Local businessmen strive to keep Nike Permian Basin Open in Odessa
A group led by Odessa businessmen seeks to keep the Nike Permian Basin Open at Mission Dorado after Medical Center Development Corp. said it would not renew the 1997 contract. PGA officials express hope for continued community support while organizer Brad Allen notes lack of a presenting sponsor threatens the event's profitability. The tournament, which benefits local charities, has run since 1992 and offers PGA Tour exemptions to top Nike Tour money winners.
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Odessa
Bob Glass
City Pipe & Supply
Mission Dorado
Gilast
Medical Center Development Corp
Dale Antrum
Professional Golf Association
PGA
Ponte Vedra
Fla
Permian Basin
Brad Allen
MCDC
Allen
PGA Tour
Tour
Southwest Converience
7-Eleven
Gingrich as Speaker Faces Challenge and Declining Stature
The Washington drama centers on House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia as his stature appears diminished amid questions about accountability and a broad political struggle with President Clinton. Analysts say Republicans retain power to push their agenda even without strong leadership, shaping future investigations and policy battles.
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Washington
Newi Ich
Georgia
Texas Lottery fires executive director Nora Linares
The Texas Lottery Commission dismissed executive director Nora Linares by a 3 to 0 vote. The move came after scrutiny of a $30,000 contract tied to a friend and a longtime deputy was named acting director Zoann Attwood. Former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John Hill led the firing motion.
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Austin
Texas Lottery Commission
Nora Linares
Linares
Texas Lottery
IT Edi
Shay Afer Ey Fing
Linaresaddi
Texas Supreme Court
John Hill
Zoann Attwood
Commission
Attwood
Mike Moeller
Gtech Corp
MCH Official Buy Offer Leaves Health Board Split
After months of talk about Seg Center Hospital no sale, Tenet Corp has made an offer but details remain undisclosed. Hospital board chair Bill Hetzer says members are not eager to sell and want to review documents first while Odessa Regional Hospital administrator Lex Guinn frames it as an expansion plan leveraging the company’s strength to improve care.
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Seg Center
Tenet Corporation
Bill Hetzer
Lex Guinn
Odessa Regional Hospital
Dolls aid sick children cope with tailored Shadow Buddies
Miles Postlethwait and his mother Marty created Shadow Buddies a year ago to comfort children facing heart kidney and intestinal defects through 12 disease specific 12 inch dolls fitted for casts chemotherapy lines and surgeries The line has reached about 12000 children nationwide some dolls traveling to former Soviet republics and 100 given to Mikhail Gorbachev Raisa in a National Children s Cancer Society event.
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Lenexa
Kan
Miles Postlethwait
Marty
Postlethwaits
United States
Shadow Buddies
Mikhail Gorbachev
International Trust For Children
Marty Postlethwait
Gorbachev
Raisa
Children's Cancer Society
Miles Postiewait
Tall tower plan irks pilots near Odessa College
Officials and pilots oppose WinStar’s bid to extend Odessa College’s 317 foot tower to 1020 feet for a 5000 kilowatt TV station. FAA, city officials and pilots warn of dangerous effects on approach and departure paths at Schlemeyer Field, urging objection to the FCC license extension.
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Schlemeyer
WinStar Broadcasting Corporation
Federal Aviation UN
Ion
Washington D.C
Odessa College
WinStar
E.W. Schmidt
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Sand Hills
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Sory Board
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Ector County
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