Old Glade Creek bridge tragedy recalls memories
In Gladewater area Texas Highway officials recount the 1933 Glade Creek bridge collapse on Highway 15. Two brothers died and two women were seriously injured when a boiler truck failed to stop, pushing a car into the bridge. Eyewitness Monroe Maberry recalls the scene while others carry uneasy memories of the crash and its aftermath.
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Howard Clifton
Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation
Transportation News
Glade Creek
Gladewater
Pritchett Highway
Gladewater Creek
Highway
J M. (Monroe) Maberry
Maberry
Daisy Dixon
Lula Cox
Carroll
Noolen
Big Ymen
Highway 15
U.S. 80
Gladewaters
Gay Avenue
W. R. Center
Displaced homemakers seek aid and recognition
Sara Finch, after 31 years of marriage, becomes a displaced homemaker facing no alimony or reliable child support. Leaders like Tish Sommers urge social and legislative relief, proposing Social Security credits for homemaking and unemployment centers, as California funds model centers and Congress weighs bills.
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Thad
Sara Finch
Alison Goddard
Washington, D.C
Alliance For Displaced Homemakers
Alliance
Oakland
Calif
Finch
Tish Sommers
National Organization For Women’s
California
Maryland
John Tunney
D-Ca
Ms. Sommers
Service of Science & Medicine Publishing Co., Inc
Averst Lab
Gala society pages spark with prose and lobster reels
A sardonic column mocks Dallas society coverage in the Dallas Morning News. It lampoons gala display rooms filled with lobster and beef, photographer ambushes, and the habit of society writers to focus on decor. The piece notes horology curiosity and coffeehouse banter about wealth and watches.
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Dallas Morning News
Jean Prejean
Dallas
Society
Page One
Queen Anne
Cherie Hopkins
Kilgore College
Roberts files for reelection to Texas Fourth District
U S Rep Ray Roberts of McKinney filed with Chairman Calvin Guest to place his name on the Democratic primary ballot for May 1 in Texas Fourth Congressional District. Roberts, a 1962 Texas Senate alumnus, now chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee and the Water Resources Subcommittee of Public Works and Transportation.
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McKinney
U.S
Ray Roberts
McKinney Today
Texas
Calvin Guest
Democratic Executive Committee
Congress
Roberts
Texas Senate
House
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Public Works and Transportation Committee
Gladeites mother dies in Gilmer
Mrs. Ruby Sanders, 86, mother of Mrs. T. W. Moughan, died in a Gilmer hospital Friday night. Funeral services were set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at Croley Funeral Home with interment in Glenwood Cemetery. Lifelong Glenwood resident and Methodist, she is survived by Paul Sanders, four grandchildren, three great grandchildren, a sister Mrs. Annie Sanders of Houston.
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Ruby Sanders
T. W. Moughan
Gilmer Hospital
Croley Funeral Home
Glenwood Cemetery
Mrs. Sanders
Glenwood
Methodist Church
Moughan
Paul Sanders
Houston
Annie Sanders
New Year Resolutions for Political Figures and Energy
The piece playfully assigns resolutions to leaders like President Ford Ronald Reagan Leonid Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger critiquing vetoes detente and hair secrets It also targets Mayor Beame the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the UN and Congress while noting windmill counts and potential restarts to ease the energy crunch
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Ford
Congress
U.S
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Leonid Brezhnev
Henry Kissinger
U.S.S R
Henry
Abraham Beame
New York City
Nyc
Beame
Pickup Parking Woes Spark Binocular Backing Reflects on Cleanups
A downtown parking gripe on East Pacific Street in Gladewater leads to musings about pickups, spring cleanups, and a Bicentennial year. The narrator jokes about owning a pickup to improve visibility, contemplates city ordinances, and muses on Handi-Wipes, trash bags, and leaf bagging schemes while dreaming up inventions to ease daily chores.
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East Pacific
Pacific Street
Gladewater
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Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
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