Police officer injured as jail door traps hand
Police officer David Russell suffered a painful left hand injury when a jail cell door slammed shut on it over the weekend. He broke two fingers and was cut, yet remained on the job. Water department flushing hydrants may lower neighborhood water pressure tonight through Sunday. Jolly Dozen Club mailed 5,000 Betty Crocker coupons to aid Larry Parks’s kidney machine fund. Tina Smith fund grows by 203 from First State Bank group dance proceeds. Multiple local notices mention flu cases, charitable drives, and lupus information.
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David Russell
Russell
Jolly Dozen
Betty Crocker
Gray’s Grocery
Earp’s Super Save
Larry Parks
Parks
Wayland Baptist College
Tina Smith
First State Bank
Lambda Xi Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
General Telephone Budgets $75 Million for 1970 Construction
General Telephone Company of the Southwest announces a 1970 construction budget of 75 million dollars, a 20 percent rise from 1969. The plan includes 27 million for central office equipment, upgrading 14 offices, adding to 84, and expanding long distance dialing to 56 exchanges.
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San Angelo
General Telephone Company of the
Southwest
L. Gray Beck
General Telephone
Beck
News roundup shows 1969 city growth and policy pushes
Banquet plans near sellout with out of town attendees led by H C Pittman of Austin as master of ceremonies and Life Membership Award for Frank Sewell Jr. Oil production allowances set at 68 percent for March by Texas Railroad Commission. AFL-CIO pushes higher wages and national health insurance. Nixon era favors lowering voting age for national elections. Texas Governor race setback for Senator Ralph Hall. Marshall ISD HEW compliance dispute emerges. General Telephone outlines 1970 expansion to 868,200 phones across five states.
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Tyler
Chamber of Commerce
H. C. Pittman
Austin
Texas Automobile Dealers Association
Pittman
Texas
Frank Sewell Jr
Chamber
Texas Railroad Commission
Ralph Hall
Texas Supreme Court
Sen. Hall
U. S. Supreme Court
Democratic Executive Committee
Hall
416 Children Receive Rubella Vaccine Sunday
A total of 416 children from Gladewater White Oak and Sabine areas received rubella vaccine at a Sunday clinic from 1 to 5 p m at Broadway Cafeteria. The free vaccination targeted children ages 1 to 10 and was organized by Mrs Don Smith with help from Jayceeettes and Municipal Hospital nurses. Upshur County plans a future rubella clinic February 23 at Union Grove School for county residents in the same age group.
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Gladewater
White Oak
Sabine
Broadway
Don Smith
Jayceeettes
James Walker
C. B. McKenzie
Glen Kent
Municipal Hospital
Upshur County
Union Grove
Prayer For Today Peace Amid Disappointments
A devotional prayer reflection on Jesus granting peace not as the world gives. The writer thanks the Loving Savior for inner peace despite disappointments, heartbreak, and a teacan ow Aman.
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John
Bond Issue and Highway Loop Dominate Long Council Agenda
The council votes to call a special meeting for February 24 to consider a general obligation bond for U S Highway 271 improvements and a loop connecting U S Highway 80 and 271. Other actions include payroll changes, land bids, budget hearing date move, audit reappointment, and water and sewer funding for Lake Gladewater.
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Jimmy Brown
City Airport Board
F. Ames Lawrence
Larry Stratton
Kirk W. Abercrombie
Pacific Street
Abercrombie
Gus Davis
Longview Cpa
Davis
Everett Wiseman
Leon Waggoner
Hoy Williams
Water & Sewer Fund
Lake Gladewater
Bill Langford
Langford
Ernest Martin
Bain Leake
Melvin Jenkins
Roy Leggitt
Leggitt
Jenkins
State Highway Commission
U. S. Highway 80
U. S
Jaycees Lead Campaign to Stir World Opinion on POWs
Gladewater Jaycees join a statewide effort to pressure North Vietnam over the treatment of American POWs and urge letters to Xuan Thuy. The plan includes sharing ambassador and newspaper contacts and a personal letter writing drive tied to H. Ross Perot’s call for tangible proof of American concern.
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Gladewater Jaycees
North Vietnam
Jaycees
Xuan Thuy
Nort Vietnam
H. Ross Perot
Dallas
Vietnam
Jaycee
Perot
United We Stand
Local Youth Jailed on Drug Charges in Nacogdoches
Timothy Kent Rivers 19 and Ralph Wright Thompson 19 both SFA students were arrested Monday night by Nacogdoches police on marijuana possession charges. Rivers faces two counts, Thompson one count possession and narcotics paraphernalia. Bail set at 15000 each after arraignment before Justice Carl Burrows.
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Nacogdoches
Gladewater
Nacogdoches County
Timothy Kent Rivers
Stephen F. Austin State University
Ralph Wright Thompson
Houston
SFA
Parmer
Young Rivers
Thompson
Palmer
Justice of the Peace
Carl Burrows
Armstrong Named Easter Seal Campaign Chairman in Texas
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong has been named chairman of the 1970 Easter Seal campaign in Texas. He will lead over 20,000 volunteers in the annual fund drive for the Tex as Easter Seal Society, which assists the handicapped in Texas for 41 years. Armstrong, Apollo IX commander, is 40 and the first man to walk on the moon.
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Neil A. Armstrong
Texas
P. O. Settle, Jr
Fort Worth
Armstrong
Tl Am
Texas Easter Seal Society
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Pete McKain
Pete
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Bobbie
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General Telephone Co
Miami Beach
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Richard G. Kleindienst
Marshall Independent School
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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Paris
Possum Huntin
Red River Valley
University of Coloma
General Telephone Company of the Southwest
General Telephone & Electronics Corporation
Southwest Company
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Don Perkins
Homestead College of Bible
Orlando
Florida
Don F. Perkins
Perkins
Memorial Baptist Church
Bible Colleges of America
Arnold V. Pent
National Communicable Disease Center
Michael Gregg
NCDC
Sabine River
Dean
Main Streets
Highway Commission
State Highway Department
Airport Board
Lawrence
E. R. Pete McKain
McKain
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