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PAGE TWO-THE CHEROKEEAN OF RUSK. TEXAS. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18.1W2
November 18
Great American Smokeout
From
The...
Giving up cigarettes is cause for
^celebration. Every year the American Can-
cer Society offers smokers a chance to have
fun while they're trying to quit. The oc-
' casion is the Great American Smokeout, a
' day smokers around the nation try to go a
full 24 hours without cigarettes. This year,
smokers are invited to put aside their habit
r. with pleasure... on November 18.
Larry Hagman, the villainous J. R.
Ewing of TV's "Dallas," returns for an en-
core as national Great American Smokeout
chairman. Hagman, a reformed smoker,
again will invite smokers to follow his
example and quit. He'll offer details about
obtaining the official "Larry Hagman Stop
Smokin' Wrist Snappin' Red Rubber Band,"
a must-have for smokers determined not to
light up on November 18th and long after.
This year the Great American Smokeoul
will celebrate its sixth anniversary and all
indications are for another immensely
popular day. During last year's Smokeout
three out of 10 cigarette smokers either cut
down or cut out smoking for the day, accor-
ding to a Gallup study. Close to five million
actually quit for the day.
Although 54 million Americans continue
to smoke, the number of people who've quit
has increased over the years. Currently,
there are 33.3 million ex-smokers. Reasons
to join this group are abundant. Topping the
list: smoking causes lung cancer. Presen-
tly, lung cancer is the number one cancer
killer of men, and may soon be the leading
cancer killer of women. Cigarette smoking
has been implicated in cancers of the
mouth, esophagus, larynx, pharynx, blad-
der, kidney and pancreas.
The Great American Smokeout offers
millions of Americans a well-deserved
holiday ... a day off from smoking. That's
worth celebrating!
Lions Den
by E.B. Musick, Jr.
Let's Retrain Workers
Senator Lloyd Bentsen says the nation
should focus on reducing unemployment by
beefing up math and science programs and
retraining older workers for the future's
high technology jobs.
"We are locked in an all-out struggle with
Japan and Europe to capture the high-
technology markets of tomorrow. The vic-
tor in the no-holds barred, high-stakes race
will win the millions of new high paying jobs
needed to supply products to booming
markets in electronics, biotechnology and
computers," Bentsen said.
"America has a head start, but we must
beef up our education system and our
training programs to maintain that lead or
risk the loss of these jobs. By 1990, one
million new jobs will be needed in the com-
puter industry alone," the Senator said.
The nation can begin to provide those
skills, especially to older, mature workers
who are unemployed or in declining in-
dustries. Experienced workers are the most
skilled and mature labor resource
available.
"Other nations like Japan and Germany
continually retrain mature men and women
for new jobs like computer repair or
programming. They do so because studies
indicate that experienced workers are the
easiest and cheapest to train in new skills.
"There is a need to improve education in
math and science. There are some 2,000
empty teacher slots at engineering
colleges across the nation and 43 states now
report serious shortages in math and scien-
ce teachers for elementary and secondary
schools, caused by the 77 percent drop in
math and 65 percent drop in science
teachers trained in the 1970s."
"As a result, students in the Soviet Union,
China, Japan and Germany spend at least
three times more class work in science and
math than American students. And future
prospects, even in Texas, look grim. The
University of Texas Science Education Cen-
ter reported last spring that only 18 students
planned to teach secondary science; Texas
A&M has only 90 potential science teachers
and Southwest Texas State University has
even fewer," Bentsen said.
If Eve had been a modern woman,
she would have looked around for a
smaller leaf.
Lion President Fred Gaines had a
poster in front of the speakers stand
this past Thursday with the following:
Lion Club Park; Basket Ball Court;
Train; Mop & Broom Sale; Horse
Shoe Pitching; Nature Trail; Sign On
Lions Clubs Projects.
