Skylab crew works to free wing and restore power
Skylab astronauts attempt to pry loose an inch-wide strip holding the wing, aiming to raise the solar wing beam and restore power to more than 3,000 watts. Conrad, Kerwin, and Weitz rehearse outside in the workshop while mission control weighs a 75 percent chance of success and crews push toward a new American spaceflight duration record.
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Space Station
Skylab
Conrad
Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Mission Control
Russell Schweickart
Kweickart
Milton Windler
Windler
Sklab
U.S
Weitz
Eve
Schweickart
Ava
Mexico
Nixon aides defend actions while facing Watergate questions
Testimony describes Sloan pressuring for assurances on private work and denying knowledge of wider Watergate cover up. He discusses meetings with Haldeman, the risk of retribution, and mentions Stans, Porter, and Ehrlichman. Proceedings touch on campaign contributions before April 7, and the impact on individuals involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Haldeman
Sen
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
Sloan
Herbert L. Porter
United States
Porter
White House
Herbert G. Klein
Senate
California
Stans
Shoan
Ervin Delivers Homespun Wit in Sloan Watergate Session
Senate Watergate chair Sam Ervin steered Hugh Sloan through a brisk recap of events and offered pointed remarks. He praised Sloan as honest and quipped about Mitchell’s committee departure, ending with the sage line What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
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Ervin
Preside Nixon
Hugh Sloan
Watergate
G. Gordon Liddy
John N. Mitchell
Sloan
FBI
Mitchell
County Court Action Records From Marchese Licenses
County Court lists licenses issued to multiple couples including Glenn Lee Clark Jr. and Mary Lucille Crook and others. Criminal filings show driving while intoxicated cases for Jack Gray and William Morgen Capshaw among others. District Court records note divorces such as Donna White vs William White and Norman Massey vs Marjorie Massey. Civil suits include Joyce J. Smith vs First State Bank of Odessa and Gobbitt Bearing Co. vs Hill's Engine Service. Medical Center Hospital reports numerous admissions and discharges, with births and a variety of patient names listed. City traffic accidents document several collisions with involved parties and damage levels.
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Marchese
Glenn Lee Clark Jr
Mary Lucille Crook
Robert Dale Foust
Sherry Lou Sparks
Donnie Allen Tiller
Annie Mae Sullivan
Andy Jackson Jones
Jennifer Theresa Smith
Curtis Arnold Jr
Shirley Ann Neatly
Harold Wayne Beaty Jr
Debra Ann Ryad
Kenneth Wayne Slaughter
Robbie Meriene
Jack Gray
William Morgen Capshaw
Billy Leon Beaver
District Court
Donna White
William David White
Norman Lee Massey
Marjorie Jo Massey
Eula McBride
Stanley McBride
Billy Hughes
Ramona Hughes
Joyce J. Smith
First State Bank of Odessa
Odessa Gobbitt Bearing Co
Hill
Engine Service
Joe Vega
James C. Lovett
Sam H. Conner Jr
Cactus Drifting Co
Ralph Hickman
Nina Campbell Evans
Fred W. Margette
Roy M. Cass
Museum of the Southwest hosts core samples and molas display
Midland article notes a core samples exhibit and a molas display at the Museum of the Southwest. The core case in Turner Memorial Gallery shows Coral fossil and Devonian minerals with raw samples and devices. Molas from the San Blas Islands and four molas from Gen and Mrs Edwin White Jr are featured through mid July. Admission is free.
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Midland
Cuna
San Blas Islands
Jonathan Leonard
Edwin J. White Jr
Leonard
Canada
Smithsonian Institution
Panama
Snoopy
Food theft at Sands Restaurant Odessa
Odessa police investigated a theft at Sands Restaurant 1401 East Second, taking a sack of potatoes a sack of carrots and a box of lemons valued at 18.55 dollars. The items were stolen from a side door around 1 p.m. Wednesday.
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Odessa
East Second
Dolice
Funeral set for Jose A. Gonzales in Anson
Funeral services for 31 year old Jose A. Gonzales of 111 East Myrtle are 1:30 PM Thursday at St Michael's Catholic Church Anson with burial at Mt Hope Cemetery. Kinney Funeral Home Stamford directs. Gonzales killed in Friday night shooting at Shangri La Bar Odessa. Born Aug 2 1941 in San Angelo. Trucker and Catholic. Survivors include son Jose A. Gonzales Jr of San Angelo. Father Alberto Gonzales and mother Mrs Virginia Rodriguez of Hawley. Three half brothers Johnny Martin and Raymond Rodriguez Hawley and three half sisters Lupe Flores Linda Rodriguez and Christian Rodriguez Hawley.
