Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 35

EitertaiinimeEt i Best Bets2-D i TV listlngs4-D i Movies5-D Friday, August 30,1991 Section Preserving nj Q) our area LONGVIEW TODAY Loblolly Jubilee seeks volunteers for parking, booths Good morning, Longview. Volunteers are needed for taking 'tickets and 7 Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum opening today I in Photos by Gary Lytle assisting with parking and booths during the Loblolly I I scheduled Oct. 4-5. If you can help, contact The Volunteer Center, ..1 3 There is a medical display and an exhibit on the old Center Point Training School which operated from 1912 until 1951. A A Kansas City-Southern caboose, located on the museum's east side, is chocked full of railroad memorabilia, Visitors will find a' 1927 Ford Model-T truck donated by race-car driver Carrol Shelby (an association board member) as well as a 1909 surrey.

Items are still be sought for the museum, Holman said, especially items pertaining to the county's turn-of-the-century social and cultural life. Also needed are business and school artifacts. The old depot building, about a century old, was in awful condition when the association finally took See Heritage, 5-D By Van Craddock Entertainment Editor PITTSBURG Dream becomes reality today when the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum opens amid much fanfare. Members of the PittsburgCamp County Museum Association and city officials have been working on the museum project for several years. "Altogether it encompasses about 4,000 square feet, including the caboose next to it," said John Holman, the association chairman who has spearheaded the museum effort.

Today's events include a 3:30 p.m. parade through downtown Pittsburg, followed by a 4 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony at the museum, the old Cotton Belt railroad depot on Marshall Street. The museum will be open free to the public 4-9 p.m. today, as well as Joyce Turner TTT 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday, 1-5 p.tn. Sunday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday. Once the open house has ended, regular admission prices will be $2 for adults and $1 for senior citizens and young people ages 12-16. Children under 12 will be admitted free if accompanied by an adult.

Visitors will find several major exhibit areas in the museum, Holman said, including the depot's former freight warehouse which has been turned into a Rural Heritage Hall. There are displays featuring the history of Pittsburg and Camp County, well-known Camp County peoplje, antique automobiles, tractors arid farm implements, the Pittsburg Gazette, railroads, area industries, agriculture and an archaeological exhibit on the Caddo Indians. The museum is housed in Pittsburg's former train depot. At right, Eve Pilgrim, owner of Eve's Landscaping, works outside the building. On display is an old steam engine (below, right) once used to run a cotton gin.

At A 758-2374. Longview Stamp Club will meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Longview Museum and Arts Center, 102 W. College Ave. There will be a stamp circuit from the APS.

Larry Anderson will present the miniprogram, and Louise Mclntyre will provide refreshments. Meetings are open to the public. Longview Mall Senior Citizens Day will be Tuesday. Day will begin with a breakfast 8:30 a.m. in Piccadilly Cafeteria.

Guest speaker will be Jim Willett, who will discuss taxes, inflation and current interest rates. Breakfast tickets may be purchased Until 5 p.m. Monday at the Customer Service Center. Cost is $2. Following the breakfast, seniors may use their discount cards to re-" ceive 20 percent discounts at participating merchants.

Those age 62 and older may pick up a Senior Citizen Discount Card at the Customer Service Center by showing proof of age. Gregg County Memorial VFW Post 1183 will hold steak night 6-9 tonight at 6001 W. Marshall Ave. Saturday, the post will hold a dance 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. with music by Duanette Williams.

Spring Hill Band Boosters will meet 7 p.m. Monday in the band hall for a get-acquainted hot dog supper. Event is open to parents and families of band members. Winterfield Mother's Day Out still has openings in the 6-15 months nursery class. Program meets 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays. Church is located at 2616 Tryon Road. To register, call 757-2733. ul A 'mfcs- 0 tr John Holman, chairman of the PittsburgCamp County Museum Association, has led efforts to create the new museum. A former Kansas City-Southern caboose houses lots of railroad memorabilia at the museum, located at 204 W.

