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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1979
Page
8
The OC midwinter session runs nine days from Thursday to Jan. 9 with 15 of 17 courses available and registration 8 to 9 30 a m Thursday. Two trips courses marine biology and skiing full. Tuition for local residents 40 for three semester hours, 52 for out of county in state students.
In Longview Texas a three day old infant found near a church nativity scene is dubbed the essence of Christmas by the minister who discovered him. The judge overseeing the adoption terminated the mother’s rights saying the baby’s exposure was cruel.
A 28 year old Odessa man David Allen Rose died after his 1979 motorcycle collided with a car driven by 47 year old Frank Edward Frawley at Eighth and Meadow at 6 34 p m Monday. Rose was not wearing a helmet and died of head and internal injuries at Medical Center Hospital. Services set for 4 p m Thursday at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens. He married Carolyn Mae Duncan in 1978 and served in the military in 1970 and 1972. Survivors include his wife two stepdaughters a stepson his mother two sisters grandmothers and two uncles.
Two men, Mike Kilgo and Ervin Haynes, both 23 from Waco, were stabbed to death in a Valley Mills suburb near Farm Roads 56 and 1637. Loyd Roberson, 22, of Hico, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after surgery. Investigators, led by Bosque County Sheriff Dave Roberts with DPS and Texas Rangers, pursued a line of inquiry about three assailants in a red car, with no witnesses providing a clear description.
A 268 foot British freighter with 14 crew members steamed toward Galveston after taking on water and listing 20 degrees. The Eagles Cliff, sailing from Mexico to Houston, was aided by Coast Guard pumps and escorted by Point Monroe to safe anchorage. The vessel later steadied to a 5 degree tilt as investigators sought the cause.
The Associated Press reports Texas road deaths climbed toward a projected 67 by midnight Christmas, with at least 49 fatalities in the 34 percent days before Christmas. DPS stretched extra patrols as pedestrians and vehicle rollovers marked the holiday toll, naming victims across Rosenberg Luling Manuel Bonham Waco Lufkin Lovington Denver City Odessa East Texas Jonesville Mount Pleasant and Huston among others.
Three female Texas escapees Deliberate high speed chase led to arrest in Pueblo Colorado. Sylvia Brown Patricia Watson and Mary Santellana face federal kidnapping warrants plus charges of aggravated robbery auto theft and interstate transport of a stolen car. Victims in Oklahoma City and Enid cases are noted.
A 55-year-old Odessa man, Lincoln Newman of 309 East Second No. 6, told police he was walking on North Grant at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday when a small-caliber shot struck his back as three men in a passing car fled south on Grant. He was treated at Medical Center Hospital and released after overnight observation. No suspects have been arrested.
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