Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 149, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 1997 Page: 3 of 14
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CHEROKEEAN/HERALD oí Rusk, Texas—Thursday, July 31,1997—Pagt 3
Early voting, box locations
slated for Aug. 9 election
Pea Shelling Time
Early voting for the Aug. 9 Consti-
tutional Amendment on property tax
election is underway through Aug. 5
at the Cherokee County Clerk's of-
fice in the courthouse in Rusk. There
will be no early voting box in Jack-
sonville for this election. Voters will
be asked to consider a $10,000 school
tax homestead exemption increas-
ing the exemption from $5,000 to
$15,000 and allowing senior citizens
to transfer their tax freeze from one
piece of property to another. School
tax on homestead property is frozen
at the rate charged when a person
become 65-years-of age.
Voting boxes have been combined
for the Aug. 9 voting because of the
expected low 5 percent voter turn-
out. A voting box will be located in
each commissioner's precinct, but
persons will vote at a site nearer
their homes.
Voting Place One is located at the
Cherokee County Commissioners
Courtroom in the courthouse. Vot-
ing there are voting boxes 10,11,12,
13,14, 23, 24 and 28.
Voting at Place Two at the Alto
Fire Station are boxes 25,26,27 and
29.
Voting at Place Three at the Jack-
sonville Public Library are Boxes
15,16, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,42,
43 and 44.
Voting at Place 4 at the New Sum-
merfield City Hall are Boxes 45,46,
47 and 48.
Alto Care Center residente Viola Wallace (left), Georgia Wateon
and Paul Wllllame took time out of their busy echedulee to help
Loretta Rix of Ruek ehell eeveral bushels of peae.
Local nursery produces more than 26 million seedlings
Orders are now being taken for
pine tree seedlings at the Indian
Mound Nursery outside of Alto.
Landowners should place their or-
der soon to insure purchasing pre-
ferred genetic seedlings for the site,
stated Texas Forest representa-
tive Stephen Adams.
Landowners placing their orders
now won't be billed until Sept. 1.
Seedling lifting usually begins mid-
December follwowed immediately
by shipping.
The Texas Forest Service (TFS)
Indian Mound Nursery (IMN) in
Alto, produces more than 26 mil-
lion seedlings annually of native
or proven adaptable pine and hard-
wood seedlings for Texas landown-
ers.
"The nursery does belong to the
ones that buy trees, mainly the
non-industrial private land-
owner— that's their nursery, that's
their crop," Adams said. "They're
the beneficiaries of all the accom-
plishments that have been made
through our tree improvement pro-
gram.
"They demand we grow a quality
tree and they bought in because
they're tax payers."
But, Adams said, the amount of
timber harvested on private lands
is on the brink of exceeding that
being grown and the level of refor-
estation must increase to keep the
pace. "Our reforestation accom-
plishments have grown to about
45,000 acres on NIPF lands. But
the projection is that TFS will have
to accelerate the reforestation ef-
fort and get it up to about 65,000
acres per year to keep the pace
with industrial growth and utili-
zation."
And seedlings produced by IMN
are one alternative for Texans to
stay in stride with these timber
trends. For the 1998 planting sea-
son, IMN's target production rate
Marriage
Licenses
Licenses to wed recently issued in
the office of Fairy Upshaw, county
clerk, include: Randy Taylor Reed
and Melanie Ann Jackson of Jack-
sonville; Travis William Craver Jr.
and Jamie Jo Jester of Jacksonville;
John Stephen Hulsey and Mary Lee
Hargrave of Bullard; Mark Anthony
Mallory and Susan Kay Williams of
Jacksonville; Andy Dwayne Red dock
and Jaime Lynn Mitchell of Rusk.
Talk Time
8-9:30 a.m.
Mon.-Sat.
8 CD 97.7 FM
Country Corner
10-11:30 a.m.
Mon.-Fri.
CD 97.7 FM
Happy
Sweet IC,
Rachel
Grandma & Grandpa
Kathy & Randy
is 25 million pines and 300,000 hard-
woods. "The pines are for reforestation
and for timber purposes down the road
and some are for erosion," said Joan
Hunter, TFS IMN nursery office man-
ager, who has worked for IMN for 31
years. "It's an investment that doesn't
require a lot of care for about 20 years."
And yet an investment that does not
yield immediate results either, she
added.
Since 1940, IMN has distributed
more than 900 million trees. When the
nursery was first established it con-
tained 73 acres with two springs chan-
neling into man-made reservoirs for
irrigation purposes. Since then, IMN
has grown to 321 acres with 115 acres
in total production and 10 surface acres
in reservoirs. The nursery is capable of
producing 27 million pines each year.
IMN produces bare-root pines such
as loblolly, shortleaf, slash and Vir-
ginia pine; and bare-root hardwoods
such as green ash, catalpa and bur and
live oaks. The biggest challenge in grow-
ing trees at this Alto nursery is the
weather because it determines whether
they can plant, lift or grow the seed-
lings, Hunter said. "But the trees are
hardier than people give them credit
for."
All of the seedlings grown are of
superior quality over average East
Texas pines due to TFS' accomplish-
ments through its tree improvement
program which began in 1951. TFS has
improved species genetically, making
them more suitable for geographic re-
gions of the state with a higher growth
rate and better quality, Adams ex-
plained.
For example, IMN grows an advanced
generation of loblolly pine which con-
tains second generation géhetic select
tions along with the best proven supe-
rior selections of excellent growth rate
and form.
The pines are sold through 26 TFS
district offices throughout the north-
ern and southern forest regions and
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Alto Care Center's
direct skilled nursing services include:
• Injections •Physical Therapy
• Intravenous Feeding
• Occupational Therapy
• Cognitive Rehabilitation Program
• Speech Therapy • Cardiac Monitoring
•Respiratory Therapy
• EKG Diagnostic Consultation
• Whirlpool Therapy
More tlnm just n
Nursing Home...
ii complete Nursing
CARE Fijcilitif!
• Medicare «Skilled 'Medicaid Approved
Alto Care Center
305 Maggie Sessions, Alto (409)858-2255
Mike Richey, Administrator
Karen Selman, Director of Nursing
To serve our customers better we
are providing our new
Joan Hunter, office manager for the Texas Forest Service Indian
Mound Nursery, and staff measure millions of pine seedlings
during July to determine the number of piantables. In April
millions of pine seeds are sown on top of the planting beds,
covered with mulch and then watered. The crop is up within 21
days.
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seven offices in central Texas. The
hardwoods are sold through the
nursery. "We have people who buy
trees every year. We've had some
very loyal customers over the
years," Hunter said.
IMN handles the smaller orders,
those in the thousands, while the
districts handle the large orders,
many of which are purchased in
conjunction with cost-share pro-
grams, Hunter explained. A land-
owner with a 40 to 50 acre tract
may buy 30,000 to 40,000 trees on
average, Adams stated.
"Reforestation is an opportunity
for NIPF landowners to place their
land in maximum timber produc-
tion that will yield higher divi-
dends and more profitable divi-
dends in later years," Adams said.
And while planting trees is one
alternative to keeping up the pace,
Adams explained that doing a better
job of managing "what we have" is
important as well. "We've got to do a
better job working with NIPF land-
owners to manage what they've got
instead of sacrificing it prematurely,
when it's really not ready to be har-
vest cut.
"It is important to the Texas Forest
Service to serve the NIPF landown-
ers to increase productivity of their
land in order to keep our forest re-
source healthy and dynamic," he said.
For more information contact TFS
district offices or IMN at 409/858-
4202.
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Whitehead, Marie. Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 149, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 1997, newspaper, July 31, 1997; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152331/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.