The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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RUSK, CHEROKEE COUNTY TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1943
NUMBER 46
usk Gets A Blast Furnace For Christmas
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Waste Paper
Collection To
Start In Rusk
High School Band
And Junior Class
To Do The Work i
The problem of disposal of' waste
paper has been worked out for Rusk
and those who have some on hand
may bring it in at once. Collections
will start the first of next week.
Old newspapers, magazines, and
cardboard boxes are wanted, but they
toiiust be 'bundled separately. No mix-
ed scrap paper such as accumulates
in a waste basket can be used.
The students of the Rusk high
school will attend to the collection of
the paper in Rusk and will receive
any profits from its sale. Probably
the junior class and the band will be
competitors in the collection^ job. All
paper will be donated to the students.
Mrs. Cook will head the campaign in
the" rural areas. The Kiwanis club
will assist the campaign in eivery
way possible.
Those who can arrange to do so
are requested to bring their paper,
after sorting and tieing in flat bun-
dles of any size, to the assembling
point which will be the school bus;
garage at the south end of Hender-
son street.
These arrangements were complet-
ed Tuesday of this week after several
weeks of correspondence with Tex-
as Salvage Committee by Cbunty
Judge James I. Perkins in an effort
to obtain definite assurance the paper
would be taken up after having been
collected.
E. E. Hendrix, representing the
War Production Board and the Tex-
as Salvage Committee visited Rusk
Tuesday afternoon and all arrange-
ments were ccjirjpleted at an im-
promptu meeting in the county court
room. Present were Judge Perkins,
Mrs. Rosella Cook, Miss Leah Parm-
ley, Melvin Sessions, Frank L. Main,
Gerald B. lOhafl.uan, M. M. Guinn,
.J. Finan Smith and Mr. Hendrix.
Mr. Hendrix also told those pres-
ent that the waste fat salvage cam-
paign has become just as important
as bond sales because it must be had
as la base for medicines for wounded
.soldiers as well as for explosives.
Definite plans are under way to
speed up waste fat collections in
Rusk, and announcement will be made
in the near future. In the meantime
people are asked to save every possi-
ble ounce of fat.
MEN OF WAR
HARDSHIPS IN ITALY
In order that we might not forget
at Christmas time the hardships our
, boys on the battle front are under-
going, the Cherokeean asked Mrs
Edgar Ford for permission to print
the following excerpts from letters
written to her by Captain Ford:
Nov. 27th .... "We came out be-
fore day this morning for a short
rest and to have Thanksgiving din-
ner, which we had at 3:30 this after-
noon—turkey and all the trimmings!
Dressing and gray, peas, cranberry
sauce, white bread, coffee and apri-
cots, and it was truly appreciated by
all, but I never enjoyed any meal in
all toy life as much as I did break-
fast this morning. We walked a long
way last night over precipitous trails
in utter darkness,' through sticky,
clinging, cold mud, up stream beds,
through shell holes, over tangled
brush and wire, carrying heavy loads
in the rain, and shortly after arriv-
ing here, had our first cooked meal
in over a week. We had scrambled
eggs, bacon, bread, butter, jam and
coffee, and I konw it was the best
.meal ever cooked!
Nov. 30th ... I got another Cher-
okean today, and although old, I
very much enjoyed reading it . . .
People there of course can't realize
how fortunate they a^e that the war
is being fought in somebody else's
country, and some other village is
being reduced to rubble and the in-
habitants forced to flee and live like
animal's, in caves, under culverts, or
unable to fihd shelter of any sort
and imply wander tft a perpetu01
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DR. GAR V L. SMOTH, of Cisco, who
has accepted the call of the Rusk
Presbyterian church advises that he
definitely will be udable to get moved
to Rusk in time to hold services be-
fore January 9. He sends Christmas
greetings to all the people if his
new congregation.
daze, from place to place, scrapibling
for a discarded crust, or digging up
our garbage pits as we move forward.
There is going to be so much suffer-
ing in Europe this winter that it is
nauseating to think of. For a couple
of hundred miles along a very fam-
ous Italian highway, there is not a
single building left undamaged, and
few left standing at all. I, of course,
have seen only a fraction of the af-
fected country."
