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Vol. 150, No. 46 - 12 Pages
Thursday, January 6, 2000
Rusk, Texas 75785
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COUNTY BALLOT
Cherokee County candidates faced a
Jan. 2 deadline to file for public office.
An(I) denotes incumbent candidates.
Future dates to remember include:
Early Voting Begins February 28
Early Voting Ends March 10
Primary Elections March 14
Runoff Elections April 11
General Election November 7
U.S. Congress, 2nd District
Jim Turnar (1) Democrat
12th Court of Appeals
RobyHadden(l) Republican
Sam Griffith Republican
State Rep., Dist. 11
JoAl Cannon Sheridan
Chuck Hopaon
Kenneth Durrett
Paul S. Woodard, Jr.
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
State Senator, Dist. 3
Todd 8taplea Republican
LesTarrance Republican
Van Brookshire Republican
David Fisher Democrat
District Judge, 2nd Judicial
Dwlght Phlfer Democrat
Jim Cromwell Democrat
District Attorney
Elmer Beckworth
Democrat
County Attorney
Robert McNatt(l)
Craig D. Caldwell
Hogan Stripling
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Sheriff
JameaE. Campbell (1)
MaLy llnrira
nvcxy Moore
Mark Oreen
DaleEldonLinobauflh
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Tax Assessor-Collector
Linda Beard (1) Democrat
Commissioner Precinct 1
J. D. Spragglns Democrat
David Murray Democrat
Bob Johnson Democrat
Shannon Ezell Democrat
Keneth Irwin Democrat
Bo Emerson Dtmocrat
TommyC. Dement Republican
Commissioner Precinct 3
F. E. Hassell(l) Democrat
Moody Glaaa Jr. Democrat
George W. Douglas Republican
Tommy L. Naya Republican
Terry Ray Yancey Republican
Constable', Pet. 1
Orvsl Grimes
Democrat
Constable, Pet. 2
Jim Bice
Andy Huddleaton
James Green
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Constable, Pet. 3
Harold Gray (1)
Georoe Black
Franklin DeWayne Llndsey
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Constable, Pet. 4
Danny Garrett (1) Democrat
Graphic: Charokaaan/Harald
Rusk building permits total $1 million plus
Rusk's Building Permits
The City of Rusk Issued building permits totsling
$1,064,521 In 1999, compered to $998,773 in 1998.
Home renovations
-jfc m
New Home
1999
□ 1998
Church construction
Busineas
* In thousands
Source: City of Rusk
-Charokeean/Herald graphic
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
I Church remodeling
accounts for $265,000
By Gloria Jennings
Cherokee an/Herald writer
A total of $1,054,521 in building per-
mits were issued in 1999 by the City of
Rusk.
The permits included $265,000 in church
renovation and construction. Of that
amount $200,000 was for a new building
at the Rusk Church of Christ; $64,000 for
a recreation building at the Sacred Heart
Catholic Church; and $1,000 for a new
roof at the First Assembly of God Church.
Business construction totaled $462,771,
which included $427,471 remodeling at
Pine Meadows Apartments; $30,000 re-
modeling at Fast Texas Medical Center
Rusk; $2,500 for an ATM Machine at
Jacksonville Savings and Loan; and
$2,800 for a new roof at Oak Park Nursing
Home.
A total of $235,000 was spent on new
homes, which included:
• $42,000 for Jan Pate on Loop 343
• $98,000 for Mike Ross on Marshall
Street
• $95,000. R.D. Goff, King Street
Home additions totaled $77,250. They
include
• Willie Barnes, 706 Foreman, $2,000
• Sam Florian, 1101 Giflord, $20,000
• Jerry Jordan, 212 Main, $50,000
• J.W. Hammons, Tower Drive, car-
port, $250
• Bobby Tosh, West Sixth $5,000
• Daniel Tyer, Bonner Subdivision,
built a shop for $10,000
Storage building include:
• Loran George, Loop 343, $300
• Frank Madden, 800 North Bonner,
$1,000
• John Schuler, corner of Ray and Loop
343, $3,200
Greg James purchases L&L Ford-Mercury
L&L Ford Mercury became Greg
James Ford-Mercury, effective Jan.
3, according to an announcement by
Dan Lade of L&L and Greg James of
the Greg James Dealer Group.
The addition of Ford-Mercury to
the Greg James Dealer Group will
make them the representatives for
Ford and Mercury, along with
Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, GMC Truck
and Oldsmobile in Rusk.L&L
Ford haB been operated by Dan Lade
and his fumily for approximately 20
years.
The current facility was built 15
years ago and will continue to be the
location for Ford-Mercury sales and
service.
Many of the current employees of
L&L have been working with the
Lades for more than 15 years and will
continue to be instrumental in the
Ford-Mercury operation.
Greg James stated, "We are excited
to represent the Ford-Mercury fran-
chises. The addition of Ford and Mer-
cury products will allow us to serve
our customers with an even greater
variety of cars and trucks."
The Greg James Dealer Group has
been in the automobile business in
East Texas for more than 15 years. Greg
James sells Pontiac, Buick, Jeep and
Hyundai at Greg James Motors in
Nacogdoches and Chevrolet, Pontiac.
