The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1987 Page: 2 of 26
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IWO—THECHEROKEEAN OFRUSK.TEXAS—THURSDAY.JULY2, 1987
Opinion/ Editorial
Sandy Allen
' This Side of the Fence
Everyone past 25 years of age with
r j skeletons in the closet worthy of
media exposure, please step for-
ward.
Perhaps there are a few of you who
v ould like to run for office? No? You
p r efer to keep your skeletons in the
closet? That's unfortunate, because
that means we will be forced to sear-
ch other closets. Nevertheless, I am
sure the media can meet the
challenge.
Now, for all you skeleton seekers
out there, we would like to offer you a
shortcourse in skeleton research.
Opening closets at random is not
v ry effective-after all, there are
umpteen million Americans and
they all have closets. You must have
i.'urpose, and you must look for the
< losets hiding the most hideous
skeletons. These will bring the
highest price in today's market.
Selecting the right closets takes
talent. That's why the best skeleton
Makers get jobs at the White House
and by-lines in The \t aahinifton Poat.
You also must acquire more than
just a "nose for news." You must
develop a nose for skeletons-tough,
because skeletons can't be smelled
;is long as they're still in the closet.
That means you must be very
dedicated to opening closets
r-nitinely and systematically. No
ci'iset is too sacred.
Now for some tips on choosing
c andidates for closet opening:
1. Political office-holders and
candidates for public office,
whether or not their closets are
bulging with skeletons, are a great
place to start. Their skeletons are
also scarier than anybody else's and
are much in demand, especially by
the competing political party. They
are our No. 1 choice, especially
during election year. But be careful!
A few skeleton seekers have been
buried in the rubble after opening an
over-crowded closet. Once the door
is opened, skeletons have a way of
tumbling over each other to get out.
Getting overrun by skeletons is not
an easy way to go to that happy
newsroom in the sky!
2. If you don't have access to a
politician, a TV evangelist might do
just as well. This is a contemporary,
innovative and revolutionary idea
which has gained momentum in the
past year.
3 Try any famous or infamous
personality. This group includes
your movie stars, your recording ar-
tist, The Colonel, Cinderella, or any
person whose name people instantly
recognize. We prefer contem-
poraries, but some skeleton seekers
have done a great job with closets
whose owners have long been
deceased. This group is harder to
sell, so you'll have to come up with a
really kinky skeleton to make it
work. But where there's a will,
there's a way. Happy hunting!
Now, to answer your questions
Hou do you market your akeletona?
Simple Find the person who will
benefit most by having the skeleton
exposed, then name your price If
you've got an extradordinarily ugly
skeleton and a lot of offers, you
might hold an auction Or, if the
skeleton belongs to someone with
means...you could suggest mat-
ching your highest offer, plus a
"finder's fee "
Black mail? What'Sffof''
Hou many akeletont a year equal
full-time income.* Well, that is in-
deed hard to answer. Like some ar-
tists, some skeleton seekers live
on a starvation budget waiting for
that once-in-a-lifetime discovery
behind closed doors These are the
guys with the Nikon and foot-long
telescopic lens who case Jackie O's
favorite club 24 hours a day They
spend 50 percent of their meager
budget on Murine while waiting for
that million-dollar photo
A few very ingenius persons have
discovered.a gold mine in the mini
expose' These are mostly column
writers v, ho rarely deliver the whole
skeleton in one piece, but sell it bone
by beautiful bone This is better
knownas "syndication."
We hope you have found this
session of "Better Bones" exciting
and inspiring Just remember the
person whose closet you don't open,
may open YOUKS!
E. B.
Musick
Jr.
From The
Lion's Den
to have these three Lions visit with
us and we wish them great success
with their rodeo this year
Our young man that is at the
Lion's Crippled Children's Camp at
Kerrville will becoming home this
Saturday. His parents are going to
Kerrville this Friday and will be
with their son at the awards presen-
Today was the last meeting of this
'.ions year. We did not have a
program planned but as it L
liada good meeting. As was mentioned, this is the end
After the opening prayer,.pledge , and beginning of Mie Lions year
to our American Flag and one„ver$& ^^Jext Xhu^day nig&Lat 7 p.m , the
Lions and their wives' will meet at
>! "America," it was tirrhe'\o
ruduce our guests. Lion Morris
Elliott introduced his new pastor,
Richard Gilmer, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church. We hope
Miehard will become a Lion. We also
• d three Lions from Jacksonville
visit with us to advertise their up-
coming rodeo and Western Week,
July 6-11 This is the 25th Anniver-
sary of the Jacksonville Rodeo.
