Estes tapes crack the good ol' boy image in fraud trial
Federal court hears 28 hours of undercover recordings detailing Billie Sol Estes and co defendant Raymond K Horton allegedly defrauding investors with mortgages on non existent oil field equipment and hiding assets via dummy firms. Agent Walter Perry testified Estes boasted of big money deals and kept officials in his pocket while Horton was labeled a crook.
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Dallas
West Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Raymond K. Horton
IRS
Texas
Wheeling
Walter Perry
Perry
Chicago
Horton
One man held in holdup at local bank
A 19yearold man was in custody Friday night and another, identified by police as a juvenile, was being sought in connection with Friday afternoons knife point robbery of a Holiday Inn employee outside a local bank. David Glenn Barrow was arrested at 3:55 pm after the 1 pm robbery. The employee, Pat Vilmont, had a small cut on her neck and turned over a bag with about $1000. The youth fled in a white compact car east on Seventh. Barrow was arrested in the 2600 block of Verde and charged in Municipal Court.
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Holiday Inn
David Glenn Barrow
Pat Vilmont
National Bank of Odessa Motor Bank
Barrow
Verde
Bill Stimson
Otis Moore
Permian Basin Heat Forecast Extends This Week
Forecasters warn of continued hot weather in the Permian Basin with highs in the upper 90s and cooler nights mid to upper 60s through Wednesday. Cloudy to partly cloudy skies, fair today and Sunday, clearing Monday through Wednesday. Fridays high reached 93, 13 degrees below the 1960 record. Predicted Saturday low is 65. Southeasterly winds 10 to 15 mph.
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Weather Service
Midland regional forecast from National Weather Service
The forecast calls for fair weather with hot afternoons through Sunday. Highs today and Sunday near 96 to 98 degrees, with overnight lows around 45 to 63. Southerly winds 10 to 15 mph. Precipitation year to date 6.75 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional Air Airport
Brezhnev Reaches Vienna for SALT II Summit Visit
Soviet leader Brezhnev arrives in Vienna all but steady on his feet as he tours the Austrian war memorial and prepares for talks with President Carter on SALT II. Carter awaits at the U S embassy while both leaders plan Saturday statements and Monday Hofburg Palace ceremony.
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Vienna
Brezhnev
Moscow
Schwechatz
Ghd
Carter
Washington
U.S
Milton Wolf
Hofburg Palace
U.S. Senate
Truckers Occupy Roads Across Several States
Independent truckers form a Freedom Convoy in Northboro Massachusetts and travel to Boston to press for cheaper fuel and a 65 mph limit. In Alabama, two shootings hit moving and parked rigs but caused no serious injuries. Iowa authorized an emergency weight increase for trucks to ease deliveries amid shortages.
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Alabama
Iowa
Robert
Ray
National Guard
Macon
Dothan
Missouri
Diamond
Mountain Grove
Northboro
Mass
Statehouse
Boston
Public Safety
George Luciano
New attacks launched against oil industry
Washington authorities step up pressure on oil firms threatening to divert crude from underperforming refineries. Alm warns of emergency fuel allocation powers and possible mandatory measures to boost refining. Schlesinger plans meetings with top refiners to explain slow gasoline output amid rising imports.
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Washington
Carter
Energy
Alvin L. Alm
House
Alm
Congress
House Commerce Subcommittee On Energy and Power
James R. Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Charles DiBona
The
American Petroleum Institute
Justice Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
White House
U.S
Two men charged in theft from Ramco Transmission
Johnny W. Johnson and Hastion Lee Scott were jailed Friday on felony theft charges after 35 to 40 transmissions valued at about 3500 dollars were stolen from Ramco Transmission at 1515 East Seventh. Johnson, 22, and Scott, 21, were arrested Friday afternoon and held on bonds set by Municipal Court Judge Oitis Moore.
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Johnny W. Johnson
Route 5
Hastion Lee Scott
East Sixth
Johnson
North Tom Green
Scott
Burglary Claims Stolen Cash and Radios Across City
A burglary investigation centers on $1,400 in change taken from an upstairs closet at 1728 East 52nd with no forced entry. Two Citizens Band radios were stolen in adjacent burglaries. A Davis-Kemp employee reports a truck window broken to steal a radio worth 50. O E Haines reports radio and antenna taken from his vehicle. A .45 caliber pistol with bone handle was taken from a locked 1972 pickup at 1101 West 19th. no forced entry observed.
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Billy Triplett
East 52Nd
Davis-Kemp, Inc
West Second
O.E. Haines
Crockett
North
Washington
Bob Blevins
West 19Th
Donut Shop Robbery By Youth At Southern Maid
A 15 year old armed with a blank gun robbed Southern Maid Donut Shop at Eighth and North Hancock at 6 28 pm taking cash before fleeing on a bicycle. Police detained the youth and a 14 year old companion. the youth is at the Ector County Youth Center and the other was released to parents.
