Snelson Sworn Governor for a Day in Texas
Snelson of Midland was sworn in as governor for a day, the traditional honor for the Senate president pro tem. His wife and four children attended as a 19 gun salute rang outside the Texas Capitol. He signed proclamations for the 4H Clubs of Texas and programs for visually handicapped students, urging state funding. A former educator and advertising agency owner, he served in the House from 1960 to 1964, and in the Senate from 1968 after a 1966 loss.
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Austin
Tex
W.E. Snelson
Midland
Senate
Snelson
Capitol
Clubs
Texas
O Pace Recey
House
W.E
Pete) Snelson
Shane
Edge Ste Stephen
Ut-Austin
Love
Police Action Project
Association For Criminal Law Studies
State Bar of Texas
Travis County
Austin Police Department
Austin Police Association
Lamar State College of Technology
Blue Key
Sigma Phi Epsilon i
Lamar
Praetor Legal Fraternity
UT Austin
Beaumont High i
Colorado City
Kath
Lilleen Joan Lee
Beaumont
Rains-Seale Funeral Home
Colora
East 30Th
John
District Court Divorces and Local Medical Center Notices
District Court granted divorces for Cottingham, Cottingham, Mounce Mouree, Phillips, Sorrels Serveis, Graves Graves, White, Daleskeen Skeen. Medical Center Hospital listed patients admitted December 3 including Morris Goodyear Wood Roberts Varnell Varnell Banks, Holley Williams Moreno Alvarez Clark Graham Terrell Johnson Thompson Musick Mercer Thornburg Browning Hooper McDowell Miller Noil Nunley Russell Scott Seal Weill Wilson Tackett Leverton Nicholson Hargreaves Morris Walker Prokop Thomson Prather Cross. Births noted for Jous P. Rios. City traffic accidents reported on multiple blocks with several parties named and damages recorded as minor to heavy.
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Thomas Rex Cottingham
Judith Margaret Cottingham
Patey Ann Mounce
Edward Mouree
Kenneth Joe Phillips
Cheryl Lyn Phillis
Ralph Lem Sorrels
Esta Wilms Serveis
Carol Ruth Graves
Andrea Lee Graves
Betty Dennis Craig White
Steven Daleskeen
Edith Grace Skeen
Medical Center Hospital
Hted
Atm
Jetm W. Morris
Becky E. Goodyear
George D. Wood
Nonnie&. Roberts
Jeannie Varnell
Eric von Treil Banks
Marvin L. Holley
Pegsy Jean Williams
Paul M. Hickam
Timotes M. Ulate
Anon R. Moreno
Esmeralda C. Alvarez
Kimberly Dawn Clark
Ronald Wade Graham
Bertha E. Terrell
Cartwright
Mona N. Johnson
James M. Thompson
Sandra K. Musick
Norabel Mercer
Shaunda J. Thornburg
Anne
Effie May Bolen
Fred Baucum
William H. Adama
Frank J. Prokop
Martin D. Thomson
Jerry K. Prather
Dick &. Cross
Jous P. Rios
South Lew
Gtrt
27 Year Old Charged With Odessa Breakin
A 27 year old Odessa man, Merced D. Sonny Cordova, was arrested in Midland and held on a 5000 bond for burglary connected to a Wednesday night break in at Filter Queen of Odessa on East Eighth. Police stakeout helped secure the arrest with Odessa and Midland officers. A second suspect was at large Saturday night.
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Odessa
Liew
Merced D
Sonny) Cordova
West Cummings
Midland
Floyd Hudman
Joe Fincher
G. F. Koontz
Lynn Snyder
Cordova
Woman Charged With Shoplifting
Yolanda Tijerina was jailed after being arrested at Walgreen's Drug Store 801 Maple on a shoplifting charge. Two slips worth 8.94 were allegedly taken. Bond set at 200 by Justice of the Peace Manuel Valles.
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Hell
Walgreen’s
Maple
South Prairie
Justice of the Peace
Manuel Valles
Odessa Kiwanis and toastmasters events listed for tomorrow
Readable fragments show multiple events in Odessa including Kiwanis Inn of the Golden West Ballroom noon, Chaparral Toastmasters Sands Restaurant noon, Wildcat Toastmasters Sands Restaurant 7 PM, Evening Optimist Club branding 1:80 PM, CAP Groto Evi Headquarters Ecott County Air pos building details.
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Odessa
CAP Groto Evi
CAP Hdatra
Bldg
Ecott County
Military actions escalate in South Asia conflict report
Fragmented dispatch details skirmishes between India and Pakistan in Kashmir and East Pakistan. Claims of airfield hits, boat fire, and troop advances surface from defense officials, with mixed assertions on progress and casualties amid broad regional tension.
Young Odessa Cyclist Injured As Motorcycle Strikes Car
A 15 year old Odessa youth Steven Wayne Taylor sustained minor injuries when his motorcycle struck a parked car Saturday night at 8 27 p m in the 2200 block of West 16th He was treated at the emergency room of Medical Center Hospital for bruised legs and released Keith Taylor listed as father at 6400 St Louis Street was not injured.
