Gladewater Chamber President challenges city progress
Gladewater Chamber of Commerce President Ernest Martin urged residents to push for growth in a Lions Club address. He cited a vacant-store image but touted new housing, downtown renovations, a booming business climate, and plans for a UT Extension course. He praised the chamber’s role in development and rental services.
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Gladewater Chamber of Commerce
Ernest Martin
Lions Club
Gladewater
Joe Jones
Martin
Lions
Chamber
Model Day
University of Texas Extension Service
Chamber of Commerce
Joe McElroy
Council Set for Aug 6 Meeting with Public Hearing
The city council agenda for Tuesday night August 6 includes a public hearing on a rezoning request, planning commission recommendations, an insurance report, and costs for the Glade Water Memorial Park archway. Officials will review Nelwyn Street extension, capital improvements plans, a water tap request from Clarksville, an ambulance financial report, and slurry seal paving bid from Bes-Tex for Gay Avenue to Pritchett highway.
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City Planning Commission
Gladewater Memorial Park
Nelwyn Street
Clarksville
Bill Langford
Bes-Tex
Gay Ave
Pritchett Highway
Beavers Named To Key TADA Position
J W Beavers of Beavers Motor Company Gladewater has been named Area Director of the Texas Automobile Dealers Association He reports to the TADA Board on matters affecting auto buyers in the Gladewater area He will coordinate with lawmakers for safer highways and driver education and strengthen auto safety standards.
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Austin
J. W. Beavers
Beavers Motor Company
Gladewater
Texas Automobile Dealers Association
Beavers
TADA
Boyd Mullen
Pasadena
Mullen
Texas
10 Acre Gift Boosts Gregg Petroleum Museum Project
Mrs. B A Skipper donated a 10 acre tract valued at over 2 million dollars for Gregg County oil and historical center to be built in B A Skipper Memorial Park near Longview. The East Texas Historical and Petroleum Center will include two connected buildings and involve Gregg County Historical Foundation and Kilgore College.
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Gregg County
B. A. Skipper
Longview
East Texas
George H. Dahl, Inc
Dallas
Southwest
Lathrop Discovery
Skipper
Lathrop
Lathrop Well
B. A. Skipper, Jr
Former Resident Dies in Tyler Rites Saturday
Emory M. Rogers, 62, longtime United Gas manager, died Thursday at a Tyler hospital after a short illness. Funeral services were held Saturday in Vernon with burial at Eastview Cemetery. A Vernon native, he lived in Mineola five months, was a World War II veteran, and a Mineola Lions Club member. Survived by wife Lee, daughter Nancy Rogers, sisters Mrs. C. O. Holman and Mrs. Roy Abbott, and several nieces and nephews.
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Archie Payne
Malcolm Stone Funeral Home
Elmer Kelley
Memorial Baptist Church
Memorial Park
Mr. Payne
Gladewater
Oklahoma
Payne
Cox-Hamond Oil Co
Frank Stallcup
Mac Stallcup
Jim Stallcup
D. H. Stallcup
Walter Stallcup
Paul Stallcup
Mary Ethel
Fannie West
Fillmore
Calif
Jewell Huey
Ray
Patsy Skelton
City
Ted
Luther Payne
Gene Autrey
Okla
Jim Payne
Tyler
Bernice Wilson
Gertrude Matthews
Ardmore
Edna Snodgrass
Freeport
Emory M. Rogers
United Gas
Vernon
Eastview
Rogers
Mineola
United Gas Distribution Corp
First Methodist Church
Mineola Lions Club
Mugwump delays column and store gets red carpet treatment
The Mugwump postpones a promised special column citing space limits. K Walens customers will see a remodeled store opened this Thursday with bright red carpet outside. Kenneth Allen announces a church commission meeting for August 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the pastor's study.
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K. Walens
Kenneth Allen
First Methodist
Gladewater
C. C. Crawford
R. L. Dorrough
Jack Elrod
Taylor Jobe
M. A. Pyeatt
Jess Turner
Mack Wiley
Herman Williams
A. B. Nelson
Charles Hopson
James A. Brannen
Prayer For Today
A devotional prayer thanks God for understanding and guides the writer to see sins and seek help to overcome them and serves the Lord. The speaker asks continued divine aid and self examination.
Lieutenant Wilkins a gun to the ground leader in Vietnam
Capt George H Wilkins II known as Buddy leads a rifle company in the 4th Infantry Division during the Dak To and Tet campaigns in South Vietnam. Born in New Iberia Louisiana he rose from civilian life to infantry officer via OCS and Ranger and paratroop schools. He praises NVA troops M16 rifles and the value of helicopter mobility in battle.
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Jimmy Brown
George H
Buddy) Wilkins II
G. H. Wilkins
Maple Street
Army
Wilkins
U. S. Army
West Point
Buddy
South Vietnam
Highlands
Buddy Wilkins
New Iberia
Gladewater
LaSalette Junior Seminary
Jefferson City
LaSalette
Altamont Seminary
New York
Germany
Vietnam
Dak To
Hill 875
Kon Tum
North Vietnamese Army
NVA
Dinks
Buddy) Wilkins III
South
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Gladewater High
Don Cartwright
Sandra Cartwright
Greenville
K. Wolens
Daniel's
First State Bank
Glade St
Council
W. Beavers
Gregg Petroleum Museum
Joe Louis
Brown Bomber
Pinecrest Country Club
Danny Hodges
Perry
Jim Brock
Gregg County Fairgrounds
Mugwump
Frank Setzler
Mark Henry
University of Texas Dental School
Houston
Frank
Stephen F. Austin
Mark
Kilgore College
Frank D. Setzler
Setzler
Walter Henry
Henry
Sherman Cross
Joplin
Missouri
Jung Biscuit
Universal Joint
Jim
Slush) Williams
Bill
Corpus Christi
173Rd Airborne
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