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Established as "The Pioneer" July 5, 1848
VOLUME 98
HUSK, CHEROKEE COUNTY TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946
NUMBER 52
Rev. James McCord
Geneva Delegate
The Rev. James McCord, of Aus-
tin, has been named a delegate to
the World Alliance of Presbyterian-
ism to be held in 1947.
The meeting will be held in Gene-
va, Switzerland.
Methodist Youth
Camps During July
Two youth camps will be held this
summer at Trinidad for the young
the Methodist church. The first camp
will be held July 15-19 for those of
intermediate ages, 12-13 and 14. The
second one will be July 22-26, and
will be for those who are fifteen
years of age and older.
The Reverend and Mrs. A. Grady
Hallonquist will both teach courses
at the camp during the second week.
Any intermediates and young peo-
ple wishing to go to either of these
camps are asked to see the pastor,
or Mr. Edwin Guinn; for application
blanks and other information.
Plans are being made for a special
bus carry the young people and the
intermediates to these camps. The
bus will leave from Rusk.
MEMORIAL SERVICES AT
HENRY'S CHAPEL JULY 11
Memorial Services will be con-
ducted at Henry's Chapel Thursday,
July 11th. Main features of interest
are all day singing and the memorial
address at 11:15 by Rev. Edwin
Johnson, Pastor of The First Bap-
tist Church, Winona, Texas. Outdoor
dinner will be spread.
Everyone is invited to come. Sing-
ers and quartets have a special in-
vitation.
Gregg County Man
Admits Killing
Wife Last Week
Sheriff Brunt Makes
Arrest After Body
Found In River
Thaniel C. Brannon, two-time ex-
convict who was arrested by Sheriff
Frank Brunt at 3:15 Sunday morn-
ing between Longview and Glad^-' people of the Jacksonville District of
water and charged with the murder
of his wife, whose body was found
floating on the Neches river Friday,
was moved to Gregg county and
turned over to officers after con-
fessing his guilt Tuesday afternoon
to Sheriff Brunt. He admitted that
she v. as killed in Gregg county Wed-
nesday of last week but refused to
admit that he hauled the body to the
Neches river bridge between Jack-
sonville and Palestine and placed it
in the river.
With Sheriff Brunt when the ar-
rest was made were Tex Pruitt, and
A. M. McElroy, Gregg County de-
puty sheriffs, Deputy Stewart
Shuptrine of Cherokee County and
Carl Shruptrine, inspector of police
in Houston, who was visiting in
Cherokee County.
■* In the Brannon car at the time of
the arres1" * man's green coat
on which blood stains were found,
and a blood-stained hammer handle.
An inspection of the Brannon home
produced blood-stained trousers, said
to belong to Brannon, and blood
spots were found on the wall-paper,
Sheriff Brunt said.
Brannon was brought to county
jail at Rusk and grilled by officers
concerning his activities of the past
several days.
He admitted getting drunk wit.h
Johnnie Brannon, his wife, on Wed-
nesday night, June 26, and" they came
home sometime between 10 and 12
o'clock, getting into a family argu
■irieut anil -fighting. (He admitted that
he slapped her twice and that she
had said that if he ever slapped her
again she would quit him. Brannon
said that he and his wife had fought
ever since their marriage six years
ago.
' On last Wednesday night, he ad-
mitted that he had knocked her un-
conscious while they were fighting
in front of their home and while she
was "out" said that he went into the
house to get a towel, water and a
piece of ice to revive her. When he
returned, Brannon said, she was
gone. He admitted that she did not
take her purse, but said she left it
in the car.
Brannon. said he went to bed,
thinking that his wife had gone to
a neighbor's home. Brannon denied
that he and his wife fought inside
their home on June 26, and said that
during the time he was supposed to
have slapped her on the night of
June 26, she screamed several times
for a neighbor.
Brannon reviewed !his other ac-
tivities between the time his wife is
supposed to have left and the time
of his arrest Sunday morning, stat-
ing that he went frog hunting or
Friday night, and to a beer joint on
Saturday night, being in company
for a time that night with a girl
who resides at a Longview hotel.
The suspect, while admitting whip-
ping his wife, steadfastly denied the
slaying or bringing the woman to
Jacksonville or the Neches River.
Eye witnesses reportedly told
Sheriff Brunt that they saw Brannon
beating and kicking his wife and
• said that she asked him to call an
ambulance.^
During the course of the grilling,
Brannon casually* mentioned that he
fas born at Neches, but said his
mother died when he was very young
and his father moved away to Cen-
tral Texas in 1926.
