Stranded Families Await Footbridge After Bonnie Flood
About 200 families in Big Thicket Estates, 60 miles northeast of Houston, remained cut off after their access road washed away by Hurricane Bonnie. Residents, a sheriff's deputy, and volunteers worked to complete a 100 foot footbridge as boats ferried supplies and power returned. Workers began dirtwork Sunday with bridge installation planned for Monday.
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RYE
Bonnie
Texas
Roger Styron
Big Thicket
Houston
Liberty County Sheriff’s
Patricia Campbell
Big Thicket Lake
Liberty County
Clay Autrey
Styron
Police Beat Odessa June 29 Unauthorized Vehicle Thefts
Odessa police report on June 29 an unauthorized use of a 1982 Oldsmobile valued at 3000 taken from 409 N Hancock Ave between 7 30 and 9 45 p m Friday. Officer S R Lyle. Burglary reports include a mobile home break in at 409 Ellis Drive No 8 with 1000 damage between 7 p m Saturday and 12 40 p m Sunday by Billy Dean Cunningham, handled by Cpl T Barrington. A theft from a 1978 Chevy van at 1201 Harless Ave No 1818 yielded a stereo amplifier two music equalizers and several speakers totaling 1060, reported by Vicki Harris. Officer R Clanton. Another burglary involved 11 bank bags containing 4820 cash taken from Graham Central Station 2031 E Eighth St between 2 a m and 6 40 p m Sunday, reported by Robert Sanders. Officer S R Lyle.
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Anika Kim Hawkins
N. Hancock Ave
S.R. Lyle
Billy Dean Cunningham
Ellis Drive No. 8
Cpl. T. Barrington
Vicki Harris
Harless Ave
R. Clanton
Robert Sanders
Graham Central Station
Eighth St
Police seek clues in sex assaults in Odessa weekend
Police investigate four unrelated sexual assaults reported over the weekend in Odessa. A 4 year old girl was molested at a northeast residence and remained hospitalized. A mother reports her 3 year old daughter may have been molested by three men at a northwest residence. A 25 year old woman was assaulted in a westside mobile home by a knife wielding suspect described as Hispanic in her mid-20s. A 26 year old woman was raped in her southside apartment early Sunday.
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Medical Center Hospital
Odessa
Westside
Fire destroys mobile home in Iseter County
An electrical fire started around 1 p.m. in a circuit breaker at 6316 Kermit Ave. mobile home. No injuries were reported. James Scott Krow rented the dwelling from J.W. Tucker, 2416 W. 49th St., according to fire department reports.
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iSeter County
Odessa
Kermit Ave
James Scott Krow
J.W. Tucker
W. 49Th St
Three armed robberies reported in Odessa this weekend
Odessa police investigated three weekend robberies with more than 1700 dollars stolen. William Rhodes reported a man with a bicycle chain attacked him at the Holiday Inn Parkway at 9 15 p.m. Saturday taking 40 dollars and credit cards. Evelyn Sims said a handgun wielding intruder seized her purse at the Eighth Street Grocery around 7 17 p.m. Saturday. A 50 year old woman said two men with pistols robbed her of more than 1700 dollars near West University Boulevard around 10 p.m. Saturday.
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Odessa
William Rhodes
Baton Rouge
Holiday Inn Parkway
E. U.S. 80
Evelyn Sims
30Th St
Eighth Street
Eighth St
West University Boulevard
Victim recalls hijack ordeal on TWA Flight 847
Allyn Conwell, once a spokesman for TWA 847 hostages, says he prays at every airplane takeoff. The Houston salesman, out of work due to oil industry recession, recalls the 1 day hijacking and warns of terrorism vulnerability after the June incident in the Athens Rome flight.
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Houston
Allyn Conwell
TWA
Conwell
Athens
Rome
The
Houston Chronicle
Olga
Greece
Delta County Prepares Twin Lakes Project Amid Population Decline
Delta County Texas faces growth loss as Big Creek Reservoir begins with groundbreaking on June 6 and Cooper Lake planned to start next, pitting local effort against federal plans. Residents hope the two lakes will revive the economy and grant self determination, while aging towns cope with depopulation and youth migration.
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Big Creek
Cooper Lake
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Twin Lakes
Cooper Real
Morris Partain
Partain
Delta County Municipal Utility District
Cooper
Corps
Congress
Granny Click
McClanahan & Son
Miller Drugs
Delta County
J.C. Pardue
Sulphur Springs
Paris
Texas
Dallas Morning News
Richard Huie
Sam Rayburn
Pardue
Lake Board
Odessa Lawyer Pays Fine In Contempt Case
An Odessa attorney, Jim Osborn, paid a $100 contempt of court fine instead of appealing a judgment. He missed a May 27 probation revocation hearing for client Mary Adams in 161st District Court. A scheduled 10 am hearing before Judge Wayland Holt was canceled, per Judge Tryon Lewis.
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Odessa
Jim Osborn
Snyder
Tryon Lewis
Wayland Holt
Lewis
Osborn
Mary Adams
Winkler County
Computer pumped sewage plant to run on computer control
Houston plans a buried concrete silo style raw sewage pumping station that will be operated by computer and move up to 370 million gallons daily. It will handle about half of the citys domestic and industrial sewage by early 1987, replacing four smaller overwhelmed stations. London officials cite a similar concept after learning of the Houston plant from Flygt Corp. engineers.
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Houston
Walter Williams
City Wastewater
Houston Post
London
Bengt Bjernfalk
Flygt Corp
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