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Jose A. Gonzales
East Myrtle
St. Michael's Catholic Church
Anson
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Kinney Funeral Home
Stamford
Gonzales
Odessa
San Angelo
Rites Pending For Odessa Man William Floyd Rowe
William Floyd Rowe 70 of 10112 Bradley Drive died about 7:15 a.m. Thursday at Medical Center Hospital after eight months of illness. Funeral arrangements were pending with Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. Born September 10, 1903 in Merkel, he married Margaret Horn in 1931 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. A resident of Odessa since 1928, he was a Baptist. Survivors include his widow, a son William F. Rowe Jr., three brothers Olen Rowe Vernon Rowe and Arvard Rowe, and five sisters Eunice Hilburn Minnie Davis Othella Doty Estella Simpson and Lillian Wishon.
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William Floyd Rowe
Bradley Drive
Medical Center Hospital
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Rowe
Merkel
Margaret ©. Horn
Carlsbad
N.M
Odessa
The
Baptist Church
William F. Rowe Jr
Olen Rowe
Grants
Vernon Rowe
Blythe
Calif
Arvard Rowe
Albuquerque
Eunice Hilburn
Bakersfield
Minnie Davis
Victorville
Othella Doty
Estella Simpson
Salinas
Hobbs Editor Raymond Waters Dies. Funeral Slated Friday
Raymond F. Waters 60 editor of Hobbs Daily News Sun died early today in Lea General Hospital after a heart attack. Survivors include widow Mary, a twin sister, a brother in Texas, three stepchildren and Hobbs residents. Funeral 4 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church. burial Prairie Haven Cemetery. Memorials to College of the Southwest Library. Waters longtime editor since 1966, also led Roadrunner and Llano Estacado Heritage Magazine activities.
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Hobbs
N.M
Raymond F. Waters
Hobbs Daily News-Sun
Lea General Hospital
Mary
W.E. Lair
Roswell
Calvin Waters
Lubbock
Tex
Robert Charles Brown Jr
Charles Landrum
Marsha Brown
First Presbyterian Church
Prairie Haven
The
College of the Southwest
Waters
Elida
Roadrunner
New Mexico Bank and Trust Co
Llano Estacado Heritage Magazine
Llano Estacado Art Association
Salvation Army
Community Concert Association
Veterans of Foreign Wars
New Mexico Civil Defense
Southwest
Lea County
Hobbs News-Sun
Columbia University
New York
New Mexico
Artesia
Texas-New Mexico Pipeline Co
News-Sun
Odessan Rites Set Saturday for Mrs Lowe
Services for Mrs. Earl Lowe 53 will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home with burial in Odessa Cemetery. She died at home after a lengthy illness and is survived by her husband three sons two daughters two sisters two brothers and three grandchildren. Odessans since May 1954. Born January 8 1920 in Hopkins Michigan. Married September 13 1943.
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Earl
Gertie Mae) Lowe
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral
Odessa
Lowe
West 19Th
Hopkins
Mich
Gene Lowe
Stanley Lowe
Eddie Proudfoot
Oakland
Calif
Eva Scott
Linda Fleming
Lubbock
Joyce Henery
Pauline Todd
Miles City
Mont
Kenneth Hendrixson
Hopkins, Mich
Wayne Hendrixson
Circle
Coordinating Board to Meet Friday at Sul Ross State
Coordinating Board agenda includes designation of a Texas institution to operate a proposed new medical school with Veterans Administration. The Texas College and University System will convene Friday on Sul Ross State University campus. Items include reallocating about 2 million dollars to vocational technical programs, a 16 project funding priority list for community service and continuing education, new PhD requests from UT Dallas and UT System School of Nursing, and Angelo State University proposals for animal science bachelor and business masters degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Texas At Dallas
University of Texas System School of Nursing
Angelo State University
Banks Raise Prime Rate Across Major Lenders
New York banks led by Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank raised their prime lending rate to 7.7 percent, signaling industry-wide tightening. Major banks followed smaller lenders in the hike, affecting large corporate borrowers though mortgage and consumer loan rates were not immediately impacted. The move pushes the prime rate to its highest since September 1970, with a record high of 8.2 percent last June.
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New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Immediate
Girard Trust Bank
Philadelphia
Suit Filed Against Hill's Engine Service in Hobbs
A suit for 1.15 dollars was filed Thursday in the 161st District Court against Hill's Engine Service of Hobbs NM. The action was brought by Odessa Bobbitt Bearing Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Engine Service
Hobbs, NM
Odessa Bobbitt Bearing Co
Odessa Tomorrow Schedule and Events Summary
Tomorrow in Odessa lists a 7 AM breakfast by Optimists at Sands Restaurant, a noon Eastside Rotary event at Inn at the Golden West Coachroom, another noon Odessa Optimists gathering at Sands, a 4 PM concert by Carl Smith and Stu Phillips at Ector County Coliseum, an Exxon Pipeline Co banquet at Building A, Ector County Coliseum at 7 PM, and an 8:09 PM performance of Butterflies Are Free at Permian Playhouse 310 West 42nd.
