Gilmer Mirror, The (Newspaper) - February 2, 1967, Gilmer, Texas UJ MICROFILM SERVICE SALES P 0 BOX 6066 DALLAS TX 75205 VOL 90 NO GILMER UPSHUR COUNTY TEXAS Thursday Feb 2 1907 14 Section A TYPICAL NEW STREET scene in the Gilmer Housing Authority area The new units mostly are built of same red brick as previous units but with many new interior features Fifty units were Glenwood Road Wreck Claims Nurse's Aid Life Wilson Crow 54 The collision occurred of Route 1 Gilmer was nearly head-on on a rain specially designed for elderly residents who are on low incomes Social Security Old Age Hill Studio Gilmer Public Housing Opens Major Expansion A major expansion of buildings the expansion in- authority c o m in i s room which can be used for mer Public Housing j eluded additional blocks of headed by Hal commission meetings of di- facilities is com- and residents are moving into new quarters The expansion was done under an contract with Homer C Haworth Construction Co of Orange It adds 80 more units to the public housing here which had only GO units be- fore this expansion Fifty of the new units designed for dents In addition are especially elderly ed in a two on FM 1403 about last Wednesday A nurse's aid she was on her way to work to a Longview hospital Driver of the other car Benny Fred Ford 22 of Route 5 Gilmer suffered broken jaw broken arm and internal injuries He was taken to Hospital in serious condition Ford was on his way home from night shift at neau slick road just north of the Seven Pines intersection re- ported State Highway trolman J A Andrews of Gilmer who investigated The death was the second highway fatality for of 1967 paved streets and ex- tensions R E Mullican housing authority administrator said that the facility and its commissioners plan an open house in April for the lic to view the new units and expanded operations We'll have our people settled and the lawns will look he said Mr Haworth was here last Thursday evening for official takeover by the housing j chairman Other rectors and staff or private arc Romie Bishop j conference with residents or R E Gates and Don Shafer applicants for private wives attended the j ties among residents and the ceremonies wich completed J like the construction contract j Mrs Mullican said the Sixty-two of the new housing units are for local units were built at the j resident preference that is rolls Park section of the i Upshur County first and Housing Authority and 18 i then outside the county more were added at Ervin G T Patrick of Fort Hill And a beautiful Worth was architect on the new housing authority project Space in new units Gilmer Girl Returns from New Auto Tags Sweden Visit NOW On Solo Miss Pat Ingram will leave i this week for Pennsylvania Upshur County's 1967 auto I to begin the spring semester license plates which go on sale Feb 1 will have the lowing JVN JVP JVH JVV each 10 through 999 County Tax lector W C Jones re- minded vehicle owners they will have until April 1 to display new license plates which will be on sale at his office and usual county sub- stations 1967 Dates Selected Dates for the 1967 boree selected by directors last week are Oct One factor in setting the date said Phil Woods dent is dates that Shaffer's 20th Century Show would be available to put on the carnival In other action the ors approved a motion to frame association as a student at College near Philadelphia She returned to Gilmer in January from Sweden where she had spent more than four months in the home of Mrs Kirsten Nordling at Falkoping She is the mother of Lars and Linda Nordling each of whom spent a year living in homes of Gilmer Rotarians and attending Gilmer High School Pat who finished her freshman year at j more last May took art I courses during her stay in I Sweden Lars is now a uni- versity engineering student is most well utilized and those moving into them are NEW OFFICES OF GILMER Public Housing stand in slope overlooking Highway 154 The is enhanced behind this wrought iron grill with a courtyard with a chipped white marble floor and decorative shrubs The interior of the building is of modern decor and at right is a parking garage behind the wall and beside it a large conference room An open house will be held in April snid R E Mullican tive Studio Southwestern Electric to Spend Million in Area Building A third of the t plans for expanding the lion budgeted by ern Electric Power Company for construction in 1967 will De spent on projects in the Sast Texas area Disclosure of the com- and Linda graduate from the gymnasium ly the equivalent of an American high school next year Pat returned home with her parents Mr and Mrs Temple B Ingram who spent three weeks in land Sweden visiting Pat and Denmark and another daughter Miss Peggy In- gram a student at company's generating trans- continue through 1969 with completion expected by 1970 mission and distribution system will cost almost million Our construction building program was Tiade in a joint ment by W J Sedberry vice- president and East Texas division manager and J D Sawyer manager of the Mt Pleasant division Many other smaller but important projects will be un- to increase the capacity of distribution lities throughout the system Capacities will be increased at Gilmer Waskom water Lake Lamond and Longview Wa- ter Works substations bridge University England The officials said that plans for the year are designed to keep pace with the growing economy of our area and to assure that adequate electric service will be available for existing and potential in- commercial and residential Sed- berry said A major expenditure will be the start of construction of a rating unit al Wilkes Power Plant near Lake o the Pines 15 miles north of Jefferson This unit the second for Wilkes Plant will be the largest