Brannon freely admitted to offi-
cers that he served two sentences
in the Texas penitentiary, one for
stealing chickens in Wood County
(18 months) and another term of
two years for stealing a car in an
adjoining county. He said that he
was released from the penitentiary
in 1938.
REV. J. CONALLY EVANS
DEXTER RIDDLE
CHEROKEEAN EDITORIAL JUDGED BEST OF YEAR
The Rusk Cherokeean editorial written for the istfue following
V. J. Day has been judged the best produced in Texas in dailies
and weeklies under 5,000 circulation, which ordinarily would include
cities up to about 15,000 or more population. The contest is spon-
sored by the Dallas Morning News and administered by the Texas
Press Association. The $150 award was made Saturday, June 22,
and was reported in an Associated Press dispatch out of Corpus
Christi the following day. However, it was not until this week that
the editor received official confirmation of the report.
The award is given by the Dallas Morning News in honor of
the memory of the late Dr. J. J. Taylor, long-time editor of the
News and is known as the Joe Taylor Award.
The following is an excerpt from a letter from Deskins Wells,
Secretary-Treasurer of the Texas Press Association:
"Your editorial in The Rusk Cherokeean, 'No Victory Editor-
ial,' entered in the TPA contest for the Joe Taylor Award, was an-
nounced as winner at the closing session of the convention in Cor-
pus Christi June 22. Please accept my congratulations.
"I am sorry you were not at the convention to see the interest
shown in the various contests, but perhaps you would be interested
in the comment of the judges of the Joe Taylor contest:
"•We have kept in mind that these were from community news-
papers and intended to be read by all the citizens of these towns.
We liked the restraint, literary and otherwise, of the editorial we
have given first place. We have favored those editorials which hava
the stamp of inspiration and a style which raises them above the
garden variety of writing."
The winning editorial was written by the editor as an expla-
nation of why he was not running a victory editorial after he had
made several futile attempts to write something appropriate for
the occasion. The editorial follows:
NO VICTORY EDITORIAL
"Have you written your editorial on the end of the war?" "We
are going to expect a real Victory editorial!" That's the kind of
assignment the editor hasj been getting on the street all day Wed-
nesday. He is reminded of the requests his sons used to make years
ago. "Daddy, I want the moon." "Get some stars for me, Daddy!"
And he answered today just as then—"Sure, sure, whatever you
want," with equal chance of keeping the promise.
Some musicians have been able to strike chords that tell of pent
up sorrow or joy. Poets have successfully put minor details into
words. Artists have been able to make passing fair duplicates of
the sunset. But who can look at the characters scattered over the
keyboard of a type\*riter and hit the proper ones to reflect what is
in the heart of a mother whose son's body is somewhere in the
jungle tropics or at the bottom of an unknown sea? Who can hit
the keys to tell the emotions of a soldier father who knows now
tliat before long he will for the first time see his two-year-old son
or daughter? Who knows the neart of the bride of three days who
will soon see her husband after three years? Such, multiplied by
millions, is the aftermath of Victory.
Possibly if He who delivered the Sermon on the Mount, or the'
author of the Twenty-Third. Psalm were editor of the Cherokeean,
they might write a victory editorial. I can't.
Francis Fry
Verdict Upheld
The judgement against ||the de-
fendents in the Francis Fry title
case which required about four
weeks to try in district court here
last September, has been sustained
in the Texarkana Court of Appeals,
according to information received by
District Judge H. T. Brown.
The case attracted wide interest
here and involved title to valuable
oil lands.
Tomato Canning
On Increase At
Both Rusk Plants
Canning Peas And
Tomatoes At
Cherokee Canners
City Finances
Are Explained
By Mayor Guinn
Bonded Debt Is
Lower Now Than
Will Be In Future
Speaking before the Kiwanis club
Tuesday Mayor M. M. Guinn gave
an outline of the city's finances
which will be of interest to the peo-
ple of Rusk generally. Mayor Guinn
had been invited by the club program
committee to present the informa-
tion to the club. He explained that it
was necessary to present figures for
the past eleven months instead of
a full year because they had not
yet been compiled for the present
fiscal year.
