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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1995
Page
9
The narrator notes reports of brown tree snakes spreading toward the mainland, with sightings in beds, sofas, and gardens. While bites rarely kill healthy adults, they have caused deaths among children and vulnerable individuals, and the snakes aggressively hunt prey much larger than themselves amid an overpopulation crisis.
Sonja Merrick notes how brown tree snakes spread globally via air travel, likening rapid transport to a social rush that erodes leisure and health. She recalls a Paris to Venice journey and laments modern speed. The column warns that haste, media consumption, and fast tech threaten well being as jet travel accelerates life.
The United Way of Odessa weighs a 1.05 million campaign target for this year reflecting stabilizing local economy says stockbroker. Executive Director Susan Brown notes last year raised 1.049 million about 44 000 above the original 1.005 million goal though needs identified by agencies total 1.24 million. Leaders and board members at a Friday luncheon discussed goals but have not set specifics, Brown adds. One agency requests 35 000 to join United Way while others seek funds to aid abused children expand Hispanic youth Scout participation and bolster family counseling programs.
More than 5,800 Ector County students learned about the free enterprise system and business world through the Junior Achievement program last school year. Volunteers visit classrooms weekly to teach economics and job readiness, with grade specific curricula from second to twelfth grade.
A 23 year old Lubbock man Greg Hall was convicted of aiding and encouraging the murder of 17 year old Marcus Tiwaun White and was sentenced by an Ector County jury to 45 years in prison. Hall must serve 22 years before parole eligibility.
Texas agencies race to trim payrolls up to 8500 jobs after a 1996 97 budget that funds 3500 fewer positions. DHS will eliminate 730 posts. MHMR 209. TEA up to 210. Health 600 by vacancy nonfill. Bush administration says cuts reverse growth but will cost jobs.
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