UF budget approved by United Fund directors at chamber meeting
Officers and directors allocated sixteen agencies funds from the past drive totaling 17,150 dollars. Mrs. Molly Abercrombie led the budget session. others present included Mrs. Wilson Godfrey Don Earp Jo Wiley and Mrs l Shepherd and Norbert Mackey with community reps from Mirror. Checks will be issued this week with allocations to many groups including Summer Youth Program Red Cross East Texas Treatment Center and Boys Baseball.
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United Fund
Chamber of Commerce
Molly Abercrombie
Kirk Abercrombie
Wilson Godfrey
Don Earp
Jo Wiley
Abercrombie
Godfrey
First We
Earp
Secondice
Boy Scouts
Red Cross
Salvation Army
East Texas
Texas United Community Service
Gladewater
East Texas Council
Car Washes Aid Fireworks Fund in Gladewater
Lloyd Matthews offers his car wash free of charge to the Bicentennial Fourth of July celebration committee. Molly Abercrombie chairs the effort seeking volunteers from Sunday School groups and Boy Scouts to run Saturdays. Tickets $1.50 available at Yvonne's Cards and Gifts or pay at the car wash. opening hoped by April 17. Volunteers may leave names at Yvonne's or write Fireworks PO Box 1468.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Matthews
Molly Abercrombie
Matthews
Yvonne's
W. Pacific
Shaw Jones win posts Shaw Jones win posts
Clarksville voters re elected one incumbent and one new alderman to the city board. R O Shaw was re elected with 52 votes and Weimar Jones won a first term with 49 votes. Other candidates were B G Allen 11 John G Linder 10 and Ray Martin 5 for a total of Th votes cast.
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Clarksville
Board of Aldermen
R. O. Shawho
Weimar Jones
KK. O. Shaw
B. G. Allen
John G. Linder
Ray Martin
Lions Club creates new church softball field at Gay Avenue
The Lions Club finances a new home field on Gay Avenue Elementary property for Gladewater church teams. Games start May 15 with two daily night contests through mid July, using daylight lighting and a fenced backstop. Park will belong to the school and may become a future high school baseball venue.
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Gay Avenue
Billy Ray Johnston
Lions Club
General Telephone Co
United Gas Co
Gladewater
Bear Park
Larry Aaron
Church League
Kiwanis Blood Drive Set for First Methodist Lot
Eye Opener notes the Kiwanis Club blood drive on Thursday April 29 from 4 to 8 PM with the Stewart Blood Bank mobile van at First Methodist Church parking lot. The piece also covers local events from Masonic Lodge homecoming to drama competition, garden plantings, and pet adoptions.
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Kiwanis Club
Stewart Blood Bank
First Methodist Church
James Walker
Gladewater Band Boosters Plan New Orleans Trip
The Gladewater Band Boosters Club approves a trip for band members to New Orleans with a GHS concert in Jackson Square. Students will raise funds to offset trip costs, and several projects are under consideration. Tickets for the spring concert will be sold during the first week of May to coincide with the middle school band concert. Mrs Margaret Sims presided at the Tuesday meeting.
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Margaret Sims
Arden
City to Swear In 3 Council Members and Elect Mayor
At the April regular meeting city attorney Ernest Martin will administer the oath to the three councilmen elected in Saturday’s balloting. He will then conduct the mayoral election and a mayor pro tem will be chosen. The agenda includes reappointing city officials Tony Williams manager Jack Finley city judge Ernest Martin city attorney and Rick Kuehler finance director city secretary. The council will consider a depository designation and check signing authorization and the reappointment of Gus Davis Auditing Firm. Bids will be opened for a new police car and a $4564 payment to B L Nelson for engineering services.
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Ernest Martin
Martin
Tony N. Williams
Cty
Jack Finley
Rick Kuehler
Gus Davis
B. L. Nelson
Gladewater Residents Reelect Incumbents and Elect Racial Milestone
In Gladewater and kKee City, voters backed two incumbent city councilmen, electing Lonnie Van Zandt as the first Black official in city government. Arm strong and Hopson won council seats. Van Zandt led with 387 votes. School board races saw Medro Barnes and Virgil Wallace reappear, with Barnes unopposed on the board.
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Gladewater
Tom Armstrong
Charles Hopson
C. G. Johnston
Lonnie van Zandt
Medro Barnes
Barnes
Virgil Wallace
van Zandt
Dr Armstrong
R.B. Oder
Don Earp
Bob McPherson
Johnny Dishman
Mark Henry
Hopson
Ribbon Cuttings Honor Two Gladewater Businesses
Gladewater Chamber of Commerce sponsors ribbon cuttings for Ben Franklin and Nu-Way Oil Co. Thursday and Friday. Ben Franklin marks move to a new 6000 square foot store with expanded departments and new radio electronics stock. Nu-Way Oil opens a new facility with extended hours. Prizes include a Galveston trip and bikes, plus a CB radio giveaway May 1.
