The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1987 Page: 4 of 12
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PAGE FOUR—THE CHEROKEEAN OF RUSK. TEXAS—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1987
Cherokee Historical Commission
seeks Distinguished Service Award
A five-year goals schedule and
arrangements for the second
historical photograph copying
session were main items of the
Cherokee County Historical Com-
mission in its monthly business
meeting Tuesday night in Rusk.
The five-year goals plan is part of
the Commission's participation in
the Distinguished Service Award
program of the Texas Historical
Commission, Dr. John Ross, project
chairman, explained to the Com-
mission members. A plan was ap-
proved tentatively Tuesday night,
subject to revisions and final ap-
proval in the December meeting.
The five-year plan will cover a con-
tinuation of some present programs
and several new ones members
suggested Tuesday. The Com-
mission adopts an annual Program
of Work, but this will be its first long-
range work plan, Dr. Ross ex-
plained.
The second session of the
historical photograph copying
project will be conducted Dec. 5 in
the Jacksonville Public Library
auditorium for copying photographs
of historical significance to
Cherokee County, Grady Singletary,
project chairman, announced.
Photographs to be copied must be of
events, buildings, and persons taken
50 years or more ago, Singletary
stressed.
Photographs will be copied
without charge for all persons who
submit them, the chairman ex-
plained. The original photographs
will be returned to owners after
being copied "on the spot," he ad-
ded, so that owners will have their
photographs ready to take home
with them without having to leave
them for copying.
In the first copying session held in
Rusk Nov. 21,76 photographs of this
type were copied. All photographs
copied will become part of an ar-
chive of historical photographs
available for research and as a
record of the county's past, the
rhiiwMH f§frj Copied photographs
Joe Eckenrode
Joe Eckenrode
is candidate
Joe Eckenrode, 63, has announced
his candidacy for the Cherokee
County Sheriff Democratic
nomination.
Eckenrode, a veteran law enfor-
cement officer, has 26 years with the
Houston Police Department in ad-
dition to his 10 years of service with
the Cherokee County Sheriff's
Department.
Eckenrode is a World War II
veteran and served four years with
the U.S. Marine Corps. He spent 24
years in the South Pacific and
received the Purple Heart after
being wounded in action. He holds
various ribbons and medals. He is a
lifetime member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Eckenrode is a graduate of the
Houston Police Academy. Prior to
his retirement from that depar-
tment, he spent two years in radio
patrol; two years in accident in-
vestigation, two years in hit and run
investigation, and 20 years as a
detective in the burglary and theft
division. He retired from that depar-
tment in 1977.
Eckenrode came to the Cherokee
County Sheriff's department in
August of 1977 He has served that
department for three years as a
deputy, 44 years as a sergeant and
three years as chief deputy. He holds
an advance certificate in law enfor-
cement and attended Texas A&M
University civil law and process
school He has a semester in
Business Administration at the
University of Houston. Eckenrode
has some 785 hours in service
training in law enforcement.
He and his wife, the former Eloise
Williams of Wells, have six children
and I2grandchildren.
Cherokee Medical Center
Patient List
ADMITTKI):
Mae Troublefield, Rusk; L. M.
Hanson, Rusk. Doris Jackson,
Rusk, Kathy Brannon, Rusk;
Homer Dulin, Rusk
DIM'IIAK(iKI):
Marie Norris, Rusk Henry Klta
lint*. All , I'el ' Hmmo, Kusk. I* rn
I hjrwiin. ltu.sk. Mary VmiMht, Itusk.
Bert te Si ill. Husk
will not be available for commercial
purposes, he added.
The Commission approved in-
suring its office equipment after
learning that it is not covered by the
county's insurance policy or
policies. The Commission's stock of
unsold copies of its Cherokee County
History have been insured since
they were delivered. The insurance
coverage will be funded from the
Commission's budget.
The Texana Books project, which
is providing books on Texas for the
libraries in Alto, Wells, Rusk, and
Jacksonville, will be continued with
the gift of more books on Texas
history. A new list of books of this
type the libraries need is being com-
piled for future purchases, accor-
ding to the report from Mrs. Edith
Goodson and Jack Moore, who are
directing this work. To date, the
Commission has contributed about
125 books to the four libraries. This
project is funded from proceeds of
the sale of the Cherokee County
History which the Commission
published in 1986.
Terry Guinn announced that the
Commission will tour the county
courthouse during its December
meeting to meet one of the
requirements of the Distinguished
Service Award category entry he is
directing. The tour will be a short
one, he said.
Junior Historian chapters in
Jacksonville, New Summerfield and
Rusk are busy with school year
programs and activities, John Mark
Lester, Junior Historian chairman,
reported. Efforts will be continued,
he said, to get a chapter organized in
the Alto school system. The Junior
Historian work is sponsored by the
Commission. It has become one of
Texas' outstanding programs and is
a model for other groups getting in to
the work. Gregg county's historical
commission obtained information
from the Cherokee County one
recently to use as a guide in starting
the Junior Historian program on
recommendation of the state direc-
tor of the work.
A list of the Cherokee County
public records microfilmed recently
will be distributed to CCHC mem-
bers for selecting the ones to be
duplicated for the county's four
libraries for genealogical and other
research purposes, Singletary said
as he commented on the list fur-
nished by Mrs. Fairy Upshaw, coun-
ty clerk, who is cooperating with the
Commission on that work.
Mrs. Henry Rose, marker chair-
man, reported on recent marker
dedications and that markers for the
First United Methodist Church and
the First Presbyterian Church in
Rusk will be dedicated as soon as
program arrangements are com-
pleted. Meanwhile, preparation of
applications for markers for the
grave of Dr. W. R. Tennison of New
Summerfield, for the First United
Methodist Church (Falvey
Memorial) in Wells, the Tassie Belle
and Star and Crescent iron ore fur-
naces active in the 1880s near Rusk,
and others is underway.
Commission members present:
Singletary, Mrs. Melvin Sessions,
Mrs. Rose, Ross, Miss Bill March,
Mrs. John McCarty, John Mark
Lester, Bernard Mayfield, Mrs.
Mary Taylor, Terry Guinn, J. W.
Summers, George Dodd, Joel White
and Chairman John Allen Tern-
pleton.
The Commission's next regular
meeting is scheduled Dec. 22 in the
county courtroom in Rusk.
GIFT TURKEYS were distributed to a number of needy families
during the Thanksgiving holiday season by The Woodlands Nursing
home. Here Martha Gildon, dietary supervisor presents one of the
choice birds to Jim Toiar, staff member of the Department of Human
Resources for distribution. Some IS turkeys Mere presented lo needy
families in the area.
We're Fighting For Your Life.
Footbridge 4-H
slates fund raiser
Footbridge 4-H Club members are
busy with preparations for their
Christmas community service
project. A "Toys For Tots Christ-
mas Trot" dance will be held at the
Jacksonville Showbam on Friday,
Dec 11 from7p.m. until ilp.m
The band "FOXX" and disc
jockey Rick Pavlik will provide the
music. Cost at the door will be $2 per
person or 50 cents with a new or used
toy in good condition. These toys will
be given to the county welfare
department who will, in turn, see
that they find a new home with a
deserving child All junior and
senior high school students are
urged to attend.
DAR sets meeting
Members of the Major Thaddeus
Beall Chapter of the National
Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution will meet at 10
a m Saturday at the home of Mrs.
Ruby Lee Stevens. 918 Circle
Drive, Jacksonville, for a Christmas
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woman at Rusk State Hospital and
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The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1987, newspaper, December 3, 1987; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151829/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.