Odessa reports eight minor fires across city
Odessa fire crews tackled eight minor blazes Wednesday including two houses, three vehicles, and three trash fires. Incidents ranged from food on a stove at 4403 Buffalo to a gas ignition from a pilot light at 1105 West 68th, with no major damage reported.
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Odessa
Sue Rand
Buffalo
Andres Mata
West 68Th
A. C. Cloninger
Nabors
Cloninger
Harris
Stella Ybarra
Santa Rita
West County Road
H. C. Willis
Amburgey
Eastover
Woodcrest
East 38Th
Plea Brings Multiple Prison Terms for Child Rape Case
A 40 year old Pleasant Farmsman received one 15 year term and two 10 year terms after pleading guilty to rape of a child, attempted rape of a child, and criminal mischief. Wilhelm Sweitzer pled before 161st District Judge R L McKim on Wednesday. Charges included rape and attempted rape of a child under 17 from incidents in June and a July 25 mischief claim involving Cathryn Hallford's 1979 model car. Indictments by the Ector County grand jury were dated June 25 for the rape and attempted rape charges and July 25 for the mischief offense.
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Pleasant
Wilhelm Sweitzer
R.L. McKim
Sweitzer
Cathryn Hallford
Ector County Grand Jury
Six burglaries under investigation by Odessa police
Odessa police were investigating six burglaries on Thursday. Victims reported thefts from rooms, vehicles, and a shop. Items stolen included clothes, cash, tools, a stereo, tapes, a purse, and a rock used to gain entry. Police noted no forced entry in at least one case.
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Odessa
Debby Mae Wilson
East Second
Steve Hadley
Austin
East Highway 80
Walter Donner
Verde
Victor Alvarado
Bernice
Dana Harrington
Route 3
Fifth and
Jackson
Junior high registration schedules in Ector County
Registration for fall classes is announced with exceptions for Blackshear students. Newcomers and district changers must register at new schools. Nimitz and Bowie hold seventh grade orientations Aug 22. Bonham, Bowie, Blackshear, Crockett, Nimitz and Hood schedule times vary days Aug 23 to Aug 24 and extend to 5 PM on weekdays.
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Blackshear
Ector County
Nimitz Junior High School
Bowie
Bonham
Auto collision injures two at 57th and Fort Worth
A car and a van collided around 9 45 a.m. Thursday at 57th and Fort Worth. Both drivers were treated at Medical Center Hospital. Melinda Freeman 23 of 6004 Austin suffered facial cuts and was still under examination at 1 p.m. John R Kinard Jr 39 of Route 3 was later admitted for chest pains and released after treatment.
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57Th and
Fort Worth
Medical Center Hospital
Melinda Freeman
Austin
John R. Kinard Jr
Route 3
Amarillo D A indicted for abuse of office in tape subpoena
Amarillo District Attorney Tom Curtis posted a $1000 personal bond and was freed after a state grand jury indicted him on two misdemeanor counts charging abuse of office. The indictments allege he used official power to obtain recordings of his own testimony by subpoenaing the grand jury foreman. Curtis had been removed from deliberations in a separate case and later testified before the same grand jury. The subpoenas for recordings of his testimony prompted the indictments.
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Amarilloa
Texas
Tom Curtis
Curtis
Robert S. Rudd
Grand Jury
Ofen
Ventura Woman Given 10 Year Probation After Robbery Guilty
Debra Kay Hoskins, 18, of Ventura California, pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon for the Jan 31 Odessa convenience store robbery. In 70th District Court Judge Gene Ater imposed a 10 year probated sentence.
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Ventura, Calif
Debra Kay Hoskins
70Th District Court
Gene Ater
Odessa
Chagra Faces Trial Over Cocaine and Marijuana Smuggling
Government witnesses led by ex convict Henry Wallace accuse Chagra of plotting major drug smuggling from Colombia to Florida and the US involving pounds of cocaine and tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana. The Dona Petra, Miss Connie, and Eco Pesca IV freighters were seized, and a December 1976 marijuana flight was stopped. Assistant U.S. Attorney Pierce defended witness immunity while Judge Sessions set a bond hearing after Chagra’s conviction.
