Foster Parents Honored in Foster Parents Week
Gayle Heard of Gregg County DPW praises foster parents as vital to removing children from harmful homes. Gregg County hosts 37 foster children under nine caseworkers with 24 licensed homes. Foster care aims for temporary stabilization then permanent planning toward return home or adoption.
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Longview
Gayle
Department of Public Welfare
Gregg County
Gladewater
Heard
Yast
Paris
Foster care needs more homes and emergency placements
Gregg County foster care program seeks more homes due to harsh workload and scarce options. Emphasizes need for 3 am emergency placements, adequate facilities, and responsible screening. notes reimbursement gaps and diverse funding sources while urging recruitment of black and emergency caregivers. Rosalyn Sprage listed as foster home worker with contact for involvement.
Texarkana Weekend Visit Plus Recipe Dilemma Reflections
The writer visits Texarkana and recounts a weekend with Ronald and Mary McChesney, noting a local 31-page recipe feature and personal plans to organize aging recipes. He describes the friend’s dog with slanted eyes, touches on trips to Hot Springs horse races, and their dining at The Livery Stable. The piece blends travel notes with culinary nostalgia and sampling black beans.
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Texarkana
Ronald
Mary McChesney
Lorena
Jordan
Rena
McChesneys
Japan
Mary
Charlie
Hot Springs
Texas
Council to Hear Sewer Plant Report
The Gladewater city council will hear a report from B L Nelson Engineering on a new sewer plant study and review the status of the current sewer project. They will authorize payment on the Gay Avenue paving project and consider fiscal year 1975 76 tax rate and budget ordinances.
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Gladewater
B. L. Nelson Engineering Firm
Dallas
Gay Avenue
Glade Creek Bridge
Pinecrest Street
Aty
East Texas Council of Governments
Department of Transportation
Gladewater Camp Fire and Blue Birds Praise Supporters
The Gladewater Blue Birds and Camp Fire Girls thank supporters for help in a candy sale that raised $5 965 and a rummage sale that netted $401 11 toward a bi fold partition for the Camp Fire Center. Leaders mothers and sponsors commend the community for years of dedicated support and four the girls.
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Gladewater Blue Birds
Gladewater
Blue Birds
Gladewater Mirror subscription rate listing reaches back
The Gladewater Mirror announces mail and home delivery rates for Texas and out of state readers. It notes prices per month, six months, and year, all payable in advance, with six months in Texas at 5.00 and yearly at 8.50, and lists consolidation dates with related papers.
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Gladewater
Texas
Gladewater Times-Tribune
White Oak Texan
Have a Nice Day Handed Shelly in Cruel Call to Ban
A reader rails against Have a Nice Day and forms the Co operative Relating Umbrage to Days. The proposed group would fine speakers and force 500 repeats of the phrase to Castro imagery. The piece mocks the faddish bumper sticker as a threat.
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Orly
Fidel Castro
Congress
Texas considers lifting three quart dairy container ban
Texas lawmakers Buck Florence Hamp Atkinson introduced a bill to permit three quart dairy containers. The move aims to expand the East Texas plant and create more local jobs while arguing the measure would provide practical and economical distribution of dairy products to Texans. The current law, dating to 1925, bans three quart containers in Texas.
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Austin
Texas
U.S
Michigan
Buck Florence
Hughes Springs
Hamp Atkinson
New Boston
Cass County
International Paper Company
East Texas
Florence
Polling places cut to 10 for amendments in Gregg County
Gregg County commissioners court limits constitutional amendment voting to 10 polling sites, half the usual number. Absentee voting runs April 2 to April 18 in Gladewater City Hall, City Secretary Sarah Allen's office.
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Longview
Gregg County Commissioners Court
Gregg County
B. M. (Buck) Birdsong
Gladewater
City Hall
Sarah Allen
Absentee Voting Opens for City Council Seats
Absentee voting for four city council seats began Wednesday with March 28 as the deadline. Voters may cast ballots at City Secretary Sarah Allen’s office in city hall from 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Eight candidates compete, including incumbents James Goggans George Thomas and James Walker. Stan Midler Lonnie Van Zandt reattempt races, while Johnny Dishman Joanne Potts and Roy Pynes seek their first office.
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Sarah Allen
City Hall
James Goggans
George Thomas
James Walker
Stan Midler
Lonnie van Zandt
Johnny Dishman
Joanne Potts
Roy Pynes
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Longview Junior Service League
Rosalyn Sprage
Greggton Community Center
Mr Jimmy Brown
Gladewater Mirror P
Gladewater, Texas
Mr Brown
Howard C. Allen
Nursing and Convalescent Homes
Medical Care Administration Division
I A
Hodge Rodge
Gladewater Publishing Company
Glade Avenue
Dean Street
Jimmy Brown
H.A.N.D
S. Main
Rhodes
BankAmericard
Brookshire
Quitman Street
Church OF Christ
Bank
Pula Servos Rann Oa
Rome
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