Eagles Edge Mustangs Rivalry Ends In Two Point Loss
Eagles lose by two to Madisonville after a tied 49 49 game with six seconds left. David Norton led with 14 points as Dunbar and Diboll games loom. B team beat Madisonville 40 38. Riverdale prep notes cover full night.
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Rusky
Ronald Tate
Homer Goolsbee
A Salute to Boy Scouts Ninth Anniversary
A brief note praising the 9th anniversary of a Boy Scouts program focused on character building citizenship training and physical fitness for youth. The message thanks volunteers and organizers for a job well done.
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BOY Scouts
City considers housing project oversight visit
Smith and J C Williams are named along with Guinn in a housing study for Rusk. The report recommends the city oversee or operate the project as it does the local hospital. Officials will invite a government housing program representative to discuss further. Also present were Kendrick Frazer J D Norton Jo Alexander Ollie Foreman Frank Gonzales and Ollie Majors.
Hall Receives Outstanding Man of the Year Award 1968
Jacksonville community honors Hall a longtime leader active in multiple organizations. He serves on boards for the chamber of commerce and various clubs, holds the Silver Beaver Award, and resides with his wife at 1117 Denton Street Jacksonville with two sons in Houston.
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Robert
Lee
Houston
Texas
Local Resident Lester Honored for Community Service
Lester, a District of the Heart of Texas Boy Scout Council director and Junior Chamber of Commerce officer, earned the 1963 Outstanding Young Man award for church and community work. In Rusk, Barton serves on the First Methodist Church Board of Stewards, Lions Club, and Fire Department. He married Judy Emerson of Turney, Texas. the couple has four daughters and a son.
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Texas Boy Scout Council
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Rusk
Barton
Stewards
First Methodist Church
Lions Club
Judy Emerson
A. A. Emerson
Turney, Texas
Lisa
John Jr
Ore
Highway supplement to 1967 program totals 205.8 million
The state approves a supplementary highway plan adding 1511.3 miles of construction at 205.8 million and 313.4 miles of right of way for 8.2 million. The previous two year program from December 1967 totaled 389 million for 1667.6 miles of highways and 557 miles of right of way.
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U.S
Rusk School Board Set to Call Trustee Election
Members of the Rusk School Board will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Board Room of the Administrative Building for the regular February meeting. The agenda includes calling a trustee election for the first Saturday in April and other issues related to next year's program.
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Rusk School Board
Board of Education
Campaign urged to donate a dime per healthy child
The Friday night appeal urges broad support for the campaign with co chairmen calling on all readers to give at least one dime for each healthy child they have to boost the drive.
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Veryone
Local arrests recover stolen property and probe county rape case
Evans reports theft and gunfire leading to the arrest of Terry after a gunshot wound. Recovered items include a gold watch and a .22 rifle. Sheriff Slover addresses a statutory rape case involving a 13 year old girl, her uncle and aunt charged, released on bond, child placed with Welfare authorities. More arrests may follow.
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