The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1981 Page: 1 of 20
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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. 45
Rusk, Texas--75785 Thursday, December 24,1981
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Special
Services
Slated
Special Christmas Eve services
have been set at the First
Presbyterian, First United Methodist
and St. Luke's Episcopal churches in
Rusk.
The Presbyterian services will be
held by candlelight and will start at
5:15 p.m.
Hie Sacrament of the Holy Com-
munion will be celebrated and special
Christmas music will be sung by the
choir.
"We invite all people of all
denominations to participate with us
around the table of the Lord," said the
Rev. Steve Plunkett, minister of the
nKnwnli
enturen.
Slated for performance by the
choir, under the direction of Mrs.
Margaret Plunkett, are "Noel, Noel"
by Kirk; "Glad Tidii«s" by Wagner;
"Congregation Arise" by SchUrr; and
"Halelujah, Glory Halelujah" by
Playing the flute for the services
will be Shannon Sullivan. She will be
accompanied by Stacey Souther land
on the trumpet and Kevin Sch-
merhorn on the tambourine.
The scripture will be read. The
church will be decorated in greenery
and the entire service will be held by
candlelight. The services are open to
persons of all faiths, Plunkett said.
The special Dec. 24 service at First
United Methodist Church will be a time
of observance of the Sacrament in the
Sanctuary.
According to the Rev. Robert Pate,
pastor, families and Individuals are
invited to come at any time between 7
and 8 p.m. to receive the elements of
the Sacrament.
The Christmas eve services at the
St. Luke's Episcopal Church on
Euclid Street will be held beginning at
• p.m.
The church will have its annual
communion services officiated over
by the Rev. Billy F. Tomlin, vicar.
Temlin and the congregation of St.
Luke's extend an open invitation to all
who wish to attend.
Business
Closings
Are Given
While most area stores and
businesses will be closed Friday in
observance of Christmas, many in the
Rusk area will be open for business as
Open for the public will be the Pitt
Grill, Mini Mart, Shop-A-Lot,
Tarrant Oil, Waddell's Grocery,
the New Southern Motel and many
other area convenience stores.
Closed will be most grocery stores
such as Copeland's, Buckhorn's,
Brookshire's and Richards, the finan-
cial institutions, the post office, the
New Southern Restaurant, Dairy
Queen, Cherokee Cafe, Real Burger
and most retail merchandise stores.
The courthouse and city hall will also
be closed.
Radio Stations KTLU-AM and
KWRW-FM in Rusk will be broad-
casting on Christmas Eve and Day.
The stations will present the Rusk
area listeners with music taped
during several special programs and
services from the Rusk area.
The cantata of the First Baptist of
Rusk will be presented at 7 p.m.
Christmas Eve and at 10 a.m. and 3
p.m. Christmas Day.
The cantata of the First United
Methodist Church of Rusk will be
presented at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve
and again at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Christmas Day.
11m Rusk City Hall will be closed
both Thursday and Friday, Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day. Garbage
pick up will be made on Thursday as
usual but there will be no Friday gar-
ban collection.
Pickup of garbage for businesses
will be made Saturday. The landfill
will be open until noon on Saturday as
Patient Load
Is Over Limit
Rusk State Hospital, funded to care
for a maximum of 900 patients, has a
total of 1,028 patients. Members of the
Superintendent's Advisory Commit-
tee learned last Thursday afternoon
that some patients are once again
sleeping on mattresses on the floors of
the institution.
It was also noted that there is an
average, longer recovery period now,
for those who are served by the
facility. Staffing has been reduced to
approximately 1,360 persons. The
hospital serves persons in the Valley
View section for mentally ill and the
Maximum Security Unit for the
criminally insane.
In the absence of Dr. Robert S.
Glen, superintendent, Lou Furlong,
assistant superintendent, made a
number of announcements to the
committee.
He said that Frank Summers, head
of staff development, has been named
assistant to the superintendent. His
new duties will include the control of
patient movement with the end goal to
be a reduction in the number of
patients at the hospital.
