Pony League Opens With Bear Park Double Header
The Pony League starts season play with a Thursday double header at Bear baseball park. Gladewater Angels vs Gilmer at 6 p.m. and Gladewater Cardinals vs White Oak at 8 p.m. Also notes on serviceman Randall Martin on leave and returning to Germany, plus local milestones and congratulations in Gladewater news.
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Pony League
Bear Baseball Park
Gladewater Angels
Gilmer
Gladewater Cardinals
White Oak
Gladewater Chamber Plans Rodeo Activities
President Royce Ford led the Gladewater Chamber of Commerce meeting at First United Methodist Church to finalize plans for the Gladewater Round-Up Rodeo. David Holcomb announced 30 beard entrants with prizes of 25 dollars each for longest nearest and most unique beard. beard growers to keep their brush piles until rodeo close. Jim Holcomb said boosters for the rodeo trip on Thursday and Friday are still needed as school ends this weekend.
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Royce Ford
Gladewater Chamber of Commerce
First United Methodist Church
Gladewater
David Holcomb
Jim Holcomb
Gladewater Pools Open Saturday with Class Schedule
Gladewater opens its pools Saturday with Shirley Elliott announcing May 31 as start for swimming classes. Eligibility requires kindergarten completion and a season pass. Classes run May 31 through Aug 27 with varied levels and strict 16-student limits.
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Gladewater
Shirley Elliott
Miss Elliott
City Council Approves Annexation And West Lake Drive Closure
Monday night the council approved an annexation southwest of the Sabine River bridge and two plats for additions west of Rodeo Street along with a third plat outside city limits. A residents petition urged closing West Lake Drive at Harold Street citing speed and safety concerns for 20 to 25 children. Mayor pro tem J. B. Poston paused action on his resignation, and a long range sewer project report was presented amid bond history. West Lake residents also backed study of closing a street in Hall West Lake addition.
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Rodeo Street
Sabine River Bridge
Hall West Lake Addition
Jim Holcomb
J. B. Poston
Thomas Waggoner
West Lake Drive
Harold Street
Waggoner
Bill Langford
George Thomas
Curtis Bright
Langford
Gregg-Smith County
Ernest Martin
Howard Hall
Hall West Lake
Homer Hanes
Sunny Acres
Culver Street
Gary Street
Henricks
Alvin C. Rampy
Hanes
Gil Poston
Roden Road
Pritchett Highway
Planning and Zoning Commission
Upshur
Upshur County
Church Slow Pitch Canceled Weekend With Resumes Planned
Church league games set for Friday and Saturday May 28 29 are canceled due to commencement services and Memorial Day weekend. They will be rescheduled later. regular schedule resumes Tuesday June 1.
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First Methodist
First Baptist
Friendship Baptist
Union Grove Baptist
Memorial Baptist
First
Council studies long range sewer extension and grants
City council reviews the long range sewer improvement and extension program. Voters in 1968 approved 650000 for the project, with two major projects completed and costs totaling 360,? plus remaining bonds. The group discusses Parkwood incorporation and zoning vacancies while a $100 reward is offered for reporting vandalized street signs.
Roy Johnson to Address Mount Vernon Graduates
Gladewater schools Superintendent Roy Johnson will give the Mount Vernon High School commencement address Friday night in the school auditorium. The program includes processional invocation valedictory by Mary Jane Seay salutatory by Johnny Hicks diplomas benediction and recessional.
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Gladewater
Roy Johnson
Mount Vernon High School
Mount Vernon
Johnson
Mt. Vernon High School
Talco
East Texas State University
Reading program narrows waiting list for summer sessions
Nancy Byrd Mayer describes the summer developmental reading program as enthusiastic with classes filling within a week. Enrollment after close moves to a waiting list and notification of openings. The program features Systems 80 with records films and a simple machine for self paced reading during two sessions from May 31 to July 9 for grades 1 through 7.
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Nancy Byrd Mayer
Prayer Service and Library Reading Program Schedule
A church prayer segment quotes Luke 5 13 and asks for God’s love. A weekday program at Gladewater schools runs 8 9 30 a m and 9 30 11 a m with 45 minute reading sessions led by Mrs Mayer and Mrs Ever Grace Derrick. Participation rules limit daily library sessions and offer Texas State Library Summer Reading Program entry with certificates and off campus checkout.
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Mayer
Ever Grace Derrick
Gladewater
Broadway
Gay Avenue
Texas State Library
Commencement Exercises Friday May 28 1971 at Gladewater High
The senior class graduation program lists events from processional to recessional including salutatory and valedictory addresses. Buzz Messner directs the band with Ben Lee as president of the senior class and Eddie Kendall as student body president. Anita Arrington is salutatorian and Don Smith valedictorian. John Shipp is principal. Darrel Richey directs the board of education.
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Spirit of Youth
Gladewater High School
Buzz Messner
Ben Lee
Eddie Kendall
Billy Thompson
Russell Mullins
Anita Arrington
Don Smith
John Shipp
Board of Education
Darrel Richey
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Jennifer Pritchett
Jennifer
GHS
Bill Owens
M. D. Anderson Hospital
Houston
Richard E
Dickey) Phillips, Jr
Everette Wyche
Wyche
University of Houston
Dickey
Rice University
Norman Hackerman
J. H. Smith
Union Grove
Mirror
Jack Elrod
Ron Clark
Gregg-Harrison County
National Institute of Mental Health Narcotics Division
Roden Lane
Quicksand
Bill Nelson Engineers
Shell Camp
Chestnut Area
Gilmer Highway
Paradise Hill
Red Rock
East Side
Parkwood
O. G. Johnston
Zoning and Planning Commission
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Rudolph Phillips
Richard Goode
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Highway 271
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