Lion George Dodd has already star-
ted to work on the Nature Trail -
meeting with the City Council the
other night. They have a group from
A&M University coming to Rusk to go
over the entire 280 acres of land to
map out a plan for a park. This would
be a very fine thing for our City and
we hope that they will go forward. If
they do not the Lions are standing by
with an offer to help get the Nature
Trail cleaned up and back where
people can enjoy it.
The other things on the above men-
tioned poster are to be worked on this
Lions Club year. There are many
things on the Baseball Program that
need to be done also. Lion David Long
is hard at work on that and we should
see much improvement during the
year.
Lion Ike Daniel is getting his com-
mittee together on the building of a
playground park around our Rusk
Lions Club Swimming Pool. We are
expecting great things from them in
the next few weeks.
Lion George Dodd announced that a
meeting was held by Concerned
Parents Tuesday night a week ago for
the purpose of organizing a Christian
Youth Center. There are over 300
members in the Christian Youth in
our school. This is wonderful thing
and every person should help in this
project.
Lion Thomas Huckaby asked Lion
President Gaines to secure some new
song books - seems that the Lions
have "sung" these up. Lion Morris
Elliott said that if they were used
correctly they would not tear up.
Lion Allen Gilchrest introduced
Mrs. Joy Jones as our speaker of the
day. Mrs. Jones is the counselor at the
Rusk High School and from what Lion
Allen says is doing an outstanding job.
Mrs. Jones asked that we pause for all
that had given of themselves for our
country this Veterans Day. Then she
told us that she had always been in-
terested in Folksy Old Time kind of
poetry or readings as some call them.
She gave several in a very delight-
ful way representing different times
in a mans life beginning from birth to
nine months old and on through the
other stages. Of course the parents
would always want them, in a way, to
remain age two, but time goes on. A
mother loses her glasses - found them
in a Bible one time, the sugar bowl
another and even in the top of her hair
at one time as remembered by her
children. The child grows up and then
has a family of his own.
Your home - the most wonderful
place in the whole wide world. Have to
roam a little bit to appreciate it.
"Home is not a place that Gold can
buy." You have to learn to love the
things you have. It takes a heap of
living in a house to make it a home.
Who could forget the old swimming
hole? Then in closing you have today ;
yesterday is gone and tomorrow is
just a dream. We must always make
the very best we can out of today. This
was such a fine program and we en-
joyed Mrs. Jones' presentation so
very much. We would hope that she
will return in the near future.
A little boy, age five, was playing
with the small daughter of new neigh-
bors. They had been wading in the
lake and finally decided the only way
to keep their clothes dry was to take
them off.
As they were going back into the
water, the little boy looked the litUe
girl over. "Gosh!" he remarked. "I
didn't know there was that much dif-
ference between Catholics and
Protestants!"
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The Stranger
By Park Watson
Ole Sud Levers' boy was pretty
smart. High honors in High School,
top man in his class in college and all
that stuff. He was interested in
forestry and tree husbandry...as was
his dad.
Sud, on the other hand, never went
to school. He just got to fooling around
with trees and the first thing he knew,
he was an expert. That's the way most
folks in our home town got that way.
Well, Sud's boy graduated from
college and came home a big shot. He
sat in the store and popped his new
found knowledge all over the place.
Was sort of disgustin' to the
populace...especially to Sud. But bein'
the dad, he put up with it.
Then one day Al Stevens asked the
kid about the big maple tree in his
yard. "Paul," he sez, "Paul, when is
the best time to trim that tree up so's I
won't lose sap for maple syrup?''
Well, Paul went into a long
discussion on the life, loves and health
of trees in relation to the seasons. He
talked about twenty minutes without
telling Al much of anything. Al finally
shut the kid up and turned to ole Sud.
"Sud," he sez, "when do YOU think
the best time to trim that tree will
be?"
Sud got up. Spit into the wood box,
and started for the door. As he grab-
bed the knob he turned to Al pretty
disgusted and said, "When the saw is
sharp Al, when the saw is sharp.
And out he went. I think there is a
moral there...somewhere.
Park Watson
Letters To The Editor.
