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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1982
Page
1
George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, hires former Olympic sprinter and gold medalist Harrison Dillard to serve as a spring training instructor to boost player speed and conditioning ahead of the season.
The United Auto Workers ratified Ford's new contract by 73 percent after heated wage concessions to aid laid-off workers. The 31 month pact includes a $70 million SUB fund infusion, a wage freeze, nine month delay of COLA payments, and loss of eight holidays, in exchange for a two year plant closure moratorium and guaranteed seniority-based protections. Also the UAW AMC council in Chicago planned a Friday Detroit talks reopening.
East Texas editor Joe Murray of the Lufkin Daily News denounces a U S Supreme Court refusal to hear a case as a setback for First Amendment rights. He argues sealed pretrial hearings curb public accountability in the Texas National Bank of Lufkin case and urges a legal definition of the public right to know. The paper plans lobbying by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association.
Federal indictments are expected within 30 days in San Antonio against Jamiel A. Chagra and Charles Voyde Harrelson for the sniper killing of Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio on May 29, 1979. The New York Times cites anonymous officials noting both men are key suspects amid Wood’s murder case.
Roseburg officials said Jennifer Ann Evans, 23, in a four month coma, delivered by C section at Douglas Community Hospital. Evans weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces. Her mother Julie Ann Evans remains in ICU after a cerebral hemorrhage on Oct 26. Doctors say recovery uncertain.
Democrats largely approve the court ordered boundary changes while Republicans protest. The redrawing affects six districts across Dallas Fort Worth and South Texas, with the Legislature needing to approve a plan by the next congressional election cycle. The Justice Department had objected to the earlier plan for diluting minority voting strength, prompting the court to redraw districts including a new mid cities seat and changes impacting Mattox Frost Collins and others.
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