The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1977 Page: 2 of 16
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PAGE TWO-THE CHEROKEEAN OF RUSK, TEXAS, THURSDAY. JUNE M. ltn
Fair Hearing??? Book Has Genealogical Information
The Rusk City Council foiled last
week to give notice in a regularly
called meeting to competing fac-
tions over the possibility of replac-
ing one utility in favor of another in
the newly-annexed park area. The
city fathers voted unanimously to
replace Cherokee County Electric
Co-operative Association with
Southwestern Electric Service Com-
pany.
As the story unfolds, two council-
men were dissatisfied with the
rates charged by REA in the park
area and asked the other council-
men if, perhaps, SESCO wouldn't
give them a fairer rate.
Unfortunately, neither George
Dodd, Rusk SESCO manager, who
was in attendance during the early
part of the meeting but missed the
changeover discussion and vote, nor
Fred Buchanan, Cherokee County
REA manager, were informed of the
prospect of their being on the
agenda.
As is the case on many items on
the council's ogendo, the utilities'
discussion came under an all-
encompassing heoding which, in this
cose, was item "13. Parks." In the
past, the Porks Board generally fell
under "Parks," but not this time.
A foir hearing was not given REA
on the matter nor SESCO as to
whether they could legally occept
the park orea. Remember the Texas
Public Utilities Commission (PUC)
must rule on all utility changes and
this case is no exception.
The city council appears to have
voted before giving the two utility
companies a chance to speak on the
matter. REA should have at least
been given the chance to defend
their rates before the council.
In the future, the council should
be specific as to what they are to
discuss at a council meeting.
All-encompassing agenda items may
help to avoid confrontations with
disagreeable spectators but it's
totally unfair to the people of Rusk
and, especially, those parties af-
fected by the vote. mdk
Carolyn Ericson
1614 redbud street
nacogdoches. texas 75061
A new book which gives
excel]eht information on
the War of 1812 records is
Rapides Parish Pensioners
In The War of 1812 by
Charles E. Raymond. Jr.
This book contains the
Rapides Roster as well as
the applications for pen-
tions. It has 134 pages,
off-set printing, soft-cover,
with a full name index.
Wolf! Fire! Wolf!
According to the old fable, the
little boy who cried, "wolf," once
too often was actually devoured by
one as he screamed, "wolf, wolf,"
and nobody paid him heed.
Rusk is also having that problem.
Instead of "wolf," the cry is "Fire"
and local firemen are hesitating
before they respond to fires in
certain parts of town, according to
J. D. Norton, city utilities director.
During Town Meeting '77, some
Ruskites complained about the lack
of response from the Rusk Fire
Department to fires in their section
of town. As alwoys, there are two
sides to every coin and this one
turned out to be false calls about
fires from youngsters thinking it
humorous t(f "tfr up men and
equipment at mythical fires.
One youngster called and left his
telephone off the hook tying up the
fire call line for hours, according to
Norton. Just last week the RFD
responded to a false fire report in
the same general area.
Children should be made aware of
the impact of their "wolf" cry.
First, volunteer firemen risk their
lives each time they rush pell mell
to the scene of a fire.
Second, an honest to goodness
fire call could come in requiring the
firemen to be all the way on the
other side of town. Precious lost
minutes could result in a family
losing their home or, worse, their
lives.
And, third, firemen might hesi-
tate to respond to a fire in a
location that is known to cry,
"wolf," once too often.
Adult guidance and supervision
will rid Rusk of the "wolf-caller".
Youngsters should be clued in as to
the danger they pose to themselves
and to their neighbors. Let's make
Rusk a fire-safe place to live in all
sections of town. mdk
July 4th, 1977
July 4th, 1977, will be upon us
Monday and it's curious to see how
each and everyone of us respond to
such a day.
Last July 4th marked the Bicen-
tennial Celebration of 200 years as
a nation and it was, well, something
special. What about 201 years as a
nation? The figure '201' has an
odd-number ring to it.
We Americans, tend to celebrate
in 25-,50-and 100-year spans. Al-
ready newcasters have referred to
the "Tricentennial" and the burial
of time capsules has prepared our
future generations for this strange
time period in history.
But, getting back to July 4th,
1977, how do we perceive it? It's a
holiday, Texans will be allowed to
purchase and legally pop firecrack-
ers, the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and American Legion organizations
will be proudly waving their flags...
but what about the 'average'
American? How does he perceive
July 4th?
