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Cherokeean
HERALD
Page 2
Wednesday, August 31,2005
COLUMNS
EDITORIAL BOARD
Whitehead Enterprises Inc.
publisher
Marie Whitehead
editor
Terrie W. Gonzalez
managing editor
Texas' Oldest Continuously
Published Weekly Newspaper
Established as the
Cherokee Sentinel, Feb, 27,1850
Consolidation of The Cherokeean,
The Alto Herald and
the Wells News & Views
Daniel Was Price-less Politician
Late in his life and
career, I had the plea-
sure of knowing and
working with Price Daniel
on a board that oversaw the
work of the Texas County
Records Inventory Project.
Its object was to survey and
publish the kinds and classes
of records held in Texas'
county courthouses to make
their use and preservation
more probable.
Mr. Daniel was born in
Dayton in 1910 and attended
Baylor. He opened a law prac-
tice in Liberty and became a
prominent attorney in south-
east Texas. I once heard him
say he had taken an oath of
office pledging loyalty to the
Constitution of the United
States eight times.
Pledge #1 came when Daniel
was elected to the Texas
House of Representatives in
1939, where he joined the
fight to block Governor W. Lee
O'Daniel's "transaction tax,"
euphony for a sales tax, the form
of taxation Daniel disliked.
Next came an oath when he
was selected as speaker of the
ARCHIE MCDONALD
Texas House of Representa-
tives in 1943, and the third
when he entered the Army as a
private and came out an officer
assigned to the judge advocate
general.
In 1946 Daniel was elected
attorney general of Texas (oath
#4). He defended the Univer-
sity of Texas in the racial inte-
gration case styled Sweat U
Painter, when Houston postal
worker Heman Sweat success-
fully sued for admittance to UT
law school.
He also represented Texas'
case to the Supreme Court in
htigation involving control of
oil revenues resulting from
production in the "tidelands,"
or off-shore wells.
Oath #5 came when Daniel
was elected to the United
States Senate in 1952, where
he sponsored quitclaim legisla-
tion giving Texas control of its
tidelands, later signed by the
president.
Daniel came home in 1956
| to run for governor, the post he
said he Valued even more than
the presidency, won, and so
took oath #6 in Jan., 1957.
He served three terms as
governor, and ironically, it was
during the last one that propo-
nents in the legislature finally
saddled Texans with a sales
tax. Daniel let it become law
without signing it.Daniel took
oath #7 when President Lyndon
Johnson appointed him director
of Emergency Preparedness
for the nation, and finally, oath
#8 when he joined the Texas
Supreme Court in 1971.
I asked Daniel why he ran
for the Senate in 1952 when he
really wanted to be governor?
"Because I didn't think Allen
[Shivers] would ever quit run-
ning, " said he.
Jim Hogg
Historical Park,
Rusk
Caddoan Mounds
State Historical Site,
Alto
Texas State Railroad
State Historical Park,
Rusk
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Scene In Passing
The year was 1955. Rusk
was here. Were you?
I was — 50 years ago.
This reflection is the result
of conversations with Bobby
Tosh. His business, Harry's
Building Materials, was
begun by his parents, Harry
and Magohne Tosh, a half
century ago. We discussed the
way things were then. Now
you are going to get a bird's
eye view of that time frame
based on the archives of this
newspaper.
The new year had begun, a
continuation of 1954. Some
of the events could not have
been predicted. They did,
however, change the Way we
look at life here in our com-
munity.
Among the early good news
was a story from the Feb. 3
issue which told of plans for
a swimming pool fund chive.
By May 5 concrete work
was scheduled. By Aug. 18,
the opening of the pool was
announced.
Time was not wasted. Vol-
unteers had moved rapidly to
bring this recreational facility
into service. No wading pools
for Rusk — it was Olympic
size. And here we are again,
moving toward new news, 50
MARIE WHITEHEAD
editor@mediactr.com
years later. The pool lives on.
In February Eagle sup-
porters were gleefully happy
about their team's district
win in basketball. March
saw a historic step taken
by the Better Half with an
application to the FCC for
the establishment of a racho
station. KTLU was to go on
the air Dec. 2, 1955. as a day-
time-only facihty. We were so
proud.
