The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1983 Page: 1 of 18
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The Cherokeean
Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper
Established as the Cherokee Sentinel, February 27,1850
Home of the
Texas State
Railroad
Vol.134, No. 25
Rusk, Texas 75785 — Thursday, August 4,1983
14 Pages
ISD Bids Opened
Music Hall, Classrooms To Be Constructed
PHY8ICAL8 WERE GIVEN Saturday to all Rusk High School athletes by Rusk State Hospital doctors and nur-
ses. Here male athletes are weighed and registered by coaching staff prior to taking the actual physicals. Equip-
ment was issued this week and two a day practices begin Monday. ...staff photo
New County History
Slated for Publication
Representatives of the architec-
tural firm of SHWC Inc. of Dallas will
have contracts ready to be signed for
school construction at a meeting of
the Rusk School Board at 5:15 p.m.
Thursday.
Bids for the construction of a com-
bination music and band hall and ad-
ditional classrooms at the Rusk High
School campus and the construction of
a new junior high school were opened
at a board meeting July 28 at the Rusk
High School cafeteria.
Rusk School Superintendent Tony
Murray says the board was very
pleased with the bids received. Low
bids were much lower than had been
anticipated. B. G. Coney Construction
Co. of Little Rock, Ark. was low bid-
der for the combination music-band
hall and high school additions with a
bid of $341,209. Anticipated bid for the
project had been $442,752. Harco Con-
struction Co. of Longview was low
bidder for the junior high construction
with a bid of $2,080,000. Anticipated
bid had been $2,354,110. Anticipated
combined bid had been $2,796,862.
Coney will complete their work
within 190 days. Workmen will begin
work 10 days after contract is awar-
ded and will work five days per week.
Harco expects to complete work
within 360 days. Construction is to
begin 10 days after contract and
workmen will be on the site five days
per week.
Contractors were given the oppor-
tunity to bid on the music room - band
hall and high school additions as Base
Bid A; the junior hilgh school as Base
Bid B and all work as Base Bid C.
Alteration No. 1 for brick pavertile for
carpet in the halls.
Bids included Abbott and Williams,
$393,263, Base Bid A; $2,404,376, Base
Bid B and $2,790,606, Base Bid C; Alt.
No. 1, $12,960 additional. Work would
have been completed in 120 days for
Bid A; 300 days for Bid B and 340 days
for Bid C. Work was to have begun 10
days after contract was awarded with
five work days per week.
Berry and Clay bid $372,340 on Bid A
with work to be completed in 240 days.
Work would begin 20 days after con-
tract and a five day per week work-
week promised.
Coney bid $341,209 for the Bid A;
$2,228,064 for Bid B and $2,569,293 for
Bid C. Alt. No. 1 shows an additional
$20,700; completion is set for 190 days
for Bid A; 270 days for Bid B and 360
days for Bid C. Work is to begin 10
days after contract and workweeks
are five days.
Joe Denson Construction Co. did not
bid on Bid A. A bid of $2.225,000 for Bid
B and $2,596,000 for Bid C. Work is to
be completed in 390 days for Bid B and
390 days for Bid C. An additional
$11,000 is attached for Alt. No. 1. Work
was to begin 10 days after contract
and there was to be five day work-
weeks.
William Droemer Construction bid
$415,000 for Bid A; $2,229,995 for Bid B
and $2,682,960 for Bid C. Alt. No. 1 was
$12,764. No work schedule was in-
cluded.
Jack W. Fife bid $353,000 for Bid A;
$2,138,000 for Bid B and $2,449,000 for
Bid C. An additional $10,200 was
shown for Alt. No. 1. Completion was
243 days Bid A; 360 days Bid B and 360
days Bid C. Work was to begin in 10
days after contract with a five-day
work week.
Harco bid $367,000 for Bid A;
$2,080,000 for Bid B and $2,432,000 for
Bid C. An additional $12,000 shown for
Alt. No. 1. Completion shown was 180
days, Bid A; 360 days. Bid B and 540
days, Bid C. Work is to begin 10 days
See *1SD BIDS. Page 14
Cherokee County will get a new
county history as one of the major
projects of the Cherokee County
Historical Commission's Texas
Sesquicentennial Year project, com-
mission members decided Tuesday in
Rusk.
