The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1939 Page: 1 of 6
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The Rusk Cherokeean
VOLUME 93
Successor to "The Pioneer" Established 1847
RUSK, CIIBROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS~FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1939
NUMBER 41
Broadcast Rusk
Overton Game
Next Saturday
To Be Big Feature
Of All-Day Armistice
Day Celebration
The Rusk-Overton football game
will be a big, closing feature of an
all-day Armistice Day celebration at
Overton next Saturday afternoon at
which William C. McCraw will be the
main speaker.
About a dozen high school bands
including Rusk will participate in a
parade which will form at nine o'-
clock Saturday morning. Officials re-
port that 3,000 pounds of barbecue
meat will be served visitors and the
Rusk band, players, pap squad and
all visitoors from Rusk are invited
to help themselves.
The game will start at 2:30 and
it is hoped that a large number of
local people will be able to attend.
Those who find it impossible to do
so will be interested in knowing that
play by play broadcast of the
game will be given over KOCA, the
Kilgore station. They are invited to
tune in at two-thirty for the broad-
cast.
Overton is rated as one of the
strongest teams iin the conference
and were the conference champions
last year. Rusk will be the underdogs
but hope to give a good account of
themselves against the strong aggre-
gation. ^,
Compliments Rusk
On Cheese Plant
The big job before the community
for the promotion of the Kraft-Phe-
nix Cheese plant here was outlined
to a group of chamber of commerce
members Tuesday night at Deckard's
Cafe by M. E. McMurray, of the Tex-
as Dairy Products Association, who
warned those present that the job
had just started.
The speaker complimented the
chamber and others who were instru-
mental in securing the location of
the cheese plant here. He stated that
over one hundred other communities
in Texas were making every possible
effort to secure plants and stated
that he considered Rusk very fortu-
nate to be one of the few locations
picked for expansion at this time.
He stated that climatic conditions
here are very favorable for the pro-
duction of dairy products because
this section is in the rain belt with
a long pasture season and a perma-
nent water supply.
He advised that milk producers go
into the business gradually with dai-
ry herds as a sideline rather than
take up dairying exclusively. He ad-
vised that local producers stock
their farms with Jersey cows as that
breed already predominates here.
Jared Opens New
Store At Elkhart
A second Jared Variety Store was
opened last Saturday at Elkhart by
J. P. Jared, who started the business
here three or four years ago.
Mrs. Faye Gray is in charge of the
Elkhart store as manager.
Reklaw Scouts Want
Basketball Games
The Reklaw scout troop has organ-
ized a basketball team and adopted
this sport as its winter athletic ac-
tivity. lhe troop challenges any
scout troop in Cherokee or neighbor-
ing counties for games preferably on
Saturday afternoon? or Saturday
nights
Members of the squad are Jchtt
Bolton, Junior Holmes, Eddie Daiby,
Charles Shankles, Charlie Christo-
pher, Willard White, Edward Hard-
wich, Miller Christopher and Cecil
Richey.
GROUP TO ATTEND
GREENVILLE RE A. MEET
It is expected that a number of lo-
cal REA officials will attend a meet-
ing in Greenville next Friday, No-
vember 17.
An invitation was received here
from J. R. Cobb, of the REA for the
chairman, nr/1 ?s many members of
the board together with the project
superintendent, county agent and
home demonstration agent to be
trie re if possible.
An Art Exhibit To
Open Here Tuesday
The exhibition of 150 reproductions
of the works of famous artists will
be shown at the Rusk Junior high
school November 14 to 17.
The pictures will be shown each
afternoon from 2:00 to 3:30 and on
Thursday night the general public is
especially invited to see a special
showing of the pictures and a drama-
tization of a number of the most
famous.
The program for Thursday even-
ing is being prepared by Mrs. Hugh
Lester and the time will be 7:15 p.
m. to 8:30 p. m.
The admission to all showings in-
cluding the program will be 5c and
10 cents.
Rusk Girls' Team
Crushes Mixon Six
i The Rusk high school girls took
! revenge for their only defeat of the
season Wednesday night by trounc-
ng the Mixon team 23 to 11. Mixon
defeated Rusk three weeks ago 24
to 20.
During the first quarter the visi-
tors probably had a slight advantage
but by the end of the half things had
evened up and the score stood 7 to 8
in Rusk's favor. Due largely to ef-
ficient guarding the visitors were
held to four points during the entire
last half while the Rusk hurricane
swept on to a total of 23.
