Reigning Miss West Texas to vie for state title
Miss West Texas Tami Jo Whitmire sails to Fort Worth for the Miss Texas Pageant after a year of prep. She trained at a health spa, built stamina with runs, and addressed vocal nodules with a speech pathologist. She plans to sing Dont Cry Out Loud, and aims for college and Miss America if she wins.
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Janet Hilliard
Tami Jo Whitmire
Miss Whitmire
Bob Jones
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center
Odessa College
Odessa
LaVonna Wood
Tina Leevy
Mary Styles
West Texas
Ted Whitmire
Fort Worth
Spa
Melissa Manchester
Debbie Boone
Miss W
OPEC approves new price structure amid market shifts
OPEC's base price rise, the largest since 1974, prompts analysts to expect about four cents more per gallon for gas and heating oil in the United States as surcharges lift the average OPEC oil price to 17 dollars. Delegates may meet again in Caracas in December if conditions change. Saudi Arabia gains 18 dollars while concessions are made to more radical members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
OPEC
Caracas
Venezuela
Saudi Arabia
Truck convoy backs Texas fuel protest and energy talks
Police counted 115 to 120 tractor trailer rigs in a San Antonio to Austin convoy to dramatize high fuel price protests and 55 mph limits. Clements said he would seek federal uniform weight limits while noting possible $350 million annual highway funds risk if Texas raises the limit. Emissaries met Vietnamese reps in New York as summit talks focus on energy and import ceilings for seven nations.
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Clements
San Antonio
Austin
National Governors’ Conference
Texas
New York City
Carter
Tokyo
Vietnam
United States
Japan
France
Britain
Germany
Canada
Italy
Heat to Persist Across Permian Basin Through Week
National Weather Service Midland reports hot afternoons with upper 90s to near 100 degrees through Friday. Tonight and weekend nights will stay in the upper 60s to low 70s with light southerly winds. Record highs for Wednesday June 27 were 101 in 1945 and a 65 degree low this morning.
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Permian Basin
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
County and District Court Records From Local County
Marriage licenses issued include Pittman Norwood Proffitt Daly McElwee Beauchamp Quintanilla Vadejo Thomas Olive Mappli Beard. Divorce suits filed list Usry Yora Olivas Sotelo Huddleston. Medical Center Hospital notes June 27 admissions include Perry Ferguson Cinderella Arias Sylvia Notivided Phil Terk Marvin Grice Lee Adams Ella Barrington WT Waldrop Marlon Everett Jesus Caudillo Jose Ramirez Irene White Joseph Terrill Mary Greer Peggy Ellis Frank Gunter Rosalyn Ross Billie Harper Thressa Allison. Births recorded June 27 at Women and Children's Hospital to Mr and Mrs David Nimmons 2108 Hancock bey.
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Thomas Clarence Pittman
Marilyn Jean Norwood
Kenneth Wayne Proffitt
Charlotte Key Daly
Fred Donald McElwee
Gloria Jean Beauchamp
Magdelene Guaterdo Quintanilla
Mary Helen Vadejo
Donald Waller Thomas
Tamara Jeanne Olive
William Ernest Mappli
Tamara Layne Beard
Betty Ann Usry
Carl Alan Usry
Vicki Ann Yora
Joseph Richard Yors
Virginia Orona Olivas Sotelo
Justino Sotelo
Shirley Marie Meisenheimer
Huddleston
Albert Lee Huddleston
Weather Forecast From Midland Airport
National Weather Service forecast for Midland Regional Airport calls for fair hot conditions this afternoon and Friday. Southerly winds 10 to 15 mph this afternoon and tonight. High 97 today, low 67 tonight, high 98 tomorrow. Overnight low 65. Sun sets 8 59 p.m. Rises Friday 6 46 a.m. Year to date precipitation 6.98 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Theft charge filed against Odessa man
A 27 year old Odessa man, John William Howell III, was jailed in lieu of a 5000 bond after police found a pickup loaded with boomers and tools at the Atlantic Richfield yard on Elliot Street. The items totaling 538 were stolen from six trucks after entry over a six foot fence. The case was filed with Municipal Court Judge Otis Moore.