Buick, GMC and Oldsmobile at Greg
James Country in Rusk.
Mr. Lade said his family plans to re-
main in Rusk and continue to be a part of
Sale is signed
and sealed
with a
handshake.
The
announcement
of the sale of
L&L Ford to
Greg James
has been
announced by
Dan L¿de, left,
and Greg
James.The
sale was
effective Jan.
3. Ford-
Mercury sales
and service
will continue
at the 69 North
location.
the community here. He will help his
family at Lade Ford set up a used car
operation in Frankston. Later he plans
to open a business in Tyler.
•
Brookshire Bros, sells 67 % of common stock
RHS plans
financial aid
workshop
A financial aid workshop will be held at
6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20 in the Rusk High
School library for all Rusk High School
senior students and their parents.
A financial aid counselor from Tyler Jr.
College will be there toassistTerri Daniel,
counselor, in helping complete the form
for Student Financial Aid application.
(FASFA) This is the application that all
seniors interested in financial aid should
complete as soon as possible.
Information to be taken to the work-
shop include the student's social security
card and their parents' 1999 federal tax
return if at all possible. This information
is necessary to complete the application.
Tips on applying for scholarship oppor-
tunities will also be shared. This will be
the only workshop held at Rusk High
School to aid students with completing
this application. For farther information,
interested persons mey contact Mrs.
Daniel st 668-5401.
I Action allows
employees to exercise
ownership plan
Brookshire Brothers hns announced
the sale of approximately 67 percent of its
common stock to its employees through
the implementation of an employee stock
ownership plan (ESOP). The transaction
took place Dec. 22.
"The participation of our employees in
continuing to make Brookshire Brothers
a successful organization is key to our
future," according to Jerry Johnson, chief
administrative officer. "The ESOP will
give our employees a direct share in the
growth that they are playing such n vital
part in creating. This is a great day in the
78-year history of Brookshire Brothers.
The Brookshire 'family' extends to many
of our current employees' who have spent
the majority of their lives working with
our organization. We enjoy a deep level of
loyalty from our work force, and this pro-
vides a very stable foundation for the
transition of the company from a minority
family-owned business to a majority em-
ployee-owned business t hrough the use of
an ESOP.
Up to this point in time, the employees
have owned approximately 12,5 percent
of the outstanding common stock through
our profit sharing plan."
An ESOP is an employee benefit plan
which makes the employees of a company
owners of stock in thnt company. A com-
pany which wants to set up an ESOP
creates a trust to which makes annual
contributions. These contributions are
allocated to individual employees accounts
within the trust. Employees received the
vested portion of their accounts at either
termination, disability, death or retire-
ment. These distributions may be made in
a lump sum or in installments over a
period of years. If employees become dis-
abled or die, they or their beneficiaries
receive the vested portion of their ESOP
accounts right away.
The two most common uses of ESOP are
to buy the stock of a retiring owner in a
closely held company, and as an extra
employee benefit or incentive plan. These
two uses probably account for more than
t wo-thirds of all the ESOPs now in exist-
ence. The proportion of ESOPs created to
buy out a retiring owner can be expected
to increase with time because tax provi-
sions encourage retiring owners to sell to
an ESOP.
Employee owned companies have out-
performed other companies in a variety of
different measures and surveys of pro-
ductive companies have found that em-
ployee ownership is a common character-
istic.
Brookshire Brothers is the leading in-
dependent supermarket chain in East
Texas, with stores in Western Louisiana
as well. The company operates 59 super-
markets under the Brookshire Brothers
name and nine supermarkets under the
B&B Food Stores name
Cherokee Civic Theatre
tells cast for 'Good News'
Donna Nichols, director, haB relcused
names of cast members for the Chero-
kee Civic Theatre production of "Good
News."The production is scheduled to
be presented in the spring.
Cast members include: Tom played
by Jason Curry; Beef, Jeremy Pate;
Bobby, David Kirkpatrick; Willie, Josh
Long; Slats, Brent Huse; Sylvester,
Chris Guy; Pete, Brian Rozelle; Ben,
Kenny Pierce; Jim, Travis Ross;
Connie, Amanda Smith; Babe, Jessica
Pate; Millie, Sarah Newburn; Flo,
Netnlie 8lover; Pat, Crystal Morgan;
Kate, Holly Childs; Johnson, Danny
Long; Kearney, Michael Hall; Ken y on,
Adam Tanner; and George, Bud Breen.
Chorus members are Erin Albright,
Michael Anderson, Lauren Crispin,
Blake Balch, Tara Crosby, Joe Brewer,
Amy Curry, Brandon Hart, Michelle
Glidewell, Kraig Harvey, Lenora
Hendley, Jacob Jones, Emily Hinch,
Jon Jones, Sunny Hudnall, Simeon
Scallon, Lisa James, Carlos
Villagomez, Audra McHenry, Sarah
Rhodes, Sunshine Straub and
Stephanie Thompson.
First read through was Monday, Jan.
3. Rehearsal calendars were distrib-
uted at that time.
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Ths Vines femlly from Zwolle, Le. and Groves were smong those en|oylng s
warm New Year's celebration at the Rusk-Palestine Stste Park. Various members
of the family have attended several events In Rusk In the past.
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