HodgepodGe Observations And Community Notes From Kilgore
A column by Fredalene Clark blends local remarks on traffic two cars per family and a hospital visit for Mrs. Harry Kates with praise for Glade water Ambulance service. It highlights a drive in conference on adult education in Kilgore and the Kilgore Community Concert Association membership drive starting April 13. A humorous note recalls a going away card left behind at the East Texas Tuberculosis Hospital by a doctor friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredalene Clark
Harry Kates
Gladewater
Region VII Education Service Center
Kilgore
Region VII Center
Neal
East Texas Tuberculosis Hospital
Easter Parade Photo Brings Joy to Oak Manor Residents
A letter to The Gladewater Mirror thanks the paper for sending Jimmy Brown to capture images of Oak Manor Nursing Home residents in their Easter parade. The note highlights Mr. James Henry becoming a local celebrity from a bonnet photo and expresses gratitude from Elwanda Walker and residents.
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Gladewater
West Glade
Texas
Oak Manor Nursing Home
Jimmy Brown
James Henry
Elwanda Walker
Senate stars shift after Dirksen death reshape GOP balance
The 91st Senate shows fluid leadership after Everett Dirksen's death. Hugh Scott and Robert Griffin struggle to fill the vacuum, while liberal Republicans like Charles Mathias and Marlon Cook gain influence. Kansas Senator Bob Dole rallies administration backers as Nixon loyalists line up, with no clear successor to Dirksen as right-of-center spokesman.
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Washington
U. S. Senate
Senate
91St
Everett Dirksen
Dirksen
Hugh Scott
Robert Griffin
Scott
Griffin
Charles Mathias
Maryland
Mathias
Marlon Cook
Kentucky
Javits
Percy
Hatfield
Kansas
Robert Dole
Nixon
Howard Baker
Tennessee
John Tower
Texas
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
Robert Packwood
Oregon
Scott- Griffin
Louisville enacts eight day wait for handgun sales
Louisville officials approve a new ordinance imposing an eight day waiting period to purchase hand guns to allow police time to complete background checks. The measure aims to curb impulsive buys and improve purchaser screening.
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Louisville, Ky
Louisville
Gladewater Mirror announces staff and subscription rates
The Gladewater Mirror lists publisher and staff including Neal Clark Jack Elrod and Fredalene Clark. It details home delivery and mail rates for Texas and outside Texas, notes correction policy, and records consolidation with The Gladewater Times Tribune and The White Oak Texan.
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Gladewater Times-Tribune
The
White Oak Texan
G'water Delegates Help Lead TCTA Fort Worth Meet
More than 1000 classroom teacher delegates gathered in Fort Worth for the Texas Classroom Teachers Association convention at the Sheraton Fort Worth. Local Gladewater leaders Janet Pursley and Doris Muldrew attended with Miss LaVerne B. Wong of Waco presiding. Betty Buford of Plainview addressed the opening session as NEA head and NEA electoral candidate David E. Schulz spoke at a luncheon event.
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Fort Worth
Texas Classroom Teachers Association
Sheraton
National Education Association
David E. Schulz
Racine
Wisconsin
NEA
TCTA
Schulz
Odd Sayings and Snippets From a Lighthearted Column
A compilation of quips and observations ranges from home life and anniversaries to social habits and safety reminders. Notable lines touch on trees for dogs, tobacco debates, long US distances, destiny, addiction costs, immigration thoughts, happiness as reciprocity, and warnings about belts and river fauna.
What and The Other In Ellis County census mule recollection
D F Bishop aged 29 rode a mule in Ellis County to call about 400 names for the census at five cents per person. He started at sunup and worked until sundown between Boyce Ennis and Palmer with a postmaster aiding him by providing a territory map.
