July jobless rate may hit 12-year high
The Texas Employment Commission projects Texas July unemployment at 8.4 percent, matching Odessa's June rate and yielding a 12-year high. The report cites a faltering oilfield economy, national recession effects, and a flood of graduates entering the job market. Odessa claims rose to over 3,000 in June with 300 openings currently listed in the district.
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Texas Employment Commission
Odessa
Texas
TEC
Commission
Ken Clapp
Odessa Tec
Frank Kasko
Stan Whitley
San Angelo
Midland
Big Spring
Lamesa
Pecos
Whitley
James Barnes
Austin
U.S. Labor Department
Barnes
Plan spurs teacher requests in Ector County
Elizabeth Simpson reports that Odessa teachers group filed a 24 page list of requests in federal court Wednesday to protect teachers rights amid desegregation. The Texas State Teachers Association seeks a clear policy on voluntary transfers, posted vacancies, and open positions in the district as desegregation moves forward. A plan to convert Ector High into a junior high and create an east west feeder system was filed with the court.
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Odessa
Ector County
Leonard Schwartz
Texas State Teachers Association
Justice Department
Ector High School
Eastwest
Schwartz
TSTA
Desegregation deal pitched for Ector County schools
Superintendent Bill Holm announced an official desegregation agreement with the Justice Department for Ector County Independent School District but warned court approval remains speculative. CRUCIAL and Parents for Quality Neighborhood Schools oppose the plan. attorney Norma Solis of MALDEF is involved and negotiations face resistance.
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Bill Holm
Justice Department
Ector County
Ector County Independent School District
Jack Tidwell
Ector High School
Norma) Solis
Tidwell
Solis
Manuel Escobar
Mummy unwrapping stirs Indians at World's Fair
The National Congress of American Indians calls for a boycott over Peru's planned unwrapping of a 600 year old Incan mummy at the Tennessee State Amphitheater. Peru's Jorge Boza Jr says the act is not sacrilegious to Peruvians.
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Knoxville
Tenn
National Congress of American Indians
Peru
Tennessee State
Ronald P. Andrade
Jorge Boza Jr
Lima
Boza
J D Cone Medical Building Plans Revealed in Odessa
Odessa physician Dr Jessie Cone unveiled a 4 million dollar four story medical office complex to be built on Alleghaney Avenue facing Medical Center Hospital. The 37,150 square foot facility will house 21 suites a pharmacy a lab and X ray services with two atriums an indoor garden and about 125 parking spaces. Interfirst Bank will finance the project which aims to attract existing Odessa doctors and newcomers to the area beginning construction within 30 days.
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Cone
Odessa
J.D. Cone
Alleghaney Avenue
Medical Center
Sam Glenney
Glenney
N. Alleghaney Ave
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Judy Brookshier
Mary Alice Ramos
Ramos
Mummy
Boa
Andrade
University of Tennessee Pathologists
South America
Fairgrounds
J.D. Cone Medical
John McCartney
Interfirst Bank
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