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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1982
Page
2
Anthropologists Grete Mosby and Horne describe an eight to nine year old Inca boy found buried in a shallow grave. The mummy sits with arms folded, hair braided, and coca cloth artifacts suggest a sun sacrifice after a long trek from the Lake Titicaca region.
Paleopathologist Dr. Horne examines an 8 or 9 year old mummy found near Cerro Plomo. He suggests coca or alcohol intake before burial and plans a liver biopsy to settle questions about preservation and disease. The study aims to confirm pre conquest viruses in the Americas as well as details of sacrificial context and the child’s arduous journey through the Atacama Desert.
The Peruvian mummy found near Lima was unwrapped amid a ceremony attended by Fernando Schwalb and dignitaries. Experts say the child likely died of malnutrition and lived 600 to 800 years ago just before the Incan era, with X-rays showing burial objects suggesting a tribal chieftain. The event drew calls for a respectful view rather than a spectacle.
A 10 year old girl abducted from a Utah convenience store, Melanie Larsen, walked into a Louisville Nebraska city office to reunite with her mother Elise Beck. An arrest warrant for Larry D Nielsen, 29, is for aggravated kidnapping. He was linked to the Salt Lake City area abductor.
A weather system brought heavy rain and flash flooding to Amarillo and the Panhandle, with up to 4 inches in some areas. Lawrence Lake overflow flooded storefronts as police closed streets and residents were evacuated. Officials note prior Labor Day flood damage of 20 million dollars. Local highs hovered in the 90s with scattered thundershowers statewide.
Lows tonight expected in the 70s. High Thursday around 100. Overnight low 76. Data from Midland Regional Airport shows trace precipitation in the last 24 hours and July total of 3.21 inches. Year to date 9.49 inches. Record high 105 in 1960 and record low 59 in 1971. Extended forecast calls for warm, mostly fair nights in North and West Texas with scattered thunderstorms and hot conditions in South Texas and the Panhandle reaching up to 103.
iA Thornburg outlines a 1983 budget featuring a 9 percent room rate increase phased in through the year, starting with 5 percent in January to offset hospital bad debt. The plan includes about $9.7 million in expected bad debts and $4.2 million in unpaid Medicare and Medicaid bills. Thornburg notes wage and benefits rise of 20 percent will not mean a straight 20 percent salary hike, as much is in benefits. Hospital employees will get a 10 percent raise in January and most employees another 5 percent later in 1983, plus a wage review to stay competitive with area hospitals. He cites reduced turnover and economic downturn aiding staff stability.
Transcripts reveal Jimmy Chagra disparaged Kerr and Wood ties and plotted against witnesses. He faces charges with Harrelson and others over the 1979 Wood killing and a conspiracy to kill Judge Wood. details include alleged payments and plans discussed in Leavenworth, with fear of links to Kerr and potential retaliation.
Houston AP. Edwin Wilson's attorney says she will seek dismissal of a four count indictment charging smuggling of more than 20 tons of plastic explosives from the United States to Libya. Wilson pleaded innocent on Thursday and is held at a secret location near Washington in lieu of a 20 million dollar bond from another case.
The State Board of Education rules allow only specific protest presentations at hearings. Hudson notes Education Commissioner Raymon Bynum has not replied to his request to testify. He warns that a Texas rejection of a textbook may signal broader economic and national sales consequences, leaving the public with limited formal influence on book selection.
Hudson described Texas as a hub for protests against textbooks led by Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview. He cited 600 of 900 protest pages from 1981 and linked the Gablers to a national network seeking to purge material they deem ideologue. The group plans to defend books and improve hearing access for Texans.
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