'Untimely Day •••
To The Editor:
I considered Veteran's Day an ex-
tremely untimely day for anyone to be
"annoyed" with low level military
jets passing over Rusk.
Certainly the writer must have been
more than "annoyed" to have spent
"45 minutes and over $15 in telephone
calls" to complain about something
that happens four or five times a week
(possibly) and lasts (possibly) 10
seconds each time.
As for the "good people" at the air-
ports denying where the aircraft
come from, some of us could care less
where they come from and feel more
secure knowing that someone has the
guts to even sit in the pilot's seat.
Finally, I do thank the writer for the
telephone number of Major Masters.
Major Masters and I had a pleasant
conversation about these aircraft.
Most of Bergstrom's aircraft fly a dif-
ferent pattern and would not be flying
this area. He felt like those flying this
area were probably Air National
Guard or reserves. Pilots must have a
certain amount of training in their
aircraft, some of this being low level
patterns.
I hope everyone will consider this
before becoming so "annoyed and
hacked-off" about a few seconds of
noise.
Marilyn Taylor
Rt. 3 Box 80
Rusk, Texas 75785
Rusk Memorial Hospital
Community Health News
CLINICAL LABORATOR Y
By KATHY CART, M.T.
The primary function of the
Clinical Laboratory is to help the
physician to identify the diseased
individual and to follow the
progress of the diseased individual
under medical therapy. The
laboratory has two responsibilities
to the physician: to provide him
speedy, accurate results and to
guarantee the reliability of these
values.
In order to accomplish speed and
accuracy, all laboratoriea are tur-
ning to computers and automation.
The accuracy of these instruments
are checked daily for precision and
accuracy through external and in-
ternal quality control programs.
Reliability is achieved by random
replicate testing. In otherwords,
we repeat a sample previously
tested, in a new batch of untested
samples.
The numbers and types of
laboratory tests being performed
are increasing every day. Each
new medical discovery calls for a
new lab test. We are keeping pace
at Rusk Memorial with the new in-
novations by constantly updating
our equipment and procedures.
'You are winners •••
Dear Freshmen:
You've always wanted to play foot-
ball, as long as we can remember.
You began when you were toddling
around in your Dallas Cowboy
pajamas, tightly clutching your
small, plastic football.
Since that time we have dressed you
in your Rusk Eagle shirt, placed a
Rusk Eagle cap on your head and sent
you off to school. We have watched
you run wildly in play at many home
football games and have carried you
as far as Waco to watch the Rusk
Eagles play football. And now you are
on the threshold of being the Rusk
Eagles.
You have always been competitive.
From that first summer in Farm
League baseball through all the
games since that time. You have
competed against each other. The
time has now come when you must
play together as a team.
Everyone wants to win. You are
competitive. You want to win but you
must want to win more than the team
across the field. You have known what
it's like to lose and you have had brief
encounters with the sweet taste of vic-
tory.
Last year you began to climb the
stairs in search of the ultimate in the
game of high school football - a cham-
pionship. Thus far the stairs have
been steep and you have faltered and
fell down several times. However,
with gentle prodding from your
coaches, a helping hand from a
teammate and the genuine love, con-
cern and support from us, your most
loyal fans, you have picked yourself
up and kept climbing.
Victory is very elusive. It seems
now to be so far away. But each of you
is made of the stuff it takes to win.
You are winners even when you lose,
because you gain something of value
everytime you face defeat.
We can't do it for you. Your coaches
can guide you but you must perform
for yourself. You must have spirit!
You must gain confidence! You must
decide now to be winners and work
together as a team to achieve this
goal.
We've been there with you from the
beginning and we will be with you
from now on • win or lose. You have
our support and our love. We know
what you can do. We know and trust
and have faith in each of you.
Together, as a group, you must join
together to show others than when it
comes to football and the Rusk Eagles
- YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN'
YET!
Love,
Parents of Freshmen
'Hackles way up •••
Editor:
It is very seldom that I get the urge
to write a letter to the editor.
