Gladewater News Roundup Covers Pre-School and Arts Events
Pre kindergarten and first grade round up set for Gay Avenue School on April 24 from 9 to 12. Regional and state education groups host a Friday half day innovation conference at Kilgore High with Rogers Barton as keynote. East Texas Symphony season tickets on sale for 1970-71 with May 7 final concert at Caldwell Auditorium. Local auto dealers join 53rd Texas Automobile Dealers Association in San Antonio April 26-28. Rock Springs Cemetery Association and Union Grove Cemetery Association hold meetings April 24 and 27. Gladewater High junior David Buehrle injured in PE. two other sports incidents reported. Garden Club announces Spring Flower Show at First Baptist Church with show preparations due by 10 a.m.
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Gladewater
Gay Avenue School
Region VII Education Service Center
Texas Education Agency
Kilgore High School
Rogers Barton
Dallas Independent School District
East Texas Symphony
East Texas Symphony Association
Caldwell Auditorium
South College Street
James R. Hicks
Copeland Road
Tyler
Gregg County
Jerry Williams
Charles Ringler
Kilgore
E. B. Houston
Longview
Texas Automobile Dealers Association
San Antonio
David Buehrle
Gladewater High School
Mike King
Gladewater-Jefferson
Russ Adams
Six Arrested in Burglary of Gla Tex Packing Plant
Chief Leon Sharrock announced the arrest of six men in the weekend burglary of the Gla Tex Packing Plant on Locker Plant Road. Bond ranges from 1000 to 5000 dollars with three juveniles turned to juvenile authorities. Stolen goods included hams butter cheese and beef with several thousand dollars value recovered by Tuesday.
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Leon Sharrock
Gla- Tex
O. B. Morrow
Justice Court
James Willie Gibbs
John King
John Louis Williams
Gregg County
Morrow
Sharrock
Charles Wisdom
Thomas Mackey
Charles Evans
Gladewater Force
Sheriff's Department
Pete Owens
Texas
Glen Elliott
Holcomb Elected Mayor in Gladewater Contests
Jim Holcomb, local insurance agent and businessman, was elected mayor by the Gladewater City Council by acclamation. J B Poston was re elected mayor pro tem and Curtis Abernathy joined a full two year council term along with C Johnston and Quentin Abernathy after unopposed April elections.
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Jim Holcomb
Gladewater
J. B. Poston
Holcomb
Melvin Jenkins
Curtis Bright
C .G. Johnston
Quentin Abernathy
Abernathy
Earnest Martin
Bill Langford
Jack Finley
H. I. McAfee
First State Bank of
Tom Poston
Jenkins
First State
Care Inn to Join Skilled Nursing Care Program
Care Inn of Gladewater at 300 Money Street is state approved to participate in the skilled nursing care program. The facility will care for bedfast and semi ambulatory patients. Administrator Mrs. Olive Teague, from Kaufman, praised the community for its kindness and noted her extensive management experience.
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Care Inn
Gladewater
Money Street
Gladewater Arms
Olive Teague
Kaufman
Teague
Pat Harris
R. N
White Oak School Holds Kindergarten Round-Up
White Oak School announces a kindergarten round-up for eligible district children on Wednesday April 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the White Oak School Small Auditorium. Eligibility includes residency, age, a certified birth certificate, and immunization records. paperwork can be presented at round-up or first day of attendance.
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Judy C. Meredith
White Oak
Prayer For Today Be imitators of God and beloved children
A devotional prayer thanking God for adoption into the family through Jesus Christ. It asks for the Spirit to align thoughts with God’s will and to guide actions, ending with Amen.
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Jesus Christ
Explosion Injures 2 at Humble Cracking Plant
Two men were hospitalized after an explosion at the Humble Cracking Plant in Hawkins. Jay Preston and Barney Johnson were rushed by ambulance to Mineola then Tyler Medical Center. Preston was admitted. Johnson in ICU undergoing surgery. Others on duty not in the area included Red Harris and Jack Hightower.
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Hawkins
Mineola
Tyler Medical Center
Jay Preston
Barney Johnson
Red Harris
Jack Hightower
Preston
Johnson
Allene Johnson
Gladewater
Slow Pitch Church Softball League Details
Readers are invited to see page 11 for full information on the slow pitch church softball league and how to join.
Gladewater Council Awards East Side Sewer Contract
The Gladewater City Council unanimously awarded the Phase 2 East Side Sewer project to Longview Construction and Development Co. for 291,485.62, with federal grants totaling 75,000 and bids opened March 24. The measure follows prior bid adjustments and aims to extend mains from the sewer plant toward Highway 80 East and relieve overload near Glade Creek. The council also approved a Mack fire truck purchase for 36,618 with delivery in 6 to 8 months and authorized a water tank reconditioning bid.
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Gladewater
Longview Construction and Development Company
B. L. Nelson Associates
Longview
East Side
Tyler Highway
Dallas Highway
Glade Creek
Main Street
Harold Potts
Potts
Mack
Roy Perryman
Center
Allison Streets
Water Tank Service Company, Inc
Dallas
Texas Tank, Inc
Perryman
Abernathy
Summer program at SFA enters sixth year
NACOGDOCHES Stephen F. Austin State University prepares another summer program for selected high school juniors. Director Dr Clyde L Iglinsky coordinates college level courses for above average students and offers early campus exposure at SFA.
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Nacogdoches
Stephen F. Austin State University
Clyde L. Iglinsky
SFA
Dr. Iglinsky
SFA University
Gladewater Receives $19,490 Grant for Outfall Line
The City of Gladewater learns from U S Senator John Tower that the Department of Interior Federal Water Quality Administration approved a 19 490 grant for an outfall line. The council also shifts meeting times to the first and third Thursdays at 7 30 p m and sets a 60 mph speed limit along the Upshur Gregg line. An easement with Texas & Pacific Railway for a sewer line crossing under the railroad is approved.
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Gladewater
Texas Highway Department
Upshur-Gregg
Texas & Pacific Railway
Centennial Boosters Visit Glade water for Centennial events
Longview Centennial boosters distribute the preliminary schedule in Gladewater as May 3 9 mark the official dates. Highlights include parades on May 3 9 coronation religious observances and a massed church service at Lobo Stadium plus Open house tours and a closing Our Dynamic Tomorrow festival with Shriners parade and art festival at the fairgrounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longview
Gladewater
Lobo Stadium
Commerce and Industry
Barksdale Air Force
Brothers of the Brush
Shriners
Texas East
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East Side Sewer
Rock Springs
Gay Avenue
Jobe Drug
Union Grove
First Baptist Church
White Oak School
Texas Nursing Home
Levi Lyman
Lyman
Bobo
Lymans
Talala
Okla
Phillip Hearnsberger
Council
Pat
Eraepsekahs
Pat Smith
Smiths
Martha Drive
Sherman
Women of the
Church of the Northeast
Texas Presbytery
Austin College
Presbytery Land Synod
Gainesville
Sweeney
Bulletin
Martin Edwards Sr
Jarvis Christian College
Edwards
Simon Edwards
Centennial Boosters
Gladewater Visitors
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