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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1985
Page
7
In a wry column Bombeck argues showers in high school gym create aversion to fitness. She notes only 36 percent of kids enroll in daily PE and mocks excuses and the odd social dynamics of showers as a grade factor.
University of Kansas biologist William Bell reports a synthetic sex attractant for the American cockroach integrated into Lure N Kill. Field tests show the pheromone lure significantly boosts kills, attracting males, females, and nymphs to traps or sprayed insecticide, outperforming insecticide alone.
Rancher John May, 68, plans to expand his May Natural History Museum south of Colorado Springs with an underground room doubling exhibition space to 4,000 square feet. The collection, built over 50 years by May and his family, includes about 70 000 insects, most from tropical regions.
A Smith Elementary School drive collected 390000 aluminum pull tabs totaling 436 pounds in 40 boxes. The tabs, found at ballparks roadsides and stores, funded a $109 donation to an African famine relief group after recycling. Local groups including a southeast Austin bar VFW and Moose lodges assisted.
The author recalls poor dancing skills from jitterbug to square dance, then finds freedom in the Twist and later 1960s moves. He credits Chubby Checker and the crowded floor for letting him wiggle without counting steps or worrying about his partner. The piece blends humor with nostalgia for evolving dance trends.
A flock of 850 to 909 orange-billed black skimmers nests in a Dow Chemical USA parking lot in Freeport Texas for the 17th season. Dow workers and retired employee H Maurice Garner monitor the site while Houston Audubon Society praises protection efforts. The birds, usually island nesters in Galveston Bay, use the lot April through September near river and bay waters.
Dayton AP reports Brenda Aviard runs Sound Tracks Recording Studio at King's Island amusements park. The franchise offers amateurs a 15 minute session for $9.95 with over 100 songs and backing, producing a taped record of their singing.
A TIROS-1 satellite launched from Cape Canaveral in 1960 began transmitting weather pictures. Over 25 years a TIROS series has produced over 5.5 million images, capturing space weather data from RCA and related missions.
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