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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1968
Page
2
In Gladewater the Mirror laments property damage at Gladewater High School after a trashcan crash through the superintendent’s office doors. The piece argues parents should be held responsible for underage acts, while praising the majority of teens and urging accountability for the few bad apples.
A civic message urges citizens to register, learn candidate positions, and vote in November. It highlights choosing leaders who set taxes and war policy, and notes absentee ballots can sway outcomes. Emphasizes knowing issues and voting if away on election day.
City Manager Bill Langford says state comptroller now takes about two and a half months to remit the local sales tax share. Data show Glade Water and nearby towns receiving sizable quarterly net allocations, with Longview Henderson Kilgore and Sulphur Springs listed among recipients. Funds are earmarked for a Capital Improvements and Equipment Replacement Fund. In Jerusalem a 3,000-year-old skull was found undisturbed after a period of war and administration changes.
Washington observers outline a speculative sequence by which Edmund Muskie could become president on January 20 through a House deadlock over Electoral College votes, a Democratic Senate choice for vice president, and a post-election constitutional amendment. Powell and Wallace back Tweedledum versus Tweedledee.
Sugar beets served as a garden vegetable and fodder source before their primary use in sugar making, reflecting historical crop utility and agricultural practices.
A Texas press attendee recalls a Longview $50 dinner featuring Strom Thurmond. The writer praises the senator’s blunt talk and Southern accent while critiquing liberal opponents and urging readers to vote. Thurmond attacks Ramsey Clark and Humphrey, lampoons disarmament, and riffs on Americans fleeing for freedom.
Thurmond urged voters to elect Richard Nixon, warning that voting for Wallace would endanger freedom. He attacked Humphrey and McNamara, criticized the Johnson era, and urged cutting foreign aid while stressing Nixon’s stance on anti-communism, school choice, and local control.
Nearly two million disabled veterans and dependents will receive the annual VA income questionnaire with their November pension payments instead of with December checks. The return deadline moves to January 15 to ensure new pension rates and income limits set for January 1, 1969 are reflected in payments.
Lone Star Steel plans to restart its spiral weld pipe department at its East Texas mill Monday morning after a strike by 2500 United Steelworkers. The move supports on time delivery of large-diameter pipe as the plant runs three open hearths, rolling mills, and an electric-resistance weld pipe mill with 900 workers.
Barbara Sue Smith of Glade will be featured vocalist on two special stage shows Saturday night October 25 during the annual North Texas State College Homecoming celebration. The piece notes local civic and church events including St Mark's Guild presidency, a veteran newspaperman joining Gladewater Daily Mirror staff, a Marine firing exercise in October, a 50th wedding anniversary in Gilmer, and a birthday party for Jan Denise. A Tel Aviv report mentions a $140000 U S funded heart disease and road accident study by Israeli doctors.
The Holy Name Society was established in 1909, marking its origins as a fraternal Catholic group. The brief note records the founding year and confirms the organization’s historic inception.
The Gladewater Mirror issued Thursdays and Sundays from Glade Avenue and Dean Street Gladewater Texas with second class postage. Subscription rates listed for Texas and outside Texas and payments required in advance. Consolidated with The Gladewater Times-Tribune on Nov 28 1949.
The Mirror announces it will continue carrying Paul Harvey's column lineup with two installments on Thursdays editorial pages and a single one on Sundays extending his syndicated presence in the paper.
A Chicago Tribune report tracks migrants from Arkansas Tennessee Missouri and Kentucky settling Uptown Chicago with minimal schooling and strong work ethic. Agencies push uplift but hillbillies resist meetings and outside guidance, preferring to work and spend earnings rather than be modeled or supervised.
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