Public financing plan eyed for 1976 campaign
Sen Edward M Kennedy argues public financing could fund a major party candidate, with an estimated 25 million to be produced for 1976. Nixon opposes the plan and White House aims to void it. Long criticizes the bill as overbalanced for business, urging lower burdens on individuals and renewed push for higher personal exemption or lower rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward M. Kennedy
Nixon
Kennedy
America
White House
Long
Senate
Candy Parade Set for Hobbs Saturday at 3 P M
Hobbs prepares for the 21st Santa Claus Candy Parade Saturday at 3 p m along Main Street from West Broadway to Houston Street led by Hobbs High School Eagle Band. About 25 000 people expected as 16 000 candy bags fuel floats and prize money of 1200 to be awarded by the Chamber of Commerce committee. Santa rides a city fire truck. candy handed out by civic clubs funded by oil industry contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOBBS
West Broadway
Broadway
Houston Street
Hobbs High School Eagle Band
Chamber of Commerce
Nunan
Santa Claus
VFW Auxiliary
American Legion
OC Students Must Meet State Immunization Rules
Odessa College will require all students to show immunizations for the spring term under a Texas State Board of Health rule. Under 19 must have diphtheria tetanus in last 10 years and three polio doses since age four. 19 and over require diphtheria tetanus or booster. Smallpox not required. starting July students must present doctor certified records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa College
State Board of Health
The
Health Board
Texas
N. R
Jack) ‘Vaught
Vaught
Odessa American Notice Fragment
Fragmentary OCR shows Odessa American details including address Odessa Texas and basic publication data. It mentions post office classification second class mail under Act of March and subscription rates with multiple garbled figures and terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Texas
Odessa American
We County
Malls Ae
Nixon vetoes $2 billion antiproperty program for children
President Nixon rejected a 2 billion antipoverty bill creating day care and services for children from all income levels. He called it the most radical measure from Congress and said it would be costly and administratively unworkable. Liberal critics accused him of political appeasement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Legal-Services
America
John Brademas
D-Ind
House
Rep
Ogden R. Reid
New York
Senate
Gerald R. Ford
GOP
White House
Indian War Update Notes Pak Surrounded Near Khulna
The Indian spokesman said 30 trucks six recoil less guns and four heavy mortars were captured near Khulna while Pakistanis try to flee by ship to Chittagong. 3,500 Pakistani troops are surrounded in the north as Indian forces press from Meghna east of Dacca. An Indian naval task force bombarded a 300 mile West Pakistan coast from Gwadar to Karachi, sinking four warships and destroying the Karachi oil complex.
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Khulna
Chittagong
Bay of Bengal
Rikhye
Meghna
Dacca
Pakistan
East Pakistan
New Delhi
Chhamb
Kashmir
Punjab
Rajasthan
Gwadar
Karachi
Two Odessa Women Injured In Three Car Crash
Two Odessa women were injured Thursday afternoon in a three car collision at West 16th Street and Farm to Market Road 1936. Linda Emmons 16 sustained facial lacerations while Jessie Cherry 46 received bruises and mild shock. Glyde Gilmore 1963 pickup turned left into Emmons 1963 car which then struck Cherry in a stopped 1962 sedan. Patrolman George Fraser investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
West 16Th
F.M
Linda Grace Emmons
Herb Emmons
San Jacinto
Jessie Cherry
Route 1
Medical Center Hospital
Miss Emmons
Glyde James Gilmore
Gilmore
Cherry
Hood Boosters approve four Hood Junior High band events
Hood Boosters Club approved four events for Hood Junior High School band. The seventh grade winners of the magazine sale contest get a pizza party on Friday. A caroling party is set for December 17 with the Yale party on December 21. A Christmas concert for Hood students is scheduled for December 22 before winter break. L. A. King leads the Boosters and Van Ragsdale directs the band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood Junior High
