Red Bluff District Scales Recreation Against Irrigation Needs
Water concerns at 186 desire site prompt speakers Amelia Henderson and Don Turnbow to push for desert friendly landscape and recreation while Red Bluff directors prioritize irrigation for landowners and farmers. They oppose state and federal funds arguing government money constrains control and favors other interests. Dawson counters that oil field workers and West Texans deserve local recreation funded by tax contributions and not forced long trips for fishing.
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Speakman
Amelia Henderson
Grandfalls
Red Bluff
Couch
Don Turnbow
Turnbow
Dawson
Fire guts Big Spring paint store at 1608 Gregg St
Firefighters battled a fast spreading blaze that gutted the Sherwin Williams paint store at 1608 Gregg Street in Big Spring. A firefighter twisted an ankle but no other injuries were reported. The Stallings Insurance building next door suffered heavy smoke damage while a nearby Super Saver grocery had very minor smoke damage. The fire was brought under control by 2 a.m. and investigators search for a cause.
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Big Spring
Sherwin- Williams Co
Gregg St
Stallings Insurance Co
Super Saver
Sherwin- Williams
Odessa Woman Struck and Beaten in Front Yard Altercation
Velma Daniel was hit in the right hip and leg when a brown and cream pickup intentionally drove into her front yard. She was dragged by her hair, beaten, and thrown into a mud puddle by an acquaintance. No arrests reported.
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Odessa
Velma Daniel
Henderson Ave
Daniel
Odessa Fire Department Faces Stricter EMS Standards
EMS requirements tighten across services as state rules demand compliance or face criminal penalties. Paramedic certification now hinges on standards approved by the health department, with Phyllis Brown teaching county paramedic classes at Odessa College after replacing Scott Tidwell amid past friction. Fire officials weigh centralizing classes at Central Fire Station to avoid interruptions and ensure on duty experience is properly credited.
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State Department of Health
Phyllis Brown
Scott Tidwell
Fire Department
Central Fire Station
Childress
Ector County expands welfare drug fund to nine thousand
Ector County Welfare Department increases the medical and drug account by 9000 to cover July through September expenses for indigent care. Supervisor Betty Jo Sweetman warns careful disbursement as bills may rise if August and September match prior averages. The board previously added funds in April and June, bringing total to 50300 with 50000 tentatively budgeted for 1983 84. The district also agrees to trade seven acres of county land for 130000 cash and 15 acres of school district land on West Dunn Street plus the tax office.
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Ector County Welfare Department
Welfare Department
Betty Jo Sweetman
Sweetman
Odessa
Ector County Independent School District
Parks and
Dunn Street
Odessa family seeks Israel as they roam the nation
A tightly linked family led by Moore, born with a detached esophagus, traveled over 40 states seeking immigration visas to Israel. They left Odessa after a bank foreclosure, kept faith through Orthodox Judaism, with children wearing modest dress and religious headgear. Moore frames himself as Elijah’s prophesied figure before the Messiah.
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Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Odessa
Moore
God
New Mexico
Deming
Larue
Sonora
Southwest
Church of Christ
Arizona
Israel
Washington, D.C
United States
Ora Jean
Prophet Elijah
Malachi
Yahweh
City budget sparks protest over ambulance at Fire Station 2
Council awaits a public hearing on revenue sharing plans to place an ambulance at Fire Station 2 without full staffing. The $35,400 ambulance funded by federal revenue sharing would affect responses from Station 6 and Central Station on opposite sides of Jackson Avenue, with current average six minute calls east of Jackson. Deputy City Manager Nolen notes five of seven stations already house ambulances.
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Thomas Perkins
Grandview Avenue
Brentwood Drive
South Odessa
Jackson Avenue
Chester Nolen
Central Fire Station
Second Street
Lincoln Avenue
Central Station
Killer wishes death sentence carried out without appeal
Larry Keith Robison, sentenced to death for one of five brutal Lake Worth killings, asks the judge to waive his appeals and accept execution. He argues lengthy appeals would waste him in a 5 by 8 cell after the Aug. 10, 1982 murder of Bruce Gardner, age 33.
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Fort Worth
Larry Keith Robison
Lake Worth
Robison
Bruce Gardner
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