Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 32

June 15, 1975 VAUrr MOMNQ Who Whot Where By Vol Stor The call letters KPSA have been assigned to the newest television statwn which will be located at Brownsville where construction is due to begin shortly It will be an IJHF (ultra-high frequency) irtation operating on Channel 23 Charles Hayward is president oi the Pan Amencan Broadcasting Corp which will operate the station It hopes to be an Amencan Broadcasting Company affiliate Valley NBC and CBS stations have been carrying some ABC programs, especially sports, in the past KPSA will be the fourth tv station The first station was in Matamoros on the Mexican side of the border and It suspended with the coming of local tv brriadcasting at Harlingen and Weslaci) BKKNOMKNACK The African bee threat to the United States has been blown all out of proportion and a Houston radio broadcaster helping much scanng the daylights out of people with stones about the Bill Victor. Texas slate bee inspector who attended a meeting of Valley beekeeprs some months back, told us that he IS convinc'ed the which reached South Amenca and progressed as far north as Colombia, is no threat He says it because the bee is crossbreeding with existing European bee colonies along the way and isdiluted by continued hybndization Arlen New Braunfels beekeeper with whom we also discussed the bee. had to Africa and says that continent's best honey pnxlucer but has to be treated differently than the bees we have here The African bee is a fast flyer and easily disonented. Pietsch found after talking with an African beekeeper who said hives cannot be set in a straight line because the honey making insects then cannot tell one from another They si'em to require some kind of landmark to find their homes hives The African bee has been described as ill-tempered and quick to sting and some people and Iivest 0 ('k have stung to death in South Amenca Victor said he would consider aerial application of insecticides more of a hazard to the Valley bet' than the African bees M(H STAIN SHOW Those who missed previous showings of Charley slides of South Amencan mountains will get another chance to see them at an open meeting of the React Club at 8 Monday, June 16 in at the Magic Valley KJectric Co-op auditorium at Mercedes The San Benitan spent a year in South Amenca, traveling 29,000 miles Among his observations was that some ct)untries dowTi there have no paper currency and others don't have any metal coins There will be no charge to the public at the Merc-edes showing If you have m'ver of the World's you can excused because you live in the Valiev but all over Central Texas they know about It Some years ago a colorful character by the name of Hondo purchased the town of Luckenbach including both stores and the filling station we believe, he decided to hold a fair there and it was so successful that it was moved this year to the Gillespie C-ounty Fair Grounds at Fredericksburg Hondo said the fair was moved because the crowds that attended the first one were so large that it upset the livestock so much that the hens quit laying and the cows went dry That sort of gives you an idea of what kinds of fair it is with watermelon seed and tobacco spitting contests, armadillo races, cow chip tossing contest and other events And of course you would expect a lot of country music which was contributed by the McCullough SawCo of San Marcos which prenruered "The Hondo in honor of the owner Other groups included Greezmlaw Brothers, Greezy Wheels. Thompson Singers.

Backwoods Volunteers and Wagon Aces If the grows some more it may someday have to move to an even bigger place like San Antonio which would be a shame. DRAGON RACING Amoving with the beat of the gongs and overtake eoch other during the anooal dragon boat races at Hong drums, two dragon boats in very close distance tries to Kong's Aberdeen River celebrating of the drogonboot festival. (UPl) AHENDS BIRTHDAY PARTY President Ford comments to AAaj. Gen. Thomas Tarpley, commanding general of Ft.

Benning, Ga. as they watch ceremonies during the Army's 200th aniversary celebration. On the left is Georgia Governor George Busbee and on the right is Secretary of the Army Howard "Bo" Callaway. (UPl) NUMBER ONE IN THE VALLEY SINCE 1906 Compare Our Prices! VALLEY WIDE FREE DELIVERY Our Prices Are As Low, Or Lower Than Anyone In The Valley! I.