The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1984 Page: 1 of 16
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MICnOPLBX , IMC
P. O. 90X 15436
DALLAS, TX. 75¿45
FUN WITH PHONE-TICS
We're in for a competitive
game of de-Monopoly
with the AT&T break-up.
SEE COLUMN, P. 2
★ THE ROLLING STONE*
Lesser known rock group provided treatment for
rabies, snakebites and other illnesses in the pre-vaccine
days, as told to Cherokee Heritage Association.
SEE STORY BELOW
LOAN ARRANGERS
County Commissioners may set up
corporation to rustle up
agriculture loans.
SEE STORY BELOW
15c
Per Issue
The Cherokeean
Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper
hstahlishcd as the Cherokee Sentinel. Fehruar\ 27. 1850
Home of the
Texas State
Railroad
Vol. 135, No. 1
Rusk, Texas 75785 — Thursday, February 16,1984
12 Pages
City Suit To Continue
In Texas Supreme Court
An appeal of a suit filed by the City
of Rusk against Paul Cox, et al will be
continued to the Texas Supreme
Court.
Members of the Rusk City Council
voted Tuesday night to continue with
the suit appeal after the Court of Civil
Appeals in Tyler ruled against the city
in the matter surrounding a zoning
change in 1981 permitting L&L Ford-
Mercury to construct a car dealership
on U.S. Highway 69 South.
The case was first tried in the
Second Judicial District Court at
Rusk by Judge Marvin Blackburn in
November of 1981. Judge Blackburn
at that time ruled that the amended
ordinance allowing for the rezoning of
the 2.7 acre tract, from residential to
commercial, was an illegal spot zone
and thus was void.
Judge Blackburn further ruled that
the council cannot use their authority
to enforce that void ordinance and the
judge enjoined them from using that
part of the void ordinance.
Judge Blackburn also ruled that the
city cannot ever rezone that site as
commercial unless certain circum-
stances change.
The city appealed the entire
November, 1981, ruling and the Court
of Civil Appeals ruled that Judge
Blackburn had been right in declaring
the act as an illegal spot zone and was
correct in permanently enjoining
them from enforcement of that or-
dinance.
However, the court of civil appeals
ruled that the judicial branch of
government cannot enjoin the city
from ever changing that ordinance.
The city was ordered to pay all costs
of the appeal.
The opinion was written by Judge
Paul Colley. Other members of the
Court of Civil Appeals conferring on
the ruling were Chief Justice J.W.
Summers and Judge Connally
McKay.
City Attorney Steve Guy and City
Manager Bill Lindley estimate the
legal fees at a cost of between $3,000
and $5,000 to date.
"We will need to research the books
to give an exact figure for the costs of
this suit to date," said Lindley after
the meeting.
Council Calls City Election
Discusses Downtown Parking
The Rusk City Council called an
election for 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 7 to
elect a mayor and four councilmen.
All places on the council, except the
position held by Walter Session, are
up for bids. Terms of Councilmen
Scott Jared, Charles Hassell and Edd
Stover expire. Mayor James Long and
Councilwoman Janie Scallon were
appointed last year to serve until the
next city election. Long, Hassell and
Mrs. Scallon have all filed for reelec-
tion.
The positions held by Jared, Hassell
and Stover will be for two year terms
and the position held by Long and
Mrs. Scallon will be for only one year
terms.
A request for a no-parking zone on
Lone Oak and Third Street was denied
'Round Town
o
With Mrs. Roundabout
Have you ever known persons who
experienced either of the following
situations?
A couple, after waiting a lengthy in-
terval to be blessed with their own
child, adopts ... and within months
finds, to their consternation and joy,
that they are about to be "blessed"
with their own heir?
Situation 2: Couple has four
children in their own blessed, nest and
believing that four is enough, husband
has simple, surgical procedure. Wife
gives away maternity clothes, the
baby bed, high chair, infant clothes
and all other related paraphernalia,
just before discovering the surgical
procedure was perhaps simple ... but
not successful!
Well... I have friends who have ex-
perienced both of the foregoing
situations ... and to some extent, I can
now identify with them! Nope! We're
not in the family way with plans for
the arrival of an impending infant ...
but in a way, we are in the family way
... with a candidacy by Himself for
District 11, Texas House of Reps!
A candidate acquires a whole
family of people in a race and if he is
elected, he most assuredly acquires a
family of people that he will serve!