Strains have been put on the
'average' American in his trust in
the men who run the government.
Political pay-offs for "friendly
legislation" paid out of the pockets
of Koreans; Watergate revelations;
sex scandals in Congress; and illegal
governmtm surveillance and break-
ins tend to add to the credibility
problem tht 'average' American has
in his govtrftfpnt,
tut, stop, ond consider through
all the shame, graft and Immoral
activities, two documents stond toll
and untouched above it oil.
These applications con-
tain a wide variation of
genealogical information,
ranging from personal de-
positions of age, birth,
marriage and residence to
statements by relatives
and friends concerning
marriage, death, length of
acquaintence, and other
pertinent data Each ap-
plication is also packed
with military sen-ice data
and historical accounts of
the war from a soldier's
viewpoint.
¿vAnv
Some of the surnames
tentioned in this volume
rare: Acosta, Adams, Allen,
on. Anderson, Apple-
gate. Arnold, Austin, Babb,
Bailey. Baker, Baldwin,
Barber, Barrett, Barrow,
Barton, Bass, Bell, Byrd,
Black, Bloodsworth,
Bogard, Bossier, Bowie,
Bradburn. Brewer. Brim-
berry, Brown. Caldwell,
Cannon. Carriere, Castro,
Chambers. Chaney, Clark,
Clayton, Cole, Corly, Cuny,
Deeson. Delouche. Der-
trom the
M
Lions Den
By E. B. Musick Jr.
Lett Thureday-Ladies
Night and Installation of
new officers for 1977-1978
Lions Club year. One Lion
was heard to say, after he
got away from his wife,
that his mother-in-law was
so cold-hearted, she had to
add antifreeze to her Pace-
maker.
Lion President Morris
Elliott of the noon club
called the meeting to order
and we were royally enter-
tained by Mrs. Marge Hun-
ter at the piano and Mrs.
Hapi Phillips singing love
songs. You can just see
Lion Raymond Cooper be-
gin to look younger and
younger. Lion Billy Watson
presented the awards and
Lion President Morris in-
troduced Lion W.D. Maul-
din, a former District
Governor, from Jackson-
ville as our speaker and
also did the chores of in-
stalling the new officers.
As always Lion Mauldin
was a very entertaining
speaker and the installa-
tion was in his usual good
form. It is always good to
have Lion Mauldin visit us.
The following were in-
stalled as officers of the
Rusk Lioness Club: Melba
Ballard, President; Mable
Huckaby, Vice-President;
Arlene McNair, Secretary-
Treasurer and Joy Slover
as Reporter.
For the Rusk Evening
Lions: Robbie Rushing.
President; Bob W'oodrill,
Vice-President; Lester
Hughes, Secretary; Dan
McNair, Tail Twister; Mac
Owens and Dan McNair
Directors and Elmer Starr
Lion Tamer.
For the Rusk Lion Club:
Frank Howell, President;
Ken Peloquin. 1st Vice-
President; Doyle Ras-
berry. 2nd Vice-President;
Dr. Archie Dalgleish, 3rd.
Vice-President: Manuel
Aguilar, Sec-Treasurer;
Thomas Huckaby, Lion
Tamer; George Todd as
Tail Twister-didn't know
we had anybody by this
name. We do have a
George Dodd but surely the
nominating committee
would never have put him
in this position.
Also, W.R. Lang, Asst.
Tail-Twister; Directors,
Raymond Cooper, L.J.
Leinback. Jack Fitts, Ed-
die Carlile, E.B. Musick,
Jr., Carvin King and Mor-
ris Elliott, Past President.
To Lion Morris Elliott we
will all say that you have
done your job as President
well and all have enjoyed
working with you.
Some time during all of
this Lion Tail Twister Ike
Daniel cut Lion President
elect Frank Howell's tie
off. Now this is something
that we just didn't think
would happen. But we are
rid of Lion Ike, thank good-
ness. Maybe Lion George
will have better manners.
They are alike in their
religion though--so we don't
know.
Lion Lewis Byers bought
the cut part of the tie from
Lion Ike for $10.00. Wonder
how much was given to
Lion Frank-after all it Was
his tie.
