Girls Win Olympic Medals at 17
The Olympic Review compares ages of medalists from Mexico 1968 with earlier Games. It notes U S swimmer Debbie Meyer won gold at 16, with women’s average age in Mexico about 17 years six months versus 19 years three months previously.
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London
Debbie Meyer
United States
Mexico
Olympic Review
International Olympic Committee
TOC
Debbie
Norman Sarsfield
English Swimming Association
Karen Muir
South Africa
Record wages for forest firefighters in 1970
Regional Forester William D. Hurst said Southwest forest crews earned a total of 1.9 million dollars in 1970. About 1,800 members were employed on organized crews, including roughly 1,000 Indians, to fight fires.
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Albuquerque
Southwest
William D. Hurst
Police and Fire Log Summaries From Weekend Incidents
The fire department answered three alarms this weekend including a brush fire on the Old Gilmer highway with no damage, a vehicle fire on Pacific and Cotton causing $50 damage, and a grass fire at Lake Devernia with no damage. Police investigated several accidents and thefts including a three car crash at Gay and Main with one citation, a one car crash on the old Longview highway with no injuries, and a Tenery 600 block collision sending Mrs. Joyce Turner to hospital before transfer in good condition. A theft at Edgar Partain’s service station totaled $39.96. Vandals painted Seniors 1971 on the water tank near Gay Avenue. investigations ongoing.
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Gilmer
Pacific and
Cotton
Lake Devernia
Gay
N. Main
Longview
Tenery
Joyce Turner
Good Shepherd Hospital
Gay Avenue
Early European Harps Used Hair or Gut Strings
The earliest European harps used braided horsehair or gut strings. The triangular Irish harp featured brass strings and was plucked with specially grown hooked fingernails.
Band Parents Club to Vote on By-Law Change
At a regular Band Parents Club meeting in the GHS band hall a motion to amend Article 5 Section 1 paragraph D of the by laws was approved for a two thirds vote at the April 5 meeting. Nominating and scholarship committees were appointed and Band events including Kilgore JC contest April 27 29 and a spring concert in May were discussed.
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Band Parents Club
GHS
Mack Wiley
Averyl Terrell
Jean Philpot
Katherine Wilson
Buzz Messner
Don Smith
Willie Faye Beasley
Clayton Linn
Ophelia Laney
Messner
Kilgore Junior College
Hospital News Admissions and Discharges
City hospital reports admissions including R. E. Burris and Irene Shakespeare along with several others. Discharges include Carolyn Murray Sally Willis and Hughes Smith. Additional admitted lists appear for Hart Clinic Hospital with multiple names.
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Hart Clinic Hospital
R. E. Burris
Irene Shakespeare
Dana Bickerdike
Carolyn Murray
Wanda Hammers
Jo Ann Jones
Essie Elder
Christell Henry
Sally Willis
Arvil Smith
James Young
Ollie Logsdon
Hughes Smith
Johnny Mitchell
Odis Whatley
Charles Coleman
Russell Trotter
Gwendolyn Bircher
Births It’s a Boy for Mr and Mrs Tommy Lee Austin
The newborn arrived Tuesday at City Hospital weighing 8 pounds 2 ounces and measuring 20 inches long at 3 50 pm. Readers named Bowie Estell Bond Tilman McElroy Dieter Cross Mary Leverette Fred Withers Billy Pruitt Eva Austin Carl Walker Leona Rogers Johnny Head.
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Tommy Lee Austin
City Hospital
Bowie
Estell Bond
Tilman McElroy
Dieter Cross
Mary Leverette
Fred Withers
Billy Pruitt
Eva Austin
Carl Walker
Leona Rogers
Johnny Head
Dencil Marsh
Roy Pilcher, Jr
Texana Godlock
Carolyn Higginbotham
Mae Phillips
Effie Davis
Robert Hilburn
Tina Whitlock
Dessie Smith
Oclon Denison
Alphia Pace
Thomas Sturgis
Abbie Frix
Burglary Charges Filed Against Three Local Boys
Upshur County Sheriff Doyle Johnson said three 17 year old boys face burglary charges after a March 5 incident on Phillips Springs Road. The trio was arrested about 4 15 PM the same day after the burglary was found. Two youths were released on bond while one remains in Upshur County jail.
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Upshur
Doyle Johnson
Phillips Springs Road
Upshur County
Bedford Poteet Dies in Cleveland Oklahoma Funeral Friday
Bedford Poteet brother in law of Mr and Mrs O B Brown and H E Brown died in Cleveland Oklahoma Funeral services are set for Friday at 2 30 p m in the First Baptist Church Cleveland Burial will be in the cemetery at Hallet Oklahoma
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Bedford Poteet
O. B. Brown
H. E. Brown
Cleveland
Oklahoma
First Baptist Church
Hallet
Okla
Saxon Quadrangular Harp Unearthed in Suffolk
A seventh century Saxon harp discovered in Suffolk, England, features a distinctive quadrangular shape.
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Suffolk
England
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Mark Collins
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Elmo Parsons
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