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Odessa
Steven Wayne Taylor
Keith Taylor
St. Louis
West 16Th
Medical Center Hospital
Sunday Rites For Odessan Hall
Funeral services for Harold Roy Hall take place at 2 p.m. in West Side Baptist Church Odessa with burial at Sunset Memorial Gardens under Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. Hall, born November 5 1939 in O Donnell, died Friday morning at home after arriving in Odessa in 1960 from Illinois. He is survived by three brothers Gail Hall of Santa Monica Callgante Hall Marion Illinois and Don Hall of 704 East 14th Street.
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Harold Roy Hall
Merril
West Side Baptist Church
Timberline
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Hall
O'Donnell
Odessa
Eg Ge le Er Pee
Melace
Gail Hall
Santa Monica
Call
Gante
Coleman
James Dugan Gorman Sr
Stevens Funeral Home
Rough Creek
Novice
Gorman
Opal Marie Parker
Goldthwaite
Carnie Abiscus Adams
Onenville
Rochester
Evant Funeral Home
Big Lake
Ada Conger Sweatt
First Baptist Church
Glen Rest
N.M
Frances Cruikshank
Best
D. Lee Jones
San Angelo
le Portee Neve
Tom Green County
West Texas Game and Fish Association
Jones
Masonic Lodge
Shrine Temple
Elks Lodge
Lions Club
Board of City Development
Maude White Shaw
Carolyn
Medical Center Hospital
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Ranger Cemetery
Ranger
John E. Shaw
Levelland
Bessie Reid
North Golder
Lou Wright
Estelle Hise
Inez Jones
Waco
Evelyn Agnew
Harlingen
Carl White
Mary Clayton
W. F. Gaede
Tilden Armstrong
Methodist Church of
Seminole
Seagraves Cemetery
Webb Feneral Home
Elmer Cox
C. L. Crawford
Lamesa
Hubert Morgan
Shreveport
Jack Creel
Seagraves
Iris Lines
O‘donnell
UT P B Hires Police Chief For Permian Basin campus
UT Permian Basin selects Dr James Jarratt Love 26 to lead campus police at the new Odessa area university. He brings UT Austin background and law background with plans to recruit enforcement programs, patrols, and a potential teaching role in law enforcement management. The $12 500 annual post aims to ready the campus police before the fall opening.
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Austin Police Department
Ut-Austin
University of Texas of
Permian Basin
James Jarratt Love
UTPB
Odessa
Odessan Gets $44,000 In Damage Suit
Odessa man Billy Joe Tao was awarded nearly $44,000 by a seven man five woman jury in 63rd District Court after a three day trial. He claimed injuries from a drillstem jut striking him on Aug 6 1968 while working for Jed’s Casing Crew on a Noble Drilling Co. rig in Val Verde County. The defense cited Noble Drilling Co. of Midland as owner. attorney William Simbuck San Antonio and Odessa lawyer Tom Sneed handled Tao’s case. The original suit sought $65,000.
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Jed
Val Verde Coury
Noble Drilling Co
Midland
Taylor
William Simcock
San Antonio
Odessa
Tom Sneeds
Unclear OCR Item from Odessa Paper
Fragmentary text from Odessa American listing postal and telegraph contact details with disjointed phrases. No coherent event or person clearly identifiable to summarize.
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F. Preslar
The
Court of Civil Appeals
South Tom Green
Carrie Mays
East County Road
Bruce Lee
Stoner Rd
Keries R. Phillips
North Hanock
Golder — Jerrilins
Parrish
North Alleghaney
Deborah M. Hellman
Raemona
R. Gutierrez
Alameda
City Cab Co
East Eighth
Claude C. Clay
Clover
Tom Green
Johnny C. Simmons
Robertson
Eighth
Waington
Richard Lewis Woodson
Park Blvd
Kenneth Wayne Martin
Florence, Ariz
Henry G. Wilhelm
William B. Smith
Brookhaven
Charles JL. Ruddell
Hilstop
Deryl W. Briles
Douglas
Ralph Pat
Elu
North Lee
Choeox
East 8Th Street
Oressa
Sands Restaurant
Wildcat
Sands Restauran
Optimist Club
Kashmir
India
Pakistan
Karachi
Kadhmir
Srinagar
Easher
Odessan
Talmage
Branson Lay
East
Cenan
Bennie
T.B. Lay, Jr
Scurry
William Lay
Dwayne Humble
Milky Way
David Young
Jacksonville
Jimmie Lay
Otisig
Stephenville
Brooks Golightly
Lorene Sagister
Richland Hills
Bill Draper
Azle
Ted
Abhambra
Calif
James D. Gorman
J. D. Gorman Jr
Zapata
Georgia Frizzell
Rising Star
Kelsie Jenkins
Pecos
June Henderson
Mrs
Ada Sweatt
Mrs. Lillie Priddy
Ernest
Punch) Miller
New Orleans
Ernest “Punch
Elsinore Parris
Johnson’s Funeral Home
Colonial Nursing Home
Fairmont Cemetery
iCarl Parris
Bessie Mae White
Melissa Abuchaun
Sacramento Calif
Clara Brown
Parkview General Hospital
Brenham
Comey
Maree
Pheas
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