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German TV Records Shelbyville’s Dishwasher Story
Four members of German network television spent time Tuesday morning listening to the story of Josephine Garris Cochran as part of a historical series on inventions.The crew from SWR television station, an affiliate of the ARD network in Stuttgart, Germany, arrived in Shelbyville Monday evening. Marika Gutmann, producer for the series, said the crew has been traveling to different locations in the United States doing stories on such items as potato chips, chewing gum, hair perms, and ball point pens."It's a popular series in Germany," Gutmann said. "We look for different and unusual way things are used as well as the history of the invention."Joining Gutmann on the tour in Shelbyville were cameraman Wolfgang Breuning, soundman Andreas Wetter, and director Tilman Achtnich.Gutmann said that in the research on the dishwasher, she found her Shelby County Historical Society and the information on Josephine Cochran.
No more shortcuts, Neuheisel declares
But to worry about things like who it was is just really wasting your time, and it doesn't matter now because it's behind me. But it has helped me, hopefully, to become a better person, a better husband, a better dad, and now hopefully a better coach. .
NASA's plans to bring museum, antenna to college detailed
BARSTOW — A piece of space history, a NASA research center, planetarium and Smithsonian-affiliate museum could be coming to Barstow. At a meeting on Thursday, the Barstow Community College’s board of trustees voted to further explore the possibility of relocating the 90-foot-tall Pioneer antenna to a site south of the BCC campus. The antenna would be placed alongside the college’s proposed science and technology building, a facility which would also house a space museum, observatory and several labs for college and NASA use, said Peter Robles, an environment, health, safety and facilities manager for NASA in Pasadena. He and other members of the Center of Space and Technology, which wishes to bring the space center to BCC, gave a presentation to the college at the meeting. Robles said that Barstow was chosen for the site because of its location at the intersections of Interstate 15 and Interstate 40.
Next Weeks Almanac Digest
James Abram Garfield, 20th president of the United States, in 1831; religious revivalist Billy Sunday in 1862; explorer Hiram Bingham, discoverer of the Inca city of Machu Picchu, in 1875; bandleader Tommy Dorsey in 1905; Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1917; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne Kirkpatrick in 1926; talk show host Larry King in 1933 (age 74); entertainer Dick Cavett in 1936 (age 71); entrepreneur Ted Turner in 1938 (age 69); fashion designer Calvin Klein in 1942 (age 65); actress Kathleen Quinlan in 1954 (age 53); Eileen Collins, first female space shuttle commander, in 1956 (age 51); actress Meg Ryan in 1961 (age 46); actress/director Jodie Foster in 1962 (age 45); actress Terry Farrell ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") in 1963 (age 44); and Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug in 1977 (age 30).
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