Texas DPS Director Urges Care for July Fourth Weekend
Texas Public Safety Director Colonel Wilson E Speir warns that about 42 people may be killed in Texas traffic accidents over a 78 hour Fourth of July period from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday July 5. He notes unusually heavy traffic around recreational sites and Bicentennial celebrations while urging drivers to prove the estimate too high.
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Texas Department of Public Safety
Texas
Wilson E. Speir
Press Day Links Media to Texas State Railroad Test Run
About 125 journalists and TV crew members attended a June 23 press day to ride the Texas State Railroad from Rusk to Palestine and back. The event, arranged by the Rusk Chamber of Commerce and Texas Parks and Wildlife, featured fried chicken lunches, city park tours, souvenir tickets, and photo stops. Attendees included reporters from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Houston Post, San Antonio Express, Beaumont Enterprise, and Wichita Falls, along with stations from Fort Worth, Houston, Shreveport and Beaumont, plus an AAA travel representative.
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Texas State Railroad
Rusk Chamber of Commerce
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Rusk City Park
State
Fort Worth
Patrolman Rescues Crowd from Berserk Skunk at Governor's Park Event
Governor Dolph Briscoe narrowly avoided disruption as a skunk charged toward the crowd during Friday park dedication. Highway Patrolman Jimmy Rinehart fired rounds from a shotgun and a .357 magnum to stop the animal while colleagues Tom Ball and James Campbell assisted with traffic. The skunk was seen near the fence and then near the speaker’s platform. officials feared it could reach attendees before retreating.
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Jimmy Rinehart
Rinehart
Tom Ball
James Campbell
Family visits and hospital visit overshadow holiday weekend
Mrs Lois Henry spent days in Dallas with son Robert Henry and family for Laura’s birthday. Other relatives from San Antonio and Waco joined Mrs Adon Duncan and Tom Sartain to visit Adon Duncan in a Lufkin hospital. DPS launches Operation Motorcide with law enforcement and media to curb fatal crashes during holidays.
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Lois Henry
Dallas
Robert Henry
Laura
Debra
Julie
Joe Edwards
John Duncan
San Antonio
James Sartain
Waco
Adon Duncan
Tom Sartain
Lufkin Hospital
Ford Courier 76 Debuts With New Features
Ford promotes the Courier model year 76 highlighting built in toughness optional 5 speed transmission soft ride package and available Convenience and Decor Group with sporty dual accent tape stripes. Shown at Ford Dealers now.
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Courier
Ford Dealers
Marriage Licenses and Court Docket Highlights
Courthouse records list marriage licenses for multiple couples in the county clerk office and notes probate docket actions handled by County Judge Orvan B. Jones. Other items include mental illness docket judgments, criminal docket fines, and sheriff and justice of the peace citations and arrests.
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Orvan B. Jones
Stanley Greenwood Sr
Green Hall
Johnnie George
Stocker Simpson Bardwell
Doyle Dewitt Wallace
Harold Edward Hicks
Sheriff's Dept
Sheriff's Office
Maydelle Church Bicentennial Celebration Plans
The First Baptist Church of Maydelle will mark a bicentennial celebration on Sunday July 4 with thanks to God for the nation. Former pastor C D Walker will give the morning message. A barbecue lunch follows worship and games including sack races apple bobbing horseshoes and volleyball. An old fashioned singing by the Gospel Five is slated for 2 30 pm. Dress in long dresses bonnets overalls suspenders blue jeans. Sunday school starts at 10 am with a service at 1.
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First Baptist Church of
Maydelle
C. D. Walker
Gospel Five
Women’s Auxiliary
Rusk Memorial Hospital
First Baptist Church
Rusk
Funeral services held for Mrs. Willie Lee Riggs of Rusk
Funeral services for Mrs. Willie Lee Riggs of Rt. 2 Rusk were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Don Copeland officiating. Burial followed in Lewes Chapel Cemetery. She died Monday night in a Rusk hospital after a brief illness. She was a native of McClain County and a longtime Rusk resident, a housewife, and a member of East Side Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband Andrew Riggs of Rusk and sister Mrs Jessie Plunkett of Amarillo. Pallbearers were Carroll Todd Minton Riggs William Kennedy Douglas Parsons Tommy Monroe and Howard Davis Jr.
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Willie Lee Riggs
Rt. 2
Rusk
Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home
Don Copeland
Lewes Chapel
Riggs
McClain County
East Side Baptist Church
Andrew Riggs
Jessie Plunkett
Amarillo
Fourth Methodist Church Plans Bicentennial Fourth Celebration
The Rev. G Mouzon Fletcher leads Rusk First United Methodist Church in an old fashioned July 4 observance with Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and Worship at 11:00 a.m. Attendees are asked to wear old fashioned attire and join in patriotic singing, testimonies, and a noon bell ringing. The sermon is titled The Larger Patriotism, followed by a Bicentennial themed covered dish luncheon and a church library exhibit. No evening service.
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Rusk First United Methodist Church
G Mouzon Fletcher
AARP States Picnic at Jim Hogg State Park
The Rush Chapter No 1022 of the American Association of Retired Persons will host a July 6:30 p.m. picnic at Jim Hogg State Park with members bringing utensils and food while the chapter provides beverages. President Joseph E. A. Ross notes a surprise program and rain plans keep the meeting at the regular place. visitor Bob Fulton of Birmingham, Alabama visits with his mother, Mrs Mildred Fulton.
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Rush
American Association of Retired Persons
Jim Hogg State Park
Joseph E. A. Ross
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TSR
Press Day
Texas State Rail
Palestine
Skunk
Dolph Briscoe
DPS
Speir
Ford’s New Courier
Ford Courier
Rusk Motor Sales, Inc
N. Dickinson
P.O
Rusk, Texas
New
Mildred Fulton
Sammy Lee Goodwin
Judy Lee Sims
Cleveland
Jesse Bob Ferrell Jr
Houston
Sharon Gale Jones
Alto
Ernest Ray Graham
Nora Ophelia Sneed
Larry Willard Benge
Vickie Lynn Ballew
Bob Lawrence Wallace
Jacksonville
Sara Vann Harris
Troy
N.C
Kimberly Ann Hightower
M. L. Thompson
Kimberly Anne Hightower
John Robert Odom Et al
John Robert Odom
Troy Dean Odom
Leigh Ann Odom
Julie Marie Odom
Johnny Odom
Assa
Justice OF the Peace
Office of Justice of the Peace
Abner Webb
Willie Riggs
Carroll Todd
Minton Riggs
William Kennedy
Douglas Parsons
Tommy Monroe
Howard Davis Jr
Methodist Church
Sage
AARP
Bob Fulton
Birmingham
Alabama
Mrs
Cherokee Theatre
Snow Treasure
Bealls Brookshire Bros
Buckhorn Gro
Mkt
Chapman Pharmacy
the Cherokeean Cherokee Co
Citizens State Bank
Emerson's Gulf Entex. Inc
First State Bank
Gregg Insurance
Agency
Isaacs Motor Co
Leo W. Tosh Insurance Agency
V. J. Long Mathews
Miller Nixson Pharmacy
Piggly Wiggly
Wallace-Thompson Hardware & Funeral Home
Western Auto
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