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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1979
Page
2
A vacant mobile home at 2th and Tripp in Ector County burned after a fire started in the ki and spread through the trailer. West Odessa volunteers helped as city firemen doused the blaze with 2000 gallons of water at 12 45 a m. A nearby dump truck also sustained damage in the incident.
Police said two men in their early 20s entered Emogine Lynch's home at 4608 Andrews Highway through a window at 12:45 a.m. One fled by car and another on foot after tying the resident, taking a small pistol and change. Lynch was not injured.
Robert Earl Swink, a 24 year old Odessa resident, pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary of a motor vehicle and received two concurrent three year sentences. Indicted April 24 by the Ector County Grand Jury, he admitted guilt before District Judge R L McKim on April 7 and 8 burglaries of two city ambulances with 5360 worth of equipment stolen. Swink was arrested April 8 in a telephone booth after a call to the fire department offering to return the equipment led dispatchers to the scene at 52nd and North Dixie.
Dallas financier John D. Murchison aged 57 died after the DPS car carrying him to St. Paul Hospital collided with another vehicle. An autopsy was planned. Murchison had fallen ill at Gov. Bill Clements home in Highland Park and recently led the Boy Scouts of America as president. He was involved in multiple boards and firms, including Investment Management Corp., Murchison Brothers, Chicago Milwaukee Corp., First International Bancshares, and others. funeral arrangements were pending.
Dallas AP reports the fraud trial of Billie Sol Estes opens with jurors slow to panel amid vague memories of his 1962 conviction for hoisting a fortune via mortgages on non-existent anhydrous ammonia tanks. Three grand jury indictments returned Feb 22 outline a near identical fertilizer scam.
An 18 year old Odessa man Allen Wayne Turner of 300 Patterson was jailed Friday on $15,000 bond for aggravated robbery at the Travelodge on East Second. Police arrested Turner Thursday after a clerk reported a man with a pistol demanding $240 at 4 02 am during registration. The case was filed with Municipal Court Judge Otis Moore who set bond.
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