The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1981 Page: 2 of 18
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or RUSK. TEXAS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER X. 1M1
'Hats Off
Christmas Is a busy and happy time for
all oí us, but it is a particularly busy and
happy time for the Volunteer Services
Council at Rusk State Hospital.
Already, the council is helping to coor-
dinate the efforts of volunteers from a 31-
county area in their efforts to make the
Yuletide season a happy one for the patients
at the hospital.
The first party was scheduled bright and
early-Dec. 1. There are as many as 12 par-
ties slated for one day alone-Dec. 12- and
all of these activities are planned and
arranged through the Volunteer .Services
Council office.
But, what so many people do not realize is
the continuing, on-going efforts of the volun-
teer council for the patients at RSH.
Here, for example, are Just a few of the
many activities conducted by the council
throughout one single year-1961.
In February, the Executive Committee of
the Volunteer Services Council had a
Retreat on the campus of Rusk State
Hospital. The purpose of the retreat was to
explore and develop new areas of volunteer
services. Committee appointments were
made and, as a result of the meeting, each
member received a better understanding of
the goals of the council. The participation
and interaction of the members were highly
motivating.
In March, 20 patients were given tickets
donated by First State Bank of Rusk, The
Outdoorsman of Alto and the Townhouse
Cafe of Alto to attend the Dallas Cowboy's
Basketball Game in Alto.
In April, the council hosted a noon lun-
cheon to honor all volunteers who had con-
tributed more than 100 hours of service to
the patients of Rusk State Hospital. As a
result, 30 persons received pins for 100-500
hours of volunteer work; 12 received bars
for 500 hours; two received bars for 1,500
hours; and one, Mrs. Essie Mad-
Ben, received a bar for 3,500 hours of volun-
teer service. Twenty Certificates of Ap-
preciation wore awarded to organizations
who performed group activities and ser-
vices for the patients.
Also in April, 30 patients were guests of
the Cherokee Civic Theatre, Inc. for its
presentation of several one-act plays. The
Rusk Lions Club invited 100 RSH patients to
the circus ; and the Council sponsored an
annual Easter Egg Hunt in the Valleyview
section of the hospital and a Field Day com-
plete with game booths for the Maximum
Security Unit.
The Council also sponsored an ap-
preciation hamburger cookout for student
volunteers during April, 1961.
In June, the formal dedication of the
Charles W. Castner, M.D., Patient Services
Building in the Skyview Maximum Security
Unit was hosted by the council; and RSH
Patients were guests at the "Tops in Texas"
Rodeo in Jacksonville.
For July, supplies, prizes and gifts for the
game booths and carnival for 4th of July ac-
tivities In the Valleyview and Maximum
Security units at RSH were purchased ; and
30 patients were guests of the Cherokee
Civic Theatre, Inc.
In September, 15 patients were guests of
Cherokee Civic Theatre, Inc.
In October, council members attended
the Volunteer Services State Council
Meeting in Arlington; provided Halloween
decorations, parties and carrolling on war-
ds; provided prizes for game booths for
Halloween Carnivals in the Valleyview and
Skyview Maximum Security units;
provided 15 Intermediate Care Unit patien-
ts with $5 each to attend the State Fair of
Texas in Dallas; and provided refreshmen-
ts for the graduation ceremonies of the
Fairweather patients.
In November, the council hosted a
Judges' Seminar and Reception.
The Council has also received many
donations for the Farm Project including
livestock, goats, Tifton 44 Bermuda grass
and, recently, the Council purchased a
registered Hereford heifer made possible
by a donation.
Our hats are off to you for your efforts
now and throughout 1981, volunteers.
Keep up the great work!!
from
the...
Lions Den
by E.B. Musick, Jr.
When a husband is boss of the I
he's probably married to a
who can manage him better that way.
This past Tuesday, all the service
clubs were together at the New
Southern Motor Hotel for a special
meeting with Mr. Odls Williams,
president of the Rusk Kiwanis Club,
presiding. Lion Bill Draper wanted all
to know that S.M.U. won the South-
west Conference in football. Mr.
Williams announced the big Kiwanis
Pancake supper will be Dec. 4. Mr.