Ensign Roy C. Garner of San Die-
go visited his brother, Jack Garner
and Mrs. Garner here last week.
\ Private Ruth L. Smith, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Love, and a
member of the Marine Corps Wo-
men's Reserve, has been attached to
the base at Camp Lejuene, New Riv-
er, North Carolina and assigned as
a student in the Motor Transport
School.
Corporal Thomas "Buddy" Wallace
of Follman Field, Seyfnot^, Indiana
hate just returned after a brief fur-
lough here with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. S. Wallace and sister, Velma
Wallace.
Corporal Alvin W. Smith, U. S. Air
Corps, who is stationed in the Car-
ibbean Sea area, is spending his first
furlough in three years here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R-
Smith.
Sgt. George Stouth of Las Ange-
les, Californa spent Wednesday in
Rusk.
Capt. and Mrs. Jim L. Hargroves
of San Antonio are spending Christ-
mas with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lang-
ston. Mrs. Hargroves is a sister of
Mrs. Langston.
Clyde Cauthen, U. S. Navy, New
Orleans, who has been confined to
the hospital there, is improving.
SjSgt. Marion Goolsbee of Oklaho-
|iraa iC'ity is visiting homefolks here
this week.
LT. VALERA CONWAY
IN HOSPITAL IN ITALY
Word was received this week that
2nd Lt. Valiera Conway is in a hos-
pital somewhere in Italy.
Sergeant John Boyd Belvin, who
has been in the Caribbean area for
the past three years, is visiting home-
folks in Rusk.
Lt. Roy McDonald, who received
his wings in Marine Air Corps last
week, visited in Rusk Saturday. He
is stationed at Jacksonville, Florida.
Grady Dupree S2c of Corpus Chris-
ti is visiting homefolks here.
Lt. Herman Mason of sVn Marcos
visited his |mot«er here this week.
Sgt. Kent Deckard of Randolph
Field is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. K. Deckard.
The following boys have been ac-
cepted for military service:
For the Navy—Frederick Nathan
Worley, Morris Edward Brown, Rob-
ert E<lgar bianley Jr., Jan.. Wesley
Middleton, John William Mcuaughey,
Japnes Weldon Findley, William Arn-
old R*y Collins, and Melvin Gordon
Aiwuy—Howard Raymond Lloyd,
Wallace Clark Fowler, Lesslcy Wes-
ley Williams, William Harvey Hodg-
es and William Henry Ayers;
Marines—Charles Ljfifd Wav is.
Colored boy* ucceptod include; for
Organization Set
Up For Class B
Basketball Series
A Round Robin
Schedule Set
For 3 Counties
At a meeting of school men Mon-
day at the office of County Superin-
tendent C. L. Langston, a Round Rob-
in basketball schedule was set up for
ten class B teams of Cherokee, Smith
and Anderson counties. Cherokee
county schools participating are
Wells, Summerfield, Gallatin, Dlal-
ville and Maydelle. Sjmith county
schools are Winona and Bullard and
Anderson county schools are Wood-
house, Slocum and Montalba.
The following school men were
present for the Monday meeting: W.
W. Glass, Superintendent, Dialville;
Hubert Harris, Coach, Winona, Smith
county; H. D. (Puny) Wallace, Sup-
erintendent, Gallatin; H. IC'. Schock-
ler, Superintendent, Summerfield; H.
A. Walters, Superintendent, May-
delle; W. D. Langston, Coach, Su!m-
merfield, and C. L. Langston, Coun-
ty Superintendent.
Following is the schedule for the
year:
January 4
Woodhouse at Slocum
Gallatin at Dialville
Maydelle at Wells
January 11
Wells at Gallatin
1-iaiville at Maydelle
Summerfield at Winona
Slocum at Montalba
January 14
Gallatin at Wells
Maydelle at Dialville*
Winona at Bullard
Montalba at Woodhouse
January 18
Wells at Maydelle
Dialville at Gallatin
Sunimerfield at Bullard
Slocum at Woodhouse \
January 20
Winona at Summerfield
January 25
Gallatin at Maydelle
Dialville at Wells
Bullard at Summerfield
Woouhouse at Montalba
January 27
Maydelle at Gallatin
Weils at Dialville
January 28
Bullard at Winona
Montalba at Slocum
\ (District 42 was divided into three
districts.
