April 24, 2000: A plan was announced for businessman W.C. “Bill” Lear to donate up to 100 acres of land to the city for baseball and soccer fields. Lear said he had been approached the previous month by mayoral candidate Earl Roberts about acquiring and donating the...
April 23, 1942: Only full attendance at a benefit dance tonight at the Palm Isle would boost fundraising for the city’s portion of the Navy Relief campaign to its goal, said Sam Y. Dorfman, Longview chairman. L.N. Crim, Kilgore chairman, said his city’s quota of the...
April 22, 1948: Longview Masonic Lodge No. 404 said it would put its temple building, immediately west of the Arlyne Theater on East Methvin Street, up for sale. Initial plans called for the Masons to move to a building at 116 E. Cotton St. that would be remodeled and...
April 21, 1949: Mid-Valley Pipeline Co., a new venture formed by Sun Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, said it would spend about $56 million building a 1,000-mile pipeline from Longview to Ohio. It would be 22 inches in diameter, 2 inches smaller than the...
April 20, 1962: A citywide Good Friday service sponsored by the Longview Ministerial Alliance drew the faithful of many denominations to First Presbyterian Church. The service’s theme was provided by the Joseph Haydn oratorio “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” which...
April 19, 1971: Gregg County commissioner lines were approved that placed parts of Longview in each of four precincts. Redrawing the districts had been ordered by a federal district court in Tyler to be completed upon receipt of certified results of the 1970...