However, having flown fifty bombing
and strafing missions against the
Japanese, being shot down twice and
having helped to bury many friends
during World War II, the type of
selfish drivel written by Al Kruse and
published in the Cherokeean
(11/11/82) gets a fellows hackles way
up. I find it very difficult to reply to
this and still appear to be civilized. I
assume that he was lying safely and
warm in bed when that awful old air-
plane flew over his house. Well, if it
wasn't for these planes and the many
planes and men that have flown and
died in the past to keep our country
free, Mr. Krause might not be in his
warm bed these nights. He would be
either dead or in a slave labor camp.
These planes and their pilots are
what keep us all free, including him,
and he should be darned glad that
they don't have a swastika, rising sun,
or hammer and sickle painted on their
tails.
I'm sure that the pilot that commit-
ted the dastardly deed of flying over
his house would have rather been
home in his warm bed also instead of
performing his training mission
which helps to keep us all free.
Personally, I enjoy seeing and
hearing those beautiful planes and I
exult in what they stand for. Yes, they
fly over my house too, but I smile and
thank God that they are ours.
Very Sincerely,
V. C. Patterson
Rusk, Texas
'Hacked-off../
To Hie Editor:
In response to the letter concerning
low-flying aircraft, I would like to say
that I am "hacked-off," too by the at-
titude of some people. I am thrilled at
the sound of those low-flying jets. As
an American citizen, I would think
each person should be glad to know
that our country has men willing to fly
those planes. It makes me feel more
secure to know that our military units
are keeping abreast of latest
technology in the event they would
have to defend our country against an
enemy.
. I'll bet the gentleman who wrote
would feel differently if we were in the
midst of a war. He might also feel dif-
ferently if that were a son of his flying
one of those planes and his future and
career depended on those hours spent
making those practice flights.
Joni Townsend
Rt. I Box IS
Rusk, Texas 757*5
'So what if.
Editor:
Here is another open letter to the
people of Rusk and Cherokee County
and anywhere else.
So what if our U.S. military jets fly
low over this area? I am not "an-
noyed," "bothered," "hacked off" or
"sick" of it. This has happened for
years and will probably continue to do
so. It makes me feel safe to hear these
planes - and realize the military is
there for us. These planes are in
training and being kept in shape with
these exercises. Therefore, they may
be the same ones that someday have
to fight again for us. Remember how
many people have given their lives for
us, and also of the ones that probably
will in the future. Thank God for these
individuals!
Do you realize what happens to a
plane when it sits on a base runway
too long? Do you realize how many
planes won't crank during military
exercises because of this? They have
not been used enough • nor checked
out enough. Are those planes going to
be able to save us? Do you know
military planes have been sabotaged
right here in the states while sitting on
bases? These planes have to fly
somewhere and be tested - they can't
fly just over the base day after day. So
what if these planes make noise for a
couple of minutes - we hear dogs
barking and loud cars 24 hours a day.
Had you rather hear silence and one
day hear Russians or someone else
flying over. Maybe I am just patriotic
-but I salute these people and planes,
and I feel there are many to agree
with me.
Thank you,
Brenda Chandler
Jacksonville, Texas
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Massa C. MILLARD's maiden
name was WADLINGTON. Did she
marry Robert MILLARD in
Nacogdoches - or elsewhere? Who
were Massa's parents? Is there a
record of the date of death of Robert
MILLARD between 1847 and 1850?
Where was he buried? Who were his
parents?
I am very interested in finding
descendants of Robert MILLARD.
Does anyone have any information on
the family? I really need your help.
Sharon Gammon, 904 S. Andrews
Avenue. Sherman, Texas 75090.
I am seeking information about the
parents of John W. BLANKENSHIP,
born in Butler or Wilcox County,
Alabama in 1832, married Eliza
MILLER, came to Nacogdoches
County, Texas — Attoyac area — in
1859; died in Nacogdoches County,
Texas in 1874. Will be happy to ex-
change information with anyone
about his children in Nacogdoches
County.
Arther B. Gray, 1309 Karnes Road,
Longview, Texas 75604.
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