Precinct 3 Constable Hopeful Files Kenneth Allen
Kenneth Allen, 32, filed Wednesday as a Democratic Primary candidate for Precinct 3 constable in Odessa. He names Odessa American advertising rep, husband of Wanda, father of two, and active in Lions Club Toastmasters YMCA Boys Club and boxing. seeks to restore dignity and serve Ector County.
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Kenneth ©. Allen
North Tom Green
Allen
Robert Watson
Odessa County
J. T. Gray
Father Flanagan
Idaho
Texas Western University
el Paso
Odessa American
Odessa Lions Club
Wildcat Toastmasters Club
Prospectors Club
Price Board Guides Urged For Newsprint Price
ANPA chairman Richard H. Blackridge urged newsprint manufacturers to obey the $5.25 a ton price-board limit. He protested Canada price hikes being sought by International Paper and called for a realistic, equitable structure that avoids discriminatory practices and gives publishers time to adjust.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Richard H. Blacklige
Kokomo
Ind
Tribune
International Paper Corp
Canada
ANPA
Blackridge
Record Storm Strands Hundreds on I 80 Near La Grande
A major storm blanketed the region, leaving 50 to 100 motorists stranded on Interstate 80 near La Grande Oregon as heavy drifts and high winds halted traffic. Police and volunteers searched for stranded travelers while local families housed displaced motorists amid motel overcrowding.
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la Grande
Ore
Rockies
Los Alamos
N.M
Jemez Springs
Central
Plains
New Mexico Plains
Arizona
Montana
Livingston
Mont
Mississippi Valley
New England
Aberden
M.D
McAllen
Tex
Congress tax bill outlines personal exemptions and deductions
The Means Committee predicted Nixon would act as Byrnes warned against floor rejection of the bill. Major provisions include raised personal exemptions to 675 and 750, higher minimum standard deduction and a 15 percent general standard deduction cap, repeal of auto excise taxes, child care deductions up to 400 a month for eligible families, political contributions tax incentives, restoration of the investment tax credit, and tax breaks for exporters through international sales corporations with half income eligible for deferral.
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Treasury
U.S. Gunships Pound North Vietnam Casualties Reported
U.S. and allied commands release weekly totals showing American forces with 45,617 killed in action and 302,297 wounded, plus 9,965 dead from nonhostile causes. South Vietnamese losses reach 136,725 killed and 295,783 wounded, while North Vietnamese and Viet Cong total 785,572 killed.
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U.S. Command
Odessa men sue over $446 auto crash damages
Roscoe Dale Nicholson of Odessa filed a $446 damage suit Thursday in Ector County Court against Harvey Leroy Duff over an August 5 automobile accident on East 16th. Both parties reside in Odessa.
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Roscoe Dale Nicholson
Ector County
Harvey Leroy Duff
East 16Th
Odessa
Ram claims gains for Mukti Bahini in East Pakistan fighting
Ram asserts unified Mukti Bahini command presses Pakistani forces from key strongholds in Comilla Sylhet Rangpur Dinajpur and other areas. He cites Indian air losses and Pakistani claims while noting restricted access to battle zones and ongoing exchanges across Kashmir and Punjab with casualties and shipboard fire in Karachi harbor.
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Ram
Comilla
Dacca
Sylhet
Rangpur
Dinajpur
Jessore
Radio Pakistan
East Pakistan
India
Himalayan
Kashmir
Chhamb
Tawi
Punch
Jammu
Kash‘mir
Punjab
Pakistan
Karachi
Two Fire Calls In Odessa Prompt Quick Inspect
The Odessa Fire Department answered two calls on Wednesday. A clothes fire in Pablo Reynosa's 908 East 16th residence was started by youngsters with matches and caused minor closet damage before being extinguished. A trash fire at 717 West Murphy caused no damage as workmen used it to keep warm.
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Odessa
Pablo Reynosa
East 16Th
West Murphy
Bunche shaped Rhodes talks end of Palestinian war echo
Obscure obituary notes Ralph Bunche’s role as U N mediator after Folke Bernadotte’s assassination. It highlights his Rhodes talks triumph, career at the United Nations, civil rights stance, and remarkable early life from UCLA to Harvard Ph D, with scattered biographical fragments and other era notes.
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Bunche
United Nations
U.N
Folke Bernadotte
Jerusalem
U.S. State Department
The
Funeral notices and deaths in Midland area and beyond
Funeral services are listed for Myrtie Leona McCorkle 93 of Whitaker to be held in Dallas with burial in Hopkins County. Infant son of Mr and Mrs Daniel L Ferguson died at Medical Center Hospital. Dr Josef Cerny 86 longtime Czech government survivor dies in New York. Charles Ward Midland pronounced dead on arrival. Weldon J Merritt Midland dies. Mathilde Kschessinska famed prima ballerina of Russia dies at 99 in Paris. Services pending or to be announced in multiple local funeral homes.
