Lynda Johnson to Wear Four Figure Gown on Wedding Day
Washington reports Lynda Bird Johnson will wear a heavy faille silk gown with a four figure price tag designed by Geoffrey Beene. The beaded high neck long sleeves and long train suit a White House bride as she prepares to wed Marine Capt. Charles S. Robb on December 9. The couple plans a Washington area home until Robb ships to Vietnam next year.
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Washington
UPI
Lynda Bird Johnson
Geoffrey Beene
New York
White House
Johnson
Lynda
Executive Mansion
Charles S. Robb
Washington Area
Robb
Vietnam
Jail Hold For Billy Myers On Burglary Charge
Billy Myers aged 31 of 212 South Jackson remained in city jail Friday with a possible bond of 3500 dollars on a burglary charge. Justice of the Peace C P Robinson set the bond after Myers was accused of burglarizing Cobb's Department Store at 800 Maple and taken into custody Friday.
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Billy Myers
South Jackson
Justice of the Peace
C. P. Robinson
Cobb’s
Police investigate two vandalism cases Friday night
Jerry W. Gillian of 2119 Beverly reported a fire started behind a pickup seat and mud thrown on a window of Woodcrest Texaco at 2500 West Eighth as city police looked into two vandalism incidents Friday night.
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Jerry W. Gillian
Beverly
Vanda
Woodcrest Texaco
West Eighth
Odessa American listing of rates and contact details
The Odessa American provides delivery and subscription rates for Odessa and Ector County. Rates include home delivery at $1.80 per month, retail trading zone 40 cents per week, all other zones 35 cents, mail rates at $20 per year, $1 per 6 months, and 3 months $5.50, with daily and Saturday editions 10 cents and Sunday 2 cents.
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Odessa
Tex
Odessa American
4Th Street
Texas
Ector County
Sunacy
Midland Chamber Backs One Percent City Sales Tax
Midland Chamber of Commerce directors endorsed a one percent city sales tax and will support a citizens committee to push passage. Midland City Council set an election on December 28. Odessa officials also scheduled a December 28 vote with local leaders cautious about chamber positions.
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Midland Chamber of Commerce
Midland
Odessa Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
W. T
Edwards
Odessa
Larry Melton
Odessa Jaycees
Jaycees
Jaycee
Seagraves Man Faces Charge In Child Injury Case
Seagraves man of 37 free on 5000 bond on a charge he hurt his 13 year old daughter. Seminole grand jury to consider the charge Monday along with a similar charge against the girl’s uncle Alfred Almaguer. Manuel Garza 22 brother in law also charged. Garza believed to have moved to New Mexico. Almaguer arrested after daughter took polygraph in Lubbock. The boy involved referred to juvenile court.
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Seagraves
Tex
UPI
Gaines County
Alton Montgomery
Seminole
Alfred Almaguer
Manuel Garza
Almaguer
Garza
New Mexico
Montgomiery
Lubbock
Montgomery
Burglary Probed At Oil Field Firm Packers Inc
Sheriff's deputies continued their investigation into a burglary at Packers Inc. intruders forced entry by sliding door pin removal. A 1966 pickup loaded with oil field gear was driven away then abandoned at Judy and Sprague with only tools valued around 400 dollars missing.
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Sheriff's Deputies
Packers Inc
West County Road
Judy and Sprague
Theft Reported In A Local Car Hubcaps Stolen
A single theft was reported to police on Friday night. Douglas Wood of 3508 Brazos reported hubcaps stolen from his parked car.
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Douglas Wood
Brazos
Hilltop take by U S Cavalry Airmobile in Central Highlands
In the Dak To region the U S 1st Air Cavalry landed atop a windswept 5200 foot hill with limited winds hindering the assault. The goal was to pressure remaining Communist regiments as monsoon weather reduced air operations across the region.
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Bai
Hanoi
Panhandle
Dak To
Kerry Denson
Madison
Wis
Bup
Saigon
U.S
Special Forces Kamp
Marine
Gulf of Tonkin
Navy
Laura brings suspense to Permian Playhouse opening night
The Permian Playhouse revived the Vera Caspary mystery Laura launching with about 150 in attendance. Jim Warren as Waldo Lydecker and Robert Sims as Mark McPherson headlining a strong cast with Barbara Chancellor, Jerry L. Conley, Keith Pearson, Thelma Maxwell, Nancy Shafer, and Dick Shafer delivering solid supporting turns. The three act drama unfolds on a single Laura Hunt apartment set with sharp lighting and pacing as it runs 8:30 p.m. for the next two weekends.
