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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 2006
Page
1
An old California newspaper ad calls for young, skinny, wiry men under eighteen who are expert riders and willing to risk death daily, with orphans preferred. The stark recruitment note reflects the perilous and primitive conditions of early mail service across the West.
About 31 riders carried 300 letters stamped with Texas to New Mexico as Pony Express West staged a two day reenactment from Seminole to Hobbs. Organizers David Barnard and Harmon Hann noted the relay involves two mile segments with a $2 mailing fee and a designed stamp.
Former Crockett Junior High principal Olen Vanburen Grady will serve two years probation after pleading guilty to bringing and firing a loaded gun on school property in February. Judge John W. Smith accepted the plea and Grady must resign ECISD and surrender his teaching certificate.
Vona Lee Heiting, 52, a Midland teacher, died Friday afternoon in a one vehicle rollover on Highway 191 between Odessa and Midland. DPS trooper Wade Dunn said she overcorrected, crossed the median, and the Blazer rolled several times. The left westbound lane was closed over an hour as responders removed her from the vehicle. She was wearing a seatbelt and pronounced dead at the scene.
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