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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1976
Page
9
A Chicago group Parent as Resource offers ideas for outdoor play with simple materials. Suggested projects include boxes, tires, bricks, a rope, a swing and a tunnel made from boxes. They describe backyard carnivals, scavenger hunts, crafts, and safe play guidance for parents.
A guide explains why life insurance remains valuable even with Social Security. It lists five reasons: to avoid relying on limited benefits, cover final illness expenses, funds for retirement, college for children, and other situations where continued living costs are needed.
City Manager Harry Moseley prepares a 1976 77 budget of about 9 million with no adoption yet. City financial officer Rice cites sound planning revenue from state sales tax growth and revenue sharing and notes a 95 cent tax rate per 100 valuation. He says Longview remains low taxed among large Texas cities while funding drainage sewer water projects and securing water through Lake Cherokee and Sabine sources.
Police activity logs show thefts of televisions CB radios at multiple addresses, vandalism at 325 S Main and 415 Godfrey, and a BB gun injury to a child. Walter Wayne Potter arrested on a criminal trespass warrant. other arrests include Kenneth Graves for forgery and Tommy Smith on a Tyler warrant. One vehicle accident near Lake Devernia with no injuries.
Army scientists plan a lava diversion using shaped charges and special forces to plug Mauna Loa's natural lava pipeline if eruption threatens Hilo Hawaii. The method, tested at Pohakaloa, faces challenges including gases heat and protective gear.
Imported fire ants now occupy counties from Cooke in North Texas to Kleberg in the south and reach Kerr and Bandera counties in the Hill Country. Forty percent of counties with a fire ant problem are under quarantine or suppression. Mirex remains under EPA review as production shifts to Mississippi. Texas offers free distribution through County Commissioners Courts while supplies last.
Ted Williams, a Tuscarora writer artist and musician, edits and authors The Reservation, a book of essays and sketches about American Indian life. Williams urges self belief and cultural endurance while critiquing stereotypes and AIM militancy, noting low Indian voting and resilience through change.
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