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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1981
Page
5
Readers recount personal outcomes from ignoring vs disciplining a child’s gutter language, with one case citing a grandmother’s spanking that stopped the behavior. Other letters address marital intimacy in later years, corporate theft warnings, and a call for clear boundaries and love as discipline.
The Odessa American invites local churches and congregations to submit programs and projects for the 1981 Easter Church Tabloid to be published in the April 17 edition. New area pastors may have photos March 7 from 10 to 11 am in the newspaper's photo department. Deadline for information is March 16. submit narrative, typed, double spaced to the Life/Style Department.
Donna L Heureux, daughter of Mr and Mrs Leon Hendrickson of Odessa, represented El Paso in the 1981 Mrs America Contest held in Dallas. She studied at Reagan Elementary and Permian High, attended San Jose State and John Powers Modeling School, and later worked with Southwest and Continental Airlines in El Paso before her 1979 marriage. The pageant was hosted by Bert Parks, with the Texas entrant in Las Vegas for the national event. Enters must be 18 and married, modeling swimsuits and gowns and facing interviews. Mrs. L Heureux is El Paso's first contestant.
American singer Mary Macgregor won the International Grand Prix and the Most Outstanding Performance Award at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo. She performed the song Whats the Use, a composition credited to Macgregor with Marty Rodgers and David Bluefield.
An ad in a California paper touts a $50,000 solar powered tombstone sound system that records voices for funerals. The feature prompts jokes about relatives and the impracticality of graveyard speakers while reflecting on evolving everyday devices that talk back to humans.
Bobby Bare headlines a two hour Odessa show at Graham's Central Station on the Drunk and Crazy tour. About 900 fans packed the venue as Bare performed classics such as Detroit City and Red Neck Mother with his band, ending with a celebratory encore.
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