Reporting on present population at
RSH, Summers indicated that while
the hospital is funded for only 900
patients, a projective increase is seen
for 1982. Central Office in Austin has
instructed the facility to get its census
down to 900 by June 1,1982.
Summers says that as a part of his
new responsibilities, he hopes to
secure the cooperation of county
judges throughout the 31-county cat-
chment area and persuade them to
seek help for persons at the local level
as opposed to automatic court com-
mittments to RSH.
He said that many persons commit-
ted by county judges to Rusk can be |
successfully helped at nearby com-
munity health centers and clinics.
Summers stated that these facilities
offer the services of a psychiatrist and
psychologist, along with medical
treatment.
He reported that in September. RSH '*
had a patient load of 988 with fVad- |
mitted and 275 discharged. In Oc-
tober, the census was 984 with 2971
mitted and 280 discharged.!
November, the patient count
1006 with 249 admitted and
discharged.
"No patient is discharged froü here
if it is felt that the patient is in need of
more treatment services," said
Summers. "We do everything we cAi
here, before thepatient is released."
•See RSH, p. 7
BIG WINNER-Justin Jinking, 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Randall Jinkins of Rusk, admires one of the toys
from the bag of goodies presented to him Saturday by Santa Claus. Justin was named winner of the second
Christmas stocking presented by the Merchants' Division of the Rusk Chamber of Commerce. The third stocking
will be given away by the local merchante following a drawing at 1 p.m. Thursday (Christmas Eve) at Santa's
House on the square. Santa will be available for visits with youngsters from to a.m. to 6 p.m. that day.
-photo by gloria jennings
CCAD Suggests Names
For Board Of Review
Humorist To Entertain
Rusk Chamber Sets
Jan. 12 for Banquet
Police, fire, sheriff and public
safety officers will be working the
rae*, highways, rural and city areas
at Cherokee County as usual en
r**y
A board of review for the Cherokee
County Appraisal District was
nominated but not finally approved by
the CCAD directors last week.
The directors nominated Woody
Wood and Herbert Coleman of
Jacksonville, Mack Allen of New
Summerfleld and Frank Howell of
Rusk for the board of review.
The review board will be composed
of three representatives and will
review all citizen complaints on
property values as appraised by the
CCAD beginning Jan. 1.
Gary Arnett, chairman of the direc-
tors, suggested that the board of
review have representatives from the
south end of Cherokee County.
He asked directors Barry Lewis and
Grady Singletary, both of Alto for
nominations but neither man had a
suggestion.
Singletary said that he would like to
postpone a final decisión on the board
of review candidates until the
January meeting. The directors, with
three new members, will convene at
that time.
On the board for the first time will
be Fuston Tackett of New Summer-
field, Eddie Smith of Jacksonville and
Joe Terrell of Rusk. Singletary and
Lewis-, who are filling unexpired ter-
ms on the directors board, were also
elected to be 1962 directors.
Arnett agreed that the new board
should make the decision and
Singletary asked that the nominations
of the outgoing board be entered into
the minutes and retained for con-
sideration in January.
Beginning Jan. 1, the board of
review will have reexamination
power over all valuation disputes in
the county. Previously, each taxing
unit in the county had its own in-
dividual board of review, known as a
board of equalisation.
Under the state's new property tax
code, the appraisal district will assess
the values of all property in the county
and citizens who disagree with those
valuea must take their complaints to
the board of review.
In other action, the board of direc-
tors accepted a bid from First State B
ank of Rusk to be the district
depository. The board also approved a
contract with Prltchard and Abbot, a
firm specialising in the
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appraisal of oil, gas and mineral
properties.
The board members noted that the
central appraisal district saved in-
dividual taxing units $20,000 in the
total fees paid to Pritchard and Ab-
bott and other minerals and utilities
appraisal specialists.
The directors also approved the
amended 1981 budget of (344,823.66.
Chief Appraiser Sid Danner noted that
$40,000 in supplus funds would be
deposited in an escrow account com-
mitted towards the purchase of the
Rusk Federal Savings and Loan
Association building in Rusk.
