Gilmer High yearbook apologizes for omitted student photos
Gilmer School Board heard protests from parents after photos of students not meeting the dress code were excluded from the yearbook. The board voted to sign an apology on looseleaf sheets displaying the affected pictures while clarifying the dress code remains in effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilmer
Gilmer High School
Verlie Bledsoe
Wayne Cly
Walter Jones
Bob Glaze
Truett Rattan
Lone Star Steel baseball clinics start May 31
Lone Star Steel sponsors summer baseball clinics in Northeast Texas begun in 1959 with 509 youngsters. Many graduates become coaches or players. the program expanded to baton twirlers and a music clinic. The 1959 Yankees and White Sox era is recalled as youth today chase sportmanship and skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Star
Lone Star Steel Company
Texas
Casey Stengel
New York Yankees
Mantle
Erra
Ford
Maris
Yanks
Chicago
White Sox
Yankees
Steel Company
Bench
Hurroughs
Seaver
Jackson
Rangers
Astros
Randy McKay
Daingerfield
Randy
Mr. Doubleday
Lone Star Steel
Bob Thompson
Thompson
Special luncheon to honor Mrs. Etalah Petty retirement
A June 3 luncheon at Downtowner Motor Inn honors Mrs. Etalah Petty longtime Gregg County County Home Demonstration Agent who retired April 30. The event, organized by the Longview Chamber Agri-Business Committee and friends, features honor certificates and introductions of longtime associates. Tickets are $3.50 and available via the Chamber offices and Gregg County Extension Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etalah Petty
Agri-Business Committee
Longview Chamber of Commerce and Friends
East Texas
Texas Hospital Auxiliaries Conclude May Convention at Dallas
The thirty third annual Texas Association of Hospital Auxiliaries convention met May 17 to 20 at the Adolphus Hotel Dallas with about 1000 attendees on May 19 Pinafore Day. Rev Tom Shipp spoke on The Art of Serving and Jack Yianitsas on The Power Within You. Delegates from Gladewater included Mrs Dora Bolgiano Mrs Rena McChesney Mrs Tiny Pyeatt Mrs Betty Allen Mrs Doris Walston and Miss Emma Sue Bennett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Association of Hospital Auxiliaries
Adolphus Hotel
Dallas
Tom Shipp
Lovers’s Lane United Methodist Church
Jack Yianitsas
Sonar Supply Inc
Gladewater
Dora Bolgiano
Rena McChesney
Tiny Pyeatt
Betty Allen
Doris Walston
Emma Sue Bennett
Home beauty hacks from kitchen to library shelves
Readers share odd kitchen cosmetics and folk remedies for hair and skin from vodka peppered formulas to olive oil masks. Items include corn oil mayonnaise lemon juice and vinegar as conditioners colors and lighteners, plus facial and eyebrow tips and a Cayce book on beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitchen
Lou Hewitt
Chevy Chase
Lou
Lola Redford
Robert Redford
Gladewater
Lee Public Library
Edgar Cayce
Petition to arrest suspected traitors in Albany 1776
On June 5, 1776, in Albany New York, signers to a city and county committee petition urged that all suspected traitors be apprehended and stripped and deprived of their defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N.Y
City and County Committee
Private schools gain state approval for special education
Two nonpublic and state supported special schools in Region VII have been approved by the State Board of Education for one to three year terms. Windamere School in Longview and the Deep East Texas Regional Mental Health Retardation Services in Lufkin join 12 other state supported units serving exceptional children. TEA staff reviewed sites this year with on site accreditation visits planned every three years for other units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Region VII
State Board of Education
Windamere School
Longview
Deep East Texas
Lufkin
Department of Mental Health and
Texas Education Agency
Special Education
Don Weston
TEA
Vo Special Education
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Paul Lange Constable
Precinct 3
Paul Lange
P. O. Box
Mrs
Ladies Tout
By Cherie Hopkins
Congress
Beverly Nelson
Sandy Hayworth
Redken Products
Malle
Our Country
Mies
Feat
Hart Clinic Hospital
Yvonne Flowers
Dorothy Cody
Matt Allen
Walter Alvin Kern
Jeanie Morris
Daryl Lewis
Cindy Chisum
Gladys Venters
Wesley Ray
O. C. Tennison
Willie Joyce Wright
Juanita Hoot
Shane Nixon
Earline Garner
Dorothy Tolbert
Emma Tolbert
Donald Baird
Calvin Anderson
Nancy Blalock
Alma Harris
Daphne Hooks
Charles Derrick
Nettie Elder
Walter Kern
Jeannie Morris
Ethyl Floyd
Jessie Shadad
Nancy Allison
Frank Sanders
Gladys Lambert
Patricia Miller
Jermain Marks
Sylvester Marks
Jarpan Cody
Lisa Laferney
Tommy Smith
City Hospital
Medie Hale
Wilda Vande
Atherrene Hawley
Luther Kendall
Lewis Merideth
Ara Wilburn
Charles Weech
William Seelig
Lillie Wright
Benjamin Stripling
Louise Newell
Marguerette Cook
Louise Custer
Lillie Barton
Lena Jackson
Lillian Troboy
Charlotte Hall
Ruby Horn
Cathy Blear
Janna ‘Conklin
Lyndi Wayt
Darla Bell
Barbara van Houten
Nathan May
Jessie Blaloc
Linda Brownlee
Darlene Bell
Lucy Clemens
Charles Edwards
Glenn Walton
Ruth Custer
Gloria Johnson
Vickie Thompson
Emma Wady
Sue Ellison
Bessie Koffman
May Liles
Tom Mears
Fred Scarlett
Sarah Moran
Ross Pollard
Bertha Shaw
Robert Dansby
Stella Seelig
E. L. Rigikee
Optometrist
Kilgore
Kilgore ST
Gedaes
N. Main
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