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PRESENTING A PROGRAM on the Indian Mounds Nursery at Alto Feb. 2 at a meeting of the Cherokee Coun-
ty Heritage Association was AlStauder. From left are Edith Rose, who introduced the speaker; Mrs.
Stauder; the speaker; and John Ross, vice-president, who presided in the absence of President Ruby Lee
Stevens. staff photo
Nursery superintendent guest speaker
for Cherokee Heritage Association
Albert Stauder, superintendent
of the Indian Mounds Nursery was
guest speaker for the Monday
evening meeting of the Cherokee
County Heritage Association.
John Ross, vice-president,
presided in the absence of the
president, Ruby Lee Stevens.
Mable Horn, coordinator of the
spring tour, reported the tour to
Oklahoma and Missouri will leave
Wednesday, May 13 and return
Monday, May 18. Reservations
must be turned into her by the April
6 meeting.
Strauder, guest speaker for the
meeting, was introduced by Edith
Rose She said Strauder is a native
of New Orleans, La. He holds both a
bachelor and masters degrees from
the University of Louisiana.
Strauder came to the Indian Moun-
ds Nursery in April, 1985.
In opening, he said history of the
area dates back to 1000 A.D. with
the Caddoan Indians. In 1835, a
league of land from the state of
Texas was given to Peter E. Bean.
In 18<54, a Mr. Sanders bought the
land and this became one of East
Texas’ finest cotton plantations.
The land changed hands several
times. In 1880 John Boyd bought the
property. It later was purchased by
a Mr. Harris and it became the
Ferris Farm. In 1913 the property
was sold to George C. Davis, who
planted it in fruit trees.
Harris and Davis both used con-
vict labor to work the land.
In 1935, the mound excavation
work began at the “L shaped
mound.” This took about six mon-
ths.
The state of Texas purchased 73
acres from Davis for $35 per acre in
March, 1940. However, the state
could only pay $25 per acre and the
people in Alto put up the remainder
$830.
Plans for the nursery began in
1940. The nursery was first
operated by men from the CCC who
also built the older buildings on the
property. It was in 1942, when 1.1
million trees were produced on six
acres. During this time, the stale
made local movies and Indian
Mounds and Pines were produced
and opened in Alto on March 11,
1946.
Production increased and in 1953,
some 20 million pine seedlings were
produced there Half of that amount
went to the forest industry and the
rest to land owners.
To get seed, the state purchased
pine cones. Seeds were taken from
the cones and made ready to sow.
During 1956, the federal soil bank
program started and work began to
put croplands into tree seedlings.
The Texas Forest Service opened
another nursery in Jasper County in
1957. Some 65 million seedlings
were produced at the Alto and
Jasper sites.
Production dropped in 1963. In
1965, the federal program ended.
Under the direction of Bruce
Noble, father of forest
management, production at Alto
climbed back up to 26 million in
1972
Additional land was leased from
the Grogan family in 1975 and 25
million seedlings were produced. It
was at this time that the first
mechanical seed harvester was
purchased.
The 126 acres across the highway
Enrollment Climbs
for Spring at SFA
Final enrollment total is 11,322 for
the Spring semester at Stephen F.
Austin State University.
SFA Registrar Gene Barbin said
the total represents a slight
decrease of less than one percent or
90 students from the 11,412
enrollment of a year ago.
University officials feel that
enrollment is stabilizing after some
two years of decline, attributed
largely to higher tuition costs and a
faltering economy in Texas.
For example, the 1986 enrollment
total was down 313 students from
the 1985 spring total, dipping from
11,725 to 11,412. Last fall, the total
was down 363 students or 2.9 per-
cent from the 1985 fall enrollment.
The spring semester will end May
16 with commencement in the SFA
Coliseum. Final exams for the
semester are scheduled May 11 15.
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Choclate Cup Cakes
Sta Fresh Bread
This Week s Special:
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Lece**<i U $ Mwy 49 tu.k and Alto
were purchased in 1978 to allow for
crop rotation. In 1980, ar-
chaeological work began at the
mounds and the Parks and Wildlife
took 27 acres for the park. Another
27 acres were purchased for the
Forest Service.
Production dropped between 1980
and 1982. The state ceased to grow
seedlings for timber companies at
that time. In 1983 production
resumed with between 18 and 20
million seedlings produced.
The nursery is self supporting. All
seedlings stay in Texas, except in
the event there is a surplus. This
year, some 21 million seedlings
have been produced. About one
million of that amount will go out of
the state, the speaker said.
A question and answer session
followed Stauder’s talk.
Church sets service
to fete Rev. Wickware
A pastor appreciation observance
is set for 2:45 p.m. Sunday at the
Blunts Chapel Baptist Church in
honor of the Rev. James Wickware.
Special speaker for the event is
scheduled to be the Rev. Ike Wiley,
pastor of the Weeping Mary Baptist
Church at Alto and the Union Hill
Baptist Church, Alto.
