Better Care for Children in Texas Child-Care Centers
The House Human Resources Committee hearings on Texas child-care centers reveal the need for stronger standards and enforcement. Evidence shows mistreatment and unscientific care in some centers, risking worsening conditions. The Chronicle urges MHMR expansion to improve facilities and personnel, noting Harris County would benefit from a dedicated mental health clinic.
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House Human Resources Committee
Texas
the Chronicle
Department of Mental Health
MHMR
Harris County
Lions Den notes on fishing future and lake management
E B Musick Jr recounts guests Raymond Kendall and Cary Smith from Rush First Baptist Church. The piece covers pond and lake fishery topics including stocking, rough fish control, new species trials like muskie and northern pike, walleye, insights on catfish breeding, and transport to hatcheries. It mentions fishing lore and a trip to the Southern Motor Hotel.
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Lion Raymond Kendall
Cary Smith
First Baptist Church
Texas
Lion Ray
Rodeo Grounds
Lion Frank Merriwethe
WR Gillam
Parks and Wildlife
Mr. Gillam
Game and Fish Department
Maryland
Florida
South Carolina
New Southern Motor Hotel
Scout Leaders Meet in Rusk August 30
Thunderbird District Cub and Boy Scout adult leaders from Rusk Jacksonville Palestine Alto to gather August 30 for organizational meeting and stew supper. George Goldsberrs, cub master, announces the event district chairman Houston White will lead. Rally day recruiting plans to be discussed. The district covers Rusk and nearby communities.
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Thunderbird
Rusk
George Goldsberrs
Houston White
Jacksonville
Palestine
Alto
Kiwanis Club Plans Fall Festival at Pineview
The Rusk Kiwanis Club met Tuesday August 21 at Pineview Restaurant with 13 present. Officers led songs pledge and invocation. Eight reported attending church. Fall Festival details were discussed with Key Club to handle sandwiches and Kiwanis to handle doughnuts. Delegate Joe Rozelle praised Kiwanis convention insights. August program chair Webb Finley announced Jimmie Cone as next speaker for August 28 at noon.
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Rusk Kiwanis Club
Pineview
Joe Terrell
James Perkins
Tom Sartain
Key Club
Kiwanis Club
Joe Rozelle
Waco
Webb Finley
Jimmie Cone
Jacksonville
Ashley Gilliam and Tipton families seek descendants
Genealogical notice from 19th century Texas records asks for descendants of John Hale Ashley and Eliza Gilliam, and of Samuel Tipton and Rebecca Lacy. It lists birth years, spouse names, and addresses for interest in tracing ancestors, with contact for Mr. Olin Ashley and Mrs. W. W. Housewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Thomas Tipton
Rebecca Lacy
Thomas
John Tipton
Mary Butler
John B
Maryland
Virginia
N.C
Tenn
W.W. Housewright
N. Reagan
San Benito
Texas
Genealogy inquiry into Box and allied Texas families
A detailed family history request seeks descendants of John Morris Box born 1780 Tennessee and related lines including Faulkenbury, Hasell, Ratliff, Moses, Scarborough Upchurch, and others. The writer lists migration to Houston and Anderson counties in the 1830s and requests contact via Mrs Mike Lomas, 1810 Cave Creek Dr, San Angelo TX 76904.
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Limestone
Johnson
James
Sarah Ratliff
Illinois
Arkansas
Caldwell County
Texas
Lavinia
M. Henry P. Moses
England
William Scarborough
Ala
Cynthia Upchurch
Courtney and
Cynthia (Richardson) Upchurch
Walker
Mike Lomas
Cave Creek
San Angelo
Whitlock family traced from Elizabeth in Alabama to Lufkin area
Nelda Simpson seeks descendants of Elizabeth Whitlock and her sons John and James who left Marshall County Alabama for Lufkin area. Joiners include Mary Jane born 1868 and James born 1874. Elizabeth born about 1843 and William Henry Whitlock, Nelda’s great grandfather, may also feature. Address 103 Church Drive, Weaver Alabama 36277.
