Miss West Texas Pageant Talents Feature Two Local Teens
Karla Louise Stump and Jana Kelley, both 18, are listed as participants in the Miss West Texas Pageant talent division. Stump, daughter of Wayne and Mrs. Stump of Midland, graduates from Lee High School 1977 and aims for special education at Abilene Christian University after one year at Odessa College. Kelley, daughter of Janiece Kelley of 1118 North Lee, is a 1977 Big Spring High School alumna and drill team member who plans to study social work or public relations at the University of Texas at Austin. They have earned honors including Optimist Youth of the Month, district church officer, and Miss Texas National Teenager finalist, respectively. The pageant runs June 29 to July 1 at Ector County Coliseum.
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Karla Louise Stump
Wayne Stump
Midland
Ector County Coliseum
Miss Stump
Optimist
Lee High School
Tipperary Oil and Gas Corp
Lee High
Abilene Christian University
Jana Kelley
Janiece Kelley
North Lee
Texas
Kelley
University of Texas At Austin
Joe Chavez Gutierrez
West Olive
St. John’s Catholic Church
Monahans
Gutierrez
Medical Center Hospital
Justice of the Peace
Jimmy Harris
Pecos
Tripp Petroleum Co
Odessa
Inez Webb Luce
Ellis Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Stanton
Midland Rotary Club
First Baptist Church
Pearl Hardy
Hobbs
N.M
Flossie Gaskins
Artesia
Lillie Harvard
Ova Webb
Senate weary over energy bill stalls auto tax plan
A weary senator says the energy bill talks have deadened the loan proposal and he will likely side with the House when voting. A defeat of the Senate passed car ban would not automatically trigger a tax on large autos as the tax conferees remain tied to broader energy measures including a crude oil tax.
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Carter
Maryland Researchers Exposed To Lassa Virus
Researchers at Fort Detrick in Frederick and CDC in Atlanta were isolated after a lassa virus sample splashed one worker and exposed both while transferring rodent blood samples from Africa. The incident underscores ongoing risks in handling dangerous agents during studies of transmission from rats to humans.
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Maryland
Army
Fort Detrick
Frederick
John H. Richardson
John Bryan
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Africa
Richardson
Summer heat grips Texas as records threaten statewide
The National Weather Service in Midland reports summer officially arrived at 1 10 a m with sunny hot weather today and Thursday and warm nights. Highs will top the upper 90s today and near 100 Thursday while the Big Bend may near 110. Tuesday’s 97 came with a 65 overnight. record highs and lows were set yesterday. Early temps ranged from 65 at Dalhart to 79 at El Paso with many readings in the 70s across major cities.
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Texas
Big Bend
Dalhart
el Paso
Amarillo
Wichita Falls
Texarkana
Dallas-Fort Worth
Austin
Lufkin
Houston
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
del Rio
San Angelo
Lubbock
Sunny and hot forecast for Midland area today and Thursday
National Weather Service at Midland Regional Airport forecasts sunny skies and high temperatures in the upper 90s today with tomorrow near 100. Tonight will be fair and warm with southerly winds 10 to 15 mph, low around 70, and an overnight low near 65. Sun sets at 8 58 p m and rises at 6 43 a m Thursday. Year to date precipitation 3.77 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Weather Service
Midland Regional Airport
Odessan charged in child abuse
An Odessa man, Howard Barker, 21, is jailed in Ector County on $100000 bond after a grand jury indicted him for injury to a child linked to a June 12 incident. The alleged strike was reported to cause serious bodily injury to a five year old boy treated at Medical Center Hospital and later released to protective custody. Barker was previously arrested June 14 and was free on $10000 bond when the indictment was issued.
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Odessa
Ector County
Grand Jury
Howard Barker
Brazos
C.V. Milburn
Jerry Davis
Medical Center Hospital
Women's and Children's Hospital
Department of Human Resources
Barker
Woman shot in Midland hospitalized with abdomen wound
A 32-year-old Midland woman, Linda Hoch, was in serious condition at Midland Memorial Hospital after a .22 caliber gunshot struck her abdomen. Police, called to her locked home after she failed to respond, found her in bed with the gun. she claimed to know the shooter but later declined to file charges.
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Midland
Midland Memorial Hospital
Linda Hoch
Ridglea
Odessa man stabbed in suspected self inflicted wound
A 40 year old Odessa man identified as Jesus Gonzales was admitted to Medical Center Hospital in guarded condition with two knife wounds to the abdomen after arriving at 11 55 p m Tuesday He declined to explain where or by whom he was stabbed and told officers they could say he stabbed himself according to the police report He provided the address 1606 North Muskingum as his residence with no further details available.
