Cow Calling Contest Draws Huge Crowd in Miami
The 29th annual National Cow Calling Contest at Roberts County Park drew 47 participants and 1,200 spectators. Barbara Bayless won the grandmother division, Jane Bright the women’s division, and Allan Clark and Dennis Dodson topped the men’s division with $50 first prizes and $25 second prizes.
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Miami
Roberts County Park
Justice of the Peace
Mildred Cunningham
Randall County
Woody Pond
Gene
Howe
Amarillo Globe
Roberts County
Barbara Bayless
Jane McCuistion
Jane Bright
Kathy Gill Thompson
Amarillo
Allan Clark
Dennis Dodson
Dora Kidd
Larry Cross
Basking Ridge
N.J
Miami High School
MHS
Playboy opens a club to modernize Hefner era ideals
The magazine plans a new venue to advance sexual empire founder Hugh Hefner’s ideals while offering cocktails in drill-bit shaped tumblers. HUD is labeled a troubled agency, with critics calling it DUD amid broader federal tensions. A Lone Star flag bearer will inaugurate Texas season at Palo Duro Canyon on June 15.
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Playboy
Hugh Hefner
Texas
Palo Duro Canyon
Pioneer Amphitheatre
Texas World Mostly fair and warm through tomorrow
Mostly fair and warm through tomorrow with a low tonight in the 60s and highs today and tomorrow in the lower 90s. Winds from the southwest at 10 to 15 mph today.
Colorado Retreats On Slurry Pipelines Plan Halted
Colorado legislators backed down on halting coal slurry pipelines but approved a bill to credit Colorado for water used to move coal to out of state destinations. The eminent domain amendment was dropped after House pressure, leaving a provision to credit water used in interstate compacts. Senator Richard Spash opposed slurry pipelines citing environmental impact and higher water use.
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Denver
UPS
Colorado
House
Senate
Richard Lani
Danny
Richard Spash
Steamboat Springs
Spash
Houston Power and Lighting Co
Walsenburg
San Luis Valley
Texas
James Lillpop
Alamosa
Colorado in Debt on Water Slurry Pipeline Plans contested by states
Colorado faces increased debt under the Rio Grande Compact as New Mexico and Texas sue to enforce water commitments. The dispute involves Houston Natural Gas Co. slurry pipeline crossing nine Texas Panhandle counties, with a federal role and a study of San Luis Valley water salvage, while nearby talks with the Bureau of Reclamation continue.
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Colorado
Houston Natural Gas Co
Texas Panhandle
Potter
Darrell ~gMach
New Mexico
Texas
Rio Grande
United States
Republic of Mexico
Mach
Bureau of Reclamation
San Luis Valley
Alamosa
Fiery Valley Crash Kills Parents and Injures Child
A tractor-trailer crashed off the US 60 overpass in Canyon killing a Pennsylvania couple, Bruce and Catherine Robertson of Mt. Holly, Pa, and injuring their year-old daughter Holly Jo Robertson. The rig loaded with cantaloupes plowed through railing, fell 14 feet to US 97, and burst into flames. Fire units extinguished the blaze as cantaloupes blocked three lanes. the driver, listed as Mrs. Robertson, reportedly fell asleep before the crash.
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Canyon City
Pennsylvania
Bruce
Catherine Robertson
Mt. Holly
Con
North Canyon
Canyon
Holly Jo Robertson
Northwest Texas Hospital
Hereford Highway
Globe-News Staff Scores Six UPI Awards in 1976
Amarillo Globe-News staffers won six awards in the 1976 UPI editors contest. James L Whyte earned two firsts for editorial writing on Northwest Texas Hospital. Bowser and Cox shared spot news honors for a story on an Amarillo woman who shot a prowler, who later died. Mulherin won two prizes for photography, Marlow earned for a car crash image, and LaPrade for a Potter County jail visiting day feature. Awards were presented at Wimberly during the Texas UPI Editors meeting.
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Amarillo Globe-News
Texas United Press International Editors Association
James L Whyte
Amarillo
Northwest
Texas
David Bowser
Bill Cox
Robert Mulherin
Ron Marlow
Steve LaPrade
Bowser
Cox
Oklahoma
Marlow
Amarillo Daily News
LaPrade
Potter County
Marillo
Jlobe- Times
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Earl Moseley
Globe-News
Addie Mae Lard
Effie Cowan Jenkins
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
New York
Texas World
Christine Ashley
Skagit Valley College
Mount Vernon
Wash
Houston
UPI
Amarillo Globe-Times
Mulherin
Wimberly
Texas Upl Editors Association
UPL
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