Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 164, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 11, 2013 Page: 3 of 16
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Cljerokeeaij Herald ■ thecherokeean.com
Wednesday, September 11,2013
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EDITORIAL BOARD MARIE WHITEHEAD TERRIE GONZALEZ
publisher editor
the Herald
Alto’s big bank robbery
Ht was March 1934. Bonnie
I and Clyde were terrorizing
I small-town banks around
I the state, but the pair had
not yet been mentioned in the
Alto Herald. Alto had its own
two gunmen to deal with.
As the editor of the Alto
Herald told the story, “It was
more than a thousand won-
ders that both of them were
not killed along with Messrs.
Rounsaville, Shattuck and
Earle, as there were more
than 50 shots fired within a minute’s time —
all but two in the wide open street.”
It seems the two robbers, who gave their
names as Leo Spencer and Fred McClure,
stole a car at Rusk on Sunday night, drove
it to Alto, hid it in the woods and slept in
it. Monday morning the car wouldn’t start.
They had to hand-crank it and buy a new
battery with their last five dollars. The bat-
tery cost $4.95.
They parked between the two banks
on Commerce Street, headed toward San
Antonio Street for a fast getaway. No one-
way streets in Alto then. Fred went in the
Continental State Bank to “case the joint”
pretending he wanted to cash a check.
Satisfied with what he saw, he returned
to the car to get Leo and their weapons,
unaware that a suspicious Gus Rounsaville
was watching his every move through the
side window of the bank. When they walked
into the bank brandishing their guns, Mr.
Rounsaville came out of the vault with his
shotgun. He fired at Spencer, but he had to
shoot high to keep from hitting Mr. Shat-
tuck.
The robbers turned and fled to their car
with Rounsaville and his
shotgun and Shattuck with
a .45 pistol following them.
Quite a gun battle ensued,
with one of McClure’s shots
going through the bank
window and hitting Will
McCuistion, a customer in
the bank. The bullet hit
McCuistion’s watch in his
watch pocket and did not
harm him.
Meanwhile, City Marshall
Cal Earle heard the commo-
tion, ran into his Shoe Shop, grabbed his
pistol and joined the fray. He emptied the
pistol, ran back to the shop and got a high-
powered rifle. Now the robbers and their
car were being attacked on two fronts.
“After about 40 shots had been fired, Mc-
Clure decided he could not win. He got one
foot on the running-board of the car when
one of Earle’s bullets got him.”
When he fell, his partner took off on
Highway 21 East. City Marshall Earle and
merchant Harvey Treadwell commandeered
the Brooks & Pearman wrecker and started
in pursuit. With the help of a flat tire on
the car and Treadwell’s pistol, they were
able to capture the surviving gunman and
turn him over to authorities.
Three weeks later, an update reported
that the names the robbers gave were both
fictitious. Apparently, Fred McClure is
a fairly common moniker. Both the Alto
Herald and the El Paso newspaper received
requests for copies of the story from readers
named Fred McClure. For a more complete
and much more colorful report of this event,
go to texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/
metapth214689/m 1/II.
VIRGINIA SINGLETARY
American
hough football is
“gorilla big” in Texas,
headlines splashed
atop sports pages her-
alding the 2013 season had
little to do with action on
the field — particularly the
collegiate and pro games.
Recent pro headlines
center on thousands of
retirees claiming major NFL
injuries. Imagine an NFL
scrooge - brows twitching
and eyes narrowing - raging,
“If those guys think they can
milk the NFL for millions,
they’d better get their heads
examined.”
The claimants did exactly
that. And they’re now in the
market for milking ma-
chines. All this in light of the
league’s agreement to make
things right, starting with a
distribution of $765 million
and more likely to come.
Quarterbacks are again in
sharp focus, but so far, most
“news” involves items other
than yards gained, passes
thrown or other exploits
associated with the QB posi-
tion. Tim Tebow, Heisman
Trophy winner who played
four years at the University
of Florida, endeared himself
to much of America with on-
the-field play and the kind of
humility worthy of emula-
DR. DON NEWBURY
newbury@speakerdoc.com
tion. At the pro level, though,
he has experienced limited
success. He has now been
traded or cut by three teams.
