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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1969
Page
6
Upshur County Bar Association asks state lawmakers to authorize use of a jury wheel system. They petition Senator Jack Strong and Representative George Hinson for special legislation to let Upshur County select jurors by wheel.
The wheel method preps eligible jurors by a committee of tax assessor collector district clerk county clerk and sheriff or reps. Names are drawn from a rotating box to form each jury panel. Annually the wheel is filled and Upshur County’s jury commission reviews rolls from the tax office to select panels.
Lions Paw notes a free admission basketball game between Union Grove Male Faculty and the Senior class. Faculty lineup features Jack the Ripper Butler baton waver, Jack Ball Hawk Barrow from Titus County as principal, and Byron Double dribble Spencer, ag teacher, with a link to Henderson County Cardinals coach’s brother.
Local notes describe Glynn Johnston as head football coach and standout for professors, Jerry Hill as blocker and math teacher, John Mackey as basketball coach, plus faculty and senior players named for a 7:00 p.m. game in Union Grove Gymnasium on Tuesday February 25. The piece also reports Gerald and Johnny Mears returning from overseas duty and a Valentine homecoming, a campus ethics column on civil disobedience, Public School Week events in Texas with Glyn Johnston receiving a 13-year service award, and random community notes including birthdays, a gas well update, a bond election, and a tour by Larry Dauster to a third grade class.
A reader asks about the shift in phrasing from blooming idiots to flower children reflecting 1960s cultural language. The note contrasts hospital admission lists with a social question on phrase origin and usage.
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