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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1968
Page
3
Mayor C Q Abernathy proclaims Friday November 8 1968 as Poppy Day urging residents to wear Memorial Poppies and donate to aid disabled veterans and destitute families. The proclamation notes Gladewater Texas young men served bravely in World Wars I and II.
Dr Charles Mathews superintendent of Longview Public Schools will speak at the Longview Branch of the American Association of University Women. He will discuss the Governor's Committee on Public School Education report after nearly three years of study. Reservations to the Downtowner Motor Hotel dinner by 4 p.m. Wednesday. An open discussion will follow.
Martha D. Mc Ferren of Gladewater is among 443 North Texas State University students serving as student teachers in Dallas Fort Worth Denton area schools this fall. The program runs eight weeks full day or 16 weeks half day with a total of about 1,250 NTSU students involved for 1968-69. Mc Ferren teaches English at W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas.
Members of the newly organized Arts and Craft Club gathered at Mrs Dottie Berry's Union Grove home for the first meeting. Thanksgiving and Christmas table arrangements were planned. The group will meet monthly with Mrs Lindley Beckworth hosting the December session. Present were Mrs Beckworth, Mrs Blanche Cross, Mrs Joyce Hightower, Mrs Marie Smith, Mrs Nell Collier.
Astronomers explain a pancake shaped cloud of interplanetary dust and ionized gas reflects sunlight creating the zodiacal light. The cloud extends from the sun outward toward Jupiter, possibly 500 million miles away.
Jody Gumlin of Crookston manages 2400 acres of potatoes, sugar beets, and grains with her mother as silent partner. She sells 40 or 50 carloads, plans a new storage warehouse, and sits in on farm cost accounting while pursuing golfing success and community work.
Mrs. Elma Morris mother of Mrs. Ben Halley Sr died Sunday evening in a Bastrop Louisiana hospital after a brief illness. She had gone to Bastrop for the weekend and was with her daughter when she died of a heart attack. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in Bastrop attended by Mr Halley and Mr and Mrs Ben Halley Jr.
Twenty persons have been called to serve on the Grand Jury for the November December term. They will report November 8 at 10 a.m. for duty. Names include W R Fall Paul C Beasley Robert F Butcher C A Beasley Kilgore Sam Powe Paul Hartman and others from Gladewater White Oak Longview and nearby areas.
A column blends folk beliefs about buckeye luck with a San Antonio seminar joke about a Texas teasp oon. It also recalls voting history and a veteran reporter’s tale about a tornado impacting Sam Brown's Cypress Creek barn, with cows named Mary Daisy and Theresa.
American Legion Auxiliary sponsors a Poppy Sale on Nov 8. Garden Club meets Nov 18 at 1 30 p m at Mrs G R Hugman's home with program on landscaping by Mrs A M Aikin Jr of Paris. Three Arts Club gathers Nov 20 in the Community Building withGuest speakers from Gilmer and Longview. Federation Day. Music Club plans Nov 22 at Mrs J C Bowen's home with Hymn of the Month and guest husbands, led by Mrs Ray Hudspeth.
Union Grove notes report Mr and Mrs Coy White of San Francisco staying with sister Monnie Morgan. James C Cradar Scott and Carroll Duncanville guests of C P Berry. Mrs M P Aldridge learned her grandson PFC Jimmy Don Aldridge in 1st Evane Hospital Vietnam called her. his 21st birthday on Oct 31. Milton White of Gun ter Home ill while visiting Gladewater and admitted to City Hospital. Previously connected to West Mt Church.
Gladewater Public Library hosts a one man show by local artist Adona B. Wood featuring oil paintings created with a palette knife including Safe Harbor Weeping Willows Blue Bonnet Vase of Roses Limes and Lemons and Toadstool. Wood, mother of Arlan Jr. and Nancy, once drew Gladewater High School’s Bear’s Tale in 1935 and now works while employed in the city tax office.
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