Weathers, Holloways, and Pritchett Families Gather
Community Center hosts the Weathers annual family reunion with nearly one hundred in attendance. Visitors stop by from Mississippi and Dallas to join relatives of Carl Edwin Holloway and Truman Cowan. Rain helps crops, while local hospital cases, terracing work, and a wedding shower for Sheila Pilcher are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delbert Craig
Weathers
Pritchett Community Center
Mark Rednick
Dallas
Truman Cowans
Dave Roberts
Gilmer Hospital
Perry Cowan
Bogota
Community Center
Shelia Pilcher
Frank Roberts
Delwin Craig
Marvin Nickel
Geraldine Marsh
Barney Woods
Lowana Maberry
Marshall
Merkel Maberrys
Lufkin
Texas
Gladewater
Police and Fire Log Summaries From Upshur County
Fire calls include a ballast short in a Thriftyman Pantry North fixture at 2 27 p m a grass woods fire on Highway 271 south cross Handy Dandy Grocery controlled burning a car fire on Highway 80 east and a house fire on Eleanor Street. Police notes cover June 17 18 19 21 including arrests for failure to drive in a marked lane expired license plates intoxicated driving no license or tail lights burglary of an Exxon Plant vandalism theft of a CB radio and multiple traffic incidents. A note on oil and gas study by UT researchers Edward Hewett and George Hoffman examines Soviet export impact on world markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thriftyman Pantry
Highway 271
Handy Dandy Grocery
Highway 80
Eleanor Street
Frank Mason Peters
Austin, Texas
Spl
Middle East
Texas
Soviet Union
Edward Hewett
George Hoffman
University of Texas
Hewett
Hoffman
Western
Europe
Ruben C. Hernandez
Jacobs
Raymond J. Campbell
Dean
Gilmer
Gladewater
Upshur
Exxon
N. Lee Drive
Diane Audas
Lee
Brown
Saunders St
Bernard Davidson
Glade Lanes
Ledet
Landers
Gregg County Sheriffs Office
Shepperd Field
Joe Nathan Gant
Marshall
Henry Richardson
Los Angeles
Calif
Thriftyman South Highway
Pinecrest
Cedar Drive
Texaco
Mr. J's
Safety and Parenting Tips For Families And Discipline
Practical guide on child safety at home and money lessons, plus developmental guidance. Emphasizes backing out safely, secure storage, removing old appliances, and avoiding hazards. Also covers teaching name and address, discipline, money value, growing up, nutrition, and imaginary friends in early childhood development.
Price Writes Songs In Spur Of Moment Big Sandy Tale
Texan songwriter Price recalls writing Christmas in Big Sandy in a lonely rooming house on Christmas Eve. He has six contracts with Nashville Music Productions for country and religious songs and now lives in Gladewater. Born in Electra, he sang with Gordon Shay orchestra in Dallas and survived tragedy after losing his wife and three sons in a trailer fire. He hints at a future chart hit as he moves between Oklahoma Texas and Nashville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Sandy
Gene Austin Price
Price
Nashville Music Productions
Gladewater
Oklahoma
Electra
Wichita Falls
Gordon Shay Orchestra
Texas
Nashville
Mirror Phci
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pritchett
Mrs. Fizzle
Police Department
Daniel R. van Fleet
Dorothy Jean Hinchen
Mr. J’s Lounge
Thomas Benefield
Mt. Pleasant
Danny O. Parnell
Kilgore
Middle School
By Cynthia Shuttles
Baghdad
Shay Orchestra
Bankamericard
For All
Pharmacies. Inc
The
First State Bank
Ata Ae
Cladewater
Dial
Longview
QTR Titana
Oak Manor
Annice Partin
Care Inn
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