Boosters Club
Hood
L. A. King
van Ragsdale
Odesson Fined On DWI Charge
Dennis Ray Williams aged 48 of 500 Lasseter was fined 100 dollars and given three days in jail after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated in Ector County Court Judge John H Rogers presiding. Williams was arrested March 29 1970 at 1 45 am on U S 385 nine miles north of Odessa Assistant County Attorney Fred L Coleman prosecuted the case Attorney Harold H Young represented the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odesson
DWI
Dennis Ray Williams
Lasseter
John H
Buddy) Rogers
Ector
U. S. 385
Odessa
Fred L. Coleman
Harold H. Young
College Tests Scheduled At Odessa College
The SCAT college entrance test will be at 8 45 a m Saturday in Room 99 Baskin Hall Odessa College. The fee is 2 dollars and the test lasts about one and a half hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baskin Hall
Odessa College
Moderate Loss In Two Fires
Odessa Fire Department responded to two Thursday fires. A trailer at 2124 FM 1936 had minor damage after a heating unit ignited during lighting. A truck engine fire at D and J Automotive, 2335 East Eighth, caused heavy wiring damage and minor shop damage. the blaze started from gasoline fumes ignited by a drop light and involved a Champion Chemicals owned truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Bobby Hamill
D&j Automotive
East Eighth
Champion Chemicals
Two Midland Wrecks Injure Two Riders and Baby
Two traffic accidents on Midland streets Thursday sent two people to Midland Memorial Hospital. A five and a half month old girl, Stacy Stephenson, received a scalp abrasion after a collision between her mother Bee Stephenson and John Beane. The crash occurred at Andrews Highway and Louisiana at 8:56 p.m. The infant briefly rolled from her seat but was treated and released. Earlier, at Keesler and Peach Streets, Billy J. Lain, 16, of Midland, on a motorcycle, was hospitalized with a bruised leg after attempting to pass Billie Smith Cook, 46, of Midland, when the motorcycle struck the rear of the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Midland Memorial Hospital
Bee Stephenson
John Earle Beane
Andrews Highway
Louisiana
Stacy Stephenson
Keesler and
Peach Streets
Billy J. Lain
Billie Smith Cook
Young Lain
Odessan Injured In Work Fight At Hospital
A 60-year-old Odessa man was treated at Medical Center Hospital for a scalp laceration after being struck on the head with a shovel during a work fight. He was released after treatment and no charges were on file Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessan
Odessa
Medical Center Hospital
Floods, rescues as Texas cold front moves in
A Texas cold front prompts flash flood warnings across East and South Texas. Dallas residents are rescued by a National Guard helicopter to protect a 12 year old cardiac patient, while a drowning occurs near Lake Tawakoni. Rain totals vary from under 1 inch to over 4 inches in parts, with winds from 45 to 50 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Louisiana
Dallas
Texas National Guard
Jerry Lynch
Lynch
Marguerite Yates
Duck Cove
Lake Tawakoni
Brushy Creek
Samuel Lee Yates
Highway Department
Fort Worth
Waco
Panhandle
50S
National Weather Service
Four Breakins Reported in Odessa by Friday
Odessa lawmen investigated four break ins on Friday. Prowlers entered Latham Pharmacy at 116 East University through a roof hole and took amphetamines. A bank bag containing about 150 dollars was taken from Follis Drive Inn at 1301 North Grant after the front door was pried open. About 60 cartons of cigarettes were stolen from a Basin Candy and Tobacco Co. truck in the 3000 block of North Golder in Midland. Ola Mae McDonald at 201 Santa Rita reported an intruder in her den. she alerted a neighbor and detectives found no one and nothing appeared taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Latham Pharmacy
East University
Follis Drive Inn
North Grant
Basin Candy and Tobacco Co
Midland
North Golder
Ola Mae McDonald
Santa Rita