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Dave Montgomery
Permian Playhouse
Laura
Jerry L. Conley
Keith Pearson
Odessa Theater
Danny Dorgan
Thelma Maxwell
The
Playhouse
Nancy Shafer
Dick Shafer
Sims
Marriag[e] Licenses and Divorce Suits Filed in County Court
Marriage licenses issued for Pablo Ramos Quintela and Maria Esparanzo Molincar. District Court shows divorce suits: Vivian Lee Robins vs Philip A Robins. Traffic accidents list damages with multiple parties and addresses, including vehicles owned by R F Bright and L H Calvert, with damages amounts noted.
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Pablo Ramos Quintela
Maria Esparanzo Molincar
Vivian Lee Robins
Philip A. Robins
Oani Cloria Hall
John K. Norman
McKnight
R. F. Bright
East 36Th
L. H. Calvert
Mickey Branch
East County Road
Michael B. Knowles
East 17Th
Iris J. Anderson
Grandview
Stanley V. Martinez
Plaza Place
Tommy James Jones
East Pearl
Texas
R. D. York
Hilltop
Jimmie S. McDonald
Drury Lane
Connally accuses McCarthy of Kennedy collusion in Paris trip
Texas Governor John Connally in Paris says Senator Eugene McCarthy entered the 1968 race as a Kennedy standard bearer, calling it a potential stalking horse. He notes McCarthy plans to run in five primaries as Democratic unity strains under Vietnam policy debate.
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Paris
Upi
John Connally
Texas
Eugene J. McCarthy
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Connally
Johnson
Minnesota
San Antonio
Robert S. McNamara
Kennedy - McCarthy
McCarthy
Kennedy
Connnally
Chicago
Jury Denies Award in $8000 Odessa Workmen's Case
A 70th District Court jury found Euclid E. Brown of Odessa suffered no disability from two job incident claims while employed by the City of Odessa. The trial began Tuesday with Paul McCollum for the defense and Home Indemnity Co. Jerry Childs represented Brown. After about four hours of deliberation the jury returned the verdict around 7 p.m.
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Euclid E. Brown
Odessa
Paul McCollum
Home Indemnity Co
Jerry Childs
Brown
Odessans file $45,000 damage suit in 70th District Court
Gloria Hall and her son Gregg Ladean Hall, both of Odessa, sue John K. Norman and son John William Norman for $45,000 in damages. The elder Norman lives in New Orleans, and the younger Norman, a college student in Odessa, allegedly hit Gregg Hall at the Dixie and Odessa intersection on August 11.
Payroll Robbery Ends in Double Homicide at Electrical Firm
In New York on Friday, two gunmen carried out a $6,000 payroll heist at the Leonard Electrical Co. killing president Nathan Leonard and gravely wounding vice president Abrams while spraying the office with shotgun blasts. Two other workers escaped uninjured. President Leonard died at the scene. Abrams remained hospitalized in serious condition.
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New York
UPI
Nathan Leonard
Re Abrams
Leonard Electrical Co
Leonard
Abrams
Maimonides Hospital
Mishap Leaves One Hurt In Nighttime Crash
Garland Hazle, 32, of 2206 East 14th, suffered a lacerated chin when his car struck a parked vehicle on Redbud Street at 2114. He was taken to Medical Center Hospital for treatment after the northbound collision late Friday night.
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Medical Center Hospital
Garland Hazle
East 14Th
Redbud
Debar Aftershock Tremors Throttle Refugee Camp
Sporadic tremors spread panic among refugees around Debar as seismographs logged 80 shocks between midnight and 6 a.m. There were no deaths from the latest tremors, but the earlier quake left 19 dead and 184 injured across mountain villages along the Yugoslav Albanian frontier.
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Belgrade
UP1
Debar
Radio
Debar quake death toll rises as rescue continues
Reports from army troops and rescue workers say the Debar quake killed 39 with 1,500 workers locked out and 15 NYC branches affected. Officials note 6.5 magnitude shock, heavy rains hampering evacuations, and 10,000 left homeless per Tanjug as authorities protect property during the disaster.
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Debar
Skopje
Tanjug
Wrecks Hurt Two Persons
Two people were hospitalized after separate crashes. Kenneth Floyd Tatum was treated for chest and facial injuries after a collision on 42nd Street, and Ginger Brown was examined after a crash on U S 80 near Odessa involving Clifford L Brown and Alfred Wayne Roundtree.
