The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1985 Page: 1 of 28
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The Cherokeean
Home of the
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Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper—Established As The Cherokee Sentinel, February 27, 1850
Vol. 136, No. 8
Thursday, April 4,1985—Rusk, Texas 75785
18 Pages
Egg Hunt Is Saturday
The annual Rusk Easter Egg
Hunt has been set for 10 a.m. Satur-
day at the Jim Hogg State Park, ac-
cording to Sue Zane Robinson,
chamber secretary.
The event is sponsored by
Buckhorn Grocery, the Rusk
Chamber of Commerce and the
Rusk High School Junior Chamber
of Commerce.
Mrs. Robinson says that there
will be three areas designated for
egg hunting. An area will be roped
off for pre-schoolers; an area
designated for Kindergarten
through second grade; and another
area for third, fourth and fifth
graders.
The event is open for all children
in the area.
Timber Talk Is Topic
The city's timber consultant ta
expected to meet with the Rusk City
Council Tuesday night and present
fa report of his recent survey. City
Manager Doug Driggers says the
timber on a city owned tract has
been marked and is ready to be ad-
vertised for sale. Proceeds from
timber sales are to go toward city
iecreational programs.
* In other matters, the council is
expected to hear a request ásking
for abandonment of a street, and
canvass Saturday's election.
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Holiday Observance
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* Classes for students in the Rusk
Independent School District will be
dismissed Friday in observance of
Good Friday. Classes will resume
Monday morning. Monday had
Originally been scheduled as a
holiday. However, the day has to be
re-scheduled as a make-up day for
those days taken during the
January snow days.
; City offices and the Cherokee
County Courthouse will be closed
Friday to allow employees the
holiday.
Bridge Unsafe; Closed
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■: The Doyle Street Bridge has been
declared unsafe and is being closed,
According to Rusk City Manager
Doug Driggers.
The bridge is located three blocks
west of the square and is north of
Highway 84.
Driggers says the city staff
apologizes for any inconvenience
caused residents, but the bridge
must be closed to make necessary
repairs.
Registration Extended
Registration for boys' summer
baseball and girls' softball has been
extended, according to Robert Wat-
son, director of the program.
Watson says registration for boys
ages 7 to 18, and girls ages 10-15 has
been set for 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thur-
sday, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday
at the Lions Club Baseball Com-
plex.
Playing age cut-offs are for Aug.
1. Additional information can be ob-
tained from Watson at 8834718.
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Local Elections Set Saturday
Two School Board Members, Mayor, Three Councilmen
Two Rusk school trustees, a
mayor, and three members of the
Rusk city council will be elected in
separate -elections Saturday in
Rusk.
The school election will be at the
Southwestern Electric Service Co.
office and the city election at the
Rusk City Hall. Polling time is from
7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for both elections.
Vying for the two at large
positions on the school board of
education are Danny Berry, Rusk
building contractor and former
high school teacher, former city
councilman and former Rusk
Chamber of Commerce director;
Inez Conley, a former teacher and
now an active member of various
community and church
organizations; Peggy Hugghins,
Rusk State Hospital employee and
active community and youth
workers; Jerry Ocker, Rusk den-
tist, director of the Rusk Chamber
of Commerce and treasurer of the
Rusk Kiwanis Club; and Ken Smith,
Rusk Post Master and Rotary Club
leader. Incumbents Mary
Buchanan and Joe Ray Ocker are
not seeking re-election.
There are six candidates for four
places on the Rusk Council. Mayor
James Long is unopposed for re-
election, as is Walter Session, Place
2.
Vying for the Place 1 position are
Incumbent Janie Scallon and Fred
Gaines. Mrs. Scallon is retired day
care operator and active member
of the Rusk Garden Club, Cherokee
Art League and Cherokee Civic
Theatre. Gaines is former manager
of the J.B. White store in Rusk and
now an employee at the Rusk State
Hospital, a former president and
director of the Rusk Chamber of
Commerce; former chairman of
the Rusk Retail Merchants and
former director of the Cherokee
Civic Theatre.
Asking for election to the one-
year Place 5 term of Scott Jared,
who resigned, are Sharon Bowling,
real estate operator and former
Rusk store owner and Mike Crysup,
Rusk State Hospital employee, past
president of the Rusk Kiwanis Club,
past director for the Rusk Chamber
of Commerce, past director of the
Rusk Quarterback Club and vice-
chairman of the administrative
board of the First United Methodist
Church.
Terms on the Rusk Board of
Education are for three years and
elected at large instead of for place.
City Council terms are for two
years, except for the Place 5
position, which had a vacancy
created to fill the one-year unex-
pired term of Scott Jared.
County Lake Permit Asked
Answer To Eastex Lake on Mud Creek Expected Soon
A Beautiful Connection! -
The legend of the dogwood tree has its connection with .the
celebration of Easter. This annual observance brings with it the
message of love and hope for all mankind, just as little children do.
