Fireworks mixup and Miss Texas hopefuls in Gladewater
Newspaper notes typographical slips about a airport fireworks display and JC Jaycee line edits. It covers Gladewater events including telegrams to Sherry Daniel for Miss Texas, flag pin sales by American Legion Auxiliary, library donation by Dewey Gray, a humorous aid ad, Eastern Star meeting details, local jury duty, a Miss Texas contestant profile, and Stephen F. Austin summer term exams and registration dates.
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Jaycee
Local Dragnet Out For Military Deserter
A 21 year old Alabama man escaped custody after fingerprinting from Glade water police. Identified as Billy Lewis Halwood of Citronelle, Alabama, he is wanted by the military authorities.
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Alabama
Gladewater
Billy Lewis Ha 2Lwood
Citronelle
Ala
F.B.I
Cris Morrow
Morrow
Hazelwood
Dean Street
T. W. Lee
Highway 80
Highway 271
Services Held For Mrs Ford
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs. Juanita Ford 56 of Longview died Sunday after a long illness. Born in Imboden Arkansas January 1 1918 she lived 35 years in Gladewater coming from Seminole Oklahoma. She was Baptist. Burial at Memory Park Cemetery Longview with Rev Irby Bates officiating. Pallbearers listed and survivors include two sisters Mrs Alean Goar and Mrs Nina Murray both of Gladewater plus one niece and one nephew.
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Juanita Ford
N. Center
Longview
Memory Park
Irby Bates
First Baptist Church
R. D. Carpenter
James Myers
Jimmy Fountain
E. L. Goar
Red O’brien
Leon Waggoner
Ford
Alean Goar
Nina Murray
Gladewater
Woolley Rites Held Tuesday
Funeral services were held Tuesday in Malcolm Stone Chapel for Elmer O. Woolley 69 of Gladewater Texas with burial at Friendship Cemetery. Woolley a 38 year resident came from Burkburnett was a retired mechanic for Gladewater Public Schools and a Baptist and Mason. He died at his home Sunday around 3 a.m. Survived by his wife two sisters a nephew five nieces.
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Charles Ethridge
Malcolm Stone
Elmer O. Woolley
East Lake Drive
Friendship Cemetery
Woolley
Falls County
Tex
Gladewater
Burkburnett
George M. Wooley
Jack Dunagan
John Rose
A. B. Rose
Gordon Wooley
W. T. Odom
Doyle Reynolds
Billy Jones
Howard Dunagan
Henrietta Woolley
Lena Phillips
Laura Layne
Waco
Gordon Woolley
Alton Webb
Donald Allman
James Booth
Glen Watkins
Nancy Layne
Grass fires plague Gladewater with multiple blazes
Gladewater firefighters battled no fewer than 11 fires since Saturday noon, including grass, woods, and car blazes. A Natawa Road grass fire took 1 hour 15 minutes to smother, started by a man burning dead trees. Owner Dela Simmons noted a separate car fire on 531 Roden Lane. Additional small blazes occurred near Union Grove School and McKaig Chevrolet, with more grass and brush fires along Lake Devernia and Highway 271 before Tuesday evening.
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Camp Natawa
Camp Natawa Road
Tenery St
Union Grove School
McKaig Chevrolet
Highway 80
Dela Simmons
Roden Lane
Lake Devernia
Highway 271
R A Brunk Dies Monday Services Held Wednesday
Robert A. Brunk age 69 of Gladewater died Monday at 4 p.m. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. in St. Mark’s Church with Rev. Earl Sheffield officiating. Burial in Gladewater Memorial Park. He was born December 7, 1899 in Birmingham Iowa, WWI veteran, retired grocer. Survivors: Lettie Bell Brunk widow, one daughter E A McDonald, a sister J E G Craig, and a granddaughter plus nieces and nephews.
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Robert A. Brunk
Gladewater
St. Mark’s Church
Earl Sheffield
Gladewater Memorial Park
Malcolm Stone
Lettie Bell Brunk
E.A. Mce Donald
Longview
Prayer For Today Pentecost Experience Prayer
A devotional prayer asks believers to live closely with God so that each hour becomes a Pentecost experience with His power guiding thoughts and actions. Amen.
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Father
Christ
Texans Vote On August 5 Amendments Nine Proposals
Texans will vote August 5 on nine proposed amendments to Texas Constitution, including a clean up measure, a $3.5 billion water development bond, salary limits for legislative leaders, tax exemption for nonprofit water groups, increased public assistance to $80 million, removal of interest rate caps on certain bonds, and survivor benefits for spouses and children of government workers killed in duty.
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United States
Texas Water Development Board
Record Water Use Tops 2 Million Gallons Daily in Heat Wave
Glade water use remains at peak as temperatures push 100 degrees for 19 straight days with little rainfall. The city plant produced 2,315,000 gallons in 24 hours on June 30, capacity 2.1 million. year to date 105,249,200 gallons with no serious problems. A 10 percent discount rate runs in June to August if bills are paid by the 10th.
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Gladewater
U.S. Weather Bureau
Lone Star
Perryman
Charles McChesney
Southwestern Electric Power Company
Burglars Hit Gladewater Firms Over Weekend
Burglars struck three Gladewater water businesses over the weekend taking merchandise valued at 425 from one location while two others were entered with no items taken. Dr. John Mackey reported his 206 E Upshur office broken into with no loss. A nearby dealership at J O Williams on East Upshur suffered wheel and tire theft totaling 425.
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Gladewater
John Mackey
Upshur
Dr. Mackey
Walker Pharmacy
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Sherry Daniel
Green Oaks Inn
Fort Worth
The
American Legion Aucxiliary
Dewey Gray
Gladewater Public Library
E. O. Woolley
Josephine C. Rhine
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Building
North Dean Street
E. E
Whitey
Wilson
Gladettes
Mary A. Stoker
Louise Causey
D.J. Lansdale
Decker D, Addy
Judy L. Gibbons
C.T. Mims
Anna Merrill
C.L. Chamberlain
Donald Mathews
Paul Bennett
Addie May Brown
E.E. Copeland
Arthur Cole
Stephen F. Austin State University
K. Wolen’s
North Lynn
R. A. Brunk
City OF
Bill Langford
Jacksonville
Texas
Don Earp
Gladewater Lions Club
Tommy Steiner
Jerry Lee Lewis
Linda Gail Lewis
Dallas Cowboys
Haydock
England
Lancashire
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