The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 96
The Rusk Cherokeean
Successor to "The Pioneer" Established 1847
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RUSK, CHEROKEE COUNTY TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1942
NUMBER 1
Food Production
For Home Use Is
Goal Of County
Cherokee And 18
Etex Counties
In On Program
Production of food tor home con-
sumption through enlarged gardens,
among the leading achievements of
orchards and poultry1 flocks were
home demonstration women and 4-H
Cluib girls in extension district 9, ac-
ocrding to Beulah BlackweH, district
agent in charge of county home dem-
onstration agents.
The district comprises 19 southern
east Texas counties, including six on
or near the coast. The chief crops of
these are rice and beef cattle. The
remaining 13 originally were cover-
ed with pine forests but most of the
timber has been cut. Although much
of this area is covered with second
growth, many small farms are oper-
ated and grow cotton, corn, truck
crops and fruits on the sandy loam.
Livestock raising also is practiced.
The men on the farms often work in
the saw mills still operating in the
region, in the adjacent oil fields, or
some public work, leaving the wom-
en and children to do the farming.
Summarizing some of the achieve-
ments in the 14 counties having the
services of county1 home demonstra-
tion agents, Miss Blackwell relates
that the Rusk county home demon
stration council built and planted a
frame garden on the county court-
hoi^se lawn as a pattern for those
desiring frame 'gardens at their
homes. Home demonstration clufb
women rooted 2,305 cuttings, and
420 4-H Club girls made 2,507 gar-
ments, added 67 new closets to their
bedrooms and improved 92 others.
Four-H Club girls also planted 15,892
strawberry "plants in 1941. Sixteen
Rusk cotinty * schools served hot
lunches to 1,600 pupils. The J. J.
Clinton family canned 1,225 quarts
of food and sold $280.25 worth of
farm products.
San Jacinto home demonstration
cluib women made more than 600 gar-
ments for the Red Cross in 1941 to-
gether with 60 new mattresses, not
included in the Extension Service-
SMA mattress program. Four-H
Club girts canned 2,808 quarts of
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Another Wildcat
Slated For County
John Mayo of Houston Wednes-
day announced location for a wild-
eat oil test in Cherokee County,
five miles northeast of Rusk in the
East Teras belt.
It is Mayo and H. R. Burden No.
1 New Birmingham Development
Company, 660 feet out of the south-
east corner of a 70-acre tract in the
B. Newton survey. It is project-
ed to 4500 feet to test the Wood-
bine formation, from which the East
Texas field produces. Burden is the
drilling contractor and wag moving
in materials.
Shell, Sun and Magnolia are sup-
porting the well.
Plenty Of First Aid
Books Are Now Here
All the first aid (books needed have
been received, D. C. Stockton said
Thursday. Those taking first aid
courses may obtain them at the of-
fice of the county superintendent.
The books are sixty cents each.
People not taking the course will
find information in them that may
enable them to save the life of some
memlber of the family in an emer-
gency.
Rusk Faculty Play
Set For Friday Night
The faculty playi, 'Nothing But
the Truth", will be presented at the
high school arditorium this Friday
night. It is sponsored by the Parent-
Teacher Association and the proceeds
will go to .buy Defense Bonds and
Stamps.
The play is a hilarious comedy and
plenty of entertainment is guaran-
teed.
Dist. Commander
American Legion
To Speak Here
Free Chicken Supper
For Ex-Service Men
Is Announced
Howard Walker, Commander of
the Second District, American Legion
will be a speaker here next Tuesday
nigdt at the regular monthly meet-
ing of the American Legion which
will ibe held at Deckard's cafe, it was
announced this week according to
Melvin Sssions, Adjutant, A free
fried chicken supper will be sponsor-
ed by the local post and all former
service men are invited to attend.
Commander Walker is an excellent
speaker and will discuss the part of
the American Legion in the war
emergency.
The meeting will start at eight
o'clock.
