Gladewater's Ken Bennett Named Teacher of the Year
Ken Bennett of Gladewater High School is reelected Teacher of the Year with a student body vote. Known as Mr Music of East Texas he directed the East Texas Revue since 1949 and wrote songs such as The Great Society and New Moon Over the Meadow. He directs the GHS Choirs and serves in multiple civic and educational associations. He is married to Olive May with sons Danny and Kenneth.
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Gladewater
Ken Bennett
Mr. Music of
East Texas
George Cuthbertson
Bear Facts
Gladewater High School
Future Teachers Association
Mr. Music
Bennett
Great Society
Homer and Jethro
Birmingham
England
Danny
Kilgore College
Kenneth
University of Oregon
Nancy Waters
Christmas Gift Show Comes to Dallas July 4 10
Dallas hosts the Christmas Gift Jewelry and Housewares Show July 4 10 with thousands of buyers expected amid steady road business since the Spring Show. February event was the largest spring gift show in Dallas Market Center history. Counts and Shair serve on the Louisiana Arts and Crafts Festival awards jury at Hodges Gardens. Counts is a Smithsonian consultant and GSA arts chair. Shair teaches art history and appreciation in Illinois.
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Dallas
Dallas Market Center
la — Charles
Rubynelle Counts
Rising Fawn
Georgia
Jane Shair
Quincy
Illinois
Hodges Gardens
Louisiana
Forest Gardens
Grant F. Kenner
Counts
Smithsonian Institution
Georgia Commission of the Arts
GSA
Alabama
Shair
Sophie Newcomb College
New Orleans
University of Ilinois
Hospital News Update Covers Admissions and Local Projects
Reading through city hospital notes lists dozens of admissions and discharges at CITY HOSPITAL and HART HOSPITAL-CLINIC, then shifts to a feature about Ralph Messett of Seattle switching to drive in hamburgers. Additional items include an emergency care course planned for Texarkana and Texas Highway Department plans to improve SH 135 in Gregg County near Kilgore with four lane construction and new interchange.
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Dallas
Tombstone
Ralph Messett
Seattle
Wash
Houston
Messert
Time Magazine
American Broadcasting Company
ABC
The
Associated Press
United Press International
Austin
Texas
Buchanan School of Nursing
Texarkana College
Texarkana
Texas State Department of Health
Bowie County Medical Society
Tyler
Texas Highway Department
Gregg County
Kilgore
S.H, 31
Are You Tuned In 10 Music Quiz Answers and PTA Meet
A multiple choice music quiz with ten questions covering instruments origins and history. The piece also notes the National PTA convention in New Orleans from May 31 to June 3 1970 with themes Quality Living and Quality Learning for All Americans and panel discussions including Arthur Godfrey on pollution and a moon-astronaut guest.
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Italy
Spain
Arabia
Hoboken
Nero
Rome
America
Confucius
Thomas Jefferson
Albert Schweitzer
American Music Conference
Nat’l. Pta
New Orleans
PTA
Roosevelt Hotel
Arthur Godfrey
Sam Levenson
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Gillette
Eveready
Enfamil
Jobe
S. Main Gladewater
Hospital News
City Hospital
Howard Thompson
Mary Williams
Audrey Phillips
Marsha Kraft
Sue Carol Hancock
Allene Gore
Marshall Hatchett
Billy Williamson
Leona Lansdale
Sharon Herrin
Billy Hanson
Jerry Fenton
Ira Brooks
Janice Cox
C. T. Coleman
Sybil McKee
Gerald Higginbotham
Rosalee Verner
Ruby Arps
Corine Franco
Horace Chandler
Hattie Hamm
Leroy Allen
Shirley Seahorn
Myrtle Fowser
John Brashears
Gilbert Smith
Mariah Denson
Eliza Lassiter
Roy Ray
Lola Ray
Terry Jones
Ora White
Mary Thelma Braddock
Richard Monk
W. M. Stokes
Della Nathan
Albert Picciotti
Delores Price Prince
George Scott
Mary Davis
Thelma Head
Joyce Merritt
Cindy Denman
Joyce Williams
Andrew Jones
Nettie Burton
Lee Hedgecock
Isobel Walker
Florence Montgomery
Robbie Yarborough
Hart Hospital-Clinic
H. L. Wright
Patsy Kern
Esther Gregory
Nancy Atchley
Ruby Parker
Columbus Woolridge
Lucradie Choice
Laura Mathis
Don Lee Mathis
Patricia Jordan
Bobby Joe Hill
Lucille Roe
Sylvia Wills
Columbus
Ohio
IBM
Maker
Jobe Drug Co
Frank Sinatra
Sweetie Pie
Jobe Drug Store
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