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The Rusk Cherokeean
Established as "The Pioneer" July 5, 1848
VOLUME 100
THE RUSK CHEROKEEAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 8 1948
NUMBER 4Q
Junior Boxing
Friday Night
Finals Set For
Officers Elected
Following Meeting
Thursday Noon
The final fights of the junior
boxing turnament will be held
this Friday night at the high
school gymnasium. Action starts
at seven-thirty and will last as
long as it takes to complete the
nine championship bouts which
are on schedule.
The senior class apparently hit
on a popular idea in annuoncing
the junior tournament, judging
from the number of entries and
attendance. With very little pub-
licity or promotion the tourna-
ment has attracted fighters and
fans from throughout the county.
The Kiwanis club is cooperating
with the sponsors of the tourna-
ment. The junior tournament will
be excellent training for boxers
who will enter the regular Kiwan-
is tournament later, in the opinion
tournament later, in the opinion
of club members.
Gold plated medals will be
awarded winners of Friday
night's finals, it was announced
i>y the seniors. Admission prices
are 15c for students and 30c for
adults.
The junior boxers have been
classified with both weight and
age taken into consideration. As
a result there are some matches
which appear to duplicate in
weight, but this was necessary
in order to keep from matching
boys against opponents out of
their age class.
The following eighteen boys
have reached the finals and will
slug it out for championships Fri-
day night:
Jarvis iFernell of Gallation vs
Albert Bossont of J ck *nrille!
Donald Woodarci vs James .far-
ed, both of Rusk;
Darwin Ferrell of Gallatin vs
Bill Russell of Rusk;
Fred Henderson of Gallatin vs
Bill Speake of Rusk;
Jerry Russell vs Earl Selmon,
both of Rusk;'
Jimmy Pipins of Gallatin vs
Tommy McFadden of Jacksonville
John Taylor of Dialvdlle vs
Ikey Frazer of Rusk;
Jimmy Ramey of Reklaw vs
Gilbert Fitzgerald of Rusk;
Ronnie Frazer vs Edwin Eg-
bert, both of Rusk.
NACOGDOCHES COUNTY
SINGING CONVENTION
The Nacogdoches County Sing-
ing Convention will be held at
Cushing, 20 miles northwest of
Nacogdoches, Saturday night and
Sunday, April 17 and 18.
Everyone is urged to attend.
It is hoped to make it one of the
largest and best ever held, says
Vernis Fulmer, president.
REV. S. L. CULWELL
RUSK VISITOR WEDNESDAY
The Rev. S. L. Culwell, former
pastor of the local First Metho-
dist Church, was a visitor in Rusk
Wednesday.
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GLEN JOHNSON, Minister of
Music of the First Methodist
Chruch of Dallas, was the guest
speaker following the regular Ki-
wanis luncheon Tuesday noon at
Smith's cafe. He discussed world
and religious problems. Follow-
ing his address he favored the
club with two musical numbers.
Final Report On
TB Tests Given
The final report on the Tuber-
culosis Xray survey completed in
Cherokee county a few weeks ago
shows that of the 2,810 xrayed a
total of 2,731 showed negative.
Thirty-seven were given tubercu-
losis classification and advised to
have further examinations.
Thirty-six non-tuberculosis path-
ology cases were detected. These
were mostly cardiacs. Owing to
various causes, three were no-
film reports.
Red Cross Checks
Come In Slowly
Contributions to the Red Cross
were coming in slowly this week
following mailing out of letters
recently.
The campaign got off to a late
start here because no local chair-
man was appointed. The Red
Cross is asking that all contribu-
tions ibe mailed to Miss Dorothy
Long.
Corn And Livestock
Market Is Weaker
Corn and livestock showed
lower trends as most other south-
west farm products sold steady
to strong during the past week,
according to the Production and
Marketing Administration, U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
iLast week's steady to weaker
trends continued Monday at
southwest cattel markets. Stocker
and feeder cattle enjoyed re-
latively better demand than
slaughter classes, and often
brought higher prices. Medium
and good stocker calves brought
$21 to $25 at iHouston, $24 to
$26.50 at San Antonio, and $21
to $26 at Fort Worth, while choice
lots sold to $30 at Denver. Okla-
homa City bought common ar.d
medium stocker yearlings and
calves at $17 to $23.
All hog classes suffered net
losses of largely $1 to $1.50 a
hundred pounds for the week. Top
butcher hogs brought $20 at S'an
Antonio Monday, $21 at Fort
Worth, and $21.25 at Oklahoma
City. Wichita bought good and
choice medium weights from
$20.25 to- $20.75, while Kansas
City paid $20 to $21, and Denver
bid $20.50
Slightly greater sheep numbers
at southwest markets brought
generally steady to 50 cents lower
prices the past week. Monday
found lambs weak at Fort Worth,
with a $22 top on choice spring
lambs. Oklahoma City paid to
$22.50. Denver paid $21 for
medium and good truck-ins. San
Antonio paid to $8.50 for common
and medium goats.
