Miss Texas Pageant at Fort Worth Opens Prelims
Fort Worth hosts the Miss Texas pageant with 59 contestants. Prelims run July 9–11 at 8 PM at the Tarrant County Convention Center Theatre, coronation July 12. Scholarships total 12,750 dollars. winner receives a full-year college scholarship and a 500 dollar award plus crown and trophy. KTVT airs the finals at 10:30 PM July 12.
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Tarrant County Convention Center
Dfw Metroplex
Toni Kellog Campbell
Atlantic City
Amusement Ticket Service
Rodeway Inn
Fort Worth
KTVT
Terry Meeuwsen
Postal Service to use electric mail trucks nationwide
The Postal Service plans to buy 350 battery powered jeeps at 5600 each for 1.9 million dollars. 300 will serve Los Angeles and San Bernardino with high pollution readings while 50 go to New Haven Hartford Washington Evansville Long Island Charleston and Cherry Hill later this year. If successful, 1000 more may be bought in the next fiscal year starting July 1. No replacement decision yet on the 112000 gasoline vehicles.
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Los Angeles
San Bernardino
Calif
New Haven
Conn
Hartford, Conn
Washington, D.C
Evansville
Ind
Long Island
N.Y
Charleston
S.C
Cherry
Family Hour
Scrimshaw
Television Schedule Fragments Include Lucy and Dragnet
Fragmented TV guide notes 5 00 PM listings with shows Lucy Dragnet Dick Van Dyke and The Electric Company 9 30 PD announced in rough OCR form. Program titles appear with channel notes and time slots.
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Dragnet
Dick van Dyke
Make a Deal and TV Favorites on South Texas Today
A mixed late evening schedule lists game shows, classic series, and movies. Highlights include Let’s Make a Deal, Truth or Consequences, Bewitched, Dragnet, Hollywood Squares, and two film titles The Shadow in the Street and The Dunwich Horror, with news and talk programs threaded between.
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South Texas Today
Truth Or Consequences
Television Schedule Fragment Soap Opera Highlights
A partial broadcast grid lists morning to midday shows and programs. Notable entries include The Three Stooges Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo Mister Rogers Speed Racer Love Lucy The Tonight Show era staples and daytime dramas such as Young and Restless All My Children and Search for Tomorrow with a Jeanne Wolf interview noted.
Heloise hints from readers offer clever home tips
A compilation of reader hints covers dress fittings using butcher paper outlines for grandchildren, cabbage preparation by coreing leaves and freezing, nut flavoring substitutions, anti static slipper spray, wall mounted jewelry hooks, adding pockets to pajamas with eyelet embroidery, and a note that Dear Heloise responds to questions in time.
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Heloise
Rosemary Makinson
Libby Lanfear
NRL drafts TV stars in spoof ratings league
New York AP reports the National Ratings League aims to end costly bidding for TV actors by drafting young players and negotiating off screen rights. Commissioner Everett Scrimshaw cites anti trust exemption talks, and plans divisions by family hour and mature shows. Notable names include UCLA’s Snideley Foon and Nelson Beamish.
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New York
NRL
Everett Scrimshaw
Scrimshaw
A.C. Nielsen
UCLA
Snideley Foon
Nelson Beamish
Wharton School of Finance
National Ratings League
Big Louie
No Time for Comedy and Daytime Schedule Highlights
Radio TV listings show daytime lineup with film No Time for Comedy starring James Stewart. Afternoon schedule includes soap operas General Hospital Guiding Light Another World Days of Our Lives and game shows Match Game Price is Right and $10,000 Pyramid.
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Guiding Light
Rachel LaCabana
James Stewart
General Hospital
Lilias
Programa Infantil
Port Lavaca Wave and Calhoun County Times Staff List
The Port Lavaca Wave and Calhoun County Times publish weekday editions by Wave Publishing Co. Inc. at 301 S Colorado Port Lavaca TX 77979. Staff roles include Rod Moake general manager Dick Fisher editor in chief Craig Black staff sports editor Mary Rothband society editor and others with classified composing and accounting departments.
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Calhoun County Times
Wave Publishing Co., Inc
S. Colorado
Port Lavaca
Texas
Rod Moake
Dick Fisher
Craig Black
Child mauled by pet lion in Houston yard
Steven Bloom, 6, was treated after a lion attack in his back yard. He underwent surgery for facial and scalp lacerations at a Houston hospital. The boy teased the six month old 65 pound African lion named Sheba. Andrew Bloom, the father, faces charges under a suburban Piney Point wild animal ordinance.
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Houston
Steven Bloom
Steven
Adele Bloom
Sheba
Andrew Bloom
Piney Point
Joe M. Schulten
Amputees rebuild lives after epic blizzard trap
Tracy Minnesota AP report on Bob and Lavonna Radke, a newlywed couple who lost both legs above the knee after 36 hours stranded in the century's worst blizzard. They return home with family support, learning new skills and awaiting artificial limbs as they plan to live together again.
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Tracy
Minn
Bob
Lavonna
Radke
National Weather Service
St. Paul Ramsey Hospital
Harold
Kay Radke
Shell Oil raises gasoline price nationwide by three cents
Shell Oil Co raised the price of automotive gasoline by three cents per gallon for all trade classes, resellers, and consumers nationwide. The same move adds one cent a gallon to distillates and 1.25 cents to jet fuel, under Federal Administration cost pass-through rules.
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Houston
Shell Oil Co
Shell
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