ECISD board hears of low Southside testing scores
ECISD officials report 5th and 9th graders underperforming on the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills. 9th graders at Ector High show weak math and reading mastery, with 43% in math and 52% in reading, while Nimitz and Hood junior highs post higher scores.
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ECISD
Ector High School
Ector County Independent School District
James Chaney
Ecisd Board of Trustees
Ector
Nimitz
Chaney
Ector High
Odessa
Hood Junior High
Bonham Junior High
Crockett
Bowie
Rusk
Milam/Carver
Gonzales
Burnet
Milam/ Carver
Arson Suspected In Odessa Trailer Fire
Odessa firemen suspect arson after an early morning trailer house fire damaged the structure and most of its furniture. Investigators questioned a suspect at the scene for public intoxication. no charges filed by noon. Mae Hawkins said a man she knew threw gasoline through the window and set the blaze. he hid in a closet as she returned home. Fire Inspector Rick Cates said evidence of a flammable liquid was found. The trailer, owned by Don Stafford, was gutted. four units and nine firefighters battled the blaze for about 30 minutes with 1,000 gallons of water. no injuries reported. Authorities continued the investigation today.
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Odessa
Rick Cates
Mae Hawkins
Chalden Place
Hawkins
Cates
Don Stafford
Charges filed in a fatality wreck
A Seminole man, 21, faces six counts of involuntary manslaughter for driving eastbound in the westbound lane and causing a head-on crash on U.S. 180 that killed six Hobbs residents returnees from Texas. Paul G. Elam will be arrested on release from Seminole Memorial Hospital, with bond set then. The crash, four miles east of Seminole, was described by the sheriff as Gaines County’s worst auto wreck. The six dead were Chester and Thyra Young, Clifton Ray and Vivian Taylor, Vernon and Clifton LaMont Taylor, all from Hobbs. Chester Young’s service is set for Wednesday in Lamesa. Others’ services pending. victims were flown from Hobbs to Eagle Lake.
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Seminole
Paul G. Elam
U.S. 180
Seminole Memorial Hospital
Gaines County
Joe Smith
New Mexico
Texas
Smith
106Th District
Elam
Ed Welch
Joe Valenzuela
Department of
Odessa
Hobbs
N.M
Lamesa
Chester A. Young
Thyra Lee Young
Clifton Ray Taylor
Vivian Lemmons Taylor
Vernon
Clifton
Brannon Funeral Home
Tenn Funeral Home
Eagle Lake
Two Crane Suspects Arrested in Oklahoma
Crane authorities arrested Allen Hartley aged 22 and Jeffrey B Hayden from Crane for robberies in Crane. They allegedly stole 3500 dollars from Town and Country South and an unknown amount from a Bob Wall Chevrolet soda machine. Both waived extradition to Texas.
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Oklahoma
Crane
Broken Bow
Okla
Allen Hartley
Jeffrey B. Hayden
South
Bob Wall
Bob Wall Chevrolet
Texas
Monahans Residents Plan Reinstatement March
A Monahans doctor, Dr. Robert G. Holston, was suspended from Ward Memorial Hospital in August 1979. Local residents planned a march from Ward County courthouse to the hospital at 3 p.m. to demand reinstatement. The suspension, upheld by the hospital medical staff and Board of Managers after a hearing in October 1979, was due to undisclosed reasons.
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Monahans
Ward Memorial Hospital
North Monahans
Ward County
Robert G. Holston
Robert Hill
Hill
Dr. Holston
Holston
Tucson slowly returns to normal after tritium scare
In Tucson the South Plumer Avenue area appears restored after a 1979 tritium scare at American Atomics. The plant is closed and fenced, workers have left, and decontamination continues under state and federal oversight while schools resume lunch prep in separate kitchens. A new Odessa plant proposal looms as legal actions proceed.
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American Atomics Corp
Santana Corp
Odessa
Michael A. Chihak
Associated Press
Tucson, Ariz
The
Baptist Church
South Plumer Avenue
Arizona Atomic Energy Commission
American Atomics
Tucson Unified
Bruce Babbitt
Navajo Army Ordnance Depot
Flagstaff
Arizona
Department of Energy
Dale Pontius
State Atomic Energy Commission
Tucson
Peter Biehl
Texas
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Educational Testing Service, Inc
New Jersey
Midland
Big Spring
Amarillo
Austin
Texas Education Agency
Bonham
Bill Holm
Holm
U.S. District Court
el Paso
Permian Basin
Henry Bargas
U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Darrel Warren
Warren
University of Arizona
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