Largest Cheese, Sausage, and Monument Feats Recorded
A list of world records includes a 94 901 pound cheddar, a 2000 foot long sausage, and a 178 foot Buddha statue in Afghanistan. Bavarian beer totals exceed 56 000 pints daily. A 15.8 mile Hirekud Dam spans India. ROTC instructor resigns over a chant. A secretary jokes about a boss on a liquid lunch. Texas Travel Information Centers aided over one million visitors. Dursts from San Antonio visited family in Langtry and Austin.
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Texas Highway Dept
Key Highway
State
Capitol
Austin
Judge Roy Bean
Langtry
Otto Schumann to Be Honored at Big Spring Awards Meet
Rancher Otto Schumann of Gillespie County will receive Region II honors at the Conservation Awards Program and Banquet in Big Spring Texas on Friday May 8. The event showcases regional and state awards with multiple district winners and a $300 check for Kendall Soil & Water Conservation District No. 216.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Schumann
Big Spring
Conservation
Gillespie County
Albert
Texas
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth
Texas Christian University
Hall County
Marion County
East Texas Conservation District
Lee Scrivner
Estilline
Texas Conservation
Ennis Harvey
Jefferson
Marion-Cass Soil & Water Conservation District
Soil & Water Conservation District
TCU
King
Brownfield
Rc&d
Joe E. Nickel
Boerne
Kendall Soil & Water Conservation District No
KNAF
Fredericksburg
Hatch Smith
Llano High School
Llano Co
Tim Williamson
Big Spring High School
Martin-Howard-Midland
Juanita Silvers
Leaky
Upper Nueces-Frio
Comet Bennett Stirs Interest Across Skies
The Bennett Comet discovered December 28, 1960 by John Bennett of Pretoria has been seen in the northeastern skies in the weeks since. Local observers including Robert Herbst, Crockett Riley, and Harry Seelig report dawn sightings, with a long tail and growing attention from astronomers and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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John Bennett
Pretoria
South Africa
Robert Herbst
Gillespie Farmer
Fredericksburg
Crockett Riley
Enchanted Rock - Crabapple
Schaefer House Cafe
Bennett
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge
Mass
Radio Post
Norman J. Dietel
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Howe
Munich
West Germany
Hirekud Dam
India
Afganistan
Daniel Durst
San Antonio
Lee Goff
Frnow Jitunyy Maauua
Exas
Blanco
Gillespie Counties
City Commission of
Blanco City Hall
Jerry Lindemann
Bob Gordon
Eph Cummins
Pedernales S&wc
Johnson City
Joyce
Dancy Valley News
Koch
Btanco
Wayne Smith
Clarence Waxiler
Town Creek
THE
Harper Herald
Harper, Texas
Ben Ramsey
Jor. Railroad
Anding Rancher
Region I
Ft. Worth
Otto Rahe
Wayne Rahe
Theo Holm
Harold B. Birt
San Antoni
J. B. Burt
van Mund
Nish
Watkins Tarr
John
Frank Cash
Houston
Mesdames Roy and
Raymond Cottle
Elmo Lumpkin
Elmer Lee Russel
Dripping Springs
W. C. Russel
Roger, Tex
Ruleys
Boyce Lynn Grona
Marylou McDougall
Communty Park
Gary Guenther O
Harry Wilke
Ami
Charles Mains
Joe and the Lucke Mains
George Maine
Kerrville
Mr Mains
Minnie Mains
Hospital
Dorothy Lee Schmidt
Emmie Schroeder
Onieta Bartholmee
Ruth Nettle
Cecelia Henke
Clim Brown
Harper
Comet Bennett
Harry Seelig
Jerry L. Rogers
Texas Tech Museum
Rogers
Lambertson
Hewueen
Marsa
Orman
Pano
Harper Pentecostal Church
Maaling
E. Ellgwath St. Salina
Kansas
the First State Bank OF
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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