Vegetables were getting scarce
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
the past week. Good cabbage
brought growers $60 a ton, ar.d
carrots were unsettled. Beets and
parsley still moved freely, but
many growers started planting
cotton in the fields. Citrus fruits
continued very weak in dull mar-
kets. Spinach season neared a
close. Strawberry prospects in
Louisiana appear good, but sweet
potatoes remained slow.
Egg and poultry markets re-
mained firm, and some strength-
ened slightly, in the week after
Easter. Dallas and Denver paid
38 to 39 cents a dozen Monday
for current egg receipts, while
Fort Worth gave 40 to 41 cents.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area took
heavy hens largely from 27 to 28
cents a pound, and fryers 38 to 40.
Rice planting started in Texas
and Louisiana last week, and
Arkansas had considerable ground
ready for planting. Alfalfa hay
found active demand at fully
steady prices, but prairie hay
markets continued draggy. Light
peanut offerings sold about un-
changed. Southwest wools re-
mained in good demand.
Corn registered net losses of
one to six cents a bushel, while
other grains showed gains of one
to five cents for the week. No. 1
ordinary hard wheat closed Mon-
day around $2.59 in bulk carlots
at Texas common points. No. 2
white corn sold around $2.90, and
oats $1.42 to $1.45. Milo brought
$3.88 to 3.93 a hundred.
Cotton climbed almost $5 a bale
in the week's trade. Spot middl-
ing 16-16 inch closed Monday at
36.10 cents a pound at Dallas.
Robert L Banks
To Head Lions
Club Next Year
Flyweight Fists
Fly Furiously
Furnishing Fun
Robert L. Banks was elected
president of the Rusk Lions club
following the regular noon lunch-
eon Thursday noon. iHe will take
over July 1, club members said.
ROBERT L. BANKS
year was held early this year be-
cause it was considered advisable
to have them designated prior to
the convention which will be held
in Jacksonville later this month,
club members explained.
Other officers elected are O.
The election of officers for next
M. Walker, First Vice President;
Dr. Chas. M. Pearce, Second Vice
President; Rayland Spivey, Third
Vice President; Morris Elliott,
Secretary-Treasurer and Glad-
stone Thompson, Tail Twister.
Directors elected to serve two
years are Alfred Elliott and W.
W. Courtney. Hold-over directors
ade O. D. Blankenship and B. R.
Bixler.
Fir:al Figures Show
Big Cotton Increase
/Preliminary figures show the
1947 cotton production in Chero-
kee County as 1896 running bales
as compared with 842 bales gin-
ned in 1946, Ray L. Miller, Dallas
Regional Director of the Depart-
ment of Commerce Field Service
has announced. The figures were
compiled by the> Census Bureau
of the Department of Commerce
and final statistics will be re-
leased later, Mr. Miller stated.
The 1947 cotton production in
Texas was 3,306,882 running bales
as compared with 1,635,178 bales
ginned in 1946. Lubbock County
produced 180,935 bales which was
more than three times the
county's 1946 production. *
The Census figures revealed
that Lamb county was in second
place in 1947 with 115,162 bales.
In, third place was Cameron
County with 111,188 bales com-
pared with 87,734 bales in 1946.
Reports also show there were
1,896 bales of cotton ginned in
Cherokee county from the crop
of 1947 as compared with 842
bales from the crop of 1946, ac-
cording to Clyde C. Tidwell, Spe-
cial Agent.
TRI-STATE SINGING
The twelfth annual program
of the Tri-State Singing Conven-
tion will be held at the Municipal
Auditorium in Shreveport, Satur-
day and Sunday, April 24 and 25.
The Convention will open with an
afternoon program on Saturday,
followed (by another Saturday
night and an all day meeting Sun-
day. Hoyd Gilbert of Dayton,
Texas, President of the Conven-
tion, who will preside, has exr
pressed the hope that this years
attendance will be record break-
ing.
The Shreveport Chamber of
Commerce, as customary, is lend-
ing its co-operation to those ar-
ranging for this big annual event,
whose participants will include
many outstanding quartets and
other special groups.
MRS. R. J. SNELLING
Funeral services were held at
Livingston Thursday for Mrs. R.
J. Snelling, grandmother of John
Bloomfield of Rusk.
School To Be
Dismissed Friday
| Rusk, ialong with th*' othar
larger schools of this area, will
dismiss school Friday to permit
teachers to attend the State
Teachers Association's annual
meeting in Tyler, April 9 and 10.
All Rusk teachers plan to at-
tend.