Marshall St. Local shows set for Shrine Circus 'Approximately 1,200 entries will take part in Longview Kennel Club's annual Labor Day All Breed Dog Show and Obedience Trial. Event will begin 8 a.m. Mon- MaHei 'Blast' coming to town From Staff Reports It's something called "Blast from the Past," and sponsors say it's unlike anything seen in Longview in a long, long time. BOP Productions is putting on the musical extravaganza on Sept.

6-7 in the Cultural Hall of Longview's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1700 Blueridge Pkwy. Auditions were held in July, and at show time local talent will be portraying a number of famous personalities from the 1930s to the present day. Among the many "stars" who'll be appearing on the local stage are the Temptations, Randy Travis, Judy Garland, Jerry Lee Lewis, MC Hammer, Patsy Cline, Shirley Temple and many, many more. The look-alike, sound-alike entertainers will be dancing, lip-syncing or performing "live," said Director Suzanne Chambers, who explained that BOP stands for "Bunch of People." Admission to the Sept. 6-7 "Blast Prom Staff Reports Everybody loves the circus right? Well then, you're in luck: The Shrine Circus is in East Texas, compliments of Sharon Temple.

There'll be acrobats, clowns, wild animals, aerialists and much more as the circus entertains folks in Glade-water, Longview and Tyler this, weekend. The George Carden Circus International is busy making its swing through our part of the state. Area show dates and times are: Today, Gladewater Round-Up Rodeo Arena, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Longview Fairgrounds rodeo arena, 4 and 8 p.m. Sunday, Tyler Oil Palace, noon, 4 and 8 p.m.

Monday, Tyler Gil Palace, noon and 4 p.m. All children under J3 accompanied by an adult at the Gladewater and Longview shows will get in free. Tickets for the show are $6 for adults and $3 for children. George Carden Circus International is the largest producer of Shrine circuses, according to Sharon Temple officials. The circus, which is headquartered By Allan Henilaychief photographer Ashley Thomas will be 'The Little Mermaid' when BOP Productions presents 'Blast from the Past' Sept.

6-7 in the cultural hall of Longview's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Other stars to be portrayed range from Shirley Temple and Patsy Cline to M.C. Hammer and Jerry Lee Lewis. For free tickets, call 753-4530. hold the tickets at the door for you.

According to Chambers, seating will be limited since there are only 450 seats available in the church's Cultural Hall. She said the production was put together "to develop new friendships and camaraderie within the community as well as being a showcase for our community's outstanding talent." from the Past" shows is free. However and this is important -tickets will be required for admission, Chambers emphasized. Free tickets are available at a couple of locations in Longview, Hastings Records and Books on Loop 28 and at the Video Zone store on Mc-Cann Street. Tickets also can be ordered by calling 753-4530.

They'll be glad to way in mauuc un vcimuii auu Activity Center and Jaycee Exhibit Building. Admission is $1 for adults and 50 cents for children under age 12. Overeaters Anonymous meets p.m. on Tuesdays and noon-1 p.m. Friday at the First Christian Church.

For information, call 759-1995. Celebrating birthdays today are Susie Rast, Carol Coppedge, Lela Wilson, Stephen Cocke, Blanche Abney, Frank Bufkin, Phama Reynolds, W.B. Scoggin, Kim-berly Green, Dorothy London, Marion Thomas, Chase Rodgers, Virginia McCranie, Wilma Glover, Joe T. Bohannan, George Duke, Pearl Christian, Kathleen Trice, Hazel Moonie, Angela Bonitto-Kabore, Angela Carnes, Joanne Reid, Kathy Crittenden, Gladys Mitcham, June Crane and Bobbie Henderson. Couples who are celebrating wed- ding anniversaries today are; Pete and Eleanor Morgan and Ben and Ruby Hudspeth.

Saturday will mark the birthdays of Lynda Williamson, Donna Gay Madison, Mildred McNew, Bar-; bara McCollum, Kyle Scott, Peggy McGaughy, Reanette Thomas, IVerna Johnson, Linda O'Hart, 'Shela Dawson, Bennie Hancock, Ruth Ralston, Jane Tuel, Howard Aden Carter, Tommy Tho-Imas, Dr. John Coppedge, Diane Stoker, Cynthia Luman, Patricia IMAC spotlights Lone Star artists 1 in i Clowns will be part of the color of the Shrine Circus performing in East Texas this weekend. in Springfield, has been associated with Shrine circuses and fairs for more than 50 years. The circus travels more than 30,000 miles annually on its 40-week-long tour. The George Carden Circus International was in Carthage Thursday night for two performances.

