West Texas Pageant contestants showcase talents at Ector Coliseum
Donna Joy Hicks 18, Crane High alum and 1978 Miss Crane finalist, performs pantomime in Miss West Texas Pageant talent show at Ector County Coliseum. She holds a track scholarship to Angelo State University and aims to coach physical education. Connie Bullington 19, Odessa High graduate, plans a dramatic talent act and is a Mu Sigma Chi and Phi Theta Kappa member. She majored in fashion merchandising and was Odessa High football sweetheart and homecoming princess.
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Donna Joy Hicks
Wayne Hicks
Crane
Ector County Coliseum
Crane High School
Duchess
Angelo State University
Hicks
Connie Bullington
Nolan Bullington
810
Bluebird
Odessa College
Mu Sigma Chi
Phi Theta Kappa
Odessa High
Heat forecast grips Permian Basin through Friday
The National Weather Service Midland Area predicts hot fair weather through Friday with a high near 100 and an overnight low around 70. Winds will be southerly 15 to 20 mph, gusty today and diminishing tonight, amid statewide hot, mostly clear skies and scattered thundershowers in extreme Southeast Texas.
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Permian Basin
National Weather Service
Midland
Weather Service
Texas
Red River
Midland Regional Forecast: Fair, Hot Weather Ahead
National Weather Service at Midland Regional Airport predicts fair and hot conditions through Friday with breezy southerly winds 15 to 25 mph today diminishing tonight. Highs near 100, lows around 70. Yesterday’s high 96, overnight low 71. Sun sets 8:58 p.m. Friday sun rises 6:44 a.m. Year-to-date precipitation 3.77 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Eight burglaries linked to residential break in
Police investigate eight burglaries with combined losses including a $960 theft from D. L. Jordan of 3665 North Dixie. Items stolen span a refrigerator, door, furniture, an air conditioner, a water tank, a bank bag from Southland Beauty Service Centers, cash from The Wet Spot bar, power tools, school equipment, and more across several local sites.
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D. L. Jordan
North Dixie
Southland Beauty Service Centers
Wet Spot
West Third
Branton Hotel
Charles Coskrey
Goldsmith
Colonial Self Storage of America
Television set short heads three fire calls
Odess a fire department answered three calls Wednesday. Alvin A Pavlicek reported a short in a television set caused a fire in his home and he moved the burning set outside. Other calls included dousing a 1967 model car fire on North Meadow and a car fire that was already out when firefighters arrived near 42nd and North Grandview.
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Odessa
Alvin A. Pavlicek
Cord
Pavlicek
North Meadow
42Nd
North Grandview
Odessa man injured at 45th Annual Big Spring Rodeo
Jim Watkins, 7201 North Golder, a Crockett Junior High School woodshop instructor, fell from a rodeo bull and his hand became snagged in the bucking rope. He was treated and released from Malone-Hogan Hospital with cuts and abrasions.
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BIG Spring
Odessa
Malone-Hogan Hospital
Jim Watkins
North Golder
Crockett Junior High School
Vietnamese refugees find shelter and work in Adrian Ohio
Ellen Vien Cuong Chiem and their companions survived a perilous sea voyage ending near Toledo. Thai authorities sheltered them in a camp before sponsorship brought them to Adrian where they married and started new lives with community support.
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Ellen
Duong
Nguyen Na
Freedom
United States
Ellen Vien
Cuong Chiem
Adrian
Cuong
Saigon
Mrs. Sparks
Carter faces oil import fee decision at October summit
President and aides debated a possible oil import fee as Carter weighs Congress reaction. Jackson and Rep. Altman backed action if needed while Ullman urged a national crusade to curb imports ahead of October.
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Jackson
White House
Carter
Congress
al Altman
Dore
House
Means Committee
Ullman
America
Head-on crash kills two near Garden City
Two people died when their car collided head on with a truck trailer on State Highway 158 nine miles east of Garden City at 4 a.m. The victims were Delma Ramirez 27 of Midland and her passenger Crecencio Hernandez 27 of Seminole. Ramirez’s survivors include a son and daughter, parents, a brother and two sisters. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Garden City
Here
Delma Ramirez
Midland
Crecencio Hernandez
Seminole
Justice of the Peace
J. E. Wooten
Texas Highway
Ben Lockhart
Big Spring
Fabian Espinoza
Belinda Ann Espinoza
Carlos Ramirez
Chon Ramirez
Mary Frances Ramirez
Sally Ramirez
Death notices span Midland and Abilene communities
Funeral services for Faye Laverlan George Yoes 64 of Midland founder of TOPS and active Keeping Off Pounds Sensibly member will be held at Ellis Funeral Home with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. Plans also list services for Sam Price Brownfield and James William Melton Midland, Abilene, and Odessa residents, detailing births, marriages, and survivor lists across multiple local families.
