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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1999
Page
1
A tree lined company camp beside Western Gas Resources in Midkiff is packing up, signaling the possible end of its kind in Texas as the operation winds down.
Veteran driver Bill Elliott, with 40 races across a 23 year career, is highlighted in NASCAR this week. The package also covers race results standings statistics and insider information about professional stock car racing.
The Odessa American offers free Jobs Wanted classified ads on Page 66 for workers displaced by the oil downturn. Information is available by calling 333-7777 or visiting www.oaca.com. Promotion ends June 30.
Harvard Law School will offer a new elective next year exploring animal rights and whether legal rights should extend beyond humans. Lecturer Steven Wise says the field challenges the long-standing wall between humans and animals, citing research on primate cognition and Wise’s forthcoming book, Rattling the Cage.
Odessans note a mild 1999 summer contrasted with 1998 when heat peaked. Through June the region enjoyed below normal highs, aided by more rainfall May 1 to June 26 averaged 88.1 degrees vs 97.6 last year. Meteorologists link cooler temps to El Nino related patterns and increased rain.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Odessa used 7.9 million in state funds to build facilities at Midland Memorial Hospital claimed to support Tech residency programs in cardiology and surgery. No cardiology or surgery residency exists. Odessa offers internal medicine with cardiology rotations. Midland Memorial received 2.5 million in 1998 1999 for a declared cardiology residency site and 5.4 million in 1995 for surgical and medical facilities, but again no such residencies exist.
In Kosovo a country of graves and ghosts, refugees flood back as NATO peacekeepers arrive. Officials estimate more than 10,000 died in Serb police and paramilitary actions, in a province once home to about 2 million people. The region remains a vast charnel house as exodus continues.
After 18 years Texas moves to dump low level radioactive waste and shifts authority from the abolished Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Authority to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Officials say burying the waste from nuclear plants and medical sources is no longer feasible amid ongoing environmental concerns.
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