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Newspaper
Rusk Cherokeean
Location
Rusk, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1960
Page
4
The piece notes a 1960s shift from crowded cities to suburbs and rural areas with time saving appliances enabling outdoor life. It highlights LP Gas drop in rotisserie and vertical infrared broiler for backyard barbecuing, with twin radiant burners for fast heat and indoor convenience. The rotisserie handles fowl, roasts, ham, kebabs, sausages. converts to vertical broiler. units collapse for storage and come in decor matching colors.
PTA invites members and children to Thursday December 1 at 7 20 pm for a Christmas music film strip and group singing. The December meeting will be in the Junior High Cafetorium with Mrs Paul Cox presiding and all friends welcome.
Rusk's BAPW members held a Thanksgiving themed dinner Thursday November 24 at Quinton's Restaurant. Special guest Mrs Beatrice Watson secretary of the First Baptist Church urged youth instruction in America's history and the ideals of freedom. Guests included Mrs Robert Scott and Mrs Marianna Pettus.
In March eight freshmen and sophomores at Alto High School took the National Educational Development Test by Science Research Associates. Faye Nell Rogers and Sherry Williams earned national recognition with scores placing them in the top quarter of their grade level in Texas and nationally. The test, a three hour battery, measures ability to apply learned material across English, math, social studies, and science, guiding student planning and teacher guidance. Future test opportunities are announced by Principal George Williams with registration in November or December. Memorial Day observance notes that the Eskimo dog has the heaviest fur and the flag is to be displayed half mast sunrise to noon and full mast noon to sunset.
The State Hospital Rehabilitation Therapy Department hosts a Christmas bazaar on Thursday Friday and Saturday December 8 10 selling items ready made by Rusk State Hospital patients. Proceeds aid patients and the rehabilitation program with many toys priced at 30 cents. Items include stuffed toys pillow slips cup towels pot holders sofa pillows reed baskets oil paintings and furs.
The home of City Water Superintendent J D Norton was heavily damaged by fire about 3 30 Tuesday afternoon. The blaze of undetermined origin swept through the kitchen and into the living room destroying contents. No one was home when the fire began. Mrs Norton started to leave but saw the smoke.
Mrs Meltha Campbell hosted the Xi Epsilon Kappa chapter of Beta Sigma Phi on Bonner Street with President Mildred Chapman presiding. Marie Mehner chaired service reports and announced Christmas needy family aid. a committee will include Chapman and Mary Boone. Plans for Yale parade representation Friday were discussed and a December 12 Christmas party is set with Omicron Gamma Chapter.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of First Methodist Church marks its 20th anniversary with a Silver Tea at Mrs. Morris Hassell Lawn on a Monday afternoon. Rev. Jewel McClure will speak. all church women are invited. WSCS notes September 1940 charter societies rebranded the group nationwide.
A taxpayer is defined as someone who can be employed by the government without taking a civil service examination. The statement outlines a classification of employees not required to pass qualifying exams. It contrasts tax status with exam-based hiring standards.
The community lists numerous Thanksgiving and holiday visits with residents from Crockett Dallas Tyler Huntsville Angleton New London Longview Jacksonville Fort Worth and Palestine visiting relatives in Rusk. Mentions include Mr and Mrs Sherman, John Paul Maness, the Gabberts, the Moss family, and others with extended family time and dinners. The note adds a brief trivia line about Bush hats of the King’s Guard and a fact about the cost of making a dollar bill.
Sgt Phil Goldfaden a Long Branch New Jersey officer recalls city kindness from 1933 to 1937 when he was a vagabond in Rusk during the oil boom. He sends a Christmas card to the Rusk Police Department each year noting the help he received from residents and especially the police chief.
A fragment states an airplane traveling at 200 mph would require 53 years to reach from Earth to the Moon or a similar distant target. The sentence is incomplete and lacks verifiable details about the destination or context.
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