Annexation bid denied by Odessa City Council vote
Odessa opponents cheered as the Odessa City Council halted annexation plans for 812 acres including Odessa Country Club and Ridgewood Subdivision. Major objections cited a 1 percent city sales tax and higher taxes and utility costs. Councilman Vern Foreman led the motion to stop proceedings with support from Perkins and Hirsch. Cox abstained. Page 2A COUNCIL.
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Odessa
Bob Bryant
Vern Foreman
Planning and Zoning Board
Thomas Perkins
Foreman
Perkins
Melissa Hirsch
Dick Sivalls
Sherman Cox
Midland County
Odessa Country Club
Ramco
Ridgewood
Country Club
Three die as bridge collapses on I 95 in Connecticut
A 100 foot span of the Interstate 95 bridge over the Mianus River collapsed before dawn. Three people were killed and at least three injured as two tractor-trailers and two cars plunged into the river. Authorities cited a missing pin and high tide as complicating factors.
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Greenwich
Coast Guard
John McLeod
Greenwich Hospital
J. William Burns
Burns
Joe Orrico
Cos Cob
Gordon Gillman
Knoxville
Tenn
Shana Kelly
Atlanta
Maine
McLeod
Grey
Reagan aides seek Carter briefing book as probe widens
White House lawyers forward papers to Justice Department from Reagan campaign files that may be Carter briefing materials for the 1980 debate. Speakes says not the same book, review continues. Carter aides dispute, calls for probe and special prosecutor as officials debate the book’s origin.
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Washington
White House
Justice Department
Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Carter
Patrick Caddell
Caddell
James A. Baker II
David R. Gergen
David Stockman
Baker
Gergen
Richard Hauser
Fred Fielding
Fielding
Robert Strauss
Jody Powell
Strauss
Powell
Charles Manatt
Manatt
Tony Coelho
D-Calif
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Midland rabies case spurs call for stronger animal control
Eight year old Jodi Muse faces final rabies shot dose after a cat reportedly rabid in her yard May 26. The Muses accuse Midland County of delays in reporting and handling the stray animals, while County Constable Tom McGinnis counters they were negligent in reporting and that the cat’s head was sent to the state health department.
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Midland
Jodi Muse
Midland County
Joe
Cathy Muse
Muse
Animal Control Center
Ron Rice
Texas Department of Health
Austin
Health Department
Rice
Muses
Tom McGinnis
McGinnis
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Julie Bird
Council
Jerome Roehl
State Transportation Department
Gillman
Emilio Alvarez
Alvarez
William Anderson
New York
Stamford
Elizabeth Simpson
Jodi
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