After conferring with publisher's
representatives on the project, Com-
mission members approved
publishing a new history. The mem-
bers also instructed Chairman John
Templeton and William A. Holland, a
member to check the publisher's con-
tract and recommend action to the
Commission at its August meeting.
Earlier the Commission had agreed to
make the new history one part of its
Sesquicentennial Year observance.
The last history of the county was
published decades ago by Mrs. Hattie
Joplin Roach of Rusk. The com-
mission republished that history
several years ago, but it was not up-
dated and was republished in its
original text and form. It continues to
be the only existing history of the
county.
In other action the Commission set
tentative dates for dedicating Texas
Historical Commission markers at
the Wesley Love home in Jacksonville
and at the Texas State Railroad
headquarters near Rusk. Application
for a marker for the old community of
Gent between Maydelle and Jackson-
ville is in Austin awaiting approval. A
marker for the grave of John Joseph
Bowman, veteran of the War for
Texas Independence, in the Mt. Hope
Cemetery in Wells has been approved
and is being cast now at the foundry in
*Round Town
with Mrs. Roundabout
San Antonio. A similar marker is
already on the grave of James
Bowman, brother of that soldier, in
the same cemetery. The Mary Man-
tooth Chapter, Daughters of the
Republic of Texas in Lufkin is
cooperating in marking the Bowman
grave.
Applications are being prepared by
three county landowners for Texas
Farm Heritage awards in 1983. Two
farms were approved for this honor
last year and gave the county 32 such
farms, one of the highest number of
any county in the state. Farms
eligible for this honor must have been
in the same family 100 continuous
years and in crop or livestock income
producing without interruption for the
same time.
Commission members present were
Mrs. Henry Rose, Mrs. Melvin
Sessions, Alto; Mrs. Fred Buchanan,
Holland, Terry Guinn, and J. W.
Summers, Rusk; Dr. W. A. Miller,
Mrs. Ogreta Huttash, Bernard
Mayfield, Jack Moore and Tem-
pleton of Jacksonville.
The Commission will convene again
August 23 in the county courtroom in
Rusk.
Appraisal District
Budget Is Approved
Directors for the Cherokee County
Appraisal District approved a $541,275
operation budget at a Thursday after-
noon meeting.
A public hearing preceeded the
regular meeting of the CCAD board.
Attending the hearing were Cherokee
County Judge Robert McNatt, Com-
missioner Toby Sartain, Precinct 2,
Rusk Mayor James Long, Rusk City
Secretary Mary Hagle and Alto
School Superintendent John Cook.
In addition to the $541,275 operation
budget, board members approved a
$46,820 tax collection budget for
collection of taxes for the City of
Rusk, the Rusk ISD and the New
Summerfield ISD. Chief Appraiser
Sid Danner met with the Troup School
Board Monday night and presented a
proposal for the CCAD to do their tax
collections. Danner said in the event
the board voted at an Aug. 8 budget
meeting to go along with the CCAD
contract, the tax collection budget
would be amended to include the
Troup ISD.
The board agreed to computer
charges of 15 cents per parcel with a
minimum of $275 for providing tax
rolls to those taxing units who do not
contract with the district for collec-
See •CCAD, Page 14
On awakening I thought I heard a
voice laughing "ho, ho, ho!" I rolled
over and iooked at the calendar first.
(It doesn't do a bit of good to know
what time it is. if you don't know what
day it 1st)
Sure enough, It was only Aug. 1 and
the time 7 a.m. But the "ho, ho, ho"
continued to sound in my head. Lazily,
I laughed. Here we are...approaching
the climax to. Dog Days, and the
beginning of two-a-days for our
Eagles and I am hearing Santa Claus
laughing at me!
Maybe It was a forewarning, or a
kind of foreboding. Every year I
promise (to myself) that next Christ-
mas I will approach it better
prepared! Don't you do the same
thing? Promise yourself that you
won't wait until the last minute?
