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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1979
Page
2
In a 1979 column, Dr. Crane chides Lana L a 19 year old college coed for rejecting traditional marriage and mocks trial marriages. He argues against cohabitation and consignment like stores, praising old morals and warning that true love lasts. He promotes his Rating Scales for Husbands and Wives with a paid request note.
Atlanta Attorney General Griffin Bell resigns to become an unpaid, part time troubleshooter for President Carter. He will rejoin King and Spalding, with Charles Kirbo as a partner, while denying any partisan campaign involvement and stressing a purely advisory, noncampaign function.
Johns Hopkins Hospital, a pioneer in U S sex change procedures, has stopped performing them after research found no objective life improvements. About 25 to 40 percent of the unit's 100 annual patients sought the surgery, which Hopkins began supporting officially in 1966. The halt, effective last spring, follows Dr Jon K Meyer’s research reported in August.
Chester Collins, a 13 year Bridgeport police veteran, underwent a sex change on June 13 and plans to resume duty in about two weeks as Mary Collins. Police Superintendent Walsh says Collins is entitled to return, with a temporary clerical assignment pending legal name change and driver's license records already updated.
West Palm Beach AP report says at least four refugees drowned off Lantana Beach when forced off a 32 foot cabin cruiser in deep water. About 18 refugees were aboard. 11 reached shore alive as search for more bodies and the vessel continued. Panama City Panama AP report: funeral services planned for Col. Jose M Pinilla the provisional president who died of a heart attack ending a 14 month rule after 1968 coup. The day of mourning was declared and offices closed. Pinilla rose in Panama's guard, serving with Torrijos after Arias ousted, though Torrijos kept command.
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