Wildlife exhibit opens at Texas Memorial Museum
The Texas Memorial Museum debuts a night world exhibit showing Texas wildlife by dim artificial moonlight. Visitors glimpse an owl, a bobcat, an armadillo, a muskrat, a flying squirrel, and a frog as five audio tapes capture nocturnal sounds recorded in an Austin creek bottom by Dr. Robert F. Martin, the zoology curator. The display targets both young and older children.
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Austin
Texas Memorial Museum
Robert F. Martin
Endowment Fund Created for Dr Howard Renfro at Lamar University
Friends of the late geologist Dr Edward Renfro establish an endowment at Lamar University in Beaumont Texas. Lamar President John E Gray says world renowned physicist Dr Edward Teller will chair the committee to secure and allocate funds. Dr Renfro died June 22 1972 in a plane crash near Glenwood New Mexico along with five other geologists. He had been set to become treasurer of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
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American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Dr. Renfro
H. B. Renfro and Co
Dallas
Renfro
University of Tulsa
Fearless Forecast rates and misrates TV predictions
AP writer Jay Sharbutt reviews the Fearless Forecast to rate past predictions on TV shows. The piece cites a mix of accurate and wrong calls across days, with accuracy figures around 10 to 66 2 3 percent and a humorous plea for audience ratings guidance.
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Ly Jay Sharbutt
NEW York (Ap
Anna and the King
Sandy Duncan
Bill Cosby
ABC
Tangy chili contest to heat up Museum Day in Hondo
The fourth annual South Texas Championship Chili Cookoff runs May 5 in Hondo as part of the Museum Day Celebration to raise funds for Medina County Museum housed in the 1897 SP depot. Judges include TV personalities and local officials. entry fee is 5 dollars for chili and free for bread.
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Hondo
Bill Green
Medina County Museum
Purple Petticoat Saloon
Hondo Livestock
Green Says
Mary Dellman
Rita Trevino
Linda Burton
Martha Buchanan
San Antonio
Thomas S. Bishop
Medina County
Jerome Decker
Bill Wallace
Devine
Eddie Wernette
Bill Mitchell
Uvalde Leader-News
Man
Victor Hernandez
Mary Kooch
Texas Star
Austin
Enrique Vasquez
Millionaire beachbums open third Bali Hai on Moorea
Kelley Muk and Jay Carlisle, the California millionaire trio, have opened a third Bali Hai on Moorea and plan two more. They run a 47 room resort like a bachelor pad, work hard, and joke about guests including day trippers and travel snobs, water and dogs in punchy quips.
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Mort Rosenblum
Associated Press
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French Polynesia
Kelley
Muk
Jay
Hugh Kelley
Tahiti
Huahine
Raiatea
Rio
Mexico City
Bangkok
Ohio
Moorea Hotel
W. C. Fields
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