Elk City boom town strains under housing crunch
Tim Bovee reports Elk City Oklahoma a second boom town driven by natural gas growth. Despite high assets and job prospects poor housing persists as workers like Garry and Shirley Dickson struggle for affordable shelter while foremen push two rigs north of town.
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Tim Bovee
Associated Press
Elk City
Okla
High Plains
Oklahoma
Savings and Loans
Oklahoma City
Greater
Anadarko
Jerry Grace
Grace
Garry Dickson
Shirley
Grenada
Miss
Dickson
Dicksons
Larry Wade
Wade
Martha Ann Kelly
Bank of Western Oklahoma
Rainy Texas Forecast From Midland NWS Update
A National Weather Service report from Midland Regional Airport notes widespread rain across West Texas with an inch or more possible today. Forecasters predict a 90 percent chance of showers today and tonight, 40 percent tomorrow, and cooler temperatures with highs near 50 today and 60s tomorrow. Many stations report 0.5 to 0.79 inches, with statewide readings in the 40s to 70s and a total month to date 0.65 inches.
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Permian Basin
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Texas
Gulf Coast
San Angelo
West Texas
Dalhart
Lubbock
Laredo
Corpus Christi
North and South Texas Weekend Forecast Update
North Texas will be partly cloudy and mild with highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s and overnight lows in the 50s. South Texas sees partly cloudy skies with warmer temps and a slight chance of showers, highs in the mid 70s to low 80s, cooling Friday night. West Texas experiences partly cloudy skies and possible thunderstorms mainly southwest Sunday, with highs in the 80s and 90s in the Big Bend region.
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North
Texas
South Texas
West Texas
Big Bend
Widow recalls miner's fateful strike and loss
Karen Hull remembers her husband John Hull, a United Mine Workers member killed during a 1978 non union mine strike in Indiana. He kissed her goodbye that February morning and never came home. Three years on she battles grief, surges of memory, and a renewed strike mood that stirs old wounds.
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Nancy Shulins
Associated Press
Patoka
Ind
John Hull
Karen
Karen Hull
Hull
United Mine Workers
UMW
Bowersock
Robbie
Princeton
Maxi
AMAX
Oakland City
John
Hulls
Water along Chattanooga Creek found contaminated with carcinogens
Residents in South Chattanooga warned as EPA reports high levels of benzene mercury and cyanide in creek water or sediment. Mary Walker heads the Tennessee Toxics Task Force and will distribute the warning to local residents based on the EPA water quality findings.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Chattanooga Creek
Chattanooga
Mary Walker
Citizens’ Tennessee Toxics Task Force
South Chattanooga
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Space pioneers greet crowd after Columbia landing
Space pilots John Young and Robert Crippen returned to Texas for debriefings after the Columbia spaceflight. Young hailed the 54 hour voyage as near a miracle and thanked the Houston crowd at Ellington Air Force Base for the warm reception. Crippen praised the spacecraft as phenomenal, underscoring the mission’s historic success.
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Houston
Young
Bob Crippen
Ellington
California
Columbia
Man in Hatboro faces psychiatric exam for Reagan threat
James T. McCaughey, 42, of Hatboro, Pa., allegedly warned to kill President Reagan after a telephone company rate hike. A federal magistrate ordered psychiatric tests and set bail at 150000, with McCaughey to be sent to a Springfield, Missouri facility for evaluation.
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Philadelphia
James T. McCaughey
Reagan
McCaughey
Hatboro
Secret Service
U.S
Edwin Nauthons
Springfield
84 year old veteran finally receives Purple Heart
Charles Gaski, a former Marine corporal in October 1918, was wounded on the Champagne front when German fire and a rifle butt left him wounded and nearly dead. After WWI he received a certificate, and now the Purple Heart is awarded after evidence was gathered by the National Military Order of the Purple Heart.
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San Diego
Charles Gaski
Gaskill
National Military Order of the Purple Heart
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Childress College Station
Corpus Christ
Dainart
Dallas
del Rio
el Paso
Fort Worth
Galveston
Longview
Lubboc
Lufkin
Marta
McAllen Midang
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Presidio
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la Stepnenville
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Tyler
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