Marty Robbins Enters $100000 Alamo 500 Race
Marty Robbins, famed country and western singer, confirms entry in the Alamo 500 NASCAR Grand National race at Texas World Speedway. He will drive a 1973 Dodge in the 500 mile event, part of a field over forty entrants with practice June 7 and qualifying June 8–9, race at 1 30 p m on Sunday June 10.
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College Station
Marty Robbins
Texas World Speedway
Robbins
Nashville
Tenn
Fairgrounds Speedway
Nashville Fairground Speedway
Grand Old Opry
Marty
Hustlers and Tigers tip off summer schedule
Minor League Schedule lists matchups from June 2 through July 12 featuring Hustlers Tigers Giants Lions White Sox. Highlights include repeated Hustlers Giants clashes and Tigers Lions contests across venues, with key interleague dates set for June 27 and July 2.
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Hustlers
Tigers
Giants
Lions
White Sox
Little League Schedule Summary
The schedule lists 28 games across June to July featuring teams Yankees Bears Indians White Sox Colts with dates from June 2 to July 12. Notable matchups include Yankees vs Bears Colts vs Yankees Bears vs Indians and Yankees vs Indians, with several Bears White Sox Colts and Indians games throughout the period.
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Yankees
Bears
Indians
White Sox
Colts
Chapman Takes Medalist Prize In Golf Tourney
R. W. Chapman of Temple captured the medalist prize at the Cameron Country Club tourney held last week. Flight winners included T. F. Gilleland Rockdale first in flight one with Pat Vrba San Antonio second and Mark Coward Hutto third. Flight two was led by James Hudson Cameron with Allen Jones Rockdale second and T. S. Herring Temple third. Harland Mees Cameron won flight three, Rodney Anderson Cameron was second, John Hogan Rockdale third. In flight four Jim Florence Hearne took first, C. T. Smith Waco second, Andrew Esslinger third.
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R. W. Chapman
Temple
Cameron Country Club
T. F. Gilleland
Rockdale
Pat Vrba
San Antonio
Mark Coward
Hutto
James Hudson
Cameron
Allen Jones
T. S. Herring
Harland Mees
Rodney Anderson
John Hogan
Jim Florence
Hearne
C. T. Smith
Waco
Andrew Esslinger
Canadians Hate Walking To Work
A computer survey of Toronto’s two million residents finds walking distance and time deter public transit use more than any other factor. Commuters favour car drop off zones and kiss and ride areas, suggesting major transit extensions may need redesign to reduce walking.
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Reuter
Toronto
D. N. Dewees
University of Toronto
Dominican plant collection enriches Texas A M Tracy Herbarium
More than 1500 plant specimens from Dr Jose de Jesus Jimenez of Santiago Dominican Republic joined the Tracy Herbarium at Texas A&M. The physician botanist’s duplicates broaden the database of a nationally significant Dominican flora with plants from coastal plains hills valleys and elevations up to 8500 feet. Dr Frank Gould notes Jimenez’s reputation as a leading Dominican plant taxonomist and mentions the rapid loss of tropical forests impacting future collections.
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Texas A&m University
Tracy
Jose de Jesus Jimenez
Santiago
Dominican Republic
A&m
Frank Gould
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
A&m Range Science Department
Jimenez
Gould
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Terry
the Herald
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Chili Manning
Cameron Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Hillsboro
Wilson Killen
Chapman
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Cameron, Texas
Cowin
Kem
Dn Lael
Kem-Glo
America
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Schigut
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