Lion George Dodd said
that Lion Ike made enough
off of tail twisting this year
to pay back what was taken
from him in the robbery of
his store. Also Lion George
said that he had a child that
had braces on his teeth and
he hopes to make enough
As the story goes, 52 delegates
adopted the Declaration of Indepen-
dence on July 4, 1776, and their
lives were literally put on the line
on July 6th when the local
newspaper in Philadelphia, Penn.,
the Pennsylvania Evening Post put
the story before the people.
As a newspaperman, this report-
er can imagine the chargin of
competing newspapers at being
scooped on the Declaration of
Independence by the Post! It also
took courage by the newspaper to
run such a rebellious document.
Out of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, 11 years later, came The
Constitution of the United States of
America. Between these two docu-
ments, these United States of ours
has lasted 201 years. Governments
have come and gone in that length
of time which shows the foresight
and flexibility of the documents our
forefathers bequeathed us.
So with this sense of history, the
"average" American should come
to realize that mere flesh and blood
will come and go, but the great
documents guiding this Nation-
Declaration of Independence and
The Constitution-will endure as
long as there are people who love
this country.
And that's something to think
about Monday when everything
seems to be going wrong as the fire
onts try to carry your picnic lunch
away. July 4th, 1977, is o special
dote...oven in on odd-numbered
mdk
Letter
• • •
Editor's Note: The fol-
lowing letter was sent to
the Tyler Morning Tele-
graph on June 3 expressing
a Jacksonville man's views
on Rep. E.H. Whitehead's
legislation which would
have put a youth center for
delinquents next door to
U.S. District Judge Wil-
liam Wayne Justice.
Dear Editor:
In response to a letter of
May 25. Contrary to that
letter writer's view, there
is great merit in the recent
Whitehead bill. It is a punc-
tuated warning to those
who have arrogantly used
non-elected offices to heap
indignities upon the heads
of many of us.
It tells such people loudly
and clearly that they are
not so deeply furred by the
protective devices of our
astoundingly undemocratic
federal judicial system
that they cannot be ulti-
mately reached by a wrath-
ful public which they have
abused.
Furthermore, this bill is
an expression of duly elec-
ted officials and is there-
fore the voice of represen-
tative democracy. If it is
distasteful to some, it must
be remembered that the
most immediate target of
this bill has very surely not
titillated the tastebuds of
many in the area with the
bulk of his decisions. Any-
one who disagrees with this
bill has the opportunity to
to the editor
this year to pay tor that.
Looks like we will have to
call the Attorney Generals
office in for the accounting
of funds. Or maybe Mr.
Bob Bullock of the State
Comptrollers office.
So it is we start a new
Lions Club year. We need
new members badly. Lion
Frank has his job cut out
for him and we know that
he will do a fine job.
At the end of the program
numbers were drawn by all
of the ladies and Lioness
Opal Fitts said that it was
selecting the person to
wash dishes, but it turned
out that it was for the
plants that were used to
decorate the tables, so
most of the Lioness left
happy.
A wife said she had tos-
sed and turned all night.
Husband said, "Maybe the
mattress isn't right for
you." She said, "It's a
Beauty-Rest." Replied
Hubby: "See?"
See You Thursday Noon
New Southern Motor Hotel.
bane, Doyle, Ellis, Finley,
Fisher, Fontenot, Falla-
gher, Gilbreath, Gonzales,
Gresham, Hall, Harris,
Hayes, Henderson, Hill,
Holloway, Hooper, Huff-
man, Jackson, James,
Johnson, Johnston, Keller,
Kelly, Kemp, Kimball,
Lewis, Long, Lord, Loving,
Martial, Martin, Martinez,
Also, Matthews, Max-
well, Mayes, McAtee,
McLaughlin, McMahan,
Meador, Merriwether,
Metcalf, Miller, Moore,
Morin, Neal, Neel, Neely,
Newell, Nugent, Ogden,
O'Neal, Osborn, Owens,
Parker, Patterson, Patton,
Paul, Pierce, Pennybaker,
Perkins, Pickett, Pool, Ra-
chal, Reed, Rickey, Ro-
berts), Robertson, Ross,
Roy, Rump, Russell,
Sache<z), Scott, Scroggs,
Sollers, Severn(s), Shac-
kalford, Sibley, Sills, Si-
monís), Simpson, Smith,
Sneed, Squires, Stephens,
Stockman, Stokes, Sul-
livan, Talbot, Taliaferro,
Tanner, Texada, Thomas,
Thompson, Tippet, Trent,
Underwood, Valentine,
Vincent, Wallas, Ward,
Weathersbee, Weaver,
Wells, White, Wiche, Wil-
burne, Williamson, Willis,
WiKDson, Winn, Wise,
Wood(s), Wrinkles,
Wright, Yaw, Weiser,
Young.
