Balcony Collapse Injures 26 At Galveston Bar
An outdoor balcony above a Galveston bar collapsed during a Friday beer bust sponsored by a Houston rock radio station. About 50 to 60 people were on or beneath the platform when it fell at 4:20 p.m. at Sports Club tavern on East Beach. Twenty six were hospitalized at John Sealy with three admitted. Two men and one woman listed as fair condition with abdominal pains.
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Galveston
Ruiday
Sports Club
Galveston Island
East Beach
Joe Mafie
John Sealy Hospital
Linda MacDonald
Ralph Marquez
Texas City
Arnold Bradley
MacDonald
State funding plan could aid regional health center in Odessa
State leaders Montford and Gibson propose an annual 100 million general fund allocation to non system universities and a rider allowing bond proceeds gifts and patient fees for hospital schools. The plan could finance Odessa's Regional Academic Health Center and a 4.5 million 35 000 square foot building, with bipartisan local support amid UT and Texas A&M graduates likely on opposing sides.
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State General Fund
Montford
Gibson
Texas Tech
Odessa
Mother’s plea in fast moving missing child case
Free says a deputy framed a face match to identify a child not Krystal Hicks. Crystal Goins was misidentified as the missing girl, thwarting efforts in the Krystal Hicks case. Joey Hicks took the child in July 1982. Mrs Hicks has had no contact since August 1982 and custody was won last year.
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Free
Crystal
Joey Hicks
Crystal Goins
Caddel
Square One
Krystal Hicks
Krystal
Hobbs
Odessa
Fourth juror chosen for trial of Skelton
An Odessa woman became the fourth juror seated in the capital murder case against John C. Skelton, 53, tied to the April 24, 1982 bombing death of Joe Lee Neal, 46. Donna Abbott, a Bealls clerk, joins one other woman and two men on the jury as voir dire resumes after a Friday recess, with selection to continue Monday at 9 a.m.
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Odessa
John C. Skelton
Skelton
Joe Lee Neal
Donna Abbott
Bealls Department Store
Abbott
Voir Dire
R.L. McKim
161St Judicial District
Austin
Two Arco workers hurt in water line accident
At an Arco natural gas processing plant in Crane three employees faced burns from a hot water line break around 445 PM Thursday. Wayne Hawthorn Jr. 21 and David Schwarz 27 remained stable while Charles Barrett 39 was treated and released from Crane Memorial Hospital. Plant supervisors investigate, initial reports cited mechanical failure.
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CRANE
Arco Oil and Gas Co
Crane Memorial Hospital
Arco
Wayne Dale Hawthorn Jr
David Henry Schwarz
Charles O. Barrett
Denny Beier
Midland
Beier
Hawthorn
Schwarz
Barrett
Crane Memorial
Nancy Webb
Poisonings Target Texas Children In Rural Brath County
Texas Rangers hunted a Central Texas man Friday night in what authorities described as an apparent poisoning. Two children, Amy Annette Black and Richard Loyd Black, were found dead in their Brath County home and transported to Hico City Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival at 7 35 p m. Hamilton County Sheriff Cecil Proctor and hospital administrator Marvin Walters confirmed the victims and timing.
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Texas Rangers
Texas
Brath County
Hamilton County
Cecil Proctor
Hico City Hospital
Marvin Walters
Amy Annette Black
Richard Loyd Black
Walters
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