Time Out for Happiness and Other Book Notices
Readers recall Cheaper by the Dozen author Frank Gilbreth with Time Out for Happiness detailing Lillie Gilbreth’s life from Oakland childhood to Berkeley days. Nadine Gordimer’s A Guest of Honour and Bill Gulick’s The Country Club Caper headline new fiction. Erik Barnouw’s The Image Empire and Karen Pryor’s Nursing Your Baby join the nonfiction lineup.
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Frank Gilbreth
Lillie Gilbreth
Oakland
California
Berkeley
Lillie
Nadine Gordimer
James Bray
Bray
Bill Gulick
United States
Erik Barnouw
Eric Barnouw
Columbia University School of the Arts
Karen Pryor
Sweetgum leaves and life lessons from a yard project
A homeowner muses on the satisfaction of small tasks in yard work and the unending rake to tidy a garden area. The piece weaves personal reflection with a note about sweetgum balls and a light asides on freedom and a teenager’s vow to avoid carbonated drinks.
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East Texas
Judo Experts Demonstrate Style For Lions Club
The Lions Club heard and watched judo experts show holds and throws in a program led by Norman Glickman. Longview instructor L. H. Buddy Smith, 40, and Bill Glickman, 16, demonstrated, explained belts, and contrasted judo with karate.
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Lions Club
L. H
Buddy) Smith
Longview
YMCA
Gladewater High School
Bill Glickman
St. Clair Restaurant
Norman Glickman
Bill
Smith
Kodokan
Tokyo
Glickman
GHS
Norman
Digester System Raises East Texas Composting Prospects
Hammer outlines a six day digesting cycle that rapidly converts city trash into sanitary compost. The system handles a 10 000 to 12 000 population load with one operator and rejects bulky items while plastics and glass are ground or powdered for recycling. Similar plants exist in Houston Tulsa and New York making the college unit a regional first.
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Hammer
Nature
Houston
Tulsa
New York
College
East Texas
Governor Smith Praises Private Colleges in Texas Higher Education
Gov. Smith cites Co ordinating Board estimates 1985 Texas enrollment at 824000 with about 2.5 billion dollars in costs. He notes private colleges enrolled 70800 students in 1967-68 spending about 100 million and warns public duplication would raise state costs. He urges private support to avert a crisis and commends LeTourneau Longview for strong campus climate and Christian ideals.
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Smith
Coordinating Board of Texas College and University System
Texas
Gov. Smith
LeTourneau
Longview
Coming Events February and March in Gregg County clubs
Calendar of local meetings and fundraisers listed for February and March. Bible studies and study groups gather at various homes and churches. bake sales and pancake breakfasts raise funds for Heart Fund GCARC and nursing scholarship. venues include Penney's First State Bank Brookshire parking lots Cave Inn Contessa Inn Longview and First Presbyterian Church.
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Lambda Xi Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Penney's
First State Bank
Heart Fund
Gregg County Association For
Brookshire
Longview
Dorcas
First Presbyterian Church
Mesdames
E. D. Sutton
D. W. Read
Ezekiel
Gregg County Medical Auxiliary
Contessa Inn
Howard LeBus
Chinese Woman Credited With Invention Of Umbrella
National Geographic cites a legend of a Chinese woman seeking shade creating the umbrella around 2000 B.C. Early umbrellas resembled Buddhist pagodas and soon symbolized religious and political power.
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National Geographic
B.C
Jarvis Plans Special Church Service Sunday
Jarvis Hawkins Jarvis Christian College will hold a 11 a.m. church service in Meyer Auditorium with remarks by Mrs. W. M. Donaldson and Edwina Anderson. Afterward an Afternoon in Paris will feature Rose Mary Smith of Summit Laboratories The Hair Straight Permanent. Visitors may tour campus growth projects.
Elvis Edmonds Dies in Kilgore Rites Friday
Funeral services for Elvis C. Edmonds 94 were held at 10 a.m. in Kilgore with Dr. Edwin Mays officiating. Burial followed in Kilgore Cemetery. Edmonds, a former Gladewater resident, worked at Mark Day Drug Store, later became a banker and led City National Bank in Hico. Survivors include two sons and seven grandchildren.
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Kilgore
Elvis C. Edmonds
Rader
Edwin Mays
Edmonds
Gladewater
Mark Day
City National Bank
Hico
Texas
Sweetheart Banquet Address at Local Homemakers Chapter
A local Future Homemakers of America banquet featured a guest speaker who mused on the novelty and risk of addressing the all-girls group aged 15 to 19. He describes his reluctance and candid, often unpopular, after-dinner framing of his remarks.
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Future Homemakers of America
Cockerells Announce Birth of Grandchild
The Garth Cockerells announce the birth of their first grandchild, a daughter named Cinnamon Celeste born February 16 at 11 15 p.m. in Baylor Hospital Dallas weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces. Paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs B B Arnold Sr Austin. Mrs Cockerell left Friday to spend the week with her new granddaughter.
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Garth Cockerells
Baldur Arnold
Richardson
Arnold
Gloria Cockerell
Cinnamon Celeste
Baylor Hospital
Dallas
B. B. Arnold
Austin
Cockerell
Births It’s A Boy And It’s A Girl At City Hospital
IT’S A BOY for Mr and Mrs Steven Walston born Wednesday at City Hospital at 3 49 PM Steven Christopher weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 19 inches long IT’S A GIRL for Mr and Mrs Colonel Gerald Price born Thursday at City Hospital at 4 25 AM the baby weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and was 21 inches long.
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Steven Walston
City Hospital
Steven Christopher
Gerald Price
Gladewater Mirror Masthead and Subscription Rates
The Gladewater Mirror lists Harry Kates (1897 1964) publisher general manager and advertising director with Women's Editor roles for Mrs Harry Kates and staff Jack Elrod Fredalene Clark Harriett Walton. Published Thursdays and Sundays at Glade Avenue and Dean Street. Home delivery 1.00 per month. By mail in Texas 1.25 monthly 5.00 six months 8.50 yearly. Outside Texas 1.50 monthly 6.00 six months 10.00 yearly. All mail subscriptions payable in advance.
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Glade Avenue
Dean Street
Gladewater
Gregg County
Texas
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Bryan Kirbo
William Hardman
Mary Jane
London
James Hemmings
Jimmy Brown
Glen Kent
Kilgore Hwy
Marvin Brumley
H. L. McKaig
Lambda Xi
Redonia Harper
Vesta Drive
Three Arts Club
Cave Inn
Charles Wilson
Jarvis
Elvis Edmonds
Frankfort
Legislative Audit Committee
Kentucky
Cockerells
FHA
Britain
John Trevelyan
Harry Kates
Nows Equor
Mrs
Jack Elrod
Fredalene Clark
Harriett Walton
Gladewater Times-Tribune
The
White Oak Texan
TEXA
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