Miss Pecos and Miss KOSA-TV win Miss West Texas honors
Kimberly Shaye Dingler of Pecos and Deborah Denise McDaniel of KOZA TV win top spots in the semifinals of the Miss West Texas Pageant at Ector County Coliseum. Dingler, 18, won the swimsuit segment, while McDaniel, also 18, earned judges and audience approval with a self-penned religious song. The final judging crowns Miss West Texas tonight with ten finalists and four runners up chosen for cash prizes and trophies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah Denise McDaniel
Kosa-Tv
Elly Hochman
Miss McDaniel
Kathy Joyce Foster
Tami Jo Whitmire
Gwendolyn Ann
Gwen) Wilson
University
Santa Fe Square
Karen McFall
West Texas
Miss Fisher
Venue change motion denied in rape case
The district judge denied a change of venue in the aggravated rape trial of Donnie Ray Moseley, citing publicity and statements by the district attorney. Moseley faces a July 18 retrial after a mistrial when the wrong indictment was read. Also reported: a burglary raid netted a washer and dryer valued at 477 dollars from a new Odessa townhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donnie Ray Moseley
C.V. Milburn Moseley
Tryon Lewis
Ector County
John Green
Moseley
Green
Johnny Fields
Parkway
Chimney Hollow
Joyce Marie Walker
Wabash
Rings and cash stolen in five Odessa thefts
Five thefts are reported. Sherry Young of Goldsmith says her purse with $5 and two rings valued at $168 were taken from the Odessa High School fieldhouse. An employee at Strike It Rich reports a weed eater worth $75 missing. Peggy Hedgpeth says two chrome rims valued at $20 were taken from her car at Sherwood Park. A Vagabond Motel worker reports a money bag with $16 lifted from a soft drink machine top. A Dixie Street Fine Station employee says a customer left in a pickup with 26.8 gallons of gasoline costing $15 unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherry Young
Goldsmith
Odessa
Strike It Rich
East Eighth
Peggy Hedgpeth
Oakwood
Sherwood Park
North Dixie
Vagabond
South Grant and
Pool Road
Dixie Street
Japan and China to resume peace talks in Tokyo
Japan and China agreed to restart negotiations on a proposed peace and friendship treaty after a three year halt over a phrase condemning hegemony in Asia and the Pacific. Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda announced the resumption. Leslie Woodard wins Pecos beauty title with fiddle talent and singing in front of a crowded Pecos High School Auditorium audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
China
Sunao Sonoda
Asia and
The
Pacific
Leslie Woodard
Pecos
Pecos High School
Miss Woodard
Leslie
Smoke and Chaos After Nassau Street Blast Injures Dozens
Fire officials report many victims with cuts from flying glass after a large explosion sent flames and debris across Nassau Street and Ann Street. Victims were carried into nearby stores including Oscar Birnbaum and Ozzie Shorn's men's shop as shards fell from upper‑floor windows. Residents describe scenes of burning papers, shattered clothes, and panicked crowds rushing from the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nassau Street
Ann Street
Frank D’amico
Oscar Birnbaum
Ozzie Shorn
Birnbaum
Virginia Peterson
Attorney General plans Australia trip and legal case notes
The attorney general schedules a July 10 trip to Australia while Adamson says plans remain unchanged. Griesa's year old order lets Socialist Workers Party lawyers proceed with a $40 million 1973 damage suit against the government alleging FBI break ins and illegal activity. Odessa firefighters battled a mobile home fire at Jose Lopez home and a storage shed fire at Samuel Kyees residence, with injuries avoided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Adamson
Griesa
Socialist Workers Party
FBI
Odessa
Jose Lopez
South West County Road
Odessa Sees Measurable Rain Across Multiple Gauges
Friday rain produced up to a quarter inch at seven unofficial Odessa gauges while Midland saw lighter showers. NWS notes a 20 percent rain chance for the Permian Basin on Saturday with weekend highs near 95 to 98 degrees and southerly winds 10 to 15 mph. Rain totals for June reach 1.15 inches. year to date is 3.77 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Weather Service
Midland
Odessa
NWS
Permian Basin
University and
Golder
38Th
