Bargains on Hill as Gladewater High Builds Math Wing
The Gladewater school district sees rapid growth with Gay Avenue School expanding student numbers. A new two teacher vocational agriculture building nears completion to free space, while options for a larger auditorium and future classrooms are studied by Supt Koy Johnson and a board committee.
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Gladewater High School
Yes
Gay Avenue
Supt
Koy Johnson
East Texas
Supt Johnson
Texas higher education must align with job market demand
A Texas leader urges real changes in higher education to reduce overproduction in certain fields, expand career guidance, and curb programs in oversubscribed areas. The plan relies on market signals, targeted funding adjustments, and cooperation with private colleges to improve job opportunities and ensure education serves all Texans.
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Texas
Chucation
Harry Provence
Coorinating Board
Kenneth Ashworth
Higher Education
Marlin Brockette
Texas Commissioner of Education
Coordinating Board
Texas Education Agency
Parent Teachers Association
The
County plans courthouse expansion and building code outlook
Gregg County commissioners authorized a $4,000 preliminary study by Longview architect Bobby Allen to assess courthouse space growth funded from federal revenue sharing. Plans include buying a disused Longview school building for health department offices and storage. County leaders foresee future building code authority and potential regional leadership, with debt at $3,899,800 as a gauge of fiscal room.
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Commissioners Court
Longview
Bobby Allen
Atkinson
Marshall Street
Highway & East
County Health Department
Gregg
Carter's Little Pills Offer Gentle Overnight Relief
Easy to swallow Carter's Little Pills provide relief from constipation with a tiny coated tablet designed to pass through the stomach and release in the lower tract. No mess or cleanup needed and the small size aims for a gentle temporary remedy.
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Carter
Tiny Carter
Lee Library Adds Local History and Sports Volumes
The Northeast Texas Genealogical Society reports Ora Pritchett Bruner’s Mineola and its Mayors joins the library. New sports titles include Making it to 1 by Jim Benach and That Good Old Baylor Line along with LSU by Dan Hardesty and fiction The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith.
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Northeast Texas Genealogical Society
Mineola
Ora Pritchett Bruner
Jim Benach
Mr. Benach
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Benach
Baylor
Denne H. Freeman
LSU
Dan Hardesty
Arkansas Razorbacks
Texas Longhorns
Wilbur Smith
Sunbird
Africa
Rebate scheme speeds Texas city funding, Bullock says
Comptroller Bob Bullock reports that monthly city sales tax rebates since April 1975 reach cities 60 days sooner and 30 days sooner than quarterly disbursements. Checks totaling 56.6 million were mailed to 855 cities. year to date rebates total 230 million, with Tyler at 445,066.86 and Longview at 429,349.65.
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Austin
Bob Bullock
Texas
Bullock
Gladewater
Gilmer
Big Sandy
Longview
Tyler
Briscoe Declares 34 East Texas Counties Disaster Area
Gov Dolph Briscoe proclaimed thirty four East Texas counties disaster areas as Southern Pine Beetle infests forests. Infestation spots exceed 7,000, nearly double 1975 levels, with mortality costing wood product value about 82 million dollars monthly. Houston area property values drop as dead pines appear. Officials urge cooperation among industry enviro groups and citizens to curb the outbreak. For more details contact Texas Forest Service at Texas A&M University System College Station.
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Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Texas Forest Service
Houston
Briscoe
Texas A&m University System
College Station
Making Waves By JIMMY BROWN
Jimmy Brownreflects on being a small town columnist who becomes a self styled philosopher. He divides columnists into folkways like Homespun Humorous and Small Town and notes the burdens and perks of offering universal wisdom from a local perspective.
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Jimmy Brown
Legion
Irvin S. Cobb
Baltimore
H.L. Mencken
Walter Lippman
William Buckley
James Reston
Reston
James Kilpatrick
Buckley
Jimmy Carter
Jerry Ford
Congress
My old faithful purse and a European trip note
Fredalene Clark writes of traveling through Italy and France with a new purse and a stenographer notebook. she reflects on motorways the Riviera beaches and customs, and the constant need for a reliable purse and passport in transit.
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Europe
Fortune
Rena
Monte Carlo
Aurelia
Riviera
Enzo
United States
U.S
Italy
French Riviera
Chicago
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IIONS
Lions Club
John Paul Tallent
Lions
Johnny Cace
Lis Atrast
Lionesses
Club Teomoers
Evernor
Club
Joe McElroy
Wanda McElroy
Beverly Tallent
Pres. Tallent
C.D. Pittman
Johnny Strong
Henry Clay
Lee Library
Fredalene Clark
Constable
Gregg County
L. R. Garner
Pol. Adv
Garner
Kilgore, Tex
Trror
Gladewater Publishing Company
Glade Avenue
Dean Street
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