Plans Complete
For Registration
Next Monday
Ten Boards To
Handle Job In
This District
Emphasizing that the Selective
Service Registration on February 16
will complete the inventory of Amer-
ica's potential military manpower,
General J. Watt Page, State Selec-
tive Service Director pointed out in
a bulletin to I. R. Aufricht, clerk of
the local board, that it affects every
male resident in Texas between the
Ten points where men of the dis.
trict served by Cherokee county Se-
lective Service Board, No. 1 may
register were announced this week.
They are: Rusk, at Deckard's cafe
and also at Alto, Forest, Wells, Box's
Creek, Maydelle, Dialvill.e Gallatin,
Reklaw and Atoy.
DONALD HUGHES FRANCIS
Funeral service was held in Jack-
sonville Thursday for Pvt. Donald
Hughes Francis, 20, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. A, Francis, of Dallas and a
nephew of ldrs. W. T. Norman and
(Mtrs. Bess Howard, who died Tuesday
at Camp Bowie following an automo-
bixe accident. ReV. C. R. Meadows
conducted the service and burial was
made in the Jarrett cemetery. The
Francis family formerly lived at
Turney.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by a brother, Jack Francis, of Dallas
and two sisters, Misses Louise and
Mary Francis, also of Dallas.
Cotton Crop Insurance
Meetings Announced
Meetings to permit producer to
make application for Cotton Crop In-
surance for 1942 will 'be held at the
following places from 8:00 a. m.
5:00 p. m, it has been announced by
Joe W. Williams, secretary, Chro-
ke County A.C.A.:
Bullard & Wells—/Tuesday, Febru-
ary 17.
Enterprise & Cold Springs—Wed-
nesday, February 18.
Concord & Central High—Friday,
February 20.
Jacksonville & Alto— Saturday,
February 21.
Summerfield
February 23.
Antioch & Turney
February 25.
Ponta & Troup—Friday, February
27.
.Farmers are asked to bring their
FSI-224-C notice of insurable yield
and premium rate with them.
The office at Rusk will be open to
receive applications each day except
Saturday afternoons.
The closing date for making appli-
cation is March 1, and will not be ex-
tended.
& Reese—Monday,
Wednesday,
Early Plans Made
For TB Campaign
Tentative plans were made this
week for the anti-tuberculosis cam-
paign in Cherokee county which will
be carried out under the direction of
the Cherokee County Tuberculosis
Association with funds which were
raised by the sale of seals at Christ-
mas time. The plans again call for
an educational and early diagnosis
campaign. .
Miss Helen LeLacheur, advisory
nurse of the Texas Tuberculosis As-
sociation, was present, discussing
plans with local officers of the as
sociation and checking on the seal
sale. It was announced that a total
of $625.89 worth of seals were sold
this year. This is less than last year.
The slump is attributed to the 'big
demands for contriubutions to other
causes.
More Men To Be
Taken For Service
The following men are about to be
inducted into the armed forces, ac-
cording to information released this
week by I. R. Aufricht, clerk of the
local selective service board:
Whites: W. A. Pounds, J. W. Oli-
ver, Sam Franklin Blake, Vernon
Alexander Wallace, Wallace Howard
Qair, E. D. Tullis, Eugene Benford
IBarron, Robert Cl'ittt Musick, Osa
Dee Smith, Clyde Williams Smith,
Bennie Arlis Cheatom, Charlie Alton
Singletary, Paul Lamar Rounsaville,
Joe Thomas Shactuck, Bennie Dee
Lindsey, Frank Denson Parson, Ox-
val Lee Loden, Alton Dailey Knight,
Leonard Ray Overall, George Willis
Thornton, James Willis Rich.
Colored: Iven Rufus Shears, Rob-
ert Foreman, Coleman Clifton T^y-
vervJames Thompson, Ivery Eldridge
'Monroe, Bennie Sessions, O. L. Tim-
mons, Alex Morrison, Clyde Brown.
