The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1977 Page: 14 of 14
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•1UE CHEROKEEAN OT RUSK. TEXA*. THURSDAY. NOVEMBERS. IOT
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** Roundabout.... •Continued from page 1
Tomorrow, meaning
"pretty soon," our area
will be presenting Its
annual faahlon on parade
by nature. An array of
colora In autumn'i climax
to a season of growth. A
burst of red, orange, yellow
and shades In between, to
compliment the green. A
final blase of beauty before
Nature takes Its winter
nap.
This ii one of the niceat
seasons for remembering.
Things like walking
through the woods and
hearing the leaves crackle
under your feet. Eating
huckleberries right off the
tree. Persimmons, too.
Gathering pecans. Cutting
wood for the fireplace.
Eating sweet potatoes
baked in it. And while
they cook, pass the time
chewing on freshly cut
sugarcane.
Memories are made In
the things we do. There Is
Joy in remembering where
you were when, and some
of the experiences are
worth doing again. What
you will become depends,
however, on where you are
this day. Have a good one!
Until next week? -mw
** Stop Light... • «Continued from page 1
First Place Award
"The Fun House" float took first place at the Rusk State Hospital Halloween Parade Monday afternoon. The float was built in one day
and was entered by the Occupational Therapy and Art Therapy Departments at the hospital. The participants on the float won $15 for
engineer, made the
announcement Tuesday by
saying, "Today we
received approval from the
Austin office on a stop and
go signal at the intersection
of U.S. 84 and Hill Street for
the protection of the school
crossing. This signal will
operate as a stop and go
signal in the morning and
afternoon for the school
crossing and the remainder
of the time it will flash
amber on U.S. 84 and red
on Hill Street.
"We also received
approval for the
installation of advanced
installed on the school :
crossings speed limit signs.
These installations will be
made as soon as necessary
agreements are signed
with the city and as soon as
material can be secured
and as time permits we will
have them installed."
first place prize money.
staff photo
District 21-AA New Alignment Set
District 21-AA athletics
will see three new schools
and lose one school next
season, according to a new
alignment set down by the
University Interscholastic
League in Austin.
Madisonville will leave
District 21-AA and be com-
peting in District 23-AA in
the '78-'79 season. Rusk,
Fairfield, Teague and
Palestine Westwood will
see three schools joining
the district-Corrigan-
Camden (Corrigan) and
Diboll from District 17-AA
and Crockett from 8-AAA.
The new alignment will
affect all sports for at least
two years.
Rusk ISD Superintendent
J.M. Boone noted that
schools aligned in the new
district met Oct. 26 in Croc-
kett to set new guidelines
and rules by which to par-
ticipate by next season.
Boone said the representa-
tives of the seven schools
had to reconcile the diffe-
rent rules from District
21-AA, 8-AAA and 17-AA.
One of the important
amendments was the
broadcasting of the dis-
trict's football games next
fall. Boone said that Croc-
kett, Westwood and Rusk
recommended live broad-
casts of the football games
while the other four schools
disagreed. The represen-
tatives of the schools voted
4-3 to leave it up to the
discretion of the individual
schools to allow the broad-
cast of the games.
All football teams will
play each other next season
while in basketball zone
competition will prevail in
order to avoid long expen-
sive road trips. In the West
Zone in basektball will be
Fairfield, Westwood and
Teague while the East Zone
will include Corrigan-
Camden, Crockett, Diboll
and Rusk. The varsity
teams will play each other
twice and then have a
play-off. No play-off will be
scheduled for the junior
high and junior varsity
teams as only zone cham-
pions will be declared.
The Corrigan-Camden
Bulldogs football team
presently have a 4-3-1 sea-
son record and was 0-10 in
'76; Diboll Lumberjacks
are presently 0-8 and were
5-4-1 in '76 (Rusk defeated
Diboll 36-0 earlier this sea-
son) ; and Crockett was 4-6
in '76.
The District 21-AA foot-
ball schedule worked out
for next season will be:
Oct. 6 Westwood at Rusk
Oct. 13 Rusk open
Oct. 20 Rusk at Teague
Oct. 27 Diboll at Rusk
Nov. 3 Rusk at Corrigan-
Camden
Nov. 10 Fairfield at Rusk
Nov. 17 Rusk at Crockett
Jack Darnell, Crockett
ISD superintendent, was
elected permanent chair-
man of the District 21-AA
Football Executive Com-
mittee. Boone noted that
football schedules for the
JV, 9th and 8th grades
would be made at a later
meeting as some of the
schools don't field 9th
grade teams.
flashing lights to be
** Homecoming.... •Continued from page 1
of the football game. The
Class of '48 will be feted at
a postgame reception in the
Fellowship Hall of the First
Baptist Church.
Homecoming events will
be kicked off by the 11 a.m.