Meeting Set To *
Plan Merchants
Association
Likely To Be
Organized Next
Monday Night
Some twenty-five or thirty
Rusk businessmen met last Thurs-
day for a discussion of the pos-
sibilities of organizing an active
Retail Merchants Association and
it was decided to meet again next
Monday night at seven-thirty for
further discussion and planning
of the organization.
A large number have indicated
they will be pressent for the Mon-
day night meeting which will be
held at Smith's cafe. It is con-
sidered probable that definite
steps will be taken at that time
to complete the organization.
GRAND JURORS SELECTED
List of persons selected by the
J'try Commissioners of the Dist-
rict Court of Cherokee County,
Texas, at the January Term, 1948,
thereof to serve as Grand Jurors
at the April Term, 1948, of the
said District Court, to-wit:
W. C. Albritton, J'ville, Texas,
A. E. Danheim, Alto, W. M. Vin-
ing, Rusk, L. B. Goleman, Turney;
Zack Taylor, Rt 1, Ponta; Blan-
ton Brunt, Alto; Wayne Goodson,
J'ville; N. A. Crawford, May-
delle;
R. E. Barron, Troup, Texas;
H. H. Douglas, J'ville; J. L. Du-
bose, Wells; Jewel Gunter, Rusk;
W. H. Blackwell. Dialville; M. E.
Liles, Rt 1, Ponta; E. S. Hudnall,
Rusk; Joe Strickland, Reese.
The above and foregoing named
men have been notified to report
to the District Court Room on
April 19th at 9:00 o'clock A. M.
the same being the time, date and
place our April Term of District
Court will open.
Governor Jester
Inspects Hospital
Here Wednesday
Talks With Patients
Checks Buildings
And Equipment
Governor Beauford Jester made
an unannounced visit to the Rusk
State Hospital Wednesday and
made a detailed inspection of the
buildings and equipment. The gov-
Blast Furnace Job
Is Making Progress
Construction work at the Rusk
blast furnace is making good pro*
gress, it is reported. The big
transformers which caused con-
siderable delay some months ago,
have arrived and are now on the
plant site.
The water tank atop the tower
constructed two years ago, is
nearing completion.
LIONESS CLUB MEETS
The tLioness Club, with Mrs. C.
E. Jay and Mrs. Frank Gillespie
as hostesses met Thursday noon
for a luncheon in the R\isk Hotel
fining room.
Misses Joann and Marilyn
Jackson furnished a musical pro-
gram.
A nominating committee was
BEAUFORD H. JESTER
ernor made his surprise visit as
a side trip from .Jacksonville
where attended the Diamond An-
niversary celebration of Lon Mor-
ris College. He was accompanied
by Mayor T. E. Acker, S. A. Nor-
man and S. A. Kerr, all of Jack-
sonville.
While here the governor visited
on ten of the thirty-four patient
vlirds, talking with many of the
patients and greeting each of
the attendants on duty in these
buildings. The ward visits were
made without special choice of pa-
tient types or classifications, and
thus he saw some of the cases
who need gene I \1 care chiefly,
along with some of the more dis-
turbed patients who are getting
special treatments including elec-
tric shock and insulin shock ther-
apy.
Governor Jester was keenly in-
terested in talking with the pa-
tients themselves and showed an
unusual interest in the medical
care being given in the hospital
as a whole. He and his party were
also shown through the recreation
hall and chapel buildings which
are used for both employees and
patients. He expressed a strong
desire to cooperate in every way
possible to help improve the gen-
eral care and treatment of the
mentally ill.
appointed. Twenty-four ladies at-
tended the luncheon.
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FAIRYLAND OF DOGWOOD—Visitors to T-exas X ogwood Trails
at Palestine drove through a beautiful forest preserve studded with
thousands of dogwood trees recently when the trails association
observed the tenth anniversary of the establishment of what Palestine
people call the "greatest free wildflower show in the southwest."
Two New Employees
On Cherokeean Staff
Howard and Ernest Dillard,
native East Texans from the
Joinerville community, joined the
Cherokeean staff over the week
end. They came to Rusk from
Dallas where they have been stu-
dents at the Southwest School of
Printing, and employees of a
commercial printing establish-
ment on the side.
Both are war veterans and both
are married and have small chil-
dren. •
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Swindall
left last week end for Waco where
Mr. Swindall has accepted a job
as editor and printer of a church
publicatioon. L. L. Alexander is
now employed at Abilene.
Methodist Church
Revival Continues
The revival at the Methodist
Church continues with good in-
terest being manifested. Good
crowds are attending.
The Reverend Walter Rabb Wil-
lis is doing the preaching and
Glen Johnson of Dallas, is direct-
ing the music.
There will be no services Sat-
day morning and night but the re-
vival will continue through next
Sunday night.