Mike Crysup asked to be sure that
Lion Allen Gilchrcst had more than
one ticket this year. It sesma that one
ticket would not cover all that he at*
last year
Mr. Joe Ray Ocker introduced Mr.
Horace McQueen as our speaker. Mr.
McQueen recognised National Farm-
City Week that has been sponsored by
the Kiwanis International nation-
wide. The Ktwanians have done a
good Job of promotion. We were toM
that the grain crop in the good oM
U.S. A. is the largest ever this year.
Russia was wanting one billion
pounds of beef from the U.S.A. which
is the amount that we import each
year. Mr. Haig says that we should
not deal with the Communist coun-
tries so we will not be selling them
beef. But we are selling them grain-
what to the difference i ii we wen
allowed to sell this it would mean slot
to our cattlemen phia creating J ti
other industries related to the cattle\
Uiiaiahiti
Mr. McQueen believes that this is
wrong and very bad for our cat-
tlemsn. He said that Mr. Haig also
said that we would not sell butter to
Russia, but it got there anyway with
much Isss money coming to our nation
than it would have been if we had sold
direct East Tesas people have to be
the luckiest people In the world
fcffi—■ most of them have income
from Joba to help support agriculture
production.
One billion people go to bed each
night hungry and it may come to us
some day if something is not done to
help the people raising our food. One
peraeut of the land here is owned by
people in foreign countries and, when
they buy, It Is the very beet land that
they can find. Many times the food is
shipped ovsresas and nobody knows
anything about it or collects any taxes
on it What safer investment in the
world than to come to our great coun-
try and buy land.
Mr. McQueen said thst It would be
very educational to all of us to check
where our food is coming from. He
said much of the catfish that we eat is
from Brazil and Is called a mud fish.
When we eat out and when we buy in
the stores, we need to know that It Is
from our country rather than being
shipped in. Much beef is imported, as
has already been stated, and some
with soybean protein added. Hiere Is
a bill In coloreas that says any beef
coming into the U.S.A. would have to
be equal to ours or It would be turned
back. We need to know what we are
eating.
Did you know that 14 percent of the
grocery stores are owned by foreign
people? That is what Mr. McQueen
said. Even one of the large chains in
the Houston area. It was very good to
have Horace visit us and try to wake
us up to what is going on in the world
of food production. We of the Rusk
Lions Club appreciate the Invitation
from the Rusk Kiwanis Club to meet
with them.
One of Lion Ike Daniels old friends
met him for the first time in several
years. "Why, Ike," greeted the one,
"I thought you were dead." "Oh, they
did get a story around that I was
dead," replied Lion Ike, "but it was
another man. I knew it wasn't me ss
soon as I heard of it"
See You Thursday Noon New
Southern Motor Hotel.
Telling It Like It Is...
The following viewpoint was
borrowed from the magazine. Tiesas
COACH, and Is s point of view ex-
pressed by Jeff Besrdea, head
basketball coach and Junior vanity
football coach at Breckenrldge High
School.
The editors gratefully acknowledge
the loan of this edltorlsl viewpoint
from the magazine, the author and the
submitter.
'Round Town
with Mrs. Roundabout
Letters To The Editor
fÍJj ; f
Thanksgiving, 1981 has come and
gooe. We hope that your celebration of
the day was a beautifully, happy one!
Forty years from now, will any at ua
remember this particular season for
sny particular reason?
That's kind of hard ta say. It may
defend on our personal experiences.
Sarely, we won't remember It
beca ase sa elected official was ac-
cased of taking money for setting ap
an Interview with our First Lady!
More earth shaking events that af-
fect the entire world are the ones that
get remembered for years to come.
Like the event 40 years ago. It is
referred to as "Pearl Harbor." The
date was Dec. 7. Do you remember
where you were and what you were
doing when this historic action oc-
curred?
One of oar readers has penned his
recollections of the day and sense of
hfc memories in service daring World
War II. We think yea will enjoy The
Rev. Terry Atkinson's accenat of this
His narration is more real and cer-
tainly more close to the actual issue
than I can recall. At that point in time,
I was IS, going on 21. The typicsl
as far as teenage maturity
But...not typical as far as
teenage lifestyle today is concerned.