District No. 1 is Wells, Dialville,
Maydelle and Gallatin.
District No. 2 is Bullard, Summer-
field and Winona.
District No. 3 is Montalba, Slocum,
and Woodhouse.
Winners of District No. 1 will
play the winners of District No. 3 in
the semi-finals. The winners of dis-
trict 1 and 3 will play the winners
of District 2.
The Tomato Sheeting
Problem Seems Solved
It appears that the problem of
farmers being able to replace the
worn out sheets for tc|mato hotbeds
and cold frames has been solved.
Curtis Ainsworth received a phone
call from Dallas Tuesday assuring
him merchants will be able to obtain
the sheeting.
Earlier he had received a letter
from the War Production Board in
Washington stating "'The nrtiter has
discussed the matter with the Ely &
Walker Dry Goods Company of St.
Louis who in the past have sold from
200 to 300 bales a season for this
purpose in Texas. They have assured
us that they cxpect to be able to take
care of their noflnial volume again
this year." A copy of the letter was
sent to Representative Nat Patton,
who pushed through the action after
Mr. Ainsworth had advised him of
the situation.
Marines, Roy Bradley; Army—John
Louis Blackshire, Will Herman
Thacker, Noah Wallace, Steve Mor-
! rison; Navy—George Sanders, Hom-
er Mickey, Erie Land and Garfield
Mickey.
REPRESENTATIVE NAT PATTON
While Rusk has received splendid
cooperation from Senators Connally
and O'Danjel in its efforts to seceure
approval of the blast furnace pro-
ject, nobody who has been in close
touch with the efforts here and in
Washington will question a state-
ment that had it not been for the
conviction of Representative Nat Pat-
ton that the furnace was a vital war
project and for his determination to
keep fighting until its approval was
secured, Rusk would have abandoned
the fight long ago.
Time after time the directors of
the Chajmber of iCommerce met, dis-
couraged and disheartened, to be re-
vived by wires and letters from Mr.
Patton, urging them to keep up the
fight for success was fairly certain
in the end. And time after time, in
response to such encouragement, the
directors went down in their own
pockets for from ten dollars to twen-
ty-five dollars each to send a repre-
sentative to Washington or finance
sdme other method of promotion.
If Mr. Patton had put up such a
fight for his home town of Crockett
he probably would have been criti-
cised by all the rest of his district.
Rusk is fortunate that nature bestow-
ed on this area a resource which Mr.
Patton believed should be playing a
part fin the war effort.
Rusk Contributes 400
Wounded Soldier Gifts
Rusk donated a total of 381 pack-
ages to the wounded soldiers at Oamp
Fannin and Longview and 111 doz-
en cookies Mrs. Billy Edwards re-
ports. This does not include gifts
which were scheduled to come from,
the Kiwanis club Thursday night and
which will be delivered Friday by
club president, I. R. Hall. This will
bring the total well over 400.
Mrs. Edwards reports that Cher-
okee county as a whole donated 950
gift packages. The Rusk cash dona-
tion to the piano fund amounted to
$74.00. Donations to the piano fund
and other contributions will be listed
next week.
CHEROKEEAN EDITOR CHOOSY
ABOUT CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Ordinarily the Cherokeean edi-
tor would be satisfied with a
WAC, WAVE or SPAR for Christ-
mas but circumstances over which
he has no control has made him
choosy. To use the alphabetical
desigtiajtioni,, 'he ■oan be content
with nothing but .a MCWR. This,
translated, means Marine Corps
Women's Reserve.
Here's why. He has just been
notified by Marine Corps Procure-
ment Division of Atlanta, Georgia,
that he has been nsfmed chairman
of a local Marine recruiting cam-
paign and assigned a quota of one
woman. On the matter of age he
is given considerable leeway-
twenty to thirty-six to be exact.
He ha3 been sent lots of nice
literature including pictures in full
color of the lassies in training and
this (literature answers any ques-
tions the iChristmas present might
want answered including the as-
surance that if she volunteers now
she will not be called to active
duty before the middle of January,
and the fact that these lady Ma-
rines receive the same pay and al-
lowances as the He-man Marines,
one third of whqn* are Texans.
