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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1981
Page
1
Odessa forms task force to designate blighted areas
Final appointments to a 10 member task force in Odessa aim to identify blighted regions for future bond backed private construction. The panel will seek to avoid conflicts of interest as it designates substandard areas eligible for tax exempt industrial revenue bonds and city council approval before funds flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Texas
Odessa City Council
Texas Industrial Commission
Man returns 1925 bank floor find with 56 years of interest
A Shreveport mailed envelope reveals 232.50 in cash and a note claiming to have picked up a 50 cent coin on the Oak Cliff Bank and Trust floor in 1925. The sender says he sought forgiveness and asks the bank to keep the windfall. officials are unsure how to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Oak Cliff Bank and Trust
Republic Bank
Oak Cliff
Bank and Trust
Shreveport
Joe Don Denton
US considers foreign legion style mercenary corps
Strategists and Heritage Foundation propose a U S foreign legion to supplement regular forces. Advocates argue a well trained mercenary corps could swiftly deploy to trouble spots, citing Cuba's alleged mercenaries in Angola and other regions. Critics warn against abandoning America's tradition of fighting its own wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhouse
Washington
America
French Foreign Legion
West
United States
Congress
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Cuba
Angola
Ethiopia
North
Africa
Indochina
Conservative Heritage Foundation
American Foreign Legion
Foreign Legion
Gene May Turn On to Cancer in Leukemia Study
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Rockefeller University report the first evidence that the oncogene Myc is turned on in cancerous cells from six of ten leukemia and lymphoma patients. The finding, presented at Johns Hopkins, supports the idea that cancer arises when normal genes are inappropriately activated and may relate to viral cancer mechanisms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Young
Newhouse
Baltimore
Susan M. Astrin
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelpia
William Hayward
Rockefeller University
New York
Astrin
Hayward
Donald S. Coffey
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bristol- Myers
Johns Hopkins
Anti nuke push taking shape
A nationwide anti nuclear movement grows from grassroots effort as Geneva talks begin. The drive seeks a freeze on atomic weapons production with local towns voting for a freeze and leaders like Raymond Hunthausen urging tax resistance. Doctors and medical groups join the urgency, while groups like Ground Zero plan public discussions across churches schools and clubs to inform on all sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Feinsilber
Associated Press
Washington
America
Geneva
U.S
New England
Raymond G. Hunthausen
Seattle
New York
Boston
Chicago
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Albuquerque
N.M
Abram Claude
Physicians For Social Responsibility
American Medical Association
Bangor
Wash
Moscow
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By Sheila Welsh
Business
Larry Melton
Melton
Beirut
Rome
U.S. Foreign Legion
Ernest van den Haag
Fordham University
Heritage Foundation
van den Haag
Free World
Wallace P. Rowe
National Institutes of Health
Rowe
Animal Kingdom
Bonn
West Germany
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