PCB Spill At Odessa Shopping Center Reported
A third PCB contaminated oil spill occurred last week in a shopping center parking lot at 42nd Street and Grandview Avenue. DWR officials and TESCO await final soil tests from yards behind two Everglade Avenue homes and from an alley behind 1504 N Washington Ave. Cleanup teams hauled over 80 drum loads of contaminated soil to a Deer Park toxic dump. Restrictions remained with barricades at 4230 and 4236 Everglade while analyses determine compliance.
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Robin Lichtenstein
Odessa
Texas Department of Water Resources
Bill Lockey
DWR
Texas Electric Service Co
Everglade Avenue
Washington Ave
Lockey
Everglade Ave
Washington Avenue
Royal Shopping Center
Nor
42Nd Street
Grandview Avenue
TESCO
Bill Griffin
E. Everglade Ave
Police and sheriff report drop in area crime in 1983
Ector County deputies handled 1,387 cases January through May 1983, down from 1,648 in 1982, with property losses also falling from 1.9 million to 1.3 million. Police reports show 6,174 cases, a 5.16 percent drop from 6,510 a year earlier, while robberies rose to 26 from 12 and narcotics arrests climbed to 34. Homicides fell to one, but rapes nearly doubled to 12.
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Ector County
Sheriff’s Department
Larry S. Crawford
Department
Crawford
Bureau of Identification and Records
Parks official blasts reprimand of Goldsmith worker
Precinct 1 Commissioner David Childers rebuked Ector County Parks and Recreation Director Roland Hancock over the May 18 chastisement of Raymond Vaden who works at Goldsmith Park. Childers’ June 2 letter, criticizing Parks Superintendent Doug KUpper and staff for petty criticisms of the Vaden family, was obtained by The Odessa American.
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Parks Department
Precinct 1
David Childers
Childers
Ector County Parks and Recreation Department
Roland Hancock
Raymond Vaden
Goldsmith Park
Jessie
Vaden
Odessa American
Hancock
Doug Kupper
Goldsmith Parks worker reprimanded over racist remark
Vaden, a 69 year old Goldsmith Parks Department worker on three month probation, says he used the slur to identify a colleague after a dispute over a truck. His supervisor Kupper warned of termination for racist language but kept a written warning on file. The worker and the targeted employee give conflicting accounts of events and timing.
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Vaden
Kupper
Midland St
Goldsmith
Parks Department
Goldsmith Park
Jim Blaschka
Jerome Haynes
Haynes
Blaschka
Epilepsy Highlighted By Odessa Student At Freedom Christian
Seventeen year old Jeff Ball of Odessa speaks openly about epilepsy amid discrimination in the Permian Basin. Doctors, including Dr G Herman Cirkovic, explain that epilepsy is a genetic condition with 50 50 inheritance for those with a family history, and that most sufferers can control it with medication to live seizure free. The piece notes social stigma, past legal barriers, and common misconceptions about seizures and their medical basis.
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Robin Lichtenstein
Jeff Ball
Odessa
Ball
Freedom Christian School
Permian Basin
G. Herman Cirkovic
Cirkovic
Texas
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