Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 144, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1992 Page: 1 of 21
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Rusk:
Home of the
Texas State Railroad
State Historical Park
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Texas' Oldest, Continuously Published Weekly Newspaper — Established Feb. 27,1850 as the Cherokee Sentinel
Alto:
Home of the
Caddoan Mounds
State Historic Site
Vol. 144, No. 11-14 Pages
Thursday, April 16, 1992
Rusk, Texas 75785 25 cenls
Cromwell, Hicks, Hassell,
Garrett win county posts
Holcomb leads opponent in county vote
"STEEL MAGNOLIAS" CAST members are ready for their presentation next
weekend at the Cherokee Civic Theatre. Seated is Jan Meador, who is getting ready
for her marriage as Shelby; and standing Sally Britt as Annelle; Mary Buchanan as
Clairee; Joann Sanford as Truvy; Nancy Mims as Ouiser; and Phyllis Drake as
M'Lynn. Show time is 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25 and 2 p.m.
Jim Cromwell of Rusk, Robert
Hicks of Alto, Incumbent F. E.
Hassell, and Danny Garrett re-
ceived the Democratic Party nomi-
nations Tuesday in the 2nd Pri-
mary Election in Cherokee County.
Cherokee DA Charles Holcomb
received heavy support from the
county in his bid for Justice of Court
of Appeals, 12th District.
The following tabulations are
unofficial tallies from the office of
Fairy Upshaw, county clerk.
Cromwell was elected to the Dis-
trict Attorney office by a vote of
Sunday, April 26.
-staff photo
Area News
Briefs
Ticket sale dates are told
for 'Steel Magnolias'
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE-
-Camp Ground Baptist Church will
hold Easter Sunrise Services at 7
a.m. this Sunday. The Church is
located on Highway 294 out of Alto.
Breakfast will be served after the
•mice.
DRT-William Roark Chapter of
the Daughters of the Republic of
Texas willmeetat 11:30 a.m. Thurs-
day, April 16 at Barbara's Family
Restaurant in Rusk. Mrs. Tom
Kennedy will present the program.
REVIVAL SERVICES-First
United Pentecostal Church of Rusk
will hold Revival Services begin-
ningat7p.m. Wednesday,April 15
through Friday, April 17. A short
break will be taken Saturday night
and then services will resume Sun-
day morning at 10 a.m. There will
be no Sunday night services but a
dinner on the grounds is scheduled
after the morning services and af-
ternoon activies are planned.
Guest Evangelist is Robert Ed-
ward Bayer of Ft. Lauderdale
Florida. Pastor T.L. Pate, Sr. in-
vites the public to attend.
GOSPEL SINGING-Denson
Springs Missionary Baptist Church
will hold a Gospel Singing from 5-9
p.m. Saturday, April 18. The Church
is located on Hwy 294 between
Slocum and Ñeches River Bridge.
The public is invited to attend.
REGISTRATION IS UNDER-
WAY—Individuals or teams for the
10K Fun Run, the 3 on 3 Basketball
Tournament for male and female—
junior high through adult and the
volleyball tournament are beingreg-
istered for the Rusk Make It Hap-
pen Fair on the Square on May 23.
Persons wanting to register for the
events can contact the Rusk Cham-
ber of Commerce at 903/683-4242.
BAKE SALE—The First United
Pentecostal Church of Rusk will
hold a bake sale Friday, April 17 at
Ocker's Affiliated Food Store.
EASTER CELEBRATION—
Atoy Baptist Church will hold an
Easter Celebration from 2-4 p.m.
Saturday at the church located off
FM 343 on county road 1210, right
behind the old Maness Store. There
will be an egg hunt, games for the
older kids, a movie, and refresh-
ment . Everyone is cordially invited
to attend. No age limit
"Steel Magnolias" ticket sale dates
have been announced by the Chero-
kee Civic Theatre. The production
is slated for 8 p.m. April 24 and 25
and 2 p.m. April 26.
Ticket sales to the general pub-
lic are slated from 10 a.m. until 1
p.m. through April 17 and on April
20-24 at the Cherokee Civic The-
atre.
Tickets can be ordered by mail
from P.O. Box 666, Rusk 75785.
Cost of the tickets and a stamped
self-addressed envelope must ac-
company the order. Only "paid for"
tickets will be held at the box office.
