Round Town Roundabout highlights Fourth of July weekend
Round Town notes Operation Motorcide undercounts or overstates fatalities with 53 deaths in Texas after a 48 estimate. Sheriff Slover confirms final toll. The column also previews New Disciples Choir performance, new hotel managers Robby Lockett and Jim Terry, coaching staff updates, August football drills, a water main rupture, and public works efforts with thanks to local firms.
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Department of Public Safety
John B. Slover
Roundabout
Texas
New Disciples Choir
First Baptist Church
Danny Martin
Robby Lockett
Jim Terry
New Southern Motor Hotel
Jacksonville FHA volunteers visit Rusk State Hospital patients
Future Homemakers of Jacksonville High School assist the Vol unteer Service of Rusk State Hospital. Beginning this month they give birthday gifts to each patient on their adopted ward and bring refreshments. Patients range from 23 to 70 years old and enjoy the social contact.
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Rusk State Hospital
Jacksonville
George Cravy
FHA
Sharon Austin
Karla Burleson
Elm Grove votes against incorporation in Saturday election
In Elm Grove near Rusk on Highway 110 residents voted against incorporation after a Saturday election. The decision ends a long local debate and keeps the community governance under existing arrangements.
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Elm Grove
Rusk
Highway 110
Jr League Allstars and Coaches Of Year Named
Junior League baseball wraps up with Red Sox and Giants sharing league titles as all star selections and coaches of the year are announced. Awards go to Jimmy Issaac and Happy Henderson for sportsmanship and coach honors to Sam Florian Johnny Curtis Gordon Wallace and Buddy Chastain amid praise for Lions Club sponsors. A major rupture in the city water line near the Courthouse Annex disrupted work Monday July 5.
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Red Sox
Giants
Jimmy Issaac
Yankees
David
Happy) Henderson
Braves
Astro
Sam Florian
Johnny Curtis
Gordon Wallace
Buddy Chastain
Giant
Larry Littlejohn
Dirk Crawford
Ricky Foster
Randy Thompson
Indians
Kenny Birdwell
Ricky Cope ‘Land
Terry Pickett
James Lloyd
David Beard
Kenny Dyess
Keith Dyess
Longhorn
Larry Struhall
Truman Foster
Terry Maness
Bob Clayton
Kenneth Birdwell
Lions Club
R.C. Hassell
Olaf Beard
Yes
Longhorns
David Swafford
Benny Jarratt
Kelly Ball
David Fulton
David Draper
Pat Richey
Bill Draper
Johnnie Richey
Bobby Loden
Rocky Wallace
Alan Chastain
Jeff Florian
Cardinal
Allstar
Jan Pate
Steve Halbert
Hulon Gilmore
Clifford Ham
Dan Pierce
David Hill
Yankee
Jo Ed Anderson
James Graham
Kenneth Martin
Florian
School Board Hires Coaches At Thursday Night Meeting
Rusk Independent School District hired two assistant coaches Larry Minter and David Lynn Hardy and replaced kindergarten and first grade teachers Betty Lucas and Sarah Hood. Board will study bid proposals from First State Bank and Citizens State Bank for school depository before action. Classes begin August 30 with staff inservice August 23 27 and student registration August 24.
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Rusk Independent School Board
Rusk
Larry Minter
Victor
David Lynn Hardy
Crandall
Sun
Jack Martin
Minter
Cherokee County
Jacksonville Indians
Stephen F. Austin State University
SFA
Sweeney
Hardy
Betty Lucas
Sarah Hood
First State Bank
Citizens State Bank
James Fisher
Don Crysop
W. E. Gabbert
James Poole
Tom Sartain
RSH Patients to Attend Jacksonville Rodeo This Weekend
Rusk State Hospital patients will attend the Jacksonville Rodeo this weekend. Mrs. Sharon Austin, acting volunteer coordinator, says thirty patients each night will be guests of the rodeo.
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Rusk State Hospital
Jacksonville
Sharon Austin
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Perkins Holcomb
M.G. Moore Construction Company
Jamie Weaver
David Henderson
Jimmy Isaacs
Earl Lee Henderson
Rusk Junior High
Jimmy
Ronnie Brooks
David Defore
Doyle Rasberry
Richey Russell
Larry Reece
Ronnie Rasberry
Wayne Melott
Jeff Lewes
J.W
Dub " Isaacs
RSH
Jacksonville High School
Vol
Marsha Trahan
Nancy McAnally
Rhonda Ruth
Jack Freeman
Harold Trahan
Town Hall Estates
Ed Gifford
Kenneth Bunnell
Look
Canton
Doug Jordan
J'Ville Rodeo
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