Having recently filed for posterity
all those multitudes of papers, reports
and left over emory boards, it Is now
necessary to speedily unearth, reac-
tivate all items of a useful purpose.
And Just when I thought we had put
campaigns behind.
But it's going to be fun. All of life is
fun ... if you let it be. Most of all, the
fun comes from friendships. In a
campaign you get to meet new people,
renew old ties and talk about all that's
wrong with the world!
Sometimes you get to share real,
common problems. Such was the case
last Saturday. Visiting in Palestine,
the Herald-Press publisher, Larry
Mayo and Your* Truly, had a lot In
common to talk about with regard to
our respective rotes as guardians of
the community newspaper. I.ess than
an hour later. I bumped luto a
longtime friend. Adair Lutor of Vldor
wto with tor taafeMi Merle and i
news media in their area for many
years, after leaving Grapeiand.
Now ... if I hadn't been out there hit-
ting the campaign trail, how would 1
have known that Larry was really a
working publisher (this was Satur-
day!) and would have missed lear-
ning that Adair tries to visit her mom
in Palestine at least once a month
now.
Every encounter with a friend, old
or new, is a highlight in my life. Not to
be overlooked was the visit with Ancel
Nunn and his wife, Renata. He's the
artist who helped us. with others, in
getting the East Texas Regional Arts
and Crafts Fair established. He is also
the guy who had a really, serious
heart attack about IK months ago.
If you've had contact with a hospital
at any recent time, you can under-
stand the following condensation of
his admission to the hospital ... while
in the throes of a massive heart at-
tack.
He was being tossed questions for
paper work faster than his pains were
coming ... so finally after the third lit-
tle honey asked him for his profession,
he replied, "I circumcise elephants."
Saturday afternoon when Me visited in
their beautiful, old home (the historic
Royall family's domocile). it was good
to note that he still has his wonderful
sense of humor ... even about elephan-
ts and donkeys!
Politics, according to Ancel. can
sometimes include the very worst of
both animal species! But you have to
look for, and hope for the best when
you cast your ballot!
With Valentine's Day barely here ...
the weather barely better i but much
better, we'll all admit!), and gardens
barely begun, most folks are just not
too politically Inclined! Kind of like a
couple In the family way though •• as
the day approaches, the event
becomes more and more an object for
attention!
Sure aorry I threw out all those old
emory boards Could have used them
•gain. But how was I to know" of such
sre the testacies «maybe
>oi life made'
t'ntll nest week* -as
by the Council.
Zelwanda Hendrick and Irene Jared
and their attorney, Ricky Richards,
* See City Parking, Page Twelve
NEW OFFICERS for the Cherokee County Art League are in front from left Janie Scallon. exhibit chairman and
Jimmie Westbrook, historian. Standing are from left Wayne Morrow, vice-president; l.urlene How den,
president; Mary J. Turney, secretary and Ruth Ross, treasurer. Not pictured are Doris Cook, publicity and l.eela
Peace, membership chairman. staff pholo
'Madstone' Treatment Interesting History
A very interesting storv on "The
Noell Madstone" was presented by
Bernard Mayfield at the Feb. 6
meeting of the Cherokee Heritage
Association at the Southern Gourmet
Restaurant in Rusk.
Mayfield spoke on behalf of J. T.
Ahearn, who had compiled the infor-
mation and was unable to attend
because of illness in his family.
The madstone was used for treat-
ment of rabies, snakebites and in-
juries prior to the discovery of the an-
ti-rabies vaccine in 1875 by Louis
Pasteur. These stones came from
dead animals, such as the cobra in In-
dia. The most prized were those taken
from the Albino deer.
Dr. J. M. Noell, Ahearn's gran-
dfather, left Virginia and came to Alto
in 1860 with the Madstone. The crystal
quartz stone, with a maze of fissures
on its surface, was displayed at the
meeting. Mayfield said that when in
use the stone glowed a green color
The speaker related how people
came from all over to make use of the
stone. After Dr. Noell's death, his
daughter, Fanny, continued with the
use of the stone. More than 1,000 per-
sons received treatment from the
stone during Miss Fanny's lifetime.
Mrs. Verline Danheim of Alto
reported that she lived across the
street from Miss Fanny and had been
an eye w itness to the stone's use.
