Texas Largest Trees and Organ Donor Notes Featured
Texarkana hosts the state’s biggest Black Cherry and Daingerfield Park holds the top Allegheny Chinquapin while De Kalb reports the largest Osage Orange. The Big Tree Contest by the Texas Forest Service promotes tree protection. Also noted are organ donor info via Medic Alert and the Whitewing dove season’s economic impact in the Rio Grande Valley with tourism and cross-border movement. Alaska trip plans for Dr and Mrs John Farmer, and a brief poem excerpt about dancing memories.
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Texas
East
The
Texas Forest Service
Texarkana
Daingerfield
DeKalb
Arkansas
Eight Mile Creek
Harrison County
Baylor Summer Cheerleader Camp Set by American Association
The American Cheerleaders Association will hold a cheerleader training camp for high school students Aug. 9 to 14 on Baylor University campus in Waco. Director Bill Horan leads the camp with training in routines, formations, starts, jumps, and endings. Housing and meals provided on campus. applications available at Baylor Evening Division Office or by writing Horan. In Lexington Kentucky AP report, honeybees are noted to be essential for pollinating many crops at the University of Kentucky.
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Waco
American Cheerleaders Association
Baylor University
Bill Horan
United States
Baylor
Penland Hall
J A Pritchett Dies Tuesday At 81 In Gilmer
John Arch Pritchett 81, longtime Wood Upshur County resident, died Tuesday in a Gilmer convalescent home after a lengthy illness. Funeral was Wednesday at Croley Funeral Chapel Gilmer with burial in Shady Grove Cemetery Wood County. Survivors include one son Ralph Pritchett and six daughters, twenty seven grandchildren and fifty five great grandchildren, plus two brothers and a sister.
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John Arch Pritchett
Route 2
City
Croley
Gilmer
Shady Grove Cemetery
Wood County
Balford Adams
C. B. Warren
Pritchett
Upshur County
Ralph Pritchett
Leona Davis
Union Grove
Pauline Davis
Ruby Meadows
Gladewater
Archie Mae Jones
Johnny Moore
Arlington
N. L
Pete Pritchett
Winnsboro
Frank Dere
Quitman
Police Report Highlights Quiet Gladewater Weekend
Gladewater police logged a calm weekend aside from July 4 incidents. Sunday saw a two-vehicle mishap on South Tyler with minor damage, and Monday a power mower theft reported at 306 W. Sheppard. Juveniles were jailed for breaking into a Gray's Washerteria sale box. Tuesday produced two minor vehicle accidents, including a Houston woman cited for a minor wreck at Main Street and Gay Avenue. Funeral services were held for a local woman born July 14, 1928, with burial at Gladewater Memorial Park.
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Gladewater
S. I. Heaberlin
W. Sheppard
Gray’s Washerteria
Main Street
Jobe Drug
Houston
Gay Avenue
New Leaflet Debunks Diet Myths On Arthritis
The Arthritis Foundation North Texas Chapter releases The Truth About Diet and Arthritis stating no special diet cures or causes arthritis and that a normal balanced diet supports health. Dr. William Schindel notes many myths persist from quacks and self styled experts while emphasizing professional rheumatology treatment and adequate nutrition. Copies are free from the Dallas office at 3300 W Mockingbird Lane.
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Arthritis Foundation
William Schindel
North Texas
Schindel
MockInGbird Lane
Dallas
Texas
Services Wednesday For Mrs Lela Woods
Mrs Lela Pearl Woods 81 longtime Glade resident died Monday in Western Nursing Home Ranger two and a half months patient at 2 PM Wednesday services at Quitman and Center Church of Christ Murphy Phillips officiating burial Memorial Park directed by Malcolm Stone Funeral Home she born June 17 1888 in Davis Oklahoma member of Church of Christ her husband R V Woods preceded her in death in 1962 survived by three daughters a son two sisters a half sister three step sons seventeen grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren pallbearers were grandsons. The Martyred Priest New York AP depicts Camilo Torres a young Colombian priest killed in 1966 becoming a symbol for radical reformers worldwide.
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Gladewater
Honey Toys
North Carolina
Malcolm Stone
Jerry Shipman
Gladewater Memorial Park
Lela Pearl Woods
Western Nursing Home
Ranger
Quitman and Center
Reynolds
City
Raney
Eastland
Roy H, Roberts
Olden
Tommy Moss
Magnolia
Ark
O’neal
Anders
Okla
Betty Corbell
Ardmore
Open Space School Trend Expands in Texas Education
Texas elementary principals report the open space school concept center stage at a summer workshop in Austin. Large unpartitioned learning areas around centers replace rows of desks, with team teaching, individualized instruction, volunteer aides, and student grouping by ability. If adopted widely, the model aims to boost independence, cooperation, and self-esteem while presenting new challenges.
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Texas Elementary
Austin
San Antonio
Texas
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Elizabeth Ann Cobb
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Peggy Laylard
Fort Lee
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Swepco Electric
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South Tyler
Lela Woods
New York
Camilo
America
Hope
German Guzman
Sheed and Ward
Camilo Torres
Quitman Street
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Gladewater, Texas
Open-Space
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Amarillo
Harriett Peckham
Buena Suerte Ranch
Ruidoso Downs
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Bill Tevebaugh Meat CO
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7 Pines
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