The district has a net of surplus fin-
ds of $26,315.
The contract for the janitorial ser-
vices for the district was awarded o
Four Seasons Janitoral Services s.id
Donald Womack was hired as an n-
side appraiser's helper.
Plans for the annual Rusk Chamber
of Commerce banquet are being
finalized, according to Nancy
Boynoff, chamber executive
secretary.
The banquet is slated for Jan. 12 at
7:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the
First United Methodist Church of
Rusk. George McKinney an East
Texas humorist and frequent banquet
speaker, will be the honored guest.
The banquet will be a catered bar-b-
que by Richards of Rusk.
Tickets for the event, which are
$5.50, may be purchased from any
chamber director and from the
chamber office.
The public Is cordially invited to at-
tend the banquet. Persons need not be
members of the chamber to par-
ticipate in the annual banquet.
Congressmen and senators, both
state and national, are being invited
to the banquet, Mrs. Boynoff said. The
seating arrangements for the affair
were established along with manvof
the other details at a banquet commit-
tee meeting Monday at 3 p.m.
Attending the meeting were Will
Cum bee, Ike Daniels, Winford Black,
Joe Rozelle and Mrs. Boynoff.
The annual "Citizen of the Year"
award will be presented at the
banquet and the chamber's annual
membership drive will be kicked off
with the spring affair.
Construction Up 5 Times
The value of building permits issued
by the City of Rusk in 1981 increased
nearly five times over those issued in
1980, according to City Manager Cin-
dy Evans.
The figures were released this week
in a report to Mayor James V. Fisher
and the Rusk City Council.
"As the report indicates, permits
for new construction and renovations
in 1981 greatly exceeded 1980's level,"
Mrs. Evans said in the report.
According to Mrs. Evans' figures,
residential permits totaled $113,500 in
1980 compared to a total value of
$339,245 in 1981.
Commercial building permits
totaled $113,000 in 1980 and were
valued at $1,229,000 in 1981.
A total value of $90,841 was recor-
ded for governmental buildings in
1980 as opposed to no governmental
building values in 1981.
In renovations, the total value in
1980 was $4,000 while the total value of
permits for renovations issued in
1981 was $92,457.
Altogether, 29 building permits
were issued in 1981 compared to 11
issued in 1980, Mrs. Evans said.
There wer<- nine residential, eight
commercial and 12 renovation per-
mits issued in 1981 compared to four
residenti .1, five commercial, one
governmental and one renovation
permits issued in 1980, the report
showed.
The value of commercial
establishment building was greatly
increased in 1981 by the recent starts
on a new Rusk Federal Savings and
Loan Association and a new
Brookshire Bros. Store and the Mini
Mart convenience store.
The value of renovations were in-
creased by the work on the Shop-A-Lot
convenience store which was
converted from a Gulf service station.
Opportunity Offered
To Show True Spirit
By RICK ALLEN MAUCH
Last week The Cherokeean
published an article concerning the J.
L. Foreman family and the tragedy
which resulted in the hospitalization
of their two year old son. Nicklaus, for
a month in the bum center at
Galveston. Nicklaus was severely
burned in a kitchen accident when he
pulled a pan of hot beans off the coun-
ter
There has been a lot of positive
resf. wise to the idea of helping this
family have a nice Christmas We
would like to express thanks tor the
Foreman family and also urge more
peupietopitchtnyett
Foreman is a woodcutter and (toes
not have a lot of money to give his wife
and five children the kind of Christ-
mas many will have. It seems that if
we can help them to have a really,
nice Christmas, we will have achieved
the true spirit of the holiday.
Today Is Christmas Eve and it is not
too late to help the Foreman family if
you haven't already. Cans are set up
in area stores to drop in donations,
Also, if you would like to make per-
sonal contact, call Louise Foreman at
the Rusk State Hospital. Kood Service
Deportment,
This will be a merry Christmss tor
many of us, but with a little help, it
can also be a merry Christmas tor the
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