She reported that Miss Fanny w ould
first milk a cow. then build a fire of
wood, get a stew pan and put the milk
and stone in it to get warm, then ap-
ply it to the person's wound When the
stone rolled off. she would put the
stone back into the milk and then
reapply to the wound, repeating this
procedure until the stone slopped
sticking. She would then let the stone,
by then a green color, sit in the milk
until it cleared Mrs. Danheim related
that at one time a bowl of milk was
left out A cat drank it and died
Mrs Danheim says (hey can't
locate the many letters sent to Miss
Fanny by recovered patients
Miss Fanny did not charge those
who came to see her And. she also fed
them and bedded them at no charge.
Mrs. Danheim said
T C Roddy explained tnat the
protein in the milk activated the
silican jell of the stone, which absor-
bed the poison from the body-
Terry Guinn, president of the
Heritage group presided at the
business meeting He reported that
the group had contributed $i:H to the
Husk State Hospital Volunteer Ser
vice Council in December Directors
had voted earlier in the evening to
purchase four of the new county
history books to be placed in the coun-
ty's four public libraries
Mrs Lois Henry, president of the
Husk Unit of the Cherokee County
Heritage Association, presided during
a short business session of th;it
organization Members voted to allow
the use of the old soda fountain coun-
ter from Moseley s Drug Store to be
used in an ice cream parlor to lie
opened in Rusk soon Frank How den
explained that he and Herbert Bell .Jr
have planned to open the parlor
sometime around March .'il in the
Summers building, formerly occupied
by the Footbridge Florist He said
they will offer space for a museum in
the souvenir shop at no charge to the
Heritage Association
Mrs Henry appointed Mable Horn
and Virginia Penney to work with
Larry Sinclair and Mow den to draw up
a legal document allowing the men to
use the counter at no charge The
document will be filed in the county
deed records
Commissioners To Apply For Grants
Cherokee County Commissioners
employed Bill Holland of Grantman-
ship Institute Monday morning to
work with the county in making ap-
plication for Community Develop-
ment Block Grants and Community
Economical Block Grants to be used
to finance projects within the county
The company 's fee is $7.000
Holland explained that the county
would make application for grant
funds through CDBG for road and
bridge work and other needed im-
provements Funds from the
Economical Block Grant would be
used for programs to benefit the
economical phase of the county
development The grant funds can be
used for construction of roads to serve
a new industry Holland said he would
check to determine if funds could be
used for renovation of the airport
runway-
He said there were several other
programs that would benefit the coun-
ty such as availability of funds for
family planning and health services,
and summer youth feeding and
recreational programs
Commissioner Robert Underwood,
Precinct l, asked if funds would be
available for a new landfill site
Holland explained the Economical
New Physician Opens Office
At Meharry Clinic In Rusk
Dr. Richard Ruth
A new physician. Dr Richard Rush,
formerly of Wyoming will open his of
fice at the Meharry Clinic in Rusk
around March 1
Dr Rush and his family recently
moved to Rusk from Worland. Wy
where he was involved in general
practice for the past fi'j years He
said his wife. Debra are parents of 12
year old Trey, a seventh grader at
Husk Junior High School
The new doctor grew up in Califor-
nia and graduated from Pacific I nion
College in Angwin, Calif He worked
in administ rallón for personnel al
McDonald Douglas Air Craft for tome
time before deciding to go into
medicine
He graduated from medical school
in Guadalajara. Mexico and then
practiced for two years in Toledo.
Ohio He has been in practice in Mon-
tana and Fort Smith, Ark
Dr Rush says he and Dr Roger
Meharry have been friends for some
time and he decided to come lo Rusk
because he had become tired oí tieinit
in practice by himself And *« wan-
ted to live in a small town, bul still be
in driving distance of larger towns."
to noted
grant could be used for this purpose
but the application would have to be
approved by the Economical Grant
program as well as the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency Underwood
also inquired i( funds could be used to
assist Jacksonville with their landfill
to allow area residents to use that
facility Holland replied that the only-
way the county could secure funds for
this use would be that the county was
part ow ner of the landfill facility-
Vote to enter into this program was
approved by all commissioners ex-
cept Toby Sartain. Precinct 2, who
abstained
A request for the creation of the
Cherokee County Agricultural
Development Corporation was tabled
until the Feb 27 meeting Man i t
Johnson and Glenn Kikner of he
Development Solutions Inc of Mar
shall met with the commissioners to
ask for the formation of the cor-
poration. which will be similar to the
county Industrial Development Board
and the Hospital Board
Commissioners will check with
agriculture persons in the county to
determine If thev want this cor
corporation *
loans for u
agricultural
established
«w 11 Mfvmwmn*. p. n
in helping small
businesses g«<
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