The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1961 Page: 1 of 20
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Rusk High School To Graduate Sixty Seniors In Commencement Exercises Friday Evening
Commencement exorcises for
sixty members of the 1961 Rusk
High School senior class wifl
be held Friday evening begin-
ning at 8.
Speaker for the exercises will
be l.)r. Robert McKibbcn, head
of the Education Department
of Stephen F. Austin State
College.
Round...
Town
with Roundabout
THE CHARLES CASTNERS
will probably go through at
least two Golden Wedding An-
niversary celebrations. The first
was Wednesday. The Doctor and
the Missus were surprised with
a party that day in recognition
of their 50th anniversary.
The program, to be held in
the high school auditorium, will
include addresses by Salutator-
ian Kathaleen Conrter, who
will speak on "A Senior's Re-
flections", and Valedictorian
Judy Duncan, speaking on
"Calm Moments in the Space
Age."
Special recognition of class
members will be made by High
School Principal M. R. Phil-
brick. After the main address,
Superintendent G. B. Chapman
will present diplomas.
Special music for the program
includes a duct by Judy Sales
and Buddy Feazeil and a solo
by Judy Sales.
Mrs. Don Cry sup will play
the processional. The invocation
will be by the Rev. Lonnie
Webb, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church, and the benedic-
tion by the Rev. W. H. Cheat-
ham, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church.
Ushers are Sandra Conner,
Mary Kate Guinn, Kenneth Mar-
tin, Chris von Doenhoff, Charles
Echols, Joyce Hudson, Judy
Sales and George White.
Graduates are: Hazel Bailes,
James Dan Ball, Judy Banks,
Rita Beckworth, Leonard Berry,
Holcomb Berry, Lynda Black,
David Black, Mike Boyctt, Wil-
liam Braswell, Hilda Byers,
Anita Cawthon, Kathaleen Con-
ner, Dan Cook, Patty Cotton,
Myra Curtis.
Also, Barbara Dossett, Judy
Duncan, Billie Mae Durrett,
Dean Fountain, Don Garner,
Elizabeth Gibson, Sarah Goff,
Malcome Hanson, Nancy llob
son, Billy Jack Hudson, Janis
Jones, Patricia Jordan, Burley
Kinsel, Jimmy Lee.
Also, Glenn Lloyd, Bobby
Long, Frederic Lunsford, Mary
Maitland, Judy (¡ail Mayes,
Charles Mitchell, K a I h ry n
Moore, Jessie Faye Morrow,
Glenda McElroy, Keith Mc-
knight, James Archie Norton,
Joanne Peterson, Jimmy Ramey,
Buddy Roye, Brent Smith.
Also, Wayne Spears, Johnny
Stover, Joyce Traylor, Mollie
Trotter, lironda Turney, Carl
Van Ordan, Raymond Vermil-
lion, Linda Sue Watson, Lois
Walker, Tomrnie Walker, Joe
Weaver, Betty Lou Wendeborne,
Charles Wilcox, Lonnie Wilcox,
Sonja Wilcox.
See Graduates'
Individual Photos
Page 1, Section 2
ACTUALLY, THEIR anniver-
sary is a little later, but they're
going to be on vacation at that
time so friends and co-workers
at the hospital arranged for an
early party.
BUSINESS HOLIDAY TUESDAY
IN RUSK
Memorial Day
Th(i ChcroliGGCLTl #10c Per c°py
TEXAS OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, ESTABLISHED AS THE PIONEER JULY 5, Í8K7
Serving The Greater Cherokee County Trade Area
VOLUME 113
J. PERRIN WILLIS, city
judge and Cherokeean contrib-
utor, finally got away to «oak
up a little Gulf Coast surf and
sunshine. He's been threaten-
ing to do that for several weeks
now but could never find
enough spare days in a row.
LESTER GOFF INTERPRETS
somé of the week's news. He
says that after the setback in
Cuba, U.S. forces pivoUd and
attacked Alabama.
JOHN DUKES AT PERRYS,
besides having an enlightening
story to tell, is merchandising
a limited quantity of alligators
this week. Roundabout came by
one at a bargain price. But John
thinks they may be good Fath-
er's Day items: something for
the man who has everything.