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Midland
Faye Laverlan
George Yoes
TOPS
Ellis Funeral Home
Resthaven Memorial Park
Yoes
Parkview Hospital
de Leon
Comanche County
Elbert R. Yoes
Midland County Child Welfare Office
Martha Frances Harvey Moreland
Hulbert
Okla
William Wade Harvey
Odessa
Velma Todd
Gorman
Fausteen Cayce
Edward Rush George
Wade Preston George
Lubbock
Faye Yoes
American Cancer Society
Brownfield
Sam Price
Carrie Bell Proctor
First Baptist Church
Brownfield Cemetery
Brownfield Funeral Home
Price
Brownfield General Hospital
Terry County
Coast Guard
Tohoka
Post
Las Vegas
Nev
James William Melton
Melton
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Claytonville
Sweetwater
Ricky
Maxie
Coffeyville
Miss
Mississippi
Charleston
J.W
Baytown
Joyce Ann Minshue
Hollandale
Eloise Sanders
Odessa College appoints Sue Blair registrar
Sue Blair, former director of housing and assistant dean of women at Southwest Texas State University, is named registrar at Odessa College. She will begin mid July, replacing Dr. Eddie Hadlock who resigned. Blair's salary is 18000 annually, less than Hadlock's 19000. Blair holds a bachelor's in education and a master's in educational guidance and counseling, and has taught mathematics in San Marcos and Midland. She is active in professional associations and has been named Outstanding Young Woman of America in 1974 and to Who's Who in Education in 1977. Her husband, Don, works with McVean and Barlow in Odessa.
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Sue Blair
Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos
Odessa College
Blair
Eddie Hadlock
Hadlock
Southwest Texas State
Midland
Hurst to Attend Texas Technical Society Meeting
Kenneth Hurst, chairman of Odessa College's occupational technical division and associate professor of engineering and drafting technology, will join a Texas Technical Society meeting Friday and Saturday. He serves on the TTS board of directors, a professional group for technical education.
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Kenneth Hurst
Odessa College
Texas Technical Society
Hurst
TTS
Crockett blast injures Midland worker
A 23-year-old Midland construction worker, Jose Magallanes of Lock Construction Co., was injured at a Crockett County pipeline site 20 miles south of Rankin when a dynamite charge detonated and a rock struck his head. He remained in guarded condition at Medical Center Hospital after admission to Odessa ICU.
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Joe Edward Collier
North Belmont
Medical Center Hospital
Kelly- Hixon Funeral
Beaumont
Hubbard Kelly
Odessa
Corpus Christi
Eva Cauthen
Hillsboro
Collier
Steve J. Collier
North Amburgey
Eddie Rae Scouten
Village Mills
Jack Scouten
Hillsborough
Calif
Hazel Senters
Midland
Rankin
Jose Magallanes
Lock Construction Co
Crockett County
Magallanes
Andrews resident wins civil damage settlement in 244th Court
Henry G. Dickson of Andrews received a 115000 award after a car truck crash on July 14 1975 on West Loop 338 north of Odessa. The out of court settlement was announced before jury selection before District Judge Joe Connally Dickson. Price of Odessa and Britt Trucking Co were defendants with Odessa attorney Perry Davis representing Price and firm.
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244Th District
Henry G. Dickson
Andrews
West Loop 338
Odessa
Joe Connally Dickson
Britt Trucking Co
Joe Dale Price
Odessa club meet schedule at Furr's Pie Kitchen
Tomorrow in Odessa events list early morning breakfast Optimists at 7 AM and multiple noon gatherings including Odessa Optimists at Furr's Pie Kitchen, and Eastside Rotary at Inn of the Golden West.
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Breakfast Optimists
Furr’s Pie Kitchen
Odessa Optimists
Furr
Eastside Rotary
Inn of the Golden West
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