Income Tax Men
To Be Here Saturday
Two representatives of the office
of the Collector of Internal Revenue
will be in Rusk Saturday to assist
local citizens in making out their in-
come tax returns or give any infor-
mation they may need.
They may be contacted in the
basement room of the post office.
Highway Employees
Pledge Defense Help
All employees of the State High-
way Department stationed at Rusk
have pledged to purchase enough de-
fense stamps and 'bonds each month
equal to the amount of their salery
for one day.
It is understood that this request
of the State Highway Department is
jbeing followed generally throughout
the state.
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S. Z. ALEXANDER
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon at Jacksonville
for S. Z. Alexander, 75, lifelong res-
ident of that place and the father
of Mrs. Lewis McCarroll, of Rusk,
■who died 'Monday afternoon. He had
been in critical health for some time.
The service was held at the Presby-
terian church with Rev. Donald Har-
ris officiating, with burial in the
city cemetery.
Besides Mrs. McCarroll, he is sur-
vived by his wife, a son, A. L. Alex-
ander of Houston, a step-son, Wilbur
Park, of Hillsboro, two brothers, II
P. Alexander, Jacksonville and Rob-
ert Alexander, Weatherford and a
. sister, Mrs. A. K. Dixon, of Jackson-
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Tosh To Make Plane
Trip To Little Rock
Leo W. Tosh expects to leave Fri-
day for Dallas where he will join a
party for a trip to Little Rock, Ar-
kansas via American Airways plane.
The party will spend Saturday at
Little Rook attending the regional
stockholders meeting of the Federal
Home Loan Bank, Little Rock. They
will return to Dallas by plane Sat-
urday night.
This will be the first airplane
flight for Mr. Tosh. He will decide
this weekend whether or not it will
be hig last.
McCarroll Is Named
Member School Board
At the regular monthly meeting of
the school board of Rusk Independ-
ent District last Thursday night,
Lewis McCarroll was appointed a
member of the 'board to fill the un-
expired term of Dr. R. C. Rowell,
who was elected last April.
McCarroll's term will expire Ap-
ril 1, 1944.
Picks Chinese Leader
As World's Greatest
In a talk with great men of the
past and present as his subject, Dr.
C. E. Peoples, president of Lon Mor-
ris College, gave memgrs of the Ki-
wanis club something to think about
Tuesday noon at the regular lunch-
edn hour of the club.
Dr. Peeples said that most people
if asked to define a successful man
would give a definition that would
fit A1 Capone just as well as men
who have gone down in history as
immortal. He eulogized Washington
as one of the great men of history
and said in five hundred years from
now he will be greater than today.
Paying full respect to the Ameri
can and English statesmen, the
speaker indicated that in his opin-
ion there is but one outstanding man
in the limelight today who has
chance to go down in history as tru-
ly great. That man is Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek, commander of the
Chinese forces and head of the Chi-
nese empire.
•*Give him the necessary equip-
ment and he will throw Japan in the
ocean in a month," the speaker de-
clared, adding further that he is
Christian gentleman who spends an
hour a day on his knees praying that
he may never hate a single Japanese.
ages of 20 and 45 years, with a few
exception# made by Congress.
The requirement, General Page ex-
plained, is that all male persons not
previously registered, who attained
their twentieth birthday on or be-
fore December 31, 1941, and who
have not attained their forty-fifth
birthday on or before February 16,
1942, must register as of their home
address between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m.
on February 16. In other words, all
unregistered men who were born be-
tween February 17, 1897 and Decem-
ber 31, 1921, must register.
Mien between 21 and 36 years of
age who registered in 1940 and 194^
are not required to register again,
the Director explained.
While anyone who is unavoidably
away from his home on February 16
may register at the registration
place most convenient on that day,
General Page said, he urged all Tex-
as registrants to make every effort
to register with their own local
boards to avoid possible confusion in
the future. Any person who must
register while away from his home,
he cautioned, should be careful Jo
specify his home address so that his
registration card may be forwarded
promptly to his own local board and
to ensure that he will .be included in
its potential manpower to fill calls
for quotas.