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Las Vegas
Horseshoe Hotel
Chagra
Henry Wallace
Colombia
Florida
Dudley Connell
el Paso
Paul Taylor
Denver
Wallace
Coast Guard
Bahamas
Ardmore
Oklo
Goodman
U.S
Carl Pierce
San Antonio
Heat to Persist Across Permian Basin Weekend
The National Weather Service in Midland reports extended hot conditions with mostly clear skies tonight. Southeasterly winds 10 to 15 mph today, then 5 to 10 mph tonight, and daytime highs in the lower 90s with overnight lows around 68. Slight chance of thundershowers Saturday through Monday.
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Permian
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Midland region forecast from NWS at Midland Regional Airport
Partly cloudy today and Friday with little temperature change. Southeasterly winds 10 to 15 mph today, decreasing to 5 to 10 mph tonight. Highs around 92, lows near 68 tonight, 67 overnight, with sun set at 6 32 p m and sunrise 7 14 a m Friday. Year to date precipitation 10.44 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Odessa teen in California arrest in kidnapping case
The 17 year old Jim Bailey Jr. was arrested in Santa Ana California and is in juvenile custody there on kidnapping charges linked to the Aug 7 abduction of Michael Todd Franks 21 of Odessa. Franks was seized at gunpoint and later escaped. his pickup was later found abandoned in Columbia Washington.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Ector County Sheriff's Department
Jim Bailey Jr
Bailey
Michael Todd Franks
Mockingbird Lane
Franks
Interstate 20
Ranger
Columbia
D.C
Toyah Names Midland Clerk as New Postmaster
Hazel C Humphries appointed Postmaster at Toyah by Midland Sectional Center Manager D E Holster. Humphries has served as Postal Clerk in Saragosa since July 1 1975. Selections for small offices are merit based from candidate lists to the Sectional Center Manager who then recommends to the Postmaster General.
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Midland
Hazel C. Humphries
Toyah
D.E. Holster
Humphries
Saragosa
Holster
Odessa Man Sentenced 15 Years for Meth Delivery
Leslie Hampton Eades of 9411 West University pleaded guilty to delivering methamphetamine after selling a gram to an Ector County deputy on December 12. Judge Gene Ater sentenced the 21-year-old Odessa resident to 15 years in prison.
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Odessa
Gene Ater
Leslie Hampton Eades
West University
Ector County
County court records and hospital notes itemized
Marriage licenses issued include James Edger Paul Turner and Peggy Ann Nitteraver, Ronald Lee Gulley and Susan Marie Deutsch, Samuel Munoz Jr. and Diana Medrano, John Arthur Burditt Jr. and Martha Kay Turmen, Michael McLeaish and Karen Thrash McLeaish, Earl Robert Buss Jr. and Lite Jean Hardin, Michael David Wheeler and Denise Ann Harber. District court lists divorce suits filed among multiple couples. Medical Center Hospital records list numerous patients admitted August 15 and, at Women’s and Children’s Hospital, a marriage-related entry for Monahans residents Mr. and Mrs. Bobby L. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Templin with a newborn girl born at 1808 East 7th.
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James Edger
Paul Turner
Peggy Ann Nitteraver
Ronald Lee Gulley
Susan Marie Deutsch
Samuel Munoz Jr
Diana Medrano
John Arthur Burditt Jr
Martha Kay Turmen
Michael McLeaish
Karen Thrash McLeaish
Earl Robert Buss Jr
Lite Jean Hardin
Michael David Wheeler
Denise Ann Harber
Marion Erline Kimbrell
Jeffrey Lynn Kimbrell
Shirley Marie Searcy
James Douglas Searcy
Jean Marie McColloch
Lawrence Edgar McCollioch
Suzanne Goodson
Johnny Goodson
Jimmie Lee Ingram
Virginis Ingram
Mary Sue Alford
Wilbur James Alford
Cheryl Mandy Robbins
Howard Kenneth Robbins
Mrs. Fannie Mizzell 92, Midland resident, dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Mizzell of Midland will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Ellis Funeral Home chapel with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. Born February 12, 1887 in Callahan County she lived in Paris and Bangs before farming in the Greenwood community with her husband Jimmy Mizzell who died in 1958. Surviving are her son Charlie Lay and three daughters, eight grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. she was a member of Greenwood Baptist Church.
