The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1983 Page: 1 of 20
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MICnOPLSX , INC
P. o. BOX 45436
DALLAS, TX. 75<¿45
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Per Issue
The Cherokeean
Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper
Established as the Cherokee Sentinel, February 27,1850
Home of the
Texas State
Railroad
Vol.134, No. 12
Rusk, Texas 75785 — Thursday, May 5,1983
16 Pages
News
Briefs
Batters Up Time!
The Rusk Lions Club summer
baseball program will get underway
Friday, May 20 at the Lions club park.
Team drafts were held last Friday,
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Joyner will be
coordinators " for the- summer ball
program again this year.
There are sue farm leagues, eight
little league teams, four girls Softball
teams and four Rusk Pony League
teams. Slocum, Maydelle and Alto
will play in the Rusk Pony League.
The entire program involves some
500 Rusk area youths, according to the
Joyners.
Ckoir Concert Set
The Rusk High School Performing
Choir will present the annual spring
concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the
Cherokee Civic Theatre.
The performance will begin with the
introduction of the seventh and eighth
grade choir following with the high
school performing choir. Secular and
sacred songs will be given along with
solos by the choirs.
The choirs will be directed by Mrs.
Gloria Dotson and accompanied by
Mrs. Margie Adams.
The Seniors of 1983 will perform for
the last time as a group.
Tickets are being sold for $1 by
choir members and will also be on
sale at the door. The public is invited.
Awards Slated
Outstanding acting awards will be
presented and officers elected at 7
p.m. Friday at thé annual Cherokee
Civic Theatre Membership meeting at
the Rusk First United Methodist
Church fellowship hall.
Reservations for the $5.50 dinner
can be made with Jean Bryant at 683-
2286. The Shrine Auxiliary will cater
the meal.
Ballots have been mailed and
awards will be presented to the out-
standing actor and actress in a
musical and a non-musical; suppor-
ting actor and actress in a musical
and non-musical; and outstanding
school age actor and actress and sup-
porting actor and actress in musical
and non-musical productions.
City Looks at Park Plan
A&M Students Submit Suggestions
IT' A MAD, MAD WORLD-Cherokee County Judge Robert McNatt
signs a proclamation to alleviate some of that madness, at least in
animals, naming the Week of May 9-16 Rabies Campaign Week in
Cherokee County. Pictured with Judge McNatt is Cherokee County
Agent Jack White. --staff photo
Rabies Campaign Week Proclaimed
Clinics Scheduled
Cherokee County Judge Robert
McNatt has proclaimed May 9-16 as
Rabies Campaign Week in Cherokee
County.
A proclamation has been issued by
Judge McNatt asking for the
cooperation of all persons owning
dogs and cats in the county to secure
pet vaccinations during the period.
To assist with this rabies clinics will
be conducted throughout the county.
Assisting withithe clinics will be Dr.
Ira L. Stephens of the Animal
Medical Center; Dr. Dan Kessler,
Alto veterinarian; Dr. Donna L. Bur-
ney, Animal Hospital; Dr. Grady
Ellis, Animal Hospital; and Dr. E. C.
Martin Jr., Animal Hospital.
The schedule includes: Monday
Reece Old Store, 5:30 p.m.; Pierce's
Chapel Old Store, 6:30 p.m.; and
Ward's Store community at Davis's at
7 p.m.
Tuesday, New Hope at the old
school at 5:30 .p.m.; New Summer-
field School, also at 5:30 p.m.; and
Reklaw Community Center, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Mount Selman store,
5:30 p.m.; Tecula Store, also at 5:30
p.m. and Mixon store, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Turney Store, Gallatin
Community Center, Wells Ag Shop, all
at 5:30 p.m. and Ponta Community
Center at6:30 p.m.
Friday, May 13, Rusk and Alto Fire
Stations, 5:30 p.m.; Central High
Community Center at 6:30 p.m. and
Atoy Maness's Store at 6:45 p.m.
Saturday, May 14, Jacksonville
Animal Shelterat 1:30p.m.
Monday, May 16, Craft store and
Dialville store at 5:30 p.m. and
Maydelle school at 6:30 p.m.
Try-outs Will Be Held Saturday, Sunday at Theatre
Casting Slated for July Play
Try-outs for the Cherokee Civic
Theatre production of "Where The
Lilies Bloom," by Celeste Raspanti
have been set for 2:30 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday at the Cherokee Theatre
in Rusk.
Director is Marcelette Broussard,
who says she will be assisted by
various members of the theatre
group.
The setting for the piay is the
Smokey Mountains and revolves
around Mary Call Luther, who tries to
keep the family together after
father's death.
To do this, she hides her father's
death from the county welfare, from
Kiser Pease, the landlord and from
the townspeople.
Kiser wants to marry Devola, Mary
Call's sister, who is a dreamy, quiet,
deceptively retiring girl.
Needed for the play are a teenager
'Round Town
with Mrs. Roundabout
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to play the 14-year-old Mary Call
Luther; a teenage boy to play her 13-
year-old brother, Romey Luther; an
older girl to play Devola Luther; a
youngster to play the six-year-old Ima
Dean Luther; a man to play Kiser
Pease; a woman to play the character
part of his older sister, Goldie Pease;
and persons to play Mr. and Mrs.
Connell, the storekeeper. Also, Mrs.
Broussard says she needs youths to
try-out for the school chums; someone
to play the part of Mrs. Breathitt, the
schoolteacher; and Gaither Grayhill,
the student with a crush on Mary Call.
The play will be presented July 8
and 9.
