi years.
There are some mistakes, he said
but he hoped they have been correc-
ted. To throw tha ordinance out would
be a step backward, just like if you
discharged the city manager, he said.
Grace Guinn said she was against
the repeal of the ordinance for the
same reason as Nelms. It is a step
backwards.
"I am not against progress, but to
remove the Ordinance would be a bad
mistake," she said. There is a vacant
Jot beside her that could be used for a
mobile home or low rent housing, she
said.
Zewanda Hendrick said she
remembered when Rusk did not have
zoning laws. She said a frozen food
locker was located near her home and
at lunch they could hear the
slaughtering.
Clifford Ham said something needs
to be done and the city council Sfon
the right track.
"Let people build businesses on
Highway 84 and 69," Ham said.
Hugh Hardy said the mobile home
law is unreasonable. His mother-in-
law was "kicked out" of her home at
Mabank and it took 10 weeks to get a
mobile home liveable for her.
"I am for repeal of the zoning or-
dinance and to gete*bne that is
workable," said Hardy.
Fred Gaines, a businessman and
member of the chamber of commer-
ce, said he is interested in the town.
Cleo Chaddick with the Texas In-
dustrial Commission made a recent
•See CITY HEARING, page 18
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