§
GASOLINE PRICE war is still
not over, it seems. Prices drop-
per drastically here in the past
several days in reaction to cuts
in neighboring cities.
MEMO:
Thursday, May 25
Lions Club, 12 noon, Youth
Center
Brownie Fly-Up and Birthday
ceremonies, 3:30 p.m., First
Baptist Church
Junior High Graduation, 7:30
p.m. ili School Auditorium
Psychiatric Nurse Technician
capping exercises, 7:30 RSII
chapel
Brotherhood meeting, First
Baptist Church, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 26
Final day of school, report
cards issued
Graduation, 8 p.m. in high
school auditorium.
Saturday, May 27
'Splash Day1 at Lions Club
pool. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Free ad
mission.
Sunday, May 28
Salem Homecoming at Church
Monday, May 29
5th Monday meeting, Federa-
tion of Church Women, First
Methodist, 3 p.m.
Monthly officers • teachers
meeting, First Baptist Church,
7 p.m.
Tuesday, May 30
Kiwanis Club, 12 noon, Texas
Cafe
Little League double header,
ft p m. Dickinson F ield, Yankees
vs Giants and Cardinals vs. In-
dians
Wednesday, May 31
Rot.ir Ctiit I" no i. it
if i
Mill
Ralph Gril'fin, radiation engineer, demonstrates radiation
detection assisted by Calvin Reigcl, State Health Depart-
ment regional representativa
LOCAL AGENT TRAINS
State Health Agents
Keep Eye on Radiation
The people who work with
radiation and the public at the
same time have learned to speak
in measured terms, a State De-
partment of Health engineer
said Tuesday.
Ralph O. Criffin, Jr., engineer
in the radiation branch of the
department's Division of Occup-
ational Health, said radiation
is generally not present in
amounts hazardous to humans
but the radiation scare has not
been completely dispelled.
I However, his division keeps
an eye on sources of radiation
and may soon conduct a state-
wide check of devises using
radio active materials. Charles
Barden is its director.
(¡riffin is in Rusk to instruct
Regional Engineer Calvin Reigel
in radiation detection. The two
will conduct a survey of Chero-
kee County X-ray devises, most-
ly in connection with Reigcl's
training. Griffin said.
Dental X-ray machines will be
checked especially, because of
a ref|iiest by the statp dental
association. X-rays, Griffin said,
are a weak source of radiation
and require only light shielding.
He pointed out that ionizing
radiation exists everywhere,
even in the human body In an
illustration for the Rusk Kiwa
nis Club Tuesday, Hfc used a
ceramic casserole dish cover to
•(how the common presence, in
tiny amounts, ot radiation.
The State Health Department
is consultant to tlic State anil
t 'h i ,i i<uv rnniciu .11 radio-
logical warfare, as well as chemi-
cal and biological warfare.
Griffin's branch is concerned
with radiation primarily as it
concerns occupational health.
Reigel's training will enable
him to copc with emergency sit-
uations that may arise in his
region involving radio active
materials.
20 PAGES
Daniel Signs
Bill Making
Rusk a City
Rusk this week officially
become a city.
Governor Price Daniel, in
a telegram to Mayor Morris
HasscH. slated that he had
sltfneiT hilo law Senate Bill
411.
The bill provided that the
Town of Rusk become offici-
al lj- the City of Rusk. It also
pertains to other cities which
it could conceivably apply.
The city was advjspd by a
fiscal ¿gent to ftaVfe the pre-
fix changed because it could j
possibly have an effect on j
bond sales. He said that as |
far as he knew Rusk was the
only city of comparable size
in Texas still called a town.
City Gets ROW
Deeds for Road
Thursday, May 25, 1961
THREE SECTIONS
NUMBER 49
Police Not Picking on
Youths, Chief Reto
VIEWS ON MAYDELLE EPISODE
Incidents,
Leave Wake of
46 Absentee
Ballots Cast
Forty • six absentee ballots
were issued by the County
The city has received about Clerk's office by deadline Tues-
day for the Senate run off race.
Clerk Lewis Banks said that
more than 40 of the ballots were
a half dozen right of way deeds
for the new road to connect the
Atoy Road with Farm to Mar
ket Road 753.
