Head Start funding approved for Odessa program
Odessa Head Start receives 87 991 dollars for 1973 74, matching last year’s support from the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare and approved by Governor Dolph Briscoe. The funds aid 100 low income preschoolers with education and social background work, plus new home outreach planned by program director Mildred Chaffin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Dolph Briscoe
Mildred Chaffin
DWI Suspects Are Released
Eight arrests Friday and Saturday on charges of driving while intoxicated brings the past three days total to 20. Seven freed on $500 bond, one on own recognizance by Justice of the Peace Manuel Valles. Names, ages, and arrest locations listed. all charges filed with Valles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace
Manuel Valles
Valles
Guillermo Vasquez
Eastland
54Th
Andrews Highway
Helen Lackey Turner
San Angelo
Odessa
U.S. 80
Joe Lynn Hukill
East 63Rd
Yukon
Janet Marie Eaglin
Midland
Morris Wayne Fryman
Victims Get Emergency Aid After Injuries at Center
Five persons were treated and released from Medical Center Hospital Saturday for finger injuries and dog bites. Weldon Logsdon, 23, fractured his left ring finger on machinery. Mary Gonzales, 39, partially severed her right ring finger in a car door. Ocie Hall, 45, partially amputated left ring finger on an oil rig pipe. Ronald Smith, 3, and Josetta Rodriguez, 4, youths of local residents, were treated for dog bites behind the knee and on the left thigh respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Center Hospital
Weldon Clifford Logsdon
West Third
Mary Gonzales
South Broughton
Ocie Hall
West May
Ronald Todd Smith
Ronnie Smith
Josetta Ann Rodriguez
Nat Rodriguez
Foster
Miss Your Paper Odessa American Customer Help
If you miss your Odessa American or service is unsatisfactory please telephone the newspaper to report the issue and restore delivery promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Odessa American Rates and Mailing Information
The Odessa American lists subscription options including home delivery by carrier or motor route in Ector County and by mail at yearly, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly rates. Single copy prices are ten cents on weekdays and Saturday, and twenty-five cents on Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa American
East 4Th Street
Odessa
Texas
Ector County
Midland City Council to discuss Midland Regional Air Terminal work
Midland City Council calls a special meeting to discuss emergency work at Midland Regional Air Terminal. The session will review needed repairs, safety measures, and funding options for the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Midland Regional Air
Midland City Council
Minor Fires Cause Little Damage in Odessa
Odessa firemen answered two alarms late Friday and Saturday with no serious damage. A television fire at 1301 North McKinney damaged the set in Jack Harvey’s home after a cigarette started it. At 2701 East Lith Mrs. Jerry Alford carried out a burning mattress and kept the fire from spreading before responders arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Jack Harvey
North McKinney
Harvey
Jerry Alford
East Lith
Five Honorary Degrees Due at TCU Summer Commencement
Texas Christian University will confer five honorary degrees August 10 to A M Aikin Jr of Paris state senator active in education policy Mrs Alain Peckham Bedford Fort Worth community leader Rev Christopher Douglas Diehl Abilene minister Dr John Paul Jones Hawkins Jarvis Christian College president and Leo Potishman Fort Worth businessman The speaker Dr Jones will receive honorary doctor of laws alongside Aikin Bedford and Potishman while Diehl earns honorary doctor of divinity Covington Killed in one car crash east of Center eight miles on State Highway 7 after car left road and overturned
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas Christian University
A.M. Aikin Jr
Paris
Alain Peckham Bedford
Christopher Douglas Diehl
First Christian Church of
Abilene
John Paul Jones
Hawkins
Jarvis Christian College
Leo Potishman
TCU
Dr. Jones
Aikin
Bedford
Potishman
Diebi
Airport Grant Authorization Meeting for Mayor’s Signatures
The council will meet at 8 a.m. Tuesday in council chambers to authorize Mayor Ernest Angelo to sign a federal grant agreement for airport work. The federal government covers 75 percent of emergency work and a $14 million improvement plan, with Midland paying about $8,000 of the initial $655,000 and voters already approving a $3.5 million bond for further improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Angelo
Midland
Ex Odessa College Chief Named College President
Former Odessa College dean Dr. Nathan A. Ivey is appointed president of Thorton Community College in South Holland Illinois. The college serves about 7000 students and 300 faculty. established in 1927. Ivey previously charter president of John A Logan College started in 1968 in Carterville. Mrs. Ivey, ex tutor and Odessa High School teacher, will teach English and journalism at Thorwood High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Holland