Lion Dr. Floyd Verheyden was
pokesman for the group. With him
was Lion Charles Broadway and
Lion Jerry Chancellor.'It was good
the Fireman's Inn. ^fter a Bar-B-Q
meal the new officers and directors
will be installed by newly elected Lt
Governor James Marshall from
Carthage.
This past Wednesday night at the
First Baptist Church a special
award presentation for all the girls
and boys involved in the summer
baseball program was held. Each
member of the team and their
coaches were given a certificate and
declared a winner even if their team
did not come in first. The pastor of
the church. James Goforth, told
those present that playing baseball
is like running a race. And running a
race is like life itself Perry Eaton,
Music and Youth Director of the
church, and a former All-State
basketball player shared with the
young people what athletics meant
in his life He encouraged them to
never quit, work together as a team,
and to set high goals for themselves
Again this is good advice for life it-
self. It was a good program and
should get better each year It was
good to see these young people, that
compete on the playing fields, sit-
ting together and applauding as
each receives his or her certificate
It is great to be American' It is great
tolivein Rusk.Texas!
Insurance salesman Lion Morris
Elliott to customer "You've filled
in this application all right except
for one thing, Mr Smith Where it
asks the relationship of Mrs Smith
to yourself, you should have put
down Wife,' not 'strained "
Philipc. Clarke Behind the Headlines
The murder followed an all-too-
iainiliar pattern. As Italian air for-
f General Licio Giorgieri was
driving along a Rome street on the
■veiling of March 20th, two
helmefed men on a motorcycle
■ might up with the General's'car
and opened fire with machine
pistols, killing him instantly. The
assassins sped away What followed
gave the cold blooded murder a dif-
ferent twist An organization
calling itself the "Union of Com-
munist Combatants" issued a 14-
page communique claiming that its
armed unit had killed General
Giogieri "exclusively because of his
responsibilities following Italy's
joining the Star Wars" research
program. The word "exclusively"
was underlined.
As is widely known, "Star Wars'
is the term critics have applied to
President Reagan's Strategic-
Defense Initiative (SDI), a four-
year-old research program
designed to provide the United
States and its Free World allies
with a protective space-shield
against the threat of a Soviet
nuclear-missile attack General
Giorgieri, the head of aerospace
construction for the Italian air for-
ce, was one of a number of West
European experts who have joined
their American counterparts in
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Her Honor, William
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Summer Activities Continue:
Reading Program-children
can still sign up, continues
through August 12th.
Activity Time-Highlight of
the week for children, movies,
guests, etc. each Wednesday
morning at 10a.m.
Hours-remain the same,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thur-
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Wewillbecloeed Friday, July
3rd.
A wealth of liberties
If we aren't careful we'll allow the frustrations
of a red-tape society to diminish our appreciation
of American freedom. Sure, we have to bare our
innermost financial secrets to the IRS every April
15: we have to buckle up every time we drive
down to the corner store or risk a fine: we have to
divvy up our pavchecks with Uncle Sam and pav
the State in order to shop, own a vehicle or fish
The only way we can teel tree to reallv celebrate
freedom is to stop looking at the liberties we don't
have and focus in on those w e DO hav e!
