Odessa council approves funeral escort fee plan
Odessa City Council plans a long end of year meeting starting at 5 p.m. to consider a funeral escort fee and a new ordinance. Police Chief James Jenkins cites a $24 per officer per hour rate with a two hour minimum and a disclosure on alternatives to escorts.
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Donation Urges Support for Single Mother in Need
Evangelina, a single mother of three, struggles to cover rent and bills and cannot afford food or gifts for her children this Christmas. Donations to the Empty Stocking Fund, a Salvation Army Odessa American effort, will fund gifts and food. See DONATION on Page 2A.
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Andrews boy Cody Wetzel designs cards for cancer charity
Cody Wetzel, 12, who battled Burkitt’s Lymphoma as a child, is now one of three featured artists for the M D Anderson Children’s Art Project in Houston. The program funds cancer programs for children and has raised $891,000 last year. Cody’s art, created during his nine months at M D Anderson, helps support normal life for patients while his family reflects on loss from earlier cancer in kin.
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Cody Wetzel
University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston
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Shannon Murray
Burkitt
Susan Wetzel
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Wetzel
Baby becomes youngest liver transplant recipient in world
A five day old girl Baebhen Schuttke in London received a liver transplant cut to one eighth of its size. Doctors say the liver is adapting and growing normally. she is the youngest child to receive a liver transplant. Her parents Ita Schuttke and Jurgen Schuttke credited fast action at King's College Hospital.
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King’s College Hospital
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Feds Say Medicare Overcharged Seniors for Drugs
Federal investigators found Medicare and beneficiaries paid at least 447 million dollars too much for 22 common prescriptions in 1996. Average provider purchases were 29 percent below what Medicare reimbursed, with eight drugs priced more than double the discounted costs. Potential savings could reduce senior drug payments and overall program costs.
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June Gibbs Brown
Health and Human Services Department
Medicare
Inspector General
Brown
Clinton
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