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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1983
Page
4
Tom Nickell as managing editor outlines the newspaper's purpose to inform readers in the Permian Basin and promote freedom. It invites correspondence to The Odessa American at Box 2952 Odessa Texas 79760.
The Evridges between Rankin and Midkiff plant Christmas trees as a potential cash crop, inviting visitors since Thanksgiving and aiming to sell 1,000 trees for decoration or replanting. They illustrate entrepreneurship, combining learning, caution, and hard work while still farming cotton, hopeful for a bonanza that may or may not come.
Ellen Goodman notes a buoyant 1983 holiday economy as luxury goods fly off shelves and optimism grows, yet warns of an undercurrent of fear from deficits, war risks, and income inequality. The era’s top sellers include mink and teddy bears while consumers wrestle with delaying gratification amid looming troubles.
Washington Post columnist William Raspberry highlights Booker T. Washington High School Tulsa as a magnet model. The school blends races, offers languages like Chinese Japanese and Russian, and features extensive AP courses. It ranks high academically with strong test scores and state athletic success, aided by a half black half white enrollment and selective admission.
Today in History notes major events tied to December 22, including the 1943 Cairo conference among Roosevelt Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek on defeating Japan, the 1963 Laconia sinking, 1968 Pueblo crew release and Nixon era debates, and other empire, UN, and energy policy milestones.
Paul Harvey argues that while modern students are physically superior to earlier generations, their judgment lags, citing campus hostility to speakers at major universities. He blames a culture that worships youth and tolerates intolerance, contrasting liberal campus ideals with rising acts of censorship.
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