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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1983
Page
2
San Angelo firefighters, drenched in steam from cooling hoses in subfreezing air, entered the hottest area of a two alarm fire that shattered early Friday. Cold water lines and frozen nozzle connectors hampered efforts as crews fought the three stage blaze for nearly five hours. no injuries reported and a freight warehouse was destroyed.
Gipson says about 100 meetings crafted the desegregation plan. 435 Ector High students were moved to Odessa and Permian high schools. Creating Ector Junior High School saved over 1 million annually. CRUCIAL and West Odessa Parents for Quality Neighborhood Schools challenged the plan while magnet schools opened in 1983 and four more planned for 1984.
In Nashua New Hampshire a 35 year old man Ernest Shackford Jr attacked shoppers with a six inch butcher knife in a downtown plaza killing one woman and injuring five others two before inside a grocery store four injured inside the store he was restrained by employees He faces second degree murder charges and awaits arraignment Shackford had recently been released to a work release halfway house after serving nine years on a rape conviction and was reported missing from a Portland Maine church job the previous night.
The National Weather Service forecasts a high in the upper 50s under sunny skies in Odessa, with southerly winds 10 to 20 mph, while tonight's low drifts into the upper 20s and Sunday warms to the mid-50s. A record cold snap in Texas caused at least 37 deaths, millions in crop damage, and widespread broken water pipes.
The Minneapolis City Council narrowly approved an ordinance outlawing pornography as a civil rights violation by a 7-6 vote. Mayor Fraser weighs signing it as opponents warn the measure may be unconstitutional and trigger a court challenge. The law, effective in six months, defines pornography as the sexually explicit subordination of women, depicted graphically in pictures or words.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal courts cannot hear suits by Americans held hostage in Iran in 1979. It said plaintiffs may refile claims against the United States in the U.S. Claims Court, under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, for injuries within the United States.
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