Order your copy today
from Polyanthos Inc., P.O.
Drawer 51359, New Or-
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It will be a very valuable
addition to your library.
Abstracted from The
Story of Beaumont by Flo-
rence Stratton:
"Beaumont was served
early in its history by mis-
sionaries and circuit ri-
ders. The Catholic mis-
sionaries were sent out
from Galveston, and the
first circuit for ministers
was called the Alligator
circuit.
"Riding from Nacog-
doches south to the coast,
east to the boundary line of
the state, and west as far as
the Trinity, Rev. Daniel
Morse, a native Tennes-
sean, in 1877 was named
Methodist minister for the
Alligator district. With so
boundless an area to cover,
Rev. Morse reached his
charges only once in three
months, and even then he
rode ceaselessly, in winter
on horseback over country
where in many instances
there were no roads, and in
summer with his wife in a
tow-horse rig specially fit-
ted for camping.
"Salaries were an uncer-
tain quantity for these
early ministers, and as he
threaded his way through
the marshes of the coastal
country, Rev. Morse's
thoughts were divided be-
tween things spiritual and
material, pondering on how
he might add to his income,
and not neglect the needs of
his parishioners. An alliga-
tor floating like a sodden
log in nearby water arres-
ted his attention, and sud-
denly he saw his problem
solved. Out came his gun,
and the alligator was killed
and skinned. Continuing on
his way, he killed a number
of the reptiles, carrying the
skins to the nearest pioneer
home, where they were
dried. On his return trip
through the section Rev.
Morse would collect the
¡jkins, take them to the
nearest market and trade
for supplies to carry to his
home in Nacogdoches. The
practice became a general
one with the ministers, and
the circuit was named the
Alligator circuit."
Abstracted from Early
Texas Birth Records 1838-
1878, Volume II (Rusk
County) John Henry Acsey,
2 October 1873; son of
Wesley & H. Acsey; Lillie
C. Adams, 20 April 1875.
Texas
Twister
by Dan Kellum
express is ire at the polls,
but those of us who
disagree with federal court
rulings have no such op-
tion. All we can do is try to
contain our anger which
you can bet, in some of us,
is building toward an ulti-
mate explosion point.
I must add this. Exceed-
ing thousands of American
families have been pro-
foundly and personally af-
fected by the merciless and
unrepentant decisions of
federal judges. They have
had to sell their homes at a
loss, disroot their lives and
undergo untold mental
anxiety because of these
"liberal" idealogues, who
obviously intend to make
the world over in their own
image without resorting to
the licit channels of the
democratic experiment. In
this bill, the able Mr.
Whitehead is simply sen-
ding some of this judge's
chickens home to roost in a
most democratic fashion.
If this man feels compelled
to sacrifice his home as a
result, he will be merely
following behind on the
same route as very, very
many he has seen before
him. Perhaps then he
might be better able to
understand the violence he
has done to that society ,
which he purports to serve.
R.W. Ryals
Route 2
Jacksonville
Here it is again, the 'tale'
end of another month with
July staring us in the face
tomorrow.
June's Klutz Awards go
to those deserving people
who have the tendency to
be at the wrong place at the
right time and can be fre-
quently seen falling up-
stairs instead of down.
Prepare yourself, here
are June's gems:
1. To all Rusk's Drivers
Education teachers who
must restrain themselves
from screaming, pulling at
their hair, grabbing the
steering wheel from far-
sighted A. J. Foyts or
drinking heavily on the job,
goes the Oh-No-Not-the-
Accelerator-the-Brake-the-
Brake Klutz Award.
And whoever has the
young person who looks
through the steering wheel
and not over and knocks
down parallel parking
poles getting in and gets
frustrated trying to get out
and drives between the
parallel parking pole and
the curb to escape the
predicament (really, this
all happened Monday)
good luck, teacher, and
don't forget your Turns or
Rolaids.
