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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1986
Page
2
Ken Kercheval of Dallas joined bidders in Clinton Indiana helping his mother Christine auction items touched by him. About 400 people filled the yard as Kercheval signed everything offered including bowls and chairs to boost sale interest.
Emmylou Harris Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt will perform together at the Country Music Association awards on October 13 on national TV. They will sing Dear Companion from their collaborative album due next year, a project in the works for years. The trio previously recorded Light of the Stable in 1977.
David Crosby joined Graham Nash for a reunion show at a Houston nightclub amid Crosby's parole from a Texas prison on narcotics and weapons charges. Crosby wowed the audience with songs from Crosby Stills Nash and Young and a prison-era composition, reflecting on nearly a year of anticipation since their last collaboration.
Odessa police say they do not know the attacker. Detective Mickey Browne works the case full time since March 3 with other detectives helping. Four of 13 rapes fitting the pattern have occurred since January 1. The city spent at least $9,959 for 21 weeks of Browne’s time. Victims are lone women or women with children at home between 3 and 5 am. The suspect often wears a blue bandanna or ski cap, speaks with a Spanish accent, uses a knife, and enters through unlocked doors or windows. Since 1984, 1 white, 2 black, and 10 Hispanic women have been attacked.
Education leaders push a tax hike while Sen. Lewis warns no need for more taxes now. Senate Finance Committee approves about 126 million in cuts to Texas colleges and universities for 1986 1987 with a 20 million contingency fund. House plan would trim 292 million from higher education for 1987 amid enrollment declines.
Thompson, a certified chef and member of the Texas Chefs Association and American Culinary Federation, reflects on a career spanning the Army and military service to hospital food service. He recalls decorating cakes, budget cuts limiting pastry work, and earning warrant officer status after a five layer German cake for a division anniversary.
Lawmakers consider restricting betting to Nueces, Galveston, and Cameron counties with a 5 percent state cut and 8 to 10 percent track take for purses. In separate action, House panel backs interstate banking and countywide branch banking with a 250000 population cap.
National Weather Service forecasters at Midland Regional Airport warn of a rain chance in the Permian Basin through today and Sunday. Today will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent thunderstorm chance rising to 40 percent tonight. Highs in the mid-80s with southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, tonight low in the lower 70s. Sunday features partly cloudy skies with a 30 percent rain chance and a high in the upper 80s.
Friday high 89 and low 70 with sunset 8 24 p m and sunrise 7 19 a m. Precipitation in last 24 hours trace. August total 2 26 inches and year to date 11 27 inches. Yesterday's record high 103 in 1985 and today's record low 61 in 1961.
Showers and scattered thunderstorms covered Central and East Texas including Dallas Lufkin and Waco with haze reducing visibility across North Central and East Texas. Temperatures ranged from the 80s to 90s as a surface trough influenced weather. highs reached the 90s with some 105 in the Big Bend valleys and overnight lows mid 60s to 70s.
Oklahoma forecasts scattered thundershowers tonight and Sunday with highs in the 90s and lows around 70. New Mexico sees afternoon and evening showers through Sunday with mountain highs in the 70s and 80s, hot 80s and 90s elsewhere. Louisiana remains partly cloudy with thunderstorms mainly south, nights near 70, highs 90 to 95. Arkansas expects partly cloudy skies with isolated afternoon storms and highs in the 90s, lows around 70 to 75.
The nation experiences sunny, calm conditions in the Northeast and Southeast while the Plains and Rockies face scattered showers and thundershowers. Florida and lower Gulf Coast see some storms, with hot desert Southwest highs 100 to 115.
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