The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1964 Page: 1 of 12
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10« Th¡s issue The Cherokeean
Th'XAS OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, ESTABLISHED AS THE PIONEER JULY 5, LU7
SERVING RUSK WITH
DISTINCTION FOR
117 Years
ENJOYED a short visit with
Dr. ( luirle* W. Castner, Supt, of
the Rusk State Hospital Wed-
nesday morning. The din-tor says
that not much is going on this :
week at the institution. "Just rou-
tine" was his comment.
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THE BUIMilQT HEARING is
slated next Tuesday, and Dr.
Castner, Itill I)ra|ier. Kusiness
Manager, and other officials will
present the budget re(|iiest to the
Legislative and Governor's bud-
get committees.
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RECEIVED A CARD from Mor-
ris Hassell and family from Roy-
al Gorge, Colorado last week . . .
The Hassells had been on a va-
cation. Tlie.y are home again, and
report a fine time.
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RECEIVED A NOTE from Mrs.
Roy E. Wallace, who is now liv-
ing in Elton, Washington. Told
us that another baby lias joined
their family ... a baby grand-
daughter. Jeanne Makoviney, the
former Jeanne Wallace, is their
daughter. Another granddaughter
landed in the hospital at the same
time. She fell off a horse, broke
six ribs, and punctured a lung.
Both girls are home now, and
everything is O.K. She says she
hopes to see all her friends in
Rusk this fall . . . Her note closed
by telling Roundabout to be good
to Mrs. Roundabout . . . Says she
enjoys Mrs. It's column, and
warned Roundabout not to fire
her . . .
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Two Women
Are Injured
In Collision
Two women received minor in-
juries Monday about 1 p.m. when
a pickup struck an automobile
from the rear near an entrance
to Rusk State Hospital.
Both drivers of the vehicles ."ere
taken to Rusk Memorial Hospi-
tal immediately after the acci-
dent. Mrs. Marie Bird we 11
of Route 2 Rusk was released
the same day. Mrs. Ida Muen-
nink, formerly of Dallas and
now residing in Rusk, received
abdominal injuries and a lip con-
tusion. She was released from the
hospital Tuesday but is still un-
der a doctor's care.
Mrs. Birdwell's husband was a
passenger in her car and Mrs.
Margie Bishop of Rusk was rid-
ing in Mrs. Muenmink's pickup.
Neither passenger was hurt.
Cribbs said he had issued
a ticket to Mrs. Muenmink for
following too closely.
Both vehicles were traveling
north on Highway 69. Mrs. Bird-
well was attempting to make a
left hand turn into the hospital
entrance when the pickup, driven
by Mrs. Muennink, crashed into
the rear of the car. Mrs. Bird-
well's car went about 150 feet up
the highway alter the crash, ac-
cording to Police Chief Grady
Cribbs.
VOLUME 117
RUSK LIONS
Rodeo
Date Is
Nearing
A rodeo atmosphere is begin-
ning to surround Rusk now. Signs
on the coúrthouse square, pen-
nants flying over the streets, and
bearded men are constant remind-
ers that the 16th Annual Rusk
Lions Club RCA World Champion-
ship Rodeo set for August 6-8 is
drawing closer.
Laurence Winfree of Orange
will lie the producer of this year's
rodeo and Danny Sheridan of
Iowa, Louisiana, will be the an-
nouncer.
Julius Bassilo's Cowboy Brass
Band will be one of the major
entertainment features scheduled
during the rodeo. The band will
play during the three nights of
rodeo performances.
A big parade will be one of the
highlights of rodeo festivities. The
parade will be in downtown Rusk
on Thursday, August 6. Starting
time for the parade is at 5 p.m.
and arrangements are now in
progress to make it one of the
biggest ever held in Rusk.
Ten boys will be competing for
five calves in a Dairy Calf Scram-
ble set for Friday night, August 7.
