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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1990
Page
2
The Odessa City Council must allocate a $1.05 million housing and urban development grant over six weeks. Projects seek more than $4 million, targeting low income areas, blight relief, street paving and park improvements.
Physical therapy shifts from optional to essential as demand grows, with signing bonuses up to 5 000 and entry level salaries starting at 30 000 per year, said Larry Feeler of Odessa Physical Therapy. In Odessa a 75 year old widow received a free evaporative cooler to cope with heat, part of an elderly assistance program.
In a Tuesday ruling the Texas Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court decision blocking annexation of 4,186 acres in east Odessa from Midland ISD to Ector County Independent School District. The dispute began in 1983 when Ridgewood and Mission Dorado subdivisions challenged the move.
The Confederate Air Force chose July Fourth to sign an agreement preserving their headquarters at Midland International Airport for the next hundreds. The City of Midland and the CAF formalized the arrangement at a signing ceremony at Windecker Aviation, the CAF's official home. The CAF had voted in April to relocate from Harlingen to Midland.
Fireworks celebrations left Odessa and West Odessa crews contending with more than 130 fires sparked by unorganized displays. Firefighters and police responded to the blazes Wednesday night.
NATO leaders agreed to shift from mass frontlines to mobile units and cap German military forces after merger. The alliance endorsed crisis flexibility, limited large scale postwar power, and offered non aggression pacts to Warsaw Pact members while expanding ties with Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. President Bush noted concerns over direct Soviet aid to Moscow despite backing reform.
The Parks and Wildlife Department faces scrutiny over a 1989 controversy involving tax payer funded stock and a Big Bend Ranch purchase. Former director Charles Allen pleaded no contest to illegally netting antelope and was fired amid a suit against the department. Sansom, a Brazoria County native and former Texas Nature Conservancy chief, pledges reform and broader outreach while navigating coastal landowner tensions and urban park advocacy.
Western leaders at the NATO summit in London discuss easing tensions with the Soviet Union. They consider aiding reform in Moscow while questioning U S aid and maintaining caution about military spending. Kohl says allies must decide whether to provide financial support. Bush voices doubts, Mulroney predicts progress at Houston. NATO invites Gorbachev to speak and aims to rely less on nuclear forces.
NATO leaders pledged to spell out by autumn a timetable for cutting German troops and reduce overall forces. Kohl hailed the plan as an indispensable signpost toward German unity while urging withdrawal of 700 aging U.S. short range missiles. Bonn aims to cut over 160,000 troops to 400,000 with possible further to 350,000.
West Texas Permian Basin Concho and Pecos mostly fair with highs mid to upper 90s and lows to mid 70s. Bend zone mostly fair with highs 80s. West Central mostly sunny hot days with highs around 90s. South Texas Hill Country and South Central partly cloudy hot with showers possible. Coastal Bend partly cloudy hot with possible thunderstorms and lows 60s at coast to 70s inland. Weather notes include Tuesday shower risk and coastal temperature spread.
Precipitation in the last 24 hours is none and for July none. Year to date totals 4.57 inches. Friday’s record high is 102 degrees set in 1947 and a 1 degree reading in 1958.
The National Weather Service at Midland International Airport forecasts today in the mid 90s with peey clouds, east winds 10 to 20 mph and a less than 20 percent chance of mainly afternoon showers or thunderstorms. Tonight will be mostly fair around 70, with Sunday sunny in the mid 90s. Showers later are possible as storms form in the south.
Partly cloudy New Mexico through Sunday with scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in the northwest. Lows 40s to 60s, highs mid 70s to 90s with higher mountains cooler. Oklahoma stays clear to partly cloudy Sunday with widely scattered storms southeast and west, lows in the 70s, highs 95 to 101.
An OCR fragment from the Odessa American dated June with garbled names mentions local time and place data. It preserves a historical Texas newspaper context though specifics are unclear. The intended notice appears as a brief public record or classified snippet from a 1990 issue.
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