County budget battle ends with targeted layoffs spared
Hammond pushes for cuts while Fisher Bowen oppose all cuts. Budget workshop trims 27 positions saving about 309 thousand in personnel. Proposals include two from vehicle maintenance and several in library tax office and building maintenance. Final plan keeps most staff, lowers tax rate to 33 cents per 100, with a 21.4 million tax-supported budget and final vote in August.
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Hammond
Bill Hicks
Fisher
Precinct 3
Gerard Bowen
Precinct 1
Bill Tolbert
Bryan Henderson
Bowen
Building and Maintenance
Tax Office
Ector County Library
Barbara Horton
Tax Assessors Office
Lea Taylor
Gerald Dunlap
Tom Pace
Sheriff's Department
Ector County
Dallas Man Jailed on Arson Charge
An 18 year old Dallas man, Adam Smiley Hernandez, is jailed on arson charges after a westside residence fire at 2118 West Fourth Street. Bond set at 7500 by Municipal Judge J E Weatherly. Firefighter John Taylor treated for injuries after an oxygen line break. Fire Marshal Rick Cates said flammable liquid was poured on the exterior. heavy damage to bathroom and bedrooms.
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Dallas
Adam Smiley Hernandez
J.E. Weatherly
Tony Rocha
Fourth St
Rick Cates
John Taylor
Medical Center Hospital
Cates
Bryson may pursue voluntary liquidation to satisfy creditors
Lawrence notes trade creditors seek 100 percent payment but in bankruptcy they average five cents on the dollar. He cites InterFirst Bank holding $450,000 of Bryson’s roughly $1.2 million debt as secured. Cali adds substantial assets exist and voluntary liquidation often yields higher returns with lower costs than bankruptcy.
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Lawrence
Bryson
InterFirst Bank of Dallas
Gail Cali
Minister Still Jailed in Wife's July 12 Death
A 31-year-old Lutheran minister, Rev. Joseph Loduca Jr., remains jailed in Ward County on a murder charge for his wife Mary Ellen Loduca, 32. Loduca was arrested by Monahans police about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. Bond was denied by Justice of the Peace L.A. Wester Mullins.
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Ward
Joseph Loduca Jr
Monahans
Mary Ellen Loduca
David Mills
Justice of the Peace
L.A
Wester Mullins
Holt McGee
Loduca
Mills
PUC chief hunts letter writer in Houston Post probe
Public Utility Commissioner Jo Campbell faced an anonymous letter criticizing her, with typewriter ribbons confiscated and samples taken. Campbell called it a personnel matter and said she was not involved in the investigation, which reportedly began on her instruction one spring evening.
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Campbell
PUC
High TECAT second try passes boost for Texas teachers
About 71 percent of TECAT takers who failed in March passed on a June retest, with 4,704 of 6,579 first-time failures succeeding after a second attempt. TEA reported 95.4 percent of Black educators, 98.9 percent of Hispanics, and 99.9 percent of Whites passed the second TECAT. Education Commissioner William Kirby praised minority results amid a federal lawsuit from the Texas State Teachers Association ongoing in Tyler.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Education Agency
William Kirby
Doctor says cocaine can kill first time users
Dr. David Smith warned at a Texas workshop that cocaine is potent enough to kill healthy first time users. He said it can alter brain and heart electrical activity by increasing adrenaline, causing the heart to beat wildly or stop. Potent cocaine with quick effects is a major threat to brain and heart.
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Austin
Texas Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse
David Smith
Smith
Perkins Attorney Sees Grand Jury Indictment for Theft
Eric Augesen said a grand jury would have indicted Perkins for using his deceased mother's Montgomery Ward credit card to charge six thousand dollars of televisions and video gear, then claim a return. Perkins left his Odessa City Council bid this spring to seek a South Ector County Precinct 4 seat. both he and Willie Hammond lost in the May 3 Democratic primary to Joe Eddie Hernandez.
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Eric Augesen
Augesen
Perkins
Montgomery Ward
Odessa
South Ector County
Willie Hammond
Hammond
Joe Eddie Hernandez
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