Each night a gate prize of $100
will be given away to some lucky
spectator. A Shetland pony and
gig will also be given away to
someone who gives a $1 donation
to the Lions Club.
Spectators will have plenty of
free parking for their automobiles
behind the rodeo arena.
On Thursday afternoon, August
6, a talent show will be held on
the courthouse lawn. Acts are be-
ing lined up now by the commit-
tee in charge. Dr. Charles Davis,
chairman, may be contacted by
those people who wish to enter
the contest. Persons in Alto may
see Mrs. Annie Fenner. Deadline
to register is Monday, Aug. 3rd.
The event is due to start at 2:30
p.m.
Admission to the rodeo will be
75 cents for children under 12
years of age and 51.50 for adults.
Shelby Hood and Pete Grimes
are co-chairmen of the event.
0
H. F. Stevens
Expires In
Hospital
Funeral seivices for Ml'. Har-
mon F. Stevens will be held Fri-
day at 10 a.m., First Methodist
Church, arrangements by Wallace
Funeral Home. Mr. Stevens
passed away around 10 a.m. Wed-
nesday in Nan Travis Hospital.
He became ill at his home, and
was rushed to the hospital short-
Domage to Mrs. Birdwell's auto- i ly before 8 Wednesday morning,
mobile was estimated at $1.000. I Mrs. Doris Stevens survives her
Mrs. Muennink's pickup received husband, also their son, John Har-
approximately $K0() in damages, per Stevens, both of Rusk.
RI SK, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JULY 23. 19M
12 PAGES
NUMBER fi
RSH Budget Hearing Set Tuesday
Federal Authorities Take Bank Robber
Carlisle
Tells Of
His Crime
At presstimc Wednesday a law
officer from Tyler and represen-
tative of the FBI look Joe W.
Carlisle into custody and trans-
ported him to a Tyler jail. Re-
ports say that Carlisle will ap-
pear before a Grand Jury in Ty-
ler.
By JOE W. CARLISLE
As Told to The Cherokecan's
News Editor, Don Buchanan
Joe W. Carlisle, aged 21, a
former resident of Rusk who had
been living in Louisiana, is being
held in the Cherokee County Jail
after being charged Saturday
morning with kidnapping and
armed robbery of the First State
Bank in Wells.
Police in two states and the
FBI sought Carlisle after he took
$15,404.95 from the bank Friday
about noon and forced a hostage
to accompany him across the
Texas border into Louifriana. Prior
to the robbery and afterwards as
he was fleeing to Louisiana, Car-
lisle took three hostages at gun
point and used them to assist In
tho robbery and his get-a-way.
Justice of the Peace, C. A. Por-
tis, has set bond for Carlisle at
$10,000 for armed robbery and
$5>000 for kidnapping.
The following account of the
events just preceding the rob-
bery and those which occurred
later was given by the youthful
bandit to The Cherokeean Tues-
day morning in Sheriff Allen Dot-
son's office.)
I made my plan.* Thursday
night in Rusk where I s|>ent
the night. 1 picked Wells because
it was a smaller town than Rusk
and because there aren't so many
law officers around.
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RODEO AWARD—Some lucky person will be presented the
above Shetland Pony and Gig on Saturday night at the final
performance of the loin annua' Rusk Lions Club RCA approved,
World's Championship Rodeo. Making a donation to the Club
• here is V. J. Long, which is being accepted by John Bill Slover,
FOR FALL SEASON
chairman uf Ihe projict. Other Lions in the plinto (miu left
James Blanion, Winford Black. M*tu shall l'Vear and Lion prest
ucnt Henry Wcsthiook 1'laving "wiig.nmiasier" he.« in Sieve
Slover, son of Chairman Slover.
