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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1975
Page
1
Andrews School leaders discussed a proposed 5400 square foot show barn and feeding area for FFA and 4-H use planned after a Snyder comparison. The effort may be county funded with AISD and county action pending.
Robert E. Sear D D S started an associateship with Dr. Neil Hayes on Monday. He is the son of Mrs. Ray Porter and the late Truman Sears, moved from Andrews in 1956, and is a 1971 Texas Tech University graduate with degrees in chemistry and zoology. He recently graduated from Texas Dental Branch and moved here with his wife Ruth and three month old daughter Heather, and they attend the Church of Christ.
Opinion notes government by staffers rather than elected officials. Cites OSHA tractor roll bar rule and a satirical piece by Rep. Andrew Hinson on bureaucratic control, contrasted with congressional intent and accountability. The piece ends with a reference to HEPA and a cosmic joke on regulation.
Andrews area Piggly Wiggly employees deny planning a strike amid union claims for a 1.40 hourly raise in health pension and welfare benefits and a 25 cent cost of living increase. Some workers want to leave the union while others fear strike repercussions.
Steven Wayne Porterfield 21 of Norman Oklahoma, a summer engineer for AMOCO Production Co, disappeared while swimming with friends at Lakeside Park and was recovered from the city lake after a 16 hour search by Andrews Fire Dept and Odessa Police divers. The group had aimed for Duck Island 150 yards from the north shore when Porterfield began to complain of fatigue and drifted back toward shore. Authorities located his T shirt and wallet guiding divers to the lake.
At 2 40 a m Saturday a call sparked a lakeside search for 21 year old Steven Wayne Ramsey near Lakeside Park. Sheriff Bud Gregory and deputies led a small recovery party as three other swimmers Carolyn Hibbs Judy Schooley and Jim McReynolds recounted swimming to Duck Island while Ramsey vanished. The group, wet and shaken, remained unsure if it was a prank or a drowning. See NIGHT page 8.
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