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Odessa
Medical Center Hospital
Jesus Gonzales
North Muskingum
Gonzales
Fun Night Set for VFW Post 4372 This Thursday
A Fun Night for Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4372 is scheduled at 7 30 p m Thursday at 208 Fast 63rd. The event is sponsored by M O C A with bingo grab bags and a cake walk. Coffee and homemade pie will be served.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 4372
M.O.C.A
Obituaries Flow Across West Texas In Wide-Ranging Notices
A long string of funeral notices and memorials runs through West Texas papers. Joe Chavez Gutierrez of Pecos, 31, dies after hospital stay with autopsy pending. James William Melton of Midland dies from a Parkland Hospital blaze injuries. Rolland Reed Sanders of Big Lake, Lorene Walker of Kermit, and many more are listed with service times, burial places, and survivor details.
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Midland
James William Melton
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Claytonville
Sweetwater
Ellis
Melton
Rickey
Maxey
Coffeyville
Miss
Mississippi
Charleston
J.W
Odessa Club Meeting Schedule Hidden in Morning List
Tomorrow in Odessa multiple club gatherings listed with times and venues including Kiwanis at University Hospitality Lodge at 6 45 A M Downtown Lions at Inn of the Golden West at noon Chaparral Toastmasters Underwood's Cafeteria Sandhills American Business Club at Bonanza Steakhouse noon Evening Lions at Sands Restaurant 6 0 P M.
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Kiwanis Club of
Odessa University
Downtown Lions
Inn of the Golden West
Sandhills American Business Club
Bonanza Steakhouse
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Miss Tipperary Corp
Miss Good Housekeeping Shop
Odessan
Joe Gutierrez
James Melton
Allene Sanders
Big Lake
Rolland (Allene) Reed Sanders
First Methodist Church
Glen Rest Cemetery
Larry Sheppard
Ozona
Sanders
Frost
Mary Hardin Baylor College
Rolland Reed Sanders
Lorene Walker
Kermit
Kermit Cemetery
Cooper Funeral Chapel
Walker
Scott and White Hospital
Temple
Lawton
Ohio
Order of the Eastern Star
Terrell David Walker
Sayre
Oklo
Pampa
Judy Taggart
San Antonio
Clarence Lewis
Tulsa
Okla
Imogene Burgess
Skitook
Inez Luce
W.J. Bettis
Brownwood
Mildred Bettis
Union Presbyterian Church
Antioch Cemetery
Morelock Funeral Home
Bettis
Brownwood Community Hospital
Blanket
Santa Fe Railroad
Helene Blodgett
Exeter
N.H
Aneta F. Padilla
Aneta Fuentes Padilla
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Fairview Cemetery
Thomas Funeral Home
Miss Padilla
Malone- Hogan
Big Spring
Midland High School
Texas Instruments
Isidro G. Padilla
Manuel Padilla
Cruz Padilla
Jesse Padilla
Robert Padilla
Isidro G. Padilla Jr
Albuquerque
Carlos Padilla
Mary Rendon
Lucy Lujan
Alicia Padilla
Ethel Henderson
Glencove
R.E
Ethel) Henderson
R.H. Rogge
W. Oliver Harrison
Michael Harrison
Nell Anderson Harrison
Hubert Furr
Junction
Hubert A. Furr
Aubrey Fife
Farr
Sid Peterson
Kerrville
Hext
Georgia Dunning
Wayne
Wilda) Harris
Lone Grove
Bob
Andrea Sue) Stevens
Alpine
J.R. Bruster
Copperus Cove
Jessie Haire
Cedar Hills
Johnson
Haire
Shannon Hospital
San Angleo
Roberson County
First Baptist Church of
Scott
Matilda Jaquez
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
Santa Rosa
Carlos Carrasco
Nieves Vasquez
Leandro Vasquez
Carmen Carrasco
Rachel Prewitt
Pecos Funeral Home
Fairview
Roy D. Prewitt
Beverly Kington
Fort Stockton
Barbara Dillingham
Andrews
Roy [. Payne
Thomas L. Payne
Peaches Duty
Matilda J. Odle
Hemphill
Mary Jo Daniels
Brownfield
Preston
Mary Jo) Daniels
Clay Daniels
Connie Summers
Denver City
Brownfield Funeral Home Chapel
Highland Cemetery
Stamford
Bud Winks
Seminole
Seminole Cemetery
Singleton Funeral Home
Winks
Fred Connally
Connally
Humboldt
Kan
Gaines County
Bartlesville
Isla Dale Brock
Eastern Star
Barbara Ann Topping
Linda Sue Moorefield
Ollie Stout
Sanderson
Sanderson Church of Christ
Cedar Grove
Geeslin
Church of Christ
Army Air Corp
Stout
American Legion
Ilda E. Walters
Iraan
Ida Evelyn Walters
Raan
Fairmount Cemetery
Crane
Walters
General Hospital
Eliasville
Russell D. Walters
Archaeological Museum
Kathleen Bickle
Claudia Donahue
B.N. Cooney
Denver
Colo
James Cooney
Vancouver
Wash
Edward Cooney
Underwood's
Evening Lions
Sands Restaurant
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