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WEDNESDAY
August 29, 2012
75 cents
THIS WEEK
Man killed near Alto in
timber accident
Jimmy Charles Young Jr., 38,
of Henderson, was killed Sunday
afternoon in a logging accident
on SH 21 E. at the Angelina
River bridge.
At the time of the accident,
Mr. Young was working with
other loggers, clearing trees on
property owned by William Car-
roll Hollis of Alto. He was fatally
injured when a large tree he was
cutting fell on him. A co-worker
used equipmentto move the tree
and another worker called 911.
The call went through the Nacog-
doches County Communication
Center and first responders from
Douglass and Nacogdoches
EMS answered the call.
Cherokee County Justice of
the Peace, Precinct 1, Brenda
Dominy pronounced Mr. Young
dead at the scene. An autopsy
was ordered.
Rusk man survives
fiery train crash near
Wills Point
A Rusk man, Craig Shuptrine,
was one of two previously un-
identified men in the front engine
of a Union Pacific train that was
surrounded by a ring of fire on
Thursday, Aug. 23, sparked by a
crash with agasolinetankerin Wills
Point just after 1:30 a.m.
The Associated Press reported
nobody was hurt in the wreck,
but it was a very close call for Mr.
Shuptrine and the other railroad
employee trapped in the train cab
by burning gasoline.
Apparently, the driver of the
gasoline tanker rig attempted an
alternate crossing of the tracks due
to blocked roads and became stuck
on the tracks. The train was unable
to stop and collided with the tanker.
The explosion occurred at the
Lybrand Street crossing along U .S.
Highway80. Union Pacificspokes-
woman Raquel Espinoza said the
residential area crossing was not
equipped to handle a big tanker.
The gasoline truck was a Love’s
fuel tanker from Oklahoma City.
Although news reports said
both railroad employees were not
seriously injured, Mr. Shuptrine
declined to discuss the incident,
due to the traumatic nature of a
near-death experience.
WFAA-Dallas said a two-block
area around the wreck was
evacuated and that roads into
Wills Point were closed. Several
fire departments were called in to
assist while the spilled gasoline
burned for several hours.
The driver of the truck jumped
from the cab moments before the
train collided with his tanker.
The Union Pacific freight train
was carrying no hazardous ma-
terials.
Newspaper will observe
Labor Day Sept. 3
The Cherokeean Herald office,
located at 140 N. Main St. in Rusk,
will be closed on Monday, Sept. 3
in observance of Labor Day.
News and advertising should
be submitted by Friday, Aug. 31
at 3 p.m.
Weather Outlook
THURSDAY
light rain
50% chance of rain
High: 89
Low: 72
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Ceiling collapses
at Rusk Post Office
Rehana Brown had a close call
Monday when the ceiling collapsed
at the Rusk Post Office.
Just seconds before a 35-foot section
of the ceiling collapsed, she had been
standing in the exact spot where the
bulk of the debris landed.
She told the Cherokeean Herald
that she heard a loud noise that
sounded like construction work in
the ceiling.
She glanced up and noticed cracks
in the ceiling that were radiating
outward like a spider’s web.
She said she had just checked her
mailbox, put some letters in outgoing
mail and picked up two boxes to leave
when the debris began falling.
“I put my head down and ran to the
vestibule where I squatted down,”
she said.
See POST OFFICE, pg. 4A
PHOTO: SUSAN BURCH
V Rusk Police Officer Ryan
Long inspects the damage and
helps secure the lobby of the
Rusk Post Office Monday follow-
ing the collapse of the ceiling.
He said the 1936 structure is old
and the ceiling just gave way.
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JISD approves
$34.6 million
budget, sets
$1.32 tax rate
By Gloria Jennings
Staff Writer
The Jacksonville school board approved a general
fund budget Monday night of $34,621,553 and set a
tax rate of $1.32, which includes a rate of $1.04 for
maintenance and operations and 28 cents for debt
service. The rate is the same rate as used last year,
but shows a 1.08 percent increase over the effective
rate because tax values increased.