The only persons exempt from reg-
istration under the law, General
Page said, are: Commissioned offi
cers, warrant officers, pay clerks,
and enlisted men of the Regular Ar
my, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the
Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, the Public Health Service,
the federally recognized active Na-
tional Guard, the Officers' Reserve
Corps, the Regular Army Reserve,
the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Nav-
al Reserve, and the Marine Corps Re-
serve; cadets, United States Military
Academy; midshipmen, of United
States Naval Academy; cadets, Unit-
ed States Coast Guard Academy;
men who have been accepted for ad
mittance (commencing with the aca-
demic year next succeeding such ac-
ceptance) to the United States Mili-
tary Academy as cadets, to the Uni
ted States Naval Academy as mid
shipmen, or to the United States
Naval Academy as midshipmen, or
to the United States Coast Guard
Academy as cadets, but only during
the continuance of such accep.unce;
cadets of the advanced course, senior
division, Reserve Officers' Training
Corps or Naval Reserve Officers
Training Corps; and diplomatic rep-
resentatives, technical attaches of
foreign embassies and legations, con.
suls general, consuls, vice consuls and
consular agents of foreign countries
and persons in other categories to be
specified by the President, residing
in the United States, who are not
citizens of the United States, and
who have not declared their intention
to become citizens of the United
States.
In metropolitan areas of the State
a special registration place will be
arranged for transients. In establish-
ments of substantial size, registra-
tion booths will be provided to facil-
itate registration with the least pos-
sible interference with production.
Special registrars also will be pro-
vided to register men who cannot
(Continued on Uat pege>
Lions Sponsoring
Attendance Contest
Starting this week the Rusk Lions
Club began an attendance contest,
and points will be judged on the
weight of the members present. This
contest will run about eight weeks.
Lion Ward, chairman of the sight
conservation committee, had charge
of the program and gave a brief out-
line of the work. One of the most im-
portant accomplishments of the club
has been the fitting and securing of
glasses for nine children in this vi-
cinity.
Mrs. Cauthen of junior high was
introduced. A musical number and a
demonstration of visual education
were presented by three pupils.
Community War
Board Organized
At Maydelle
Officers Elected And
Cooperation In War
Effort Pledged
Between 125 and 150 people of the
Maydelle community met Monday!
night in the high school auditorium
and organized the community USDA
War board. The following officers
were elected:
Fred Ezell, president
E. B. Stone, vice-president
E. C. McLeod, secretary
Mrs. H. A. Walters, reporter.
Community War Board Council:
Mrs. Bertha Ezell; Food production:
W. A. Bobbitt; Feed production; R.
S. Sanford, Salvage material; M. I.
tMlullinix, farm machinery repair;
Mrs. Berdie Fain, Processing and
storage of foods; Pearl Watson, Live
stock and poultry; D. L. Arnwine,
Budget for farm and home; J. C.
Sherman, Community Health; H. A.
Walters, School lunch room and oth-
er community actjvites in the war;
Mrs. J. C. Sherman, Red Cross; J.
Sherman, Bond and Stamp sale;
J. H. Tennison, First Aid; Lotis
Shermah, Religions and social lac
tivitnes; H. A. Walters, Defense
Blackout Warden.
The people of Maydelle have made
the following pledge:
We the people of the Maydelle
community pledge (our all) to the
boys in Uniform, we .will win this
war no matter what the cost and
Sacrifice may be."
Savings Accounts
Are Safe In Banks
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utxnas, Wuiuu auoui'u UiaKc cleat tue
poai.ion ol tne government in regard
lo personal lunus oi citizens:
"itecurring rumors tnai the Feder-
al Uovernment intends to coniiscate
ail savings deposits are 'being circu-
lated in many parts ox tne country.
