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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1970
Page
5
Jurors are summoned for the Simeik murder trial with a list including Casper Biggins RB Clipsos Eagle Lake Katherine Einkaf Lock Island Laura Hennsnek Weber Mikwa Merer Cat Spring Braden Jimmie Howard Allen Wendel Margaret Golla Emmett Berger August Jones Alleyton Inez Schiurring Gar Wood Clem A Venghaus Cat Spring and others from Wel eC Mensik Seit Brasher Smathers Rozho imcamp and Mrs Elsig Brone.
Eagle Lake Junior High School sponsors a student book fair from February 17 to 19. Students may browse and buy books during library hours 7:40 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The fair invites students, parents and visitors to attend.
Friends mourn the death of Mrs. O. B. Strunk, longtime Lissie resident, who died Thursday February 12 at age 89 in Caney Valley Memorial Hospital Wharton. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and active in local affairs.
Texas Concrete Silo Co reports its I Ith year in Eagle Lake featuring a 400 ton press that creates strong dense concrete staves. The plant runs on two workers and ten to fifteen crew during peak times, supplying finished components and expanding into metallic buildings and rolling stock with local chamber support.
The Texas Concrete Silo Co. begins operations in Fagle Lake with 100 staves per hour, aiding home construction. Kit Dye and his wife Nell reside there with four daughters Carlos Linda Deborah and Nita. Robert Griffith of the chamber plus thirteen local businessmen tour the plant and applaud the new industry’s progress.
In 1959 Texas saw 16 new plants located in small towns compared with 98 the previous year. The period to 1968 shows a high total of 327 new facilities in 1865 compared with 29 new industries in Texas.
Wharton County Electric Cooperative lays out an oratorical contest with an 11 day all expense paid trip to Washington DC in June. The topic centers on duties in our society and is open to youths 16 to under 18 as of September 1, 1870.
Three Eagle Lake representatives attended the 10th Annual State Conference for Civil Defense Directors in Austin. CD Director H. Tate, Assistant Director Edgar Baring, and W. C. Alley of the utilities department joined Jom E. Davis, director of the National Office of Civil Defense.
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