Before that, it was in Palestine and Nacogdoches, ET's newest TV station airs Sunday From Staff Reports NACOGDOCHES East Texas' newest television station hits the airwaves Sunday. It's KLSB, channel 19, an NBC affiliate owned by Lone Star Broadcasting Inc. (which also owns Jacksonville's KETK, channel 56). The new station will serve deep East Texas with a signal from its 623-foot tower north of Lufkin in Angelina County. KLSB's signal generally will extend northward to the southern tip of Rusk County, south into Polk County, east to San Augustine and west to near Crockett.

The station, housed in the former post office building in downtown Nacogdoches, also, will have a Lufkin bureau. KLSB will offer local newscasts 5 and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and at 10 p.m. daily. KLSB becomes East Texas' sixth full-power TV station, joining NBC affiliates KETK and KTAL (channel 6, Texarkana), KLTV (channel 7.

Tyler-Longview, ABC), KTRE (channel 9, Lufkin, ABC), and KFXK (channel 51, Longview, Fox). J' From Staff Reports It's a exhibition as big as Texas. Well, not really. But it's an exhibition about Texas art, and it begins Sept. 7 at Longview Museum and Arts Center, 1 02 W.

College. Titled "Survey of Texas Artists 1890-1990," the show will display 125 works owned by 18 collectors from around the Lone Star State. Many of the collectors will attend a members' preview party on Sept. 7, museum officials say. The show, which will continue through Nov.

9, is being curated for LMAC by David Dike of Dallas. Central to the history of art in Texas is the group organized as the Dallas Nine, whose purpose was to focus some of that remarkable Texas pride on to Texas art, and to advocate art that addressed the social concerns of the times. The group will be represented in the Longview exhibit by Jerry Alexander Hogue, Otis Dozier, William Lester and Everett Spruce Organized originally to submit plans for the decoration of the walls of Dallas' Fair Park Hall of State and rebuffed in favor of an out-of-state artist the group gained strength through its effort to prove the worth of local artists through Texas has the third largest artist population in the United States and is ranked as a major art center. exhibits and publications. Bywaters, with six works in the Longview show, was a leader in the Dallas Nine and a founder and first director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

The Southern Methodist University art library is named in his honor. Also among the 125 works to be seen in the exhibition is "Field Path," done in 1936 by Edward Gj Eisenlohr. The painting was his entry in the Texas Centennial Exposition. Peter Lanz Hohnstedt's "Big Bend, West Texas," painted in 1933, was exhibited at the Witte Memorial Museum the same year. 1 Texas has the third largest artist population in the United States and is ranked as a major art center, offi cials point out.

For more information about the "Survey of Texas Artists 1890-1990," call Longview Museum and Arts Center at 753-8103. The museum is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Holmes, Ann lammack, uustin Jehlen, 10, Dan Jones, Lena White, William Painter and Liz Cearley. Saturday will mark the wedding an-; niversaries of: Jack and Peggy Herber, 51st; Jerry and Lesa Parker; Jere and Martha Ruff; and John and Mary Squyres, 51st.

Celebrating birthdays Sunday will be Etta Caldwell Dorothy Woomer, L.G. Aubrey, Daryn Stanley, Laura White, Geneva Co- Chock Hall, Ara McLauchlin, Judy Buckner, Dave Turner, Elizabeth McComic, Dor- rie Lobue, Gladys Whitaker, Deb- bie Bankston, Mike Ege, J. Mal-; colm Wood, Adrian Peterson, 'Larry Pieson and David Sappington. Couples who will celebrate wedding anniversaries Sunday are: Bob and Kathy Terrell, M.K. and Julia Taylor and Bob and Sue McGaw.

Don't look back. Coreen Mary Spellman's 'Heat Wave' (1943) is part of the Longview Museum and Arts Center exhibit that will feature Texas artists. The exhibit opens Sept. 7. For more information, call 753-8103..