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Midland
Fannie Mizzell
Ellis Funeral Home
Resthaven Memorial Park
Mizzell
Jimmy Mizzell
Greenwood Baptist Church
Charlie Lay
Johnnie Tubbs
Garland
Gladys Boren
Stanton
Ruby Harmon
Hereford
LaVone Easley
First Baptist Church
Restlawn Memorial Park
Gililland-Watson Funeral Home
Easley
Deaf Smith General Hospital
Frio
Harold Easley
First National Bank
Order of the Eastern Star
Danny Boyer
Wayne
Nancy) Fuller
Lubbock
J. J. Lindsey
la Nell Brantley
Odessa
Harvey Lindsey
Walden Lindsey
Harold Linsey
Cleburne
American Cancer Society
Services for Midland teacher Virginia Anders
Virginia Anders 50 of Midland died Thursday morning after a long illness in a Midland hospital. Born August 18, 1928 in El Paso she graduated college in Missouri and moved to Midland in the 1950s where she taught school for years and operated a home kindergarten. Survivors include her mother Mrs. Bess Neil of Midland.
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Midland
Virginia Anders
Ellis Funeral Home
Resthaven Memorial Park
Anders
el Paso
Missouri
Bess Neil
Multiple Obituaries Across Hereford Monahans Midland Alpine Pecos
Hereford mourns LaVone Easley 51 with services at First Baptist Hereford and burial at Restlawn Memorial Park. Enriqueta Gonzales 84 of Monahans dies in hospital. services at St Johns Catholic Church and burial at Monahans Cemetery. Robert Armsted Roseberry 35 of Midland dies from gunshot. service at Faith Temple Church of God in Christ with burial at Fairview Cemetery. Douglas Ray Wittie 29 of Odessa dies in rollover near Carlsbad. service at Immanuel Baptist Church. Edith Arnett Smith 73 of Midland scheduled for First United Methodist Alpine service with burial at Elm Grove Cemetery. Pecos youth Lewallen Huelster 16 struck by lightning near Ashtown Arkansas. service at Balmorea United Methodist Church. Survivors, ages, and living places listed for each case.
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Midland
Robert Armsted Roseberry
Faith Temple
Church of God In Christ
Fairview Cemetery
Jackson Funeral Home
Roseberry
PECOS
Lewallen Huelster
Little Rivers Plantation
Ashtown
Ark
Balmorea United Methodist Church
Balmorhea
Huelster
Madden Funeral Home
Arkansas
Pecos Funeral Home
Services for Mariana Landin in Ozona
Mariana Landin age 64 of Ozona died Tuesday at Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital in San Angelo. Services were held at 2 p.m. today in the Catholic Church with burial at Lima Cemetery under Larry D. Sheppard Funeral Home. Survivors include son Irineo Tamburga of Ozona sister Bernarda Ramirez of California six brothers Arturo and Juan Gonzales Jose Gonzales Esteban Gonzales Candelario Gonzales Raul Gonzales five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Ozona
Mariana Landin
Lima
Larry D. Sheppard
Odessa Schedule Promises Busy Day of Meetings
Tomorrow in Odessa events include Breakfast Optimists at Odessa College Student Union Building at 1 AM and Odessa Optimists at Inn of the Golden West at noon. At 6 30 PM Eastside Rotary Club meets at Fan of the Golden West.
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Odessa College
Odessa
Optimists
Inn of the Golden West
Eastside Rotary Club
The
Golden West
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Wilson-Miller Funeral Home
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Ward Memorial Hospital
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Dallas
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Tucson
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Los Angeles
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San Francisco
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Pablo Gonzales
Raymond Gonzales
Guevara Lujan
Loving, N.M
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Jefferson
Kay
Lance Roseberry
Carmel Scott
Sandra Scott
Laquarrie Scott
Margaret Roseberry
James Edward Roseberry
Charles Edward Roseberry
Ruby Lee Lockhart
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Denver, Colo
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Douglas Ray Wittie
Immanuel Baptist Church
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
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Carlsbad
N.M
Alice Bruno
U.S. Army
Permian High School
West Texas State University
Texas A&m
Texas Reamer Co
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Roger Dale Wittie
Laramie
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Ray Wittie
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Edith Arnett Smith
First United Methodist Church
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Geeslin
Smith
Tom Stovll
Bill Caldwell
Amarillo
Kirby Nutt Jr
Big Bend Memorial Hospital
Douglas Wittie
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