Centennial plans outlined for city celebration
The board discussed drafting bylaws to be adopted next meeting, creating a centennial headquarters, and appointing an executive committee from directors. A proclamation by the mayor and city council was planned. First 1,000 shares of stock cost $1 each with $2,250 in pledges. A combined centennial religious service and contact with an Ohio firm for production were considered. Next executive committee meeting is Friday Feb 23 at 3 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce, 215 N Main Street.
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Abernathy
Centennial Corporation
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
N. Main Street
Best Sellers List Highlights Diverse Authors and Works
Publishers' Weekly compiles fiction and nonfiction best sellers featuring Jonathan Livingston Seagull The Odessa File August 1914 The Camerons Semi-Tough The Best and the Brightest Harry S Truman Dr Atkins Diet Revolution Supermoney among others.
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Jonathan Livingston
Seagull
Bach
Odessa
Forsyth
Solzhenitsyn
The
Camerons
Crichton
Jenkins
Harry S Truman
Margaret Truman
Dr. Atkins
Atkins
Supermoney
Smith
Touchstone talk on vocation planning and youth guidance
Vocational program coverage highlights speaker Teague urging a practical focus for youth. He stressed attitude, planning, problem solving, and guiding children to aptitudes, with the goal of helping them make a living and live meaningfully. He praised Gladewater schools after touring them.
Revue and Opera Singers Highlight East Texas Night
The event features REVUE performing Searching for Rainbows and Howard Dunagan billed as The East Texas Sage with jokes. Mrs Cliff Bowden narrates There She Is theme with the Swingsters and a list of models and performers including Donalyn Audas Kim Audas and Latricia Trawick. Also Jerry Elliott sings With the Swingsters and more acts finale This Is My America. In Washington George London announces 14 young opera singers receive 5000 each for one year from the National Opera Institute after auditions in five cities.
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GHS
Howard Dunagan
East Texas Sage
Dunagan
Cliff Bowden
Swingsters
Donalyn
Kimberly Audas
Daniel’s
Jennie McCulley
J. C. Penney
Deborah Herron
Melesia Stevens
Ann Marlowe
Mark Mills
Richard Jones
Galen Gary
Bennett
Steuber
Randy Wakefield
Danny Bennett
Jobe Drug
Washington
George London
The
National Opera Institute
Family World chief Garrett plans move to East Texas
Garrett, 41, has completed development of Dallas luxury complex Town House with 176 units. He and wife Kathy, Minnesota native, have two grown daughters and two sons aged 9 and 12. They intend to return to Gilmer area when Family World’s building schedule allows and participate in East Texas community life.
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Garrett
Dallas
Gilmer
Family World
Kathy
Minnesota
East Texas
Regionwide radio system to serve East Texas agencies
East Texas region including 14 counties will implement a regionwide law enforcement radio system in late March or early April. Funded by the Criminal Justice Council and Governor Briscoe, the ETCOG project will replace old gear with modern, higher capacity hardware to allow all agency pairings. Initial planning began in 1971 with a $29,000 design phase and a $435,186 CJC grant for equipment, installation by local firms starting last November, targeting completion by late March.
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Austin
East Texas Council of Governments
Kilgore
Criminal Justice Council
Dolph Briscoe
CJC
Texas
East Texas
Anderson
Camp
Cherokee
Gregg
Harrison
Henderson
Marion
Panola
Rains
Rusk
Smith
Upshur
van Zandt
Wood
ETCOG
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Kerry Lee
C. W. Dawson
Trey Hugman
Dawson
Saltillo
Mexico
Archi
Cleopatra
Batman
Mike Davidson
Publishers’ Weekly
Halberstamm. O
Harris
Vocational
Teague
Gladewater
San Francisco
New York
Chicago
Carmen Balthrop
Silver Spring
Diana Catani-Soviero
Barbara Hendricks
Catherine Malfitano
LaVerne Williams
Oakland
Calif
Gwendolyn Jones
Evelyn Petros
Barry Busse
Minneapolis
Frederic de Marseille
el Toro
William Harness
Seattle
Perry Price
Danbury
Conn
John Sandor
East Orange
N.J
Robert Currier Christesen
John Seabury
Ks Treae
Tropolis
Evea
First State Bank
Pull Service Bank O
Cladewater
Said
Boy Scout Troop 192
Doug Whittle
Boy Scouts of America
Ricky Fail
Fail
Webelos
Jimmy Rowe
M. C. Lovelady
David Burrows
Harold Potts
Robert Forrester
Logan Ashby
Jeff Rowe
Bud Richardson
William Baird
Keith Hodges
Jed Rowe
Charles Gordon
Marcus Green
Tony Wilburn
Darriel Hancock
Mark Roberts
Alvin Bittner
Todd Smith
Jeff Gibbons
Ronnie van Houten
Chip Hodge
Keith Ford
Chip Imray
Jody Rowe
United States
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Friedrich
Weiser’s Tire & Appliance
N. Main
Ladewater
Joe Pitman
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