City completes Gay Avenue slurry seal project
The Gladewater City Council finishes the three stage slurry seal on Gay Avenue from East Lake Drive to Rodeo Street. The project began years ago with segments from East Lake Drive to Glade Creek Bridge and from the bridge to Kay Acres. The final stretch to Rodeo Street completes a busy main artery to Lake Gladewater and boosts community value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gay Avenue
Rodeo Street
Gay
East Lake Drive
Glade Creek Bridge
Kay Acres
Gladewater
Lake Gladewater
Halloween Carnival Earns Praise From Gladewater
Gladewater youngsters and faculty earned praise for another successful Halloween Carnival. The event offered wholesome fun for all ages and helped curb pranks seen in other communities on Halloween night. A small minority caused property damage, but peers did not esteem them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladewater
Free press as safeguard of liberty amid elections
The piece argues that a free press is essential to democracy and contrasts it with Soviet suppression in Czechoslovakia. It asserts that election discourse is shaped by editors and media scrutiny, stressing that free press and free nation are inseparable, a point highlighted by Russian experience.
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Czechoslovakia
Soviet
Russia
Theodore Roosevelt
Hospital Admissions and Discharges Listed in Kentucky News
A Frankfort report notes Kentucky state government updates via toll free long distance lines. Governor Louie B. Nunn oversees the system, with the state paying about $500 monthly for the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Kentucky
Louie B. Nunn
Quotes About the Presidency by U S Leaders
A compilation of famous reflections on the presidency from Hoover Roosevelt Eisenhower Kennedy Taft and others. The remarks touch on leadership responsibility the challenges of guiding the nation and the isolation often felt in office.
Election Duty and the Right to Vote
The piece urges Americans to vote on Tuesday November 5 and defend the heritage of free elections. It argues millions fail to register or vote, yet a winner will form government. It notes you can complain in America without voting, but you should vote to honor the right.
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House of Representatives
America
IRS
HEW
HUD
Richard Nixon
George Wallace
Washington, D. C
Press Club
Charles Lindebergh
Stokely Carmichael
Fresh Cost Worries Rise From Tax Toast To Decorators
The piece notes rising money concerns as taxes grow and builders push wooden paneling for baths, reflecting a retro utilitarian trend. It jokes that both the stork and the obstetrician face big bills, highlighting financial strain on families and services.
Program items outline education bill details
A bill clarifies the mandatory status of the continuing Contract Program and proposes a Professional Practices Commission. An enabling act may be developed after Amendment 9 approval with additional items drawn from TSTA members the State Board of Education and other groups.
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Professional Practices Commission
TSTA
State Board of Education
Press ethics and the rush for sensational news
Essay on how censorship and sensationalism shape reporting. Prominent figures critique headlines cropped for sales, urging focus on substantial, nonexploitive coverage. Suggestions include omitting names of eccentrics while reporting significant events to inform without stoking exhibitionism. More to come.
Gunsmoke in the Redlands at Gladewater Library
Joe F. Combs known as Mr. East Texas has a new book Gunsmoke in the Red lands ready for circulation at the Gladewater Public Library. The work recounts the Wall Border feud and the Conner feud, both lasting years, with Texas Rangers and other lawmen brought in as a reign of terror.
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Joe F. Combs
East Texas
Mr. Combs
Redlands
Gladewater
Texas Rangers
Galveston News
Elizabeth Corbett
Jessica Benedict
Long Island
Junie Moon
Marjorie Kellogg
Recommend Textbooks For Adoption in Sixty Nine
The State Commissioner of Education reviews a list of textbooks for adoption with a November 11 board meeting. If approved, districts will adopt from the list in April and implement in September 1969. The list includes dictionaries, spelling primers, and Latin texts from Mccraw Hill Scott Foresman Harcourt Brace and other publishers.
