Secretly recorded talks unwind Estes trial case
AP reports testimony in Billie Sol Estes fraud trial centers on 29 hours of secretly recorded conversations and an undercover IRS agent. Prosecutors allege Estes misused others money to buy and sell companies and conspired to defraud investors with non existent oil field steam cleaners and hidden assets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Billie Sol Estes
Texas
Internal Revenue Service
Estes
Raymond K. Horton
Walt Perry
IRS
Chicago
Burglary spree inks guns radios jewelry across county
Police recount a string of thefts locking five trucks at Jimmy Herman's Vacuum Tank Service and multiple residences. Items seized include radios antennas and cash plus jewelry, guns, and a warehouse oil stock. Home entry varied from vent windows to sliding doors and pried trunks.
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Jimmy Herman
Express Way
Steve Pollock
San Fernando
Willie Torres Martinez
East Eighth No
East Highth
Jack Kenner
Kenner
Ramona Eileen Birdsong
Fair Palms
Thief steals painting at Fines Gallery and car theft spree
An oil painting valued at 795 disappeared from Fines Gallery on East Eighth after Thursday or Friday. The 18 by 24 inch Bluebonnets painting was left near the front door Thursday and found missing Friday. Police report two cars taken in eight thefts, plus minor losses from Exxon, Oldsmobile, 7-Elevens, and two bicycles.
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Fines
East Eighth
Manuel Beseril
West Olive
South Lee
Greg Dorman
Route 2
East Second
Exxon
South Grant
Interstate 20
Jack Aldredge
Oldsmobile
West Clements
Crane and
Clements
Dennis A. Hedger
West 28Th
Bob Wilson
Verde
Odessa man charged with burglary of a habitation
A 20-year-old Odessa man, James Allen Burnett of 2550 North Dixie, was freed on $5,000 bond after a Friday arrest for burglary of a habitation in which a 12 gauge shotgun valued at $180 was stolen from Eddie Bryant at 4911 Angus. Entry occurred through an unlocked front door. The charge was filed with Justice of the Peace Jimmy Harris, bond set by JP Charles Gee Jr.
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Odessa
James Allen Burnett
North Dixie
Eddie Bryant
Angus
Burnett
Justice of the Peace
Jimmy Harris
Charles Gee Jr
Pair arrested in Florida in undercover drug bust
Loyd Dean Millican and Judy Lynn Hall Millican, ages 31 and 23, were jailed in Ector County on pending bonds for possession of a controlled substance and charged with delivering methamphetamine to an undercover deputy. The arrests cap a sheriff's investigation that netted 12 drug offenses in early May, with $1,500 backing funds from an unidentified sponsor.
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Ector County
Florida
Loyd Dean Millican
Judy Lynn Hall Millican
Millican
Elton Faught
Faught
Justice of the Peace
Jimmy Harris
Basin Odessa Midland Weather Forecast Highlights Warm Weekend
A slow moving front from the northwest may bring showers to the Odessa Midland area with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms today and 30 percent tonight. Highs near the mid 90s, lows in the upper 60s, and a possible extended rain chance Monday and Tuesday if the front arrives. Saturday reached 93 degrees, 12 below the June 16 record of 106. The record low for June 17 is 55.
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Odessa Midland
Roger Mallory
Weather Service
Midland Regional Airport
Mallory
Midland forecast: partly cloudy with storms likely today
National Weather Service at Midland Regional Airport forecasts partly cloudy skies through Monday with a 20 percent chance of rain today and tonight. Highs near 95, lows in the upper 60s, southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Overnight low 66. Sun sets 6:57 p.m. Monday rises 6:43 a.m. YTD precipitation 6.75 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Three hurt in Saturday city traffic accidents
Three people were treated and released from Medal Center Hospital after city crashes Saturday. Pedestrian Kristal Renee Davis, 5, suffered multiple injuries when struck at 5:35 p.m. by Henry Fred Oelze, 81, who was westbound on East Fifth. Gerald A. Mallow, 23, sustained a mouth injury in a Grandview collision with Edward Myslicki, 60, as Myslicki turned onto North Grandview. Charles Oliver Whiteley, 30, received multiple abrasions and a head laceration after his motorcycle collided with Rickey Lee Shaun, 19, as Shaun turned onto East Highway 80.