■yhe bonded indebtedness of the
city now stands at $153,500.00 which
will be reduced by $4,000.00 Sep-
tember 15, he said. The city has
Activity at the two Rusk canning
plants has been on the upswing dur-
ing the past week as the tomato in- j enough cash and bonds to reduce this
dustry changes from the green deal
County Has 2,170
World War II Vets
Cherokee County has a World
War II veterans population of 2,170
by actual count and a probable 10
per cent addition represented by 1
men and women who entered the!
service from some other community.
The Veterans Administration an-
nounced the figure on the basis of
reports from State Selective Service
Headquarters. The tabulation was j
made so the VA Regional office in
Dallas, which serves 54 North Texas ]
counties, might know how many
former service personnel would be,
assisted when its office becomes ful- j
ly activated about July 1.
The VA furnishes medical and hos-
Report Commends
Accredited Schools
The following letter commending
the condition of accredited schools of
the county has been received from
Deputy State Superintendent P. L.
Chism by County Superintendent C.
L. Langston:
"Please be advised that the Annual
fjeports for 1945-46 [for all your
rural accredited schools have been
approved by the State Superinten-
dent, Dr. L. A. Woods, the director
of Elementary Education, and the
State Accrediting Committefe.
"You have some of the top rank-
ing elementary schools in the State
and a majority of your schools rate
to tomato canning season. Receipts
at both plants have increased con-
I siderably and the help situation has
' not been so acute the past few days
as earlier in the season-
Things were humming at the
Cherokee Canning Company plant
for a good portion of the week as
tomatoes and peas hit the plant at
the same time. The pea canning
crew occupies the north side of the
plant and tomato canning the south,
both going full swing.
Pea receipts were heavy by the
middle of the week. J. Perrin Willis
said Thursday it would be necessary
to run all day July 4 and all night
in order to keep ahead. A considera-
ble portion of the peas is being
trucked in from neighboring coun-
ties.
Both plants continued operation
through the -July 4 holiday.
Agriculture Boys
On Summer Trip
Twenty-five members of the Rusk
F. F. A. Cnapter left Monday on a
ten-day bus trip, accompanied by E.
C. McLeod, Vocational Agriculture
teacher.
Some of the points they expect to
visit are Carlsbad Cavern, El Paso,
Juarez, Mexico, San Antonio and
Austin.
pital care, provides from one to four above the average compared with
years schooling with tuition and, other accredited rural schools of the
books supplied by the government
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Youth Revival
To Start Monday
Rev. J. Conally Evans, of Fort
Worth, and Dexter Riddle, of Wich-
ita Falls, will arrive Monday to be-
gin a Youth Revival. Both young
men are outstanding leaders in their
fields; of work. Rev. Evans is youth
leader for the city of Fort Worth. He
has been preaching since he was 13
years of age. <He is a person of out-
standing personality and a forceful
speaker. Mr. Riddle is a good musi-
cian and comes from a family of
musicians. His father, J. D. Riddle, is.
Secretary of the music department
for Texas Baptists.
Although the Baptist church is
sponsoring these services, it is hoped
that the influence of them will reach
the entire town.
Everyone is cordially invited.
The average individual has ap-
proximately 8.500 square inches of
skin.
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and a living aljowanoe ranging
frpm $65 to $90 monthly. It is the
means through which a veteran may j 'n the top rank,
enter an approved firm, learn a trade "Your reports
and be paid wages at the same time.
The governmental agency also offers
state. If your present rate of im-
provement continues, you stand a
have more schools
Tomato Deal Ends
Breaking Record
The green tomato deal closed down
this week on what is believed to be
an all-time record for shipments
from Rusk. A total of 232 cars were
billed from here with a small por-
tion loaded at Delmer just west of
town.
were complete
neatly written, and in good order.
You, your County Board, teachers,
opportunities for men who own their local boards, and all concerned are
to be commended for the progressive
work being done in your county to
improve your schools in physical
conditions, teaching equipment, and
educational efficiency.
"The foregoing report entitles all
of your accredited schools to con-
tinue their accreditation and you
may so budget each respective school
for the 1946-47 school term."
farms, or plan to do so shortly, to
take a full-time course in agricul-
ture at a nearby vocational high
school and do practice work on their
own farms.
Further functions of the VA are
the guarantee of eligible loans to
vxeterans up to $4,000 for real es-
tate and $2,000 for non-real estate
purchases; financial aid to eligible
veterans during critical periods of
adjustment to civilian life, and oper-
ation of the world's biggest insur-
ance originally issued to men while
in service. ;
The total number of World War
II veterans residing in the 54-counly
region, based on the latest report of
Selective Service withdrawals, is
252,696. This does not include men
and women from other counties or
states now living ir. North Texas
since the VA has no means of com-
puting the transient veterans popu-
lation. It is estimated that current
and future discharges from service
will raise the figure to 300,000.
