The Rusk Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1954 Page: 4 of 16
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The Rusk Cherokeean, Rusk, Texas
JUNE 3, 1954
"WT jkj 1 tract to purchase a considerable
(JPPCr Necnes- amount of water, either from a
* * „ ... , Mud Creek project, or from a
(Continued from I'age 1) project on the Neches River prop-
Lake Tyler is ¿coated on Prairie or However this same report of
Creek- fork of Mud Creek, and May 26 from Brown & Root states
Tyler's proposed new lake will be that the Lower Neches Valley Au-
located on the East Fork of Mud 'hority now has under considera-
Creek ,'on 'ts own lower river storage
The Lower Neches Valley Auth-' projects, and that their recent
ority, the McGee Bend Associat- P^hm.nary studies indicate that
ion and others have for many the* can develop an adequate
years attempted to build a very ¡ source at less cost from their own
large reservoir on the Angelina Pu,Ject-
Jliver just north of its confluence ; a consequence of losing both
■with the Neches River proper. Hf these markets suddenly, we are
More recently the Lufkin-Nacog- now faced with the necessity for
doches Association has been at- ¡ financing whatever surface supply
tempting to form a Water Dist- °f water may be built by this Au-
rict, with the thought of building ¡ thority on either Mud Creek, the
'"Lake Ponta", with a dam on the Neches River, or elsewhere, by our
Angelina a few miles southwest own efforts, and by the sale of
of Sacul. This project as proposed jwater to local users. This recent,
•would impoundi 810.000 acre-feet j sudden turn of events in refer-
of water, and would cover an area :°nce to water markets has made
-extending a good many miles , ft necessary to revise all of our
Jiorthward on Mud Creek, Str^jcer ■ thinking.
Creek, and Shawnee Creek. | In a previous article it was
•While there is no doubt but what; Pointed out that the discovery and
the water could bo so impounded,; development of the new Neches
the investment cost of this project .0'' added so greatly to the
¿promises to be high. A large num- \ cost °f a water project with a
ber of highway crossings are in- dam at Maydelle, that this loca-
volved, some lesser road cross- (tion could no longer be consider-
ings, and a 15-20 miles of rail- jed- In addition to its cheaper cost,
road would be affected. A good ¡ t'10 Blackburn Crossing site then
many dollars would need to be j became of still more interest,
spent just to relocate these obst-1 since it was entirely outside of
ructions; and the cost of building!the area where the oil field is in-
the project, the land, etc., would volved.
also be considerable. In addition to investigating the
The problem of financing such Blackburn Crossing site, north of
a project would appear to be form- 'the oil field, investigations were
idable. However, if smaller reser- , a'so made south of Maydelle.
voirs were built one at a time on ¡ The Authority is authorized un-
these various creeks, and below der the Act which allowed its cre-
on the Angelina, most of the cost ¡ation to acquire property and op-
of relocations could be avoided. ¡eratc anywhere within Anderson
Somewhat before "Lake Ponta" and Cherokee Counties. On t h e
was proposed, we had given con-;Neches River, the effective south-
sideration to the construction of,crn limit of this authority is,
a reservoir on Mud Creek in therefore, the Houston - Anderson
Cherokee County. When problems, County line, where it joins the
arose in regard to the rights to ]Neches River.
acquire land and to operate in ; A short distance north of this
counties other than Cherokee and line there is a satisfactory dam
Anderson, this Authority made a site, not far from Fastrill.
•detailed study of what could be '• A very large quantity of water
done on Mud Creek, where it is'could be impounded by a dam at
now authorized to acquire land'this location, but an estimate was
and operate. ¡made on a project whose capacity
A good dam site exists just would be about 400,000 acre-feet,
north of Ponta. The water shed ¡Good timber is growing on the
would justify the construction of slopes of the basin in this area,
a reservoir which would furnish The dam would be wider, and the
seventy-five million gallons per spillway would need to handle a
day on a firm basis; and the cost ; larger amount of flood waters. In
of such a project was found to be addition, pipe lines to both Pales-
approximately eight and a quar- tine and Jacksonville would be
ter million dollars, including three long. For these reasons, the cost
pipe lines. of such a project would be about
A lesser project, capable of | $13,700,000.00 — nearly one-third
furnishing sixty million gallons more expensive to build, operate
per day, with a dam at the same |and service, than at the Blackburn
site, would cost several million Crossing site, for the same amount
less. of water impounded.
