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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1976
Page
1
Gladewater school board approved bids for three school cars and discussed tax matters including retirement age. Adult education continues evenings at Broadway School room 204. Community notices include births, a lost pet, Cub Scout recruitment, contract renewals, resignations, and attendance at a state education conference.
Gladewater joins four East Texas cities in a federal Rural Demonstration Housing program to stimulate middle income housing. Tony Williams says the units target 20 000 to 25 000 dollars with no city funds involved. Gaylon Lee will head the office as housing coordinator funded by a Labor Department plant. she will attend a Texas course in Austin this month.
A 7 p.m. Thursday joint meeting at the chamber of commerce will review a consolidation plan for city tax offices. Four tax firms will present re appraisal options as the seven member housing advisory committee monitors the project. The pilot aims to prioritize federally backed loans for modest housing and may expand to apartments if successful. Ms Lee assists applicants with loan processing under the Farmers Home Administration FHA and VA programs.
First State Bank reports 1975 deposits rose by 2,800,144.68 and loans by 1,628,662.70 or 20 percent over 1974. Cashier Bill RK Johnston notes total deposits at 58,108,966.18 and assets at 20,112,350.34, up 2,995,665.84 from 1974.
LF officers elected at the United Fund annual meeting Tuesday night. Mollie Abercrombie is president with Marilyn Godfrey as first vice president and drive chair, Denis Earp as second vice president, Jo Wiley secretary, Carson Kennedy treasurer, Jack Earp past president, and Tim Bland 1973 74 president. Mrs Wiley praised for efforts, Earp thanked Abercrombie for the successful drive. A preliminary budget was discussed but action postponed.
The Mirror learns that Rep Wright Patman of the First District will not seek another term when his current term ends this year. Patman, age 82, has served 48 years in the House, first elected in 1928.
In Longview Sen. John G Tower criticizes the Energy Policy and Conservation Act signed by President Ford. He states Reagan may carry Texas in a future contest and that the CIA and FBI investigations should end, with a final report due and the Senate Intelligence Committee to disband by February end.
Miss Vinnie O'Neal 80 died Tuesday after a long illness at a local hospital. Services are set for Thursday at 2 p.m. in Malcolm Stone Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Ira Bristow officiating. Burial will follow at Dollahute Cemetery in Longview. She was born July 22, 1895 in Van and lived in Oak Manor Nursing Home ten years. She was a member of the Assembly of God Church. Survived by her brother Ss. M. O'Neal of Tyler and many nieces and nephews, who will serve as pallbearers.
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