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News Herald photo by BILL WOODALL Ronnie Spradlin of East Texas Lumber and East Texas Hardware, and an unidentified helper, hoist the lighted “Merry Xmas” sign into the derricks at the World’s Richest Acre. The lighted sign, a replica of the banner that lit Kilgore’s skyline decades ago, was the last piece of Christmas decoration to go in place downtown.