Neither does it include World War
I veterans and men who saw active
duty since 1903, whose claim files
must be handled by the VA Region-
al office in Dallas.
net bonded debt to $139,946.8 if the
bonds could be paid off before ma-
turity.
<^omn<Qinting on the bonded in-
debtedness he said it is likely it is
lower now than it will be for a great
many years because of necessary im-
provements and additions to the city
water system, sewer system and
street improvement.
He told Kiwanians that two thirds
of all tax money collected goes to
piay off bonded indebtedness. The
other one-third is placed in the gen-
eral fund with other revenues in-
cluding the water and sewage reven-
ues and used for general expenses.
The total amount collected from
these sources brought the general
fund to $24,847.17. This is used to
pay salaries of city employees, main-
tain the street department, water
and sewage department and the fire
department. Total administrative ex-
pense amounted to $6,273.25. Total
street department cost was $7*281.20
while the fire department cost was
$1,388.15 and the total water de-
partment expense was $7,900.15.
Mayor Guinn itemized the expenses,
of the various departments and
brought out that: the total of all ex-
penditures amounted to $22,842.75..
The city had a net balance of $2,104.-
42 in the general fund as of June
1, 1946, he added.
The total valuation on the city
tax roll for 1945 was $1,352,619.00.
Total taxes to be collected was $20,-
289.28 with $18,793.66 collected and
$1,495.66 delinquent up to the pres-
ent time. Total delinquent taxes for
1945 and all previous years amount
to $12,559.78.
Mayor Guinn said that the biggest
problem confronting city officials is
the increase of the city's water sup-
ply. He frankly said the city com-
mission is not sure of the proper
answer to this and that if anybody
does they will be glad to hear from
them. He expressed the opinion that
because of the large sum necessary
to proyide enough water to maks
further. improvements unnecessary
for many years, if might be advis-
ablq to make temporary inexpen-
sive changes and work out the long-
time plan at a later date.
MRS. E. J. BATSMAN
Funeral services were held at ten
o'clock Thursday morning at Benton
Bros. Funeral Home for Mrs. Nina
Rabeman, who djed WeH- day
morning at the home of her son,;
Ras Bateman, of Orange. Thei
Rev. Ferd Dawson, Pastor of the
Alto Methodist church conducted the
service.
Besides her son, she is survived by
a sister, Mrs. Fenna Smith, of Hen-
derson, and a granddaughter, Mrs.
John B. Lea, of Orange.
Burial was in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Pall bearers were W. <M. Vining, E.
R. Gregg, Webb Finley, Ralph Lang,
John Parks and G. M. Black.
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Only one person in ten over
years of age has perfect sight.
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JERRY SADLER, candidate for
governor, will s^ing into his cam-
paign in East Texas Friday, and has
a rally scheduled for Rusk at 3:30
p. m., it has been announced.
He comes to Rusk from Center. A
Friday night rally will be held at
Palestine at 8:30.
Sadler will bring his famous troup
of former stars of the Grande Ole
Opry to Rusk with him. Lew Childre
known on the popular Saturday
night program as "the boy from Al-
abam," heads the band. Other stars
who will be presented as entertain-
ment features of the Sadler Rally
are David Akeman, known on the
Grande Ole Opry program as "String
Beans," and Johnny Wuems and
Travis Oswald, known as "Rusty and
Dtfsty."
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Lions To Install
Officers Friday
The Rusk Lions Club will install
new officers for the ensuing year
this Friday night with John Lester
taking? over the office of president
of the club, succeeding Curtis Aina-
worth.
The officers will be installed by
the recently elected district govern-
or Wright Chenault. Ellis D. Carter,
retiring district governor, will also
be present for the meeting.
Following the usual custom, th«
installation meeting will also be la-
dies' night and a special program
will be presented, .'he meeting will
start at eight-thirty in the club room
of the Texas cafe.
MRS. KELSEY FORD
Mrs. Kelsey Ford, widow of the
late Alex Ford, Rusk banker, died
Sunday morning at the home of her
sister, Mrs. H. A. Juengerman, of
Corsicana. No details of the funeral
arrangements, which were held Tu«ft*
day afternoon at Pittsburg, were
available here.
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Main, Frank L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1946, newspaper, July 4, 1946; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth326110/m1/1/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.