Spurgeon Named Resident Conductor for Midland-Odessa Orchestras
Phillip Spurgeon, a 35 year old conductor and pianist, has been named resident conductor and interim music director for the Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale. He will begin July 1 and will serve for the 1971-72 season, with a permanent director to be named in 1972. He previously led the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and has held posts with several major ensembles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland-Odessa Symony and Chorale, Inc
Cing
Phillip Rgeon
Midland-Odessa
Phoenix Symphony O Echestra
Richard Lert
American Symphony Orcestra League
Shnstown, Penn
Pittsburgh Puth Symphony Orchestra
Espurgeon
Berlin College Conservatory of Music
Spurgéon
New England Opera Theatre
Boris Goldovsky
Tanglewood
Rome
Bes
Cancon
France
American Symphony Orchestra ‘League-Rockefeller Foundation
Spurgeon
Robert Latta
Odessa Symphony Association
J. M. Fullinwider
Midland Symphony Association
The
Symphony and Chorale
Gene Kenney
Texas Tech
Midland-Odessa Chorale
Oberlin Conservatory
Maria Kathryn
Laura
Midland
Odessa
County court records list licenses licenses and cases
Matter of Record details marriages issued for multiple couples and criminal, divorce, and civil filings. It also lists admissions and discharges at Medical Center Hospital on June 22, including many patients and births, plus a lengthy city traffic accidents summary across numerous blocks with names, ages, addresses, and damages.
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John Vottal
Harris
Ethelene Hope Harris
Clifford Wade McMillian
Paula Glynn Cunningham
Douglas James Fitzfarrell
Marsha Darlene Corbell
Ronald Curtis Schroeder
Hazel Dell Miller
Billy Gene Cariker Jr
Wanda Annette Rainey
Harold Franklin Moore
Jo Lynn Shirley
Manuel L. Montoya Jr
Jesus V. Flores
Lewis Weldon
Wood
Window broken by BB gun at Day and Night TV Service
Police investigated a front window break at Day and Night TV Service after a BB gun shot. Article appears in the Odessa American, a daily and Sunday paper serving Odessa and Ector County with standard subscription and postal details.
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Odessa
Texas
East Éth Street
Odessa American
Ector County
Two Affidavits Filed For Big Spring Recall Vote
Backers of fired Big Spring police chief Jay Banks filed two affidavits seeking the first recall election in the city’s history. The petitions target commissioners Watkins and Choate, alleging dereliction of duty. a third affidavit was expected. Four officers resigned in protest, with 35 others threatening to resign.
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Big Spring
Tex
Jay Banks
West Texas
Charles Smith
Jack Watane
Wade Choate
Ofice
Choate and Watkins
Eddie Ackin
Banks
J. Arnold Marshall
M. R. Roger
Choate
John Currie
Big Spring Bankvice
D. G. Whitten
Oil Company
Watkins
Board Denies Skating Rink Zoning Request in Odessa
Odessa's Board of Adjustment recommended denial of a zoning ordinance exemption for a proposed skating rink at East 52nd and East County Road. The 45 minute session in city council chambers heard opposition from three neighbors and a petition with 14 signatures. The board noted no authority to question purpose, while favoring other exemptions for carport and mobile home permits in various districts.
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Odessa
Board of Adjustment
East 52Nd
East County Road
Danny Johnson
Sherwood Addition
Johnson
Art Lish
Ben McVay
Buchanan
Annie Glover
Sol Williams
North
Hancock
Charles Wasson
Park Addition
North Adams
Britain and New Zealand reach broad postwar trade pact
Britain agrees to phased duty reductions totaling 71 percent of current levels by year five for butter and cheese exports to New Zealand. Britain to pay 8.6 percent of the market budget initially, rising to about 19 percent by year five, with ceilings later. Britain to retain subsidies for hill farmers and seek fisheries policy adjustments in Brussels in July.