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Eastside
Golden West
Carl Smith
Stu Phillips
Eetor County Coliseum
Vews
Exxon Pipeline Co
Ector Crmnty Coliseum
Permian Playhouse
West 42Nd
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Hemini
Joseph Montoya
D-N.m
Montoya
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Dwight Chapin
John Ehrlichman
Magruder
Archibald Cox
Sam J. Ervin
Cox
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Senate Committee
John W. Dean
John D. Ehrlichman
H.R. Haldeman
Atty
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Jeb S. Magruder
Dean
Gerald L. Warren
Warren
Nixon-Dean
Paul N. McCloskey
R-Calif
Earl F. Landgrebe
R-Ind
McCloskey
House
Justice Department
Pentagon
Daniel Elisberg
Anthony Russo III
W. Matt Byrne
Elisberg
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Ehrlichman
Charles W Colson
Dist
Joseph Busch
E. Howad Hunt
Washington
Aps
Nation
Sam Ervin
National
Tele Ee Ae Ee
Vin
God
Mr. Mitchell
Billie E. Smith
Eva B. Mello
Ethel R. Staggs
Brenda A. York
Phyllis M. Blackmon
Georgia S. Gillespie
Jo E. Baker
Doris M. Lynch
Imogene Meinzer
Roscoe Carter
Harlan S. Oldterness
Manuel P. Hinojos
James BD. Holbert
L. V. Carroll
William D. Chew
Janet Kenneth Trim
Clifford Wilson
Richard Hi King
Robert E. Cross
Alice M. Bray
Kimberly Caldwell
Pegoy J. Money
May C. Preston
Forrest A. Murphy
Robert €. Vaughn
Leonard L. Watkins
Guy
F. McNeal
Modesta Lara
Lillie MA. Conley
Earl D. Garrett
Lucy T. Fuentes
Lettie QC
Wiginton
Gloria E. Foster
J. Peters
Barbara F. Sims
Phyllis Blackman
Euda Jolly
Claude D. Faeulkenberry
Vere E. Hagerty
Joseph L. Landry
Robert R. Pincham
Christopher A. Seaborn
Rodney D. Lewis
Steven C. Wilhelm
Terry L. White
Caren S. Galloway
Laura D. Valenzuela
Charles A. Richard
Roger D. Tollison
Kathryn OD. Colbert
Melissa Martinez
Michael C. Harvey
Tiona M. Huckaby
George Craig
Beechwood
Charles Michael Meilow
West 20Th
Lozarion E. York
Brentwood
Anthony C. Stags
Crane
Letdon R. Greer
Imperial
Michael L. Smith
Evitt
Tony Vail
Hancock
East Fourth
Robert Byrd Murray
East 31St
Dortha Blair Bennett
East 37Th
East University
George Accadia Jr
Dawn
William R. Woodbury
West Fifth
Maxine B. Bell
Pleasant
Howard Lee Smith
North Grant
East Seventh
Andrey Lee Jackson
Alma Kay Berry
West 14Th
West Second
McArthur
Kayton Cecil Shipman
West Bist
West County Road
West Fourth
Cruz R. Gutman
William Irvin Gallup
Eidson
Grandview
Ella Q. Eniland
Custer
Sherry Sue Little
Clifford
North
Grant
Ronnie Wayne Weaver
East 49Th
William Frank Lang Jr
Aia
James Hopson Barry
Houston
John Paul Raney
David Aaron Norris
William Alten Burney
West 26Th
North Golder
Forrest Dean Harrison
West University
Herman T. Pardue
SW Museum
Restaurent
Roy F. Landrum
Roy F
Amdrum
Forest Park-Lawndale
Landrum
Electra
Rock Drilling Co
H. B. Landrum
Harry Eugene King
Harry Eugene King Sr
Second Baptist Church
James Hancock
Sunset Memorial Gardens
King
East 25Th
Lamar County
Vella Dean Phillips
Paris
U.S. Navy
Harry, Jr
Gaylon E
Arlington
D.C. King
D. C. King
Miessa
Wallace King
Honey Grove
Vann Murphey
B. Comer
Waxahachie
Mrs. Earl-Lowe
Odessan
Clifton Jones
St. Stephens Epicopal Church
Rix
Jones
Suridhy
Tucson
Arizz
David Sneed
Seagraves
Irene Jones
Eloise Jones
Pecos
Fisher F. Pollard
Fort Sumner
Midland County
Julian Mortuary
Pollard
Abilene
West Texas
Andrews County
Lucy Cora Whitaker
Big Spring
C.B. Nantey
Eastland
Whitaker
Vend
Big Spring 10
Sands Restaurant
Sands
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