Citizens of other nations don t have the same
frustrations we have. Most ol them don't have a
car.. .so thev don't have to worrv about getting it
registered. Thev fish free, all right, but lor sur-
vival. not recreation. And most of them pav a lar
higher tax on their incomes than Americans Un-
fortunately, many in foreign countries don't have
any significant income to pav taxes on
We are a blessed nation. Even our poorest
people are wealthy compared to third world coun-
tries. We make casual choices each da\ that
citizens ol other countries would consider
magnificent opportune deciding what to wear
from a varietv wardrobe: going to the job ol our
choice: enjoying the level of education and career
of our choice in the city and state of our choosing:
selecting what we want to eat where we want to
eat it: deciding where to worship or not to wor-
ship. where to vacation, how long to vacation
The list of our dailv choices speaks of w ide-spread
freedoms which we take for granted
With its imperfections, oui representative
government still allows us a freedom of expression
which is the en\ v ol millions throughout the
world On Independence Dav we take for gran-
ted our freedom and blessing to In- able to have
that family picnu that dav at the lake or
whatever recreation we chi*>se Ilns lulv 4th
let's he more aware of our liberties as uti/ens of
the United States of America Spare a few minutes
tor meditation anil consider tlif lot s< mam
others who would gladlv trade places with ven It
still is an honor to he an American but il is n< ■! an
honor which we bv ourselves have earned I o
Ciod and our lorelathers we ■-wr our siiueresi
thanks
When it comes to peison.i! Iihertv ecerv
American is IN PI PI NI 'I N i I ^ w ealthv
■vandv alien
Kissin' Kuzzins
working on the SDI program
Ominously, he was also the latest in
a growing list of Europeans in-
volved in SDI who have been
assassinated by terrorist hit squads
in the past two years
In addition to General Giorgieri,
the victims have included Georges
Besse, head of the giant Renault
autoworks in France. Gen Rene
Audran. arms sales division chief of
the French Foreign Ministry, and
Ernst Zimmerman, head of the
West German Federation of Ger
man Aerospace Industries U S in
telligence sources report that a
number of mysterious deaths and
disappearances in Britain and the
Netherlands also may be more than
coincidence, possibly part of an or-
chestrated communist plot to
disrupt European cooperation with
the SDI research effort Indeed,
French counter-terrorist in-
vestigators found General
Giorgieri's name on a list of targets
among documents seized last
February at a farmhouse hideout
used by four leaders of the French
terrorist organization, Action
Directe. The documents, along with
caches of stolen weapons and ex-
plosives, pointed to Action Directe's
links with other European terrorist
groups, including West Germany's
Red Army Faction and Belgium's
so-called "Combatant Communist
Cells." Counter-intelligence agents
were in the process of analyzing the
documents when Gen. Giorgieri
was murdered.
Although no evidence directly in-
volving the Soviet Union has been
revealed, Western intelligence ex-
perts are convinced that many, if
not most, of the pro-communist
terrorist groups operating In
Europe and elsewhere receive both
training and financial support from
the KGB. And it's hardly a secret
that ever since President Reagan
announced the Strategic Defense
Initiative in March, 1983, the
Kremlin has been waging an all-out
diplomatic and propaganda effort
to block the program.
Carolyn Kricson
1614 Redbud Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
If you want a good laugh, you will
w ant to buy a copy of ( ollecting Dead
Relatives bv Laverne Galeener
Moore This book has such in
teresting chapter headings as "To
Get A Whopping Headache- Try The
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Hottest Hangout in Town-Your
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Best Kind -Thev Don't Come For
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will relive some of the experiences
you have had and maybe some you
will have in the future
You will learn about the latest
techniques employed bv county
clerks in repelling genealogists I've
known a few like that, haven't you"
Laverne describes all of the various
types of researchers- from the
"Bore," the "Old Master," the
"Blueblood," and the "Briefcase
Magnet ." I am sure you have all met
a sample of each of these types
George Bernard Shaw said, "If you
cannot get rid of the family skeleton,
you may as well make it dance If
your brain is weary from trying to
puzzle out just who is the father of
great-grandpa, this will give you a
change of pace
This little book contains 155 pages,
soft cover with a section of "Ap
propriate Words to Fling About
Some people might have called this
section a glossary of terms, but it
irreverently explains some of the
most-often used terms
Cost of this book is $8 95 plus (2 for
postage and handling Order your
copy from Genealogical Publishing
Company. 1001 N Calvery Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
I need help on my Menefee line My
father was Willis Knox Menefee and
he grew up in Rusk County He was a
descendant of George Menefee who
died in Talbot County, Georgia in
1840 My father descended through
Tatum Menefee Two of George's
children, Richard A and George,
died in Nacogdoches County
Richard Menefee was a Methodist
minister and is buried on the school
grounds in Chireno He died April 16,
1853 Where is his wife buried'' Any
help on this family will be ap-
preciated. -Billie Ramsey, 4506
Harry Lane, Dallas, Texas 75229.
"The Miller Family Newsletter" is
a new publication which is being
planned. It will be published in July,
November and March. Cost is $17 per
year. All materials are welcome If
you are working on a Miller family,
you will surely want to submit your
data for publication. It is an excellent
way to get in touch with someone else
who is working on the same line. This
newsletter will contain a variety of
materials such as census reports,
ship passenger lists, photos, research
tips, cemetery lists and much more. I
know you will want to subscribe. Send
your check or money order to Multi-
Family Publication, P. O. Box 28215
Dept. MU, Sacramento, Ca. 96828.