Friday pep rally in the RHS
Gym. Pre-game activities
will begin at 6:45 p.m.
before the Rusk-Teague
football game. Tickets for
the game will be available
at the ticket office. General
admission will be $2.
All graduates of the Class
of '48 are urged to sign in at
a table near the main gate
at Musick Stadium. The
class members will be
given identification tags so
no one will overlook them
as special guests. The
Class of '48 will also be
directed to a special
section in the stadium
reserved for them.
Preserves Require License
All shooting preserves in
Cherokee County are
required to purchase a
license from the Texas
Parks and Wildlife
Department office in Rusk,
according to Jerry McRae,
district supervisor for
TP&WD in Rusk.
McRae noted that a
problem has arisen in that
shooting preserve
managers and/or
landowners are not buying
their licenses to operate.
"The problem in Cherokee
County is with the public
understanding the law.
They are not buying
their licenses. Under
Section 43.041 of the Texas
Parks and Wildlife
Department Code, they are
required to purchase
licenses under penalty of
law."
Obituary
Dr. Edgar McPeak
Dr. Edgar McPeak of
Route 4, Rusk, passed
away Tuesday morning at
h: borne. Family
memorial services will be
held in Sparta, Tennessee.
Friends will be received at
the Springlake Ranch
home on Highway 69, north
of Rusk. In lieu of flowers,
the family requests that
honorariums be made to
the American Heart
Association.
Dr. McPeak had lived in
this area for the past 15
years and was a retired
cardiologist. He was born
July 4, 1896 in Sparta,
Tennessee. He was a
medical graduate of
Vanderbilt University in
1924 and did his internship
at St. John's Long Island
Hospital in New York and
the Vanderbilt University
Hospital. He served in the
military from 1918 to 1919
and from 1942 to 1945.
Dr. McPoak served on
the hospital staff at
Herman and St. Luke
Hospitals in Houston from
1946 to 1962 and at Newbum
Memorial Hospital in
Jacksonville from 1962 to
1974. He was on the clinical
staff at Stripling Clinic in
Jacksonville from 1962 to
1975. He was a member of
medical societies including
Harris County, Texas
State, AMA and Fellowship
ACP. He owned and
operated the Springlake
Ranch at Rusk.
Survivors include his
widow, Mrs. Violet
McPeak; one daughter,
Mrs. Evelyn Alvarez of
San Antonio; three
grandchildren; four great
grandchildren and a niece,
Mrs. Evelyn Coachman of
Collinsville, Illinois.
The district supervisor
stated a license was the
responsibility of both the
owner and manager of a
lease. They are also
required by law to keep
records on each individual
shooting site and return the
results to the local game
warden.
The shooting preserve
costs are: less than 500
acres leased, $10; 500 to
1,000 acres, $25; and 1,000
or more acres, $40.
Licenses are available in
Rusk and Lufkin. McRae
explained that the total
acreage in three different
sites could be covered by
one license but that
different records would
have to be kept on each
site.
"The penalty for not
buying a license is a
misdemeanor. An offender
would have to pay not less
than $25 or more than $200*
or confinement in the
county jail not more than 90
days or both the fine and
jail. We will increase our
efforts to check licenses,"
said McRae.
Auxiliary
To Serve
Supper
The Cherokee County
Shrine Auxiliary will
sponsor a spaghetti supper
from 5-7 p.m. Friday in the
Shrine Building next to the
Cherokee Theatre on 5th
Street.
Cost will be $2 for adults
and $1.50 for children. The
Shrine Auxiliary members
noted that the supper would
be ideal as a pre-game
meal for people planning to
attend the Rusk-Teague
football game.
"Some have and some
have not complied with the
law and everybody needs to
comply," he said.
RUSK FOLKS
Terry Guinn and his
sister Mrs. Gloria Jennings
spent the weekend in San
Antonio. Mrs. Jennings
was a guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Forrest Matthews in
Austin. The Matthews
formerly lived in Rusk.
O'Hares Firing Upheld
Dr. James S. O'Hare's
firing by former Rusk State
Hospital Superintendent
Robert Sheldon was upheld
by the RSH Grievance
Committee Oct. 18 and
confirmed by acting Supt.
Robert M. Inglis Oct. 23.
Dr. Inglis, who comes to
RSH from the San Antonio
State Hospital, noted that
Dr. O'Hare must now
appeal directly to the
commissioner of MH-MR,
Dr. Kenneth Gaver.
Queried as to if Dr. Edwin
Cooke had been reinstated,
Dr. Inglis said that Dr.
Cooke was not working at
the hospital any longer but
that Dr. Cooke and Dr.
O'Hare were still residing
on the hospital grounds
while they appeal their
terminations.
"I understand that Dr.
Cooke requested a
grievance hearing in July
or August and it was
granted and a date set. He
didn't show up for the
grievance hearing but
everybody else on the
committee was there
waiting on him. He must
appeal directly to the MH-
MR central office to get a
rehearing," stated Dr.
