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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1997
Page
10
Whittington outlines Victoria House to expand Project Elizabeth, adding 15 to 20 beds for mothers and children. The plan aims to improve parenting and coping skills while addressing abuse and addictions, with some mothers discharging for corporal punishment. Bell seeks funding, confident of state support after January.
Southwest 66 Credit Union plans a Midland branch on N Midland Drive and a new 1.67 million dollar Odessa facility at 52rd Street and Tanglewood Lane. The Odessa building will be 10,000 square feet with five drive up lanes and a drive up ATM. Construction started this month with completion target in August. An Odessa service center will offer customer services inside the site. The Midland remodeling will convert an existing building to serve members.
MOTRAN Chairman Charles Perry praised Garza's record as secretary of state and his role in the La Entrada al Pacifico trade corridor. Garza will face state Sen. Jerry Patterson in the March Republican primary. He argues for a taxpayer minded approach and economic movement through border trade benefiting Odessa Midland and the Permian Basin.
The blotter lists injury accidents and felonies from sheriffs and police, with victims' private residences rounded to the nearest hundred block. A 33 year old man remains in Ector County Jail on attempted capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant with $50,000 bail. In Ward County, about 115 pounds of suspected marijuana valued at $138,000 were seized by the Permian Basin Drug Task Force and Ward County Sheriff’s Office. Four suspects were arrested after drugs were found in a vehicle: William Leslie Dunivan 28 Odessa, Steve John Cox 28 Odessa, Armalfo Anaya Corales 18 Mexico, and Hermino Carrasco 40 Mexico, each with $10,000 bail.
A Dallas judge declared a mistrial in the dispute between Harold C. Simmons and two daughters who seek to remove him as trustee of family trusts valued over $1 billion. A retrial is set for March 3 after settlement talks earlier in the week failed.
Sgt Portillo, a 45 year old Persian Gulf War veteran at Fort Hood, won the America Recycles Day grand prize a home built from recycled materials. He named Las Cruces or Fort Hancock Fabens as possible sites and pledged to recycle beer cans use less plastic bags and bring used motor oil to a recycling center before his Korea deployment.
The Odessa Planning and Zoning Commission meets at City Hall to hear rezoning requests for Country Club Estates east of E Loop 338 and Business Loop 20, Wy-Chon Inc multi family to planned development retail, plus a short form plat for Patterson Addition and an annexation initiation for a 0.845 acre tract at Mission Drive and Tam Court. The Odessa College Board of Trustees meets at 12 15 p m to review the 1997 audited financial statements and fund balance designations, with the president's report and related items.
Joe describes the annual Alcothon started in 1972 in Odessa where recovering addicts from the Permian Basin attend hourly meetings over 24 hours. 200 to 300 people join for nourishment and support, with many attending their first AA meeting. The event emphasizes sharing experience strength and hope and demonstrating sobriety is possible.
A 34 year old Odessa woman said she was threatened with scissors and struck on the left arm on Drury Lane between 9 20 and 9 a m Tuesday. An Odessa boy, 0, said he was hit with an extension cord on the left arm and left lower leg on South Jackson Avenue. A 21 year old Odessa man remained jailed Wednesday on a robbery charge, Toby Porter of 4906 Delwood held without bond.
A 25-year-old Odessa man says his 1989 Dodge Dakota worth 4000 was taken from his West 34th Street residence between 4 a.m. and noon Saturday. A 45-year-old Odessa woman reports two juveniles threw rocks at her car on West 18th Street, causing 3000 in damage to the trunk and top at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.
An Odessa utility contractor, Scott Thane Ditching Service, received a Texas state engineering contract worth 296,468 dollars in late November for Midland sewer improvements. The firm operates water and sewer line work in the Odessa Midland region as Texas awarded 201 projects in November totaling 320,193,394 dollars.
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