Emaline Langston, Polly Wade,
Fatha Sessions and Kathleen Maness
did the defensive work for the locals.
Tot Parmley lead in scoring backed
up by Dorothy Smith, Oleta Yarbor-
ough and Rosemary Holcomb.
B. Roark, Mixon forward connect-
ed with the basket with regularity on
free throws but owing to close
guarding got few opportunities from
the field.
In the second game of the evening
the Mixon boys defeated Alto 21 to
19.
Forestry Meeting
Held At Maydelle
Better methods of forest manage-
ment, damage by forest fires and
open-tank methods of creosotmg
fence posts, were studied by a group
of farmers at a forestry meeting neld
on State Forest No. 3, near Maydelle
Tuesday afternoon.
The meeting was conducted by Al-
len P. Golorth, Jacksonville and C.
B. S;>er.cer, Tyler, both of the soil
conservation service, in order tha co-
operators might learn the proper
procedure in handling woodlands.
"A well-managed woodland is defi-
nitely an important part of soil con-
servation," Mr. Spencer said.
•'The Texas Frest Service is ex-
perimenting on this and other state
forests to determine better practice
of handling forest property whether
large or small," stated M. E. Bra-
she^re*. district forest*., who lives
on the staie forest and was n cnarge
of the meeting. H ■ st'id that one of
the outstanding facts about the for-
ests of East Texas is tnat the major-
ity of them are owned by farmers
and small land owners.
The virgin stands of timber of
East Teyas were once considered a
natural resource, but since they are
practically gone, we must now de-
pend on second growth, said Mr.
Brasheares. This second growth is
an important crop and should be
handled accordingly, he added. The
importance of keeping out fire to
avoid damage to both young and old
timber stands was stressed.
Want Sidewalk To
Rusk State Hospital
At' a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the chamber of commerce
held Tuesday night a discussion was
held of means of arranging for a
sidewalk from town to the Rusk
State Hopsital.
A committe was apopinted by
President James I. Perkins to study
the matter, work out suggestions and
report .back to the chamber of com-
merce. Members of the committee
are M. M. Guinn, ft. L. Hatchett and
B. B. Perkins.
LEGION MEETING NEXT THl'RS.
The first American Legion meet-
ing under the new officers installed
last month will be held at Deckard's
cafe next Thursday ilight.
The naturjp. of the program has not
yet been announced .
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ONE MINUTE
Only sixty seconds. No one can miss it. Yet
racing minds bring a host of memories, re-
mind us of scores of incidents half forgotten
Only sixty seconds. But a short time to give
to all that that minute on November 11 must
signify to each of us. But in that minute
let us remember, and in remembering hon-
or those to tvhom that minute is dedicated.
No less can be expected of each of us, and
of most, no more need be aslced.
Gainesville Circus Kiwanis-Teachers
To Parade Here Basketball Game
December Fifth Set For Wednesday
Big Event To Mark
The Opening Of
Christmas Season
To Observe Armistice
Day Here Monday
Armistice day will be observed in
Rusk with a general closing Monday,
it was decided Thursday.
Practically all stores in town will
be closed with the exception of the
drug stores and cafes. Both the high
school and grammar school will ob-
serve the day by remaining closed
all da.y
Some county offices will probably
be closed but because it is the regu-
lar constitutional day for the com-
misioners cpurt to meet, the office
of the county judge and county clerk
will be open. Some county officials
plan to observe the holiday tomor-
row.
Both banks will be closed all day
Monday but will be open Saturday
until noon as usual.
The Cherokeean will be closed Sat-
urday instead of Monday as arrange-
ments were made prior to the date
finally decided on and could not be
altered.
Plans are being made by the local |
Chamber of Commerce for a huge
Christmas season opening on Tues-
day, December 5.
Arrangements have been made for !
the Gainesville Community Circus
parade unit to visit Rusk on this date |
The Community Circus will furnish j
several vehicles for the parade, along
with other attractions and for the
first time in the 1939 Christmas sea-
son, S'anta Claus will pay a visit to
Rusk.
Plans are bing worked out for I
special features after the parade and
the Chamber of Commerce officials
believe that the Christmas party will !
br;ng the largest crowd to Rusk that
has been seen here in a long while.
Definite plans for the afternoon !
and evening will be announced with-
in the next few days.
