Massive search for boy, 7, in Smokies unfolds
In Gatlinburg Tennessee more than 1,000 people including Vietnam veterans and National Guardsmen joined four Army helicopters in a record 35 year search for Dennis Martin who disappeared on a hiking trip with family a week earlier. Father William C. Martin expressed cautious optimism and gratitude toward the responders.
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Gatlinburg, Tenn
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Dennis Martin
Martin
Odessa Council to tackle tax board, parade permit
Odessa city councilmen will name a Tax Board of Equalization, grant Jaycees a July 4 parade permit at 10 a.m., and consider recognizing a name change for Baker Ambulance Service. They will also advertise for bids on the City Depository, review zoning changes, and hear three public hearings including rezonings and a final plat for Postal Addition. Awards will honor long-serving city staff across engineering, fire, and police departments.
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Tax Board of Equalization
Jaycees
Baker Ambulance Service
Herb Atkins
Blossom Lane
KBZB
John Moravcik
Maple
Melvin McCleery
City Depository
L Cawthon
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Washington
Amherst Avenue
Jackson Avenue
Second
Third Streets
Texas Avenue
Third Street
Odessa High School
Bernice
Second Hope Brother Dies
Hollywood AP report notes George Hope age 58 died of cancer on Saturday. It marks the second death among the seven Hope brothers in a week after Ivor Hope, 78, died of a heart attack in Cleveland, Ohio. George, the youngest, had a song and dance act and worked as a writer and production coordinator for Bob Hope television specials.
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Ohio
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Ringing The Bell and Black History Highlights
A compact column recounts Afro American history milestones from 1754 to 1862 and notes scholarships and community honors. It highlights Benjamin Bannaker on clockmaking, Phyllis Wheatley letters, Blanche Bruce in the U.S. Senate, and Emancipation Day observances, plus ANPA scholarships awarded to 29 Black college students. The piece also salutes church leaders, community programs, and calls for racial understanding through inter-racial effort in Midland Odessa.
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George Washington
Phyllis Wheatley
Blanche K. Bruce
Mississippi
U. S. Senate
Balboa
Frederick Douglass
Washington, D. C
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National League of Social Workers
National Urban League
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Chicago
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