Gladewater Lee Public Library Breaks Ground Monday
Groundbreaking for the Gladewater Lee Public Library was held on Pacific and Tenery Streets with Mrs. Claude Lee and Mayor O G Johnston turning the first sod. The brick building of 7000 square feet will be funded by a $50,000 gift in memory of her late husband and a Texas State Library Commission grant. Attendees included library board members, local officials, and guests from the community.
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Gladewater Lee Public Library
Pacific and
Tenery Streets
Claude Lee
O. G. Johnston
Carl Everett
Gladewater
Harold Victory
Ellen Bauman
Lee
Texas State Library Commission
Library Act
C. B. McKenzie
B. F. Risinger
Eula Coleman
Elizabeth Osteen
Mel Pycatt
H. L. McKaig
Martha Langford
Jasper
Juka McCourt
Tyyne Smith
Seattle
Wash
Bauman
Hunt Brothers Construction Company
Longview
Wilson
Nanty’ Byrd Pelphrey
Bob Bullock
Josephine Armstrong
S. D. Todd
Pelphrey
Todd
H. D. Victory
Claude A. Lee
Gladewater Library Board
Tenery
Victory
John Marshall
Library Board
Ann McKenzie
EYE OPENER highlights weekend events at local clubs
The page lists an 18 hole Saturday Scramble at Maxey Acres Country Club with 1 pm tee off and 12 30 entry deadline. It notes plans for the Union Thanksgiving service at First Baptist Church on Nov 19 at 7 pm sponsored by Gladewater Ministerial Alliance. Also mentions family news including a new Kimberley Ann Alderson and library ground breaking with Martha Langford, plus Gladewater REACT fifth annual coffee break at the American Legion Hut with prizes and entertainment from country bands.
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Maxey Acres Country Club
Jackie Wood
First Baptist Church
Gladewater Ministerial Alliance
Conrad Winborn
Gladewater React
American Legion
REACT
Library expansion highlights regional cultural growth
The new state class library facility, led by Mrs Bauman with Mrs McCourt and Mrs Barbara Jackson, vows to house the Texana collection in honor of John Ben Shepperd Jr. and serve Odessa area residents with programs for children and summer reading. Matronly Mrs Mattie Watson dies at age 81 after a long illness. funeral planned at Malcolm Stone Chapel with burial in Eastland Memorial Gardens. Mrs Bauman has led library staff since 1952 and local leaders including Bill Wagner and Martha Langford attended the event.
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Bauman
McCourt
Barbara Jackson
Texas
John Ben Shepperd
John
Mattie Watson
Weldon Stansell
Malcolm Stone
Conrad Winborn
First United Methodist Church
Eastland Memorial Gardens
Watson
Gladewater
Eastland County
East Texas
Mansker Lake
Robert Watson
Cisco
H. C. Parvin
Chicago
Iil
Winnie Sue
Eastland
Charles J. Mansker
Etex hosts first taste of regular bicycle races in East Texas
Am bassador College hosted a drizzly but lively bicycle meet drawing about 1 000 spectators and 140 riders. Amateur Bicycle League of America races featured 47 riders from several states in five sanctioned events. Winners included John Pototschnik Dallas Del Blundell Austin Dale Suttle Austin Steve Kraft Ambassador student and Cornelia Smyth Austin with honors across A B L A classes.
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Cornelia Smyth
Austin
Bicycle League of America
Ambassador College
Big Sandy
Cornelia
Duncan
John Mackey
Van
University of Texas
East Texas
Larry Haworth
John Pototschnik
California
del Blundell
Dallas
Gary Holder
Stillwater
Okla
Jim McFadden
New Orleans
David Klenk
Dale Suttle
Steve Kraft
Ed Martin
Richardson
Steve Bales
Ft. Worth
Rick Edrington
Houston
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San Francisco
Richard Johnson
Leonard Johnson
Richard
Tyler
Fredalene Clark
Gregg County
Buck Birdsong
A. T. Jobe
City Hospital
Jobes
Sid Adams
Mr. Adams
Arkansas
William Brad
Martha
Mike Alderson
Good Shepherd Hospital
W. D. Alderson
City
Clifton Reppond
East Mountain
Kimberley Ann
Melvina Reppond
Kilgore College Rangerettes
Southern Methodist University
Latressa Trawick
Rangerettes
SMU
Texas Tech
Justice of the Peace
County Tax Assessor
Etex
Jimmy Brown
Graveside Services
Jason K. Bland
Jason Kiley Bland
Tim Bland
Memorial Park
Jason Kiley
Chris
Julius Morse
Travis Bland
Tommy
Roddy Jack Bland
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