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Medical Center Hospital
Kenneth Floyd Tatum
Gurnsey Road
Robertson
Melvin Eugene Brown
Alderfer
Ginger Brown
Midland
Odessa
U.S. 80
Clifford L. Brown
Alfred Wayne Roundtree
Telecommunication services face temporary disruption in unions talks
The union negotiations mediated by federal officials led to temporary disruption of international telegrams and telex services while supervisory and administrative staff kept private leased lines and government circuits operating normally. The statement notes the interruption is temporary and tied to the talks.
Humprey condemns anti moral war claim in campaign rant
Vice President Hubert Humphrey told a six state Democrat gathering in Charleston West Virginia that the nation is not immoral for supporting the Vietnam War He disputed critics who question America's moral stance The remarks followed Senator Eugene McCarthy announcing his bid for the 1968 Democratic nomination as a peace candidate and set the stage for coordinated campaigns in six states and with national party leaders.
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Johnson
Vietnam
Allard K. Lowenstein
Liberal Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Democratic Party
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Oregon
California
Nebraska
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Hubert Humphrey
South Vietnam
Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
West Virginia
Kentucky
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Maryland
Moose Meeting Set In Odessa Sunday
Dr James Rauth of Belleville Illinois grand north Moose will speak at the District 2 Legion of the Moose enrollment at Moose Lodge 1701 at 10 am Sunday. District 2 covers all of Texas and part of New Mexico with about 250 expected. Earl Walker is in charge.
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James Rauth
Belleville
Ill
Grand North Moose
Legion of the Moose
Moose Lodge 1701
District 2
Gace
Texas
New Mexico
Earl Walker
Lodge 1701
Elks Plan Memorial Service at North Andrews Lodge
The Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks will hold its annual memorial for deceased members at 3 p.m. Sunday at 9121 North Andrews Highway lodge. County Judge Mike Berry will speak as a 40 voice choir sings. The service is open to the public.
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The
Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks
North Andrews Highway
Mike Berry
Suspect Transferred in Aggravated Assault Case
Carl Anderson Knight, 46, of Walker Hotel, held in Ector County jail Friday night on $1500 bond for aggravated assault on Patrolman W D Loper. Knight was transferred from the city jail where he had been held since Oct 13 after an Oct 12 attack accusation.
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Carl Anderson Knight
Walker Hotel
Ector County
Cecil Hardwick
W. D. Loper
Death notices from McCamey Midland Seminole and McCamey area
Obituaries detail Ernest McFadden 64 of McCamey with funeral pending at Crites Funeral Home. Eugene Hamilton 67 of Midland funeral 10 a m in Thomas Funeral Home Chapel. Edith Giddings Stanley 56 Seminole funeral 2 p m at Singleton Chapel of Chimes. C L Sam Dunham 54 McCamey funeral 3 p m at Assembly of God with burial in McCamey Cemetery. Survivors listed for each, including spouses children and siblings.
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McCamey
Ernest McFadden
Crites Funeral
McFadden
Itasca
Church of Christ
Georgia Lee
Della McFadden
Fort Worth
Leslie McFadden
Rankins
Charles McFadden
Crane
J. R. McFadden
Lubbock
Bob McFadden
Wichita Falls
Jack McFadden
Mineral Wells
Estelle Melton
Amarillo
Hazel White
Graford
Lena Pruitt
Mary Belle Brazel
Midland
Eugene Hamilton
Thomas Funeral Home
Fairview
Hamilton
Midland Memorial Hospital
Mount Pleasant
Josephine Johnson
Lucille Bailey
Greenville
Seminole
Edith Giddings Stanley
Singleton Funeral Home
Chimes
Stanley
Palestine
Coleman
Order of Eastern Star
William Preston Stanley
James Stanley
University of Indiana
A. C. Giddings
C. L
Sam) Dunham
Assembly of God
Spalding Funeral Home
Oklahoma
Dunham
Ruby Haymen
Luther Dunham
Eldorado
Bearl Neely
Mesquite
Seminole Mother Charged in Child Scalding Death
A district court grand jury in Seminole will hear the murder case against Maria Rodriguez 23 accused of scalding her 19 month old child who died October 27 the charge filed after the death.
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Gaines
Seminole, Tex
UPI
Maria Rodriguez
Pickup Recovered After Theft Near Odessa
Howard Warren reported his pickup stolen from 2006 Beverly on Friday morning. Officers found the vehicle abandoned about a mile east of Odessa later the same day.
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Howard Warren
Beverly
Warren
Odessa
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