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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1968
Page
2
The Gladewater Mirror provides publication details for Gladewater Texas with editorial staff names and contact guidance. It lists pricing for home delivery and mail subscriptions, notes consolidation with The Gladewater Times Tribune in 1949, and standard corrections policy.
Sunday services at Friendship Baptist featured Bro Hugh Mixon leading in the absence of Rev Ethridge. Visitors included Mixon’s family and friends, plus several local families visiting relatives and attending youth activities at Sabine park and a Tyler church service.
An overnight TV panel featuring three police officers and three Black spokesmen debated alleged police brutality. A well-dressed speaker recounted a traffic stop where a license check led to a question about employment, illustrating how skin color can color policing perceptions. The piece explores discrimination, public frustration, and reactions of prominent figures like Max Lerner and John Gardner to rising unrest and hope amid social change. In the same report, a South Africa poker game notes Sally Nathan’s royal flush and W. Lentin’s straight flush, with odds not calculated.
Gregg County paid a February total of 870,521 to 11,133 residents under the new rates, with nationwide benefits over 2 billion monthly. The 1967 amendments expand eligibility including younger people, survivors, and disabled workers, and tax law clarifications note political contributions are not deductible.
In April 1921 heavy snowfall blanketed the Silver Lake area northwest of Boulder as an estimated 87 inches buried the mountainside over a 27 hour span. The event stands as a remarkable winter record from the era.
In Dundee Kentucky a high school teacher asks students to define amphibious and use it in a sentence. A student quips that it means fibbing and jokes that his uncle Ed's stories are fibious.
In fifteen minutes relief from itch with Itch Me Not antiseptic action that kills germs to speed healing. Suitable for eczema insect bites foot itch and other surface rashes. Now available at Jobe Drug Co.
The Mirror continues carrying Paul Harvey’s column with two pieces on Thursdays and one on Sundays, reflecting ongoing interest in the broadcaster’s essays.
The piece argues that wealthy individuals evade taxes through charity, tax exempt bonds, and oil depletion allowances. It notes 22 people earning $1 million paid no taxes in 1965 and discusses proposed minimum taxes above $100,000. It warns reforms could raise broader taxes and threaten foundations and government funding.
Ken Olive, Chief Geologist for Lone Star Steel, earned his college diploma from Centenary College Shreveport after 22 years of work and family duties. He began at Kilgore Junior College in 1946, studied at Texas University, then resumed schooling while maintaining his career and family.
Olive, born in Haynesville, La., near Lone Star, long pursued a B S in geology after a transfer to Cen tenary and subsequent moves. He completed only six hours in one semester and averaged three hours per term for nine years, taking night and Saturday classes while commuting from Lone Star to Shreveport and Jacksonville, Texas. He is married with two children Debra and Kelly and was a past president of the Lone Star Kiwanis Club and served four years in the Texas National Guard.
In 1968 about 75 million voters will elect national and local leaders. The public must judge officials on how they manage funds and policy, since money alone cannot solve war, unemployment, inflation, riots, taxes, and crime. Voters should demand planning and accountability.
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