Gladeites Attend Etex Guide Meeting
Four representatives of the Gladewater Chamber of Commerce attended a East Texas Vacation Guide meeting in Jefferson at the Excelsior House. A Tourist Guide spokesman shared advertising details as Glade water and other towns earned a full color page in last year’s guide. The group will tour the Excelsior House, ride the Cypress Queen paddle wheeler, and take a surrey ride around the former river port town in Marion County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladewater Chamber of Commerce
East Texas
Royce Ford
Janice Walker
Chamber
Jo Wiley
Jefferson
Excelsior House
Gladewater
Davidson Ford Opens with Open House Friday and Saturday
Davidson Ford's Formal Opening commences Friday and Saturday with refreshments from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Prizes include orchids for the first 300 ladies, a stereo tape player, an 8 track player, oil changes, and wash jobs. Steve Louden will display a Ford powered formula car. Bernard and Mrs. Davidson, residents of Gladewater, own Kay Acres home and have three children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davidson Ford Sales, Inc
Bernard Davidson
East Texas
Davidson
Ford
E. R
Pete’’ McKain
Steve Louden
Gladewater
Steve
GHS
Mike
Patricia
Davidsons
Kay Acres
Methodist Leaders Honored in Gladewater Vesper Service
At Lake Gladewater the First Methodist Church paid tribute to Lt Lafon Dorrough and family Carl Carla Dorrough and long time Sunday school teacher Mrs Dorrough, and to Wilson Godfrey and Mark Abernathy during Youth Sunday services. Pastor Rev James Brannen praised Mark for his lay speaking debut and cited the Dorroughs for enduring community service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Lake Gladewater
C. Q. Abernathy
Lafon Dorrough
Carl
Carla
Mt. Pleasant
Texas Highway Patrol
Wilson Godfrey
Methodist Men
Mark Abernathy
Mark
Quentin Abernathy
John Wesley
James Brannen
Paul
Timothy
Brannen
Methodist Church
Gladewater
Mr. Godfrey
the Dorroughs
Dorrough
Christianity IN Action
Abernathy
Latun Dorrough
Mirror
Three Charged In Quikie Robberies
Gladewater police identified three of four suspects in the Quikie Food Store robberies as the same men who held up the Safeway in Greggton. In February a single bandit stole $83, and in June two robbers took $428 plus merchandise, with all crimes tied to Gladewater residents Cannon Eads Cowan and Larry Aaron.
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Longview
Safeway
Greggton
Gladewater
Quikie
Cris W. Morrow
W. Upshur Street
Highway 80 West
Mike Cannon
Gaylord Eads
Cannon
Eads
James Cowan
Larry Aaron
Asst
Morrow
Blum Williams
Eugene Jones
Dallas
Aaron
Cowan
A. C. Jones
I. W. Urquhart
Greggton Justice of the Peace
Henry McKinney
Fell S. Pruitt
Gregg County
Greggton Safeway
Bobby Ferguson to Lead Kilgore College Campaign for Bush
Bobby Ferguson of Gladewater is named by Rep. George Bush to head Kilgore College Students for Bush. Bush praises Ferguson in guiding student support while Ferguson, son of Garland and ? Ferguson, is a former Union Grove student leader and Kilgore College sophomore. Meanwhile Mineola prepares for a 25 July fly-in inaugurating extended runway and lighting at Mineola Wisener Field. Four armed robbers identified in Greggton cases, held without bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Ferguson
Gladewater
George Bush
U. S. Senate
Bush
Kilgore College
Tom
Bobby
Ferguson
Garland Ferguson
Union Grove High School
Young Republicans
America
Nixon
Congress
Lloyd Bentsen
House
Ways and Means
Mineola Wisener Field
Mineola
Ladies Division
The
Chamber of Commerce
City Sees Welcome Rain and Cool Spell
Heavy rain from a cold front drenched Gladewater with 0.4 inches and cooled a 99 degree day to 75. Tuesday's low dropped to 58, the lowest since June 5. Kilgore and Longview also reported flooding and storm damage as Carthage and Overton experienced temporary street flooding.
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Gladewater
Cleo Marlow
U.S
Kilgore
East Main Street
Longview
Carthage
Overton
Buck Eagle Sharp Stars In Big Tree Horse Auction Life
Buck Eagle Sharp Indian chief and actor runs the Big Tree Horse Auction in Glenwood near Gilmer with his wife Gay and two Gilmer stockholders. He has appeared in Gone With the Wind and Cimarron and doubled for Little Bear in the Red Ryder series. The weekly sale gives a pony to a child, drew 150 horses first night, and Sharp tours the country performing with horses and sheep acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood
Gilmer
Buck Eagle Sharp
Arizona
Sharp
Little Bear
Dee Wedgeworth
Judson Road
Longview
Buck Eagle
Big Tree
Mr. Sharp
Gay
O. D. Banks
Nell
Bert
Sharps
Canada
Europe
Littlefield
Texas
Eye Opener summarizes July events and local notices
Kilgore News Herald notes upcoming July special days such as Electric Organ Transplant Day and You Should Have Stayed in the Bed Day. It also reports on Shirley Elliott’s swim tests Friday morning, with beginners at 9 a.m. and LifeSaving at 10 a.m. plus local hospital, military, library gifts, Hodges Garden, and parade plans in Canton Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Elliott
Kilgore News Herald
Kilgoround
Pizza Smorg for GCARC Benefit in Longview
Gregg County JC group sponsors a Pizza Smorg at the Pizza Hut on East Marshall Highway Longview. Ernest Stith owner and Jaycee chairdonates pizzas and time with all proceeds aiding the Gregg County Association to Aid Retarded Children. Event runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. cost 1.50 per person with Teens Aid the Retarded assisting.
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Gregg County
Ernest Stith
East Marshall Highway
Longview
Stith
Gregg County Association
GCARC
The
County Association
Prayer for Today
Prayer asks divine guidance to avoid a useless life through care and love for fellowmen and service to others. The brief exhortation frames a personal devotion seeking meaning and righteous conduct in daily living.
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Gladeites
Davidson Ford
Methodist
Okmulgee
Oklo
Buck
Jim Thorpe
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Robert Ripley
David Barton
Methodist Hospital
Houston
Bernier
Wiley McCrary
I. D. McCrary
Vietnam
Germany
Gladewater Public Library
David Morrison
Lela Pearl Wood
Z. D. Reynolds
Isaac Newton Bankston
Carl Tyson
M. D. Swearingen
Homer Harris
O. L. Hyden
Kathleen
Hodges Gardens
Louisiana
A. J. and Nona Trigg Hodges Foundation
van Zandt County
Fair Grounds
L. F. Sanders
Marshall
Canton
Tommie Randolph
Fred Matthews
University of Texas At Arlington
Dallas Times Herald
Tommie
Erma Randolph
the Mirror
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