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James
John Whitlock
Elizabeth Whitlock
William Henry Whitlock
William Henry
John
Marshall County
Alabama
Lufkin
Elizabeth
Mary Jane Whitlock
James Whitlock
Nelda Simpson
Church Drive
Weaver
Selective Service Moves Office from Rusk to Palestine
Colonel Melvin N Glantz announces relocation of Local Board No 19 from Rusk to the Federal Office Building Palestine effective immediately. The Palestine office serves Boards 1 19 47 and 70 while Board 19 meetings stay in Rusk. Registrants should contact Palestine or listed Cherokee County registrars forduties and filing information.
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Melvin N. Glantz
Selective Service For
Texas
Rusk
Palestine
Cherokee County
Melfin Moore
Elmer D. Grimes
W.N. Shattuck
Alto
Warren T. Whiteman
Whiteman’s
Henry V. Jones
Fred Douglas
Jacksonville
Joel Gaylon Halbert
First National Bank
Roy Hanna
Sermon Text Announced at Rusk Presbyterian Church
The Sunday service at 11:00 a.m. at Rusk Presbyterian Church will feature a sermon titled Religious Family Life based on Joshua 24 15. Everyone is invited to attend the worship service and hear the pastor's message.
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Rusk Presbyterian Church
Lloyd Reunion Set for Sept 9 at Oakland Baptist
The Lloyd Reunion will be held Sunday September 9 at Oakland Baptist. Activities start at 10 a.m. and Vera Glidden serves as secretary treasurer. everyone is invited to attend.
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Lloyd
Oakland Baptist
Vera Glidden
Directory of churches in Rusk area Texas list of congregations
A compiled directory lists numerous churches across towns including Lone Oak, Salem, Memorial Missionary, Seventh Day Adventist, Rocky Springs, First, Ponta, Gallatin, Reklaw, Mt. Hope, East Side, St. Luke’s, Church of Christ, First Christian, Assembly of God, Cherokee, United Methodist, Calvary, Holleymans Chapel, Oakland, Pleasant Grove, Maydelle, and Mt. Pleasant. It includes denominations such as Baptist, Missionary Baptist, Adventist, Episcopal, and Methodist with pastors named like Rev. C C Potter, Rev. Billy Conway, Rev. A D Munsinger, Rev. Theodore Zuell, Rev. Kenneth Southwell, Rev. James H. Graham, Rev. Mike Drinkard, Rev. Randy Penney, Rev. M T Blackmon, and Rev. David Hamilton.
Funeral Rites Read Sunday For L. Williams
Final rites for Lester L. Williams aged 70 of Maydelle were held at 2 30 p m Sunday at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with Rev O P Meador conducting and interment at Pleasant Grove Cemetery Wallace Funeral Home directed the service Williams a retired farmer and Pleasant Grove Baptist member died Friday in a Jacksonville nursing home after a monthlong illness Survivors include his widow Gussie Williams of Maydelle three sons Leslie W Williams Jacksonville Jack D Williams Lufkin and Alton Williams Maydelle four daughters Annie L Garner Jacksonville Ethel Lusk Maydelle Dorothy Hutto Houston Patsy Holley Abilene one sister Cassie Garner Maydelle 29 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren Pallbearers were James Lusk Floyd Lusk Donny Lusk Don Priest Mike Hutto and Bobby Helm.
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Lester L. Williams
Maydelle
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
O.P. Meador
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Wallace Funeral Home
Williams
Jacksonville
Cherokee County
Gussie Williams
Leslie W. Williams
Jack D. Williams
Lufkin
Alton Williams
Annie L. Garner
Ethel Lusk
Dorothy Hutto
Houston
Patsy Holley
Abilene
Cassie Garner
James Lusk
Floyd Lusk
Donny Lusk
Don Priest
Mike Hutto
Bobby Helm
New Books At Singletary Library Add Adventurous and Sci Fi Titles
The library welcomes The Curse of Kings by Victoria Holt a romance adventure about ancient pharaohs. Today and Tomorrow and by Isaac Asimov collects thirty two essays on science fiction the clock and space travel. Lydia by Clare Darcy is a Regency London romance.
