Medical Center Joins Military Air Rescue Plan
The Medical Center Hospital board approved joining the Military Assistance to Safety and Traffic plan, enabling emergency patients to be flown by Webb Air Force Base helicopters within a 75 mile radius. The move aims to speed life saving care, with nine new births and higher May revenue improving the hospital’s finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Williams
Medical Center Hospital Board of Managers
Odessa
Ector County
Gordon Epperson
Department of Defense
HEW
Department of Transportation
Congress
Webb Air Force Base
Big Spring
Webb Afb
Mertzon
Barnhart
Lubbock
Epperson
San Angelo
Department of Public Safety
Eppersoni
Medical Center
Sheriff Visits Suspect After Talks in Fort Worth
Ector County Sheriff A M Slim Gabrel returned with Capt. Elton Faught after a Thursday night to Friday afternoon talk lasting 90 minutes to two hours with accused slayer Johnny Meadows. Meadows, 35, is jailed in Fort Worth on an Ector County murder charge tied to the 1971 killing of Odessa secretary Gloria Sue Green. The trial, moved on venue to Fort Worth, is set for September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
A. M
Slim) Gabrel
Fort Worth
Johnny Meadows
Meadows
Tarrant County
Gloria Sue Green
Odessa
Gabrel
Elton Faught
Del Rio Arms Cache Probe Ties Oaxaca Case to Del Rio
Oaxaca police notified Del Rio Texas authorities that a man held in Oaxaca may stockpile arms in Del Rio. Eddy English, charged in Oaxaca with threatening an American life, allegedly claimed more than 300 firearms at 1700 F Street. English and Dave Williams, both linked to Del Rio, were arrested in Oaxaca on a complaint by Peter Tamarazzo. Police found pistols, a rifle, a Texas notary seal, long-range radio gear and two Texas license plates in their car, and consider possible arms smuggling and sales into Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oaxaca
Mexico
del Rio
Tex
Eddy English
English
F Street
Dave Williams
Peter Tamarazzo
Texas
Daniel Daniel Jr. gains backers in bid for Texas House speakership
State Rep. Price Daniel Jr claims 93 votes, 17 more than needed to beat Rep. Frank Calhoun. A private Lubbock meeting drew ex Mutscher aides Heatly, Slack, and McAlister with Daniel amid West Texas support. Daniel says he seeks endorsements, not pledges, and expects a statewide push after meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock. Tex
Price Daniel, Jr
Frank Calhoun
Abilene
Katharyn Duff
Daniel
Gus Mutscher
Miss Duff
Mutscher
Rep
Short
Price
Calhoun
McAlister
Slack
Duff
Metter of Record and Court Notices Summary
County court issues marriage licenses for Mitchell Sharp Jr and Cynthia Lynch. Emerson Porter and Cynthia Gann. Freddy Schwake and Patsy Miles. District court records divorces for Hartom v Harton, Spoon v Spoon, Bolton v Bolton. City traffic accident notes reference Esperanza Campos, Hilton, Peen, and others. Damages listed as moderate with location details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell Eugene Sharp Jr
Cynthia Hayne Lynch
Emerson Leon Porter
Cynthia Beth Gann
Freddy Jon Schwake
Patsy Lynne Miles
Municipal Court
Floyd Proctor
Alfonso Kimpner
Kevin Ray
District Court
Hartom
Jan Harton
Donna Ross Spoon
Ailty Geerog Spoon
Colleen Bolton
Louis
Bolton
Mavle
Esperanza Castillo Campos
Hilton
Bill Peen
Eidson
Bert Marten
West 23Rd
James Emerson Tone
Truman
Damag
Woman Held on Car Theft Charge Is Released on Bond
Elfrieda Ise Hanson, 32, of 2500 North Hancock, was released on a 3500 bond Friday after being arrested on a car theft charge. She allegedly took a 1965 model car owned by John Henry Hawkins of 4714 Andrews Highway last Friday, with the case filed by Peace Justice Manuel Valles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elfrieda Ise Hanson
North Hancock
Manuel Valles
John Henry Hawkins
Andrews Highway
Moody Grant Funds 24 Mobile Classrooms for UTPB
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa received 150000 from Galveston's Moody Foundation to buy 24 mobile units for use as initial classrooms and labs when the campus opens in September 1973. The grant was the largest of 16 totaling over 566000 approved at the foundation's second 1972 meeting, with eight educational awards accounting for more than half of the funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
University of Texas of the
Permian Basin
Odessa
Moody Foundation
Graduate State University
UTPB
Deaths Jim Ellis Thompson 86 Odessa resident
Jim Ellis Thompson 86 died Friday afternoon in Medical Center Hospital after a lengthy illness. A Odessa resident since 1963 he moved here for Bordwell. Funeral services 2 p.m. Sunday at Sixth and Jackson Streets Church of Christ. Burial Sunset Memorial Park Hubbard-Kelly in charge. Survived by wife Bessie Roach Thompson daughter Mrs Murray Spidell and two granddaughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Ellis Thompson
