Raggedy Ann and Andy to Star in 1976 Animated Film
Americana Bicentennial film announced in New York will be animated and released fall 1976. Producer Bobbs Merrill invests 1.7 million dollars, with Joe Raposo composing music. Story follows Raggedy Ann and Andy rescuing a doll and includes new characters like the camel with wrinkled knees.
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New York
Raggedy Ann
Andy
Richard Williams
Williams
Joe Raposo
Sing
Bobbs- Merrill
Indianapolis
Max Wilk
Patricia Thackray
Marcella
Lester Osterman
Richard Horner
Raggedy Ann and
John Gruelle
The
Indianapolis Star
James Whitcomb Riley
Memories of West Texas childhood and community life
John Ben Shepperd recounts growing up in Gladewater and rural West Texas. He contrasts poverty, schooling, chores, and simple pleasures with earlier times, noting family influence, hard work, community rituals, and a sense of obligation to public service.
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Olin Ashley
West
Texas
Deep East
Gladewater
P.S
Ashley
Fort Worth official named to Texas Textbook Committee
Dr. James M Bailey of Fort Worth ISD will chair the 15 member 1975 Texas Textbook Committee elected at its first Austin meeting. Augusto Guerra as vice chair and Karin Borman as secretary join in supporting roles. The panel will recommend materials for 1975 adoption and the total cost is estimated around 15 million dollars for grades 1 through 6 and bilingual education. Materials may be adopted for up to six years and made available to districts in September 1976. The committee meets September 30 to select texts and prepare its report to Education Commissioner M L Brockette.
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Austin
James M Bailey
Fort Worth Independent
Bailey
Augusto Guerra
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Isd
Texas Education Agency
Texas
M. L Brockette
Texas Commissioner of Education
Gladewater AARP Chapter Formed With 26 Members
A local AARP group organized at the Ellen Bauman Center to form a Gladewater chapter with 26 members. Calvin Brannen was elected president and the group plans monthly meetings beginning July 17 at 2 pm with a future meeting site to be announced.
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Ellen Bauman
H. C Smith
B. P. Dake
E. D. Sutton
Board of Directors
Letters laud MIRROR for nursing home investigation series
Public Relations Director A A Hyde thanks Gladewater Mirror and reporter Jimmy Brown for investigative nursing home coverage. Texas Nursing Home Association will issue Certificates of Recognition. Also notes a historical fact about the Great Wall of China, its length and dimensions.
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A. A. Hyde
Texas Nursing Home Assn
Michigan State Researchers Probe Drug To Slow Aging
Michigan State University researchers report a drug that may extend life by lowering body temperature and turning down the aging clock. If the theory holds, lifespan could dramatically increase, potentially to around two centuries.
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Michigan State University
Gladewater Mirror publication details and rates
The Gladewater Mirror is published Thursdays and Sundays by The Gladewater Publishing Company from Glade Avenue and Dean Street in Gladewater Texas. Subscriptions are prepaid and priced at 1.25 per month within Texas, 1.50 per month outside Texas, with six month and yearly options. The paper consolidated with The Gladewater Times Tribune on November 28 1949 and with The White Oak Texan on June 1 1969.
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Gladewater Publishing Company
Glade Avenue
Dean Street
Gladewater
Gregg County
Texas
Gladewater Times-Tribune
White Oak Texan
Gladewater Bicentennial book seeks local business input
Editors Nancy Byrd Mayer Mildred Barker and Elizabeth Osteen urge businessmen and shop owners to submit stories and histories for the book Gladewater Today and Yesterday. A $50 per page fee, $25 for half pages, funds offset costs. Deadline mid summer 1976.
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Gladewater
Nancy Byrd Mayer
Mildred Barker
Elizabeth Osteen
Colonies
Housing Authority
S. Tyler St
Presidential contenders and Ford viewed as frontrunner
The piece surveys candidates for the presidency including Udall Kennedy Bentsen Ford Jackson and Wallace with Ford described as solid dependable honest and decent. It notes the field appears thin but mentions several are front runners and promises a voter analysis of each candidate.
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Sons of America
Morris Udall
Dariz
Edward
Ted) Kennedy
D-Mass
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
Gerald Ford
R.-Mich
Sen Henry
Scoop) Jackson
George Wallace
Weekend of repairs and reflections in Kent Ohio
A reader recounts a hectic 24 hours fixing appliances and preparing a yard, jokes about hiring a permanent handyman, and muses on weather, bare feet, pies, and pickup lines from politics. The piece also notes local chatter about television cameras and a mix of political profiles and small town anecdotes. Kent State mentions gift candy and the Mary Miles Scholarship.
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Gladewater Mirror
Gruelle
Chicago
Odessa American
John Ben Shepperd
Odessa
Texas State Historical Survey Committee
By John Ben Shepperd
UTPB
Minnie
Dan
West Texas
Mack Wiley
Mack
Mary Jane
University of Hawaii
First State Bank
Tony N. Williams
Kiwanis Club
Harold Wells
AARP
Joe Beard
J. F. Shepherd
Gladewater Aarp
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Greece
Mary Kates
Gladewater Mirror P. O. Box
China
Shih Hunag-ti
Che Gladewater
Yvonne's Gifts
Mirror
Jimmy Brown
Jo Wiley
Chamber of Commerce
Mary Nell Noll
Janelle Carrington
Rael
U. S
Republican Party
Edward Kennedy
CIA
Chappaquidick
Henry Jackson
Senate
Washington State
Little League
Washington
Democratic Party
Free World
Kent
Ohio
Albert Miles
Akron
Kent State University
Mary Miles
Kent State
Yee
Harold R. Wells
W. Upshur
State Farm Insurance Companies
Bloomington
Illinois
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