Roberts Tackles Welfare Spending at NETPA Banquet
Congressman Ray Roberts of McKinney addressed the North and East Texas Press Association banquet in Longview, criticizing the rising welfare bill and revenue sharing. He warned of a $430 billion debt ceiling and urged reform while noting welfare costs and matching funds challenges for Texas.
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TPA
Rep
Ray Roberts
Vern T. Sanford
The
Texas Press Association
Rep. Roberts
Longview
North and East Texas Press Association
Contessa Inn
Roberts
McKinney
U. S
NETPA
Paul Bailey
Bill Maddox
Texarkana
Ben Barnes
Nixon
John Connally
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
Congress
Texas
Baseball League Elects Officers
The boys summer baseball league held its first general meeting electing Bill Langford as commissioner Leonard Johnson as vice president Roy Van Houten as secretary and others as presidents and purchasing agent for each league The group planned try-outs for March 27 at Broadway school playground and discussed which association to join before opening day
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Boys Summer Baseball League
Association
Bill Langford
Leonard Johnson
Roy van Houten
Jerry Adams
John Cox
Walter Derrick
Bill Landers
Myrle Penton
Langford
Broadway School
Pee Wees
Little League
Pony
Mustang
Billy Cannon
Colts
Bill Pullin
Pirates
Dodgers
Giants
Jimmy Buckelew
Tigers
Leo Duncan
Red Sox
John Paul Tallent
Orioles
Lloyd Crabtree
White Sox
Ed Haight
Yankees
Max Kelly
Indians
Pony League
Penton
Gladewater
Church of the Nazarene
Union Grove Honors Athletes Friday Night
Union Grove High School honored its students at a Friday banquet at El Chico Restaurant in Longview. Jimmy Smith earned Most Athletic Boy and Phyllis Grimes was named Most Athletic Girl for the 1970 71 school year, with awards decided by secret student ballots.
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Union Grove
Jimmy Smith
Phyllis Grimes
Jimmy
Union Grove High School
el Chico
Longview
Sherwood Blount
Southern Methodist University
Mobberly Avenue Baptist Church
Dale Perkins
Christ
Ferguson
Johnston
Blount
SMU
Dallas Woodrow Wilson High School
White Oak
Cotton Miles
Miles
Prayer for Today Wisdom Nurtures Wise Sons
A brief devotional prayer asks for divine wisdom to guide parents in nurturing children in godliness. It cites Proverbs and seeks a glad heart from wise sons who love and serve God. Amen.
Rangerette Revels Ready for Production March 26
Kilgore College Rangerettes gear up for the Rangerette Revels on March 26 and 27 in East Texas. Director Gussie Nell Davis recalls the annual scramble of costumes, choreography, props, and painting, noting the show’s wartime origins and long tradition.
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Kilgore College
Rangerette
Gussie Nell Davis
East Texas
Miss Davis
Rangerettes
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Vern Sanford
Jimmy Brown
Israel
First Baptist Church
Baseball League
Ronnie Hounsel
Glyn Johnston
Phyllis
Southern Methodist
Gary Hamilton
Norma Hamilton
Garland Ferguson
GHS
Bill Waters
Longview Insurance
Herman (Moon) Mullins
Mullins
Ambassador College
Ambassador College Auditorium
Big Sandy
San Antonio Symphony
Victor Alessandro
New Orleans Philharmonic
Dallas Symphony
Strauss
Mahler
Enesco
Pasadena
California
Ambassador College Chorus
Texas Fine Arts Commission
Garland P. Ferguson
Glynn Johnston
Jane Maddox
Robert A. Barnett
Robert A
Bob) Barnett
Route 2
Malcolm Stone
Barnett
Rancho Oil Co
Gladewater Masonic Lodge
East Mountain Baptist Church
Zelma
Betty Patrick
Longiven
Janie Bartosiewicz
Dallas
Ted Barnett
U.S. Air Force
England
Inez Carter
Hobbs
New Mexico
Nina McCarty
Macogdoches
James Suttle
Vernon
Vince Lombardi
Green Bay Packers
Will
Broadway
Upshur
Bernie Faye Webb
Municipal Hospital
Webb
Bernice H. Moore
Robert N. Hicks
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