Gladewater Faces Forward Drive on Route 271 Plan
The Gladewater City Council will decide whether to convert Main Street and Dean Street to one-way flows as part of a proposed Highway 271 improvement. The plan aims to ease traffic now and in 10 to 15 years with a future loop around the city, while avoiding eminent domain and displacing businesses.
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Gladewater
Texas Highway Department
Main Street
Dean Street
Pine Street
Oklahoma
Red River
Paris
Houston
East Texas Gulf Highway Association
Gulf
Irby Bates
First Baptist Church
Dean
U.S. 271
State Highway Department
Bates
Main
Blood shortage prompts urgent donation appeal in Gladewater
On a Saturday Paul Bennett chief medical technologist at Gladewater Municipal Hospital urged an all types blood drive. He said shortages affect blood banks statewide and the local hospital struggles to obtain needed supplies. Citizens willing to donate should contact Bennett at Gladewater Municipal.
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Paul Bennett
Gladewater Municipal Hospital
Bennett
Gladewater Municipal
White Oak School Sells Two Properties at Auction
The White Oak School Board sold the abandoned Shiloh School building and a Scout Cabin near Roughneck Stadium for 4001 and 765 dollars respectively. Proceeds fund maintenance. They also awarded Byrd Construction the drainage project east of the campus for 38814.37 with 30 36 and 42 inch pipes and 58000 yards of dirt to be smoothed. Construction to start within 20 days and finish in six months.
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White Oak
FE. B. Carrington
Shiloh
Roughneck Stadium
Kenneth Lewis
Adams
Shepperd Law Firm
Longview
Byrd Construction Company of
Carrington
Car
Ground Broken For Goodyear Store
Ground breaking ceremonies were held Thursday morning for a new Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company store on North Main, at the former McKaig Chevrolet site. Attendees included Mayor Melvin Jenkins, E. V. Womble, Mack Wiley, Joe Jones, Bill Langford, Ernest Martin, and others. Doug Shaw of Shawnee Construction noted completion in about 90 days as construction progresses.
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Gladewater
Melvin Jen
Kins
Goodyear
E.V. Womble
Dallas
North Main
McKaig Chevrolet
Mack Wiley
Chamber of Commerce
Joe Jones
Bill Langford
Ernest Martin
C.Q. Abernathy
First State Bank
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Water and Sewer Department
Roy Perryman
Sid Hecker
Chamber of Commerce Retail Division
Leon Sharrock
Cris Morris
Ktal-Tyv
Shreveport
Exarkana
Doug Shaw
Shawnee Construction Company of
Longview
Shaw
Melvin Jenkins
E. V. Womble
North Main Street
McKaig Chevrolet Company
Hospital Is Debt-Free Gladewater Board Elects Officers
Fred Lott was chosen president of the Gladewater Municipal Hospital Authority for a year with Wayne Pollard as vice president and Carson Kennedy as past president and treasurer. The board said the last $160,000 in revenue bonds have been retired, leaving the hospital debt-free.
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Fred Lott
Gladewater Municipal Hospital
James Childress
Harold Potts
Howard LeBus
LeBus
Gladewater
Mrs. Nola Inez Whitted Dies After Illness at 71
Mrs. Nola Inez Dozhier Whitted, 71, died Saturday at 4:30 a.m. after a lengthy illness in a local hospital. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Stone Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Gladewater Memorial Park. A Zenith, Missouri native, she had lived in Gladewater 38 years on the M. D. Shepperd Lease. Her husband T. C. Whitted died in 1951. Survived by daughter Mrs. M. D. Swearingen Sr.. four grandchildren Sidney Weber of St Louis, Mike Swearingen of Dallas, Molly Swearingen of Gladewater, Pat McCloskey of Austin. and three great grandchildren Ricky, Lisa, and Michele Weber.
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Nola Inez (Dozhier) Whitted
Stone Funeral Home
Gladewater Memorial Park
Zenith
Missouri
Jenkins named administrator of Gladewater Nursing Home
Melvin L. Jenkins, longtime McKaig Chevrolet executive and Gladewater mayor, becomes administrator of the near completed Gladewater Nursing Home on Money Street beside Memorial Baptist Church. The facility from Great Southwest Medical Centers aims to offer extended and intensive elder care and will open mid August. Jenkins will assume duties after a vacation and training, while continuing his McKaig role and inviting applications for July and August hires.
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Melvin L. Jenkins
McKaig Chevrolet Company
Gladewater
Money Street
Memorial Baptist Church
Howard Goetz
San Antonio
McKaig
Chevrolet Motor Division
General Motors
Mary
Tenery Street
Oak Manor
Highway 80
Glade
Jenkins
Senator Strong Highlights New Legislation At Rotary
State Senator Jack Strong of Longview praised the recently adjourned legislative session as enacting major laws while criticizing Gov Preston Smith for vetoing the $2.8 billion one year budget bill and about 38 other measures. Smith defended his veto on a statewide TV and radio appearance Friday night.
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Jimmy Brown
Jack Strong
Longview
Rotary Club
Preston Smith
Smith
Sen, Strong
Quentin Abernathy
Gram
Roy Johnson
Strong
U.S. Supreme Court
Senate
House
Texas
James Sherman to travel Holland with Mil Chem escort
James Sherman plans a 90 day trip to Holland accompanied by Mil Chem of New Orleans. He called his parents Mr and Mrs John Sherman to say farewell. His paternal grandmother was born in Holland.
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James Sherman
Mil Chem
New Orleans
John Sherman
Holland
James
Rotary Club
Rotary District
Austin B. Watson
Rotary Anns
Garland Ferguson
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Rev. Bates
Mis
WO School
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
Water Nursing Home
Christ
E. E. ‘‘Whitey’’ Wilson
Hart’s Clinic
Elsie Barton
Green House
Lake Devernia
Licenses
Vocational Nurses Association
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