Lenhart anniversary and community notices in Gladewater
Mr and Mrs Frank Lenhart celebrate a 45 year marriage and Mrs Lenhart’s 64th birthday with a trip to Rusk to visit relatives. Bowling star Mary Hicks posts a 641 series in Glade Lanes Twilight League. Navy man Jimmett Boles returns from Charleston for Christmas leave. Memorial book to Gladewater Library. IPAA directors Loyce and Jack Phillips named. John Shipp in Personalities of the South. Inaugural events at Broadway School. World Day of Prayer March 7 hosted by First Presbyterian. Helen Torbert under further tests in Houston. Mobil Retirement Club meets at Kilgore with covered dish supper. Civil Air Patrol seeks a meeting space. Lt. David Russell requests a suitable location.
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Mary Hicks
Outstanding Teenagers named from Union Grove High School
Kay Lynn Cooper Michael Moore and Bobby Ferguson seniors at Union Grove High School have been named Outstanding Teenagers of America for 1969. They will compete with state winners for the governor's trophy and national awards and college scholarships sponsored by the foundation.
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Union Grove High School
Outstanding Americans Foundation
Foundation
Michael Moore
Kay Lynn Cooper
Bobby Ferguson
The
Attempted Rape Reported In City
A 17 year old Gladewater girl reported an attempted rape on Vesta Drive near State Highway 271 around 1 45 p m Tuesday. She described the assailant as about six feet tall, slender, in blue jeans and a dark shirt, who tried to pull her from the car and ripped her dress and watch before she fled.
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Vesta Drive
Gladewater
Longview
Highway 271
GHS Stage Band Announces Full Schedule Of Activities
GHS stage band director Don Cartwright released a complete lineup of events. A clinic on Jan 23 features White Oak Sabine and Union Grove bands, then Jan 25 they perform at the Stephen F. Austin College Stage Band Festival. A Feb 6 concert follows a chili supper, with free admission.
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GHS
Don Cartwright
White Oak
Sabine
Union Grove
Catwright
Stephen F. Austin College
Ed Shaunessy
David Mecey
Steve Davidson
Ben Fowzer
Roger Cary
Jane Dawson
Leonard Jones
Jeff Gwinn
Council Protests Closing of T P Railway Station
The city council during a regular session postponed action on a Texas Highway Dept traffic study to study the plan longer. It voted to protest any action by the Texas and Pacific Railroad to dismantle the local station and establish a mobile agency, with authority for the city attorney to act. The Missouri Pacific Railroad asked to retire depot buildings and run four mobile routes to ten communities. A hearing is set for Feb 26 in Austin, with a Longview hearing Feb 18 on discontinuing passenger trains 21 and 22 through Gladewater. The council will draft a resolution supporting passenger service.
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Texas Highway Dept
Highway Department
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Texas Railroad Commission
Gladewater
Greggton
DeKalb
New Boston
RRC
Austin
Bill Langford
Ernest Martin
Longview
Langford
Roden Lane
Foshee
First Southwest Corporation
Smith Becomes Texas Governor in West Texas Inauguration
Preston Smith, from Lubbock, sworn in as Texas 38th governor on the Capitol steps with Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, the youngest in state history. Smith pledged fairness and justice focusing on taxes, education, water, growth, and crime, as Barnes urged broad educational and economic goals for all Texans.
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Austin
Preston Smith
Texas
Smith
Capitol
Ben Barnes
Lubbock
Barnes
de Leon
Democratic Party
Robert W. Calvert
Bar of Justice
Texas Tech
Nixon sworn in as 37th U.S. president on Capitol steps
Richard M. Nixon completed a historic comeback from defeats in 1960 and 1962 to become the 37th President. He took the oath on the Capitol steps and delivered a 1,700 word inaugural address calling for a moderate, less activist, more measured administration. He pledged to devote energies to peace among nations and to seek history’s greatest honor in serving as a peacebuilder.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
California
United States
Capitol Steps
Nixon
America
Vietnam
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Earl Warren
Spiro T. Agnew
Baltimore County
Maryland
Agnew
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Anagnostopoulos
Pamela
Isaiah
Pat
House
Abernathy Appointed To Marshall SBA Council
Howard J. Samuels announced C. Q Abernathy as a member of the Marshall Small Business Advisory Council. Abernathy, president and chairman at The First State Bank Gladewater and board chair at First National Bank of Carthage, holds multiple regional posts and civic roles in East Texas.
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Howard J. Samuels
The
Small Business Administration
Washington
C. Q Abernathy
Marshall Small Business Advisory Council
Abernathy
Marshall Region
Harry Martin
SBA
Marshall
First State Bank
Gladewater
First National Bank of Carthage
Carthage Cup Company
Gladewater Industrial Development Foundation
Cham
National Advisory Council
Cargill
Harrison County
Longview
Longview Independent
Northeast Texas Industrial Development Council
Sabine River
Sabine River Development Association
Boy Scouts of America
Pirtle
Lake Murvaul
Panola County
Texas Hospital Association
Prayer for Today Blessings in daily life and gratitude to God
A devotional prayer expressing thanks to God for daily beauty and blessings. The speaker asks for eyes to see and hearts to rejoice, concluding with Amen. The text centers on gratitude and spiritual connection amid morning reflections.
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Tee
District 19-A Band to Stage Concert at White Oak High
District 19-A Band, conducted by W Francis McBeth from Ouachita University, will rehearse at 8:30 a.m. and perform a public concert at 7:30 p.m. at the White Oak High School auditorium on Saturday February 8 1969. The ensemble draws players from Arp Hawkins New Diana Overton Sabine Spring Hill Tatum and White Oak. McBeth, a noted composer and Theory-Composition chair at Ouachita since 1959, has earned major awards including the Presley Award, regional win in the College Band Directors contest, and the Howard Hanson Prize.
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W. Francis McBeth
Ouachita University
Arkadelphia
Arkansas
White Oak High School
Arp
Hawkins
New Diana
Overton
Sabine
Spring Hill
Tatum
White Oak
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Frank Lenhart
Jimmett Boles
Navy
Charleston
South Carolina
Jewell Boles
Jimmett
Ron Clark
Gladewater Public Library
Clark
Martin McAda
Loyce
Jack L Phillips
Independent Petroleum Association of America
IPAA
John Shipp
Pauline Lockhart
Mirror
Pauline
Broadway School
Rita Draper
Wanda Marlowe
First Presbyterian Church
D. W. Read
WOC
Helen Torbert
Houston
Mobil Retirement Club
Kilgore
Civil Air Patrol
David Russell
John Putman
Doug Blankenship
U. S. Jaycees
Mary P. Allen
American Vocational Association
Lillian Andrews
Harry A. Applegate
Deca, Inc
Alden G. Barber
Paul Grey
Future Farmers of America
Robert Guelich
Montgomery Ward
George Gullen
National Ymca
John Hudson
James Jeffrey
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Robert F. Lucas
Key Club Internatonal
Robert S. McLellan
College
Junior Red Cross
Washington, D. C
Dale Evans
T&p
Quentin Abernathy
Bestex Traffic Products Company
Council
Texas House of Representatives
SBA Council
Samuels
Mr. Abernathy
Ouachita
Presley
Hardin-Simmons University
College Band Directors
National Association
Howard Hanson
Eastman School of Music
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