From either of these reservoirs, | However, if a smaller dam were
pipelines to Jacksonville and Rusk built, in (he Neches River a few
would be relatively short — short- miles north of the Fastrill loca-
cr than if these cities were fur- tion. at a point just south of loni
nished water from (he Neches Ri- Creek, and near Adams Chape),
ver proper. a reservoir could be built which
However, a pipe line from such 'would store about 90,000 acre-
a reservoir to Palestine would be feet, and have a surface area of
long, although entirely possible to about ten thousand acres at spill-
use. way level. Such a reservoir would
In order to reduce the amount produce a firm yield of (50 million
of pipeline to Palestine, and to'gallons per day, with an estimat-
provide recreational facilities 'ed capital investment of approxi-
nearer to that city, another proj-'mately five million dollars, in-
ert was considered on I-Iurircane !eluding pipelines to the three ci-
Creek, east of Palestine; with the ties.
dam just west of the Neches Hi j While its firm yield of 60 mil
ver. Estimates were made of the lion gallons per day compares
cost and productivity of two sizes with a firm yield of 175 million
of projects on that Creek. While to 185 million gallons per day for
such costs were relatively high,the three larger projects eonsid-
per acre-foot impounded, a good : orod on the Neches River proper,
reservoir could be constructed at nevertheless its yield is an impor-
that location nevertheless. taut amount of water — sufficient
If a reservoir were constructed , to allow for a large industrial de-
on Mud Creek to serve Jackson- velopment in this area, as well as
ville and Rusk, and a second res- to serve our three cities. Since
ervoir built on Hurricane Creek down-river water markets are
to serve Palestine, With a combin- presently not available, a reser-
ed productivity of sixty million voir in this area would be basical-
gallons per day on a firm basis, lv for local use to service Palés-
the cost of (hese two projects, in- tine, Jacksonville and Rusk, and
eluding pipe lines to the three ci- adjacent areas.
ties, would be a little more than' The Upper Neches River Mun-
seven million dollars. icipal Water Authority has been
For some months it was believ- advised by Brown & Root, Inc.,
ed possible that a market for a that it is practicable to build a
large part of (he water from a 00,000 acre-foot reservoir on the
project on Mud Creek could be Neches River to supply present
found in the sale of such water to and potential domestic, industrial
downstream users. Until recently and agricultural needs of the ci-
it appeared that the sale of water ties of Palestine, Jacksonville and
to these consumers held the prom- Rusk, and Anderson and Cherokee
ise of financing such a project. Counties.
However, Brown and Root's "in- j a report summarizing the find-
terim report" to the Water Auth- ings of the Houston Engineering
ority states that it has been de- /Firm has been delivered to the
JLermined that complete treatment Authority which recommends
of the waters would be required building the dam opposite Adams
for some large users; and that the Chapel with the reservoir in the
consequent cost of water from section between the mouth of
such a reservoir, including the loni Creek and the Southern Pa-
transportation losses, treatment, cific Railroad crossing on the
and pipeline delivery to the Mill Neches River. This site lies south-
voir is estimated at $3,110,000.00,
and cost of pump and pipe lines
for delivering water to the cities
filtering plants estimated to be
$2,024,500.00.
The report which summarizes
six months of work by Brown &
Root advises that in their opin-
ion the Adams Chapel site is one
that can be recommended from
an economical standpoint within
been solved by Sheriff Brunt.
During his tenure of office, this
county has been completely free
of dope peddlers. He traveled to
Dallas and worked with authori-
ties there when they apprehended
a man for stealing narcotics from
the drug department at the Rusk
State Hospital.
In addition to a wonderful rec-
ord as Sheriff of Cherokee County,
the territorial limits of the Au- i this office has paid its own way
thority and stated that the invest-
igation showed that the project
would be basically for local water
use of the three communities. The
present use of the cities varies
between 5 million and 6 million
gallons per day. A supply of 60
million gallons is considered suf-
ficient for the future industrial
expansion of the three cities, and
a good water supply.
Mr. Norman told the Board that
once the water had been provided
the group can go out and bring
new industries to the area even
while the dam and reservoir were
being built.
Storage capacity is estimated to
be 90 thousand acre-feet and a
surface area of about ten thou-
sand acres at spillway level.
In addition to providing a much
needed water supply, would offer
extra recreational opportunities
to the counties.
for many years. Collections and
fines have paid for the operation
of this office.
The entire county is shocked
and will miss the valuable serv-
ices of Sheriff Brunt. The best
wishes of everyone go with
Sheriff Brunt and his family to
his new job with the Humble Oil
Co. in Houston.
under-estimate this tax. The col-
lectors clever and sly who com-
puted here, have gone far beyond
our power to add and subtract.