Cautions About
New Bug Killers
There are quite a few new
chemical insecticides... bug kil-
lers with big names... on the mar-
ket now, and gardeners, farmers
and other users of these insecti-
cides are cautioned against buy-
ing them and spraying the crops,
gardens and livestock just to
watch the bugs fall, says C. Metz
Heald, County Agent.
Insecticide users will find it
to their fullest advantage to get
all the information they can about
these sprays and dusts before
applying them to crops, livestock,
or wherever the little bugs are
causing da'mage.
Benzene hexachloride. . . com-
monly called BHC... has a musty
odor that hangs on for a lor.g
period of time. It should not be
used on foodstuffs or the edible
parts of treated crops. There is
the case of the potato growers
who plowed under BHC to con-
trol wireworms in the soil, and
found they had a large crop of
"musty" tasting potatoes at har-
vest time. BHC will also give an
"off flavor" to carrots, turnips,
and other root crops. If used on
fruit trees, the best time to apply
it is early in tho season when the
fruit is small. And there are even
cases of a bad taste in poultry
products when BHC was used for
a poultry pest control. So far BHC
is used mostly on cotton insects.
Some of the older insecticides
such as the arsenic and flouride
poisons... as will as DDT... have
been used by crop growers and
livestock men so much that these
people know how to apply it in
safe portions and what safety
measures should be taken. But
there is the list of new ones that
are not so well known. The fancy
names of these bug killers run
like this: chlordane, chlorinated
camphene,| tetifiethyl pyrophos-
phate .tetra-ethel-pyro- arid
parathion). These insecticides
ought not be sprayed or dusted
on fruits or leafy vegetables un-
less you are sure the residues can
be removed from the foods by
weathering, stripping or washing.
SARDIS LOSES TO ALTO
IN LAST SUNDAY GAME
The Sardis Cats lost a '.iard-
fought baseball g n« to Alto last
Sunday ibj a 5-4 score. However,
they report they will be ready for
Turney this Sunday.
The game will be played on the
Sardis diamond. The public is wel-
come at all games.
Record Breaking
Vote Cast In City
Election Tuesday
Musick, Hendrick,
And Schochler
Are Elected
Tuesday's election brought oat
the biggest vote in the history of
J Rusk, it is believed. The total
I votes east numbered 649, exceed-
I ing by three the number record-
I ed in the city election two years
! ago, when the i ecor of 646 turn-
| ed out to mark ballots.
! The vote was close with less
than a seventy-five in -gin be-
tween any of the cau.il ates. El-
ma iMusick Jr. and Lloyd Hen-
drick were reelected along with
J. H. Schochler, who v.\U be a.
new man-on the city counciL
Following is the unofficial coxint
on Tuesday's balloting:
E. B. Musick, Jr.
Lloyd Huidnck
J. H. Schochler
P. T. Butler
F. M. Stovall
P. B. Musslewhite
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W. A. (WILL) WAGGONER
Funeral services were held at
3:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
at Atoy Church for Will A. Wag-
goner, 66, who died in a Jackson-
ville hospital Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Bessie Copeland Morris of
Fort Worth was in charge of the
services. Burial was made in the
Atoy cemetery with Wallace Un-
dertakers in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mr. Waggoner was married
March 115, 1909 to Mary A. Steph-
enson, who survives him- He Is
also survived by four children,
Mrs. Winona Perry of Freeport;
Mrs. Juanita Maitland; and James
A. and John Billy Waggoner, all
of Rusk. He is also survived by
four grandchildren, Weldon and
Mary Ella Maitland and Carol Sue-
and Michael Perry. He is survhtr
ed by one sister, Mrs. Mollie Gun-
ter and one brother, G. B. Wag-
goner, both of Rusk.
Mr. Waggoner had been a mem-
ber of the Cumberland Presbyter-
ian Church some forty years and
until ill health prevented, was a
faithful attendant at its services
and took an active part in church
work. He was a member of Ma-
sonic Lodge No. 45. Masonic rites
were held at the cemetery.
Pallbearers were Otto Kinase
Geo. Monroe, L. K. Anderson, J.
R. Wesbbrook, Felton Banks, F.
L. Middleton, J. A. Lee and Al-
bert Kojack.
Since these insecticides are noft
so well known, the best idea is to
use the old stand-bys for killing
the insects... or find out the cor-
rect methods of using the new
ones and follow exactly the di-
rections givei:.
Heald says: "Read the labels
carefully and know what you are
buying."
JAMES ROYCE MONK
WRITES WINNING THEME
James Royce Monk was chosen
the winner of the soil conserva-
tion theme contest from Rusk
high school.
All English students wrote
themes and the faculty chose the
best one. It was sent in to be
judged among winners from other
high schools.
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PAUL B. COX, Jacksonville At-
torney, announced last week that
he will be a candidate for state
representative from this district.
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