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Rusk Homemakers
Attend Area Meeting
The East Texas Area Conference
of Future Homemakers was held in
Jacksonville, Saturday, November 4, ,
1939. There were fifteen hundred j
girls attended this meeting. Thirty-
six girls from the Homemaking De-
partment of Rusk high school attend-
ed.
A varied program was presented
during the day. Various schools par-
ticipated in these events. Fleta Neale
Fitts gave the response to the wel-
come in behalf of the Future Home-
makers. Grace Bagley reported on
her trip to the American Home Eco- I
nomics Association held in San An- ]
tonio last June. The group had lunch
together at Love's Lookout.
Triple Header To
Be Played At High
School Gymnasium
The basketball game between the
men teachers of the high school and
members of the Kiwanis club will be
played next Wednesday night, it was
announced this week. Kiwanians held
their first practice at the gymnasium
last night in preparation for the en-
counter.
It was decided that the Kiwanians
would wear white sleeveless jerseys
and the teachers red. Regular regu-
lation basketball trousers will com-
plete the uniform of both teams.
Fans point out that the teachers
will probably have the stronger
starting lineup but their squad will
be limited to seven players. The Ki-
wanians will have plenty of reserve
strength which probably will be
needed. It is rumored that team cap-
tains will contact W. H. Wallace and
Benton Bros, and one of these firms
will support each team.
Three games will be played during
the evening with the Kiwanis-Teach-
ers encounter last on the program
and probably starting about 8:45.
The other two games will be with
Troup. The Troup girls will meet the
Rusk high girls and a Physical Ed-
ucation group of boys from the two
schools will play. The regular boys
teams have not yet been organized
on account of conflict with football.
The first game will start at seven
oo'clock.
The. proceeds of the game will go
to start a fund for the purchase of
an electric bell system for the high
school which is very greatly needed
The admission charge for all three
games will be 25c.
BUILDING A COMMUNITY
WITHOUT MONEY
This is one of a series of articles which will appear each week
in the Cherokeean calling attention to ways a community may be
made to prosper without it costing any additional money or incon-
venience. Watch for them each week and remember they are pub-
lished with the hope we will all remember to do these things which
will mean much to our fellow citizens.
PAY OBLIGATIONS PROMPTLY
If I owe ten dollars it costs me no more to pay it
promptly than it costs me if I put it off. If it is drawing
interest, it costs me more to postpone payment.
Of course at times we are not able to meet our obliga-
tions promptly, but a large part of the accounts on the
books of local merchants will ultimately be paid and a good
many of them could be paid now just as easily as tbpy can
one month or six months from now.
Slow accounts are a serious handicap to the merchant.
He needs his money to take his discounts on replenishing
his stocks. Merchants who do a credit business will be help-
ed a great deal if we pay our bill promptly, and that means
we wijl be helping our town Jb^y>j;ompi payment*,^ ^ ,
Copyright 1§39, Frank L. Main
Half Of Parity Checks
Distributed To Farmers
Approximately $60,000 in parity
checks has been received and distri-
buted to farmers up to Thursday of
this week. The checks for three
thousand farmers were received last
week and distributed over the week-
end. This totals about half of the
payments due local farmers.
No further checks had been receiv-
ed up to Thursday.
Street & Storm Sewer
Work Still In Progress
The city improvement work this
week has been confined to installa-
tion of storm sewers and doing the
dirt work and curb and gutter on
Bonner street, according to City En-
gineer, E. L. Killingswoorth.
Mr. Kiilingsworth said it was hop-
ed that it would be possible to fin-
ish the curb and gutter and get the
grav ! base' on Bonner street befov
the work is suspended for the winter.
A few have not yet signed up and
this m.sy delay the work, he said.
Mock Trial For The
Empty Stocking Fund
What promises to lots of fun will
be a trial conducted for the benefit
of the Empty Stocking Fund the
night of November 28. It is to be a
murder trial and will be held in the
district courtroom if the courthouse
is still available. Otherwise it will
be held in the high school gymnas-
ium.
Edwin Guinn will be the prosecut-
ing attorney and Carl Sherman will
represent the defense of Elouise Mc-
Carroll, who will be "tried" for mur-
der. Gerald Chapman will be the pre-
siding judge with John Butler serv-
ing as bailiff. Sam Cox will serve as
clerk of the court.
Witnesses will include Dr. Thos.
H. Cobble, Mrs. Francis Fiane>-
Bonnie Ruth Ls:ney, Henry Guenzel,
Virginia Edwards, Mrs. Sam Smith.