Staff Photo
Coach Notes Football Prospects
Football practice begins for to be able to get on the same ry, Johnny Dotson, Mike
Rusk High School's Eagles in' field with this highly regarded over and Robert Kirk
less than a month, and interest
in the 1964 team is already keen. I
team,
in a
Reason-. lory In addition lo I In mtíiii
«¡W.vd. muge with Class AAA Palestine,
We'll leant a great deal strong desire to play football and , the team picked to * in ihe .tal"
short time," commented chances arc ;;ihk! they will prove championship, the Bird? play Van
Head Coach Doyle Brooks has.
Coach Brooks.
themselves
While Oak. San Augustine, and
< ¡ladevvalei. all picked to w ■ m dis-
trict championship.
Livingston and Cleveland are
I called a cab from Rusk about ' year's action. I were offensive starters. The enlire team will throw the ball moie named • favnto. I'l A A with
10:15 a.m. Friday. I was at Fall practice gets underway offensive line is gone via gradu- The Eagles face one of the touch lúisk expected t.. end op the •••.
Greenslade's Store about one and August 17 with two a day work-
worthy ol wearing
The Eagles will have 13 let- ,*M' hitter helmet that the Rag
been busy this summer, but still | termen fmm iHSt year How- ll'*s w>" wearing this year.
finds time to look over films of-ever, only three returning Eagles ¡ Coach Brooks says this year's
a fourth miles from Rusk, It out. The Eagles will scrimmage
only took about six mhut°s for the j Texas number 1 Class AAA team,
cab to get to the store. I just Palestine, August 27th.
ation with the lone exception of est schedules in th
Mike Sartain. Two baekfieldmen.
Bob Edwards and S'evt Swift
are veterans of last year's foot-
■on '0 lid place
stood around until i* arr-ed.
1 told the cab driver (Lee Me-
Creight) that we were going out
to the country to see one of my
friends. After we got down the:
road about three or four miles,
I pulled my pistol on him.
The pistol was a .22 that I Had
swiped front a fellow's (Roliert
Nolley) house that mornbv/ s'-mc
time around 10 o'clock.
The cab driver didn't say any
See ROBBERY, Page ti
•Wo feel that we're fortunate1 hall wars.
Defensive
<
regulars back are:
Larry Davis. John Reasonover,
Bob Edwards, Steve Swift and
Robert Holcomb.
Coach Brooks expects this ycai s
team to carry on the tradition of
"toughness" that has earned Rusk
the respect of all teams rn the
Eagle schedule.
Loltermcn returrrng are:
Danny Christopher 10a pound
halfback: Tony ll'iddleston, I >0
lb end; Mike Sartain, 2!50 lb. tack-
Star team Bob Parrot), David Don I'ledcer, lito lb. tackle;
Byrd, Tommy Richardson and Wallei Vei million, ISH lb con-
Jerry Poole, CARDINALS; Lee Allen Hood, H> II. end. Bob
Wallace and Billy Lankford, Edwards, I¡VI Ib quarto back
INDIAN'S; Rodney llassell and Steve Swift l'ü lb halfback: R'-
Paul Black BRAVES; Tom **'•'« Holcomb, IVI lb. mi; ' I Pai-
nty Dosser, Ncal Whitten and k,,r Stafford. 1.Ú lb guard;
Billy Don Garner, RED SOX,
Boys League
All Stars
Named Tues.
Coaches of the six Little
League baseball teams met
and chose the following young-
sters to comprise the KHV1 All
Billy Jones, Jimmie Carring-
ton. Donny Perry and Ronnie
Perry. (HANTS: Kenneth Con-
nolly and Bryan Case, YAN-
KEES
This group is slated to play
the Jacksonville All Sta s in a
two out of three scries, and
started this Wednesday, there,
7 Hi p.ni , new Jacksonville
Park Return match here it
Dickinson Field is Thuroday
at 7 10, and if Ihe third is
back to Jackson-
LITTLE LEAGUE CHAM IS Fhc Giants with
a 7-2 retool It i this season have t<ecn officially
preplanned wcaters >1 th* crown' The cham
pi 'itsjtp t« > ni pe turn) here is composed of:
front hm toft to ugit, Jimmy Whitehead.