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Britain
New Zealand
Brussels
Norway
Denmark
Yablonski Killing Details Emerge From Confessed Plot
Testimony describes a Western Pennsylvania ambush at the Yablonski home with three men planning to shoot Paul Yablonski and family. Vealey relates entering the house via a storm door, confronting the couple, and the daughter being killed as Carl Gilly and Buddy Martin fire their carbines.
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Yablonski
Buddy Martin
Vealey
Margaret
Charlotte
Gilly
Mrs. Yablonski
Joseph Yablonski
Paul Gilly
Martin
Yablonskis
Buddy
Trial Begins In Slaying Case In Houston
A jury begins hearing testimony in the case of James Edward Green 19 charged with killing Arman Yramategui the Burke Banker Planetarium curator during a robbery attempt on January 27 1970 while he changed a tire on a Harris County freeway Tyrone Malone 17 was earlier convicted and sentenced to 35 years Raymond Carl Martin 25 also charged has not yet stood trial.
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Houston
James Edward Green
Burke Banker Planetarium
Arman Yramategui
Green
Harris County
Tyrone Malone
Raymond Carl Martin
Plane Carrying Terry Bradshaw Malfunctions Over Texas
Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Terry Bradshaw helped operate a jammed landing gear on a twin engine Comanche after an engine failure near Lubbock. The pilot James Gentry and Bradshaw, with Debbie Patton and Mrs Gentry aboard, circled Hereford's airport as Bradshaw pumped hydraulic gear. No one panicked and they landed safely. Bradshaw later returned to Hereford for a Christian crusade.
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Hereford
Tex
Terry Bradshaw
Pittsburgh
Bradshaw
Lubbock
James Gentry
Lubbock Municipal
Senate war fund amendment shifts release condition
Senator Stennis won approval to require actual release of all prisoners within the first 60 days as a condition for the war fund cutoff, replacing a mere promise. Supporters argued the change blocks passage unless the enemy complies, while Mansfield offered an alternative that the Senate adopted in successive votes.
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U.S
John Stennis
D- Miss
Stennis
Cook
Mansfield
Senate
Nome's Dead Finally Buried After Breakup Wintry Ground
Nome Alaska AP reports the town will bury its remaining winter dead by Thursday as permafrost slows digging. Undertaker Bobby Morse said thawing ground allows progress. 12 of 17 bodies have been buried, with five more to go by Thursday afternoon.
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Nome
Alaska
Bobby Morse
North Country
Morse
Sun Oil plans Toledo refinery expansion with FCC unit
Sun Oil Co begins construction of a 50,000 barrel per day fluid catalytic cracking plant at Toledo refinery and a sulfur recovery unit. The project follows a $55 million modernization completed less than three years ago and aims to boost high octane gasoline components for Sun’s service stations. The plant, to be built by C. F. Braun Co., targets environmental standards and goes on stream by mid-1973.
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Toledo
Sun Oil Co
U.S
Sun
C. F. Braun Co
Alhambra
Calif
Former UT Regents Head Heath Is Dead
William W. Heath 67 former UT regents chairman and U S ambassador to Sweden died at home in Austin after a heart attack. Heath helped desegregate the UT Austin campus and designated the university as depository for Lyndon Johnson papers. Survivors include his widow two daughters two brothers and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Normangee
Tex
Heath
Texas
Austin
Len Morris College
Jacksonville
Texas Christian
University of Texas Law School
University of Texas
Dewey Ray
Big Spring
Dean Hester
John A. Heath
Madisonville
J. Neal Heath
Athens
Thomas E. Chapman Snyder
Thomas. E. Chapman
Bell
Geraldine Vernon
Hermileigh
Pat von Roeder
Floyd Wiemes
Snyder
Rites Thursday For Odessa Man Parr 57
Funeral services set for Steven Harold Parr 57 of 210 West 48th at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home. He died Tuesday night after a sudden illness. Burial in Sunset Memorial Cemetery. Parr was a construction foreman and self employed. Survived by wife Lorene Parker two sons a daughter five brothers four sisters and a granddaughter.
