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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1970
Page
2
The Travelers Insurance annual highway statistics warn defenders to assume others are unreliable, noting one fifth of drivers are under 25 yet cause one third of fatal crashes. In 1969, over 56,500 deaths and 4.7 million injuries marked record highs, with excessive speed and conditions-related risks highlighted.
FBI data from the first half of 1969 show varied gun controls across the 12 largest U.S. cities and mixed homicide changes. New York Chicago Washington and San Francisco exhibit stiff laws yet homicide rises range from 6 to 102 percent. Others with looser rules show smaller or negative changes. Dr Bruce Dante argues gun control is not the answer. Laws passed in emotion are hard to repeal once enacted.
Bernard Gwertzman surveys Soviet commerce from Moscow noting 30 billion man hours wasted yearly in shopping. Shoppers queue for scarce handbags, visit multiple stores, and lack of self-service and packaging goods hampers efficiency. He contrasts with U S mass distribution and urges critics to see the Soviet system.
In Tempe a cartoonist laments student attitudes toward army service. In New Holstein a reporter notes residents pay taxes multiple times on projects yet value freedom. In Belton a columnist jokes about welfare work and personal work history, defending all forms of labor.
Illinois State Water Survey scientists pursue hail control by analyzing storm profiles with a large University of Illinois computer. The 29 county area covering 1600 square miles is linked to hail statistics as S A Changnon Jr notes the aim to identify hail bearing storms as they develop. A separate note mentions spinach varieties and medieval European cultivation.
A four page offset paper called the Browning Sentinal emerges from Browning Montana produced by Blackfeet Indians aligned with NABI to present tribe oriented news. The bi monthly effort aims to showcase tribal governance issues and local business like management while offering satire in a column titled Buffalo Chips authored under the pseudonym Chip Wisent. Release Volume one number one distributed two thousand copies split between reservations and Browning area.
Column of humorous quips on life love aging and traffic with pithy one liners. The piece features a 102 year old timer joke and closes with a note about Georgia operating four two year junior colleges.
Arthur Hollis Attaway is promoted to Department Manager at J C Penney North Park Dallas store after earlier posts in Richardson. A Gladewater native, he served four years in the air force and joined Penney in 1965 as a manager trainee. He and wife Peggy reside at 4812 Alcott, Dallas. Appointment effective June 1.
This piece blends personal vignettes about seniors graduation Girls State plans rodeo and family chores with a reflection on a Supreme Court ruling on press freedom. It ends by noting the Indian embassy in Moscow spends the most on entertainment among Indian embassies in five capitals.
New York reports that poor street lighting raises crime and auto accident risks. The Street and Highway Safety Lighting Bureau offers six criteria for evaluating lighting, including pole height, spacing, downward cone illumination, and uncluttered poles, plus a call to local campaigns for improvements with city engineers and police.
The Gladewater Mirror lists staff positions and contact lines with names such as Mrs. Harry Kates and Harriett Walton. It states publication days Thursday and Sunday, rates for home delivery and mail subscriptions within and outside Texas, and a policy promising correction of erroneous reflections upon request.
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