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Odessa
John William Howell III
Branton Hotel
Third
Grant
Atlantic Richfield Yard
Elliot
Howell
Otis Moore
Death notices from multiple Texas towns. several survivors listed
Obituaries for Charles Hagerton A L Buddy Martin Dottie Pearl Woods Celeste Whaley Glynn Patton Sr Ima Margaret Rogers and Jeff Wood recount their deaths in various Texas communities. Details include birth dates, birth places, careers, memberships, and survivors such as spouses children and grandchildren. Services and burial plans are noted for several, with funeral home stations in Sweetwater Olney Crane Fort Davis and Midland.
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Charles Hagerton
Amarillo
Prudence George
Andrews
McCoy Funeral Home
Sweetwater
Hagerton
A.L
Buddy) Martin
Cate-Spencer
Martin
Odessa
Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital
Italy
Audrey Cundiff
Arlington
Pinkies Inc
Big Spring
Odessa Elks Lodge
Chamber of Commerce
Boys Club
Olney
Dottie Pearl Woods
Delmer Woods
Midland
Assembly of God Church
Restland Cemetery
Austin
Woods
Bomarton
Celeste Whale
Celeste Whaley
Patton
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Whaley
Medical Center Hospital
Laveta
Colo
Sul Ross State University
Highland United Methodist Church
Iraan
Beverly Jean Boehl
Plano
Penny
Wisdom
Elk City
Okla
James Carll
Mineola
C.C. Carll
McCamey
Kirby McBroom
Renee McBroom
Charles William Boehr
Fort Davis
Glynn Patton Sr
First United Methodist Church
Hillcrest Cemetery
Geeslin
Menard
Minnie Lee Bellah
Texas State Guard
Jeff Davis County
Bertha Lee Patton
Ellie Ree DuBose
Uvalde
Lucille McPhaul
Smithville
William Glynn Patton Jr
Mabel Nard
Lordsburg
N.M
Annie Lee Maddox
Eden
Etta Seiker
Norine Spinks
Clem Patton
Red Rock
Ima
Margaret Rogers
Larry Sheppard
Rogers
Park Plaza Nursing Center
San Angelo
Gorman
Henry Rogers
Rebekah Lodge
Kenneth Rogers
Ida Whitley
Netti Woods
Bandera
Lora Barrett
John Carlile
Dublin
Jeff Wood
Gardendale
Ellis Funeral Home
Resthaven Memorial Park
Wood
Justice of the Peace
Virgil Lumpee
Bloomburg
Kingsland
First Baptist Church
Eloise
Ray Moody
Former Odessan Named to Post in Winkler County
Robert Trenchard Jr. of Kermit, a former Odessa attorney, was named Winkler County attorney by the commissioners to replace Mike Foster. Foster resigned after decades in the post. Trenchard will take office Aug. 1 until the 1980 general election. He moved to Kermit in 1978 after living in Odessa since 1972.
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Kermit
Odessa
Robert Trenchard Jr
Winkler County
Trenchard
Mike Foster
Foster
Midland Man Arrested in Building Vent
Louis A. Williams, 28, of Midland, was arrested by Midland police after being found in an air-conditioner vent at Midland Memorial Hospital’s pharmacy during a burglary response. Bond set at $5,000. charged with burglary and referred to Justice of the Peace Robert Pine.
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Midland
Midland Memorial Hospital
Louis A. Williams
Williams
Justice of the Peace
Robert Pine
Mexican American leaders pledge suit over Lozano death case
Dallas AP Mexican American leaders outraged by Justice Department decision not to prosecute Ec tor County inmate Larry Lozano who died in jail after drunken driving arrest say they will file a civil suit to push for future prosecutions. They claim police brutality evidenced by 92 bruises and wounds and demand an explanation from the DOJ. They criticize Carter administration civil rights enforcement and urge accountability.
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Dallas
Justice Department
Ector County
Larry Lozano
Lozano
Ruben Sandoval
Odessa events schedule tones for Optimists and theater
Tomorrow in Odessa schedules breakfast at 7 A.M. for the Breakfast Optimists in the Odessa College Student Union Building, noon gathering for the Odessa Optimists at the Inn of the Golden West, 6 30 P.M. Eastside Rotary Club at the same inn, and 8 P.M. Antony and Cleopatra at the Globe of the Great Southwest.
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Odessa College Student Union
Odessa
Optimists
Inn of the Golden West
Eastside Rotary Club
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Paul G Tittle
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Laos
Cambodia
Southeast Asia
Texas Panhandle
Big Bend
Marfa
Dalhart
A.L. Martin
Dottie Woods
Ima Rogers
Sandoval
Ruben Bonilla
League of United Latin American Citizens
Pau Moreno
D-El Paso
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