Gang To Feed 1 000 Persons At Local Feedings
Odessa's Chuck Wagon Gang will cook and serve barbecue to about 1,000 people this week. At 7 p.m. Wednesday they feed about 200 employees off McVean and Bartow in Exhibition Hall A at Ector County Coliseum. Two feeds are planned for 6 30 p.m. Thursday. They also host a gratis feed for the Boys Clubs of Odessa at the Odessa Boys Club expected to serve over 500 boys. The gang will supply barbecue to about 300 Schlumberger employees in Midland.
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Odessa
Chuck Wagon Gang
McVean and Bartow
Exhibition Hall
Ector County Coliseum
Schlumberger
Midland
Zoning Board to Hear Requests on Setback Exceptions
The City Zoning Board of Adjustment will hear two requests at 9 a.m. Wednesday in City Hall. Clyde Anderson seeks to build a carport seven feet forward of the 25 foot front setback and a porch four feet forward at his B duplex dwelling, 519 North McKinney Ave. R D Mahan seeks a seven foot forward carport beyond a 25 foot platted setback at 207 Monticello Drive in an A single family district. Public hearings will allow speakers for or against the applications.
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City Zoning Board of Adjustment
City Hall
Clyde Anderson
McKinney Ave
R. D. Mahan
Monticello Drive
WWI Veterans Elect Braly Commander at Barracks 1867
W M Braly was installed as commander of Barracks 1867, Veterans of World War I of the U S A, at special ceremonies last Friday at the Hi Spot Center in MacArthur and 10th. Other officers for the VFW and the Women's Auxiliary were installed, with male officers led by Red Laughlin and women by Angela Cooper. Auxiliary members also brought gifts for the Big Spring Veterans Hospital shop, and both groups planned a joint Christmas party for Dec 20.
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W. M. Braly
U.S.A
MacArthur
10Th
N. A. Marshall
Mack Gillham
Jim Adams
J. E. Cypert
Thomas Orr
Red Laughlin
Wink District 16
Angela Cooper
Auxiliary
Big Spring Veteran’s Hospital
Wet November Cuts CRMWD Water Demands
In a rare fall of water needs, the Colorado River Municipal Water District shows reduced consumption in November with total deliveries to customers at 800,091,856 gallons, down 2.96 percent from November 1967. For the first 11 months, deliveries reached 11,181,966,468 gallons, 6.68 percent below the prior year. Cities used 428,919,000 gallons in November, Odessa 218,320,000, Big Spring 163,628,000, Snyder 44,808,000, Stanton joining as a new customer with 2,363,000, and oil companies drawing 371,152,856 gallons, down 2.94 percent from a year earlier.
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Paschall Odom
Odessa
Big Spring
Snyder
Stanton
Odessa City Council Cancels December Meetings
The Odessa City Council canceled its two regularly scheduled December meetings, including the Tuesday session and the December 24 session. A single special session remains at 9 a.m. December 17. Mayor Jim Reese Councilman Ed Barham and City Manager Ronald Neighbors attend the National League of Cities Convention in New Orleans and are to return Wednesday. The Christmas holidays caused the December 24 session to be canceled.
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Jim Reese
Ed Barham
Ronald Neighbors
New Orleans
National League of Cities
Odessa
Robbery Report In Gardendale Involves $800 Theft
Roy Lane of Gardendale reported Sunday afternoon that two men assaulted him in an apartment building in the 200 block of Carver. The robbers removed $800 from his wallet and tried to remove a ring, injuring his hand. no arrests were made.
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Roy Lane
Gardendale
Lane
Carver
County May Get Changes in Game Laws
State Rep Ace Pickens of Odessa plans a bill to place Ector County under Texas Parks and Wildlife regulatory authority. Public hearing drew only one opposing voice alongside Pickens and local game wardens. Burkett explained the program already covers 200 counties. Ector would join six West Texas counties not yet under it. If enacted next year, hunting seasons dates would be changed with open season, bag limits, and taking methods set by the department.
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Ace Pickens
Odessa
Ector County
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Cecil
Henry B. Burkett
PWD
Burkett
Texas
West Texas
Pickens
Child fears meat after class disgust case study
In a doctor’s column a mother reports her 10-year-old daughter became vegetarian after learning how animals are butchered in science class. The girl faints, refuses meat, and at times says she doesn’t want to live. An eminent psychiatrist notes disgust as a habit. a child psychologist is advised. The Q&A also covers aspirin use in children with heart murmurs and fever.
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Abraham Myerson
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Zoning Board
DOC Young Music Co
East
8Th Phone
West Texas Health Spas
Headlee Bldg
North Grandview
Women’s Auxiliary
Maxine Lampe
Vera McIntyre
Jean Kelley
Verna Leonard
Ruth Neal
Zell Gillispie
Wilma Gordon
Colorado River
Medical Center Hospital
Astro-Sonic Stereo
Sud
Home Entertainment Center
Charles Cecil
West
Swardens
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