School notices and community updates in Gladewater district
Notices inform sixth to eighth graders to pick up schedules August 15 and assemble in the auditorium August 20 at 8 20 a m. Garden Club checks yearbook addresses and phone numbers with Mrs Ralph Prince at 845 2420 for changes. Free kittens offered at 845 4274. Gladewater CES No 831 hosts a Rob Morris picnic and a 50 year A F and A M membership pin. Fred and Alene Lott return from New Jersey with son Kenneth. they visit New York. Quote from Adlai Stevenson about retractions. White Oak School season tickets on sale August 17 for members, August 20 to general public. Memorial fund for Miss Kathy Dworin, Longview, funds to Mrs Philip Brin 1805 Smallwood Longview. UT College of Pharmacy names 230 students to spring honor roll. Roy Cooley and Laura Jobe cited for honors. About 1 500 graduates or diplomas to be awarded by University of Houston August 18. Gov Dolph Briscoe to speak. Gayle Horne of Gladewater to receive BA in political science.
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University of Texas
College of Pharmacy
Roy Byron Cooley
Route 1
Gladewater
Laura Sue Jobe
Taylor Jo
Jobe Drug
University of Houston
Dolph Briscoe
Gayle A. Horne
North Lynn Street
Punt Pass Kick Registration Opens for Youths
Local youngsters may register for the 1973 Punt Pass & Kick program co sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Gladewater and Davidson Ford Sales. Nationally the program reaches 13th year with vast participation. twelve age group finalists will compete at halftime of the Super Bowl in Houston January 13, 1974. Winners are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio.
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Pp&k
Kiwanis Club
Gladewater
Davidson Ford Sales
Pp&e
National Football League
Ford Dealers of America
Longview Native Joe Dawson Faces Babe Ruth Connection Night
Shreveport hosts Joe Dawson Night honoring Ralph Fenton Dawson of Longview a former Pittsburgh Pirate. In 1920 while in San Diego he faced Babe Ruth in a November sandlot game watched by 10 000 fans as Ruth hit a homer and Dawson pitched in the second inning.
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Shreveport
Joe Dawson
Pittsburgh
Ralph Fenton Dawson
Longview
Spar Stadium
Thomas J. Burnett
Air Force
Joe
Naval Air Corps
San Diego
Calif
Ruth
Colonels
Pittsburg
Ralph Fenton) Dawson
Shreveport Captains
Dawson
Robert Stafford
Jim Hughes
Oklahoma funeral rites for Mrs. Bessie Power at Enid cemetery
Mrs. Bessie Power 81 died after a three weeks illness in a local hospital. A Nebraska native who lived in Enid and Texas, she moved to Enid in 1921 with her family. Graveside rites were held at Memorial Cemetery Enid. Surviving are her daughter Mrs. Eddie Nelson and two brothers Frank and Rile McNeill.
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Bessie Power
Power
Eddie Nelson
Enid
Okla
Memorial Cemetery
Texas
Nebraska
Frank McNeill
Rile McNeill
Colorado
Swedish Rotary exchange student to live with East Texas family
Marianne Hesser a 19 year old from Linkoping Sweden arrives at Dallas Love Field to spend almost a year with the Walter Tally family in Gladewater. She will attend Gladewater High School as a senior and plans to study languages in college after returning home. Her father is a lawyer and a Rotarian. her mother is a Sweden born Iranian native.
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Marianne Hesser
Rotary
Linkoping
Ostergotland
Sweden
Walter Tally
Gladewater
Lin-sherping
Ooster-got-land
Tally
Dallas’ Love Field
U.S
North Main
Gay Streets
Church of Christ
Marianne
Greggton
Longview
Whitehouse
Tyler
GHS
Bengt Hesser
Iran
East
Texas
Tallys
Prayer for Today May Reject Racial Pride and Seek Brotherhood
A devotional prayer asks God to take away conceited ego and the belief one race is superior. It emphasizes unity as brothers under God, invoking Christ’s teaching of the Lord's Prayer and seeking divine guidance for harmony among all people.
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Christ
Council approves raise in gas rates
The Gladewater council voted to approve a United Gas rate hike of about six cents per day per customer amid discussion of other city matters. City funds were also allocated toward the Gregg Harrison Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, with a requested increase to $1,865.91 for 1973 74, and reports on a sewer extension project and land purchases for a sanitary landfill.
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United Gas Company
Ernest Martin
T&p
John R. Marshall
Carby
Gladewater
Frances H. Willis
Gregg Harrison
Willis
Texas Education Agency
TEA
Dewey Gray
Marshall
Part Utilities
Bryan
Texas
Council
Gladewater High School Adopts Modular Scheduling Change
Gladewater High School plans August 20 reopening with modular scheduling of fifteen 28 minute modules. New courses Air Science and American Cultural Studies join topic teaching across subjects. Some classes run three modules. vocational courses two to six modules.
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Gladewater High School
Broadway students may skip pre registration this year
Principal Richard Goode announces that returning Broadway school students and former Gay Avenue students entering third grade do not need to pre register. Returning students report August 20 at 8 20 a m and find names on classroom doors with teachers on duty. New enrollees go to the cafeteria that day for enrollment and class placement.
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Broadway School
Broadway
Richard Goode
Gay Avenue
Old press loaned from Ambassador College on display
The Mirror displays a hand printing press dating to 1849 once owned by Pastor Zeller and later gifted to Ambassador College by Walter A. Friz. John Robinson of the college notes the press adds antiquity to the layout room and recalls its German and English printing history with the Friz family.
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Mirror
Gladewater
Ambassador College
John Robinson
Ambassador Journalism
Dan Friz
Pastor Zeller
Zion Church
Millstadt
Walter Friz
Friz
Milwaukee
Dan
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Garden Club
Ralph Prince
Gladewater Ces
Rob Morris
A.F
A.M
Fred
Alene Lott
New Jersey
Patricia
Kenneth
New York
Adlai Stevenson
White Oak School
Kathy Dworin
Philip Brin
Smallwood
Dworin
Pauline Tally
Main and
Laura
Babe Ruth
Fredalene Clark
Oklahoma
Red Hale
Hale
Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Mary Dawson
Air Force School of Law Enforcement
Lackland Air Force Afb
Air Force Elite Guard Group
Wright Patterson Afb
Ohio
Mary
Pittsburgh Air Field
Pine Tree High School
J. W. Booth
Air Corps
North Island
Balboa Park
Navy
Edmund Burke
Jimmy Brown
God
R. J. Darby
United Gas
White Oak
Clarksville City
Jack Reeves
Lackland Afb
Agriculture
Ag. I
ITI
Bob Hill
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