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Eighth
North Hancock
Ector County
Four Nabbed for Burglary in Odessa Liquor Store
Odessa police arrested 19 year old Robert Mitchell of 502 East Murphy after an early Friday burglary at Ace Liquor Store 112 North Texas. He was jailed on $5,000 bond for burglary. Three juveniles were detained for questioning. Entry caused rear door damage and four bottles of liquor were broken but nothing missing. Mitchell’s case was filed with Municipal Court Judge Otis Moore.
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Odessa
Robert Mitchell
East Murphy
Hancock
Ace Liquor
North Texas
Mitchell
Otis Moore
Thieves Take Air Coolers In Odessa Theft
Police investigated several thefts Friday night amid hot Odessa weather. Two evaporative coolers valued at 540 dollars were stolen from Refrigeration Supply and Electric, with no sign of forced entry. A four ton floor jack was taken from a back of a truck at H and J Grocery. A 1970 model car at a vacant lot lost its license plates, and a bicycle disappeared from James Gildon’s residence.
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Odessa
Refrigeration Supply and Electric
South Grandview
H&j Grocery
West County Road
Gonzalo Lopez
Rose
Clements and
Dixie
James Gildon
West 25Th
Deaths and services across Odessa area notes
Obituaries report Hubert Phillips 66 of Odessa with graveside rites at Resthaven Midland. Gertrude King 73 of Edith and Dorothy Swindler 14 months of Fort Hood also noted with funeral plans. Hollywood tributes include David Butler director and Darla Hood of Our Gang.
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Hubert Phillips
West 25Th
Resthaven Memorial Park
Midland
Easterling-Wilson Funeral Home
Phillips
Medical Center Hospital
Gwinett County
Odessa
Casper Wye
Bobby Wayne Phillips
Wichita Falls
Lenna Stapler
Coleman
Ala
W.R. Lula Ward
Estelle Plato
Hobbs N.M
Cora Helms
Tyler
Catherine Gayle
Corpus Christi
Betty Robinson
Carmichael
Calif
Thomas Phillips
Alameda
Oscar Phillips
Dorothy Swindler
Fort Hood
Dorothy Ruth Swindler
Hilda N. Montgomery
Killeen City
Harper- Talasek Funeral Home
Killeen
Darnall Army Hospital
James E. Swindler
Roger B. Montgomery
Olympia Wash
William T. Swindler
Columbus Ohio
Robert E. Bjorn
Columbus
Ohio
Earl Springer
St. Mary's Ohio
Hollywood
David Butler
Butler
Shirley Temple
Captain January
Darla Hod
John Wayne Buried In Unmarked Newport Grave
John Wayne died at age 72 from cancer and was buried at sunrise in an unmarked grave on a hill overlooking Newport Beach. The private service at Our Lady Queen of the Angels in Corona del Mar included family only and music from his films.
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Newport Beach
Calif
John Wayne
Pacific Ocean
Our Lady Queen of the Angels Roman Catholic Church
Beach
Corona del Mar
Wayne
Pacific View Mortuary
Tom Kane
Batjac Productions
Pilar
Michael Wayne
Patrick Wayne
Ethan
Toni
Melinda
Aissa
Marissa
Odessa CAP Meeting At Schiemeyer Field Tonight
Tomorrow at 7 30 P M the Odessa Composite Squadron meets at the Civil Air Patrol Building on Odessa Schiemeyer Field. Local members gather to discuss upcoming drone and training activities and review squadron operations.
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Odessa
Civil Air Patrol
Odessa Schiemeyer Field
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Jim Rolfe
John F. Kennedy
Ben Barnes
Richard Daley
Capital Energies
Cadillac
R.K. Horton
Mark Swindler
Permian
Carter, Brezhnev
Gertrude King
Edith
Bobby
Joyce) Walker
Robert Lee Baptist Church
Paint Creek
Robert Lee
Shaffer
King
Emmanuel Pentecostal Church
Green Mountain Home Demonstration Club
T. Harry
Gwen) Anderson
Austin
Dan
Zona Mae) Hall
Bonita Robertson
Fred Robertson
J.B. Robertson
Wayman Robertson
Donnie Robertson
Clifford Robertson
Wilton Robertson
Lindsey, Okla
Jesse R. Robertson
Rockport
Effie Page
Nelia Mae Boone
Annie B. Mitchell
Bonita Hester
Portland
Elaine Bennett
Arlington
Darla Hood
Our Gang
Newport Bay
Orange County
Los Angeles
Jack Gordean
Robert Egan
Chick Iverson
Louis Johnson
Ernest Saftig
Arturo McGowan
John Vibert
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