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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1973
Page
2
Kilgore News-Herald notes the Texas Legislature signed a revised open meetings law effective Jan 1 1974. It defines meetings, expands coverage to include committees, and requires advance notices. Contested provisions include public access to certain real estate and contract discussions and hearings on personnel.
Congressman Ray Roberts denounces foreign aid while urging more domestic water and sewer grants for rural towns. He criticizes 102 countries receiving aid, criticizes North Vietnam funding, and calls for budget cuts to prioritize American programs and debt reduction.
Southwestern Electric Power Company holders elected W H Snow and John C Hayter Jr to the board as new members with five others. Snow became vice president and controller, while J Lamar Stall was re elected president. A roster of officers including Dodson Gardner McAdams Watts and others also retained roles. Snow a 23 year SWEPCO employee and Hayter a longtime engineer and executive were among the highlighted appointments.
The Gladewater Public Library announces monthly exhibits during the citys Centennial year. May features Baby pictures with Morell Berryhill as chairman for June early settlers, July kitchen items and antique cookbooks, August Oil boom days, September library opening and Texana collection release, October tentative opening, November historical display and silver tea, December old toys and Christmas decorations.
Gov Dolph Briscoe backs a modified system allowing deviations from standard auto and property insurance rates to cut costs. Legislation would let companies adjust rates based on solvency and fairness tests while open meetings laws gain stronger enforcement and a shield for sources faces conference review.
In a Watergate moment, President Nixon urges White House aides to testify before a Senate committee at an open hearing. He implies knowledge of the affair from a source and suggests involved staff may have bugged the Democratic National Headquarters in the Waterhouse building. Washington politics grow uneasy as the episode unfolds.
A diary style entry recounts a sluggish Monday with failed brownies and dwindling energy, then shifts to political satire on Watergate. The writer envisions a bipartisan bugging scheme and a National Watergate Day while noting spring rain, green growth, and worsening road erosion on Vesta Drive.
Don Bishop of General Telephone Company of the Southwest announced that aerial and buried cable work into the Warren City area is nearing completion. The project will support new applicants and upgrading and replace portions of open wire with buried cable as part of modernization. Wake Forest to open 1973 football with Florida State on Sept 15. Three ACC teams start Sept 8.
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