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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1971
Page
2
A writer warns that seeking security in a fortified community near Houston may trap residents in a false sense of safety. The essay critiques escaping turmoil by walls and guards and urges support for law enforcement, property rights, and responsible public officials.
President Nixon, addressing the Chamber of Commerce, says youth resist nine to five but seek meaningful work. He argues private enterprise best aids people, supports taxes, philanthropy, and civic effort, echoed by Santa Paula Daily Chronicle praise.
Mrs. Royce West will receive her Ph D in Guidance and Counseling from East Texas State University during summer graduation exercises Friday night August 13. She will begin duties as a school counselor in Brewer High School in White Settlement Ft Worth in September.
A Tribune clipping notes students riot stress from accessible landscaping rocks. Illinois at Urbana Champaign tests plastic coating to lock rocks in place and prevent police from being stoned during protests.
Carrie Mae Courtney mother of Mrs. J P Porterfield and grandmother of Mrs. Herbert Money Jr died Friday at Laird Memorial Hospital Kilgore after a lengthy illness. Services pending with Rader Funeral Home Kilgore. Survived by daughter and granddaughter plus three other daughters one son several grandchildren and great grandchildren. London AP Helicopters see 1970 record year Battersea Heliport reports daily average 19 takeoffs or landings.
Funeral services for Mrs Ola Hester Stringer 82 longtime Marshall resident were held Tuesday at 11 AM in the Cothron Blalack and Huffman Chapel with Rev Stammer Smith officiating. Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery. She died Monday at Oak Manor Nursing Home after a long illness. She was born May 24 1889 in Marshall and was a housewife and Cumberland Presbyterian Church member. Survivors include two daughters Louise McJimsey and Ollie Fountain two brothers J P Hester and A C Hester and five grandchildren including Herbert Money and Peggy Money Smith.
Gladewater Public Library features John Kobler Capone as a new biography and highlights Dr Harris's I’m OK-You’re OK on transactional analysis. Other offerings include Helicopters and Autogiros by Gablehouse, A Short History of the Arab People by Glubb, and Arlene Hale’s The Season of Love with a romance mystery.
Washington dispatch notes wide open contest with Sen. Fred Harris leaving the Oklahoma Senate seat while courting the vice presidential path. Chicago Mayor Daley backs Sen. Edward Kennedy as McCarthy plans New York primary entry as a potential third party challenger to Nixon.
United Gas, Inc. will relocate its executive offices to a 35 story skyscraper in Houston's central business district and open a nearby Customer Service Center. The United Gas Building will house about 100,000 of 700,000 square feet, with space leased from Century Development Corporation.
A brief notice mentions Las Vegas Nevada with six great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews, indicating a family remembrance or genealogical note.
A critic surveys Country and Western music noting its rise from hillbilly roots to a national force led by stars like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. The piece mocks urban bias, jokes at genre label shifts, and offers satirical song titles and a plan for a C and W opera, highlighting humor and cultural contrast.
A narrator reflects on unfinished kitchen painting with a white ceiling and partially painted wall, recalls childhood projects including a makeshift roller coaster built from slide boards and a chicken house, and jokes about stilts, tools, and space-age fantasies.
The Lions Club presented one year perfect attendance pins to 18 members at a Wednesday luncheon. President Virgil Wallace awarded the pins to Raymond Addington Donald Dale Barton Calvin Brannen Clyde C. Crawford Wilson Godfrey S. C. Harris David Holcombe Alton M Honeycutt Jr Bill R. Johnston Dr. Glen Kent Joe McElroy Dr. Harold McDowell A. B. Nelson Loyce Phillips C. D. Pittman W. H. Rose Billy W. Sorrells and W. T. Wallace. Separately ornithologists cited new bird names including the racket tailed drongo waxbill bare eye motmot and blue faced booby.
The Gladewater Mirror lists staff including Mrs Harry Kates general manager and advertising director Jack Elrod and others. It notes publication on Thursdays and Sundays, mailing rates for Texas and out of state, and that the paper merged with The Gladewater Times Tribune in 1949 and The White Oak Texan in 1969.
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