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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1975
Page
2
In two years about 350 Upshur County residents received care from the Titus County Outreach Clinic of Terrell State Hospital. Since May 1973 Mt. Pleasant Clinic out-patient visits reached 3,500, with 125 former Terrell patients and 213 never hospitalized. Fees scale to income. medications sold at wholesale prices.
Norbert L. Greene of Gladewater participated in UTSA's New Student Conference on the new campus. UTSA will admit undergraduates the first time this fall starting Sept. 2, with graduate students already attending since June 1973. The conference featured early registration orientation and advising on the $43 million campus. The Upshur County Outreach Clinic reports 148 residents served in 1974 and again through July 15 of the current year, reflecting rising community mental health needs.
Southwestern Electric Power Company announces sale of 40 million dollars in first mortgage bonds due August 1, 2005 to fund future construction and retire short term borrowing. Three underwriting groups are named and rating agencies place principal bonds at double A. Major projects include Welsh Power Plant in East Texas and Flint Creek Power Plant in Northwest Arkansas.
Phillips Petroleum Corp is leasing Harrison County land for an exploration program to assess coal possibilities. A Bartlesville spokesman calls it part of ongoing energy searches, with two leases granting rights to mine and conduct exploration activities in the area.
Navy Machinist's Mate Third Class Richard H. Adams, son of Mr and Mrs Roger R Adams of Longview, is aboard the USS John F Kennedy homeported at Norfolk. The crew will visit Naples Italy and Barcelona Rota and Palma Spain. Adams joined the Navy in December 1974 after attending Lan Morris Junior College.
12-year-old Mark Denton runs a bike repair and sales operation from 1101 Rodeo St in Gladewater. He repairs gears and wheels, builds bikes from frames and parts, and also tinkers with record players, charging customers as he learns the business.
Funeral services for Rennie Valentine Modisette 75 of White Oak were held Thursday at 2 p.m. in Welch Funeral Home Longview with the Rev J A Allen officiating. Burial followed in White Oak Cemetery. He died Tuesday in a Gladewater hospital and is survived by Ada his wife four sons Curtis and Charles White Oak J D Henderson and James Spring Hill a daughter Pattie Stapleton Atlanta Ga three brothers P J Shreveport O H Hattiesburg and C D Jackson three sisters Dennie Dunn Springhill Opal Laughlin Del Mar and Cleo Dean Sarepta 14 grandchildren two great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Ronald Dotson of Longview says Palmer Petroleum Company of Texas has complied with Minnesota securities rules after a cease and desist order. Minnesota officials note petroleum property interests are securities needing registration before sale and Palmer Petroleum of Gladewater operates at 500 E Broadway. Palmer, Dotson and B Reagan McLemore organized the Texas corporation on August 13 1973 with Harold Palmer as registering agent.
A first person reflection on home improvement shows slow progress painting two rooms while plans for kitchen changes loom. The narrator digresses into consumer woes from guaranteed light bulbs to car tires, then shifts to a soap box plea for higher pay for public officials and social security retirees, noting cost of living rises.
The Gladewater Published Thursday and Sundays by The Gladewater Publishing Company at Glade Avenue and Dean Street Gladewater Gregg County Texas 75647. Second class postage paid at Gladewater Texas 75647. Home Delivery price one dollar twenty five cents per month. By Mail in Texas one dollar twenty five cents per month five dollars for six months eight fifty per year. Outside Texas one dollar fifty cents per month six dollars for six months ten dollars per year. All mail subscriptions payable in advance. Consolidated with The Gladewater Times-Tribune November twenty eight nineteen forty nine and The White Oak Texan June first nineteen sixty nine.
A 1934 Texas childhood memory recalls a free traveling medicine show led by Doc Butler and his wife. The act featured cures in nostrums sold beside performances by Chalkeye as the crowd gathered nightly under a red oak. The show faded by late August, marking the end of an era for rural entertainment.
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