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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1981
Page
1
The Rusk Elementary School becomes the Southside YMCA as handicapped students learn greenhouse skills. An Odessa woman remains missing after three months. See stories and pictures on Page 10.
Washington report on Texas identity notes a shift from macho frontier pride to a broader self view. Writers like Patricia Browning Griffith highlight wealth attitudes and a diverse, evolving Texas culture shaped by Austin intellectuals, Dallas and Houston tycoons, and country music figures.
Commentary links wealth to divine blessing and virtue, noting H L Hunt's revered status and the politics it spawns. Griffiths work spans novels, stories, and a play reflecting Southwest values. She recalls great grandmother arriving in Texas from the South and Sam Houston's log cabin governor era with a treasury trunk in his living room.
Administration officials signal President Reagan may veto spending bills to force larger cuts than Congress approved last month. They push agencies to draft budgets aligned with Reagan's spring reductions, targeting billions in savings across rail, energy aid, Ex-Im loans, and job programs as deficits hover around 42.5 billion for 1982.
President Reagan plans to trim the defense budget to aid the 1984 federal balance, with Stockman denying a $2 billion to $40 billion cut range while officials debate exact reductions. Weinberger and Meese say essential weapons programs remain, MX options may be delayed, and budget timing spans early September decisions.
Moren Meilgaard, a Danish chemist at Stroh Brewing Co in Detroit, uses a $152000 gas chromatograph to identify ingredients behind 122 beer flavors. He has found 850 ingredients and believes thousands more exist, aiming to predict flavor from chemical tests. The main flavors include bitterness, hop aroma, alcohol, and carbonation, with dark beers showing caramel notes from malt heat.
Washington reports the Reagan administration held back a reply after North Korea reportedly fired a surface to air missile near a U S spy plane. President Reagan is described as concerned about the incident as U S jets had earlier shot down Libyan planes amid Mediterranean tensions. Pentagon and State Department assess possible U S response.
Americans fared better against rising prices as inflation eased in early 1981 and wage gains nearly matched consumer price increases from August 1980 to July 31 1981. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the study noting the contrast with a Census Bureau finding that inflation adjusted income fell 5.5 percent in 1980.
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