Town meeting Is slated
A town meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 20 in the Ch-
erokee County Courtroom to discuss the half cent sales tax on the
May 2 Rusk City Election ballot.
public'* questions on the half cent saleB tax levy," according to
Robert Gonzales of the Rusk Chamber of Commerce.
of Kilgore, will speak to the various projects for which the half cent
sale* tax can be used- Kevin Evans, City Manager of Athens will
apeak on the many project* Athens has in the work for now
businesses," continued Gonzalez.
Joe Terrell, Irvin Conley, Virginia Penney, Jimmy Thompson and
Charles Hassell will oversee the expenditure of the monies if ap-
proved.
age pipes and water linea to a new plant
uBe of proceeds from the sales tax to help defray the cost of any
bonded indebtedness arising from the provision of utilities to the
new TDCJ unit," said Charles Hassell, committee member.
Man cited in accident
Rusk Police investigated a two
vehicle collision at the intersection
of U.S. Highway 84 and Loop 343 at
10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Rusk PD Lt. Ronnie Miller, inves-
tigating officer, reported that a
vehicle driven by William C. Morri-
son of Tyler collided with a vehicle
driven by Robert Strawther of Ce-
dar Creek.
Miller said there were two eye
witnesses and that Morrison was
reported to ha ve stopped at the light
at the intersection and then pre-
sided into the path of the oncoming
Strawther vehicle. Morrison's ve-
hicle was hit in the intersection and
knocked into a culvert. It landed
upside down on the east side of the
road.
Morrison was taken to East Texas
Medical Center—Rusk where he
was later released.
• Please see WRECK, pg. 14
Dr. Charles Allen
Methodists
schedule
revival
The Rev. Dr. Charles Allen, pas-
tor of the Houston First United
Methodist Church for 24 years prior
to his retirement, will be guest
speaker for revival services Friday
through Sunday nights at the Rusk
Methodist Church.
He will speak at 7:30 p.m. serv-
ices Friday, Saturday and Sunday;
a soup and sandwich luncheon at
noon Saturday; and at the 10:45
a.m. Easter Sunday morning serv-
ice.
A covered dish dinner will pre-
cede the Friday evening service.
Free nursery will be provided at
each service.
The Rev. Dr. Gary Fitzgerald, host
pastor, extends a cordial invitation
to the public to attend these special
Holy Week services.
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For additional info about
9-1-1, please see page 12.
i Night- Euci id Ma-
sonic Lodge No. 45 with the help of
Rusk Eastern Star Chapter No. 79
will celebrate Past Masters Night
Friday, April 17. This meeting is
open to the public and friends «ra
invitad ta supper at 6:30 p.m fol-
r • short program ta henar
te have ear ved aa Msatar ef
Ladp, according to Harold
April It, at
slated for 10 a.m. I
sponsored by Alpha
rood Store aad the
Smith. Rala rtitey,!
Joha Kyle Smith,
3,308, 64.47 percent of the votes,
over his opponent Eldridge Moak of
Jacksonville, who received 1,823
votes or 35.52 percent.
Hicks received some 1,001 votes,
compared to 633 votes for Corry
Ray Phillips of Rusk for the Con-
stable Precinct 2 position. Percent-
age wise it was Hicks, 61.26 percent
and Phillips, 38.73 percent.
In the Commissioner Precinct 3
race Hassell was elected with 743
votes, compared to 592 for his oppo-
nent Ron Decker. Percentages
showed Hassell received 55.65 per-
cent and Decker, 44.34 percent
Garrett was elected to the Con-
stable Precinct 4 position over op-
ponent, Oscar J. McAnally. Votes
cast were 615 for Garrett and 367
for McAnally, or 62.62 percent and
37.37 percent respectively.
Holcomb received 3,701 votes or
73.34 percent and Incumbent Jus-
tice Paul S. Colley received 1,345
votes or 26.65 percent.
A total of 5,227 votes was cast in
Cherokee County for the primary
election. There was no Republican
run-off election.
Rusk TDCJ Unit
ok'd for 1,000 beds
Rusk's Skyview Unit was
awarded an additional 1000 bed
unit that will be used to care for
mentally retarded prison inmates.
The project, estimated to cost in
excess of $27 million dollars, will be
located on land donated to the Texas
department of Criminal Justice four
years ago when this city was se-
lected for a prison unit.