We were fortunate then to have a
small radio. Television hadn't been
invented. And it was, therefore, the
electronic media which delivered the
world-shattering news that we were at
wart
Hew ceald 1 have known that this
declaratioa by Prestdeat Fraaklln
Eoiac to be
all live a ad
for a very long, fear years?
The War Jast about covered my catire
spaa of high school Ufe. As a nation of
the Great Depresses
with lees was asthlag new. We were
basically accustomed to hard tiiMS.
Rationing of such things as tires,
gasoline, and food items like sugar,
flour and butter wasn't a big sacrifice.
Moat people then had struggled for
maqy years to find the money to buy
such things anyway t
It was with the greatest kind of Joy
that we aekaewledged the
of the Japaaeae In May,
sf as whs had stayed at
t UA I
in companion to those who literally
gsve their lives. It wss good thst the
dying wss coming to an end.
Yet...and yet...in remembering it
must be admitted that a super abun-
dance of technology was born during
that War. It was also the event which
really pushed women into the working
world. And it doesn't take a whole lot
of smart to figure out that it was also
the event which marked the beginning
of a mass migration of citizens from
the farm to the city.
And all of these things hsppened
because there was s Pesrl Harbor!
How soon would seme of these have
happened had there been no War?
Who knows!
What we do know is that civilization
is an evolutionary kind of process.
Change is the only thing that is con-
stant, they say. And some things are
just bound to change.
Hang on, as you might try, to aa old
way of doing thlags, chaage Just
aatarally creeps la. Halen Wilcox Is a
goad example of this. For more thsn
30 yesra, he hss been making syrap
from sugsr cane beginning about Nov.
IS. And even he has given wsy to s bit
of modern technology. He now ases a
motor to grind the stalks for extrac-
tion sf the Juke where he once used
males to tarn the machinery.
This was beautifully presented on
Ch. 4, Dallas, "Four Country," last
Saturday. Because the Wilcox family
carriea on a tradition which he had
observed as a child watching his
father, he has become a near, living
legend. There are precious few old
fashioned syrup makers in Texas
now! He rated a good segment on
"Four Country," a program seen by
thousands and thousands. And if
measured in television cost time, it
would siso be measured in thousands
and thousands, dollars that is! He
really should be given an honorary
membership in the Rusk Chsmber of
Commerce! Not only does he cling to
a former way of doing things, because
it was the good old way, but he gets
invaluable publicity for our town!
Well, this has eeme a long way from
ear wish that yours was s really, hap-
py Thanksgiving. Gaeas the point la
that we have ta take each day as It
cernea. It may bring a festive bottdsy.
or a Wsrid War, er Just sBother time
for syrup making. But the survival
pracsss Is sech that we de seek to
amke this the best time of all times.
We can look at our past experiences
and hope that we learned something;
for if we don't learn from the past, we
'Growth...Threatens'
Dear Sir:
The State Capitol Building in Austin is
the most important historic and
culturally signifigant building in
Texas. The Capitol dominated
Austin's skyline from 1887 until 1965,
when a few high rise buildings began
to intrude and block important views
of the Capitol. Now the explosive
growth of Austin as a whole threatens
to surround this important symbol of
our state and obscure it from public
view forever.
The City Council of Austin must take
immediate action if the remaining
Capitol views are to be protected.
Success in this effort will depend
largely on public support. Many
citizens think that Austin has a
responsibility to all Texans to preser-
ve the Capitol's visibility; visitors and
residents alike benefit from a con-
tinued reminder of the symbolic im-
portance of our State Government.
A letter expressing your opinion on
this issue will help determine the
place of the Capitol in Austin's skyline
for generations. Address your letter to
the Austin City Council, and send it in
care of Texans to Save the Capitol, 225
Congress Avenue, Suite 404, Austin,
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'Austin Unique'
This letter appeared in the Austin
American Statesman on November
23,1981.
View of the Capitol
As a young legislator from West
Texas I would always experience a
thrill when I would come to Austin and
see the imposing Capitol dome on the
horizon. No other city in Texas was
privileged to have this building or this
sight. It made Austin unique and dif-
ferent from all other cities - a real
asset.
In the years since, Austin's leaden
have allowed this tremendous asset to
be gradually obscured and blocked
from view. Now the tallest building of
them all is proposed downtown.
We are ail interested in "progress"
but progress does not always come in
the form of tall buildings, especially
when it destroys a unique asset that
makes Austin different from all other
cities.