2. The Blinking Klutz
Award goes to Estee Laud-
er Cosmetics. Seems the
famous cosmetic company
recalled a number of its
eye cream products be-
cause of impurities which
could cause infections that
may lead to blindness.
The Canadian Health
Minister Marc Lalonde
noted the recall affected
the 30 milliliter-size Super
Rich Eye Creme bearing
the lot number CAB 6.
What next?
3. What is nectar to one
man may be poison to
The Cherokeean
'fot Old 1 Nt«tpap*< At ih« V i|)0
I
Knlrrrd « m'ond da * mailer al the pott office In Rutk. Texas 757*4
I'uhlUhed weekly on Thursday B,v K.ll. Whitehead Enterprises
«IN V Main Street. Rusk, Tesas, I'hone AC H44MMUST
Suhkvrlpllun Rales ray able In \dvanc«
Cherukee t'uunl) and Trad Vrra , SS per annum
mtltide l herwke* I'wunlv, H annum
another or something like
that. Well, a 23-year-old
Italian was inspired in
Athens, Greece, by the
Greek glorification of the
human body as displayed
by the naked ancient sta-
tues.
The Italian stripped
down to his Garden of Eden
attire, nuthin, and strolled
around the center of
Athens. The Athens police
didn't think much of his
nectar and promptly ar-
rested him for offending
public morals.
Actually, he should have
chained or handcuffed him-
self to a likewise statue and
asked the arresting officer
to haul them both in. Makes
you wonder, if perhaps, in
1977 Michaelangelo, the
greatest of all statue sculp-
tors, wouldn't have been
just another dirty old man.
4. To the Park Service
Rangers at Glacier Nation-
al Park in Montana who
finally got the bears off the
streets and back into the
woods...until they beauti-
fied the roads by planting
clover, a delicacy to bears.
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.
5. The Pew-Wee-You're-
Not-Quick-Enough Klutz
Award to Richard Van Gel-
der, curator of mammals
at the Museum of Natural
History of New York.
Now this is important
stuff--How do you pick up a
fully-stink qualified skunk
without it defuming you?
By the tail, natch.
Gelder got the idea from
a legend started in 1801 by
a Spanish nobleman in Ar-
gentina. Scientifically, it
flies. Research showed a
skunk has two nipples
through which he sprays
but the nipples must be
outside his body to spray
and he can't put them out if
his back feet are off the
ground.
If you feel lucky, try
It...but the Twister advises
you to take plenty of soap
and water and Right and
Left Guard along...Just in
cast it ain't your day.
6 To Holliiter, Labora
torisa o I Livtrmore, Calif.,
who lake* tht Biblical r*(
erenct "From dual to
dual" quite Itlerally
They pay M mli «
pound for household dust
sucked up in vacuum clean-
ers and recycle it in such a
way that they extract the
dust's protein and convert
it into medication that,
when injected, provides
temporary relief protection
from allergic reaction.
Now you know what to do
with the dirt from your
vacuum cleaner.
7. To those out-of-staters
who are making Texas out-
grow its quaintness.
If you've noticed more
"Standing Room Only" and
"No Vacancy" signs pop-
ping up, it's because the
Lone Star state grew by
250,000 residents between
July 1,1975 and July 1,1976,
Texas surpassed Florida
to rank second behind Cali-
fornia as the fastest grow-
ing state in the nation.
Now, if we could only put
all those people to work,
say like on a project in
Alaska.
8. To the Center for Sci-
ence in the Public Interest
for making a point before
the Federal Trade Com-
mission by presenting
them with a bag, full of
decayed teeth.
Their 'yucky' meaning
was that Americans by age
18 averaged 14 decayed,
missing or filled teeth.
Along with the bag was a
petition endorsed by 10,000
health professionals.
The petition asks the
FTC to require ads for food
to disclose the sugar con-
tent and to include a health
warning for those foods
normally eaten with a meal
which contain more than 10
per cent sugar. Wonder if
the Tooth Fairy counts de-
cayed teeth as redeem-
able?
9. To tennis star Jimmy
Connors for showing his
bad manners to the Royal
Family by snubbing them
during the opening cere-
monies at Wimbledon. The
young man wins the
Rattier Racquet Klutl
Award.
10. To the young man who
was ao bashful about ask-
ing hU girl to marry him,
he broached the question
by aaklng, "Jenny, how
would you like lo be buried
with my tolkat"
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