Shoplifting Charges Filed Against Odessa Man
A 20-year-old Odessa resident Boyce Clinton Smithson was released on $500 bond after arrest at T.G.&Y. on Andrews Highway for allegedly stealing miscellaneous items valued at $11.02. Bond set by Justice of the Peace Howard Williams and charges filed with Ector County Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
Boyce Clinton Smithson
College Terrace Apts
T.g.&y
Andrews Highway
Justice of the Peace
Howard Williams
Smithson
Oilfield Worker Injured On The Job In Odessa
A 29 year old Odessa man Thurman D. Jones was listed in satisfactory condition at Medical Center Hospital Friday after injuries to both legs when a draw line on fangs snapped back and struck him while he worked Thursday. He lives at 112 North Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Medical Center Hospital
Thurman D. Jones
North Jackson
Deaths of infant Ferguson and J Weldon Merritt
Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Friday at Sunset Memorial Gardens for infant Robert Wayne Ferguson son of Daniel L and Mrs Ferguson of 3224 Walnut. He died at Medical Center Hospital after illness since birth and is survived by parents four sisters and relatives in Albuquerque Leadville Houston and Vietnam. J Weldon Merritt 47 dies after short illness in Midland Memorial Hospital. Services at 11 a.m. Monday at Fannin Terrace Baptist Church with burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. He operated Shorty Hall Big Co in Midland and is survived by wife two sons Barry and Ronny a daughter and several siblings and a grandchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Wayne Ferguson
Daniel L. Ferguson
Walnut
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Medical Center Hospital
Patricia Ann Choate
Mary Ellen Choate
Rose Marie Morres
Billie Faye Durben
Albuquerque
N.M
Erma Stewart
Leadville
Colo
Merle Ferguson
Vietnam
Chester J. Westbrook
Houston
J. Weldon Merritt
Midland
Fannin Terrace Baptist Church
Resthaven Memorial Park
Newnie W. Ellis
Merritt
Midland Memorial Hospital
Shorty Hall Big Co
Avery
Honeygrove
Adell Pace
Hugo
Oklo
Paris
Levelland
Snyder
U.s.army
American Legion
Ronny Merritt
U.S. Army
Tacoma
Wash
Barry Merritt
Alvin Gartman
Tucson, Ariz
Burroughs Merritt
Texarkana
Ann Merritt
Wink
Tack Childress
Oregon
Tom Beeman
Fort Worth
Arthur Riddlesperger
Eldridge Wood Montgomery
West Clements
Hubbard-Kelly
Paul Miller
Trinity Baptist Church
Sunset Memoral Gardens
Montgomery
Gatesville
Ira Bledsoe
Colorado City
Odessa
Westbrook
James E Montgomery
Wedgewood
Glenn Montgomery
el Paso
Harry Vanderburg
Lindale
Arlyn Scott
Alies
Frank Montgomery
Big Spring
Gordon Montgomery
Arlington
Helen Gainey
Willie Blow
Mount Sylvan
Charles J. Ward
Tower Baptist Church
Ward
Acacia Masonic Lodge
Marie
Eddie Ward
S. JM. Cook
Lacy Carter
Chickasha
Oila
Victor Richey
Glenn Mercer
Wichita
Kans
G. F. Ward
Woman Escapee Safe In Mexico
Extradition provisions likely will prevent Texas authorities from regaining custody of 26 year old May Ellen Garcia who escaped from her jail cell in San Angelo on August 30 and fled to Mexico authorities said. Garcia, convicted on a narcotics charge, has been located in Mexico but is unlikely to be returned to Texas due to treaty terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Angelo
Tex
Texas
Mexico
Tom Green County
Odell Wagner
Ellen Garcia
Youth Nabbed As Suspect In Auto Break-In
Odessa police arrested a 17 year old male in a Permian High School parking lot after a school employee reported a suspicious person. Patrolman K R Casey detained the youth. no charges were filed by Friday noon and the suspect remained in city jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
K. R. Casey
Permian High School
Toyah Voters Decide City Sales Tax Proposal
Toyah residents will vote on December 30 whether to impose a one cent city sales tax. If approved the tax could take effect April 1 and Mayor Kenneth Scott says it would add about $100 per month to city operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TOYAH
Kenneth Scott
Desertion Charge Filed Against Trevino in Ector Court