The Atlantic Ocean lies west of the
| Pacific at Panama.
Definite Promise Given Patton
Thursday By Vice President Of
Defense Plant Corporation
Representative Nat Patton, who is now at his
Crockett home seeing the last of his sons off to
military service, phoned E. R. Gregg, President of
the Rusk chamber of commerce, Thursday morn-
ing to tell him that he had just completed a tele-
phone call with Frank F. Ronan, Vice president of
the Defense Plant Corporation in Washington, and
that Mr. Ronan told him that the Rusk blast furn-
ace project had been definitely approved in every
detail and that he could tell the people of Rusk
that he could guarantee them a blast furnace and
chemical plant for a Christmas present.
During the past week word has been received
here of the approval of one detail after another and
for several days it has been felt fairly certain that
the nine-life project was taking the last hurdle.
The assurance received by Mr. Patton Thursday
was, however, the first definite promise from
Washington that the furnace will be built.
The history of attempts to develop the iron ore
deposits of this section is about as old as the history
of Cherokee county with highlights being the old
Phileo furnace which was operated in Civil War
days, the big New Birmingham furnace which
folded up because of political complications and
the furnace at the state penitentiary here which
was shut down for similar reasons.
But all this is history of the long past with which
all Cherokeeans are familiar. The present drive for
development originated in August 1940 when Rep-
resentative Nat Patton introduced a bill in congiess
calling for the location of a war plant here because
of the iron ore resources. The chamber of com-
merce then headed by James I. Perkins got behind
the movement and for three and a half years Wash-
ington officials have not been permitted to forget
that Rusk has vast deposits of iron ore waiting de-
velopment.
Back of the whole undertaking from the outset
has been Col. E. F. McCrossin, of the McCrossin
Engineering Company, of New York City, who
invested many thousands of dollars in the propo-
sition. It is understood that he will head the five
million dollar plant.
No word has yet been received on when the
work of dismantling the furnaces at Pembroke,
Florida and Wells, Michigan for removal to Rusk
will start but it is assumed that this will be done
at once. The blast furnace is a war project and the
necessary priority ratings were received several
months ago. It has been understood all along that
wlork would start as soon as approval was secured.
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Christmas Seal Sale
Has Not Reached Goal
Cherokee county has reached la to-
tal of $1,000 in cash received for sale
of IGhrisfcmas seals, Miss Leah Parm-
ley, treasurer of the Cherokee Coun-
ty Tuberculosis Association has an-
nounced. The goal set is $1,200.
However, since the aale of the
seals continues through the month
of January, it is expected that the
other $200 will be received before
the drive is closed.
Miss Paflxmley reports that she still
has plenty of test patches for schools
which have not yet made the tests.
She adds that tests in the colored
schools will be made during March
land April.
Lions Enjoy Lively
Christmas Banquet
Members of the Rusk Lions Clut
enjoyed a lively iChristmas party and
banquet last Friday night at Deck-
ard's cafe.
Mrs. C. A. Childs was the guest
t speaker and told Lions of the need
for gifts for wounded soldiers. She-
was introduced by Mrs. Billy Ed-
wards. Miss Angilene Francis fav-
ored the club with a reading.
The club voted to donate $25 to.
the wounded soldier piano fund.
W. W. HUBBARD
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at McKindree cemetery
five miles east of Lufkin, for W. W.
Hubbard, 77, who died shortly after
three o'clock Saturday morning at a
Jacksonville hospital. He made his
home with his son, Andrew Hubbard,
of Rusk.
He is survived by another son ami
two daughters. They are W. J. Hub-
bard, Knoxville, Tenn.; and Mrs.
Henry Parish and Mrs. Tom Setrjr,
both of Lufkin. He is also survived
by a sister, Mrs. Sallie Ridgeway, al-
so of Lufkin and by ten grandchil-
dren.
The funeral service was conducted
by Rev. H. B. Harrell, of Diboll with
W. H. Wallace in charge of arrange-
ments. Pallbearers were Roger Eev-
il, W. S. Reynolds, Ed Parish, Henry
Parish, Byford Nerren, O. B. Boles, |
Claude -Ford and Floyd Hubbard.
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Main, Frank L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1943, newspaper, December 23, 1943; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth325978/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.