Gladewater Board Adopts Largest Budget Yet for 1975 76
The Gladewater school board approved a 1975 76 budget of 2 479 889 the largest in district history. Supt Roy Johnson noted 80 69 of funds target teacher salaries and the state boosted teacher pay by 1400. Four new teachers were hired along with seven aides and one resignation was accepted.
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Gladewater
Roy Johnson
Gladewater Mirror
Virgil Wallace
John Shipp
Lee Elder
Randy Wakefield
Wakefield
Ideal Baking Company
Registration Underway at Broadway School
Broadway school opens offices 8 to 4 Monday through Friday as principal Richard Goode announces new student registration. Third through fifth graders attend Broadway. unregistered students report to the cafeteria Monday August 18 for first day. Pre registered students pick homeroom.
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Broadway School
Richard Goode
Goode
Tough season ahead Bears prospect good in East Texas
East Texas high school football outlook centers on Gladewater High School with coach Jack Murphy shaping a light squad into district contenders. Bears rely on 15 lettermen including seven offensive and six defensive starters, with 56 players in camp and 23 seniors among them.
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East Texas
Gladewater High School
Bears
Bruins
Jack Murphy
Walter Derrick
Bobby Bernard
Scotty Barber
Richard Fenton
Oliver Sorrells
Butch Clay
Terry Hopkins
Murphy
Bears Football Freshmen Build for Next Season
The article reviews player departures and new starters for a high school football team, highlighting notable graduates John Floyd Jerry Smith Leonard Lott and coachable returnees Dennis Hawley Maurice Gunter Stanley Cureton Milton Timmons Eddie Johnson Charles Gordon Dale Lockett and quarterback Joe Louvier. It notes the Veer offense and Triple option as key elements and praises younger players' potential. The piece also lists local community notices including license tag loss and a birth announcement along with unrelated short items.
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John Floyd
Jerry Smith
Danny Sorrells
Leonard Lott
Billy Lucas
Carl Rockwell
Dennis Hawley
Maurice Gunter
Stanley Cureton
Milton Timmons
Eddie Johnson
Charles Gordon
Dale Lockett
Gordon
Gunter
Cureton
Timmons
Hawley
Chamber directors review reports and approve Halloween carnival fundraiser
The Chamber of Commerce directors held a luncheon and heard reports from committees, welcomed new members, and voted to adopt a Halloween carnival as a fundraising project. A reception for new Gladewater teachers was set for Monday at 3:30 p.m. in the Chamber assembly room.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Gladewater
Roy Johnson
Kiwanis Club
Johnson
Jack Earp
Ground broken for modern control tower at Gregg County Airport
Ground was broken Tuesday morning for a new 55 1 project at Gregg County Airport a five story tower 33 feet square rising to 62 feet with ARTS II BRITE IV radar displays and an adjacent five sided cab. The 551773 FAA funded facility will be built by Interstate General Contractors Inc of Chicago and completed by mid 1977 providing radar surveillance and control within a 30 mile radius.
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Gay Ave. Bridge
Gay Ave
Gregg County
Federal Aviation Agency
Henry Atkinson
FAA
Henry L. Newman
Ft. Worth
Longview
Interstate General Contractors, Inc
Chicago
Ill
A. S. Bukowsky
Longview Chamber of Commerce
Ewing Adams
Atkinson
Southwest Region
Air-Aplane Corporation of
Norfolk
Bukowsky
Fred McDowell
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Holly
Cameron
E. Gay
Broadway
Joe Louvier
Louvier
Joe
Marshall
Mildred Hackett
Faye Pruitt
Houston Post
Today
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Freeport Hospital
Mickey Rorex
Clute
C. A. Beasley
City
M. B. Rorex
Phillip
Mistie
University of Texas At Austin
Robert Stokes Daniel III
R. S. Daniel
Daniels
Darrell Summers
Summers
City Hospital
Rose McKinley
GHS
Emmett Lockett
Jim Hugman
Harry Kates
Brian Hudspeth
Kelly Murphy
Daingerfield
James Curtis
Lakeport
Bill Zager
Kilgore
Foster T. Bean
Kilgore News-Herald
Charles K. Devall
Longview Morning Journal
Margaret Estes
Bill Satterwhite
Hugh Camp
Bill Owens
Mary Pope
Medical Center Hospital
Fredalene Clark
Jaycees
Raymond Allen
Medical Committee
John Paul Talient
B. P. Dake
Jimmy Brown
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