Thunderstorms Loom In Basin With Mild Rain Chance
The National Weather Service Midland region forecasts a 20 percent rain chance today and Tuesday with a slight chance of afternoon and evening storms. Warnings were canceled as activity eased but could restart. no rainfall last 24 hours, yearly total 12.18 inches, August rain 2.15 inches. Winds 5 to 10 mph, higher with storms. highs near 90, lows in upper 60s. Sunday high 91 12 degrees below Aug 26 1964 record. low 66. Extreme South Texas under flash flood watch as tropical low mood advances.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
West
Texas
Midland
South
South Texas
Weather outlook for Midland region through Tuesday
National Weather Service forecast for Midland Regional Airport calls for partly cloudy skies today through Tuesday with a slight chance of late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Highs near 90 today and in the low 90s tomorrow, overnight lows around 66 to 68, southeasterly winds 5 to 10 mph, 20 percent rain chances today and tonight.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Odessa College Instructors Begin Fall Workshops
Classes start Tuesday September 4 after Labor Day with about 185 faculty and staff meeting and attending seminars to prep for the 1979 fall term. A Kellogg Project educator leads a human resources workshop in the Student Union Building.
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Odessa College
George Baker
Kellogg Project
University of Texas At Austin
Fall from horse injures girl in San Angelo
A 16 year old girl, Kelli Dutton, visiting her father in San Angelo, fell from a horse over the weekend and was hospitalized with a head injury. She was listed in fair condition Monday morning at Medical Center Hospital. No other details were provided.
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San Angelo
Kelli Dutton
Medical Center Hospital
Hurricane David forms as cleanup hampered by storm
Hurricane David and a tropical low near Brownsville threaten Gulf cleanup efforts. Forecasters warn both systems could strengthen, eyeing potential impacts on oil spill containment along Texas and Florida bays as reconnaissance planes monitor the developing storms.
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Miami
David
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
National Hurricane Center
Gil Clark
Lesser Antilles
Brownsville
Texas
Odessan injured in auto accident
A 21 year old Odessa man, Roy Kirk Waggoner of 4210 Dakota, sustained minor injuries when his pickup struck a parked car owned by Elizabeth Mary Meyer of 7501 Mockingbird, skidded into a metal fence after swerving at 2 20 a m on East 42nd. Waggoner received treatment at Medical Center Hospital and was released.
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Odessa
East 42Nd
Roy Kirk Waggoner
Dakota
Medical Center Hospital
Waggoner
Elizabeth Mary Meyer
Mockingbird
North McKnight
Two charged in drug violation
City police charged Curtis Wayne Eaton and Michael Don Fitzgerald with felony possession of marijuana after responding to reports of prowlers in the alley behind Pleasant. Both men, ages 23, were found in a parked car and later arrested for public intoxication. Bond set at $5,000 each.
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Pleasant
Curtis Wayne Eaton
East 36Th
Michael Don Fitzgerald
North Golder
Justice of the Peace
Manuel Valles
Davis on the Verge of Murder Plot in FBI Sting
FBI Agent Joe Gray testified Cullen Davis came within inches of his face as investigators surveilled a van. The plan staged a judge’s murder to trap Davis for an alleged effort to kill Judge Joe Kidson, with McCrory, Hubbell, and Jannings involved in a midnight meeting and a bogus bloodied photograph used as "proof."
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Fort Worth, Texas
FBI
Joe Gray
Cullen Davis
Gray
Davis
David McCrory
Jerry Hubbell
McCrory
Ron Jannings
Jannings
Joe Kidson
Hubbell
Egents
Kidson
Fort Worth
Local prison dispute centers on reform demands and metric notes
In a Las Vegas context inmates rejected police responses to ten demands including better representation, dental care, more phone access, and improved religious services. Mediators included a local attorney and a TV newsman as talks continued. Lorenzo, linked to a bar incident, faces conviction from last year.
