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The Lufkin Daily News was the first daily newspaper in Lufkin, founded in 1906 [2] by Charles L. Schless, who came to the city from Chicago to begin the afternoon publication. In 1909, he organized local stockholders to form a company and bought the Lufkin Tribune, a weekly in operation since 1887. Schless left Lufkin in 1912, and the company ...
A year after he went missing, Timothy Metcalf has been confirmed dead. His dental records matched those of a body found in Ashland earlier this month, according a news release provided Friday ...
Frederick Benjamin Gipson (February 7, 1908 – August 14, 1973) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was born on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country, the son of Beck Gipson and Emma Deishler
Wilson joined the Cavaliers after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas, in 1962.. The Cavaliers' first chart hit was "Last Kiss", a song written by Wayne Cochran, who had based the song on a car accident in Barnesville, Georgia, near where he lived.
Lufkin is home to Lufkin Industries and Lufkin Gears LLC, which manufactures and services oil field equipment and power transmission equipment, and supplies of creosote-treated utility poles. It is also home to the Atkinson Candy Company , the creator of the Chick-O-Stick , and Brookshire Brothers , a chain of grocery stores in Texas and Louisiana.
English: Byus-Kirkland House in Lufkin, Texas. Listed on the national Register of Historic Places. Listed on the national Register of Historic Places. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
KTRE (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Lufkin, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC and Telemundo.The station is owned by Gray Media, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on TV Road (near US 69) in the unincorporated community of Pollok.
Gipson died of pneumonia in Los Angeles on May 25, 1999. [5] [6] [7] Her funeral was attended by many celebrities and politicians, including Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, L.A. County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Representative Maxine Waters, City Attorney James Hahn, Diane Watson, Barbara Boudreaux, actors Sidney Poitier and Marla Gibbs, and singers Nancy Wilson ...