Head held high, Tebow has
expressed thanks for the
opportunities and moved on.
He continues to wear well
with most fans, and may
eventually make his mark
at some position other than
quarterback.
Perhaps too much is
expected of the current Heis-
man honoree, Johnny Man-
ziel. Oh, he’s getting plenty
of “pub,” albeit too much of it
for the wrong reasons.
With the honor going
to the winner at age 19 —
unprecedented in previous
Heisman balloting — he’s had
chances to wander from the
“straight and narrow” — at
every hand and every hour.
The Shakespearean quote
says much: ‘Uneasy lies the
head that wears the crown.”
My hunch is that Manziel
is marking days off the cal-
endar until NFL draft time.
I wish him and the Aggies
well, but fear the worst. Dis-
tractions poison and kill.
Interestingly, the NCAA
dragged its feet for weeks
before handing down a
one-half game suspension
to “Johnny Football” for
what was described as an
“inadvertent” transgression.
It took Coach Kevin Sumlin
only a few seconds to bench
him for almost one quarter
following what he viewed as
an “advertent” one.
It’s story time. A pitifully
poor football team wound
up with a 0-10 season. An
opposing coach, trying to
console the losing mentor,
confessed that the backs
“tipped their plays” through-
out the season. “We always
knew who was going to carry
the ball,” he claimed.
“How could you possibly
know that?” the beaten-down
coach questioned.
“It’s really simple — before
each snap, one of your backs
is as white as a sheet, and
the other three are giggling.”
TAXING I thouzhts
Review the 2013 rules on medical expenses and taxes
^^Hie 2010 law on health
I care reform included
I some changes on
I medical expenses and
taxes that go into effect
this year.
First, the amount that
you can contribute to a
health flexible spend-
ing account (FSA) is now
limited to $2,500 a year.
The limit will be adjusted
annually for inflation.
Next, there’s a change in
the threshold for deduct-
ing unreimbursed medical expenses.
For those under the age of 65, the prior
threshold was 7.5 percent of adjusted
gross income. Now only unreimbursed
medical expenses exceeding 10 percent of
a taxpayer’s adjusted gross income are de-
ductible. Taxpayers who are 65 and older
may continue to take an itemized deduc-
tion for medical expenses exceeding 7.5
percent of adjusted gross income through
the year 2016. The IRS issued “Seven
Important Tax Facts About Medical and
Dental Expenses” reminding taxpayers of
the rules governing deductibility of costs
not reimbursed by insurance.
Not only is the deduction for medical
and dental expenses limited by the 10
percent adjusted gross income threshold,
taxpayers must itemize deductions to ben-
efit. No expenses can be claimed where
the standard deduction is taken.
Qualifying expenses
include most medical and
dental costs paid for the
taxpayer and his or her
spouse and dependents.
Prescription drugs and
insulin qualify, and the
cost of medical, dental
and some long-term care
insurance also qualifies.
The cost of travel to obtain
medical care qualifies,
including the cost of public
transportation or an
ambulance, plus tolls and
parking fees. If a car is used for medical
travel, a standard mileage rate of 24 cents
a mile is deductible.
Since using funds from health savings
accounts or flexible spending arrange-
ments to pay for medical expenses is
usually tax-free, no deduction is allowed
for expenses paid with funds from these
plans. If you need details about the cur-
rent rules on deducting medical expenses,
contact our office.
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U|QU POINTS | fromReal
^Holks along El Camino
^LReal are still sweltering
in the heat and won-
dering if the water tap
has been turned off on us for
good. The temperatures con-
tinue to soar and things just
keep getting drier and drier.
Weather like this can take
the fun out of any activity
pretty quick. I hope you’ll be
reading your six bits worth
of news in the air condition-
ing in just the frame of mind
you need to be in for such
things.
We’ve had a rash of heart spells around
El Camino Real in the past few weeks, but
so far they’ve been getting folks patched up
and back on their way. Marcia Hassell had
a procedure on her heart last Thursday, but
was back directing the choir at the Method-
ist Church on Sunday. She was swinging
her arm and the choir was singing loud, so
I think she’ll be fine. Steve McCarty told
me that he was having some stents put in
on Tuesday, but you won’t get the paper
until Wednesday, so I guess its up to me
to try and pray him through this one. I’ll
let you know how I did in the next issue.
