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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1981
Page
1
Final boxing matches showcase local talent while a group of Odessa youngsters express serious police officer ambitions. The piece notes how many envision careers in law enforcement and frames the event within a community context.
The piece notes that national prisoner health care has improved since extended legal fights, but progress is uneven. It highlights Texas with the nation’s largest prison system yet the lowest state spending on inmate health care. This is the first of a two part series beginning on Page 80.
President Reagan returns from Camp David to face a major budget clash as he plans a Wednesday night outline. AFL-CIO leaders, lawmakers, and celebrities mobilize against cuts to federal jobs and arts subsidies while Bush promotes the plan as a scalpel action. The package targets 83 programs and aims to trim 40 to 50 billion from a 739 billion dollar year.
Prospective jurors for 19 year old Kermit man Victor Carrasco Velasquez are being questioned in Big Spring after venue was moved from Kermit. original panel of 252 whittled to 87 amid disqualifications. Velasquez faces two counts for the November stabbings of Jeannie Pardue and Lee Ann Wallace. Trial presided by special judge Ralph Caton. Prosecutor Glen Williamson, defense attorneys John Lee and Sandy Torres.
Washington AP Special Correspondent Walter R. Mears notes that Reagan relies on economic forecasts as the backbone of his budget and tax plan to Congress. He warns that past errors by Carter show forecasts can miss and derail the administration’s aims if inflation and oil-price factors remain beyond control.
U S Army attache Maj James R Holbrook left the Soviet Union after an incident in which Soviet agents allegedly tried to blackmail him and recruit him as a spy. Western sources say the event occurred in Rovnya near the Polish border, with possible drug use to create compromising photographs. Holbrook, 41, reported the incident and was withdrawn six months before his Moscow tour ended.
AP News Analysis initially predicted inflation at 6.5 percent next year but sources now say President Reagan will forecast just over 8 percent for 1982. The change is seen as a modest improvement for Republicans in Congress.
The 1982 Texas governor race starts to form as John C. White considers his next move after leaving the DNC. Former Texas leaders like John Hill weigh future plans while Carter-era figures discuss energy and environment projects.
Four residents of Nothing Arizona population four, Kieth Wilkerson Arlene Kenworthy and others, wrote Governor Bruce Babbitt in 1977 asking for a highway road sign. They described their town as having a service station bar grocery one house two mobile homes two dogs and several cats and no road sign.
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