Associate Pastor Keith Hassell of
Grace Fellowship Church at Rusk
will assume the senior pastor
position next week. At that time
Pastor Mike O’Bannion will step
down to the associate pastor
position to allow him more time to
devote to the area of evangelism.
Associate Pastor Vernon Hedge will
continue in his present position.
An ordination service for Pastor
Hassell is set for 7 p.m. Friday,
Feb. 20 at Grace Fellowship Chur-
ch. The public is invited, according
to the church staff.
Pastor O’Bannion made his an-
nouncement of the change in
leadership to the membership Feb.
1. He then repeated the announ-
cement on his Sunday morning
broadcast Feb. 8 over the facilities
of KTLU-KWRW and E-Z Vision
Cable Co.
O’Bannion says there are three
areas of ministry to fulfill the vision
of Grace Fellowship Church-
benevolence, restoration and
ministry to the church body. He
believes God has shown him these
three must be separate. Benevolen-
ces will be handled through the
Cherokee Crisis Center and the
church’s cooperation with the Rusk
Ministerial Alliance.
After prayer, O’Bannion says he
believes God showed him the vision
of the Solid Rock Ministries, a
program of nine weeks of extended
training for restoration in the lives
of drug addicts, alcoholics and
others whose lives need restoring.
This will be done in a debt free
facility. He will pursue private
business endeavors to provide fun-
ds for the construction of this
facility, as well as provide for the
needs of his family. He is to main-
tain an office in Jacksonville, but
will be available to Pastor Hassell
whenever needed. Pastor O’Ban-
nion will continue on the staff at
Grace Fellowship, continue to live
in Rusk and serve as a Care Group
Leader. He will also continue as the
speaker for the church’s radio-
television program at 9 a.m. each
Sunday.
O’Bannion will speak at the Sun-
day morning service. Hassell is
scheduled to speak for the Feb. 22
service.
Hassell is a graduate of Oral
Roberts University. After praying
for direction, he says God began to
direct him to the Rusk area. After
arriving in this area, he found that
Mike O’Bannion had had the same
vision that God was bringing
revival to the Rusk area.
O’Bannion says the church
ministry is still intact, “We are
simply changing roles,” He says
the apoetollc office is intact, as he
and Hassell shared the same
apostolic calling to Grace
Fellowship. Both ministers express
appreciation for the spirit of unity
between the three pastors, O’Ban-
nion, Hassell and Hedge, as well as
the membership of the church.
Hassell says after arriving in the
area, he and O’Bannion began to
pray for direction for revival in the
area. In December of 1965, Grace
Fellowship was born. Since that
time, they have begun to build a
foundation for leadership and
teaching. In November of last year,
prayer at the church became inten-
sified. It was time to put movement
to the machinery God had given
them. It also seemed evident that
they were to reconstruct the
ministry at Grace Fellowship. Both
say they believe God spoke to them
individually that a restoration
ministry to broken people’s lives
should be a specialized area of
ministry.
O’Bannion says he believes he is
to lead this restoration ministry.
The church pastors agree that
Hassell is the one to take the senior
pastor’s office.
Hassell says “I am excited about
the possibilities that lay ahead. I
believe that God will fulfill his
promise of revival and bring unity
to the body of Christ in our area.
God is not through with East Texas.
“He is in the process of answering
prayers of many of Christians who
have lived before us and carried out
intercession for revival in our area.
I believe God’s call on my life is a
result of those prayers. There is a
lot of work to be done. More foun-
dation must be laid, more people
taught, more machinery developed
and more prayers prayed.
”It won’t be the work of one man
or two or three, but the efforts of
people, who will humble themselves
and pray and seek God’s face and
turn from their wicked ways. It will
involve repentance from the leaders
down to the common lay people. I
desire that the pastors,
businessmen, politicians and other
leaders in the area recognize the
need for a move of God to spare our
area from coming tragedy. God has
promised and our prayer should be
in the ‘midst of wrath God will
remember mercy,’ (Habakkuk
3:2). I share in the vision of Grace
Fellowship and am committed to
see God bring revival to our people.
“Since my roots are here, I feel a
special grief for the spiritual con-
dition of its people. I believe the
vision of revival is for this
time. How fast it is fulfilled will
become a matter of the prayers of
God’s people and the piercing of the
conscience. I look forward to being
a part of God’s work in this area
and working with others who have
the same heart.”
New phone number
is given SFA campus
The SFA Box Office has a new in-
formation line number. The new
number is 568-1083.
This number will provide a
recorded message about upcoming
events on the SFA campus. In ad-
dition, another phone number is
provided for those who need any
further information.
"There is nothing harder than the
softness of indifference."
Juan Montalvo
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The Alto Herald and The Wells News 'N Views (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1987, newspaper, February 12, 1987; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1146368/m1/4/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.