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Victoria Holt
Judith Osmond
Isaac Asimov
Lydia
Clare Darcy
London
England
Lydia Leyland
Lord Northover
Library Study Club
G.H. Themes
Jerry
Denver
Rube and
Hattie Sessions
Melvin Sessions
Harriet and
Fagan Thompson
Acton Duncan
Kerry Smith
Des cendants of John Henson Hinson and Paulina Tipton
Genealogical note traces John Henson Hinson born around 1810 in North Carolina and wife Paulina Tipton born around 1815 in Tennessee. They likely married in Blount County Tennessee or Walker County Georgia about 1823 to 1824, had seven children in Walker County Georgia by 1850, and moved to Texas in the 1850s. Paulina, daughter of Samuel Tipton and Jane MKS, died in Cherokee County between 1860 and 1870. the couple appears in Houston County Texas from 1860 to 1876.
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John Henson Hinson
N.C
Paulina Tipton
Tenn
Carter Co
Blount County
Walker County
Walker Co
Georgia
Texas
Houston Co
Paulina
Samuel Tipton
Jane Mks
Cherokee County
Ween
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E.H. Whitehead Enterprises
N. Main Street
The
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From the Lions den
E.B. Musick, Jr
L. Allen Holley
Kissin’ Kuzzins
Carolyn Ericson
Redbud
Nacogdoches
Ashley-Gilliam
John Hale Ashley
Franklin County
Tennesse
Rusk Co
Calvin
John Hale
Eliza Gilliam
Mynard
Martha Harris Gilliam
Tennessee
Martha Jane
Jasper P. Gilliam
Calvin Newton
Levina Anne
Sam T. Florence
Minyard
Gilliam Halford
James Lafayette
Theodosia Eliza
John Price Sterling
M. Ola Mae Pool
Olin Ashley
Midland
Ashley and Gilliam
John Price Sterling Ashley
Rebel Drive
Selective Service
Church Directory
Lone Oak Baptist Church
C.C. Potter
Salem Missionary Baptist
Billy Conway Rusk
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Theodore Zuell Rusk
Rocky Springs Baptist Church
Kenneth Southwell
Dialville, Texas
James H. Graham
Ponta, Texas
Ponta
Church of Christ Circuit
Gallatin
Reklaw Baptist Church
Mike Drinkard
Reklaw, Texas
Gallatin Missionary Baptist
Randy Penney
Beall's
Mt. Hope Baptist Church
Walter Stokes
Mardeile
East Side Baptist Church
W.A. Vansickle
Rusk, Texas
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
J.L. Jackson
Church of Christ
Murphy Phillips
First Christian Church
Ed Barry Jr
Assembly of God
L.D. Sellers
Cherokee Baptist Church
Thomas Beddingfield Rusk
First United Pentecostal
T.E. Pate Rusk
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
A.P. Lewis
West Union Methodist Church
T.J. Bagley
Calvary Baptist Church
Jimmy Boone
Buckhorn
N. Main ST
B. H. Jones
Oakland Baptist Church
Don Copeland
Main Street
M.T. Blackmon
Maydelle, Texas
James C. Blaylock
Grover C. Talbert Rusk
First United Methodist Church
Mouzon Fletcher
Clayton. Isaacs Mobile
Home Sales, Inc
First Presbyterian Church of
David Hamilton
L. Allen
Town Hail Estates Nursing Home
Kenneth BL Nnell
Aguinistrater
Bagely Road
Rusk Motor
Ford & Mercury
Earl Ross
Truman Foster
Nell
E. Sixth Street
Wallace
Rusk Nursing
J.W. Vining
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church
N. Main
Halbert Mill
Charles Deal
L. Williams
Singletary Memorial Library
Gerald Chapman
Tyndale House
God
Augustine
Jesus
Billy Graham
Joseph
Emmanuel
Bhem
Matt
Bow
Fort Warmth
Ane
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