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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1981
Page
1
Today brings fair skies and warmer temperatures with highs in the low 90s and nightly lows around the upper 60s. Sunday should reach the mid 90s. Space engineers report Voyager 2’s camera platform has loosened and Saturn imagery will return to TV soon.
Health officials in the Reagan administration explore taxing worker incomes on employer paid health insurance above set limits as a method to curb health care cost growth. The Department of Health and Human Services expects a pre competition proposal by year end, with Schweiker not yet approving any plan.
AAA reports El Paso prices rise to 1.27 per gallon self service regular, about five cents above Texas average as Shell and Texaco stations hike by 10 cents. Texas overall sees a continuing price decline from 1.28 in March while labor day fuel availability remains excellent.
James Campbell, a 27 year old Odessa resident who lost his sight as an infant, volunteers at the Central Boys' Club helping children cope with hardship. He mentors via listening, friendship, and a new International Friendship Club project sending tape recordings to boys clubs in England and other youth groups worldwide.
The 1977 change to compute benefits on wage growth only creates a notch disadvantaging those born between 1917 and 1921 while aiding 1916 births. By 1982 some will lose up to 110 a month, with disparities of over 1300 a year between nearby birth dates, widening to 67 retirement.
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