It is hoped that site preparation
and construction will begin by early
summer. A TDCJ official was
quoted in January that he expected
work to build the facility would be
"late spring or early summer."
Representative Elton Bomer and
State Senator Bill Haley passed
legislation in the appropriations bill
that mandated TDCJ to locate the
unit in Rusk. TDCJ officials noti-
fied local lea<ÉI|B that they wanted
Rusk to presmt a formal applica-
tion for the unit shortly after the
first of the year. All TDCJ requests
were followed by Rusk.
Tension mounted Friday after-
noon when all the sites were an-
nounced. Rusk was the last city
named, and the statement was
made that the board had made the
award because oflegislative action.
Cost to many cities to secure a
unit runs into the millions of dol-
lars. New Boston came up with $5
million to purchase land, provide
water and sewer and other services.
Earlier, the cities of Fairfield and
Teagu'e had invested $3.4 million
dollars to locate a 1000 bed unit in
Freestone County.
It is estimated that Rusk'a cost
will be an approximate half million
dollars to extend water and sewer
lines to the site.
The Rusk City Council pledged
last year that water and sewer would
be made available before the project
could be considered.
City officials hope that Rusk vot-
ers will approve the half cent salea
tax that can be used to pay for the
cost of water and sewer extension.
When completed the new unit is
expected to increase employment at
the Skyview Unit an additional 350
people. Around 650 are currently
working there.
Jim Perkins, president of the Rusk
Industrial Foundation, says that
plans are already underway for a
ground breaking ceremony as soon
as TDCJ officials give the word they
are ready.
'We are indeed fortunate to se-
cure this addition to our city. It will
mean much to the economic growth
of Rusk and Cherokee County," com-
mented Rusk Mayor Mike Crysup.
Alto votes no again
to City Police Chief
Once again, in a 4-0 yote, the Alto
City Council voted to "... dissolve
and terminate all full time and part
time officers of the Alto Police De-
partment," in a resolution passed
Monday night According to City
Attorney, Eldridge Moak, he re-
quested that the motion be set in
resolution form in order to file it in
Cherokee County District Court,
"...to seek an injunction requiring
Chief Thomas Griffith to deliver to
city personnel all city-owned prop-
erty in the possession of or subject
to the control of Thomas Griffith."
Mayor Garwin Baugh stated his
objection to the resolution as did
Griffith. Following the vote, Griffith
told the council, "if you want to re-
activate these (other) officers, 111
give you back the (police) car for
them to patrol in." Griffith still
maintains that he is not fired but
suspended with pay. He has control
over a police car, two video cam-
eras, four radios and other city
equipment
Griffith also objected to not being
allowed to be in council chambers
during the executive session when
the resolution was discussed. Moak
told him that if he or his officers
were needed during the executive
session, they would be called in.
• Please see AL1U, pg. 14
Patient wrecks truck
Ahigh speed chase ended at Loop
456 and U.S. 69 in Jacksonville
Tuesday morning when a stolen
18-wheeler milk transport truck
owned by the Borden Co. ran head-
on into a deputy sheriffs car.
The aaga began ahortly after 8
a.m. when a patient at Rusk State
Hospital walked off the grounds.
Rusk PD Patrolman Otis Crow
him up and returned him to
State Hoe pi ta I around 8:15
picked
Rusk !
The patient left the grounda of
R8H and allegedly stole the Ill-
wheeler while the tike driver was in
the Chevron station for a cup ef
1 fetS a m
taaid ta have driven
i north and turned nght en
Ims 4M In Jiitiesrtlle with the
Raek Mm Departí su isr la
pursuit Jacksonville PD and aher-
iff Department deputies answered
the call for help. The truck turned
east off U.S. 69 onto the loop.
Then, for some reason, the pa-
tient turned the truck around, and
headed west toward U.S. 89. Sher-
iff and Jacksonville PD vehiclee
blocked U.S. 69 at the loop to atop
north and south bound traffic until
the truck cleared the highway.
The patient turned left when ha
approached U S 09 and collided
with the Sheriff Dapar
hiele The coiliaton
Sheriffs vehicle and the IA wheeler
turned arar.
The patient waa taken ta Nan
Trarte Heapitol
tab stepping no
at the time ef the
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