Andy Lindsey had a spell with his heart
last week also, but I think he is improving
at this time. One year it’s gall bladders,
the next year we’ll have a run of cancers, so
I guess this is the year for hearts. If next
year winds up being the year for hemor-
rhoids, I’m not writing a thing about it.
Please pray for the speedy recovery of all
our ailing friends.
The Alto Yellowjackets beat the Groveton
Indians on Thursday and Friday nights.
Being an avid Alto Yellowjacket fan, I must
say that it just doesn’t get any better than
this. Our junior varsity boys fought a hard
defensive battle to win by a score of 3-0.
On Friday night, all the boys were showing
out and they beat the Indians by a score of
47-27. The Groveton Indians have been our
arch-rivals for as long as I can remember,
so both victories were awfully sweet. The
Yellowjackets are going to have to be on
their best game this week when they travel
to Tenaha to do battle against the Tigers.
The Tigers are good, but the Yellowjack-
ets have the talent to bring home the win.
Hopefully, cool weather will be coming in a
few weeks and we won’t have to sit through
anymore football games in the sauna of an
East Texas September night.
I ran into Bob Grammer at the Pic-N-
Go on Saturday night and he still has his
arm in a big sling from his recent shoulder
surgery. Jay Anna made the mistake of
asking him about his new grandson and
he dang near messed up his good shoulder
trying to dig his cell phone out of his pocket
with his good arm to show us a picture. The
baby is just a couple of weeks old and he
has already written two books and can play
the piano. Yeah, right. One day I’ll have a
grandchild and I’ll show you some real pia-
no playing and book writing. They named
the baby Case after either the pocket knife
or the tractor or maybe both.
He is Bob’s first grandchild,
so I can see why he would be
so excited. He is the son of
Bob’s oldest son, Pryor and
Stevie (She’s a girl) Lyons.
They live in Douglass.
Good church piano play-
ers are hard to find and the
congregation at the Oakland
Baptist Church know how to
hold on to one. Inez John-
son just turned 98 years old
and she is still playing the
piano for the church. I’ve
heard her play with her daughter Marjorie
Adams at our church and they do make
beautiful music. It is truly a blessing for a
person to be blessed with such a wonderful
talent and be given so many years to share
it with others. Mrs. Johnson is an East
Texas treasure.
The Arnold Cemetery is having a cem-
etery workday and covered dish lunch on
Saturday, Sept. 28. The work will begin
between 8-9 a.m. and hopefully everything
will be all tidied up by noon. Cemetery
workdays are very important activities that
keep the resting places of our loved ones
looking nice. They also give us a sense of
pride in our community and allow us to
honor our dead long after they are gone.
Don’t forget to bring a covered dish and
some yard tools.
The first two weeks of September have
been dark days for East Texas folks for
many years. On Sept. 8, 1900, the Great
Galveston Hurricane hit our coast and
killed between six and ten thousand of our
fellow Texans. My Uncle Joe Summers
wrote in his diary near Rusk on that date
“the wind blew in gales today.” They had
no way of knowing what devastation was
being wreaked upon the Galveston area at
that time.
On Sept. 11, 2001, our entire nation was
forced into mourning as the twin towers
crumbled from a terrorist attack. Effects
from that attack are still being felt today.
On this very week in 2011 we were fight-
ing wildfires beyond our imagination as the
damaging effects of a prolonged drought
turned our area into a tinderbox followed
by an inferno. We weather our storms and
come back stronger. Galveston built the
seawall. Great strides have been taken to
guard against terrorism. And we learned
valuable lessons in fighting large fires and
the value of communities banding together.
I guess the only bright spot in this an-
niversary week of doom and gloom is the
fact that my wife of 30 years, Jay Anna,
was born on Sept. 10. Happy birthday to
the girl who stole my heart 38 years ago
and who has weathered all of the storms in
my life.
If I don’t know it, I can’t tell it, so if you
want the news spread about something
that is important to you or the other folks,
give me a call.
I’ll see ya next week! And remember,
Politeness is making company feel at
home when you wish they were.
CHRIS DAVIS
elcaminoreal@consolidated.net
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