The youngsters pictured above are Chris and Sandy Gonzalez of
Grand Prairie. They were photographed in front of a dogwood tree in
the yard of Mrs. Lois Henry on Henderson street. -staff photo
Student Deadline Told
For Transfer of District
Texas Education Agency has an-
nounced that the deadline for filing
student transfer applications is
April 30. Parents desiring to tran-
sfer their children from the school
district in which they live to another
school district for the 1985-86 school
year must make application to the
receiving district on or before this
date.
Transfer applications must be
approved by both the receiving
district and the Texas Education
Agency before a student may at-
tend school in that school district.
Transfers are effective for only
one school year. New applications
Ministerial
Group Seeks
More Funds
To Assist Needy Persons
The Rusk Ministerial Alliance
needs money to continue to serve
the needy and destitute in this area.
Ruby Reid, secretary of the Rusk
United Methodist Church and
treasurer of the organization, says
the alliance has helped many needy
and destitute families and in-
dividuals during the months since
the last offering at last
Thanksgiving.
Charity contributions from the
community were taken at that time
and have provided for the Allian-
ce's work up to this time. But, now
the funds have been used up and the
must be submitted each year for a
student to attend school in a district
other than the school district in
which the child resides. Students
who have been transferred to
another district retain the right to
attend school in their home district
should the parents so desire.
A recommendation is expected
within 30 working days from the
Texas Water Commission on an ap-
plication by the Angelina and
Neches River Authority to con-
struct a $60 million dam and reser-
voir project on Mud Creek, near
Jacksonville. A hearing concerning
the project was held last week in
Austin.
The application asks for per-
mission to build the Eastex Lake on
Mud Creek.
Although there is no real op-
position, a biologist with the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department
said there will be some loss of
habitat caused by this project. The
project will flood 10,000 acres,
Biologist Bob Spain reported at the
hearing. Bottomland and hard-
woods including oak and pecan
trees will be lost in the project.
ANRA attorney John Stover
noted the river authority has met
the criteria set forth (by the state)
in establishing there are unap-
propriated waters available for the
reservoir, adding the project is not
detrimental to the public welfare.
"If approved by Texas Water
Commissioners, construction would
probably begin within two years,"
Stover said.
According to testimony Thur-
sday, the project could be com-
pleted within three to five years.
The dam and reservoir would
benefit such East Texas cities as
Jacksonville, Rusk, Overton and
New London, along with several
other communities that are
providing some financial backing.
Plans call for the project to be
constructed on Mud Creek, which is
a tributary of the Angelina River in
Cherokee County.
The reservoir would impound
195,000-acre feet and divert from
the proposed lake 85,507-acre feet
annually, according to TWC.
All District
Students
Announced
Rusk High School students named
to All District Basketbsall include
Jody Jordan and Ronny Shepperd,
first team and Tracy Anderson and
Malcolm Williams, honorable men-
tion and Yvonne Sessions, girls.
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The Rusk High School Class of
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that the charily work of this
organisation is one they fever and
approve, are asked to make
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If I could only play in a re-make
of that old movie, "Perils of
Pauline!" You remember it, don't
you? The heroine is tied to the
railroad tracks and a train is about
to run over her. For me, it would be
the same, except the train would be
the I.R. Sxpress! Let me de-rail in
thought for a moment.
It's that time of year. The sap is
rising and we see what this means
in changes for nature. It also hap-
pens, in a sense, with people. The
change of the season from winter to
spring brings with it the testing of
our vitality! Our physical strength!
As we struggle out of the winter
doldrums (depending on our age)
we do it with oftentimes acute un-
derstanding of the multitude of
"itises.' There's arthritis, bron-
chitis, sinusitis, tonsilitis, appen-
dicitis. And woe unto ALL tax-
payers, there's I-R-itis!
This comea along every spring for
meal Individuals and businesses,
unless you're a corporation com-
pany. Ho...while nature's change «I
seasons Is a test of physical
strength, oar government's lest of
oar menial strength comes In the
form of saturate las rspart!
Oí course, wa taxpayers are
Taxpayers (POCT), we might find
that we share similar feelings.
Through group therapy we should
obtain consolation and relief from a
very real and paranoid obsession
that somebody in IRS is after us!
Now, in my case...I do the best
that I can. When they sent me a note
last year and told me that during
the previous year (198á), I had
overpaid our employees social
security and withholding money by
more than $25,000, well,..I patiently
copied everything that was needed
to help them get the matter
resolved. I WISH such had been the
luck! «
Then later when they advised by
mail at the end of the fourth quarter
that I had not paid the third month
of the third quarter's social security
and withholding, again, back to the
copy machine and quickly I helped
them find the missing payment.
Mercifully, they did, snd let me
know It within four weeks! ButM! 1
got a fat rine (penalty) for being M
hoars late with the payment!
WelL.1 won't be late anymore. At
least (learned a lesson in this Just
wish I could put them in the placo of
Pauline and let them have night-
marea about getting run ovar by a
tram toad of taxpayers alh
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The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1985, newspaper, April 4, 1985; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151690/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.