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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1968
Page
1
Postmaster J. H. Parish says starting Saturday July 27 Saturday window service will be cut to under two hours with no money order transactions. Regular weekday window hours remain unchanged and city and rural delivery are not affected. Saturday mail delivery and collection will mirror Sunday procedures with alley box drop for dispatched mail.
Don Cartwright, captain in the Air Force Reserve and director at GHS, departed for two weeks of training with the 917th Military Airlift Group at Barksdale AFB Louisiana. He will participate in operations tied to the C 124 Globe Master aircraft.
City begins first phase of capital improvements after council approval a month ago. City Manager Bill Langford says surveys and estimates already cover priority items including slurry sealing of Gay Avenue and streets damaged by prior wear.
Chamber of Commerce president Ernest Martin announced that the chamber may sponsor a University of Texas Extension Division public relations course for Gladewater residents. Interest will determine if the format proceeds, with a Monday meeting to finalize details.
A devotional prayer praising Christ's overcoming power. It thanks God for limitless possibilities through His help and blessing and asks for strength in Christ's might to endure and witness His grace. The benediction asks for perseverance for the disciples in His name.
A consumer credit expert spoke at a Rotary luncheon. Theron Lee of the University of Texas outlined a rapid rise in U S consumer indebtedness from 6 billion in 1946 to over 100 billion in 1968 and predicted future shifts toward a cashless checkless society with card and computer use.
The 21st annual East Texas Quarter Horse Association show and races will run Friday and Saturday August 9 and 10 at Round Up Rodeo grounds. Youth events begin Friday night at 8, with judging at 9 a.m. Saturday and races at 4 p.m. Judge Hugh Orwell of Fayetteville, Arkansas presides. The event is approved by the American Quarter Horse Association and concessions are by the Gladewater Jaycees.
A puppet play for kindergarten and pre school children headlines the Tuesday one o clock program at Gladewater Public Library with Miss Charlene Walker and Mrs C B McKenzie using new puppets from the Friends. The narrators adapted a story for all elementary students and a puppet monologue will be performed by the same ladies.
The All-Stars face Kilgore in elimination play starting Monday at 8 p.m. at the local park. The series continues Tuesday in Kilgore with a possible third game on a neutral field to be announced later.
The Chamber of Commerce directors will meet Monday July 22 at Don's Restaurant to finalize arrangements for an industrial development seminar on Wednesday July 24. They will also discuss a public relations course run by the University of Texas Division of Extension and sponsored by the chamber and the Glade Water Credit Bureau.
Fire Chief Harold Potts and firefighters Jack Sawyer and Ronnie Gothard attend the five day school at Texas A and M University. Potts will instruct a course phase. Keith Langford, Bryan fire chief and brother of City Manager Bill Langford, is another instructor. Potts has long taught in the program, and the city has sent three firemen yearly, earning a five percent insurance credit.
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