New America discussed by The Gladewater Mirror Editorial
The editorial argues the United States is entering a new era shaped by moon flights automation and public debt. It stresses the essential role of private enterprise and big business in prosperity, warns against anti business sentiment, and urges a return to first principles to restore consumer confidence and freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Leonard Wiener
Chicago Daily News Service
Telegram
Samuel F. B Morse
Western Union
Viet Nam
New America
Time Magazine
John Kenneth Galbraith
Jack
New
Brother of Former Gladeite Dies
Johnny Ray MeJilton, brother of Brownie MeJilton and longtime Gladewater resident, died in Longview after 15 years there. Funeral held Wednesday at 10 a.m. Welch Funeral Home chapel with two pastors officiating. Interment at Memory Park Cemetery. McJilton, 60, of 313 East Young Street, survived by a brother, two sisters, and many nieces and nephews.
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Johnny Ray MeJilton
Brownie MeJilton
Gladewater
Longview
Welch Funeral Home
Kenneth Mann
Tommie Bouchard
Memory Park Cemetery
McJilton
East Young Street
Rabl McJilton
J. B
Fry Speaks on Stewart Blood Bank at Kiwanis Meeting
Gladewater Kwanis Club heard Hubert A. Fry discuss the Stewart Blood Bank founded two years ago with a Tyler gift. The bank now supplies most local hospital blood from Clarksville to Carthage and North to Tyler, with 16 592 pints in 1949. Fry outlined two group blood pool options and noted the Donors Assurance Plan for individuals and families. A lengthy Q A followed.
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Gladewater Kwanis Club
Hubert A. Fry
Stewart Biood Bank
Tyler
Mr. Fry
Stewart Blood Bank
Tyler Alman $ M
Stewart
Texas
Clarksville
Lufkin
Athens
Carthage
Fry
Reach Club Officers Elected At Tadewater Meeting
At a recent Reach Club meeting new officers were elected to take duties February 1. Elected: Ray Walls president Bill Gibson vice president Mary Holloman secretary Jessie Bustin treasurer Willie Goff head committeeman Jimmy Null and Holle Holloman immmitteerman helpers Rev Herman Reagh chaplain Betty Goff social chairman Nancy McDonald publicity reporter Odessa Wallis flower chairman Max Blackstone sergeant at arms. Six new members: Jarrol Evelyn Walls Judy Frederick Donnie Lively Eddie LaVerne Walls. A chili and vegetable soup supper was held with many attendees and good time reported.
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Tadewater Reach Club
Ray Walls
Bill Gibson
Mary Holloman
Jessie Bustin
Willie Goff
Jimmy Null
Holle Holloman
Herman Reagh
Betty Goff
Nancy McDonald
Odessa Wallis
Max Blackstone
Jarrol
Evelyn Walls
Judy Frederick
Donnie Lively
Eddie
LaVerne Walls
Six Room Furnished House For Rent
Classified note offers a six room furnished house for rent with contact phone 845 3960.
Peyton McKnight Seeks Texas Senate Seat Democrat announces run
Peyton McKnight declares candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Texas State Senator in the Second District after World War II service and a term as Wood County State Representative. He cites the List Legislature of 1949 50 reforms in education mental health farm to market roads prisons and youth programs as his governing record.
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Texas
Texas A & M
Wood County
United States
Sabine River Authority
Texas A&m University System
Austin
Senate
Former Gladeite James Cannon Perry Dies in Dallas
James Cannon Perry 70 died in a Dallas clinic after a heart attack. He lived in Dallas with his daughter Elizabeth Ellis the past year after thirty years in Gladewater. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Malcolm Stone Chapel, with burial at Gladewater Memorial Park. He is survived by two sons, a daughter, a stepson, a missionary daughter, a granddaughter and stepgrandchildren, plus siblings and a wartime veteran status.
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James Cannon Perry
Dallas
Elizabeth Ellis
Gladewaer
Malcolm Stone
Hugh Mixon
Gladewater Memorial Park
Perry
James Richard
Gladewater
Charles Roy
Fort Worth
W.C McCown
Ellis
Bobbie Jean Hilton
Old Mexco
Wynoma Day
Tillar
Ark
Charlie D. Perry
Shreveport
Hopie Burton
Eudora
Jamies Philpot
Donald Whitlock
Jim Jackson
Walter Martin
John Barksdale
Welope
Mystery of Howard Hughes Deepens Across Rumors
Reports swirl about billionaire Howard Hughes existence and whereabouts. Las Vegas penthouse Bahamas sightings and a televised voice raise questions while a forthcoming biography prompts denials and intrigue.
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Howard Hughes
Las Vegas
Nevada
Hughes
Bahamas
Moments of packing and memories from a family home
The narrator describes tidying Mary Grace and Phillip's former rooms after their wedding and move. She sorts keepsakes from decades past, acknowledges nostalgia, and imagines gifting scrapbooks or boxes of memories to her three children. A light note on a rumor about Howard Hughes appears amid reflections.
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New Orleans
Mary Grace
Phillip
Remembering a Turreted School and Wartime Charcoal Pits
From Mrs. Fehrs of Woodhaven New York memories surface of a torn down school with a roof tower where Minutemen watched for the British. She recalls a single teacher per term, a phonograph, and a World War I era scene of peach pits used for gas mask charcoal. In Kampala AP reports police hunted the Miss Uganda organizer who vanished with prize money leaving nineteen contestants and five hundred guests unsettled.
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William Fehrs
Woodhaven
N.Y
Frankfort
Kampala
London
Editor's Quote Book Inspires New Worlds Within You
Henry David Thoreau urges readers to become a Columbus to their inner realms opening channels not of trade but of thought. The quote invites personal exploration and intellectual discovery beyond material pursuits.
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Henry David Thoreau
Gladewater Mirror masthead and staffing snapshot
The fragment identifies Harry Kates as publisher and general manager with advertising director duties, Jack Elrod and Frecaione Clark as editors, plus Harriett Walton as women's editor. It notes second class mailing in Gladewater Texas 75647 and consolidation with The Gladewater Times-Tribune in 1949 and The White Oak Texan in 1969.
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Jack Elrod Mews
EAUO
Gladewater Times-Tribune
The
White Oak Texan
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Jim Wilson
Jo Ann Hubbard Flynn
Ruth Ellen Spranger Milner
Atlantic Ocean
Congress
Santa Claus
World Hughes Outlook Corporation
W.H.O Cares
Wakefield
England
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Harry Kates
Gladewater Publishing Company
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Dean Street
Gregg County
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