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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1998
Page
1
State District Judge John Marshall issued a restraining order at the weekend end of a live pigeon shoot near Dallas Carrollton amid protests by animal rights groups. Police confirmed pigeons were kept in cages as marksmen arrived to continue the annual event at the Dallas Gun Club on the Lewisville Carrollton border.
In Arbo del Penedes, eastern Spain, participants stack a human tower on a sunny Sunday. The Castells tradition draws crowds as a summer spectacle in Catalonia's cultural calendar.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin dismissed Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko for the second time this year during a costly economic crisis. Viktor Chernomyrdin was named acting prime minister as Kiriyenko and his cabinet were fired. The move could heighten uncertainty about Russia’s leadership and future policy.
An historical marker dedication for Lea’s 1940 study of Texas Longhorns at the Odessa Main Post Office will occur at 10 a.m. Friday. Lea, age 91, created the mural under a federal art program during the New Deal era and later moved to its current location in 1970. The ceremony is sponsored by the Parker House Museum Heritage of Odessa Foundation and the U.S. Postal Service with a related Tom Lea Retrospective exhibit Nov. through Oct. 31 at Parker House.
In Levittown Pennsylvania 15 year old Keelin Mullin from Strabane Northern Ireland bonds with Protestant Heidi Vaughan after a car bombing tolls 28 dead in Belfast area. The U S trip with 126 youths aims to bridge religious divides through the Children’s Friendship Project, reshaping views and friendships.
A van fire in a one vehicle crash on Interstate 10 west of Ozona felled three people including an infant and left three others injured. The dead are Ellen Walls 51 of Patterson Louisiana Joshua Granger 18 months and Flora Triggs 19 of Gray Louisiana. Granger and Triggs died at the scene at 10 33 a m. Walls died at Midland Memorial Hospital while being transported there.
In Khartoum, officials and workers confirm El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Co produced antibiotics and malaria drugs and planned Iraq exports with UN approval. The privately owned facility near Khartoum’s industrial zone began in 1996, housed 306 employees, and offered 87 products including veterinary lines.
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