Dixie
Grant
May
Fourth
Jackson
Central Fire Station
Brentwood
Eighth
Santa Rosa
Weather Forecast For Midland Regional Airport
Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain through tonight. Southerly winds 10 to 15 mph. High today 95, low tonight 68. High tomorrow 98, overnight low 68. Yesterday’s high 82. Sunset 8 59 p.m. Sunrise 6 47 a.m. Tr inch precipitation in last 24 hours. Year to date 3.77 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NWS
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Trucker dies in highway wreck near Plains Texas
A 49 year old Denver City truck driver Lorenzo G Lopez was killed Friday morning when a tire blew on his truck on Highway 380 six miles west of Plains. The mudriged truck overturned one and a half times causing a salt water load shift and a butane fuel tank explosion. Lopez born December 12 1928 in Taft had lived in Denver City since 1960. Survivors include his widow six daughters a son a stepson a stepdaughter and other relatives. Services were set for 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Mexican Mission in Denver City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains
Denver City
Here
Lorenzo G. Lopez
Mercury Oil Service
Justice of the Peace
A. G. Brantley
Lopez
Highway 380
Yoakum County
Texas
Mike Bennett
Mike McClure
First Baptist
Denver City Memorial Park
Taft
Victoria
Francis Lopez
Port Lavaca
Lupe Martinez
Janie Martinez
Margarita Ramirez
Petra Martinez
Carmen Lopez
Gloria Lopez
Mary Jane Morales
Corpus Christi
Sgt
Lorenzo G. Lopez Jr
California
Demetris Lozano
Serapia Olvera
Linton
Singleton Funeral Home
Deaths in Fort Davis and Austin Reflect Local Tragedies
Obituary notes include the funeral for Mrs. Jessie Louise Sproul in Fort Davis with burial at Hillcrest Cemetery. She was a Sherman native who moved to Fort Davis in 1912 and was married in 1915. Also in Austin, 23 year old John Bird died by gunshot and a 14 year old Odessa boy is in satisfactory condition after a self inflicted handgun accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Davis
Jessie Louise Spoul
Big Bend Memorial Hospital
First Presbyterian Church
Hillcrest
Sherman
Franklin Sproul
Order of the Eastern Star
Lee Sproul
Geeslin
John Bird
Austin
L. O. Bird
Louis Bird
Odessa
Episcopal Church of the Resurrection
Austin Memorial Park
Cook-Walden Funeral Home
Cook
Texas
Elnora Bird Adell
Lake Travis
Dana Bird
Kathleen Bird
Sherry Cain
Elzada Bird
Levelland
Forest Webster
Napa
Calif
Metical Center Hospital
John Paul Dodson
1618 West 25Th
Jimmy Ferman Dodson
Odessa Man Denied Bond. Drug Charge Reasserted
A 46 year old Odessa man Alfonso Ramirez Chacon was arrested June 26 on heroin possession charges after deputies and DPS officers found one and a half ounces buried in his yard. Bond was set at 100000, reduced to 65000, then denied on Friday under a new Texas law for felony indictments. He was previously indicted in 1976 and released on bond pending disposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Ector County
Alfonso Ramirez Chacon
North Adams
Texas Department of Public Safety
Justice of the Peace
Harold Sligar
Chacon
Sligar
District Court
Joe Connally
Connally
C. V. Milburn
John Green
Texas
Grand Jury
U.S. gifts aid Sahel livestock in Africa drought
The United States donated 3.62 million dollars to the FAO, aimed at saving 82,000 cattle and 150,000 other livestock in Mauritania and Senegal as drought grips the Sahel region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
United States
Mauritania
Senegal
Africa
Sahel
Odessa Arts Schedule Shows Othello and Local Theatre
Tomorrow offerings include Globe of the Great Southwest at 2 30 P M with Othello and Boy from the Hill Country at Permian Playhouse 2 30 P M. Odessa Composite Squadron meets at 7 30 P M at Civil Air Patrol Building Schlemeyer Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Southwest
Hill Country
Permian Playhouse
Odessa
Civil Air Patrol
Schlemeyer Field
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Happy Pageant
Bob Johnson
Miss Pecos
Miss Kosa-Tv
Uncle Henry
Krig Radio
Jana Denise York
Mark Twain
Blue Jay
Pamela Darlene
Ram) Diebels
Benjamin Photography
Georgia Brown
Karla Louise Stump
Tipperary Corp
Golden Girl of the
Bob Horn
Jessie L. Sproul
Odessan
U.S
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