Richard Johnson wins national Punt Pass and Kick title
Ten year old Richard Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Johnson won the 10 year old division at Ford Divisions Punt Pass and Kick national finals held near the Super Bowl in Houston. He was sponsored by Davidson Ford and the Kiwanis Club and will have his name inscribed on the PP and K Hall of Fame trophy in Canton Ohio.
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Richard Johnson
Leonard Johinson
Houston
Richard
Davidson Ford
Kiwanis Club
Minnesota Vikings
Miami Dolphins
Rice Stadium
Canton
Ohio
Pp&e
Bennett E. Bidwell
Ford
Ford Division
Pete Rozelle
National Football League
Mrs. Sarah Ditto 85 Dies in Arkansas Rites Planned
Mrs. Sarah Ditto, 85, a resident of 516 West Pacific, died Monday in a local nursing home. Her body will be sent to Dillinger Funeral Home in Newport for burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery. Local arrangements are by Malcolm Stone Funeral Home. She was born August 23, 1888 in Alabama and had lived in Gladewater the last six months. she is survived by son Gilbert Simmons and grandson Widner Simmons.
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Sarah Ditto
W. Pacific
Dillinger Funeral Home
Newport
Arkansas
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Malcolm Stone
Rising prices plague schools in Gladewater
Gladewater School board at January meeting heard reports from advisory conference of administrators and trustees. Superintendent Roy Johnson and board members Jack Earp and Garth Cockerell attended four sessions covering 16 topics from school finance to curriculum. TEA is shaping insurance policy and workmen compensation rules with a 60 to 90 day commitment window. coverage due by July 1. Kindergarten practices, adult education, taxation, and the quarter system were discussed. all speakers favored keeping tax decisions at the local level.
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Gladewater
Roy Johnson
O. G. Johnston
Jack Earp
Garth Cockerell
Earp
Texas Education Agency
Texas Employers Insurance Co
TEA
Cockerell
House
Supt. Johnson
Johnson
Former Gladeite among triple murder suicide victims
A former Gladewater resident and her family were killed in a Houston area home where autopsy showed the husband fatally shot them before killing himself. The Grillos' bodies were found after the husband failed to report to work. Mrs Vernon Vernon, mother of Joan Carolyn Vernon, among relatives listed. Funeral services were set for Friday at Holy Rosary Church, Rosenburg.
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Houston
Gladewater
Anthony Donald Grillo
Charles
Regina
Grillo
Joan Carolyn Vernon
Maurine Vernon
Crawford Vernon
Holy Rosary Church
Rosenburg
Grillos
Harris County
Gladewater High School
Kilgore College
University of Houston
Spring Branch
William R. Vernon
Simon
James Vernon
Dallas
George W. Vernon
San Antonio
Earlene Byrum
Kilgore
Clair Dews
Huntsville
Ala
White Oak honors football squad at annual banquet
More than 350 people attended the White Oak High School football banquet at Matney's Restaurant. Dan Reeves of the Dallas Cowboys spoke, with Max Beall and Mike Browning sharing the Outstanding Roughneck award in a first ever tie. The event also introduced the 1973 Roughneck Club members and the football sweetheart Judy Henderson.
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White Oak
Dan Reeves
Dallas Cowboys
Matney’s
Max Beall
Mike Browning
Andy Griffin
Reeves
Roughneck Club
Darrell Anderson
Joe Ferrell
Dicky Griffin
Jeff Loftis
Mark Moseley
Hunter Mullikin
Rokky Mullikin
Keley Warren
Davis Wingo Browning
Dallas
White Oak High School
Petition Appeal Filed Over Gladewater Alcohol Vote
Citizens for a Better Gladewater begin proceedings to appeal rejection of a petition seeking an election on alcohol con sumption in Gladewater. Attorney Jack M Pintey files to perpetuate testimony and pursue mandamus, challenging Gregg County Clerk Buck Birdsong's certification of signatures and urging equal petition rights for multi county cities.
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Citizens For A Better
Gladewater
Jack M Pintey
Court of Civil Appeals
Tyler
Texas Supreme Court
Dome Finley
Pintey
Les
Gregg
Upshur
Jack M Pinley
Texas
Bom
Buck” Birdsong
East Texas Telephone Cooperative Seeks REA Loan
Senator John Tower announced that the East Texas Telephone Cooperative of Gilmer received a 2,385,000 REA loan to add 459 telephones and 74 miles of lines. Welby Carlock of Big Sandy is president and Oliver Hickey of Gilmer is GM. construction dates pending.
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Longview
John Tower
Republican State
East Texas
James E
Jim) Glasgow
East Texas Telephone Cooperative of
Gilmer
REA
Welby Carlock
Big Sandy
Oliver Hickey
Hospital receives $10161.03 share in antibiotics settlement
Gladewater Municipal Hospital gets 10161.03 from Attorney General John Hill as part of a 1707084.80 Pfizer settlement distributed to 2445 Texas hospitals. The third phase covers Pfizer’s antitrust payout. other manufacturers’ settlements await.
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Austin Gladewater Municipal Hospital
John Hill
Hill
Texas
Chas. Pfizer & Co
Texas Health and
Pfizer
Federal District Court
Southern District of New
Attorney General
Gilmer rites Thursday for Mrs Coventry
Funeral services for Mrs. Rose Ella Coventry 83 will be Thursday at 3 30 p m in Loyd Funeral Home Chapel Gilmer with Rev Ronnie Shipman officiating Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery She was a Gladewater resident for 18 months died Tuesday at 1010 a m in a local hospital Born August 29 1890 in Freeport Illinois she was a member of the Assembly of God Church Survivors include her husband Lee Grover Coventry three sons Frank and F H Coventry both of Gilmer Charles Coventry Dallas two daughters Marie Adkison Gimner and Mrs Wm W Seelig Gladewater three brothers Floyd Henry Towanda Kansas Earl Henry Bazine Kansas W B Henry Popularville Mississippi three sisters Mrs P S Coventry Bazine Kan Mrs B D Tinley Newkirk Okla Mrs J W Rutherford Topeka Kan seven grandchildren 18 great grandchildren 2 great great grandchildren
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Rose Ella Coventry
Loyd Funeral Home Chapel
Cailmer
Ronnie Shipman
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
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Calvin Brannen
Broadway School
Mrs. Sarah Ditto
Tom Erwins
Tommy
Bastrop Junior High School
Bastrop
Sam Houston State University
John
South West Texas State College
Cris Morrow
City Hall
Gladeite
Judy Henderson
Cartain
E. B. Carrington
Cyndi Geske
Dewana Trent
Lynn Perryman
Angie Pendleton
Sheri Rodenberg
Ronda Duke
Mary Acuff
Robin McCuller
Niane Dunnell
Karen Davis
Patsy Tucker
Patty Dickson
Betty McCullough
Margaret Thomas
Cindy Cavel
Rodessa
C M. Koonce
Board of Education
Carrington
Americus Ga
Americus High School
University of South Carolina
The
Cowboys
Kenneth Fernandez Lewis
Hart Clinic Hospital
Kenneth Lewis
Laura Alexander
Ethel Floyd
Walter F. Hart
Tillie Roberts
Juanita Hodges
Binley
Tyter
Pape
Sen
York
Mrs. Coventry
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