Rainfall Totals and Storms Across the Permian Basin
Showers and storms swept the Permian Basin Thursday night into Friday morning with heavy rainfall in Fort Stockton and Fort Davis and lighter amounts elsewhere. Totals ranged from tenths to over an inch in several towns while Odessa reported scattered outages from a fuse event. Forecasters expect no sizable change through Saturday with a 20 percent chance of more rain and winds easing from south to lighter breezes. Temperatures hovered near 90 daytime, around 70 at night.
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Weather forecast for Midland region with warm, humid weekend
National Weather Service bulletins forecast partly cloudy conditions with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms through Saturday. South winds 10 to 15 mph, 20 percent rain today, high near 90, low around 70 tonight, tomorrow similar and yesterday’s high 92.
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Delta Queen steamboat hosts presidential party voyage
The 285 foot Delta Queen, built in 1926, carries 188 passengers and will host Secret Service, White House staff, and reporters with 38 complimentary passes bumped for the presidential party. The vessel, exempt from some Safety at Sea laws, features air conditioning and modern safety gear.
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Mississippi
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Gulf oil spill hits Texas coast with 20 miles of beaches oiled
Scientific coordinator John Robinson said the sheen poses no great hazard while skimmers remove oil along channels behind booms. The Ixtoc 1 spill from the Yucatan offshore well has surged across Padre Island and nearby shores, threatening wildlife nurseries and a multi million dollar tourist economy as oil patches drift toward Matagorda Bay.
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Two Rivers
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Ralph Thompson
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Inflation, Fed rate hike mark new monetary tightening
The report notes slow wage growth of 0.7 percent as inflation runs above 1 percent monthly. The Fed raised the discount rate for the second time in a month, its third since November, amid soaring prices and a dropping dollar. Volcker’s confirmation as chair signals a renewed inflation focus. IMF data show higher price increases abroad and in the United States with 10.8 percent year over year in the US.
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Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
Woman Faces Theft Charge Over Check At Albertsons
Irene Martinez is named in a theft charge filed with Justice of the Peace Jimmy Harris. The felony alleges she passed a $271.56 worthless check at the Albertson's on 1350 East Eighth to obtain groceries and cash, drawn on an Odessa bank dated June 21. She was being sought Thursday.
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County and District Court Notices and Hospital Records
Marriage licenses issued for Santos Chavez Gerze Jr and Erlinda Ramirez, Tommie Eugene Allen and Patsy V Bertolno, William Frances Culver lis and Julia Ann Grant, Tommy Charles Wallace and Teresa Diane Sneeden, Garland Hugh Austin and Amelia Marie Baker, Max Gregory Meek and Janet Royalty, Robert Calvin Turner and Nelda Sue Askins, Robert Selas Jr and Dolores Muniz Aguirre, Billy Wayne Hall and Mer Lasteina Gavin, Harold A Salmon lit and Lise Gayle Davis, Michael Sean Routh and Jo Ann Tallay. District court records show divorce suits filed between Jack Richard Holt and Virginia Mae Holl, Bertha Lydia Navarrette Chavarria and Jose Manuel Chavarria, Tommy Chelf and Kenneth Eugene Chelf, Randall Ray Hogg and Jackie Sue Hogg. Medical center lists patients admitted and discharged on Aug 16 at both hospitals, and births recorded at Women’s and Children’s Hospital for Aug 16.
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Erlinda Ramirez
Tommie Eugene Allen
Patsy V
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Lis
Julia Ann Grant
Tommy Charles Wallace
Teresa Diane Sneeden
Garland Hugh Austin
Amelia Marie Baker
Max Gregory Meek
Janet Royalty
Robert Calvin Turner
Nelda Sue Askins
Robert Selas Jr
Dolores Muniz Aguirre
Billy Wayne Hall
Mer
Lasteina Gavin
Harold A Salmon Lit
Lise Gayle Davis
Michael Sean Routh
Jo Ann
Missing chief discovered in Corpus Christi
William Seelbach fire chief of Ruidoso New Mexico disappeared Sunday from home and was found wandering delirious outside a Corpus Christi church. He traveled about 700 miles with two keys, $50 and a badge, remembers little beyond walking. His son and a judge friend joined police to piece together the puzzling journey.
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Windows broken in two pellet gun vandalism cases
City police investigate two pellet gun vandalism incidents Friday. Sebera Montoya of 2814 West Third reported his parked car’s front windshield shattered. Garland White of 1810 Penbrook said an $8 window at his home was broken by a pellet gun shot.
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Deaths of Juan Vuelvas and others across Texas towns
Obituary notices list Juan C. Vuelvas of Odessa born 1931 who died after illness and details of his funeral and survivors. Also graveside services for Tom Dempsey in Eldorado. Odell Heald of Van. Lew Huelster of Pecos. Edgar Flatt of Grand Prairie with funeral plans and survivors.
Alfred Elmo Walker CRANE Services Held in Crane
Alfred Elmo Walker 66 died after a sudden illness. Services at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Sheppard Chapel of Memories in Crane with burial in Crane Garden of Memories. He was born June 4 1913 in Gregg County and married Georgia Corbell on Sept 15 1967 in Midland. He was a retired pipeline superintendent and member of First Methodist Church Masonic Lodge and Crane Noon Lions Club. Survivors include his wife five daughters two sons a sister a brother ten grandchildren and a great grandchild.
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Parks board approves revised community center regulations
Ector County Odessa Park and Recreation Board adopted updated rules governing park center use. Nonprofit bingo allowed. deposits set at 25 dollars for nongrant uses. security guards required when alcohol is served. Aims to curb vandalism with public awareness and school council involvement. Kenneth Kettle sits on the board after appointment.
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Services for Allen W. Barnett at Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Allen W Barnett 84 of 211 Barrow Drive died at Medical Center He born Randolph Nov 18 1894 a retired carbon black plant operator. He married Ruth Lee Dunn March 3 1920 in Duncan Oklahoma and moved to Odessa Aug 1 1945 from Lubbock. He was a Baptist WWI Army veteran American Legion member with survivors including four daughters two sons a sister and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Ray Barnett
Anna Mae Beatty
Lamesa
Tomorrow in Odessa Dance at Slator Park Building
An evening event in Odessa features a live band and a dance hosted by the Midland Odessa Singles Club at 8 PM tomorrow at Slator Park Building.
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