New FAA plan to boost air safety at Midland airport
The FAA announced a sweeping air safety program to reduce near collisions and extend radar services. Midland Regional Airport is slated for Phase I with service expansion and tower staffing to be determined, part of broader steps including transponder use and collision avoidance equipment.
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Midland Airport
Washington
Federal Aviation Administration Today
Midland
Federal Aviation Administration
Albuquerque
N.M
FAA
San Diego
U.S
Langhorne Bond
Bond
Transportation
Brock Adams
Adams
Five Burglaries Investigated In City Losses Total $655
Police investigated five burglaries with losses totaling 655 dollars. Victims include Mrs Manuel Alamanza of 222 East Pearl reporting a television set stereo and two meat packages missing valued at 655 dollars after a window entry. Jack Ray of 303 East 38th reported rifles a clock radio and liquor worth 289 dollars with a broken kitchen door window. An employee at Vagabond Motel 110 West Interstate Highway 20 reported a TV set valued at 253 dollars taken with no forced entry. Alan R Lynn 1518 West 10th said a 12 volt car battery worth 55 dollars was stolen from a vehicle in the 500 block of North Texas. Tami Duncan 2130 Tanglewood said a back door was pried but nothing appeared taken.
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Manuel Alamanza
East Pearl
Jack Ray
East 38Th
Vagabond
Interstate Highway 20
Alan R. Lynn
West 10Th
North Texas
Tami Duncan
Tanglewood
Warming trend ahead for Permian Basin Thursday
The National Weather Service at Midland reports a warming trend in the Permian Basin with fair skies tonight and Thursday. Clouds may form Thursday but no precipitation is expected. Temperatures tonight drop to the 30s, Thursday high mid 60s, and records note a 77 degree high in 1955 and a 9 degree low in 1939.
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Permian
National Weather Service
Midland
Texas
Franklin County Businesses Pay Over $5 Million in 1978 School Taxes
Franklin County businesses including large corporations will pay more than $5 million in 1978 property taxes to aid financially troubled Columbus schools. Tax due date is February 12 after banks refused an $18 million payroll loan. Dana Rinehart noted Columbia Gas of Ohio paid $742,000 with Ohio Bell and Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric pledging about $4.3 million.
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Columbus, Ohio
Franklin County
Columbus
Rinehart
Columbia Gas of
Ohio
Ohio Bell
Southern Ohio Electric
Midland region weather forecast Mostly fair with warming trend
National Weather Service at Midland Regional Airport reports mostly fair conditions today and tonight with a rise in temperatures through Thursday. Highs reach 55 today and 65 tomorrow, with overnight lows around 26 to 35 and sunset at 5 52 p m. Precipitation year to date listed as 17 09 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Tehran Riots Shake Capital Amid Oil Strike and Assadist Protests
Soldiers in Tehran along with masked troopers moved through the square as gunfire rattled the downtown. Protesters burned tires and a car tied to SAVAK, while demonstrations targeted the National Iranian Oil Co and the American Embassy. Iran Air flights were halted and fuel rationing eyed as the strike deepened and professors were arrested after a fatal protest.
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Tehran
SAVAK
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
National Iranian Oil Co
Antishah
Iran Air
Iran
Abdullah Entezam
Gacy Faces Charges Over Missing Des Plaines Youth
Gacy is charged with killing Robert Piest 15 of Des Plaines. Piest disappeared December 11 and investigators say Gacy claimed to have discarded Piest and five other youths in the Des Plaines River. River search yielded no success. insanity defense anticipated though a colleague disputes the claim.
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Gcy
Robert Piest
Des Plaines
Gacy
Piest
Davis linked to two case shootings in Amarillo court
Prosecutors push to question Davis about contract killings tied to the Davis family drama. Witnesses name Miss Bass as the original target and link Gacy papers to probe Davis sanity while officials discuss the late 1970s murder for hire plot and several related deaths.
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Ciphls
Davis
Priscilla
Gus 'Bubba’ Gavrel Jr
Amarillo
Joe Eidson
Obituaries and Funeral Notices from Midland and Surrounding Areas
Obituaries detail Aubrrey Wayne Pogue a Midland geophysicist aged 52 with services at First Baptist Church Midland burial at Resthaven. Elba Leftwich Jones 83 to be buried at Rosemound Waco after Odessa grocery ties. Mildred Adeline Ligon 67 died Coke County Hospital with two sons and a daughter listed. John H. Allison 74 former ARCO pumper, Sunset Memorial Gardens service. Delores Torres 96 of Lamesa Catholic rites at St Margaret Mary’s with Branon Funeral. Samuel Archuleta infant death with memorials pending Easterling. Survivors named for multiple entries.