Nathan A. Ivey
Odessa College
Thorton Community College
Ivey
John A. Logan College
Carterville
Ill
Odessa High
Thorwood High School
Burn Victim Sherry White Defies Odds To Survive
Eight year old Sherry White suffered second and third degree burns over 92 percent of her body May 10 after gasoline ignited while cleaning tar from her feet. Doctors at Parkland Hospital credit new techniques in nutrition antibiotics isolation and use of human skin for protective covering for her survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Charles Baxter
American Burn Association
Sherry
Sherry White
Parkland Hospital
Baxter
Midland Blaze Hits Clyde Sanders Home in Midland
Heavy fire damaged a frame house owned by Clyde Sanders at 51 East Montgomery in Midland. Firemen arrived about 10 30 p.m. Saturday, fought the blaze with nine firefighters, cause undetermined, no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Clyde Sanders
East Montgomery
Midland Man Is Gun Victim
Edward Devoss 33 of Midland was in critical condition at Midland Memorial Hospital with a .25 caliber gunshot wound to the head. Deputy Sheriff Jack McAdams said he was shot about 10 08 p m in the offices of Southwest Pottery Co where he is employed and the wound appears to be personal safety related.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Edward Devoss
Midland Memorial Hospital
Midland County
Jack McAdams
Southwest Pottery Co
Distinctive District Court Divorces and Hospital Admissions
District court grants divorces for multiple couples including Paulette J Bate and Jun L Bate and others. Medical Center Hospital lists patients admitted and discharged on Aug 3, plus a long city traffic accident roster with multiple incidents and damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paulette J Bate
Jun L Bate
Annie Lee Siaw
Cephas T. Shaw
Louise Wilson
Kermit Wilson
Clarence Milton Whitlock
Zora Faye Whitlock
Joy Dean Brown
David Lee Brown
Ihaylaul Fulton
Kaye Francis Fulton
Ada Blarnche Riddle
Arnold Riddle
Charles Kerry Johnston
Linda Ann Jonnston
Vickie Kay Owen
James Owen
Diane Ruth Bozarth
Kenneth DO. Bozarth
Dorothy P. Baker
Sam J. Baker
Becky Lynn Allen
James Robert Allen
Corliss Ann McGuire
Robert Lee McGuire
Brenda Loy Keefer
Lem David Keefer
Rose Mary K Choate
Clarence Barton Choate
Susan Stipp Ghasemzadeh
Hashem Ghasemzadeh
Sylvia Kay Spoon
Jackie Ray Spoon
Jamie Smallwood
Michael Chancellor
Judy White
Joe Shelton
Hazel Swift
Carol Jordan
Daryl Wilson
James Warton
Catarina DeLacrut
Edith Massey
Dale Dickerson
Jana Pierce
Joan Amos
Christy Clardy
Sandra Ripley
Phyllis Creamer
Joyce Halfacre
Sharon Bannister
Frankie Hobbs
Della Coppedge
Martha Childs
Baby
Cynthia Nichols
ENMU to Offer MBA in Hobbs This Fall
Eastern New Mexico University will start a Master of Business Administration program in Hobbs this fall. The first courses are Conceptual Foundations of Business and Managerial Accounting offered 6 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays starting August 30 at College of the Southwest CS Room A-195. A meeting about the new program is set for 6:30 p.m. August 27 in CS Room A-195.
Texas City man charged in wife’s shotgun death
A 56 year old man, Robert L. Jones, was charged Saturday in the Friday night shooting death of his wife Naomi R. Jones. Police said she was struck once in the chest by a shotgun blast.
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Texas City
Tex
Robert L. Jones
Naomi R. Jones
Rankin L. DeWalt
Several Odessa area funeral notices filed for local residents
Funeral services are set for Mrs. Bertie May Richardson White 82 of Brownwood. Other notices list Mrs. J B Gillikin of Odessa died in Charleston and funeral in Morehead City, Mrs. Ann McKinley 87 of Sheffield Kerrville state hospital, and Mrs Soledad E Reyna 71 of Sanderson with ceremonies in St James Catholic Church Odessa relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertie White Goldthwaite
Bertie May Richardson White
Brownwood
H. E. Richardson
Odessa
Falls County
Lee Gillikin
Morehead City
J. B
Lee) Gilliken
Bell-Munden
Gillikin
Charleston
S. C
Montague
Jerald B. Gillikin
Oakland
Calif
C.L. Sterling
Iraan
C.B. Sterling
M.L. Reeves
V.L. Cox
R.E. Tessier
Una McKinley
Kerrville
Ann McKinley
Kerrville State Hospital
Sheffield
Kerrville Funeral Home
Louisiana
First Baptist Church of
Rose Park
Yvonne Hatmaker
R.A. Weber
Fort Stockton
Soledad E. Reyna Sanderson
Soledad E. Reyna
Sanderson
St. James Catholic Church
Santa Rita
Jane Funeral Home
Ozona
Jazzman Eddie Condon dies at 67 in New York
Noted jazz guitarist and banjoist Eddie Condon died Saturday at Mt. Sinai Hospital New York at age 67 after about a month’s illness. He shaped small combos improvisation with bands led by Bix Beiderbecke and Gene Krupa, helped launch Town Hall and Carnegie Hall concerts, and ran a Greenwich Village club. Funeral notices follow for Mrs Truett Shipley Snyder and Mrs Rosella B Rushing with family survivors listed.