Revenue for the budget includes $24,010,772 in
state funds; $215,000 federal funds; and $10,095,781
coming from local property tax revenue. Other local
revenue contributed $300,000 to the budget.
Expenditures in the budget include $19,984,766 for
instruction; $480,708 for instructional resources and
media; $270,389, curriculum and staff development;
instructional leadership, $613,649; school leadership,
$2,276,944; guidance, counseling and evaluation,
$1,193,018; social work services, $5,118; health
services, $336,565; student transportation, $1,730,028;
food service, $5,198; extracurricular activities,
$1,149,725; general administration, $1,317,052; plant
maintenance and operations, $4,148,584; security and
monitoring services, $344,579; data processing services,
$437,392; community services, $8,713; payments to
See JISD, pg. 6A
>* Mikya
Brooks and
Kaylee Dry,
third graders
Joe Wright
Elementary
School, Jack-
sonville.
PHOTO:
COURTESY JISD
>- Ander-
son Corley,
Chayce
Crosby
and Jacob
Chandler,
Christ the
Redeemer
Church in
Rusk
PHOTO:
TARA
CROSBY
SCHOMti’MEA2 ***»
set to review
tax rate hike
Most county students return to classes on Monday
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Kaleigh
Hogg,
Rusk
Primary
School
PHOTO:
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CROSBY
•< Tillian
Poole with
kindergarten
teacher Eliza-
beth Miller,
New Summer-
field ISD.
PHOTO:
COURTESY NSID
New budget is based on 2-cent tax
increase on ad valorem property
By Gloria Jennings
Staff Writer
Cherokee County Commissioners will conduct public
hearings on Sept. 10 and 17 prior to adopting a 59-cent
property tax rate to finance an $18,093,229 county bud-
get. The tax rate is two cents higher than the 57-cent
rate used for the current year.
The proposed new tax rate includes 40.34 cents for
general fund and 1.16 cents for indigent health care;
and 17.50 cents for road and bridge.
Commissioner Steven Norton motioned to adopt the
budget and County Judge Chris Davis seconded the mo-
tion. Votingfor the budget was Commissioner Katherine
Pinotti. Voting against adoption of the budget were
Commissioners Kelly Traylor and Byron Underwood.
See COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, pg. 6A
Jacksonville College extends invitation to students
registered for fall semester at Lon Morris College
By Gloria Jennings
Staff Writer
Classes at Jacksonville College
began Thursday. Approximately 500
students have been registered and
others are still being registered. An
invitation has been extended to those
students who were scheduled to be-
gin classes at Lon Morris College on
Monday. Staff members were busy last
week calling the Lon Morris students
to tell them there is a place for them
at Jacksonville College.
Both Jacksonville College and Tyler
Junior College are taking in former
Lon Morris students. Also, some LMC
students have registered at Stephen
L. Austin State University.
By Lriday afternoon, Jacksonville
College already had 50 more students
planning to live on campus than they
had the previous year. “We really don’t
know how many we will have when we
get through ” Public Relations Officer
David Heflin said.
Among the new courses being of-
fered at Jacksonville College this
fall are golf and tennis for both men
and women. Also, the school offers
both men and women basketball and
competes with other junior colleges
in Texas.
A number of high school students
will take dual credit courses at Jack-
sonville College. Several schools teach
the courses on campus with quali-
fied high school faculty members as
instructors.
Tuition for each semester hour,
excluding music, is $210. Applied
music lessons for voice, piano and
organ are $140 per instrument per
semester hour. Audit fee for each
semester hour per semester is $50.
Other fees are advance credit per
semester hour, $25; choir uniforms,
$100 per year; lab use fee per course,
$35; bowling lane use fee per course,
$60; and independent study fee per
course, $100. Application fee is $15.
Cost for room and board in a
residence hall is -
$l,628.50persemes- Inside:
ter. Board only per (jDdate On
long semester plus
taxis$951.52.Room Lon Moms
deposit for residence College,
hall is $75. qq
Dr. Mike Smith is -
Jacksonville College
president. The Jacksonville College
staff includes 47 full and part-time
employees.
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