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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 2000
Page
9
An unnamed resident in Flint recounts days without furniture or clothing, awaiting delivery from a moving company and filling time with improvised crafts, home projects, and thrifted entertainment while wondering when life will improve and a couch or television will arrive.
Lisa Haiss chronicles 19 days after arrival in Odessa, finding relief in a couch and unpacked boxes. She recalls moving chaos, a late night unwrapping, and adjustments without cable or online access, finally settling into writing and reading.
Medical Center Hospital will write off more than seven million dollars in uncollected debt next month following an Arthur Andersen evaluation. At the Ector County Hospital District board meeting administrator William Webster cited billing and collection issues as the cause and said a turnaround plan will be developed.
Hudspeth County Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 weighs growing from 225 to 1,180 square miles to shield Dell City from El Paso's water demand. Residents accuse Hunt Building Corp. of buying land to divert water for sale, while Hunt says purchases cover about 4,500 acres in a 30,000 acre farmland area and officials discussed plans last May.
Border Patrol agents in the Marfa Sector near the southwest border report a multi地点 drug seizure. Two Arizona residents, a 30-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman, were arrested after a dog alerted drugs in a car. In a separate stop near Sierra Blanca, a Texas man was found with 139 pounds in a tampered gas tank. The shipments have an estimated street value over $111,000 and over $80,000 in transit toward Odessa Midland.
Ramon Mata, 51, condemned for killing a prison guard 15 years ago, died Thursday evening at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice hospital in Galveston after being hospitalized since June 26 from the Terrell Unit near Livingston. The provisional cause is septic shock. An autopsy was planned. Mata, a Reeves County native and former oil-rig worker, had two prison sentences for the 1978 execution-style killings of two Pecos County men.
Barron 24 of Odessa stands over his 1998 Chevy pickup after a three car crash Tuesday evening. The black 1993 Ford Mustang driven by Carrol Gillit of Odessa left turning southbound struck Barron’s vehicle and sent the Chevy into a 1993 Dodge 1500 driven by Pete Sandoval, 23, of Odessa. Gillit was transported to Medical Center Hospital. Story on Page 2B.
Odessa City Council on Tuesday voted to continue supporting the La Entrada al Pacifico grant application under the National Corridor Planning and Development Program. The Metropolitan Plain Organization would submit the grant on the council’s behalf.
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