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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1998
Page
2
Charity drive details donors and how to contribute to the Empty Stocking Fund via the Salvation Army Community Center and the Odessa American. Information lines provide mailing and office addresses and phone numbers for contact.
Odessa officials announced traffic signals at 16th and 17th streets with Hancock and Tom Green avenues will be removed today and replaced by four way stops. Sixteenth and seventeenth streets will convert to two way traffic starting December 15.
A group of Katy students represented by attorney Kelly Coghlan lobbies for a student referendum to allow prayer at sporting events. Astrodome USA approved a pregame broadcast prayer, believing it involved the school district, prompting district attorneys to seek removal. District spokeswoman Kris Taylor notes current policy limits nonproselytizing gradation prayer and after school religious groups, with no approval yet for a referendum.
Cindy Crawford and husband Rande Gerber escaped injury when a Jeep swerved to avoid galloping horses on the Pacific Coast Highway and struck a cement mailbox in Malibu. Gerber was uninjured and not cited. Crawford checked by a physician later showed no glass injury.
Arturo Sandoval the American jazz trumpeter gained U S citizenship on Monday eight years after defecting from Cuba during a Dizzy Gillespie tour. He sought asylum in 1990 and called the outcome bittersweet as he continues touring Latin jazz worldwide. In New York Kelly Preston said she could have urged John Travolta to cast her opposite him in Phenomenon but pursued solo success, screen testing for a role she did not get and instead co starring with Michael Keaton in Jack Frost.
London report says Princess Beatrice age 10 and Princess Eugenie age 8 joined Natalie Vincent Ballet School dancers in a surprise Sunday performance to raise about 160000 dollars for Children in Crisis. The duchess of York helped found the charity in 1993 and said the girls initiated the event with friends.
Odessa attorney Mike Holmes said Roden, son of the Branch Davidians founder, believed he was the Messiah and had a mission in Jerusalem. Court testimony described grandiose and persecutory delusions and a past escape from hospital for medications and to reach Israel.
Judiciary Committee expected to back three articles accusing perjury obstruction of justice and abuse of power in the Lewinsky matter. A close House vote looms next week with perjury article favored. Democrats urge Clinton to speak publicly before a Middle East trip and acknowledge his wrongdoing.
Lawmakers debate Clinton impeachment with a key bloc of Southern conservatives seen as pivotal. Hall, a veteran Democrat, says his duty is to call it as he sees it while stressing he would not lie under oath. Several Democrats including Sheila Jackson Lee, Martin Frost, Henry Gonzalez, and Gene remain undecided or oppose impeaching.
At the USS Arizona Memorial survivors relatives and officials gathered for a somber ceremony marking 50 years since Truman’s integration order. Ansil Saunders recalled the attack on the Raleigh and sailors entombed underwater while wreaths drifted on oil slicked waters. Minority service members were honored, including Doris Miller, a Navy Cross recipient from the West Virginia.
Veterans recount the Pearl Harbor attack as a pivotal moment in history. Hilliard, Kisselburg, and Baumann reflect on the surprise assault, the lessons of preparedness, and lasting animosities as they commemorate the date with quiet ceremony.
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Witty maxims range from bird flight speeds to manners with bacon forks and moccasin wisdom. Dutch first names appear alongside eyebrow growth trivia and sock matching rules, while Paul Cezanne’s fruit preferences are joked about. L.M. Boyd’s contact details are listed.
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