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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1985
Page
1
Foreman E G Wright describes daily work at 300 Dixie Blvd cemetery noting backhoes replace shovels and graves deep enough for standard coffin coverage. He debunks six-foot myth, says only Dona Rabb’s grave is six feet. No ghosts, just buried people.
Relatives with dental charts photos and clues arrived to aid officials sorting 131 bodies from the Delta Flight 191 crash near Dallas Fort Worth airport. Of 162 aboard 28 passengers and 3 flight attendants survived. 121 bodies were moved to a Dallas forensic lab with only 16 identified so far.
Jay Slasher seated 42 rows back on Delta Flight 191 rode a violent storm plunge with 28 survivors. The Phoenix programmer escaped with minor injuries after the plane slammed to the ground, thanking God as he crawled free. Passenger John Moore, row 35 before moving back, survived with burns and bruises, calling it a second chance and praying as the jet dropped hundreds of feet.
Juanita Childers, age 63, started work in Odessa at the Permian Basin Community Centers program. She travels daily to the Odessa Community Living and Evaluation Workshop where she handles contract tasks for local businesses, a success story highlighted with family praise and notes on the program's operations and broader misconceptions.
President Reagan praised Congress for a good faith start on trimming the 1986 deficit with a $967.6 billion spending plan and warned against tax increases to curb red ink. He said spending cuts, not higher taxes, are the right path and pledged to monitor fall appropriations to prevent excessive spending.
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