Those builders and investon who
always seek more personal wealth
and possessions care little for such
things as public views of the Capitol
building. It's only the higher rent view
from the buildings they own and lease
that's important to them.
As one citizen of Austin, I hope our
city leaden will use the power of their
position to preserve what is left of a
great Austin heritage. Don't let them
destroy the one thing that makes
Austin different This is the State
Capitol city The magnificent Capitol
building should always be prominent
as far as the eye can see.
—-— ru-
nt w. nth at
Austin. Tesas
"To coach or
not to coach**
t \
by Jeff Bearden
Breckenrldge High School
To coach or not to coach, that is the
question. Whether 'tis nobler in the
minds of men to suffer the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune (usually
caused by a lack of talented athletes,
by parents who refuse to understand
the problems or by inadequate
budget*), or to silently slip away
before facing the prospect of being
fired.
Never baa it been more difficult to
coach. We are living in a time when
everyone who ever watched an
athletic event on T.V. feels that he is
an expert. Parents who have worked
with kids in Little League and Kids'
Inc. suddenly know that they are, at
least, a distant relative to Knute
Rochne. Men and women who've
never participated in an athletic event
are suddenly vaulted into "Coach of
the Year" candidates. Please save us
from those who did play a little twenty
yeara ago. Their vast store of
knowledge is unbounded. There are
all of these paragons of virtue when it
comes to putting your Job on the line?
They are all sitting in the stands
shouting "fire the bums. Why, back
when I played...."
Let's take a minute to explore the
situation from a coaches' standpoint
First, oun is the only profession
which puts its Job on the line for the
way a group of teenagers perform in
a game which is supposedly played
for their enjoyment. In fact, we've
reached the point where it doesn't
matter if the kids have any fun just so
long as they win at all costs. And in
winning, be sure that "my kid" plays
all the time and gets the ball more
than anyone else. Of course, "my kid"
should be selected to the "All-
Wonderful" teams and should recieve
twenty scholanhip offers, or the
coach Just isn't doing his Job properly.
It doesn't matter if we're outweighted
thirty pounds per man or if our tallest
player only comes to the shortest op-
ponents belt buckle, we should win
every game anyway because "my
kid" is on the team.
As coaches we spend many long
houn over the yean learning to coach
our sport or, as is the case most of the
time, several sports. In most instan-
ces, we have participated in athletics
on the high school level, college level
and a few of us on the professional
level. We have been to an untold num-
ber of coaches' meetings and clinics.
We also spend our weekends and
several nights each week scouting
i games and looking at films (not to
mention the houn spent washing
clothes, repairing equipment, etc.) I
realize that all of this training doesn't
make us as qualified as all of the
"arm chair quarterbacks' or Monday
morning coaches", but we do the best
we can.
If I sound a little bitter, it's because
I get that way every once in a while 1
get sick of coaches being criticized
because they don't win every game,
score every time, or call the play that
Howard Cossell would have called
Furthermore, I don't like to think that
my family may be forced to move
because our season isn't as successful
as the local "expert" predicted it
would be. I dislike it very much when
my family can't attend a game
without hearing all of the verbal
abuse from the people in the stands
Another thing that concerns me is that
no consideration is given to our
classroom work. If a coach is a good
classroom teacher, then the
educational process suffen when he's
replaced as a coach.
You may wonder why I'm still in
coaching if things are so bad. In the
fint place the majority of parents are
not like the ones I've been talking
about. Most parents are supportive of
our program, but they aren't as vocal
in their support as those who criticize.
The main reason I coach is that 1
love working with young people and
enjoy trying to help them develop
their full potenial, both as athletes
and as human beings. Athletic par-
ticipation is one of the last bastions of
hard work, dedication, and self
discipline. When one of my athletes
shakes my hand, looks me in the eye,
and says, "Thanks, Coach", 1
wouldn't trade places with anyone in
the world.
So, to all you fans out there, if you
are on our side let us hear from you
from time to time. More importantly,
let everyone else know how you feel. If
you are not on our side, go buy your-
self a whistle, get yourself an
education and you can have my job
when I'm gone.
Kissin9 Kuzzins
Carolyn Ericson
MM Kedbud Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75M1
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