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Medal Center Hospital
Kristal Renee Davis
East Fifth
Henry Fred Oelze
East 31St
Gerald A. Mallow
North Sam Houston
Grandview
Mallow
Edward Myslicki
North Hancock
Myslicki
North Grandview
Charles Oliver Whiteley
Oakwood No
East Eight
Highway 80
Whiteley
Rickey Lee Shaun
Shaun
Luker services for Lena Luker held Monday in Odessa
Lena Bessie Luker 8 of 1113 East 49th died Friday after a long illness at Medical Center Hospital. Born December 12, 1893 in Yoakum she came to Odessa in 1951 from Cuero. Funeral at Hubbard-Bell Homey Monday at 10 with burial Sunset Memorial Gardens. Survived by four sons Cyrus Marvin Melvin J.R. Luker Jr. and others, three daughters, one sister, 22 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena Luker
Lena Bessie Luker
East 49Th
Hubbard-Bell
Sunset Memorial Gardens
J.R. Luker Jr
Alice
Cyrus Luker
Odessa
Marvin Luker
Brenham
Melvin Luker
Houston
George Hurt
Jim McCutcheon
Corpus Christi
Berlin Trautwein
Pearl Luker
Cuero
Brownfield Deaths and Obituary Notices Across Texas
Brownfield resident Billy Joe Sadler died after a sudden illness in a Brownfield hospital. Services at First United Methodist Church with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Minnie Cora Beard of Enterprise, Oklahoma, dies in Muskogee. services set at Enterprise Baptist Church. Robert Q. Fawcett, 60, Alpine, graveside service in Jasper Arkansas. WWII veteran. Leon Green, UT law professor, dies at 91. noted for mentoring three future Supreme Court justices. Larry Michael Smith, 27, Lubbock area EMT, funeral and graveside services planned. Bennie O. Stephens, 52, Albuquerque resident, funeral in Kermit. veteran, former Jal resident, Farmington lodge member. Survivors listed for each obituary.
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Stanton Billy Joe Sadler
Brownfield
First United Methodist Church
Stanton
Evergreen Cemetery
Gilbreath Funeral Home
Sadler
Martin County
Wolfforth
Doris Snodgrass
Midland
Goodpasture Chemical Co
Cindy Kelmer
Lubbock
Lena Sadler
Carlsbad
N.M
Russell Sadler
John H. Beard
Enterprise
Okla
John H
Minnie Cora) Beard
Enterprise Baptist Church
Mountain Home Cemetery
Mallory Funeral Home
Stigler
Beard
Muskogee General Hospital
Oklahoma
Hazel Basden
Jodie Purdom
Dean Phillips
Bonnie Dimock
Odessa
Ava Walker
Bartlesville
Erdie Beard
Eufaula
Fannie Wilkey
Short
Allie Burham
Hugo
Austin
Northwestern
Green
University of North Carolina
Yale University
Oakland
Ouachita College
Arkansas
University of Texas
Austin Memorial Park
Notra
Nevin Green
Leon Green Jr
Washington D.C
Larry Smith
Larry Michael Smith
Sixth
Jackson Street Church of Christ
Tohoka Cemetery
Hubbard- Kelly Funeral Home
Smith
Medical Center
Tommy Sue Hale
Jackson Street
Bennie O. Stephens
Albuquerque
Cooper
Kermit Cemetery
Stephen
Kermit
Farmington
Jal
The
Baptist Church
Red Cross to elect officers at annual Odessa meeting
The Ector County Chapter of the American Red Cross will elect officers and directors for 1979 80 during its annual meeting at the Odessa Family YMCA at 7 30 p m Tuesday. Guest speaker Mark D Wilson Wichita Falls city manager civil defense director will discuss the April 10 tornado and recovery. Volunteers and donors to United Way Odessa or Red Cross in 1979 may vote. the public is invited. Refreshments will be served.
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Ector County
American Red Cross
Odessa Family Ymca
University
Mark D. Wilson
Wichita Falls
United Way of
Odessa
Red Cross
Two Odessa Women Robbed At Residence By Masked Intruders
Two Odessa women were robbed early Saturday when two masked men tied them with tape and rags as they entered a residence. Betty Joe Hardee 6305 Fort Worth was struck in the head and treated, while Dorothy Lou Beeson 3906 Monclair aided police. The assailants fled with money jewelry and two pistols, and Hardee’s 1974 car was found later in the East 52nd block.
