Blackburn Murder Seen Little Progress This Week
Texas Rangers and Camp County Sheriff J L Morgan report little progress in solving the January 16 shooting that killed Aubrey S Blackburn a 27 year old Lone Star Steel employee from Pittsburg. An ally was wounded and the pickup truck was struck by multiple bullets during the attack near Pittsburg. The case is being investigated by a Daingerfield based Ranger unit led by Captain Bob Crowder and Sheriff Morgan's office. Ranger R M Arnold said they are working on it but offered no breakthroughs.
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Texas Rangers
Camp County
J. L. Morgan
Lone Star Steel Company
Aubrey S. Blackburn
Pittsburg
Blackburn
Bob Crowder
Morgan
R. M
Red) Arnold
the Mirror
Third Graders Present Little Month of February Program
Gay Avenue third graders under Mrs. Iris McAfee will present Little Month of February at 9 15 Thursday morning in the school auditorium. Parents friends and interested persons are invited with no admission charge.
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Gay Avenue
Iris McAfee
Study Committee Clarifies Its Recommendations
The Governor's Committee on Public School Education plans to push long range education reform via legislation by Senator A R Schwartz and Representative L DeWitt Hale. It notes expected modifications and highlights concerns on district size, local tax equalization, and state costs, with local boards to decide school changes and district governance.
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Governor’s Committee On
A. R. Schwartz
Galveston
L. DeWitt Hale
Corpus Christi
Texas
Schwartz
Hale
Leon Jaworski
Preston Smith
Public School Study Committee
Glade Jaycees Sponsor Big Country Western Variety Show
Glade Jaycees to sponsor a one night country and western variety show at Gladewater High School auditorium on Friday January 31 at 8 p.m. The program features Wille Splinters the talking doll Texas Benny Doss Crazy Buzz and other acts with The Sandy Creek Boys providing music. Tickets are available from any Jaycee or at the door.
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Gladewater Jaycees
Gladewater High School
Jaycee
Don Audas
Wille Splinters
the Talking Doll
Texas
Benny Doss
Ware
Crazy Buzz
Crazy Buzz, “the Kountry Kut-up,”’ Vaughn Smith, Recording Artist, Billy Grisham
Lonnie Glosson
Brazos Valley
Tim Peyton
Butch Doss
Sandy Creek Boys
Audas
Upshur Gregg Soil District to open Longview office
The Upshur Gregg Soil and Water Conservation District will open a Longview office at 705 South High Street to serve Gregg County farmers and landowners. Dean Rice, veteran SCS worker, will be stationed there with ASCS. the move aims to improve technical assistance and land stewardship.
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Gregg County
Dean Rice
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
South High Street
Longview
Barton
Griffin
Kilgore
ASC
Rice
Darwin Swinney
Gilmer
Jerry Lucey
Upshur-Gregg Soil and Water Conservation District
Contessa Inn
Upshur Soil Conservation District
Department of Agriculture
Upshur
Mt. Pleasant High School
East Texas State University
Soil Conservation Service
Lubbock
Tahoka
Longview Post
Upshur-Grege Swcc
Lucey
Board of Supervisors
SCS
ASCS
Gregg
Lucy, Swinney
Barton Griffin
William Meadows
William McKelvey
F. E. Phillips
Royce Hart
Leon Presnell
Elton Petty
Upshur-Gregg Swcd
James Laster
Gregg) County
Lucy
SF Water Corp Holds Annual Meeting Friday
Starrville Friendship Water Supply Corp held its annual meeting at the Friendship community building. The current board was re-elected by acclamation: Earl Best, Herman Williams, Jim Meccombe, Jim Williams, and Mrs Earl Berryhill. The 1968 operation and next year’s projections were discussed. Tyler of the Farmers Home Administration attended. The fluoride level was reported as just right for bones and teeth. Best customer honors went to the Jimmy Rowe home, and the system reported 100 percent collections for the year.
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Starrville Friendship Water Supply Corp
Friendship Community
Earl Best
Herman Williams
Jim MecCombe
Jim Williams
Earl Berryhill
Pete Mayberry
Tyler
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
David G. Morrison
Jimmy Rowe
Prayer For Today Reflecting on God’s Word
A devotional prayer asks for grace to seek God in all places and to remain open to guidance from others. It invokes Job 36 4 RSV and seeks refreshing spiritual insight through teachable openness and receptivity to divine words.
Longview Girl Found Murdered Near Grandparents Home
Seventeen year old Lesley Diane Koon of Longview High School was found murdered and apparently strangled with an electric blanket cord and shot in the temple at close range in a small house near her grandparents Hamby Road residence. Authorities say the scene shows a struggle and the killer may have known the girl well.
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Lesley Diane Koon
Longview
Leroy Sparks
Sparks
Hamby Road
Clyde Arthur
Lee Payton
Justice of the Peace
Charles R. Cashell
School Census Nearly Complete
The annual school census nears completion with canvassing starting January 2. Children aged six to seventeen must be on the census roll by February 1, and five year olds are enumerated to aid planning for 1969 70. Parents not contacted by January 27 should call the superintendent at 845-2505.
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Lan
Wedding time changed for Vicki Daniel and David Breed
SEYE-OPEMERS note that the ceremony at First Baptist Church will start at 7 p.m. on February 8, not 7:30 as earlier reported. The rest of the item lists community notices and local happenings including hospital stays and public events.
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Vicki Daniel
David Breed
First Baptist Church
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Gladewater Public Library
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Robert F. Powell
W. M. Coppedge
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Inez Whitted
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