La Marque Times Publisher and Contact Details
The La Marque Times is a weekly newspaper published in La Marque Texas with mailing address at 1118 Bayou Le Marque and box 158. It lists subscriptions by mail in Galveston County at 3.50 per year and outside Galveston County at 5.00 per year and notes it is a member of the Texas Press Association with Orlando Blackburn as publisher.
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Galveston County
Texas Press Association
Orlando Blackburn
Texas
Railroad Commission
Commission
Texas State Teachers Association
TSTA
AMA Supports and Critiques Health Legislation Across Agencies
The American Medical Association is a scientific body aiding health laws. It backs many medical care laws but opposes a controversial eldercare bill for cost and system risks. The AMA works with agencies to improve medicare while funding journals and medical research nationwide.
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American Medical Association
AMA
Rites for La Marque man held with Kiwanis ties
The funeral for Ward, a University of Houston graduate and Inter-City principal since 1958, drew members of the La Marque Kiwanis Club. Survivors include his wife and mother, a daughter Janet Ward, two sisters, and several pallbearers and honorary pallbearers from the Kiwanis and local community.
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Ter
University of Houston
Inter-City
Fred Stoker
la Marque
Jesse Gentle
Billy Spangle
L.P. Warren
Alvah Williams
Michael Clayton
Jim Platt
David Bryce
James Salyer
Fred Ferguson
Ned Chadwick
Tommy Jaggers
Doyle Rider
E. H. Black
Graham Easter
Fred Williams
Eugene Tenney
T. Paul White
Earl Schlegelmilch
la Marque Kiwanis Club
Firefighters press pension plan as Texas system praised by Shumaker
At the La Marque convention 800 persons heard C B Shumaker of Alamo advocate a statewide pension for volunteers. He warned insurers to preserve Texas rates tied to local fire losses and urged reopening a central Texas loss statistics office. Winners in pumper races included Rosenberg and Pasadena tied for seconds. Livingston led women.
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C.B. Shumaker
Alamo
Haskin Little
Houston
Shumaker
Texas
United States
Webster
Sugarland
Sealy, Rosenberg
Richmond
Pasadena
la Porte
Rosenberg
Highlands
Kemah
Livingston
Deer Park
Texas higher education to gain almost 160 million in funding
Coordinating Board for Texas Colleges and Universities urged a 159.9 million boost for 1967 68, lifting total state college university spending to 429.1 million and setting limits on where doctoral programs may be offered. The plan also prioritizes junior colleges and targets federal matching funds for undergraduate building projects.
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Coordinating Board For Texas Colleges and Universities
University of Texas
Texas A&m University
Texas Technological College
University of Houston
North Texas State University
Texas Woman’s University
Denton
Arlington State College
Fort Worth-Dallas
Texas Tech
UT Jurisdic
U. S. Office of Education
Stephen F. Austin State College
Sam
February reminiscences and rain drenched Texas golf course
The column recalls Clark's Department Store's 1947 blast aftermath and local business ties, past president speeches, and a humorous dig at counting. It then chronicles long rain since December, the filling of Twin Lakes at Galco Country Club, the west and east lakes, and the impact on the golf course watering system and course improvements.
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Clark
Frank Wagner
Dee Walker
Dee
Bob Casey
Bob
Buster Waugh
Swede Sandberg
Washington
Buster
Texas
Galco Country Club
Heart campaign drives on as Sunday reach nears
Community notes drive donations for heart disease research while a local principal Bob Ward passes away suddenly. Dr Fred Williams will juggle duties with Public Schools Week and interim acting principal duties at Inter-City. Simms Elementary earns the George Washington Honor Medal for American Heritage, under Principal B E Orman. Confidential to Joan Nance: thanks.
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Bob Ward
Inter - City Elementary School
Fred Williams
Inter
Fred
Helen Spiers
Inter-City
Simms
George Washington
Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge
Gulf Coast
Texas
B. E. Orman
La Marque and Hitchcock Profiles Featured in 1964 Survey
A 1964 Origin Destination Survey release details La Marque as settled before 1860, originally The Highlands, renamed in French, and now a residential city after WWII industrial ties. Hitchcock began 1873, incorporated 1960, growing from 350 in 1948 to over 7,000 residents. A Holiday Inn reception invites George L. Clayton to honor Congressman Jack Brooks amid reapportionment talks.
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la Marque
Hitchcock
Lent M. Hitchcock
George L. Clayton
Galveston County
Texas
Brooks
Gulf Coast
Beaumont
Orange
Port Arthur
Holiday Inn
Congressman Brooks
Grandma Lets Talk About Our Heart Campaign Boosts Lifesaving Work
Mrs. E. L. Boyce of Fort Worth Texas and her grandson Charlie Glassie III of Tacoma Washington survived heart operations thanks to support for the 1966 Heart Fund Campaign conducted nationwide through February.
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EART
E. L. Boyce
Fort Worth
Tex
Charlie Glassie III
Tacoma
Washington
Stainless steel may become carpet fiber material
Textiles experts led by Mrs. Jane Berry at Texas A&M Extension say used stainless steel razor blades could be recycled into ultra fine fibers for carpets. Finely drawn filaments are already woven into space and military textile structures, with a Swedish firm reporting fibers seven thousandths of a millimeter thick.
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Jane Berry
Texas A&m University Extension
Subterfuge In Skirts Or Sexless Want Ads
A reader letter questions gender based ad classifications under federal rules. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires notices explaining nonexclusion and that ads indicate both men and women will be considered. The piece questions where lines of discrimination lie and cites a historical case of a woman in hard labor. It laments government overreach and cites a public schooling prayer ruling.
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Help
Federal
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal Commission
Commission
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Texas Technological University
Lamar State College of Technology
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