Grand Saline Schools Host Open House Week Event
Grand Saline schools celebrate Texas Public Schools Week March 6 to 10 with open houses at the high school Tuesday 7 to 8 30 p m and at the elementary and junior high Thursday 7 to 8 30 p m. The junior class hosts a pie and coffee sale for the banquet fund raising while teachers display student work and welcome parents.
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Grand Saline
Texas Public Schools
America
Lions Club
Gailen Stewart
Mack Wallace To Address Chamber Of Commerce Banquet
Railroad Commissioner Mack Wallace will speak at the Chamber of Commerce annual membership banquet in the high school gymnasium on Tuesday April 4. Omega Phi Beta Sigma Phi will name Outstanding Citizen of the Year and Lady of the Year. Incoming president to be elected March. tickets go on sale March 15. Wallace, a longtime area figure, has held multiple legal and public posts and serves on several committees.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mack Wallace
Chamber
Omega Phi Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
David Peers
Wallace
Judge Ray urges updated solid waste plan for Van Zandt County
Van Zandt County Judge Richard Ray addressed the Cities Association in Canton praising group help and presenting an ETCOG solid waste proposal from 1973. He noted population growth from 22,155 (1970 census) to about 30,000 and costs rising from $293,220 to $397,047 with no inflation. He cited legal authority to charge for garbage collection and bonds, and soil constraints near Canton. Meeting covered ambulance, disposal, courthouse aging, and road oil issues. county actions included aid to volunteer fire departments and senior services. Thirty-seven attended from Edom, Grand Saline, Edgewood, Canton, Wills Point, Fruitvale, and Van.
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Cities Association
van Zandt
Richard Ray
Canton
Ray
East Texas Council of Government
ETCOG
Fruitvale
Shaw's
Edom City
Edom
Grand Saline
Edgewood
Wills Point
Van
Grand Saline high school journalism class supports Public Schools Week
Journalism students at Grand Saline High School contributed articles for this edition to celebrate Public Schools Week with Connie D. Tomlin filing late Wednesday morning as a candidate for the Grand Saline School Board.
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Grand Saline High School
Texas Public Schools Week
Connie D. Tomlin
Grand Saline School Board
Commissioners Accept Quotes On Road Building Materials
Van Zandt County commissioners approved bids for gravel and road oils while noting that high material costs will slow road work. Bids ranged from 5.69 to 7 per ton or yard for gravel delivered countywide, and 14.60 per barrel for road oil from Smith Construction and Wilson-Riley. A cable burial request by General Telephone was rejected for Precinct 1. Judge Richard Ray invited attendees to a Cities Association meeting to discuss solid waste disposal.
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van Zandt
Larry LaPrade
Grand Saline
Langford
Wills Point
G.O. Ballard
Bruce Wilemon
Smith Construction Company
Edom
Wilson-Riley, Inc
Tyler
Jack Daniel Asphalt Paving Company
Canton
Seal Coat Asphalt
Herbert Sloan
Richard Ray
Grand Saline Salt Festival Preview 1978
The fourth annual Salt Festival runs May 30 to June 3 with a queen pageant on May 27. Events include a downtown breakfast, daily noon meals, a children’s pet show, terrapin race, frog jumping, and nightly shows by Charlie Walker and Al Dean and the All Stars. Reigning queen Lynn Hill to crown the Salt Festival queen on May 27.
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Grand Saline
Charlie Walker
al Dean
The
All Stars
Recorders of Cotton Eyed Joe
Salt Festival Association
Log Cabin Museum
Bobby Martin
Lynn Hill
City and School Races Draw Candidates
With the filing deadline near, two candidates filed for three school board seats. Incumbents Bob Lee and Wiley Garland Ill seek reelection while the one year term vacancy from Dr. W J Thomas has no applicants. City council has four candidates for three seats: Herbert Clower Howard Whatley Hershel Walker seek reelection and Betty Adamson challenges incumbents.
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School Board of Trustees
Bob Lee
Wiley Garland
W.J. Thomas
Herbert Clower
Howard Whatley
Hershel Walker
Betty Adamson
Nursing Home Rock and Roll Jamboree Benefit Drive
Anderson Nursing Home residents plan a March 10 event to raise funds for the American Heart Association. Participants will rock in rockers and roll in wheelchairs, with walkers also counted, as sponsors donate per mile equivalents walked or rolled.
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Anderson Nursing Home
Anderson Home
The
American Heart Association
Debbie Carnes
Anderson
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Trenna
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Mack Wallce
Third Judicial District
Athens
Henderson County
State Bar of Texas
Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Military Appeals
District Courts
Judge Ray
van Zandt County Fair Grounds
General Telephone
Wiley Garland, Jr
Willis Roberson
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