Gladewater Christmas Parade Sets Record Entries
Gladewater hosts a record parade on Wednesday December 2 at 4 30 pm featuring 6 high school bands plus floats and floats from local clubs and businesses. Santa rides the fire truck as prizes are awarded for top floats and a new community Christmas tree lights up downtown. Notable participants include Gladewater High School, White Oak High School, Oak Manor Nursing Home, Beavers Motor Company, Kilgore College Rangerettes, and local scouts and clubs.
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Gladewater
Pretty
Kilgore College Rangerettes
North Pole
Santa Claus
Gadewater
City Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Jo Wiley
Buzz Messner
Gladewater High School
Davidson Ford Sales, Inc
White Oak High School
Jerry Hanszen
Wanda Hanszen
GHS
Jaycee
Lions Club
Scout Pack
Union Grove High School
Roy Lemar
Jeannette Woods
Little Miss
Landers
Ki Lo
Brewer
Kilgore Gladeewater Holiday Parade Lineup
Parade entries from Kilgore High School band Miss Betty Featherston Kilgore College band and Rangerettes plus Gladewater fire and Chamber float join Boy Scout packs 190 and 194. Units assemble at 4 pm on West Pacific near Wadewater Savings and Loan move along Pacific Commerce Dean Sabine Main Quitman to First Methodist Church lot.
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Kilgore High School
Betty Featherston
Gregg County Fair
Gladewater Volunteer Fire Department
Boy Scouts
J. E. Blackman
Boy
Kilgore College
Wallace
Gussie Nell Davis
Nelson Motor Company
Gladewater Chamber of Commerce
Santa Claus
West Pacific
Wadewater Federal Savings and Loan Association
Pacific
Earp
Gladewater Christmas Parade Route
The Gladewater Christmas Parade will form on West Pacific near Gladewater Federal Savings and Loan. Units move east to Earp's Food Store and City Cleaners, south to Commerce, west to Dean, south to Sabine, east to Main, north to Quitman, and west to Methodist Church parking lot where it disbands.
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Gladewater
West Pacific
Gladewater Federal Savings & Loan Building
Pacific
Earp’s Food Store
City Cleaners
Commerce
Dean
Sabine
Main
Quitman
Methodist Church
Memorial and community notices from Gladewater week
Memorial gifts to Gladewater Public Library honor Ona Grace Spikes and W. E. Langford from multiple donors. Y O U will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church intermediate department. Various local obituaries, hospital updates, and upcoming high school basketball games are listed for Gladewater, including the Bears opening season on Tuesday December 1 against John Tyler with 6 and 7:30 p.m. games.
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Gladewater Public Library
Ona Grace Spikes
H. H. Krumm
Elizabeth Payne
Don Earp
C. Leroy Wilson
W. E. Langford
Bill Langford
M. D. Swearingen
Leroy Neal
Gladewater Bears
John Tyler
White House
John Ben Shepperd, Jr
Lyndon B. Johnson
San Antonio
John Peace
Judge LeRoy Neal Dies in Tyler at 79
Judge LeRoy Neal a 79 year old Glade water attorney died in a Tyler hospital after a long illness. He lived at 1201 S Walt Tyler for 26 years and was a Trinity Baptist Church member. Funeral services were held Friday at 4 p.m. in Trinity Baptist Church with Reverends James Garrett Lonie Barron and Weldon Sanders presiding. Burial followed at Rose Hill Cemetery under Lloyd James Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife Etheline. Pallbearers were Neil Cooper Ross Delay Bill Dotson Bill Craddock Garland Long and G V Ousley. Honorary pallbearers were Trinity Baptist Church Mens Bible Class members.
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LeRoy Neal
Gladewater
Tyler
Texans face stable turkey prices this year in Texas
In Texas turkey costs stayed steady from last year while national prices climbed about 9 percent. Agriculture Commissioner John C. White predicted prices may fall further due to more turkeys raised for market since 1969.
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Austin
Texas
Agriculture
John C. White
Prayer for Forgiveness and Grace Recalled
A religious prayer expresses gratitude for God’s grace and wisdom in youth. It asks for guidance to follow Christ, live upright lives, and be continually filled with the Spirit. It asks forgiveness for indifference and lateness and seeks blessing through Jesus.
Walk Day Observed In Longview By Kiwanis Clubs
In Longview on Tuesday Kiwanis members and the Longview High School Key Club urge all students to walk to school and locals to walk to work. Each walker donates a penny per block. car pools may donate 16 cents per mile. The event promotes reducing air pollution blamed on cars.
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Longview
Kiwanis Club
Hgh
Texas
Oklahoma
Kiwanis Clubs
Fireball Turns Night Into Day Across Texas Sky
A bright fireball lit the night sky early Thursday, seen from West Texas to Texarkana and Dallas-Fort Worth, with a long smoke trail. Reports suggest a meteorite caused the spectacle, seen from multiple states, and no aircraft trouble was reported.
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West
Texas
Lubbock Avalanche- Journal
Texarkana
Federal Aviation Administration
Dallas-Fort Worth
Albuquerque
Denver
FFA
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L. E. Pyeatt
Mel Pyeatt
Westminister
Calif
Charline Walker Simmons
City Hospital
Gay Avenue
North Street
Elsie Jean Bryant
A. W. Burnett
Bryant
Grand Saline
GHS Gymnasium
Judson
Virginia
Abby
White Oak
Paul Pewitt
Henderson
Rusk County
City National Bank
R. G. LeTourneau, Inc
LeTourneau
Kilgore
Mary Ellen Manning
Gregg County
Phillip E. Richey
Overton Memorial Hospital
Arlington
Charles E. Pafford
Sam Winters
Cay Alsuzak
White Oak Roughnecks
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