Gladewater Teachers Attend Texas Reading Conference
Three Gladewater teachers joined the 14th annual Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading conference at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches July 18 and 19. Speakers included Dr. Paul C. Berg of the University of South Carolina and Dr. Helen F. Kyle of Rhode Island College with topics on reading instruction and assessment. A luncheon in the Student Center and a reception at the Union Building followed the program.
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Gladewater
Texas Association For the Improvement of Reading
Sfa
Nacogdoches
la Verne Chessire
Virginia Baker
Larry Osborne
Paul C. Berg
School of Education
University of South Carolina
Berg
International Reading Association
Helen F. Kyle
Reading Center
Rhode Island College
Handsom
Starlight
Bennett Cooksey
Heinz F. Eichenwald
Clash Between Generations Alters Moral Standards
The piece argues each generation breaks rules and questions morality, noting clergy turn to secular matters and activism. It cites Rabbi Arthur Hertzberger, World Council of Churches debates, changing church attendance, and shifting views on religion’s influence amid scientific doubt and hippie individualism.
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Arthur Hertzberger
Vietnam
Buchanan
World Council of Churches In Convention
Sweden
America
Gallup
Will Herbert
Drew University
Hitler
Paris Peace Talks Used to Cushion War Effort and Tarnish Critics
The piece denounces Paris peace talks as a fraud that helps the enemy curb bombing while the Johnson administration pressures voters. It accuses AID officials in South Vietnam of corruption and pocketing high salaries plus perquisites, and urges a reevaluation of U S involvement before more lives and money are spent.
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Paris
Washington
Hanoi
Johnson
Southeast Asia
North Vietnam
Paul Harveys
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Vietnam
Saigon
Uncle Sam
Agency For International Development (Aid
South Vietnam
Congress
East Mountain Socials and Military News Snapshots
East Mountain residents hosted a church fellowship supper with about fifty attendees led by Mrs. Alta Blalack and David Reynolds. Local civic updates include military enlistments for Eddie Attaway and Jimmy Medlin, plus Rev. Baggett's move to Beaumont as Education Minister. A Baltimore centenarian, John Pendleton Branham, 105, discusses a long life with no vices.
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Mark Blankenship
Beth Anne
Midland
Ellis
Training Union
East Mountain Baptist Church
Alta Blalack
David Reynolds
Bob Harrington
Bourbon Street
L.B. Orms
United States Army
The
Orms
Jimmy David Medlin
Harvey Medlin
Larry Price
United States Navy
Billy G. Baggett
Glenda
Martha
Beaumont
Marshall
Rev. Baggett
Calvary Baptist Church
East Texas Baptist College
Paul Harvey Column Run Continues in Mirror
Editor notes wide interest in Paul Harvey. Mirror will print all three weekly columns with two appearing on the editorial page each Thursday and one on Sunday.
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Paul Harvey
the Mirror
Miss Methodist Student Nurse of 1968 named
Nurses story from Columbus Ohio notes Janie Lou Weasel a senior at Riverside Methodist Hospital School of Nursing was chosen Miss Methodist Student Nurse of 1968. The piece humorously adds a remark about an efficiency expert.
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Columbus
Ohio
Janie Lou Weasel
McClure
Riverside Methodist Hospital School of Nursing
Judges with guts defend public right to know in open hearings
A column defends open court hearings against ABA ethics canons. It cites Coles County and Sangamon County rulings upholding the public’s right to pretrial access and urges continued press access to proceedings while warning of overreach by defense motions. It notes prior cases and calls for ground rules balancing rights. It ends with a minority opinion from New York bingo profits and state costs.
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USS
Supreme Court
American Bar Assn
ABA
Coles
Creel Douglas
Sangamon County
Douglas
Montgomery County
Clay County Circuit Court
Ray Horn
Germany
Montgomery
New York
State Bingo Control Commission
Area Men In Service Training at Ft Sill in Army ROTC camp
Cadet Jesse L. Watson III of Gladewater Texas attends six weeks of Army ROTC summer camp at Ft Sill Oklahoma starting June 14. He trains in leadership rifle marksmanship and physical conditioning with potential commissioning as a second lieutenant after graduation.
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Ft, Siul
Okla
Jesse L. Watson III
Jesse Watson Sr
Gladewater
Prairie View A&m College
Prairie View
Tex
Watson
Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Ft. Sill
Oklahoma
U. S. Army
Weldon High School
Complacency as a Blight and the Call to Change
A 1965 essay warns that complacency drains energy and locks people into yesterday's patterns. It contrasts “good enough” with pursuing new ideas and warns that fear of the unknown sustains a false, downhill path until genuine progress comes from restless inquiry and the search for better ideas.
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Penney
Reardon
Bar Association
Illinois Bar Assn
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Manatee
Donald Ek
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Kilgore
Brenda L. Pinyan
China Grove
N. C
Subic Bay
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U. S
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Pleiku
Jimmy D. Aldridge
Thomas T. Aldridge
4Th
Quitman Street
Church OF Christ Gladewater
Texas
Mathisson Company, Inc
4Don’s Restaurant
Che Gladewater
General Manager
Harry Kates
Harry Kates Neal Clark
Jerry Kates
Women's Editor
Jack Elrod
Fredalene Clark
Harriett Walton
Glade Ave
Dean Street
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