Inglis.
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7:30 f.n. Friday
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Supper Slated
Homemade chili for $1 a serving will be the order of
the day from 4:30 to approximately 7:30 p.m.
Friday at the Fellowship Hall of the First United
Methodist Church in Rusk.
The Homemade Chili Supper is being sponsored
by Rusk's Business and Professional Womens Club
to raise money for the nursing scholarship fund
which they provide for a senior Rusk High School
student each year. Children and adults will be
charged $l at the door for each serving of the
homemade chili they consume. A B&PW
representative notes that its a good way to get mom
out of the kitchen for the pre-game meal. Rusk will
go up against Teague in the annual Homecoming
game at Musick Stadium at 7:30 p.m. immediately
following the chili supper.
Auditions Set
For Production
Dinner Theatre Planned
Morris William Hassell Jr., President of the Cherokee Civic Theatre, and Ruth Alexander, chairman of the Lon
Morris College drama department, met earlier this week to organise plans for a dinner theatre production to be
given the first wook of December In the Fellowship Hall of the First Methodist Church in Rusk. The title of the
play Is "A Certain Star" and Hassoll notes that a Christmas dinner will be catered for those attending the
Cherokee Civic THeatre production. Phol°
Auditions for a long one
act play entitled, "A
Certain Star," will be held
at 5 p.m. Monday at the
First United Methodist
Church's Fellowship Hall.
Ruth Alexander,
chairman of Lon Morris
College drama
department, will be the
director of the play which
is put on in conjunction
with the Cherokee Civic
Theatre group. The play
will be shown the first
weekend in December,
according to Morris
William Hassell Jr.,
president of the Cherokee
Civic Theatre, and will be a
dinner theatre production.
Hassell said food would be
catered to those attending
the unique play.
"A Certain Star" by
Frank Cooper is a play set
in Bethlehem at the time of
Jesus's birth. The audience
will be put in the mood of
the play as they will be
enjoying a Christmas
meal.
Hasiell described the
parts open for the play as
being An Old Woman, who
is blind and crafty and
represents the evil of the
world; Esther, a kind
compassionate person who
is steadfast in her faith that
the power of good will
triumph (16-18 years old);
Dismas, a cunning thief
who is cruel and unstable
and given to abrupt bursts
of temper (20-25 years
old); Ruth, Esther's young
sister (12-14 years old),
who is starved for affection
and has no aptitude for
thievery; and the
Merchant, a good-natured
man who is stout and
shrewd and courageous
enough to protect what's
his.
The setting of the play
will be a rooftop on the
outskirts of Bethlehem.
Hassell noted that Dismas
was also the thief who dies
on the cross next to Christ.
The exact time of the play
and dinner have not been
set as of yet, he stated.
Electricity Loss
Blamed on Winds
Rusk and Alto had a
power outage Tuesday
night that lasted from 9:31
to 10:08 p.m. and could
probably be blamed on a
'winded' tree in the Neches
River bottoms, according
to George Dodd, Rusk's
Southwestern Electric
Service Company
manager.
Dodd noted Rusk and
Alto received their
electricity from a point of
delivery station at Dialville
from Texas Power and
Light Company and that
when the outage occured
Rusk and Jacksonville
SESCO workmen drove to
Dialville to check the
problem. The TP&L
Dialville station feeds off a
138,000 volt line running
from Lake Stryker to
Jewett.
The Rusk SESCO
manager explained his
men re-routed electricity
from Jacksonville to Rusk
and Alto to give the two
towns light until SESCO
personnel could solve their
problems. TP&L also re-
routed their electricity and
SESCO personnel later
switched back over to their
line. "I feel it must have
been a tree that fell on their
lines in the Neches River
bottoms during that high
wind Tuesday night," said
Dodd.
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GREEN
THUMB
HINTS
from:
Flowers 'n Things
Bromeliads
If you're the kind of
green thumb nut that loves
a good house plant, but
doesn't want to devote
much time to it's care this
is just the plant for you.
This thick leaved and
waxy-looking plant is many
times passed off as being
artificial. If you are inte-
rested in investing in the
many different varieties
here are a few helpful
hints.
Soil: It is best to pot in
Osmunda fiber or shredded
tree fern or mix a small
bag of fir bark with sphag-
num moss and potting soil.
The roots need very little
room. For certain types of
bromeliad soil is not neces-
sary. They can be attached
to moss or bark,
bromeliad, soil is not ne-
cessary. They can be at-
tached to moss or bark,
with water. For extra
humidity you might want to
mist the plant.
Feeding: It is not always
necessary as they obtain
almost all needed nutrients
from their water.
Light: Bright and in-
direct is best along with
normal house temperature.
Be sure they have good air
circulation.
Take a plant to work with
you—It'll brighten your day
just to have them close by.
Happy Homecoming
See ya! -ernest singleton
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