Bonfire Spirit Signals Calhoun Homecoming Activities
Calhoun High School starts homecoming events with sophomores vs Stroman at 7 p.m. and Travis Black Freshman at 7:30 p.m. Bonfire and pep rally begin around 8 p.m. on Half League Road side. Homecoming Queen finalists Cathy Dumas Tammy Bowman Becky Masarik Linda Dreymala Frances Starnes to be announced at rallies and introduced at tomorrow night’s Stroman game. Dance 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the high school cafeteria featuring Straw Dogs.
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Calhoun High School
Stroman
Travis
Varrsity
Cathy Dumas
Tammy Bowman
Becky Masarik
Linda Dreymala
Frances Starnes
Calhoun County Fair Parade Draws Large Crowd
An estimated four to five thousand attended the Calhoun County fair parade with about 50 regular floats and 12 to 15 in the Homecoming parade. Educational division winners include A Cappella Choir, Madison Elementary, and Jackson Puppet eers. Civic division honors went to VFW and auxiliary, Gateway Home Demonstration Club, and Sunlight Girls Club. Commercial division top prizes went to Cheyenne Real Estate, Daigle Welding Service, and the Trading Post. Paisano Girl won the special award. The event faced a near cancellation due to a city ordinance requiring a 30 day permit and insurance, which the council waived after a mixup.
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Main
Virginia
Calhoun County Fair
Larry Morris
Melissa Cannon
Marsha Hoffman
Optimists
VFW
Cheyenne
Paisano Girl Scout Counci
Sheriff's Junior Deputies
Calhoun County
Maurice Wood
Madison Elementary
Jackson Puppeteers
VFW and Auxiliary
Gateway Home Demonstration Club
Sunlight Girls Club
Cheyenne Real Estate
Daigle Welding Service
the Trading Post
Calhoun County Fair crowns champions across livestock divisions
The 1975 Calhoun County Fair named grand champions in cattle lamb hog and poultry. April Mitchell's 990-lb Hereford crossbred steers won overall with Max Carrion and DAnna Heideman earning other top lamb honors. Multiple 4-H and FFA members shared reserve titles across hog turkey capon and broiler categories with separate winners listed for each division.
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Calhoun County Fair
April Mitchell
Olivia
Eiuhaes Anata
Sam Nunley
Tommy Mutchier
Tommy
Allen Bowman
Margaret Livingston Allen
Long Mott-Greenlake
Margaret
Olivia +H
Turkey
Mike Burke
John Burke
Mark Krause
Randy Krause
Mitchell Hinds
Billy Herzog
Ted Patterson
School fee guidelines to be issued in Texas
Education Commissioner Marlin Brockette said he would issue guidelines today or Friday interpreting an attorney general opinion that most fees paid by public school pupils are legal. Brockette heads the Texas Education Agency and indicated meetings were planned to discuss the matter.
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Legal Brockette
Texas Education Agency
Hill
Texas
Port Lavaca youth named editor at Victoria College paper
Jimmy Fox of Port Lavaca has been named editor of the Victoria College campus paper, the Jolly Roger. He is a freshman journalism major and Calhoun High School alumnus, while Janie Taylor of Victoria, a 1978 Victoria High School graduate, is new executive for the paper and a National Honor Society member majoring in English with a journalism minor.
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Jimmy Fox
Port Lavaca
Victoria College
Jolly Roger
Janie Taylor
Victoria
Fox
J.B. Fox
Calhoun High School
Victoria Chamber of Commerce
Taylor
Lucky Taylor
North Main
Victoria High School
Football contest winners and school fee ruling details
This week’s football contest winners are Charles King, Mrs. R. M. Harrison, and Greg Knopp with two missed games each. Tiebreakers featured Dallas scores. Separately, confusion over Texas school fees continues as Atty Gen Hill’s staff review guidance. Austin School District remains in default procedures pending ruling interpretation.
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Charles King
Candlelight
el Campo
Victoria
Texas State
Abilene Christian
Dallas
Detroit
R.M. Harrison
Crockett
Atty
John Hill
Austin
Dredging rules spark talks across Gulf area
US Army Corps of Engineers schedules Oct 22 public meeting in Corpus Christi to explain new federal dredging and filling permit regulations. Officials note the session informs on procedures and jurisdiction under Phase I to Phase III timelines, with opposition from Louisiana and Texas leaders amid concerns of federal overreach.
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Galveston
Army Corps of Engineers
Hilton Inn
Corpus Christi
Corps
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Edwin Edwards
Supreme Court
Congress
Texas
Harlingen
Houston-Galveston
Port Arthur
Sakharov Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb and then became a dissident. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the prize in Oslo, noting it had considered about 50 candidates.
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Oslo
Norway
Andrei Sakharov
Nobel Committee
Weather and Nobel Notes From Today's Paper
Clear to partly cloudy with warm days and mild tonight. Southerly winds 8-16 mph. highs mid 80s, tonight upper 60s. Marine forecast shows southeasterly winds 6-14 knots and seas 2-4 ft with tonight and Friday tides. Nobel laureate Sakharov praised for peace drive though travel doubts linger. prize ceremony set for December 10 in Oslo with gold medal and diploma.
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Sakharov
Soviet Union
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Beth
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Gills
Carol Meyer
Lorie Vickery
Capon
Dianne Knobles
Pati Amador
Lavonne May
Broiler
Elizabeth Fabrygel
Rosy Thomas
Hennesy Thomas Jr
Gay Foester
Curtis Foester
James Jeffrey
VFW Post
Civic Club
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Friends of Peace
Moscow
Boris Pasternak
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Pasternak
Solzhenitsyn
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