Students from the Texas A&M
University Landscape Architecture
Department presented plans to the
Rusk City Council Wednesday for
development of a 294-acre park south
of Rusk on Loop 343.
Former Rusk City Manager Cindy
Evans visited the university last fall
and discussed with instructors the
possibility of students working on
designs for the park.
Eight teams of 30 students inspec-
ted the city-owned park site March 23
before taking on the design as their
class project.
According to Mrs. Evans, the
development could be done in stages
as funds become available The city
plans to apply for matching funds
from the Texas Department of Parks
and Wildlife.
Currently at the site, timber is
being harvested in stages and con-
struction has begun on softball fields
for community use.
Most plans call for the same basic
development, including softball
fields, an open field for football and
soccer, basketball and tennis courts,
jogging and walking trails and picnic
areas.
However, one team's plan included
the construction of a nine-hole golf
course to be added to the current nine
holes of golf in the area.
A second plan called for the con-
struction of a playground for children
and a museum, while a third plan in-
cludes a zoo. The zoo would house
animals normally found in Texas and
would include an aviary.
Rusk Mayor James Long said that
the city is "going to try to do
something about it (the park) real
soon We will start kicking it around
and see what we can do."
The first step for the Rusk city
council is to select which plan to use,
Long said
Board Discusses Needs
Renovations To Main Building Get Priority
Trustees for the Rusk ISD met
Monday evening to discuss
renovation need for the main building
on the elemental y school campus.
Plans were made at the meeting to
advertise for bids for the renovation
work on the building, which was the
first built at the elementary complex.
Tony Murray, superintendent of
schools explained that the meeting
had been called to allow the architect
George Rodgers of Marshall ad-
ditional timing to get the bids out.
"We are going to be working on a tight
schedule to be back into the classes by
the time school opens," he said.
Murray noted that after this work is
done and the first grade moves to the
kindergarten campus, students can be
moved around to allow for renovation
in the other classrooms.
Rodgers explained that the entire
electrical system should be reworked.
Electric load to the building would be
increased and new fixtures installed.
Air conditioner units will be removed
and the new combination heating and
cooling systems installed. Plumbing
and fixtures will be reworked. New
brass fittings on doors and etc. will be
necessary, as well as floor and wall
renovation.
The fire alarm system will be
renovated and Rodger suggested that
a new intercom system be installed
Exterior and entire wood, plastic and
metal will be re-painted
Board members discussed the
feasibility of carpeting the entire
building and then just carpeting the
classrooms.
Art League
Paintings
On Display
An art show is underway this
week and next at the Rusk Cham-
ber of Commerce office, according
to Sue Zane Robinson, Chamber
secretary.
Mrs. Robinson says both those
historical paintings by members of
the Cherokee Art League for a
chamber contest and those pain-
tings for the spring art show are on
display.
The historical paintings will be
judged and prizes awarded. All
paintings will be used to decorate
the chamber office and directors'
room walls.
IT DOESN'T HURT MUCH-Kay Norton tells daughter. Angle after a
skinned knee playing soccer. Soccer Coach Mrs. Norton combines her
}ob at Kusk State Hospital with her more important duties of being a
wife and mother to her family.
-staff photo
It has been said that God knew He
couldn't be in all places, at all times,
and that's why he created Mothers! It
is time for us to do our "do" and
salute these wonderful women next
Sunday ... on their day ... Mother's
Day.
Perhaps in no other role can one ap-
preciate change ai much as when it is
experienced in the duties of
Mothering. It begins with a very
literal form of change. Babies are
changed ... until they change their
habits.
And the changes continue from
learning to walk, talk, read, climb
trees and finally drive a car. Moms
watch cautiously through the suc-
cessive stages of Ufe for their young.
Moms learn to wear many hats, too.
Under the great umbrella of
Mothering comes nurse, cook, laun-
dress. teacher, chauffer, seamstress,
along with PTA and many times, yes,
coaching!
Above and beyond all this,
Mothering calla for being a good
listener, a good friend. Sometlmee It
I only "being" wherever a mother is
Yesterday's pioneer mother cooked
on a wood stove, ironed likewise, did
the laundry outdoors in tubs and
managed to work at farming right
along side the man of the house.
Today's mother is more or less the
same. She works but not at home all
the time.
Being a mother today has changed
.. but only in method. The goal is still
the same ... loving that tiny, new life
for which you have been entrusted
with its care, for as long as you live.
We are always our mother's "baby"
as long as our mothers live! At least a
little Mt in the heart of the mom!
Mothering is like a smile, like music,
it Is a universal feeling or bond that
exists In the process of change. And
these bonds bind the generations in a
form that transcends expression.
More than family love, identification,
belonging ... it conveys the
ongolngness of Ufe... which has been
a gift to us by our mothers.
To all moma everywhere,
Mother's Day Sunday!"
Until neat week? mw
Happy
CONSTRUCTION 18 UNDKRWAY for a new churek •• heel facility at the leveath
slab has been poured and volunteers are laying hrtcki for the building, located
Cepelead streets.
Day Adventtst Church. The
the church an KueHd and
«staff pheta
Council
Agenda
Fills Up
The agenda for the Rusk City Coun-
cil is filling up. but still only routine
business, according to Rusk Mayor
James Long. The meeting will be held
at 5 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall.
Long says the council will consider
the adoption of an ordinance for a
disaster preparedness plan prepared
several months ago by a committee
and presented at that time to the
council.
The council will consider recom-
mendations from a planning and
toning board concerning a request
from William Boatman to situate a
mobile home on Lot 4, Timmona Block
II. «Nacre.
Btdi tor the paving of Williams
Street will be considered at the
meeting, according to l<ong
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