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New York
Eddie Condon
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Condon
Chicago Heights
Midwest
Homer Peavey
Jazz Bandits
Bix Beiderbecke
Syracuse
N.Y
Chicago
Gene Krupa
52Nd Street
Town Hall
Carnegie Hall
Greenwich Village
Washington Square
Glass Breaker Vandalism Reported In Odessa
Police investigated three vandalism incidents on Saturday. Allan Morgan reported a rear windshield smashed by a bottle, Mrs. Ned Thomas said a rock broke a sliding plate glass window, and Emma Hanson reported a rear door glass smashed by a rock.
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Odessa
Allan Morgan
East 38Th
Ned Thomas
North Texas
Emma Hanson
East 35Th
FBI Agent Who Shot Dillinger Dead At 82
Charles Winstead, one of the agents who shot John Dillinger in 1934, died at Veterans Hospital in Albuquerque at age 82. He helped track Baby Face Nelson, served as a wartime intelligence captain at Los Alamos, and later worked on security for the atomic bomb project. His gun was credited with two Dillinger bullets, though he never claimed sole responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N.M
Charles Winstead
FBI
John Dillinger
Veteran's Hospital
Winstead
Baby Face Nelson
Los Alamos
Dillinger
Washington
Charles Hurt
McAlister
Oklo
Albuquerque Tribune
George $. Baldwin
Hurt
Melvin Purvis
Chicago
Anna Sage
Polly Hamilton
Clark Gable
Manhattan
Anna
Thilinger
el Paso
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Breakin Loss At 283 Dollars At Zavala Elementary School
Odessa police investigated two burglaries Saturday with the Zavala Elementary School loss set at 283 dollars. Items stolen included 200 dollars in educational films three cassette tapes valued at 52.50 and children's stories up to 30 dollars. Entry was gained by prying a door previously opened in a prior burglary. Several other incidents and a death were listed in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zavala
Odessa
Garland Proffitt
Gary Brown
Grandview
Odessa clubs schedule for noon and evening meetings
Tomorrow in Odessa lists noon meetings for Kiwanis Inn of the Golden West Coachroom and Chaparral Toastmasters at Sands Restaurant. 7 30 P M events include Wildcat Toastmasters also at Sands Restaurant Evening Optimist Club Branding Iron CAP Group XVI at CAP Headquarters Building and the Permian Basin Stamp Club at Chamber of Commerce 412 North Lincoln.
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Odessa
Kiwanis
Inn of the
Golden West
Coachroom
Evening Optimist Club
the Branding Iron
CAP Group XVI
CAP
Ector County
Permian Basin Stamp Club
Chamber of Commerce
North Lincoln
Also Mentioned on This Page
DWI
Mark Sanderson Hendricks
East 61St
61St
Vanceil Briscoe Monahan
Keystone
Vonceil Briscoe Monahan
Texas Highway Patrol
Chaffin
East Murphy
South Ranchito
Trinity Baptist
Odessan
University of Texas Medical School
Wiziid
Boc
P.M. Thues
P.M. Sat
Walt Disney Productions
Sears and Save
Sears
Sears. Roebuck and CO
F. 8Th St
Edwin Behnke
Crestview
Robert Ramos Vasquez
Monahans
Bruce Patrick Treadaway
Henry Ward
Slossom Lane
Manuel Marquez
Woodlawn
University
Tom Green
Tanya Denise Floyd
Dumont
Gary Patrick Hennessey
North Washington
Jefferson
Ronald James MacDonald
North Golder
Buck Dean Isbell
Murphy and
Jackson
Pedro M. Hernandez Jr
Bruck
Joseph Eastburn
Bonham
Lou Martin Bunch
Rosewood
Charles Stephen McDaniel
North Jackson
Bunch
Grant
Wal King
Sheila Beach
Glenn Ray Ross
East Odessa
Miner
Carolyn and
Golder
Leslie V. Elms
Carlsbad
Raymond Lloyd Moman
Black Andrews
Billy Eugene Thomas Jr
Goldsmith
Patrick Wendell Ficres
Stratford
Cumberland
Eddie Dean Ramsey
Amburgey
Robert Brandon
East
Lee
Paul Graham Agnew Sr
Oaxwood
Linda Ann Womack
West 13Th
Camela Rennee Ford
Pagewood
Jack Davis
Williams and
Mus
Ang
Barbara Davis Johnson
Jarrett
San Juan
Vlifer
Rix
Dan
National Funeral Directors Association
Texas Funeral Directors Association
Jazzman
Phyllis Reay
Rosella B. Rushing
Harold Brashear
la Fonda
Edwin Leechem
Maude
Albert B. Thorne
Thomas P. Thorne
Kenneth L. Jones
Miami
Fla
Jim Rigby
Florida
Felix Drake
Glendale
Ariz
Kimbal Howard
Kansas
Farmer
Gatesville
Dan Davidson
Coryell County
Todd & Todd
N. Lee
Noon — Chaparral Toastmasters
Sands Restaurant
Wildcat Toastmasters
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