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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1998
Page
1
Odessa American sent to press ahead of schedule for the holiday causing delays to late news obituaries sports and lottery results. A tentative 1999 budget of 29 billion dollars is noted for Russia while the US spends over 30 billion weekly. Clinton impeachment label sparks debate on executive powers.
In Ortona Italy German and Canadian veterans who fought there 55 years ago shared a Christmas Eve meal in the town’s bombed church. Survivors from both sides exchanged stories over soup and photos, reflecting on a brutal battle that became known as the Stalingrad of the West.
A 12 year old boy Anthony McKinney asked Santa for winter clothes toys and dinner aid after his mother died in a traffic crash and his grandfather died last summer. Post workers found the letter and aided the family turning on gas providing meals and gifts for the winter with plans for Christmas Eve dinner.
A fire displaced 34 residents at Autumn Place Apartments on North Dixie Boulevard in Odessa. Chermaine Sullivan and her five children escaped as flames consumed one unit and heavy smoke damaged five others. Fire investigators credit the heating system as the likely source. details remain under investigation. Local manager Linda said residents face loss of belongings and Christmas gifts.
Donna Rounsaville executive director says the American Red Cross of Southwest Texas seeks cash donations to aid about 34 people affected by Wednesday’s fire. Donors can designate funds for Autumn Place residents.
The death toll from freezing, icy roads rose to 16 as temperatures stayed below freezing and travel slowed during a peak holiday period. DPS said two men died after either jumping or falling from an I-10 bridge to avoid a sliding car. Ice and multiple pileups left ages from 7 months to 78 among the victims. conditions expected to linger through Christmas Day.
Troop 121 will collect Christmas trees from homes in Odessa and Midland for a 5 donation and haul them to the disposal site behind the Time Machine. Pickup runs Saturdays through Jan 3 with 550-7947 to schedule. Proceeds fund an end of year trip to New Orleans.
Artist Amy Greving used bags of dryer lint from 750 member First Reformed Church of Grandville to craft a life size Madonna and Child. Over three months she worked weekends and spare time, shaping a papier mache like core on a chicken wire frame then painting it metallic.
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