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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1998
Page
10
State game wardens traced a large deer and its 12 tine rack after an anonymous tip. French notes the poacher is as bad as a thief and urges tipsters to call 1-800-792-4263. Wardens logged about 30 such tips recently, with a 70 percent success rate.
The Drug Free Youth in Texas Program at Crockett Junior High canceled Thursday's makeup enrollment testing. The school will set a new date for the test at a later time.
A 52 year old Odessa man reported being struck by an unknown object at 8.00 p m Monday in the 800 block of Bernice Avenue. The blotter lists injury accidents and felony activities reported to authorities with private residence addresses redacted to the nearest hundred block.
A 25 year old Odessa man reports his 1993 Chevrolet Lumina valued at 8000 dollars was taken from the 1400 block of Grant Avenue at about 2 30 a m on Friday. Damage in a separate report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development totaled 4000 dollars for fans walls and doors between Friday and Saturday.
A 17-year-old parolee at Corpus Christi York House was arrested over smoking, prompting state Rep. John Hirschi to say the new civil tobacco law was misapplied. TYC Director Steve Robinson criticized policing choices, and York House superintendent Bart Caldwell said the arrest was an overreaction aimed at fire risk. The teen will have a hearing. parole remains intact.
The Permian cheer squad faces an NCA appeal over a safety-violation penalty that could lift their ranking to seventh. An eighth-place provisional status remains during the review, with a ruling due in a couple of weeks. This event was the final contest of the school year, marked by a last group performance at a basketball game.
The Odessa City Council paused a bid to buy 47 personal computers and 49 printers for 100 088 dollars funded by 1996 1997 local law enforcement block grants and weapon sale proceeds. Edwards urged reopening bids to obtain lower end machines from local retailers. The council also approved a 5.4 percent residential utility rate cut effective Jan 1 with average yearly savings of about 75 dollars per customer. They increased speed limits on 42nd Street to 55 mph and adopted multiple 1997 standard code ordinances with amendments plus a no parking revision on East University Boulevard. The 1998 general city election for Districts 1 and 2 set for May 2 1998.
Midland hosts the second Permian Basin Tech-Prep School-to-Work Regional Conference at the Midland Center February 3 and 4. Sessions feature Bill Crawford and Chad Foster with talks on communication and real world education. Jason Dorsey speaks at the February 4 breakfast. Miss America 1996 Shawntel Smith attends February 4 lunch. Attendance is 25 for both days or 15 for one day. call 685-4669 for details.
The Odessa College board agreed to join the Council of Governments study assessing feasibility of consolidating printing, equipment and computer services. OC will contribute 5000 of the estimated 40000 cost. The COG comprises city and county representatives along with hospital DC and public school boards. The board also named the 120 acre Graham Center after Herbert Graham who donated the ranch to the college for rodeo and agriculture programs.
Sgt White says a Dodge pickup struck Jimenez on Murphy Street sending him onto the hood and about 50 feet before he fell beside a utility pole. The truck fled the scene. investigators note no speed evidence and urge tips to the hit-and-run office or Crime Stoppers. The driver faces felony charges for leaving the scene.
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