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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1972
Page
4
A Memorial Day style piece notes families returning to burying grounds on the fourth Sunday in May and again on May twenty eighth to share food and songs. TOM NICHOLS at 406 Pecan Street Bowie Texas thanks neighbors for their toil and care and praises the Sunset folks.
Numerous families spent the weekend with relatives in Alvord and nearby towns. Names include Grissoms of Azle and Ft. Worth, Teagues of Sunset, Grimsleys of Bay Town, Towles in Borger, Reid in Sunset, and Nikirks from Houston, with mentions of hospital stays and a high school graduation in the area.
Briscoe received his second major labor endorsement in two days as the Houston-Gulf Coast Building and Construction Council backed his bid for governor. The council, representing about 30,000 construction workers across Freeport, Galveston, Texas City, Houston, Bryan, Baytown and Pasadena, approved the endorsement at a business agents meeting. The previous day Briscoe had been endorsed by the Sabine Area Building and Construction Trades Council of 17,000 members in Beaumont.
Decoration for the Prairie Branch Cemetery has been set for June 18. Community volunteers gather to brighten the grounds and honor local history with cleanups and floral plantings.
A letter from V C Salyer Jr of Dublin Texas expresses clear patient frustration with the current political system as voters act to press officials on grievances in 1972.
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