End of an era as hot type dies in Reporter
The Reporter ends its era of movable metal type and shifts next week to cold type printing using computerized photographic processes. The piece criticizes federal laws and court rulings, notes EPA bans on chlordane and heptachlor for crops, and warns about a broadening definition of navigable waters impacting Texas agriculture and ditch or pond work. It urges Congress to pass clearer legislation.
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National Congress
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Texas
Congress
Corps of Engineers
Agriculture Department
Corps
Enrollment rises at local schools for 1975-76 year
Superintendent Charles W. Gibbs reports a first week enrollment of 658, up from 591 last year. Elementary gains lead with 328, junior high 131, high school 199. Largest class is eighth grade at 72. smallest are fifth and senior classes at 42. Five-year enrollment trends shown. New staff include Linda Anderson for high school PE and Title I, Maurice Wise for elementary PE, and Pauline Marshall as part-time speech therapist.
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Charles W. Gibbs
Linda Anderson
Granbury
Maurice Wise
Pauline Marshall
Fort Worth
Poage Discusses District Visit And Wheat Policy
Poage reports travels across Texas with Mrs Poage largely confined by surgery. He clarifies wheat sales to Russia, noting the government does not sell or subsidize and that a record harvest forces sales to prevent storage issues. He critiques ILAs grain shipment refusal and contrasts bread prices with wheat costs.
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Texas
International Longshoremen’s Association
Soviet Union
Area College Students Beginning Taeks
About 48 Glen Rose area students enroll in colleges for the fall semester. Listed are names and schools including Tarleton State University Ste phenville Texas A&M University College Station and others across Texas such as University of Texas at Austin Arlington Baylor Howard Payne Texas Tech and Hill County Junior College with individual student names attached.
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Glen Rose Area
Tarleton State University
Stephenville
Brad Spencer
Mike
Susie Lewellen
Lisa Portwood
Rusty Wood
Steve Ragland
Ruth Ann
Kevin
Howard Payne University
Brownwood
Nancy Miller
Neil Gibson
Texas Tech University
Lubbock
Cliff May
Julia Shackelford
Natalie Cummings
Dana Pruitt
Charlie Don Vineyard
Hill County Junior College
Cleburne
Zenda Cummings
Weather report summary hits hot and dry week
Observer Robert Mack records a hot and dry week with four days reaching 100 degrees or more. The high surpassed 110 degrees last Friday afternoon. Monthly rainfall totals .09 inches, yearly total 19.12 inches.
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Robert Mack
Mack
Poage and Aide Tour Glen Rose Site and Schools
Congressman W R Bob Poage and administrative assistant Charles Blake visited Glen Rose on Tuesday. They toured the nuclear power plant site and toured local schools as Poage works to learn the problems of his large 11th District constituents.
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W. R
Bob” Poage
Charles Blake
Glen Rose
Poage
11Th
Glen Rose to host annual Street Dance on Courthouse Square
The Chamber of Commerce sponsors a free Street Dance Saturday night from 8 p.m. to midnight on the north side of the courthouse square in Glen Rose. The New Country Image band led by Larry Witt will perform country and western music, with Reece Free, Dahn Gillian, and Tony Summers among the players. Hamburgers and cold drinks will be sold nearby by local volunteers as the final summer holiday celebration.
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Glen Rose
Somervell County
Chamber of Commerce
New Country Image
Larry Witt
Reece Free
Cleburne
Dahn Gillian
Fort Worth
Tony Summers
Walnut Springs
Chamber
Gibbs
Glen Rose Somervell County Volunteer Fire Dept Busy Group
The Glen Rose Somervell County Volunteer Fire Department has answered 185 ambulance calls since September last year, with 75 percent of trips out of town. Fire Chief Dwain Sandlin said this year has been easy for fires, with department members responding to only 20 alarms.
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County
Glen Rose- Somervell County
Volunteer Fire Department
Dwain Sandlin
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Somervell
Little Red
Walnut Springs School
Joy Brooks
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Area College
Cindy Lister
Texas University At Austin
Lloyd Martin
Terry
Alice McIntire
University of Texas At Arlington
Vernon Taylor
Billy Parnell
Tom Osborn
Ricky Rhodes
Chuck Freas
St. Mary’s University
San Antonio
Ronald Hawkins
Baylor University
Waco
Gay Gibbs
Viola Osborn
Sally Woodley
John W. Turner
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Karen Dos
Vicki
Donna Riddle
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