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Odessa
Betty Joe Hardee
Fort Worth
Medical Center Hospital
Dorothy Lou Beeson
Monclair
Hardee
East 52Nd
New broadcast chief named for FCC bureaus
The FCC named Richard J. Shiben to head the broadcast bureau and Philip L. Verveer as chief of the common carrier bureau. Shiben, 42, from New Martinsville, W. Va., had led renewal and transfer within the bureau since 1974, while Verveer, 35, from Corvallis, Oregon, had been chief of the broadcast bureau since May 1.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Richard J. Shiben
Philip L. Verveer
Shiben
New Martinsville
W.W
Verveer
Corvallis
Ore
Summers Named Director of Ector County Nutrition Program
Mrs. Pat Summers, former assistant director of the Elderly Nutrition Program at the Ector County Senior Center, is named director replacing Pat Wallis who resigned for personal reasons. Summers will earn 10800 dollars annually and oversee food distribution, bus operations, audits, and forms for the Governor's Office of the Aging, with about 90 percent of funding from state sources and local match. Both have served since the program began two years ago, per Dan Lewis of the Ector County Parks Department.
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Pat Summers
Ector County
Pat Wallis
Wallis
Dan Lewis
Ector County Parks Department
Summers
Lewis
Deputies hunt lost 100 pound radioactive canister
In Snyder Texas Scurry County deputies search a 100 pound red canister containing Americium missing from a Weaver Wire Line Service Co truck en route to an oil well ten miles southwest of Snyder. The crate may have bounced off the truck and was last seen in a pasture where authorities and company workers scoured the area. The device is said to be safe unless opened and would require a blowtorch to access the contents.
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Snyder, Texas
Scurry County
Larry Ball
Weaver Wire Line Service Co
Americum
West
Texas
Ball
District Court Divorces Granted In Multiple Cases
A district court granted divorces in a series of cases including Loyd Landon Soles vs Winifred Ann Soles and Vicki LaRue Kiser vs Jackie Don Kiser among numerous others. The docket lists both parties in each dissolution and reflects a broad set of matches such as Betty Canterbery vs Donald Canterbery and Beatrice Argueilo vs Juan Argueilo.
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Loyd Landon Soles
Winifred Ann Soles
Vicki LaRue Kiser
Jackie Don Kiser
Betty Claudette Canterbery
Donald Canterbery
Beatrice Argueilo
Juan del Bosque Argueilo Vis
Patricia Ann McClure
Steven Don McClure
Peggy M. Asberry
Noah F. Asberry
Lisa Kay Johnston
Wesley Gene Johnston
Larry Albert Williams
Georgia Lynne Williams
Katrina Stover
Charles Wade Stover Jr
Judy Ann Chapmen
Peryalee Chapman
Billy Paul Webs
Carolyn Ann Webb
Santos Mayo Castello
Tony Roger Castello
Frances Marie Tarrance
Charles Leroy Tarrane Butler
Roy Lee Butler
Mary Ann Stone
Robert William Stone
Elida Ramirez
Guadalupe Remires
Linda Sue Martin
Michael David Martin
Phyilie Sue Rich
William Franklin Rich
Bobby Braing Roach
Dean Lowry Roach
Trudy Ann Thompson
Gary Wayne Thomason
Wildcat Toastmasters Meeting At Odessa College
At 7 30 P M Wildcat Toastmasters will meet in the faculty lounge of the Student Union Building Odessa College for a campus club session and public speaking practice.
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Wildcat
Odessa College
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Sampley Oil Co
West First
Walter Henderson
Avenue G
West Eighth
Woodcrest
Eisenhower Church of Christ
East 21St
Oscar William Harris
Darwin Huston
North Muskingum
Harrison Moorer
South Broughton
Clendenon
Dorothy Woods
Woodlawn
Morris Callicutt
Walter Placko
Perry
John F. Kennedy
Ben Barnes
Richard Daley
Horton
Patsy
Lyndon
Johnson
Irwin
Billy Rankin
West Texas
Ravkin
Rankin
Robert Hill
U.S
Billy Joe Sadler
Robert Q. Fawcett
Alpine
Jasper
Ark
Hope Memorial Chapel
Harrison
Fawcett
Plumlee
Wisconsin
San Angelo
Oklahoma City
Jessie May
Elkins
Celeste Fawcett
Sharon Fawcett
Stamford
Leon Green
Bennie Stephens
Cannister
Snyder
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