Texas April events highlight flowers art and theater
April calendar lists Glynis Johns Tony win and Debbie Reynolds nomination plus regional arts fairs and events. Highlights include Six Flags Over Texas openings, horse races in San Antonio and Juarez, dogwood festivals, and multiple state art shows across El Paso Amarillo Port Arthur and Beaumont.
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Arlington
Quitman
Beaumont
el Paso
Juarez
Port Arthur
Texas Waterways Project Maps Canoe Routes Across State
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department closes final draft of a 200 page guide titled Texas Waterways An Analysis by Harold Belisle and Ron Josselet. After a year of work and 400 questionnaires, the report catalogs rivers put in take out points water conditions and hazards, highlighting Rio Grande and Brazos trips. Publication date not yet set.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Harold Belisle
Ron Josselet
Belisle
Josselet
Rio Grande
Brazos River
Dinah Shore criticizes tinny TV sound and tech gaps
Dinah Shore talks with AP about home television sound and one watt speakers, urging better high low frequency balance. The interview traverses her jazz and blues roots, early fame, and love of golf, with notes on her TV schedule and career highlights.
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Jay Sharbutt
NEW York (Ap
Dinah Shore
H. Allen Smith
Miss Shore
ABC Television
Marshal Dillon
Pardner
Nashville
Tenn
Dixie Flyer
Dinah
Nbc-Tv
Winchester
Lost Chords Club Meeting At Permian Bank Odessa
The Lost Chords Club will hold its monthly meeting at the Permian Bank and Trust in Odessa at 7 30 p m on April 19. The group, composed of individuals whose voices were surgically removed due to cancer, aims to help members learn esophageal speech. All area laryngectomies and interested persons are invited.
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Permian Lost Chords Club
Permian Bank and Trust
Odessa
University and Grandview
Lost Chords Club
KMOM TV Schedule Highlights Evening Lineup notes
Channel 4 broadcasts include Farm & Ranch at 6 30 with a mix of Western and crime dramas throughout the night. Featured programs span Maverick The Untouchables Jack LaLanne Bewitched Password Split Second All My Children Let’s Make A Deal Newlywed Game Dating Game General Hospital One Life To Live Love American Style The Streets Of San Francisco and Wide World Of Entertainment with news at 6 00 and late reporting.
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John Hart
CBS News
Douglas Edwards
New Mexico Today
Walter Cronkite
Tony Curtis
Claudia Cardinale
Lizzie
Eleanor Parker
Richard Boone
Merv Griffin
CBS Movie
Texas Tops Nation in Roadside Parks and InfoBords
A U S Department of Transportation survey shows Texas hosts about one seventh of U S roadside parks with 1059 of 7572 in the national total and leads in super safety rest areas along interstates 111 of 1175 nationwide. Texas boasts nine tourist information bureaus near borders and pioneer InfoBords offering maps and highlights at rest areas.
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Austin
United States
Texas
U.S. Department of Transportation
Tennessee
Texas Highway Department
Judge Roy Bean
Langtry
Ann Margret’s NBC special fails to impress critics
Ann Margret’s NBC TV special When You’re Smiling failed to rebound from injuries despite bright moments. George Burns and Bob Hope appeared, but weak material and a flawed script left the star looking awkward and the writers, including her husband Roger Smith, drew boos.
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New York
Ann Margret
Ann-Margret
Las Vegas Hilton
NBC
Burbank
Calif
George Burns
Bob Hope
Hope
Burns
Sun City
Roger Smith
Antique cable tool rig gifted to Houston museum
Pennzoil Co presented the 60 year old cable tool drilling rig to the Houston Museum of Natural Science for the Hall of Petroleum collection. Dr. Thomas E. Pulley accepted the gift, noting it was the last operating design in western Pennsylvania and had been used in Bradford Field before 1972.
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Houston
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Pennzoil Co
Pennsylvania
Pennzoil
Americans plan hundreds of millions of outdoor trips in 1980
Federal authorities estimate more than 668 million picnics 422 million fishing trips 173 million camp outs and 89 million hikes will occur in 1980 as Americans seek outdoor recreation nationwide.
Capitol Dumb exposes chatter on Capitol Hill secrecy
Editorial notes that Washington officials talk around real issues. The piece mocks ministered talk about budgets and secrecy calling it Capitol Dumb, and contrasts that with misdirection in government departments.
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Washington
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