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Lone Graves
D. F. Bishop
Ellis County
Boyce
Ennis
Palmer
Bishop
Gilmer
East Mountain Community News Highlights Local Travel and Events
Milton Rash transfers from Gladewater Municipal Hospital to Vanderbilt Tennessee for further treatment after Easter at home with family. Howard Coulter's successful surgery at Markham Hospital Longview. grandson Larry Coulter, stationed in New Jersey with the Armed Services, plans September discharge return to Texas. Numerous visits, illnesses, and travels noted among local families along with church revival services at East Mountain Baptist Church led by Rev W T Byrum and Dr Charles Sharp. The issue also covers Panola County courthouse final payment, medical progress notes, and an Arts and Crafts Festival in Nacogdoches.
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Milton Rash
Gladewater Municipal Hospital
Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Onie
Howard Coulter
Markham Hospital
Longview
Larry Coulter
New Jersey
Armed Services
Larry
Texas
Jon Bruce Pitman
Ore City
Carl Pitman
Grace Box
Dallas
Lois Kennimer
Mike Kennimer
Mike Brown
Oklahoma
Connie Mosley
C. S. Starr
Midland
Mark Blankenship
Tyler
Byron White
Marion Whites
Frances White
M. A. White
Jacksonville
Valley View Baptist Church
Charles Sharp
East Texas Baptist College
Marshall
Jarvis to Host Special Grammar Conference
Jarvis Christian College will host a grammar and dialect conference in the Meyer Science and Mathematics Center on Saturday April 18 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event features a National Endowment for the Humanities project report and sessions on dialect and grammar patterns with faculty researchers and invited consultants. Pre-registration ends April 13.
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Ernestine Leverett
Withell McGill
Robert Wilson
Nina Vance
B. J. Mathews
Annie Smith
Oreathe Traylor
Fred A. Tarpley
East Texas State University
Darwin T. Turner
North Carolina A
T. College
Juanita Williamson
LeMoyne College
Memphis
Jim Corder
Neil Daniel
Troy Crenshaw
TCU
John P. Jones
Jarvis Christian College
Bats Sing to Locate Food Using Echolocation
Bats emit squeaks that bounce off prey and obstacles guiding them to meals. The echo returns help pinpoint exact positions enabling efficient foraging and hunting.
War II Veterans of China Burma India to Organize ET Chapter
The China Burma India Theater veterans form the CBIVA with Dallas preparing for a National Reunion in August 1971. About 500 veterans attend the CBIVA reunions, with Dallas hoping for more. Earl O. Cullum and Charles R. DeLancey seek East Texas participants for an upcoming organizational meeting.
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China-Burma-India
CBI
Dallas
CBIVA
Earl O. Cullum
Texas Department of Cbiva
East Texas
Cullum
Princess Lane
Charles R. DeLancey
Lake Drive
Longview
Gladewater Library Adds Great Lion of God by Caldwell
The Gladewater Public Library adds Taylor Caldwell’s Great Lion of God a biblical tale of Paul the Apostle as a wealthy Roman Jewish figure and conflicted persecutor turned believer. The library previously featured Dear and Glorious Physician also by Caldwell. The same author wrote The Becker Scandal a biography recalling the 1912 Rosenthal shooting and linked vice squad involvement.
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Taylor Caldwell
Gladewater
St. Paul
Paul
Damascus
Vina Delmar
Becker
New York City
Rosenthal
Love and danger span a consul’s overseas life in 1964 tale
The piece profiles Jo Wasson Hoyt's For the Love of Mike about an American consul family in Leopoldville amid 1964 rebellion and drug crazed mistreatment. It notes contrasts with Marry in Haste by Jane Aiden Hodge and highlights Black Heroes in Our Nation's History by Phillip T. Drotning. It also mentions Camilla Forest’s England Spain Portugal intrigue and Phantom Lady by William Irish as a suspenseful new mystery.
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Vina Delmar
Rosenthal
Miss Delmar
Jo Wasson Hoyt
Mike
Leopoldville
Jo Hoyt
Rabbie
Hoyt
United States
Jane Aiden Hodge
England
Camilla Forest
Lord Leominster
Spain
Portugal
Phillip T. Drotning
América
Rio Grande
Bunker Hill
Port Hudson
William Irish
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