Fair director lineup boosts 1968 events and attendance
The board announced a packed week at the fair led by emcee Roy Clark with Buck Owens and Charlie Pride headlining Sept 24 25 and Sept 26 27. Gent le Ben and The Congregation join daily shows as nine fresh exhibitors sign up and preparations expand arena capacity drinking fountains phones and a new water line. More than 275 208 attendees are projected making the fair one of Texas's top four and nationally ranked 49th among the top 100 fairs.
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Roy Clark
Buck Owens
Charlie Pride
Gentle Ben
Mike Caldwell
Clark
Pride
Owens
Hee Haw
Buckarooes
Ben
Dale Weld
Fair Park Go-Kart Rentals, Inc
John E. Vickers
Marvin B. Tinburn
Joe Baldridge
Charles Bacon
Homer Hunt
Chas. A. Guy
Lennis Baker
Steve L. Lewis
Texas
Libyan Military Uproar Freezes Lufthansa 747 Passengers
A Lufthansa Boeing 747 was allowed to depart Tripoli on Thursday after a Libyan army coup had grounded it. The plane became the first Western airliner released from Libyan airfields since the Monday coup.
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Tunis
Lufthansa
Tripoli
Homemade Rain Gauge Unveiled For Weather Observer Ramey
Dimmitt observer Ramey received a second Weather Bureau award for 48 years of service and accurate local records. He shared a rain gauge recipe using a 46 ounce can and an olive jar, noting a laser van as the collection device and praising the small margin between local and bureau measurements.
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Weather Bureau
Dimmitt
Ramey
United States
Edgar
Unc) Ramey
Istland
Tech projects under construction at mid 20th century campus
Five major buildings are underway: Law School Building at 19th and Indiana, about 80 percent complete for an opening in November. West Texas Museum Building about 40 percent complete with a $2 million price. Chemistry Building Addition about 30 percent with a $5.5 million cost due end of August 1970. Architecture and Art Building about 20 percent, slated to open August 1970. Whaseway scheduled to open in April 1879, with ongoing construction and schedule adherence noted.
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Law School
West Texas Museum
Architecture
19Th
Indiana Ave
Plains Cotton Outlook Sees Biggest Crop Since 1965
The report forecasts a record Plains cotton yield driven by early fruit set and hot weather, with verticillium wilt easing but likely resurfacing. It describes marketing tools under the loan program, low interest CC loans, and transfer of loan equities. Grain sorghum and corn figures follow, with 25-county cotton totals near two million bales and varied regional estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray
Poteet
Public Restroom Plan Tied to Remodeling Costs
Architect Daverne TJ Kirby estimates the 34 by 11 foot building at 15 800 dollars during planning with plumbing fixtures costing about 5 000 dollars and a total to exceed 20 000 dollars, though no firm figure is given. The facility, southeast of the jail, will be kept open after hours and located on Avenue 6 for crowd control and proximity to the jail. It will feature tile floors, steel doors and a metal roof as part of a larger courthouse complex renovation set to connect the courthouse, jail, post office site, and new restroom with Avenue H1 running through the old courthouse site.
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Daverne TJ Kirby
Kirby
Shaw
Avenue 6
Lanth
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