Upshur County Program Building Committee Annual Meeting
Upshur County program building committee invites residents to the annual meeting in Gilmer at 8 p.m. There will be four committee chairmen reports, awards to six communities, a senior citizen award, certificates to outstanding contributors, and election of officers. A mimeographed booklet on committee accomplishments will be distributed, with entertainment by communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upshur County
Upshur Rural Electric
Gilmer
Bill Varnado
Upshur
Area Men In Service Aboard USS Coral Sea
Bremerton Washington area sailors Gary G Green and Michael L Smith both of Longview are serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea. The ship returned in April from a fourth consecutive Vietnam tour and is now undergoing overhaul in the Bremerton shipyard. Coral Sea pilots flew missions over South Vietnam providing air support for U S and Allied forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bremerton
Wash
Gary G. Green
USN
S. E. Scarborough
Michael L. Smith
Daisy M. Smith
Longview
Coral Sea
Vietnam
U.S. Naval Shipyard
South Vietnam
U.S
Rockefeller Latin America mission shocks observers
Henry Cathcart notes New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller faced hostile reception in Latin America while carrying Nixon’s message. He cites organized protests and U.S. efforts over a decade to improve living conditions, urging clearer communication of limits and aims to allies. The piece ends with a quip about the daily foreign cable briefings and a joke about the Aswan Dam leak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vietnam
Paris
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Rockefeller
U.S
New York
Venezuela
Organization of American States
Galo Plaza
United States
Plaza
James Charlie Young 85 Dies After Tuesday Hospital Stay
James Charlie Young 85 of Route 3 Gilmer died Tuesday in a Gladewater hospital. Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Cooley Funeral Home with Rev. J C Henderson officiating and burial in Glade Creek Cemetery. He was a retired farmer and husband of Audry and father to Clay Young Beatrice Young Marie Young and Mrs Cosby Spier. He left two brothers J M Young of Magnolia Arkansas and G L Young of Buckner Arkansas and two sisters Mrs M B M Sanders Gilmer and Mrs Charlie Joiner Emerson Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Charlie Young
Gilmer
J.C. Henderson
Cooley Funeral Home
Glade Creek
Mr. Young
Cosby Speir
Gladewater
Young
Audry
Clay Young
Longview
Beatrice Young
Marie Young
Speir
J.M, Young
Magnolia
Ark
G.L. Young
Buckner
Hospital Admission and Discharges List Names
A hospital column lists admitted and dismissed patients at City Hospital and Hart Clinic. Names include Esther Gregory, Ola Mae Cuba, Theresa Henderson, Viola Davis, Faye Thompson, Patty McFarland, Geraldine Mashburn, Jesse Jackson, and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria Wright
Polly C. Hanson
Charles Patrick Berry
Lula Sallie Loftis
Charles Theodore Purdue
Samuel C. Harris
George W. McClain
William Cioe Spencer
Sallie Elizabeth Carnutt
Everett Alford Pickering
Jewel Rushing Sloan
Eugene ‘Dewey Wyatt
Fannie E. Avant
Gladys A. White
Violet Loftis
Stanley C. Lutz
Lindley Beckworth Anniversary Celebration Noted
Mr and Mrs Lindley Beckworth celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary this Friday June 27 The note follows a Gilmer wedding event where Eloise remarked the timing was six days off and references Ben Shepperds wedding in Gilmer
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindley Beckworth
Ben Shepperd
Gilmer
Eloise
Burger Sworn In As Chief Justice
Warren Earl Burger became the 15th chief justice of the United States with a simple swearing in that ended Warren’s 52 years of public service. President Nixon spoke to the court, praising Warren’s fairness and dignity as Burger, age 61, took the oath and vowed to defend the Constitution. The court adjourned for summer, to reconvene Oct. 6 with Burger presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Earl Burger
United States
Earl Warren
Burger
Supreme Court
Warren
Nixon
Senate
Abe Fortas
Reverend Rogers Awarded Heinz Centennial Gift
Big Sandy resident Reverend G. W. Rogers, who marked his 100th birthday, received a Centennial Gift Pack from Heinz celebrating the company's 100th anniversary in 1969. Heinz chairman Henry J. Heinz wrote a congratulatory letter noting the milestone and shared history of Heinz and its global brands Star-Kist and Ore-Ida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Rogers
Big Sandy
Mirror
H. J. Heinz Company
Henry J. Heinz
Heinz Company
Heinz
Star- Kist Foods
Ore-Ida Foods
$1.5 Million Contract For ETSA Building
The Board of Regents approved a $1,568,700 contract to Whitmar General Contractors of Dallas for a journalism graphic arts building and additions to the East Texas State University fieldhouse. The three story brick journalism building will house lecture halls, labs, yearbook offices, and a movie studio. Construction starts next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commerce
Board of Regents
State Senior Colleges
Whitmar General Contractors of
Dallas
East Texas State University
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Otto Griebling
Alik
Bailey Circus
Memorial Auditorium
Upshur Meeting
Latin America
Henry Cathcart
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Aswan
Union Grove Nyc
Ezell McGill
Tyler
Northeast
UGHS
McGill
NYC
Union Grove
Garland Ferguson
Hospital News
By Loise Graves
Shepperd
Ben
American Academy of Achievement
Mary Wells Lawrence
Wells, Rich, Greene Inc
Advertising
Lawrence
Gladette Harding Lawrence
William A. Anders
Frank Borman
Polly Bergen
Ann Landers
Air Force
Robert L. Stephens
Society of Experimental Test’Pilots
Federal Aviation Administration
Academy
Susan Yoachum
L.L Avant
Southern Baptist Convention
New Orleans
Itzhak Rabin
W.A. Criswell
Southern Baptist Forest
The
Holy Land
Nazareth
Israel
Jergen
Foster Grant
Colgate 100
Phillips Milk of
Magnesia
Tanya
Jobe Drug Company
S. Main
Sharpsburg
Pittsburgh
ETSA
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