Grand jury to pry into drug issue in Ector County
Ector County grand jury foreman Jim Richards asks Commissioners Judge Jan Fisher, Judge Joe Connally, District Attorney Eric Augesen, Sheriff Bob Brookshire and Odessa Police Chief Alan Stewart to attend an Aug 26 session on drug trafficking. He calls the move an extraordinary measure and cites a rising illegal drug traffic problem in the city and county.
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Ector County
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Ector
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Joe Connally
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Bob Brookshire
Odessa
Alan Stewart
Four Year Old Adam Christenson Tours Fossil Show
Four year old Adam Roy Christenson of Odessa listened wide eyed as Dr Daniel R Womache explained fossils during Monster Mania at the Presidential Museum. Womaches fossils were on display as the museum showed the movie One Million B C. The event was part of the Odessa Cultural Council Hot Fun in the Summertime program.
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Max and
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Odessa
Daniel R. Womache
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Golder Ave
B.C
Odessa Cultural Council
Senate backs sanctions against South Africa in broad package
The Senate approved a strengthened sanctions package with an 84-14 vote barring new U S funding and imports of South African steel textiles uranium coal and agricultural products. It ends U S landing rights for South African Airways and sets up a conference with the House.
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Rulings rock homosexuals in Midland Odessa fear grows
Supreme Court decisions upholding Georgia anti-sodomy law and declining to hear Texas appeal spark alarm in Midland and Odessa. Homosexuals fear harassment firings and beatings as Linda Hynam of Metropolitan Community Church warns the law could be used against them.
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Midland
Odessa
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Linda Hynam
Metropolitan Community Church
Atlanta
House bill cuts 5810 state jobs in Texas budget move
A Texas House bill would trim about 750 million from the 1987 budget and eliminate 5,810 state jobs as it moves to the Senate where lawmakers hint at a tax increase. House Speaker Gib Lewis urged objective review while Sen Roy Blake pressed for a combined tax and cut bill.
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Roy Blake
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Texas House Appropriations Breaks Recommend Major Budget Cuts
The Texas House budget plan proposes about 674 million in general revenue reductions for FY 1987 and would eliminate roughly 5,800 state jobs, per House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Rudd.
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House Appropriations Committee
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Refinery faces fine for dumping wastes in Odessa
The American Texas Water Commission staff recommended a 30900 fine against Shell Oil Co Odessa Refinery for unauthorized dumping of hazardous chemicals and for an inadequate groundwater monitoring system. An inspection in March found the refinery dumping industrial wastes into groundwater. Ref inery Manager Jim Neirman disputed the findings saying no laws were violated and data does not support violations. Meanwhile a Midland County jury cleared 27-year-old Raphel Eugene French in the 1984 death of Amy Gomez, but he still faces trial on an arriving while intoxicated charge from the same crash.
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Max Woodtin
Jim Neirman
Neirman
Midland
Raphel Eugene French
Amy F Gomez
Victor County
Ector ISD to raise tax rate in 1986 87 budget
Attorney Volores Abalos outlined the plan as the Ector County Independent School District proposes a 0.7 cent per 100 valuation increase for 1986-87. Bill Walker said the tax rise will lightly affect taxpayers and the board will approve August 26. Odessa College trustees also approved a 1986-87 budget raising the rate to 14.4 cents per 100 valuation and a $14.03 million total.
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Ector County Independent School District
Bill Walker
Odessa College
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