Don't forget the date for the Ark-
La-Tex Book Fair and Genealogical
Seminar It will be held August 7-8,
1987 at the Chev Vous Motor Inn, S3I3
Monkhouae Drive, Shrrveport, La
Joe White Linn, from North
Carolina, will be the gue?>! lecturer
Her topic will be "The Great
Philadelphia Wagon Road A Study
of Migrations If you have lost an
ancestor, and don't know where to
ltx>k for him, this will give you a clue
The Book Fair will be held in con
junction with the seminar This is an
excellent way to examine a book
prior to purchase Often you buy a
book and find that it does not contain
what you need Now you can w the
book when you boy 11
Mrs Linn is an excellent speaker
and I know you will benefit from
hearing her For more information
write to Ark-La Tex Genealógica!
Society, Inc. }' o Box 4461!
Shreveport, I*a 71134 Tell them you
need a reservation form for the
seminar They will be happy to hear
from you
If you are researching a Lybarger
family, you will want (o subscribe to a
family newsletter entitled
'Lybarger Linkage This is the of
ficial newsletter of the Ly barger
Memorial Association They are
planning the annual meeting and
reunion which w ill f>e held Saturday
and Sunday July lH ly at Madley
Pennsylvania There is a family
history which is available for $1
There are only 12 left so if you want
one. better hurry W rite to Ly barger
Memorial Association 1' o Box
77V2. West Trenton. N J UH62H
The following is taken from
Memoirs of a Methodic ( in uil Itidrr
• Francis W ilson edited by William K
Smith
"Francis Wilson was perhaf*. the
most remarkable man among all lin-
early Methodist preachers in Texas
A native of Virginia he was reared
among the mountains in w hat is now
the State of West Virginia He seems
to have had very little education from
the schools, and to the last his spelling
was altogether unique. whilecapitaLs
and punctuation points were
distributed along the page with im-
partial prodigality In addition to this
he had a nervous affliction something
like palsy, which sometimes at
tacked him so severely that he would
not travel without a companion to
care for him on the way Such was
the man who in 1840 took up his first
charge in Texas at Nacogdoches
Next year he was stationed at San
Augustine and made this town his
permanent home Feeling the need of
education himself he toiled incessan
tly in the establishment and main
tenance of the Wesleyan College, and
the success of that institution during
its short career is due to him more
than to any other man He traveled
far and wide in the interests of the
( arolv n Kricson
1611 Kedbud Mi rrl
Nat otfdiK h IrvasT!>*.l
college speaking and lee turing on
Texas and Na:¡ Augustine and ir. 1844
wen! fiacK lo < t.. and lured it
Cincinnati and other place or: fu
way to fus old i me New Ho!land
The lecture that tie usually delivered
fias U-rn preserved and is a most in-
tervsting account of Texas and of Sin
August .¡.i- aid the W'es'.eyan
College
Fra. i is W .istxi A.ts tx>rn August 1
17*i ui Auguita < '.lun'.y Virginia He
was viumertrd t" Methodism Sep
lemtwr 11 IBH .md t>ecame a nc
ne>eij Kxtxirted in 1810 He s«rv«j in
U)e War nf 1H1J arid a as disc ha r g«l
September ?, ihm
He pre.it fled his first sermon
Hevember iiii'i ata] w* <mla.rt«l
a deacon September 2:j 1H22 He
transferred ' > i >hi< September 23,
lie* and i pissed the Sabine into the
Republic of Texas I Nietnber 1* ¡K38
He traveled the Na> <>gd« hes Circuit
as their first Presiding Klder He
superannuated in lH'iJ and ltxat«"d in
Newton County as a inal preacher
He died October i 1R67 and wai
buried in Belgrade cemetery in
Newton I ountv
K
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( mkwaI /
W What is the oldest, living
animal on earth" s Allen. Rusk, Tx
Probably the oldest, documented
lifespan was a black ttwtoise in the
Seychelle Islands, which lived for an
estimated 170 years
'Galapagt*, tortoises frequently
live to be I5u years or more.'' said
Ray Sutton wildlife manager of the
International Wildlife Park in Grand
Prairie Klephants frequently live
to be 70 years or more
If you have a question about
wildlife you would like lo ee an-
swered in ihik space, write to GNUS
VOl CAN I SK, 601 Wildlife Park-
way, Grand Prairie, Tx. 75050.
Quit smoking.
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American Heart
Association
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