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Hubbard- Kelly
Steven Harold Parr
West 48Th
Loyce Ruckman
Terrace Hills
Bertha Monrroe
Rankin
Florence Harrison
Venoy Curtis
Midland
Alpine
David D. Lara
Fort Davis
Brewster County Hospital
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
St. Joseph's Cemetery
el Vira
Josephine Munoz
Odessa
Jesusita Granado
Amando Durango
Martin
Carlos Lara
Ruben Lara
Frank Lara
Jimmy Lara
Lalo Lara
Los Angeles
Calif
Antonio Lara
Carlsbad
N.M
Bernido Lara
Maria Rodriguez
Johnson’s
Charles H. Branning
Lake View United Methodist Church
Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens
Gordon
Sybie Fay Stoner
Pendleton
Ore
Goodyear
Tommy Haney
Brady
Wallace
Harvey Haney
San Angelo
Lionilda Yanez
Big Spring
Victory Robles
Ackerly
Walter Grice
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Mount Olive Cemetery
James D. E. Laney
Ema Yanez
Leticia Yanez
Yvonne Yanez
Hiforon Yanez
P. R. Yanez
Mrs Nixon To Host Luncheon At White House
First Lady Pat Nixon invites Committee for the Preservation of the White House to a luncheon at the White House on Thursday. She will show two newly refurbished rooms the round floor diplomatic reception room and the vermeil room housing historic silver objects. President Nixon travels to Indianapolis to dedicate a plaque at his mother’s birthplace and attend a Purdue University retirement dinner.
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Washington
Pat Nixon
Committee For the Preservation of
White House
Nixon
Indianapolis
Purdue University
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Gladys Fern Bodine
Mary A. Sharp
Frankie L. Bramwell
Lissa L. Ray
Mary E. Loveless
Sue Ann McDonald
Ralph P. Rushing
Jack E. Gunkel
Ann D. Stephens
Travis D. Pieper
Derrick L. Powell
Linda Sue Hubbs
Anna Belle Griffman
Raymond E. Redwine
E. Cumbie
Brenda Hibbs
Woodrow Woodson
Bobbie Armstrong
Elsie Hooper
Juanita Soules
Teresa Andersen
Richard Medina
Preble Miller
Richard Powell
Valentin Baiza
Ruben Lawson
Donal Williams
Shirley Felts
Ellen Allen
June Dean
Jewell Monley
Joyce Fitzgibbons
Gonnie Bowen
Dorothy Singletary
Maude Stephens
Travis White
Nelson Patton
Sinia Nowlin
Dorothy Reeder
Juan Rodriguez
Patricia Thomas
Jim Cavender
Walter Winikler
Ayer L. Hambrice
Salvador Alvarado
South Lee
Grant
Susan Stilliwell
Boulder
Marjorie Weatherford
Ranchland
Paula Bell
Keystone
Nancy ‘Thatcher
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Miner
Marjorie
Katleen
Debbie Weatherford
East 31St
Bernice Culvahouse
Eisenhower
Kermit Highway
Rickey Stanley
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Charles Crouch
Arriba
Colo
Samuel Hemsey
Santa Monica
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J. T. Boyd
East 25Th
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Thomas Mize
Les Fisher
West 25Th
Windsor
Debra Butler
East 36Th
Jack Faulkner
Redbud
John Keeney
Eastover
Marie Crumly
West County Road
Sherry Bryan
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Karol Steigely
William Dossey
Emerald
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Odess
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el Paso
Harding-Orr- McDaniel
Montana Avenue
Edward E. Hamilton
Evergreen East Cemetery
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Ralph
Edward Swady
Arcadia
Thomas O. Haney
Shannon Hospial
Roy Allen Hill
Kermit
Chimes
Singleton Funeral
Jerry Browning
Church of Christ
Andrews Cemetery
Hill
Andrews
Wellington
Ollie
Margaret Winesman
Seattle
Wash
Ernest Hill
T. R. Hill
U.S. “Air Force
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Amarillo
Alverta Mae Jones
Lloyd Burlingham
Petaluma
California
Wisconsin
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John F. Quinn
Detroit
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Detroit
Mrs. Nixon
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