Meteorite market scheme from a crater idea
In a humorous column, Bubba proposes a plan to boost meteorite sales by rerouting traffic to a local crater and building a rest area atop a hill for tourists. The narrator discourages the impractical scheme and jokes that Bubba’s idea “cratered,” ending the exchange with a pun. The piece closes noting Ken Brodnax’s regular column schedule.
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Bubba
T’m
Denver
Monahans
Txdot
Highway Department
Texas ‘Department of Transportation
Tucson
New Mexico
ECISD to rethink freshmen athletic eligibility
Ector County ISD trustees weigh freshman participation in high school sports after May ban. A proposed plan would allow some freshmen to compete with east side magnet restrictions and potential loss of eligibility if transferring. A May decision cited academic concerns and a June public petition prompted the review.
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Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees
Vernon Stokes
Stokes
West Odessa
Ector
Bowie Junior High
Odessa High School
Permian High School
Ncs
Volunteers Needed for Nike Permian Basin Open Tourney
Organizers seek volunteers for the Nike Permian Basin Open to be held August 27 to 30 at the Club at Mission Dorado. Funds raised benefit the Buffalo Trails Boy Scouts. Volunteers support setup and tournament tasks, with a $30 participation fee for hat shirt food and drinks plus family passes and a volunteer party.
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Ford
Lynn Crawford
Paula Butler
Mission Dorado
Buffalo Trails Boy Scouts
Dan Jamierson
Odessa
Jamierson
Beverages banned on Guadalupe and Comal Rivers proposal
Comal County officials weigh a plan to ban all containers on the Guadalupe and Comal rivers after repeat reports of nudity and drunken behavior during tubing season. A public hearing is set. judges note the water district cannot ban alcohol on navigable waterways but can ban containers.
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NEW Braunfels
Comal
Guadalupe
Guadalupe River
Carter Casteel
Jim Inman
San Antonio Express-News
Inman
Odessa High names Alma Guerrero first woman principal
Alma Guerrero will become Odessa High School's principal, the first woman to lead a ECISD secondary school. With 13 years in education, Guerrero previously led Crockett Junior High and holds a UT Permian Basin master’s in education administration. She aims to boost instructional time in block scheduling and expand staff development.
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Ford
Nike
Odessa High School
Alma Guerrero
Guerrero
Ector County
Crockett Junior High
OHS
Raymond Starnes
ECISD
Rio
University of Texas of the
1972 Year of Watergate and Moon Landings Across Nation
1972 featured Nixon’s re election landslide while Watergate broke with DNC burglary indictments. Hoover died. Wallace survived an assassination attempt. Apollo 16 landed on the Moon followed by Apollo 17 Challenger mission. Supreme Court ruled death penalty unconstitutional in a 5 4 decision.
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Odessa
Richard Nixon
George McGovern
Ny Nne
Committee For
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
George Wallace
Maryland
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
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Freedom Iatemeicellows Inc
Loggva Media Company
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