Mini-Skirted Females Enter Terlingua Chili Cookoff
Three women Janice Constantine Pat Beck and Grace Lee Monds travel to Terlingua for the world championship chili cookoff promising a feminine touch to the event They plan chic silver service a violinist in white tie and tails a pink decorated chili van and a bold claim to outshine male cooks with their chili secret involving Russian wild boar They expect to run the hospitality room and keep judges well juiced to win
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Clint Kelley
Midland Reporter
Telgram
Associated Press
Midland
Tex
Janice Constantine
Pat Beck
Grace Lee Monds
Terlingua
Texas
James Gambino
Russia
First use of ether anesthesia by Dr Crawford Long
The World Almanac recalls that on March 30 1842 Dr Crawford Long used sulphuric ether gas to render James Venable unconscious during an operation in Jefferson Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford W. Long
The
World Almanac
Long
James Venable
Jefferson
Winds dry fields as harvest resumes across Texas
Winter frost pushed through Texas as John E. Hutchinson notes drying winds allow renewed harvesting. Cotton, grain sorghum and soybeans shift toward completion while wheat planting nears end and sugar beets begin. Conditions vary by region with adequate to short soil moisture and scattered frost.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John E. Hutchinson
Texas Agrcultural Extension Service
Gulf Coast
Rolling
High Plains
Panhandle
Dallam
Sherman
Lipscomb
Moore
Palmer
Oldham
South Plains
Rolling Plains
Sterling County
Upper
Maverick County
Cambodian and Vietnamese clashes widen in Indochina
Cambodian forces repelled an ambush by about 200 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong near Angkor. an eight hour battle followed with casualty figures not released. A Cambodian communique cited six significant attacks along the capital’s defensive perimeter. U S forces trim personnel in Vietnam and Thailand, including the deactivation of units and a 3600 troop reduction in Thailand.
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U Minh
Ca Mau
Phnom Penh
Angkor
Cambodia
Mekong River
U.S
14Th Field Artillery
Bangkok
Thailand
Topless Wedding Planned at Houston Night Club
The Zipper Lounge owner says a completely topless wedding will occur Saturday night for Billy Geaslin and Rita Turman both of Houston. Rev Dan Davis will perform the ceremony with the bride in a white skirt and veil and the groom shirtless except for trousers and a tie. The event is public and will include the Houston vice squad in attendance. The club and 14 Houston adult venues were raided last month and await a restraining order and federal court ruling on obscenity laws.
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Houston
Norman Wells
Zipper Lounge
Billy Geaslin
Rita Turman
Dan Davis
House of Hope of Houston
Wells
Houston Vice Squad
Vice Squad
Texas
Notable scientists and leaders weigh spaceflight and education
Dr. James Van Allen argues Apollo 11 was a superb TV show but manned spaceflight is not essential for science and calls for phasing out manned missions. He favors a robust unmanned program focusing on new phenomena and long standing problems. Princess Margrethe debuts as artist with Yule tide stamps raising charity funds in Denmark. Terry Sanford hails campus progress and urges teaching reason over force at Duke and other universities.
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Durham
N. H
James van Allen
van Allen
United States
Spaulding
University of New Hampshire
NEW York
Terry Sanford
Duke University
North Carolina
Duke
Sanford
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Reeves County
Pecos
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
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Peco 5
Ford Love
Joyce Miller
Dan Dominguez
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
S. Viets
Fenp
Goodyear
Cove
Pree Swart
Blackwall
Whitewall
Goodyear Service
Copenhagen
Prin
Cess Margrethe
Washington
First National Bank of
Ballon
First National
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