Love your enemies and pray for your persecutors
A Bible verse from Matthew 5 43 45 contrasts human instruction with Jesus teaching. It urges loving enemies and praying for those who persecute you to resemble the heavenly Father who causes rain and sun to rise on both the evil and the good.
East Texas Chamber Announces Bicentennial Essay Contest
High school students in East Texas are invited to enter a 1000 word or less essay on My Home Town. Three scholarships of 200, 100 and 75 dollars will be awarded at the 11th Annual Golden Anniversary Convention in Longview April 7 8 9 1976. The winning essay will be read at the convention and the top essays published in EAST TEXAS magazine.
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Longview
East Texas
ETCC
Williams
Marjorie Bozeman
Quitman
Chamber
East
Energy Efficient Home program aims for FHA-standard costs
SWEPCO notes that energy efficient homes cost about the same as standard FHA builds. Best says insulation and double-paned windows raise costs but reduce heating and cooling needs, yielding long term savings. Builders in the region are adopting the program and information is available through contractors or SWEPCO offices.
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Best
Swepco
Supreme Court Rules Equal Pay for Women in 1974
On June 3, 1974 the Supreme Court ruled that women performing the same work as men are entitled to equal pay rates, reinforcing gender pay equity in federal and state labor practices.
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Supreme Court
Expansion of Gladewater HECE program proposed
The Texas Education Agency consultants recommended expanding the Gladewater School District Home Economics Cooperative Education program. Superintendent Roy Johnson says space could be found in a room across the hall after the vocational building is done and the math department moves. Mrs Jessie Mae Pynes leads the HECE program with 17 girls, employing them part of each day, while Mrs Mary Smith runs useful home economics.
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Gladewater
Texas Education Agency
Marie Phillips
Norma Shipman
Sulphur Springs
Roy Johnson
HECE
Loay
Jessie Mae Pynes
Pynes
Johnson
East Texas Chamber to mark 50th anniversary with events
Longview events director Jo Wiley announced the East Texas Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its 50th anniversary April 7 to 9 with several programs. Marvin Watson and Paul Harvey are slated to speak, plus an alcohol and drug abuse seminar March 17.
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Johnson
Virgil Wallace
John Paul Tallent
Royce Ford
Jo Wiley
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Longview
Lyndon B Johnson
Marvin Watson
Paul Harvey
Super trees touted to boost East Texas pulpwood yields
Forestry professor Dr. James T. Green of the University of Georgia told the Lufkin Rotary Club that genetically superior “super trees” could allow harvests in ten years. He described crossbreeding pines, the dominance of mother pines in offspring, and trials growing ten to 13 inch diameter wood from crossbreeds in Georgia.
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Lufkin
East Texas
Lufkin Rotary Club
James T. Green
Athens
University of Georgia
Green
Southland Paper
Georgia
Denes rites set Friday for 61 year old White Oak resident
Graveside services for Joseph Denes 61 of 106 Azalea White Oak will be Friday at 10 30 am at Lakeview Memorial Gardens Rev Kenneth Mann will officiate Denes died Wednesday morning in Good Shepherd Hospital after a short illness He was a tool and die maker with Continental Can 28 years a WWII Navy veteran He is survived by his wife and one brother Andrew F Denes of Parkridge TI SHAPING UP. 2nd Lt Rebecca Ritchey 22 at USAF academy trains to become a surrogate cadet for upcoming female doolies arriving this spring later acting as upperclassmen for the yearlong program
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Joseph Denes
Azalea
White Oak
Lakeview Memorial Gardens
Kenneth Mann
Denes
Good Shepherd Hospital
Continental Can
Houston
U.S. Navy
Andrew F. Denes
Parkridge
Rebecca Ritchey
Usaf Academy
Two take top honors in food show
Two district winners from District 4 H took top honors at the Saturday food show with senior winners Tom Booth of Kilgore and Rushell Hunt of Longview. Booth earned with Chicken and Spaghetti in main dish while Hunt won Peanut Butter Cookies in Bread and Dessert. Both will represent District 5 at the 1976 State 4 H Food Show at Texas A M University.
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Tom Booth
Kilgore
Texas
Rushell Hunt
Longview
Texas A&m University
College Station
Mr. Booth
Miss Hunt
Foods Ad Nutrition Project
Sabine
Stumbling blocks become stepping stones in memorial note
Funeral home in Quitman notes the saying The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is in the way you use them. The line appears in a brief tribute context associated with Malcolm Stone Funeral Home on Quitman Street.
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Malcolm Stone
Quitman St
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