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State Commissioner of Education
State Board of Education
Macmillan Company
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc
Harcourt Brace
Harcourt
American Book Company
Thorndike-Barnhart
Scott, Foresman and Company
Silver Burdett Company
Lyons and Carnahan
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc
Houghton Mifflin Company
Webster
McGraw-Hill
M.K
Ginn and Company
Allyn and Bacon, Inc
Webster Division
McGraw- Hill
Weldon's Grid Tradition Praised by East Texas Readers
In East Texas, Gladewater and Weldonites praise Weldons Grid Tradition article. Mrs. M. Cooksey Bridges thanks for newspaper copies Mrs. Gholston delivered. Sincere best wishes accompany the note.
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Mr. Brown
Weldon
East Texas
Gladewater
Weldonites
Phillips chosen as VP of Northeast Texas Dependent Petroleum Assoc
Jack L Phillips named vice president of the Independent Petroleum Association America Northeast Texas District. Phillip K Hall, Gladewater Tax Assessor Collector, will take a similar post with Anchorage Alaska.
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Jack L Phillips
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Texas
Phillip K. Hall
Gladewater
Anchorage
Alaska
C. N. McEachern
Jack Frost
McEacherns
Melba
Jim Whiteside
Roy T. van Houten
Lions Club
Jacksonville
Margie Tarpley
G.H.S
Margie
Bennie Lansdale
Cub
St. Mark’s
Den 4
Gladewater Mirror masthead and publishing details
The Gladewater Mirror lists Harry Kates as publisher and Neal Clark as managing editor with Jerry Kates as advertising manager. Harriet Walton is noted as women's editor and the paper is published Thursdays and Sundays from Glade Avenue and Dean Street in Gladewater, Gregg County.
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Harry Kates
Dbtce Welts
Rites
Neal Clark
O.oo
Jerry Kates
Pelle
Jack Elrod Pups
Fredalene Clark
Harriett Walton
Glade Avenue
Dean Street
Gladewater
Gregg County
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U.S. Republic
Union Grove High School
Yamboree
Gilmer
Carolyn Massey
Molly Smith
Maggie Ferguson
Thomesa Johnson
Mary Lou Brinkley
Gay Owens
Marilyn Massey
Hospital News
Hart Clinic Hospital
Sandra Martin
Viola Robinson
Robert Bell
Jan Blair
E. B. Lee Jr
Bonnie Taylor
M. E. Strickland
H. A. Whaley
Nadine Bush
J. W. Bushart
Katherine Loving
City Hospital
Janice Rice
Debra Ann Waters
Orva Lee Clayton
Kimberly Lynn Davis
Mary Hicks
Milton Ellis White
Dorothy Sue Day
Arthur Custer
Thelma Newsome
B. A. Morgan, Jr
Richard Earl Nesbitt
Richard Carr Carrington
Chester Melton
Jessie Ellis Faggett
Virgil Pritchett
George Thomas Black
Ada L. Myers
Edna Lee Parnell
Vera Elizabeth Goodson
Sybil Heidelberg
Ellen Ruth Lovinggood
Richard O. Smith
Daniel Clyde Sadler
Betty Ann Wood
Jerrard Avit Jeansonne
Mattie Lee Moore
Ena Lynn Reed
Arthur J. Ricks
Hannelore Childress
Ruth Virginia Custer
Hugh A. Miller
John Robert Smith
Herbert Hoover
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
William Howard Taft
By Ace Reid
Clyde
Jerr
Handy
Canada
Wallace
McMaster University
Strictly Fresh
Paul Harvey News
Edmund Arnold
Syracuse University School of Journalism
TV Guide
Merrill Pannitt
Pannitt
Persia
John Furrh
Harrison County
Tist
Republican Party
Robert Hugman
Judge Furrh
Rotary Club
Great Society
U.S
Furrh
Rotary
Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
Protect Your Heritage
Che Gladewwater
Gladewater Times- Tribune
TEXA
IEE
Ress Association
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