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Big Spring
Berniece B. Coates
Assembly of God
Mount Olive Memorial Park
Nalley-Pickel Funeral Home
Andrews
Irene Schnaubert
Homer Barnett
Sul Ross University
Jones
Assembly of God Church
Barstow
William Thomas Coates
Las Cruces
N.M
Peggy
Manuel D. Madrid
Hammet
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Odessa
Easterling Funeral
Madrid
Justice of the Peace
Virgil Lumpee
Shafter
Carlsbad
Dionicia
Jesse Madrid
Anita Garcia
Bristow
Okla
Charlotte Ann Brammer
Schumacher Funeral Home
Magnolia Memorial Cemetery
Brammer
Medical Center Hospital
Oklahoma City
Moore
Cassville
Order of the Eastern Star
Church of God
Willard F. Brammer
Norman L. Brammer
Jean Ayres
Bill Head
Selma
Calif
Selma Sperry
Cornelian
Gertie Holman
Birch Tree Mo
Margarette Lucille Akers
Carver
St. James Baptist Church
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Akers
Mooreville
Graham
Frank Roy Akers Jr
Ontario
Allie Laura Parker
West 14Th
Friendship Baptist Church
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Thelma Williamson
LaVera Roberts
Iva Rankin
Houston
Henry Parker
Bryson
Eldred Parker
Lubbock
Wendell Parker
Little Rock
Ark
Aaron Parker
Pearl Givens
Leona Quattlebaum
Clarendon
Harley Bingham
Midland
Aubrrey
Wayne Pogue
Midland Consultiryz
First Baptist Church
Resthaven Memorial Park
Ellis Funeral Home
Pogue
Houston Hospital
Findlay
Ill
U.S. Air Force
Eastern Illinois University
University of
San Angelo
Elba Leftwich Jones
Rosemound
Waco
Robert Massie
Mrs. Jones
Olin Leftwich
J.M. Whetstone
Arlington
Mildred Adeline Ligon
Bankhead
Shaffer
Robert Lee
Beatrice Counts
Sterling City
Sylvia Kennener
Longviews
Josephine Mahon
Eagle Lake
Katherine Martin
New Mexico
Ruth Goode
Spearman
Dixie Jones
Brownfield
John H. Allison
Fairlane
Allison
Fredonia
Kan
Atlantic Richfield Co
Marie E. Plannington
Erie
Pam S. Calvert
Pat Dobbs
Wellington
Lamesa
Delores Torres
St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church
Lamesa Memorial Park
Branon Funeral Home
Torres
Alfredo Ramirez
Mexico
Samuel Archuleta
Vivian Villarreal
East 13Th
Clayton
Marlene Villarreal
Felicia Villarreal
Juanita Martinez
Muleshoe
Bond set in pickup theft case in Odessa
A 21 year old Odessa man Ryki Don Homfeld faced a $5,000 bond after being charged with theft of a 1977 pickup truck valued at 3,800 dollars. He was arrested December 20 in the 1400 block of North Milburn after police spotted the stolen vehicle and he ran. The felony charge followed a misdemeanor eluding charge.
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Odessa
Ryki
Don Homfeld
North Center
Justice of the
Jimmy Harris
Homfeld
E. L. Lindsey
North Hancock
North
Milburn
Harris
Otis Moore
Odessa Fire Crews Fight Multiple Trash and Grass Blazes
Firefighters battled four of seven Tuesday trash container fires in Odessa with calls at 5 25 p.m in East 51st 1400 block South Alleghaney 1400 block Byron Emerald and 7 18 p.m in Bonham They also doused a grass fire at 4 20 p.m on North Lauderdale A kitchen fire at Hickory was a false alarm and another reported car fire was extinguished en route.
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Odessa
East 51St
South Alleghaney
Byron
Emerald
Bonham
North
Lauderdale
Hickory
Robbery as Motive Sought in Chagra Slaying
El Paso police say robbery not ruled out as a motive in the slaying of defense lawyer Lee Chagra. He was found with a gunshot wound in his downtown office after Saturday’s noon incident, wearing his jewelry despite the fatal wound. Friends and relatives have expressed grief.
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EL Paso, Texas
Lee Chagra
Chagra
Record of many marriages and court actions and births
CISINTY COURT issued marriage licenses for Ruben Lerma Del Bosque and Presilia Martinez McGuire and others. District Court reports a divorce suit filed, hospital admits and discharges listed, and Births at Women’s and Children’s Hospital. A $25,000 reward is offered in the killer case with Chagra’s plush office under 24 hour guard and police secrecy.
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Cisinty Court
Ruben Lerma del Bosque
Presilia Martinez McGuire
David Curtis Tachell
Virginia Jewel Eubanks
Joel Joaquin Seenz
Dolores Hernandez
Byron Keith Jones
Sandra Ann Nesly
George Hernandez Lanez
Maria Madrid Bernal
Lawrence Edwin Bond
Betty Jane Overturf
Kenneth
Ray Vaughan
Brenda Gayle Carrasco
Presto
Warner Sevens
Linda Gall Willyard
Lloyd Bean
Mildred Lavon Pierce
Patrick Gorman Tiarris II
Barbara Jean Slover
Chagra
John Lanahan
Odessa club schedules for tomorrow events
The Kiwanis Club of Odessa meets at 6 30 A M at Hospitality Lodge followed by the Grandview Lions at noon at Inn of the Golden West Chaparral Toastmasters at noon at Underwoods Cafeteria and the Evening Lions Club at 6 30 P M at Inn of the Golden West.
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Odessa University
Grandview Lions
Inn of the Golden West
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Underwoods
Evening Lions Club
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