Leah Parmley, J. E. Hamilton, Odell
Musgraves and W. A. Miller.
Expect Order To
Wreck Courthouse
Within Week
Approval Of Project
May Be Received
By Next Wednesday
The final revision of the court-
house plans for wrecking of the old
building and building of the new to
conform with the new wage and hour
schedule was taken to Marshall last
Saturday by Grayson Gill, architect
and Albert W. Belt, project superin-
tendent, where it was given approv-
al that day and forwarded to San
Antonio. The approval of the S'an
Antonio office is all that is need be-
fore a work order is given and Mr.
Belt and Mr. Gill were hopeful this
would be received by next Wednes-
day, November 15. Of course if some
revision is still necessary it will re-
quire longer.
County Judge J. W. Chandler said
Thursday that county officials in the
building would not start to move un-
til a definite time had been set for
the wrecking of the building. This
will mean he said that even though
the work order is secured Wednes-
day it will not be possible to start
work before Monday as it will re-
quire about three days to move out
of the building.
Mr. Belt said the immediate ap-
proval was being urged in order to
take up the men who are being re-
leased from Highway 110. The demo-
lition will be handled as a new pro-
ject with Mr. Belt in charge. H. G.
Lee will take over duties on the pro-
duction end. It is expected that it
will require between six and eight
weeks to demolish the old building
and clear the ground for the con-
struction of the new.
On the prduction end the shaping
j if the white- rock ii rearing sample-'
tion with an estiiH^J time of Tif-
teen days needed to complete this
work. There is now 40,000 cubic feet
of white rock ready, Mr. Belt said,
j About one fourth of the needed gra-
| vel is on the material lot. Produc-
tion of red rock will be about ten
times as fast as the production of
the white which will make it possibly
to complete production in plenty of
time.
Regarding the wrecking of the
old building, Mr. Belt cautions that
such work is always more or less
dangerous. Every possible precau-
tion is taken by the WPA but if
citizens persist in coming on to the
site, it will be necessary to post
watchmen to keep them out. This
| expense will be taken out of the
building, Mr. Belt said, and if people
| will cooperate by staying clear of
j the building it will be greatly appre-
i ciated by both county officials and
j the administration.
FORMER RUSK HOY
IS MAKING GOOD
Friends of Philip Carter, former
Rusk boy, will be glad to know he
has been promoted to secretary to
the manager of Utility Company in
Roswell, New Mexico. He has also
been elected Scout Master Of a unit
sponsored by the Rotary Club.
BAND MOTHERS TO MEET
The Band Mothers Club will meet
Friday afternoon at the high school
at 3:30 o'clock.
There will be an election of offi-
cers and a good attendance is desired
Beginner band mothers are espec-
ially urged to be present.
CLOTHES WANTED
Anyone who has any outgrown or
discarded clothing or shoes of any
size or description can help the lo-
cal charity organization and Parent
Teacher Association, who are collect-
ing them to give to those who need
them.
■ If word is sent r phoned to Mrs.
C. E. Jay, someone will call for them.
Oil & Gas Lease—Mrs. Pete Hem-
by et al to J. S. Lewis 90.4 acres of
jfflk No. 3 of Allison League Sav? &
Except the N. 50 acres.
Ki wanians-T eachers
To Play Basketball
The Kiwanis club voted to accept
the challenge of the Rusk high school
men teachers presented at its reg-
ular noon luncheon Tuesday by Sup-
erintendent A. S. Moore, with the
! understanding that Mr. Moore and
j Dr. Cobble must don uniforms and
; jump center. Webb Finley was ap-
; pointed team nt.ansger for the Ki-
wanians by President A. E. Laney,
and will select his team.
The main event on the program
for the day was an address by Mrs.
I.u y V ermillien on the relations be-
tween this country and Latin Ameri-
ca. The speaker stressed the educa-
tional efforts being put forth by the
United States through schools and
radio to offset similar efforts being
made there by Germany and other
European countries.
Eddie Bando was a guest of the
club.
Start Work On Ponta
And Gallatin Road
The start work order on the Gatla-
tin-Ponta feeder road was received
this week and preliminary work on
the clearing of the light-of-way of
buildings and other obstructions got
under way this week.
It was expected that construction
ywc^xn ||^e road will begin in earn-
est the first of the week." *"
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Main, Frank L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1939, newspaper, November 10, 1939; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth325763/m1/1/: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.