A child desertion charge was filed in Ector County Court against Jimmy Trevino 30 of 301 West Clifford. The case alleges failure to pay support for three minor children. Warrant issued. complaint filed by his estranged wife Angela Trevino of 523 West Clifford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County Court
Jimmy 0. Trevino
West Clifford
Angela Trevino
Two DWI suspects face charges in Ector County
Two defendants were charged Friday with driving while intoxicated in Ector County Court. James Junior Graham, 39, of 4293 Bonham, released on a $500 bond after an incident December 5 at 10:10 p.m. on U S 385 north of Odessa. Jimmie Adramn Roberts, 38, of 2008 North Washington, arrested Wednesday at 10:28 p.m. three miles west of Odessa on FM 2020, released on a $500 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector
James Junior Graham
Bonham
Ector County
U. S. 385
Odessa
Jimmie Adramn Roberts
North Washington
Odessa woman sues Davis and Parra for $200000 in auto crash
Ledell Thurman of Odessa filed a damage suit in 161st District Court Friday seeking more than $200,000 from Jerry Davis and Jody Parra of Odessa for injuries she allegedly sustained in a traffic accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
161St District Court
Jerry Davis
Jody Parra
Odessa
Ledell Thurman
Odessa man charged with DWI after bond posted
A 45 year old Odessa man, Ocie Ray Womack of 409 Lotteman, was arrested at 1 40 a m Friday on 81st Street. He posted a 750 bond on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Justice of the Peace Howard Williams set the bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DWI
Odessa
Ector County
Ocie Ray Womack
Lotteman
Justice of the
Howard Williams
Suit for Damages Filed in Ector County Court
A suit for damages totaling 700 dollars was filed Friday in Ector County Court against Troy Bradley of Odessa. Ronnie Parker of Odessa seeks a judgment for 700 dollars for damages allegedly incurred to his automobile on September 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
Troy Bradley
Odessa
Ronnie Parker
Assault charged in Ector County Court against R P Martin
A charge of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle was filed Friday in Ector County Court against 44 year old R P Martin of 1711 North Lincoln. He was released on a $1000 bond after arrest for allegedly assaulting Helen McMahon Wednesday in Ector County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
R. P. Martin
North Lincoln
Helen McMahon
Board Award Appealed In Industrial Accident Case
An appeal filed Friday in 161st District Court challenges an Industrial Accident Board award. Joseph C. Gooch of Corpus Christi seeks $19,649 in compensation for injuries alleged to have occurred August 8, 1969 while working for J. W. Cooper Construction Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial Accident Board
161St
Argonaut Southwest Insurance Co
Joseph C. Gooch
Corpus Christi
J. W. Cooper Construction Co
Bank files three suit notes in Ector County Court
The First National Bank of Odessa files three actions Friday in Ector County Court seeking payment on notes. Warren Witherspoon of Haskell is sued for 876 dollars Johnny Junior Clay of Odessa for 682 dollars and Al fons Levario of Pecos for 776 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
First National Bank of
Odessa
Warren Witherspoon
Haskell
Johnny Junior Clay
Alfons Levario
Pecos
Suit Seeks 718 Dollars In Midland County Court
A verified account suit filed in Midland County Court names A C Perry of the A C Perry Co as defendant. Ronald L Dias of Belvac Medical and Dental Products is listed as the plaintiff seeking a judgment for 718 dollars on an alleged unpaid debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
A. C. Perry
Midland
A. C. Perry Co
Ronald L. Dias
Belvac Medical and Dental Products
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Harry Nunan
Hobbs Chamber of Commerce
Circulation Department
Woor
Choe
East 8Th Street
Hood Boosters
Midlanders
Bankamerica
Eral
Okee Oe
Mary McBeth
Andrews
Sieleton Funeral Home
Permian General Hospital
Plaza Suite
Permian Playhouse
Glass Menagerie
Globe Theater
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