Cancer cure drive praised amid drug industry caution
A Senate backed study seeks cures for major cancers by 1976. The push may create a new national cancer agency while critics note heavy drug industry spending and past antagonism toward it. Ripon Society faced GOP resistance over endorsements and Udall blames Hickel for a probe into his Island affairs. Ireland reports 7085 missionaries abroad versus 2.7 million Catholics at home.
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Ralph Yarborough
Texas
U. S
Congress
Yarborough
Committee
Washington
Ripon Society
GOP
Ripon
White House
Charles Goodell
New York
Raymond Garland
Virginia
Republican National Committee
Goodell
Garland
Richard Ottinger
James Buckley
James Hastings
New
First Yamboree Highlights Origins and History
LOISE GRAVES recounts the East Texas Yam festival started in 1935 with the Yam boree origin. The Rose Festival began the same year, the event paused during World War II, and local leaders like John Bregotti helped spark the idea through the Chamber of Commerce.
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Loise Graves
John Bregotti
Alert Chamber of Commerce
W. D. Seals
Upshur
Texas
L. N. Coe
James E. Allred
Gilmer
Jane Tuttle
West Mountain
Yam I
Morgan Sanders
Tuttle
Yam Il
Marjorie Coe
Jim Presley
Longview
Dallas
East Texas
Reflective column on family ties and plans in Tyler
The writer shares personal lessons from family optimism, jokes about workload, and weekend travel plans from Tyler Texas. They anticipate trips to Dallas to see 1776 and a Texas Prison Rodeo, plus events with Camp Fire Girls and Rose Festival parades, noting local rose beds and Yamboree history.
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Dallas
H. J
Texas
Louisiana
Tyler Roses
Tyler
Mr. Mitchell
Gladewater Bears
Bears
Wit and Wisdom From The Neighborhood Parson
A column of quotable musings and jests on money morals and manners. The writer notes varied views from neighbors and preachers, comparing money, marriage, sermons, driving etiquette, and social behavior with a light humorous tone.
New Library Books Spotlight Dramatic Star Biographies
Gladewater Public Library highlights The Movie Stars by Richard Griffith surveying the rise and fall of the star system with biographies of Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks Chaplin Crawford Gable and others. Mayo The Story of My Family and My Career by Charles Mayo shows a medical dynasty starting from a puppy operation. All the Best People by Sloan Wilson explores two families and generational impact amid midcentury ease. Whistle and I’ll Come to You by Agnes Sligh Turnbull presents turn of the century small town romance with Robin Adair and Alice Newcombe.
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Gladewater
Richard Griffith
Griffith
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Charles Chaplin
Joan Crawford
Clark Gable
Cary Grant
Clara Bow
William Powell
Elizabeth Taylor
Mayo
Charles Mayo
Sloan Wilson
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Robin Adair
Alice Newcombe
Everglades Anhinga Swallows Sunfish Whole
A National Geographic note describes the Everglades anhinga a large waterbird catching a sunfish headfirst to protect scales and spines as it swallows the fish whole.
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National Geographic
Nobel Prizes and a fictional Credit Piece Prize
The piece contrasts real Nobel Prizes with a satirical take on awards. It parodies prestige by proposing a Credit Piece Prize for living on credit, detailing its mock rewards and the fame imagined for winners, while noting fictitious entities and a tongue in cheek tone.
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Herman Credit
Credit
Organization of
OWE
Home Delivery Rate Notice for Gladewater Paper
An advertisement announces home delivery at one dollar per month and notes consolidation with The Gladewater Times-Tribune dated November 28, 1949. The snippet reflects a historic pricing and merger reference in a local newspaper context.
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The
Gladewater Times-Tribune
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ETSU
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