Christmas notices and local events in Gladewater Mirror
Community notices include a Christmas letter drive for Santa via Gladewater Mirror, holiday programs at Upshur nursing home, Rotary Club plans, firemen banquet, free vaccine clinic at American Legion Hut, a church bazaar and centennial mission, senior honors at Gladewater High, and local memories with former city manager Ivan Oliver visiting Ft Worth.
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Upshur
Ivan Oliver
Oliver’s
Ft. Worth
Fifth grade Christmas play at Broadway Intermediate
Fifth grade students at Broadway Intermediate School will present the Christmas play A Gift For Santa Wednesday at 9 30 in the school auditorium. Mrs Rosemary Ray leads the production with help from fifth grade teachers. Public invited. Cast includes Father Milford John Brannen Santa Claus Charles McKenzie and more. Musical selections feature O Come All Ye Faithful O Little Town of Bethlehem Silent Night Rudolph.
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Broadway Intermediate School
Rosemary Ray
Broadway
Father Milford
John Brannen
Mother Milford
Laura Louvier
Ann Milford
Katie Kent
Fred Milford
Bruce Farrar
Janice Milford
Eva Atkinson
Santa Claus
Charles McKenzie
Carolers
Santa’s
Toy Soldiers
Little Town of
Bethlehem
National Education Association Names 9 Member Task Force
George D. Fischer appoints a nine member task force on student involvement to study student rights and responsibilities, report findings, and design action programs. Texans Marilyn Godfrey and James Melton join along with national and regional education leaders.
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George D. Fischer
Washington, D.C
National Education Association
Marilyn Godfrey
Gay Avenue
Gladewater
Texas
James Melton
Texas Student Education Association
University of Houston
George Gameson
California
Willis Wagner
University of Northern Iowa
Charles Gonzales
Student National Education Association
New Mexico
Janet Portolan
SNEA
Norman C. Najimy
Massachusetts
Dick Jones
University of Oregon
John King
Iowa
Martha Ware
Kilgore College Enrollment Reaches New Peak
Kilgore College fall enrollment rises to 2648 with 924 male freshmen 180 male part timers 381 male sophomores 57 part time male sophomores 386 others. Female tallies include 581 full time freshmen 127 part time freshmen 237 full time sophomores 46 part time sophomores and 29 others.
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Kilgore
Kilgore College
DPS Predicts 54 Die Over Christmas Weekend
Texas DPS predicts 54 traffic fatalities during the Christmas weekend and 33 over New Year’s. Operation Motorcide runs 6 p.m. December 24 to 11:59 p.m. December 28 and again December 31 to January 4 1970 with full patrol strength and cross-agency support.
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Dallas
Guy Smith
Texas Department of Public Safety
DPS Statistical Services
Smith
Uniformed Services
Department
DPS
Most Courteous Salesperson To Be Selected Here
Gladewater Rotary Club to pick a Courtesy Queen or King for the Christmas season. Presentation to be made at a January club meeting. Chairman Bill Langford with committee members Bud Weiser Sid Hecker and Eddie Nelson appointed last week by the Board of Directors.
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Gladewater
Last Rites Friday For Mrs. Mary Stone
Funeral services were held Friday at 10 a.m. for Mrs. Mary Alice Stone 78 of 1202 Rodeo who died in a local hospital Wednesday. The Rev. James Brannen and Rev. Herman Reagh officiated at Stone Chapel with burial in Memorial Park. Pallbearers listed. Survived by son C. M. Stone of Gladewater, daughters Viola Jinkins Electra Nancy Webb Houston, brothers Henry Frank Lee, sister Belle Bailey, five grandchildren eight great grandchildren. Malcolm Stone Funeral Home directed.
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Mary Alice Stone
Rodeo
James Brannen
Stone Chapel
Herman Reagh
Memorial Park
C. M. Stone
Gladewater
Viola Jinkins
Electra
Nancy Webb
Houston
Henry McEntire
Rockport
Frank McEntire
Linton
Lee McEntire
Stephensville
Belle Bailey
Rotan
Christmas Store Hours in Effect in Gladewater
Gladewater merchants stay open until 8 p.m. through December 23 to aid Christmas shoppers. On Christmas Eve December 24 most stores will close at their regular hour, says Sid Hecker, chairman of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce.
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Gladewater
Sid Hecker
The
Chamber of Commerce
Hecker
Prayer For Today Spirit Intercedes As We Pray
A devotional note invites daily prayer with the Spirit helping in weakness. The petition asks for close contact with the Holy Spirit and real intimacy through prayer and communion with Jesus, in His name.
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Jesus
Longview Schools Ordered to Integrate by 1970
Longview district lawyers outlined a Fifth Circuit ruling demanding complete integration by February 1 1970 across staff, faculties, athletics and activities. The plan requires desegregation of faculty, transfer policies, non-discriminatory busing, and unitary pupil attendance starting 1970 with court deadlines to file merger plans by January 6 and final order by February 11 1970.
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Longview
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Appeals Court
District Court
HEW
Office of Education
A Glance At The News Stark November Texas Roundup
East Texas reports 18 traffic deaths in November from 465 accidents in the Tyler district. 12 fatalities, 130 injuries, 323 property damage cases. $361,849 in property damage. Across year to date, 4,527 accidents in the first 11 months. In Houston, Fred Steinmann’s left leg amputated at hip due to malignant tumor. In San Marcos, Corpus Christi coed found in Blanco River. Martha Sue Thompson, 21, stabbed 27 times and skull fractured near I 35 bridge. In Marshall, city commission meeting. authorities fear rabid wild crows as boy Robert Fidler treated for neck and face injuries.
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Tyler
East Texas Highway Patrol
Glen Warner
Highway Patrol
Houston
M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
Fred Steinmarm
University of Texas
San Marcos
Corpus Christi
Blanco River
Martha Sue Thompson
Texas
C. D. Chenat
Austin
Marshall
Marshall City Commission
Wild Crows
Robert Fidler
L. A. Fidler
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Nancy Phillips
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Roy Gatewood
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Robert Barnett
Wendell Bell
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Billie Prince
Jay Finley
Beverly Tallent
Robert Allen
Darwin Brooks
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Allen Calhoun
Kathy Clark
Patricia Davidson
Susan Davis
Leo Dunkin
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William Hampton
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Paul Turner
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Donald Webb
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Teri Cobb
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Cynthia Wells
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Fred Melton
Charlie Manning
Jimmy Malone
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Gilbert Smith
J. E. Bartlett
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S. E. Wellborn
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Mrs. Stone
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Malcolm Stone Funeral Home
O. W. Morrow
Judy Darlene Hobbs
Winona
Miss Hobbs
Morrow
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