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New York
St. Petersburg
Martin Marie
Luther King Jr
Jacob K. Javits
Myrtie Leona McCorkle
Whitaker
Dudley Hughes
Dallas
Forrest Academy
Hopkins County
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Robert Wayne Ferguson
Daniel L. Ferguson
Walnut
Medical Center Hospital
Hubbard-Kelly
Josef Cerny
Czechoslovakia
West
Midland
Charles Ward
Midland Memorial Hospital
Newnie
Weldon J. Merritt
Paris
Mathilde Kschessinska
Absoluta
Russian Imperial Ballet
Kschessinska
Edgewood Youth Dies in Train Collision
Edgewood Texas teenager Charles Ray Daniels aged 17 was killed Wednesday night when his car was struck by a Texas & Pacific freight train in Van Zandt County town. The Texas Department of Public Safety reported the collision occurred in Edgewood with Daniels pronounced dead at the scene.
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Edgewood
Tex
Texas Department of Public Safety
Charles Ray
Daniels
Texas & Pacific
van Zandt
Odessa American brief cryptic notice from early issue
A garbled OCR fragment from the Odessa American mentions address lines in Odessa, a date like 1879, and a subscription note. It references home delivery in Odessa and Ector but provides no clear event, person, or action to confirm.
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Odessa
Texas
Geetath Street
Torey
Pete
Midwinter OC Signup Ends as Odessa College Session Near
Last day to register for the Midwinter Session at Odessa College Dec 27 to Jan 7. Classes run weekdays 8:30 11:00 a.m. and 2 4 p.m. Earn regular college credit with 16 courses available. Enrollment already exceeds 100 with Senate predicting a rise from last year’s 116. Registration in the Student Affairs Office. fees due at signup. Courses include Sociology English Geography Government History Mathematics Psychology Speech and Conversational Spanish.
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Odessa College
Senate
Odessa Man Freed On Bond After DWI Charge
Jimmie Adrian Roberts, 38, of 2008 North Washington, posted 500 bond and was released from Ector County jail after being charged with driving while intoxicated. He was arrested on FM 2020 three miles west of Odessa at 10:28 p.m. Wednesday. bond set by Justice of the Peace J A Purity.
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Odessa
Jimmie Adrian Roberts
North Washington
Justice of the Peace
J. A.purity
Young Man Charged With Driving While License Suspended
Catarino Orona Patino Jr., 19, of 1118 North Milburn, was charged in Ector County Court with driving while license suspended. He was arrested Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. on West 19th Street, one mile west of the city, and released on a $500 bond.
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Catarino Orona Patino Jr
North Milburn
Ector County
Retired Court Reporter Dies in Fort Worth
Funeral services for Lee P. Boone 80 of Fort Worth a former court reporter for the 142nd District Court in Midland will be held Friday at All Saints Episcopal Church Burial will be in Weatherford Family Parker Cemetery The Cotton Bratton Funeral Home handles arrangements He died Wednesday in Fort Worth after an illness Boone grew up in Parker County grandson of Isaac Parker and lived in Pyote when he joined the old 70th District Court service spanned multiple West Texas counties
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Fort Worth
142Nd District Court
Midland
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Pyote
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70Th
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Texas and Pacific
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Crane
Ector
Glasscock
Andrews
Ward
Winkler
Reeves
Perry Pickett
Robert Hamilton
Texas Supreme Court
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Eastland
Paul Moss
William B. Deaderick
Odessa
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Parkview Hospital
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de Berry
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J. P. Price
Toledo
Ohio
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Julius
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Gussie Richardson
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Martha Price
Lottie Wells
Loraine
Tessie McPeters
Palm Springs
Calif
Blanche Green
Winters
Dick Kruse
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Lutheran Cemetery
Spill Funeral Home
Kruse
North Runnels Hospital
Whitting
Lavaca County
Lena Wessels
Dale
Richard Kruse
Delbert Kruse
L. ‘J. Splann
Drew Cromer
Charles Secrest
Dallas
J. T. Lucas
Emma Gabler
Cuero
First Church of God
Andrew Long, Sr
San Angelo
Sibyl Watkins
Jack Long, Jr
C. A. Long
Culver City
O. A
61YearOld Odessan Dies In Medical Center Hospital
Rupert Harold Stovall 61 of 7002 West 18th Odessa retired plumber died Wednesday after a long illness. Funeral services in Edmonds Chapel Jonesboro La with burial Transport Cemetery Dodson La. Stovall a Navy veteran 1942 1945 lived in Odessa since 1950 moved from Marshall. Survived by three sisters and a brother. Funeral details announced by local churches and unions.
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West 18Th
Medical Center Hospital
Edmonds
Chape
Jonesboro
Transport Cemetery
Dodson
Odessa
Marshall
Methodist Church
Plumbers and Pipefitters
Stovall
US Navy
Wyatt
Fannie Upchurch
Otto Pankratz
Kerrville
Olaf Wyatt
Hugh A. Stovall
el Paso
Optimist and Rotary Lunches in City Schedule
A series of midday gatherings lists 7 A.M. Breakfast Optimists at Sands Restaurant noon events for Eastside Rotary in the Inn of the Golden West and Odessa Optimists at Sands Restaurant. 6 P.M. Veterans of World War I meet at the Barracks Hi-Spot Youth Center located at 10th and MacUr.
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Inn of the Golden West
Odessa Optimists
Sands Restaurant
Barracksee
10Th
Mac- Ur
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