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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1986
Page
2
About 40 friends of freed American Eugene Hasenfus gathered Monday at a Menominee tavern to welcome him home from a Nicaraguan prison stay. Hasenfus’ Marinette hometown lies just across the state line.
The actor and his relatives sue the National Enquirer for at least 14 million dollars over two articles alleging family secrets. They deny the brother Marcus Thomas’s Sacramento rape convictions details and accuse the pieces of deliberate falsehoods including claims about their family hiding the story and Philip being a mama's boy or welfare child.
Assistant City Attorney Larry Long allegedly advised Planning and Zoning Commission members to consider an informal phone survey when drafting parolee facility rules. Brawley urged using the term minimum security prison, claiming Long favored the change. Long denied recollection of the conversation and declined comment. Brawley said she canvassed about 300 Odessans about a proposed 40 to 90 inmate facility at The Sands Motel with alleged tax implications and benefits.
After months of meetings the Odessa Planning and Zoning Commission drafts a detention facility ordinance and weighs a specific use permit for the Youngs. City Attorney Roberts notes delays due to budget and caution while Mrs Young and her husband push for the project amid neighborhood concerns and public misunderstandings about parolees.
Derailment in Callahan County prompted SHD to report 24 cars jumped the track. Workers described strong fumes resembling acid as cleanup crews attended the scene. Officials suspect peroxide and caustic soda among spilled chemicals. EPA notified and Western Emergency, a Keller based hazmat team, deployed.
In Beirut a bearded man identified as Cornea was pushed into a car amid shouting reporters. The vehicle first stopped at the Syrian observers' HQ with a Syrian army colonel boarding, then sped away into traffic in Rapuche. Revolutionary Justice set a 55 minute deadline for release and claimed a hostage would be handed over today in a note to a Western news agency.
Tuesday high 49 and low 32. Sunset 5 50 p m and sunrise 7 47 a m Thursday. No precipitation in last 24 hours. December total 3 3 inches. Year to date 32 13 inches. Records note Tuesday high 82 in 1955 and today low 6 in 1983.
The National Weather Service reports cloudy to partly cloudy skies across Texas with isolated west Texas rain showers and a Panhandle chance of snow flurries. Temperatures range from the 20s to near 70, with winds variable by region and lows in the 30s across most of the state this weekend.
Weather summary notes cold tonight with partly cloudy skies in Arkansas and Louisiana, cooler conditions and snow showers in New Mexico, and fair to partly cloudy weather in Oklahoma. It warns of widespread rain across the eastern half of the nation, freezing rain threats in central Appalachians and parts of Delaware Maryland and western Pennsylvania, and flood watches in western Virginia and western Carolinas with gale warnings for northern New Jersey coast.
National Weather Service at Midland Regional Airport says Permian Basin residents will see clear skies and low 50s on Christmas Day with light northerly winds tonight and Thursday. Lows tonight expected in the low 30s.
The Odessa American lists daily and Sunday mail subscription rates with different terms. Subscriptions include second class postage costs for daily and Sunday options. Delivery problems can be reported by calling the provided contact number.
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