*e< i c,i twuM Chuck Htntoo seísmo tv * * Jtnv
nt\ Ktdwitghi field Stwv* IMm, cenitr
hrU T *i \ K« Fir • ,b «Kart «M t-nwvird Jtcfc
v i. . to ; , ',1 It Marín i !#♦>' 'Whi •in,«vt
row standi;! , ttuiy Jone- >;■
i>, pitcher ami first baa*; Jit
third bane; Ronnie Perry p
luw1; Ham* Cuolkbvt'. left fieki.
<vnl#r field. *xtr*me left nw
lit St w Cry tup «sstsiatt no
JiMMM Not pit lu *tl
a fltuni *« i«l ml ntanagri
liccemun \
villi' Fnt
On a h
Ihe Rusk
Ih.s All '•
Uhth Th.
.lilt 1 fHMIH*
i will j4M> h
l«Min lhr/'f
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I)nl
lui>
John
Alexander, 110 lb guard; John
Reasonover, !1.~> lb. guard; and
Larry Davis 160 lb, center
Linebacker is on" of the big
questin marks "i 'he Ka-le de-
fensive line Coach Brooks "• 'II
defx-nd fui Mike Crvsup, 17H !b
junior to take up lots of the slack
Robert Holcornii will move from
his rfeferwive line position *o ltw-
backci Holts a rth a ill he "ailed
on to play both iflense and de-
fens '
Paikci Staffoid will rnw fto n
offensive Ivalttwe k to hrH>bii"k"'
Another voungsiet who wlM plav
lots of football this vea I is
Ro« lle i* defensive half'1" k R'*
1 III (XHltnls 'll1
hilt ^ tlMiiilh ^
m mtotinK hite s
pMind
State
Officials
Due Here
A *:t,iSfi.:tM budget for Rusk
State Hospital, the largest bud-
gel cccr askcsl by (lie institution
in its history, will l e discussed
ti> hospital administrators and
state officials nest Tuesday at a
meeting in Rusk
Dr Charles W Castner. Sup-
i illtendcnt of the Hospital, and
Bill Diaper, Business Manager
will explain tv> the state officials
the reasons for requesting this
amount of money and will tell
how this additional money will lie
spent to improve the Itaspita) and
enlarge its staff
Dr Castner I,)ra|ter and Hos-
pital accountants have been work-
ing on Ihe I'.HiTi iKi budget for sev-
eral months Preliminary meet-
ings with Central Office officials
have been completed.
Additional professional person-
nel and salary adjustments aro
included in provision in the bud-
get
It the state officials agree to
tile proposed budget foi RSII the
state legislature will vote on it
when they convene ue\t January.
The Hospital is sinking an ad-
ditional 22 employees and six doc
tors to keep the Hospital opertit*
i nig at its present standaids of
efficiency,
The budget calls for SLW.OOO
to be spent on improvements to
i Ihe water synlem serving Ihe
Hospital; KKW.IXXI for new iwldi-
! lions to the medical and surgical
' building; S!*),ono for a mainten-
ance shop; and $126.1X10 for ware-
i house facilities.
An out |mltent clinic i.s also re-
qtiesteii, Hospital officials say «'ost
of ihe clinic would amount to
HV.192.
The budget also iispiests three
*tafl residences at a out of
$60,(XX).
The institution is currently of -
eraling on a J.'t. 112 2,'W) annual
budget An increase of $364,084 is
lieing asked.
Capital Budget for the Hospital
is et at WlO.nuo The Capital
liudget is a sc|Nlrate request frtitil
the o)K'ruling budget
Pay mil foi the Hospitnl's 7tifl
employees is approximately $2 a
million a year now Husinosw Man-
agi-r. Bill l)ra|K'r, says that tlx*
institution now s¡h'i«1s apptoxl-
matéis $10,l*Xi |m-i day for operat-
ing and salary exjK'nMs
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1964, newspaper, July 23, 1964; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150558/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.