The next month witnessed
a major event. The date was
April 17 when the rest of the
world clamored to hear news
of the rioters in Maximum
Security Unit at Rusk State
Hospital. News mecha from
as far away as New York and
Washington, D.C., all over
Texas, converged oil our little
I East Texas community to
report on site the horrifying
story.
April 21 issue carried the
report of what had happened.
It is a story to remember and
share with your descendants,
By next issue, April 28, we
learned that the state was
I planning to hire 44 more
employees. In retrospect, we
know that staffing was only
a part of a serious situation.
That same issue announced a
"move started to take crimi-
nals from Rusk." This was to
begin a many years' struggle
to defend our economic asset
against the big powers in
the City of Houston. They
believed they had the ideal
spot to operate MSU better
than we coulcl. Oh my, what
memories,
In spite of this very dis-
tracting event, normal hfe
managed to go on in 1955.
The 7th annual Kiwanis
Club Junior Livestock Show
was held. Rusk Mayor W.
H. Hanna provided city
recognition for this activity
of benefit in the education
of youth. Agribusiness was
a large factor in the local
economy. The stock show was
an opportunity for students
to demonstrate recently
acquired knowledge about the
balance of nature on the land
we share with animals and
plants.
Miel-April also marked
the month for poho vaccina-
tions to begin. This could be
termed a significant turn-
ing point in the health of all
citizens.
May began with the third
annual open house at Rusk
State Hospital in celebration
of mental health month. Dr.
Charles W. Cast-near and Mrs.
Essie Madden were key play-
ers. An all patient program of
music and entertainment was
directed in the chapel by the
talented Mrs. Madden. This
was the weekend of May 6-7.
This was the same issue.
May 5, which noted another
achievement by one of Rusk's
most celebrated graduates
of RHS, Jim Swink. He was
recognized as a sophomore at
Texas Christian University
for earning a place on that
school's scholastic team. His
future accomplishments were
no less notable.
Bob Hubbard's TV appear-
ance was announced when he
sang with an opera company.
He was a voice major at The
University of Texas, A gradu-
ate of RHS, he is the son of
the remembered Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Hubbard, managers
of Brookshire Bros, for many
years,
Among other timely events,
photos presented seven
graduates at the Dialville
High School and 20 graduates
at Maydelle High School.
It was noted with joy that
Lt. Jim Persons, U. S. Marine
Corps, had returned home for
his marriage to Sherri Steely.
He is the son of the late
Helen and Bob Persons and a
graduate of Rusk High.
In that era. Rusk students
wrote and we published in
this newspaper, a page dedi-
cated to the "Eagles Echo.''
Their staff included these
students: Bob J. Dodson,
editor; Dan Heard, assistant
editor; Travis Roten, sports
editor; Jim Perkins, assistant
sports editor; Marcia Maness,
Ann MoCarroll, Mary Ann
Tosh, feature writers; Dolores
Miller, reporter; Felda Court-
ney, circulation and Mrs.
Lewis R. (Eloise) McCarroll,
sponsor.
Two other Rusk students
advanced in education at
institutions of higher learn-
ing. Chesley Richards earned
a master of education in agri-
culture from Sam Houston
State University at Hunts-
ville. Beth Banks celebrated
her registered nurse degree
with a capping ceremony.
On the business scene,
Piggly Wiggly staged its 55th
Please see SCENE, pg. 6
High Points From El Camino Real
Scattered showers along
El Camino Real have
given folks a httle break
from the late summer heat,
but the sun pops back out
and turns the whole area
into a steam bath of humid-
ity. People who don't have
to go outside are staying in
as much as possible to avoid
the heat. Four bits' worth of
news gets pretty hard to come
by when nobody is stirring.
We have some sick friends
that we need to be thinking
about. Annie Ruth Nicar is
in Nacogdoches Memorial
Hospital with heart trouble.
She has been a very sick
lady the past few weeks, but
hopefully they will have her
straightened out and back
home before long. Dwain
Grogan is in Mother Francis
Hospital in Jacksonville, He
has been pretty sick and
I'm hoping they can get him
back to normal before too
long. Please keep these folks
in your prayers until they
recover.
