People urged to join Gladewater centennial effort now
An editorial calls residents, especially busy women, to act in the Gladewater hundredth birthday celebration. It warns the event could fail without widespread personal involvement, urging readers to contact Centennial headquarters and commit time and effort in the next 30 to 60 days.
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Waring
Gladewater
Cen
Brothers of the Brush
Centennial Belles
Keystone Kops
Gladewater Centennial Headquarters
Centennial Week Schedule Sets Seven Day Commemorations
The calendar lists events for seven days from Saturday July 28 to Friday August 3 featuring Coronation Day Religious Heritage Day Merchants Day Youth Day Pioneer Homecoming Day Ladies Day and Business and Industrial Day across the community festivities.
Herman Williams Church Leader Celebrated in Obituary Note
The obituary highlights Herman Williams long service to his church as a Sunday School teacher for 20 years and lay leader, his Rotary candidacy support by Gary Kizer, and his standing in Gladewater and across the state. Memorial gifts are requested to First United Methodist Church or M. D. Anderson Hospital Leukemia Research.
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Williams
Rotary
Gary Kizer
Herman Williams
Herman
Gladewater
Mr. Williams
First United Methodist Church Memorial Fund
M. D. Anderson Hospital
Lukemia Research
Bertner
Houston
Records needed for new pupils at Gay Avenue school
Parents of children starting kindergarten or first grade must file a birth certificate and immunization records, including diphtheria polio rubella and measles, in the principal's office before homeroom assignment. Bring documents during the first two weeks in August.
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Gay Avenue
The Green Apple Quick-Step Strikes The Mugwump
The column recalls a humorous illness spree called the Green Apple Quick-Step and mono, joking about hospital stays and welfare for sick writers. It muses on illness as a class act, warns against the Green Apple Quick-Step, and lightly pokes fun at doctors and cheap celebrity mockery.
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The
Mirror
Mexico
Tequilla
Hugh Hefner
Books and authors featured in a library column review
A library column reviews Max Hampton’s The View From a High Bed a candid cancer memoir praised for courage humor and practical patient guidance The Thin Book By a Formerly Fat Psychiatrist Rubin promotes think thin weight control and provides personal proof Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before The Dark follows Kate Brown facing independence Georgette Neyer’s Why Soot A Butler? puzzles fans while a nod to Johnson’s Dictionary marks a historical reference.
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Max Hampton
Theodore Issaac Rubin
Rubin
Doris Lessing
Kate Brown
Kate
America
Georgette Neyer
Odgepodge by Fredalene Clark
A nostalgic musings piece recounts need for rain and yard work in rural town life. The writer vents about mowing with an electric mower, dodgy sewer work, a slow mail route, and the Fourth of July plans. Memories of the father and a fiery airport fireworks mishap add local color.
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White House
Gladewater
Vesta Drive
Bill Ussery
Unlisted One Seeks Place On Dean's List
Columnist laments missing from John W. Dean III listed foes and peers in the Senate Watergate inquiry. He jokes about seeking inclusion as an active alternate and proposes forming the League Inviting Senate Talks to defend unlisted voices.
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Jaycees
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
John W. Dean III
Dean
Steve McQueen
Barbara Streisand
Jane Fonda
Joe Namath
Farmers Union
Council For A
Watergate Committee
Democratic National Party
Watergate Buldling Complex
McGovern
Senate
League
Sunday Sermon on Parental Duty to Teach God’s Love
A preacher argues that true religious education goes beyond Sunday School and must be lived daily. He emphasizes God’s constant presence, the need for daily example, and that parents carry the obligation to teach children to love and follow God. Are you fulfilling your duty?
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God
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Neil Cooper
Eddie Nelson
Nelson
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Washington
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Samuel Johnson
Fredalene Clark
Jimmy Brown
Gregory Peck
Stop Stassen
Republican Party
God and Children
Gladewater Mirror
Gladewater Publishing Company
Glade Avenue
Dean Street
Gregg County
Texas
Gladewater Times-Tribune
White Oak Texas
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