East Everglade
Medical Center Hospital
Odessa
Bordwell
Sixth
Jackson Streets
Church of Christ
Earl Danley
Sunset Memorial Park
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
IRS recognizes San Antonio Christian Schools as tax exempt
The district IRS director for southern Texas announced a ruling recognizing San Antonio Christian Schools as tax exempt after it advertised it would admit qualified individuals regardless of race creed color or ethnic background. The IRS noted its July 10 1970 ruling prohibits private schools from tax exemption if they practice racial discrimination. Mrs Leon Reynolds 53 of Odessa died Friday after a short illness at Medical Center Hospital. She was born April 15 1919 in Enloe and married Robert Reynolds in Hobbs NM in 1946. Funeral arrangements are pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Epperson
San Antonio
Ector County
Floyd Gwin Park
Sherwood Park
McKinney Park
Odessa High Schools
Odessa College Area
W. T. Barrett
Ector County Coliseum
University of Texas of
Permian Basin
C. S. Patterson
Patterson
Lubbock
Medical School
University of Texas
Monahans
Medical Center
Austin. Tex
API
Internal Revenue
Southern Texas
IRS
San Antonio Christian Schools
R. L. Phinney
Leon Reynolds
Medical Center Hospital
Santa Monica
Enloe
Robert T. Reynolds
Hobbs
N.M
The
Baptist Church
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral
Tommy Reynolds
Tom Sullivan
James Pierce
Abilene
Richard Johnson
Guilty Pleas In Two Driving Cases In Odessa
In Ector County Court at Law two defendants pleaded guilty Friday to driving offenses. Robert Henry Hull aged 34 pleaded guilty to driving with a suspended license and received three days in jail and a $150 fine for a Dec I offense on Ventura Avenue. Robert Lee Soto aged 19 of Hobbs New Mexico pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated, fined $50 and placed on six months probation for an Jan 23 offense on Interstate 20 one mile south of Odessa. Judge John H Rogers presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
Robert Henry Hull
West 28Th
Ventura Avenue
Robert Lee Soto
Hobbs
N. M
Interstate 20
Odessa
John H
Buddy) Rogers
Education funding ideas debated at Texas hearing
About 75 educators and officials gathered as the House educational committee heard proposals to allow local districts to vote for extra taxes for enrichment programs while the state considers funding changes after the December 1971 federal court ruling. Speakers urged preserving local control and warned against full state or federal funding, citing disparities and the need for local funding flexibility. Additional hearings are planned in El Paso San Angelo and Del Rio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Pinkerton
Seminole
House
U.S. Supreme Court
Rodriguez
Texas
Plains
Supreme Court
West Texas
Loop
Denver City
Andrews
Lynn Nabers
Brownwood
Texas House of Representatives
John Hoestenbach
Odessa
Willie Dubose
Midland
el Paso
San Angelo
del Rio
Big egg haul traps teen in protection law
Stewart Rigby, 19, a Lancashire weekly reporter, owns 2000 birds eggs valued at as much as 130000 dollars. A 1954 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds law could fine 65 dollars per egg, though the eggs are over 80 years old. Richard Porter says age tests are impossible and the law protects species, not relics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
England
Stewart Rigby
Royal Society For the Protection of Birds
Rigby
Lancashire
Richard Porter
the Society
McCamey Hospital Closes After Staff Exodus
McCamey’s $350000 hospital shut Friday morning after administrator resignation effective June 15. Dr W F Bill Alexander, the lone remaining staff doctor, moves to Crane with plans to open a practice. Board had voted against reinstating Dr J L Cooper, hospital 29 beds, modern facility since 1967, finances cited as sound prior to closing. Staff dispersed to Crane Fort Stockton and other hospitals. night watchman may be hired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCamey
McCamey Hospital
Joe Collins
W. F. “Bill” Alexander
Crane
Collins
J. L. Cooper
Cooper
West Texas
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Military Air Rescue Plan
New Mexico
East 4Th Street
Odessa American
Circulation Department
Dean
Ector County Public School
Permian High
Bertha Prado
Robert Prado
Anderson
Dorothy Sawyer
East 14Th
Headly
Appropriations
DeWitt Hale
Pete Laney
Hale Center
Rep. Short
Dallas
Heatly
Revenue
Moody Grant
Odessan
Thompson
Hickory
Flat
Miss
Ennis
Bessie Roach
Murray Spidell
Boulder
Rites
James Roberts
Andrews County News
Thaoka
Roosevelt
High Court
Austin
E.L. Short
Tohoka
Bryan Poff
Amarillo
Charles Tupper
Phil Cates
Lefors
Icow
Fort Stockton
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