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Gladewater Chamber of Commerce
Ben Franklin
Brookshires
Nu-Way Oil Co
Wardell Daniels
Citizens Band
L. J. Manely
Dallas
Tom Blankenship
Plaza
Gilmer
Mineola
Galveston
Nu-Way Oil Company
Union Grove incumbents win reelection to school board
In Union Grove a heavy turnout on Saturday re elected three school board members Mason Phillips Shelton and J A Tuttle. The three winners received 128 124 and 123 votes while four challengers Henry Pepper Gerald Crunden Charles F Glenn and Allen Jackson trailed with 82 82 77 and unknown totals in a total 220 votes cast.
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Union Grove
Mason Phillips
Mr. Shelton
J. A Tuttle
Henry Pepper
Gerald Crunden
Charles F. Glenn
Allen Jackson
Gladewater school awards ag building contract to low bidder
Gladewater school board awarded the vocational agriculture building contract to C. & G. Construction of Rockwall for 126 621 dollars with 200 day completion. Other bids ranged from 134 910 to 172 088 with time frames from 120 to 180 days.
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Gladewater
C. & G. Construction Company
Rockwall
Berry Construction Company
Compton & Moore, Inc
Jimmie Muckleroy Co
Snyder Construction Company
John Waddell Construction Co
Jack Earp
Garth Cockerell
Randolph Gheen
Gheen
GHS Bears
William F Fletcher 78 rites held in Gladewater
Funeral services for William Franklin Fletcher 78 were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Malcolm Stone Funeral Home Chapel. He died Monday evening in a local hospital after a lengthy illness. Surviving are his widow Lillie Pauline Fletcher three sons S A Fletcher R L Fletcher and M G Fletcher a brother H O Fletcher a sister Velma Owens five grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Grandsons James Goggans served as pallbearers.
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William Franklin Fletcher
Malcolm Stone
Fletcher
W. Hendricks
J. A. Alien
Rosedale
Methvin
Gladewater
Bentsen pushes pause on post office closures
Senator Lloyd Bentsen urged that any new federal aid to the U S Postal Service include a two to three year ban on post office closings. He wrote to Senator Gale McGee after Postmaster General Bailor testified that further cuts would follow unless Congress acts in two to four months.
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Washington
Lloyd Bentsen
U S. Postal Service
Bentsen
Gale McGee
Senate Post Office Committee
Benjamin F. Bailor
Congress
U.S. Postal Service
City seeks county funds for fire protection aid
Gladewater asks Upshur Gregg and Smith Counties to reimburse fire protection outside city limits. City Manager Tony Williams and Fire Chief Ronnie Gothard will push for county payments, rejecting a $50 monthly offer as inadequate. Figures show rising costs for 1974 and 1975 with 35 and 79 calls outside municipal boundaries.
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Gladewater
Upshur
Gregg
Smith
Tony Williams
Upshur County Commissioners Court
Ronnie Gothard
Gladewater Fire Department
Upshur County
Gothard
Arshur County
Commissioners Courts
Smith Counties
Williams and Gothard
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Willie Hagan
Garfield Hill
Glenn Walton
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Corkey Orms
E. D
Curly) Dillard
Angel of Gladewater
Curly
First State Bank
Julius Davidson
Union Grove High School
Wayward Saints
Linda Smith
Mary Maple
Lisa Shaw
Brooks Tuttle
Don Noble
Johnny Morgan
Scott Fields
Erwins
White Oak
Bobby
Hodges Gardens
First Baptist Church
Peer Ghent
Henrik Ibsen
Tyler Junior College
Tony Noakes
Melissa Moore
Cindy Sumrow
Joe Brown
Steve Jackson
Lisa Lyle
Dayna Kirk
Chanyce Esskew
Karen Whisenhunt
Julie Tomlinson
Bob Phinney
Debi Stanfield
Mary Miller
Sharon Elkins
Geri Gilbert
Ava Hines
Tamdt
Mstrong
Jarvis Christian College
Hawkins
kKee City
Wallace
Gladewater Broadway School
Pritchett
Starrville
Friendship
Pritchett Wallace
Friendship Wallace
Lnion Grove
Maple Street
Supt
Kos Johnson
Bear Stadium
Johnson
Maple and
Jeannette
San Francisco
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P.o
Upshur Commissioners Court
Everett Dean
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