ever to be installed on the system Construction of the unit will Another important ct wi be ie of a transmission line between Carthage and While it be operated initially at volts the new line will be a line in the Gilmer Savings and Loan Association Stockholders Re-elect All Officers Stockholders of Gilmer Savings Loan Association j the association di- I rectors at their recent j ing and officers were re- j elected j They are J A president John M Brooks executive vice-president Looney E Lindsey vice- president and directors office was constructed The old office building will be j converted into maintenance quite well pleased said Mrs I shops and storage in j Mullican I lion with maintenance j A number of special tures have been installed in i the housing units for elderly These include grab bars in the baths an alarm system operated by an inside i ton which turns on an out- i side red light and lound enough for neighbors to hear A full time maintenance man will be employed to assist with various chores which includes helping re- pair screens now yards and minor building touch ups Each apartment in the new section has its own rator and stove and in a i pantry there are connections for an automatic There are plug in con- for TV antennas too Mrs Mullican who J sists her husband in operat- I ing the housing units said that they have spent this j week moving elderly from the older units to the new i ones built especially for I them And she is now processing j a long list of applications tor i new residents but hopes to fill them by the end March The new office DAVID LOYD David Loyd New Manager For Goodyear Camp Fire and Blue Bird Girls Plant Pine Trees Jerome Bishop Royce GUmer Camp Fire Giris ture In the similar substation work will be done at Mt Pleasant and Winnsboro Southwestern officials ex- that the 1967 gram is only a portion of a larger plan calling for almost million to be invested in new facilities during the next five years These large expenditures are necessary to provide for the growth potential in the service area The million is nearly half as much as the company's entire investment during its history ern had ed in facilities at the end of 1965 i d e owned electric power com- panies have more than billion invested in electric plant and equipment and according to Edison Electric Institute will spend billion for new construction or 8 percent of new con- struction expenditures by I all American business this j year gins Paul Williams Thomas c j i and Birds joined others Mt Pleasant area I Cook Malcolm Smith and F from the East Texas area Mt aiea L Garrison who also serves jn pine as attorney for the j at Camp i planting was an ob- Mr Brooks reported eral operations saw 1966 as an excellent year and loan volume during the year was in excess of He said an increase also was County The servance Texas Pine seedlings by the of Arbor Day in David Loyd 23 of Gilmer has been named new ager of the Goodyear Service Store here effective Feb 1 He replaces Don Smith I who has taken a position with a drug supply firm which has offices in Tyler He will continue to reside in Gilmer Loyd who was born and reared in Gilmer is a 1961 graduate of Gilmer High School He attended Brigham Young University two years and also attended College He joined Goodyear in score were planted in a 1935 as service manager at burned-over area of the j the new Gilmer store He scenic camp in south Upshur went training for credit manager and in February of made in saving accounts Many of the groups stayed 1955 became credit manager investments and collections to cook their lunch and take remained good Mr Brooks said the sociation raised dividends and also interest rates on loans but we feel as of now we have reached our peak in interest rates He noted some major lending agencies have begun lowering prime rates At the end of 1966 Gilmer Savings and Loan had in outstanding mortgage loans hikes through the woods here He is son of Mr and Mrs Among those taking part j Joe Loyd Rt 4 Gilmer and from the Gilmer district his wife is the former Linda were the Te Pa Junior High Johns daughter of Mr and group led by Mrs Nathan Mrs J L Johns They have Pilcher To Go Lo Camp I a son David Mark who will Fire Group led by Mrs j be 3 in April Pauline Martin Loyd said he planned to Blue Birds led by Mrs Lula j continue and improve the Jane Tuel Se He Lo Camp j level of service rendered by Fire Group led by Mrs the store located on Margaret Proctor and Mrs way 271 north and invited Billie Sue Connally's Camp j new customers to join old Fire Group ones at the store TREMENDOUS Billows up from slush pit as hydrocarbon distillate is discharged and burned during testing of the Cotton Valley well I miles southwest of Gilmer Testing of various flow rates continues this week after heavy acid treatment of well Size of the fireball con be compered to trucks under smoke Photo Operators Wait Acid Clean Up In Gas Venture The C J Joe Pinner gas well miles southwest of Gilmer received two acid treatments the second with gallons Sunday after- noon By Tuesday the well back luid not cleaned up sufficiently for accurate testing of gas and distillate amounts and flow rates A separator was installed Operators indicated that special equipment would be used for about period starting Inter this week to get more meaningful tests The well has been flowed off and on since its tion and nt times produced large quantities of rich gns distillate It is also ing RBS PUBLIC HOUSING commissioners major ex- from contractor Homer C Haworth seated it center Standing left to right K P housing ject executive Busier Ferguson archi- or the expansion Don Shafer and Jerome Bishop seated R E Gates at right Hal Newsom authority man They met in the new housing central office last Mirror Photo
