Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 152, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 2001 Page: 1 of 14
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Livestock Show opens Thursday with 366 entries
For month* Cherokee
County youth have
been grooming goats,
halter-training cow , welding
iron and counting thoir *ip in
the poultry division. And the
moment these atudanta havt
baan waiting for ia finally hora,
tha Annual Charokaa County
Livestock Show and Exposition,
. Approximately 396 entriea
*wül be judged during the three ■
day event, which begins Thurs-
day at tha JackaonviUe Show
Barn on Loop 466 in Jackaon-
viUe, The 2001 Liveetock Show
Quaan will be crowned from a
field of 13 oandidatea Saturday
Rusk post
office put
on hold
Rusk Mayor Emmatt White-
head haa been notified that
the new Rusk poat office haa
been put on hold due to a re-
duction in apanding in tha Poat
Office Department. Tha Ruak
aite ia one of 14 in Texaa and
660 nationwide, but the only
one being affected in the Eaat
Texas area.
The announcement waa ac-
companied by a warning that
the postal service could be in
danger without change in
laws governing ita operations.
Projects already underway
will not be affected. A few oth-
ers will be continued because
of health and aafoty reaaona.
Unlike in previoua years the
afternoon at 8 p.m., followed
by an auction for ahop projects
at 6 p.m. and a livestock show
eate at 6 p,m. Last year's auc-
tion earned $161,810.
Thia year, 164 entries are
registered for the sale," ««id
DarieneTerry, show secretary.
She antkipatea the entries will
raiee more than $160,000.
"fhltyeark816 ntriesarereg-
istered for the Sale."
Two 1600 acholarahips will
ba awarded during the live-
atock ahow. One will be
awarded to the Livestock Show
Queen and another will go to a
senior.
Two special awards will be
presented in other categories.
The Mike Kyle Swine Show-
manship award will be pre-
sented to the recipient of swine
showmanship in the senior di-
vision. The award will be pre-
sented by the James Kyle fam-
ily.
The Tony Morris Dairy
Award, also awarded by the
Kyle family, will be awarded to
the showmanship winner in the
dairy division.
For the first time thia year,
each grand champion winner
will receive an engraved belt
8tt Quoon Candidatos
W. ;HIMory.Pfr2
buckle, valued at $60. Reserve
grand champions will be
awarded trophies.
For the second year, contes-
tants will be able to enter plants
in the horticulture division,
and there are approximately
16 entriea slated to participate.
Show chairman ia Royce
Traylor. He is aasisted by
Darrell Dement, show trea-
surer, and Buater Kahla,
ahowbarn president.
Friday, March 16
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8:00 a.m. • Horticulture
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_ 1:00 p.m. Shop
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4:00 p.m. - f Cattle
Saturday, March 17
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10:00 HOWH
2:00 p.m. • Queen'a
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Show announcers: Daniel Bailey and Charles Dlckerson
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Recent heavy reina caueed a maaalveeroalon problem on the ahouMsr of
the Norhtbound lane ot Hwy 69. Highway department wofltara wM be
porting agency that
Gov. Perry rides TSR
Swimming pool discussed
Gov. Rick Perry will maintain a
tradition of riding the Texs State Rail-
road Tuesday, April Ü He accepted
the invitation of a local committee co-
chaired by James I. Perkins and Dis-
trict Judge Baacom Bentley. Charles
Robert Hassell is serving as vice-chair-
man of the sponsoring group, "The
Governor Rick Perry, Texas Parks
and Wildlife State Railroad Inaugu-
ral Ride Committee." Friends of the
Texaa State Railroad arc co-sponsors
of the event.
Approximately 30 persons attended
the first meeting of the planning com-
mittee Wednesday, March 7 at Citi-
sens 1st Bank. Mr. Perkins offered
opening remarks, followed hy Mr.
Hassell.
The tentative plans for the historic
event call for the Governors arrival
at 1 p.m. in Palestine where a brief
program will be presented. He will
ride the train to Rusk where a short
program will also follow at the Rusk
Depot. He is expected to arrive in
. Ruak by 3 p.m. at which time all
pereona are invited to t* in atten-
dance for the program planned.
"From there we will travel to Rusk
State Hospital for a brief program at
the Chapel. We want all who can to be
present for this stop on his tour, also,"
said Mr. Hassell. The tour will he
completed with a stop at the Texaa
Department of Criminal Justice. An
escorted trip to the Airport will con-
clude his visit.
"We are honored to have the accep-
tance of our invitation by Gov. Perry,"
said Hassell. 'This is in keeping with
the time honored tradition of each
new governor of Texas making an
appearance at the Texas State Rail-
road."
The governor will begin his train
ride in The Governor's Car, As the
ride develops he will make his way to
the end of the car, visiting with pas-
sengers and members of the media.
Box lunches and soft drinks will be
available for Gov. Perry and his hon-
ored guests.
Special invitations are to be mailed
to elected officials from the local to
the state level, as well as members of
the key state agencies. These include
Texas Parks and Wildlife, Rental
Health Mental Retardation, Depart-
ment of Criminal Justice, Department
of Transportation and other active
supporter* of Gov. Perry.
Media including print, radio and
television will also receive special in-
vitations to attend.
Sub-committees were assigned to
make the media contacts, plan for
refreshn\ents, decorations, security,
Please see Gov. Perry pg. 9
Representatives from the Rusk Li-
ons Club headed by Ike Daniel and
Jim Cromwell appeared before the
Rusk City Council Thursday evening
to discuss the fixture of the lions Club
Swimming Pool.
"We would like to just sign the whole
thing over to your recreational de-
partment tonight," Mr. Daniel told
the council.