Our creditors will little note
nor long remember what we pay
here, but the Bureau of Internal
Revenue can never forget what
we report here. It is rather for us
to be dedicated to the great task
remaining before us . . . that from
these vanished dollars we take in-
creased devotion to the few re-
maining, that we here highly re-
solve that next year will not find
us in a higher income tax bracket.
—Cleveland, Tenn., Banner
RUSK LOCALS
Mrs. Carrol Swann and sons
left Thursday to spend the week-1 week,
end in Arkansas. Mrs. Swann's
aunt there is reported very ill.
Mrs. Swann's mother of Kilgore,
accompanied them.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Teat, and
son, former residents of this city,
are reported visiting here this
Texas is the largest state; Rhode
Island the smallest.
Nevada is the driest and least
populated state.
Sermon Topics
For Presbyterian
Church Given
"Abraham the Friend of God"
will be the subject for Sunday
morning worship at the First
Presbyterian Church, June 6th,
according to Pastor J. H. Free-
land.
Sunday night's sermon will be
Sheriff Brunt- entitled, "The Great Quest."
(Continued from Page 1) +. Re^ f¿ee1^ als.° cal.'S.
, .. Hon to the Wednesday night Fel-
in Gilmer and operating in the . . .
East Texas area. This case was
broken in Rusk.
Another interesting case that
the Sheriff solved was the Bran-
son murder case. The man mur-
dered his wife in Gladewater, and
dumped her body over here in the
Neches River. It took three days
to identify the body. Sheriff
Brunt broke the case, and turned
him over to Longview authorities
after learning that the murder
took place in their county.
The Maddox Murder Case is
one of the most weird cases the
Sheriff worked on. Roy Curtis
and his father cut off the head
of A. L. Maddox back in 1946.
Maddox was from a small town
near Mexia, and went to North
Dakota to work in the wheat har-
vest. While up in that part of the
country, he met Curtis and his
father. This pair decided to steal
the truck owned by Maddox so
they murdered him. They first
hit him over the head with a tire
tool, and loaded him in his truck
and took him to the river. Before
throwing the body in the river,
young Curtis took a razor and cut
off Maddox's head. Curtis and his
father continued working in the
wheat harvest, and later returned
to Alto. Sheriff Brunt and the
F. B. I. made the arrest.
Many, many more cases have
lowship Supper to be held at the
Church at 7:30 p.m.
"Not what we give, but what
we share,
For the gift without the giver
is bare;
Who gives himself with his
alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neigh-
bor, and Me."
—James Russell Lowell
Gettysburg Form
1040 Announced
ONE score and 17 years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this
nation a new tax, conceived in des-
peration and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are fair
game.
Now we are engaged in a neat
mass of calculations testing wheth-
er that taxpayer or any taxpeyer
so confused and so impoverished
can long endure. We are met on
Form 1040. We have come to dedi-
cate a large portion of our income
to a final resting place with those
men who here spent their lives
that they may spend our money.
It is altogether anguish and tor^
ture that we should do this. Bui
in the legal sense we cannot
evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot
Watson-Sosby Rites
Solemnized Friday
Evening:, May 28th
Miss Evelyn Watson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Coy Watson, and
Ray Sosby were married Friday
evening, 7:30 p.m., May 28th at
the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. A.
Griffin. Mr. Sosby is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Sosby of
Rusk.
The double ring ceremony was
read by Rev. Griffin, pastor of the
Rusk Assembly of God Church.
The bride chose a mauve linen
suit and black accessories.
Wedding guests were the
bride's parents, Mrs. J. A. Grif-
fin, Miss Maxine Henderson and
Mrs. Dicie Henderson.
Mrs. Sosby is employed at
Quinton's restaurant, and the
Igroom is employed at the Rusk
State Hospital.
Following t h e ceremony, the
newlyweds left for a short wed-
ding trip to Houston.
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CARD OF THANKS
The children of Mrs. Annie Ja-
cobs Taylor are deeply grateful
to the many friends who were so
thoughtful during the funeral
services and burial of our belov-
ed mother, and for the beautiful
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Until recently it was also under-
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II. It. Norman, engineer of
Brown and Root, said that it is
estimated that the dam can he
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500.00 and will yield a water sup-
ply of 60 million gallons per day
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The cost of the dam and reser-
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Whitehead, E. H. The Rusk Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1954, newspaper, June 3, 1954; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150027/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.