PaeaiMy the voice from my Twilight
mm had something to do with the fact
members of my family
■H7 reported with some en-
, "I have half my Christmas
already done!" And both of
I
Now I'm really not a
But I don't baliovo In
• things either I One of the
Beaver kin Mid aha had
already addreoaed her Christmas
cardal! sakl, "Well, how do you know
mm af then won t changa their ad-
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m
would recheck her information before
mailing them about Dec. 1.
It's no wonder I have nightmares
about being late with my payments to
IRS, remembering dental appoin-
tments, sending out birthday
greetings. I should design my own,
personalised "belated" greeting
card! Like the character from Alice in
WondirUnd, "I'm late, I'm late!"
Hopelessly so at times!
And it's not just relatives who can
bring on these kinds of attacks. Do
you remember Francis Pharcellus
Church? Probably not. Not his name
anyway. But you will remember these
words he wrote:
"Not believe In Santa Claus? You
might as well not believe in
fairies...No Santa Claus! Thank God,
he Uves, and he lives forever. A
thousand years from now, Virginia,
nay, ten times ten thousand years
from now, he will continue to make
glad the heart of childhood."
This is an excarpt from the
editorial, "Is There A Santa Claus,"
now rathar widely known and
recognized. It appeared In TU N—
Yorti Sun, Sept. 21,1897.
I realty don't kaaw hew aome people
maaago to get Into the Christmss
spiritsaearly! Aa far me. I'm gsing to
laugh "ha, ha, ha," and sajay Ragle
aetfsn hetwtst aaw and then! I'll
worry abanl Dea, M an or ahaat Dae.
Ml (And prendas anea asare la atari
•arty neat year))
I tntli HMMkl
viwu twii imT
First Game Sept. 2
Eagles 'Geared'
F or 1983 Season
The Rusk High School Fighting
Eagles, are gearing up for another
season as the team prepares to begin
practice Monday.
Coach Louis Caveness said that
although two-a-day practices are not
allowed to start uiitil Monday, shoes
were issued to the players Wed-
nesday. This will give the players a
chance to get used to them and will
keep down blisters, according to
Caveness.
Season tickets are now on sale for
anyone who held tickets last year, and
new subscribers will be able to pur-
chase the remaining tickets one week
before the first game.
RAY GRESHAM of Rusk (left) I
the Cherokee Clvk Theatre from Theatre President Jean Bryant. Mrs.
Gresham, winner of the theater group's logo contest, received a $100
patron membership. Hie logo will be re-produced on t-shlrts and will
be sold and displayed In the area. -staff photo
Caveness says that although the
Eaglea have once again bean picked
aacond In District 19AAA, ha faala
they have a good chanca to win the
diatrict championship. This, in spite
of Uta fact that they don't heve many
startara or lattannan returning this
year, the coach faala that the winning
attitude and daalre for tha title wtll be
th* key to sucdeas this season.
Tha fliat gama will ha Sept. I at
iwithUwfUrat
City of Rusk Budget Items
Under Council Consideration
i
pm
Members of the Ruak City Council
ara coneidertng until lata Tueeday
night a 1740,300 1B0M4 city ganaral
budget and a MM.710 walar and aawer
fund budget. Tbe two were prepared
by Mayar James Lang and City
Mary Hagle, with Uta
at tha various deportment
daye prior to tha
Tha general budget shows an In-
crease of $134,7 . Included In the In-
crease wsa an eight percent aalary In-
creaae for all city employees.
Mayor Long saya he anticipates a
small property tax increase,
ministration, m,0#7, police, $11?,Ml,
fire. 91M.IM; garbage, ItlOM;
street, IU4.NI; tomstary, $S,M0,
park. M,$00; ambulance, $10,000,
elderly tranapartatlaa, It4.au,
Uhrary, UlTM. and cauri, MM*.
The council alao considered a
Ml,«6 revenue sharii* budget. This
budget included a new police car at
$10,800; a deluge gun monitor for the
fire department at $1,900; 10 firs
department pagara and chargers,
$9.000; a radia walMe talkie, mo,
«assies, asea, shovels gat>n*e and
vehresalttUft and fire Iwse at M.aao,
Mreet was aba IneMod at aaSfaf
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The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1983, newspaper, August 4, 1983; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151603/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.