Thye will be turned over to
a representative of the city
who is to obtain signatures of
property owners.
cast.
The Saturday election is a
runoff between Interim Senator
William Blakley, a Democrat,
and Republican Candidate John
By GLENN BROWN
The kleig lights of adverse j
publicity have been cast on the ,
little community of Maydelle
the past several days. Combined
with other unexplained inci-
dents, the, "illumination," to
some residents, was unwelcome.
In the absence of complaints,
or criminal charges, a seeming-
ly piqued press conducted inde
pendent investigations of allcg
ed instances of break ins.
But the villain, one might
conclude, was law enforcement
terminology and not official
dereliction.
Dismay
Last Thursday's incidents, in
which two residents and an out
building were gone into, constí
tuted the second "series" re-
ported by newspapers,
The first article alleged a
"series of robberies", some of
which occurred months ago ami
which authorities said were
cleared up.
One Jacksonville press report,
by juxtaposition of two state
ments, suggested a situation in
which the under aged suspect
was in custody ol count.v ol'fi
See INCIDENTS I'age 7
To Front 7967 Marching Band of RHS
I Opening
Of Pool
Saturday
i Saturday is the big day at the
Rusk Lions Club Swimming
j Pool—big for the area young-
j sters who can enjoy a whole
day of free swimming—from 10
a.m. to 9 p.m.
According to Keith Kennedy,
pool chairman, the day has
been designated "Splash Day,"
officially launching the swim
:season.
After Saturday, pool hours
are to be from 1 to 9 p.m.
week-days and 1 to 7 p.m. Sun-
days.
All members of the Lions
Club now have season tickets
for sale at $10 per family for
the entire season.
Donnie Hell and John
; hn*« been hired as litegtiardr
f
\\
1W1KLEKS tor the 19<il Marching Band of Ituvk High
School were select d last week .oinoun.es U-i.n Tieriot,
director Chosen lui tin po&itmn <i mart twirhi .<> K«it
.In Tosti ithi.vc U ft * • Id e | (I ijn> n*n)«n tor a second vt • r
was Sherrell Botín ell, center Tv. irlers in addition to the so
two. in It-11 ti.iigl.i i iili'i . rt Susan Villi t Marvy Loft lams
Nichols,ni, St i-pita. 11 ■ i . iiiil fud> Namej,
Told of
Teenage
Version
"We're not picking on any
body," Kusk Police Chief Ho-
mer Smith told The Cherokeean
Wednesday when asked about
teen-age versions of late hour
incidents in the city.
He warned, however, that his
department will use every mea-
sure at its disposal to "put an
end to this rough stuff."
Smith rejected a suggestion
that iiis department is singling
out Ma.vdelle youths and said
there were actually only a few
from tti.it community involved
in incidents here.
lieeriminat ions followed an
occurrence here last Friday
m .lit when a Husk officer broke
up a crowd of Rusk and May-
del le youths at a Highway t>9
restaurant.
Newspaper statements attrib-
uted in Smith pointed out that
M.ivdellc boys were involved
¿.nd that tliev were "attempt-
ing to créate a disturbance."
One of the v out lis charged
Hill the cl f icer told htm to
leave town i.ir his own good
and in an encounter a short
t inte Lit i i p marked that May-
delle boy w tv not going to
tear up the town.
Smith .val Ik t no group has
been sin led out as a target.
Kverybod> is welcome as long
as lie comhiels himself accord-
inc. In the law.
Ili '-anl that Ni-lit officer
Kddif '¡i.inc discovered the
•rono last I i id.r ni hi while
on patrol ai. l that he warned
them about unlawful assembly,
■inc., un. live or more persons.
lie said one of the gl'oup told
(¡rimes that ' there are 25 of
us ,md only one of you", Ac-
cording lo Smith, (¡runes then
staled. I ve got the difference."
.Smith s.iid (¡rimes called him
and he joined the patrol shortly
after.
(¡runes declined to discuss
the incident with The Chero-
keean He said an announce-
ment would have lo come from
I "hie f Smith He did reply, how-
ever. that he told the boys to
move on for tin good of all con-
< l i ned, a- I he denied threaten-
ing anyone.
' I would like to see It sett!(
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1961, newspaper, May 25, 1961; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150393/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.