Sociological tour guides Honolulu’s changing streets
Honolulu professor Andrew Lind leads a city tour by bus, highlighting wealth shifts, racial dynamics, and development since WWII. He notes changes from cane fields to suburbs and reflects on how growth affects community atmosphere, offering historical context from a half century in Hawaii.
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Honolulu
Capitol
Waikiki Beach
Andrew Lind
Lind
University of Hawaii
Land
Tax rebates soar as Texas cities see sales tax gains
State Comptroller Bob Bullock reports city sales tax rebates up 20 percent year over year with $288.5 million collected to date for optional one percent taxes. October checks totaling $248 million were mailed to 880 Texas cities, including Houston at $5.3 million and Dallas at $3 million.
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Austin
Bob Bullock
Fnday
Bullock
Texas
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
TEU Agenda Sets Items for Regent Meeting
Tyler Texas Eastern University faces a 3 p.m. Wednesday board meeting with twelve Campus and Building Committee items including a progress report contract changes plan proposals and Harvey Lake maintenance areas A Finance and Appropriations panel will discuss scholar allocations rules and budget changes An Academic and Personnel Committee briefing will cover faculty workload and a 1976 financial report President James H Stewart Jr will present seven items including a faculty senate constitutional change Smith County economic development role and Southern Association reaffirmation.
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Tyler
Texas Eastern University Board of Regents
Harvey Lake
Finance and Appropriations Committee
James H. Stewart
Senate
Smith County
Southern Association
Kilgore Kilgore Longview water contract ratified
The Longview City Commission unanimously ratified a water agreement with Kilgore running to 2006 with an option to renew for three years. Kilgore will buy treated water at 35 cents per 1000 gallons and build pumping and transmission facilities to receive it from Longview’s treatment plant. The bond election will finance construction and other projects.
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Kilgore
Longview
Jack Reeves
Lake Fork
Quitman
Sabine River
Dr Gentsch Named Admissions Director at Mountain View College
Dr Donald Gentsch has been named director of admissions and registrar at Mountain View College in Dallas. He previously served at Dallas Baptist College and in the Dallas Independent School District. He holds degrees from East Texas State University and Nova University and lives in Garland with his wife Nelda and two children. his wife is principal of Garland's Southgate Elementary.
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Donald Gentsch
Mountain View College
Dallas
Gladette
Homer E. Gentsch
Mustang
Gentsch
Dallas Baptist College
Dallas Independent School District
McKnight to Keynote All-Service Club Luncheon
State Senator Peyton McKnight will headline the All-Service Club luncheon at noon Thursday in the Intermediate School gym. He represents nine East Texas counties including Collin Gregg Hunt Rains Rockwall Smith Upshur Van Zandt and Wood, and is an independent oilman with selection to the All American Wildcatter Association in 1973. He has served on the Texas A&M System Board and in several state bodies, with affiliations to multiple veterans and fraternal organizations.
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Peyton McKnight
McKnight
State Senate
East Texas
Collin
Gregg
Hunt
Rains
Rockwall
Smith
Upshur
van Zandt
Wood
Wildcatter Association
Texas A&m University System
John Connally
State Democratic Executive Committee
Sabine River Authority
East Texas Peace Officers Association
Scott and White Memorial Hospital
Temple
Masons, Shriners, Sons of the American Revolution
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Goode Nominated for State Administrator of the Year
Broadway school principal Richard Goode has been nominated for Texas Classroom Teachers Association Administrator of the Year by the local CTA group. He holds a BS in education from North Texas State University and has served as a teacher, counselor, and principal across several districts, including Gladewater and Weldon High.
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Richard Goode
Broadway School
Judy Hadaway
Gladewater Cta
Goode
Texas Classroom Teachers Association
CTA
Bridgeport High School
Decatur Baptist College
Texas Employment Commission
Goodes
Gladewater
TSTA
FTA
Weldon High School
Broadway
The
Baptist Church
Rick
University of Texas
Roger
Lion's Club
Chamber of Commerce
Current Best Sellers List Aids Readers
The display lists fiction best sellers including The Thorn Birds and All Things Wise and Wonderful with noted titles such as Looking Out For No 1 and The Dragons Of Eden. A variety of authors are named alongside the Forsyth and Dyer entries in a dense catalog of popular titles.
Appropriate Technology furor sparks debate in Washington
A reader notes a push for Appropriate Technology to decentralize life and reduce government role. Critics fear loss of federal guidance and envisage a future of self reliance, conservation, recycling, and a shift to the metric system with officials discussing its implications.
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Washington
U. S
America
Bureau of Appropriate Technology
B.A.T
Big Brother
Washington, D. C
Ode to Matrimony and a Hairy Dilemma
Freda Clark recalls Marge Fischer’s Shreveport Journal piece on what attracts women to men including facial appeal hair and grooming. She conducts a casual survey of colleagues over 40 questioning aging looks and waistlines and muses on community centers and charity in Mineola.
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Marge Fischer
Shreveport Journal
True Magazine
Paul Newman
California
Mrs. Fischer
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