The continued circulation of such ru-
mors might lead to the withdrawal
of savings deposits or the hoarding
of funds which ordinarily would find
their way into banks as deposits. In
connection with these rumors, Sec-
retary of the Treasury Morgenthau
recently made the following state-
ment:
"I wish to state most emphatically
that there are no foundations what-
ever for such rumors. The Federal
Government does <not have under
consideration any proposal involving
the confiscation of the savings de-
posits of the country for any purpose.
Furthermore, anyone circulation ru-
mors of this character is acting
against the welfare of the nation,"
"The importance of financing the
war effort to the greatest possible
extent from current income rather
than from accumulated savings has
been repeatedly emphasized by the
Treasury Departmnt. In furtherance
of that policy, efforts are being made
to encourage all employers to adopt
a payroll allotment plan for the sale
of Defense Savings Bonds to their
employees, because that is regarded
as one of the essential steps in com-
bating the development of inflation,
ary tendencies."
Cherokee County
Trial Blackout
Complete Success
Only One Willful
Violation Has
Been Reported
Rusk and all Cherokee county took
the Wednesday night trial blackout
seriously and it was a succesg from
every angle. Only one willful viola-
tion of blackout orders in the entire
county had been reported Thursday
to County Coordinator H. T. Brown.
Reports of complete cooperation
came from practically aH wardens.
The timing in Rusk and surround-
ing communities was not exact and
for probably a minute before the
iRiusk sirt-n sounded off whistVes
could be heard from all directions
and persons atop the courthouse and
other vantage points reported that
immediately following the alarm, all
lights disappeared in each commun-
ity.
Within forty seconds from the
time the alarm in Rusk was sounded,
not a flicker of light was visible in
the downtown section except for one
or two cigarets which smokers evi-
dently forgot about, but they were
soon reminded.
Rusk was intensely serious about
the matter and it is likely if someone
had appeared on the streets with a
flashlight masked and used exactly
according to specifications for black-
outs, he would have been manhandl-
ed.
Splendid cooperation was had from
all lumber mills and slab pits gave
off no light.'
A few lights showing in the resi-
dential section were immediately
blacked out after community wardens
called the matter to the attention of
those responsible.
Many people had arranged their
home according to directions and
went about their business as usual. A
considerable number in the downtown
section stood around the square and
joked and enjoyed themselves for the
entire time.
The blackout at the state hospital
was iprompt and complete.
It was a case of perfect coopera-
tion completely surrounded by dark-
ness.
Trible Home Burns
To Ground Monday
One of the largest recent fire los-
ses in Rusk occurred Monday short-
ly after noon when the Trible home
in the northwest part of the city
burned to a total loss. Mr. and Mrs.
Herndon Trible were at home in an-
other part of the house when the
fire uas discovered in the kitchen.
How it originated is not known.
Firemen were hampered by the
fact that the small water lines in
that part of town could not supply
water fast enough for the pumps of
the fire trucks. With sufficient wat-
er supply, it is believed the fire
could have been gotten under controL
The large house, which had recent-
ly been completely repaired, burned
rapidly as the fire got (beyond con-
trol. Considera'be clothing and some
furniture were removed by firemen
and citizens.
The loss was partially covered by
insurance.
Voting Strength Of
County Shows Slump
Cherokee county's voting strength
will be off more than a thousand this
year compared to what it was two
years ago, according to M. A. Wal-
ters, Tax Assessor-Collector, who
attributes the slump to the fact that
a large number of voters are now in
th armed forces or away on defense
work. The number this year is ap-
proximately 5,800 compared to 6,885
two years ago.
The total number of poll taxes last
year was 4,215, reflecting the usual
slump in an off political year.
KB WARD FOR LOST PIN
Mrs. Louis Butler is offering a re-
ward of three dollars for the return
of a Cameo breast pin lost on the
streets of Rusk February 4. The
finder may take the pin to Mrs.
Butler or leave it at the Cherokeean
office.
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Main, Frank L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1942, newspaper, February 12, 1942; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth325881/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.