The heat didn't slow the
caravan of cars that headed
out for Groveton on Friday
afternoon. The rivalry
between the Groveton
Indians and the Alto
Yellowjackets is one that has
fired up the blood of football
fans for years. I remember
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when the old football field
here in Alto was across the
street from my house; when
Groveton came to Alto the
cars were lined up all the
way to town and up the hill
past the house on Highway
294, The stands were full
and people stood four and five
deep along the fences all the
way around the field. There
weren't that many people in
Groveton on Friday night, but
we still had a good turnout of
Alto folks. The Yellowjackets
didn't disappoint those of
us who made the trip and
defeated the Groveton Indi-
ans by a score of 24 to 12.
It was plenty hot and the
water boys had to work at a
fevered pace to keep enough
cold water available for the
team. The Yellowjackets will
take on the Troup Tigers on
Friday night at Jacket Sta-
dium. Congratulations to the
Alto Yellowjackets and their
coaching staff for a big win
over Groveton.
Our prayers go out to
the people of the Gulf Coast
who were hit by the devas-
tating Hurricane Katrina
on Monday morning. I feel
awfully lucky to be hving this
far inland and not having
to worry about hurricanes.
I was looking at my Uncle
Joe Summers' chary that he
wrote in the late 1800s and
the entry he made when the
Galveston Hurricane hit in
1900 was: " The wind blew in
gales today."
He had no way of know-
ing that a hurricane had
destroyed Galveston because
communication and weather
reporting hadn't been
invented. Yet the high winds
of the hurricane coulcl be
felt all the way up here. The
weather warning systems
today clo a great job of Saving
lives, but there is no way that
the property can be saved
when a storm of this intensity
hits an area. I am sure we
will all feel the effects of the
storm in our pocket books,
when the oil prices shoot up
higher than we ever thought
possible. We will probably be
hit with some rising insur-
ance costs as well, when
insurance companies start
hanchng out settlements on
the Gulf Coast claims. We
need to keep the folks who
lost so much during this
storm in our prayers as they
salvage their belongings and
deal with their terrible losses.
The annual Alto Homecom-
ing Festival will be held Oct.
21-22 this year. Plans are
already underway. The Alto
Yellowjackets will be play-
ing the Elkhart Elks for the
Homeoming Game on Friday
night. It should be a great
game if it is anything hke
the game last year when the
Elks and Yellowjackets met.
A planning meeting for this
year's event will be held at 7
p.m. Sept. 6 at the A. Frank
Smith United Methochst
Church Fellowship Hall. If
you are interested in helping
with this year's event, plan
to attend this meeting. The
theme for this year's parade
and festival will be decided at
this meeting. If your church
or organization plans to be
involved, you are encouraged
to attend this very important
meeting. Our homecom-
ing festivals involve lots of
hard work, but every year
the smiles on the faces of the
people who come make it all
worth the effort.
I've seen signs by the Rusk
State Hospital that saicl not
to pick up hitchhikers, but
on Friday I had something
totally different happen. I
was leaving Alto on my way
to the courthouse on Friday
morning, when Pam Black
and her friend flagged me
clown on the highway. I
pulled over to see what they
wanted and they informed me
that I had to take them to the
Rusk State Hospital because
Cam's car was broken. Before
I coulcl say "yea or nay' they
were piling in the car for the
riele north. I hope their car
was really broken clown and
they aren't, just starting some-
thing to save money on gas.
Pam is always doing work for
the Alto Trailriclers, so I didn't
understand why she didn't
borrow one of their horses
anel riele it to work. The next
time she has one of those
funcl-raisers for the Weeping
Mary Baptist Church, I'll be
expecting a discount for the
riele. It's great to live in a
community where you know
everyone and you clon't have
to be scared to help someone
out of a jam.
If you want to sleep well,
read this article before you go
to bed. You'll be able to go to
sleep with absolutely nothing
on your mincl.
If you happen to get out
in the heat and make some
news, please be sure and pass
it along to this news-starveel
writer.
I'll see ya next week! And
remember. We cannot live
only for ourselves. A
thousand fibers connect
us with our fellow men.
-Henry Melville
Cfyerokeeai}
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