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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1999
Page
1
Ronald Bennett, ECISD music teacher, advanced to the Midland Odessa Symphony and Carnegie Hall in a long career in music and teaching. An unveiling ceremony Friday marked a 21 shot tribute and soil from Ireland sprinkled on new tombstones for three Union soldiers identified about 135 years after their deaths.
Texas A M officials say Reveille V the 14 year old mascot and direct descendant of a champion collie was euthanized due to severe arthritis and rear leg paralysis. Reveille V won the mascot role in 1964 after beating out more than 2000 puppies. Reveille VI succeeded her in 1993.
The Odessa American highlights free Jobs Wanted classified ads on page 40 offering opportunities to workers displaced by the oil slowdown. Information is available via the classified ad department at 333-7777 or the website WWW.Da0a.com. promotion ends June 30.
Hundreds of spectators lined U S Highway 90 near the Small Craft Harbor in Gulfport Mississippi to watch a waterspout pass near boats in the Gulfport to Pensacola sailing race. The waterspout is a whirlwinds over water creating a spinning column of spray and mist.
Clinton announced plans to test a new Medicare drug benefit offering to all 39 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries. The proposal would cover roughly half the cost of prescriptions up to possibly 3000 to 5000 dollars per year, with higher premiums. Clinton said the plan aims to help retirees without breaking the bank and could save costs long term by reducing hospital and nursing home use. Details were not final and execution would be disclosed next Tuesday.
Jim and Camilla Blain operate the K Bar Ranch and Hunting Lodge on a 45 000 acre spread south of Odessa hosting 100 to 200 exotic animals from Europe Africa and Asia in a 700 acre enclosure. The Blains entering their seventh season as commercial hunting outfitters say hunters are sent worldwide amid drought shortages.
The 1998-99 Supreme Court term intensified a 5-4 split favoring states’ rights at the federal level. Center judges O Connor Kennedy joined Rehnquist Scalia Thomas to erode federal power, while liberal justices Stevens Souter Ginsburg Breyer dissented. The pattern mirrors years of division in prior terms.
In Fort Worth AP, the Presbyterian Church (U S A) delegates voted 389 to 198 not to send the issue to regional bodies, effectively shelving the move to allow non celibate gays and lesbians to be ordained. A two year pause was proposed.
In Phoenix a jury convicts Scott Falater, 43, of murder for stabbing his wife Yarmila 44 times and holding her underwater in a pool while claiming sleepwalking. Prosecutors seek the death penalty. the judge will set punishment after hearings. Relatives avoided the trial. jurors reject sleepwalking defense and note time constraints.
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