Upshur County History Night Highlights Local Heritage
Doyal T Loyd and wife Olga led an Upshur County History Appreciation Week slide show featuring Presbyterian Camp Gilmont scenes, Caddo artifacts, and a 300 year old wisteria at Ore City cemetery. Discussions on an Upshur County Museum accompany plans to share historic material with the Chamber of Commerce.
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Upshur County
Doyal T. Loyd
Olga
Mr. Loyd
Presbyterian Camp Gilmont
Highway 155
Leonard Pickett
Pickett
Ore City
Coffeeville
Upshur
Loyd
Chamber of Commerce
ETSU Plans Texarkana Campus Expansion
Dr. Whitney Halladay, president of East Texas State University in Commerce, announced a Texarkana campus opening effective Sept 1 1971. Gov. Preston Smith signed a bill providing 575000 dollars to fund the first two years of the upper division program in Texarkana. The effort aims to establish the new ETSU campus as a regional higher education center.
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Commerce
Whitney Halladay
East Texas State University
Texarkana
ETSU
Halladay
Preston Smith
Texaskana
Texarkana Center
Etsu At
Ecology and Bible Lessons Shape Church Pollution Fight
Mrs. Robert Rea of Atlanta leads a Presbyterian advisory group urging environmental education in church curricula. She argues biblical dominion is misread and cites Isaiah for stewardship, hoping churches help curb pollution.
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Atlanta, GA
Robert Rea
Atlanta
Rea
Tax W-4E exemption for summer student workers
Tax guidance for students working summers who will earn under 1700 dollars. It advises visiting the payroll office to file a Form W-4E with KE exemption, enabling employers to stop tax withholding under the new law. This reduces the chance of owing income tax and avoids a year end refund process.
Education in the 1970s Versus Past Schooling Trends
The piece surveys rapid changes in education, highlighting System 80 reading devices, team teaching, non graded kindergarten, and a shift toward vocational training. It notes Texas four three month terms could reshape scheduling, and urges educators to prepare for a decade of expanded opportunities and new methods.
Lake Kirby Hosts Unusual Catfish Population Near Abilene
Roy Bamberg of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department notes Lake Kirby near Abilene contains an extraordinary number of Junker flathead or yellow catfish. The turbid 740 acre reservoir provides rocky shoreline spawning habitat where flatheads concentrate. Peak spawning occurs in late June and July as Bamberg continues studies on diet, reproduction, age, and seasonal distribution.
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Abilene
Texas
Kirby
Roy Bamberg
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Bamberg
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Fred
Annie Prince) Johnston
Route 1
Gilmer
West Mountain
Oak Grove
Muncie Pat Prince
Longview
Gorman Prince
Victoria
Vera Lenhart
Union Grove
Reba Bolls
Rusk
Leatrice Joy Dooley
Wichita Falls
Fleet Cochran
Greenwood
Ark
Myrtle Presson
Mansfield
Dewey Turner
Booneville
Tramway
West Virginia
Pipestem Resort
Bluestone Gorge
Fannie Crawford
B.P.O.E
Ennis
Camp Nakanawa
Mayland
Tenn
Smokey Mountains
Col. L. L. Rice
Loise
Larry Osborne
Mary Grace Clark
Venice
Florence
Rome
Stratford
Wanda
Fabric Shoppe
Gladewater
Sam Sez
Fredalene Clark
New York
Allen Swift
Swift
Roux
Contac
Artra
Marlox
Vadure
Mennen
W. Marshall Ave
Ae Rd Company
Tex
Lake Kirby
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