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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 2012
Page
2
Recipe for easy fondant with step by step instructions on the food page. Wednesday features NASCAR page exploring who’s chasing whom in the sport. Thursday Westminster Presbyterian Church introduces a new Sunday School program Godly Play based on Montessori methods to teach the Bible. Saturday section link unclear.
New Mexico winning numbers for Road Runner Cash Pick 3 and Hot Lotto are listed. Good News invites readers to submit honors awards milestones retirements and donations to Odessa American Life page via email or mail with contact number provided.
George Wesley Brewer and Tomasa Lujan Tarango are listed in Odessa death notices. Brevity notes their passing and local obituary listings, with no details on service times or ages provided in the readable text.
The Obamas respond to reader questions about the economy political stalemate in Washington and family life. The piece notes their viewpoints and offers a humanizing glimpse into daily life as they prepare for next Sunday.
Hobbs and Ruidoso forecast partly cloudy with isolated showers or storms. Hobbs high 88 low 66, Ruidoso high 77 low 55. Fact note: in 1976 America's Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars, sending the first close up color photos of the planet's surface.
Five day outlook for Odessa and Midland shows warm days with highs near 92 and mild nights around 69. Light winds and dry conditions are expected with no significant rain chances. Temperatures gradually cool into the weekend, with sunny skies and comfortable evenings.
The Odessa American provides contact details for circulation, subscriptions, and staff. It lists postal address at 222 E Fourth Street Odessa TX 79761, mailing P.O. Box 2952, and customer service lines with hours. It also details staff: Publisher Patrick Canty and Editor Laura Dennis, plus department phone numbers for news sports life and times and advertising.
The Aug 27 roster recalls pivotal events: the Battle of Long Island in 1776 as British troops pressed American forces, Edwin Drake's oil well breakthrough in 1859 at Titusville, Lyndon Johnson born near Stonewall, Texas in 1908, and the 1939 He 178 jet test flight in Germany. Other notes include 1942 penicillin editorial calls, 1979 Mountbatten tragedy, 1989 launch of a U S satellite rocket, and a 2002 meeting between President Bush and Saudi envoy Bandar bin Sultan at the Texas ranch.
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