Cost of purchase of chemicals to
operate the pool have been extremely
high, due to water loss. There is no
cost for water for the pool's operation
as thia ia provided by the city.
"We didnt know we had been taken
out ofthebudget,Mr, Daniel said. The
current city budget had only included
$8,000 for the Liona Club's operation
of the pool. Thf Lions Club had for-
merly operated the pool and the sum-
mer baseball program and had re-
ceived a monthly contribution from
the city to do so. The two programs
were separated and a group of par-
ents took over the baseball program.
The city had donated money last
spring to the baseball program and
only $8,000 was included in t he bud-
get for the operation of the swimming
pool.
Mr. Daniel said, "We served on the
average oi 100 youngsters a day last
summer. We haw always enjoyed
doing it, but it is getting hard to keep
things up. We had to borrow $85,000
a fow years ago to have a new liner
sprayed on the concrete base."
Mr. Cromwell discuss the possibil-
ity of the city taking over the owner-
ship of the pool and contracting with
the Lions Club to operate it. 'That
way, the city would be eligible for
grants to improve the present pool or
construct a new one." he said.
Coat of repairing the pool would
probably run between $8,000 and
$10,000. If this is correct, the city can
come up with the money to get the
pool in operation in time to open this
summer. Utility director Gene Kelley
and Mr. Daniel will go out and look
over the situation and aee what can be
done.
In another matter, the council ap-
proved the appointment of Ruth
Mather, DavyWhitehead and Loretta
Rix to the Main Street Board.
By a vote of four to two the council
approved the donation of $5,000 to
the Dogwood Trails Narcotic Task
Force. Voting for the matter were
Mayor Kmmett Whitehead and Coun-
cil members Jerry Jordan, Charlee
Horton and Thomas Parsons. Voting
against the matter were council
membersGloria Jennings and Walter
Seaaion. Mr. Pareonssaidhe was vot-
Pteese see Ruak City QouncN pg. 9
Cherokee County shows
population growth
Early censys figures have been
released this week and show that
Cherokee County experienced a
18.7 percent growth in the past
10 years. A total of 41,049 were
counted in Cherokee County in
the 1990 census. This compares
to this year's total of 46.6ÍS9 people
now living here. This is a 5,610
growth.
Texas showed a population gain
of 3,865,310. Total population of
the state is now 20,851.820. In
1990, 16,986.510 were counted.
Texaa is now the nation's second
largest state.
Most East Texas counties experi-
enced growth. Van Zandt experi-
enced a growth of 26.9 percent to
lead East Texas area counties. Rusk
County had the smallest gain of 8.8
percent.
In act ual numbers, Smith Count)'
showed the largest gain in popula-
tion. Cherokee County' neighbor
to the north grew from 151.809 in
1990 to 174.706 in 2000.
Alto youth transforms hobby
a s
into 'bunny' business venture
tor SANDY Gohxackz
Qsmowwaw^bwaio mtvm
the amalleat in the world and weigh in and sometimes it can happen at in
at only 8.5 lb®., Holland Lops which convenient times. Judges deduct
Pour year ago Whitney Carre way,
16,ofAltobroughthomearebbit«foer
visiting a Pasadena liveetock ahow
with a friend. Unknowingly he be-
gan a buaineea, a bobby and a Deadly
project
Whitney' firet showing at a live-
stock show began with a meat pen. A
meat pen consists of three rabbit ot
any type judged upon fiir, nail , i eof
head flesh condition and even due
length of the rabbit* eate.
Tammy Carraway, Whitney'a
mother aaid, "We didnt know much ,0_a ._e
at firet. We had to get people to te^h
us and many war* very helpful.
Whitney has hadsomany people help
bur.*
weigh 3.5 lbs. full grown and
finally New Zealand rabbits
which weigh 11 lbs. full
Tammy said, "People think
that breeding rabbits is re
ally e y, but it's not. People
•too think rabbits have
babies every 30
day which i nt
true either*
in foct. the
mortality
rate of the
Holland
Lope and
point if a rabbit i molting and
you would be better off to juat
take a different rabbit. Dur-
ing á judging, if ear mitee are
found on the rabbit, it ia im-
mediately disqualified for foar
that the mitee will spread to
other rabbits.
Iñjuriee that prevent a
rabbit from being
shown are breaking
toenail , a tail or a leg
if they're startled in
the cage. The rah-
bita are accustomed
to variant noiae be-
caus Whitney
round ui* woe* in
the barn ao that
when a rabbit
goes to a live-
stock show, the
constant noise
doesn't startle
it. Rabbits, just
like humans,
can gel eolds
and other diseasee. As a result, the
rabbits periodically receive medica-
tion and visit the veterinarian to be
wormed.
She owns approximately 85 rabhits
which are fed a mixture of two differ-
ent kinds of feed once a day at late
evening. Whitney checks the rabbits
in the morning, afterschool and again
in the evening. The rabbits also have
a water ay tem so they get fresh
ter, but in January during the cold
weather, the water frote and burst
thepipee.
Tammy said. 'The rabbits tolerate
the cold better than the hot. We put
water cooled fans in their cages and
freeie bottles of water to give to them.
It's quite a lot of work, Whitney has
learned a lot about responsibility."
For this reason livestock shows for
rabbits are not scheduled during the
summer because rabbits have such a
hard time dealing with the heat.
Whitney and her fomily bought their
firet tock in the summer of '99 with
the intention of breeding their own
Pleaee see CARRAWAY, pg. 9
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Whitehead, Marie. Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 152, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 2001, newspaper, March 15, 2001; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168686/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.