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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1973
Page
2
The Gladewater school system reports one third of students on free lunches funded by the state and notes no child is denied meals due to inability to pay. If prices rise, eligible students can still access free meals. temporary eligibilities cover emergencies. Administrators aim to hold line while awaiting federal aid as local lunch prices rise nationwide.
The writer shares after surgery how the hospital stay felt like Christmas and notes his brother Jerry writing a cooking column while he recovered. He doubts workers compensation and hints at family cash issues while praising support from colleagues and planning to return to work.
The author chronicles starting a 6:30 am running streak with health enthusiasts, reaching a mile comfortably, then suffering a series of Sunday misfortunes that halt running. After a torn heel and a badly twisted ankle, Sundays again derail workouts, while the author quips about fate and amateur psychiatrists and laughs at family life and a dying mimosa tree.
A column reviews Theodore H White The Making of the President 1972 and summarizes political forces shaping the 1972 election. It also covers Joseph Wambaughs The Onion Field and Proving Ground by Elliott Arnold, with a travel into court cases and wartime survival narratives among readers.
The notice records a consolidation between The Gladewater Times-Tribune and another Texas paper, noting the merger date November 28, 1940, and the joint publication lineage ending with The White Oak Texas on June 1, 1969.
Don Reid, veteran Huntsville Item and Associated Press reporter, writes Eyewitness about witnessing 189 electric chair executions at Huntsville Prison. He spent hours with inmates, studied cases, and followed them from courtrooms to death, shaping a definitive crime and punishment account.
A reader laments media bias against Republicans amid Watergate and Chappaquiddick references. The piece riffs on two wrongs, Abplanalp, and public figures, ending with a self mockery about jumping off a cliff.
The quote, attributed to Joseph Addison, laments idleness as a moral failing and mocks idle people as monsters while nature and creatures seem to rebuke laziness. It frames industry and activity as virtuous in the natural world.
A confessed political saboteur testified to staging a nude-running girl stunt near a Florida hotel housing Senator Edmund Muskie. The columnist mocks the audacious tactic as a possible new campaign trend while noting the Watergate era reshaped political rules and public scrutiny.
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