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Smith
Lorenzo
Las Vegas
Death notices for Dorothy Tipton and Alton Claborn
Dorothy Jo Tipton 56 of Andrews died Sunday in Permian General Hospital after a long illness. Services were held today at Singleton Funeral Home Chapel with graveside rites at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Paducah. She was born July 23 1923 in Melissa and moved to Andrews from Las Vegas Nev twelve years ago. She was a retired medical secretary and a member of Andrews Christian Fellowship Church. Surviving are her husband Buford L Tipton a son Joe David Clanton a sister and two stepdaughters. Memorials may go to cancer fund. Alton W Claborn 73 of Rising Star died Sunday in Eastland Manor Nursing Home. Services will be Tuesday at Church of Christ in Rising Star with burial in Elm Cemetery under Higginbotham Funeral Home direction. He was born April 20 1906 in Eastland married Alta Olene Crawford in 1927 and worked as a Mobil Oil Co production foreman for 40 years. Survivors include his wife another daughter two brothers two sisters seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Dorothy Jo Tipton
Singleton Funeral Home
Chimes
Garden of Memories
Paducah
Singleton Funeral Home of
Andrews Christian Fellowship Church
Buford L. Tipton
Stanton
Joe David Clanton
Tulsa
Okla
Thersia Anderson
Aspermont
Patricia Manning
Odessa
Marilyn Leigh
Cancer Fund
Alton W. Claborn
Rising Star
James (Wynell) Melton
Kermit
Ozell Claborn
Monahans
George
Wilma) Johnson
Hobbs
N.M
Church of Christ
Elm Cemetery
Higginbotham Funeral Home
Claborn
Merardo
Santos Estorga
Juan Franco
Midland
Lupe Alvarez
Dallas
Margarita Sanchez
Susana Tarin
Babe Fleming
South
Tom Green
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Fleming
Medical Center Hospital
Cass County
Evandale
Ariz
Gaynell Smith
Bobby Lee Jones
The
Christine Henderson
Taxarkana
Therman Fleming
Greenville
Chester McCutcheon
Denver City
First Baptist Church
Denver City Memorial Park
McCutcheon
Brownfield Regional Medical Center
Brownfield
Johnnie Barton
Lovington
Atlantic Richfield
Masonic Lodge
Lubbock
Pecos
Samuel O. Fonville
Pecos Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Fonville
Seymour
Katherine Fonville
Ann Beaty
Colorado City
Pattie Margis
Denver
Colo
John Fonville
Frances Robinson
Mary Barnett
Bessie Fenner
Abilene
Stan Kenton Dead at 67 in Hollywood
Private funeral planned for bandleader Stan Kenton, who rose to fame before 30 with the Stan Kenton Orchestra at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa California. He died at 67 at Midway Hospital after a stroke, having shaped big band and progressive jazz over nearly four decades.
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Los Angeles
Stan Kenton
Kenton
Midway Hospital
Hollywood
Rendezvous
Balboa
Calif
Marriage licenses issued in county court records
County Court lists six marriage licenses for Goleman Howell Ryan Curry Heldt Ripley Poyner Kimbrough Bivins and Horn. District Court shows multiple divorce suits filed including Griffis Griffis Marsh Marsh Anderson Jeter Whirley Gonzalez. Medical Center Hospital patient admissions and discharges are listed by date and name across Aug 24 25 26. Births and obituaries span Aug 24 26 in the Women and Children’s section with multiple families named. Services for Merardo Estorga Babe Fleming Chad Mattingly Chester McCutcheon Samuel Fonville noted with locations Midland Odessa Pecos and Denver City.
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Thomas Stephen Goleman
Joyce Inez LaVern Howell
Anthony Grant Ryan
Rebecca Margo Curry
Robert Thomas Heldt
Marcia Ann Ripley
Larry Eugene Poyner
Elizabeth Marie Kimbrough
Glenn Arthur Bivins
Elizabeth Flynn
Mark Anthony Reynolds
Dianna Lynn Orr
Terry Mark Brown
Kimberely Gaye Horn
District Court
Sertha Estelle Griffis
Hartford
Lee Griffis
Sandra Elizabeth Marsh
Dennis Charles Marsh
Reggie Ray Anderson
Judie Kay Anderson
Lometa
Margaret Jeter
Tommy Peter
Peggy Jeanene Whirley
Dennis Jack Whirley
Gloria Gonzalez
Thomas Ibanna Gonzalez
Odessa clubs schedule for tomorrow morning and evening
At 6 30 A M an early bird Toastmasters meets at Sambo s Restaurant. At noon Grandview Lions Club gathers at Bonanza Steakhouse and Hi Noon Optimists meet at Sands Restaurant. At 7 30 P M Overeaters Anonymous assembles at St Paul Presbyterian Church 3102 East University. At 8 P M American Legion Post 430 meets at Eighth and Pueblo.
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Sambo’s
Grandview Lions Club
Bonanza Steakhouse
St. Paul Presbyterian Church
East University
American Legion
Eighth and
Pueblo
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Velma G. Bell
C.M. Brockman
David Leatherwood
Erma McClintock
Juan G. Overbides
Velma E. Henning
Autumn P Dotson
Hubert Harris
Richard H. James
William A Janes
Donna Townsend
Robert Guzman
Roger Neilson
Herbert Eben
Pamia Watkins
Gloria Montez
Fannie Noland
Ollie Little
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Berta Barrientes
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Gloria Scown
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John Justice
Tropicana
Tommy Pugh
Route 7
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Spur
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John Martinez
West 13Th
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Chad Thomas Mattingly
Thomas Mattingly
West 15Th
Women's and Children’s Hospital
Bernard Nelson
Ellen Brown
Roland Day
Macomb
Oklo
Samuel Fonville
Sands Restaurant
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