City boys learn life in wagon
A VisionQuest wagon train in West Texas educates city youths through hard work and teamwork. Johnny, a 15 year old from Franklin, Pa., chose the voyage over jail, joining 28 boys and 4 girls with 20 counselors. The program, begun Sept 30, 1982, travels from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan into rugged terrain, teaching responsibility amid wind, tepees, and rough language as they care for horses and build a life on the trail.
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Dennis ST. Germaine
Nickle Creek
Johnny
West
Texas
VisionQuest
Tucson
Ariz
America
Franklin
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Michigan
Vision Quest
Douglas Hopkins
Hopkins
el Capitan
Guadalupe Mountains
Typical mass murderer described by Northeastern professors
Two Northeastern University scholars say the mass murderer is ordinary not monstrous, often in his 20s or 30s, slightly overweight, mustached, and preferring rifles. They analyzed 42 cases from 1973 to 1980, noting many killers were ordinary neighbors and that mass murder appears to be rising due to social pressures and personal upheavals.
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Boston
Northeastern University
Jack Levin
James Fox
Chers
Fox
Texas Democrats Boost Black Delegates for 1984 Nominee
The Texas State Democratic Executive Committee approved an affirmative action plan boosting black delegates to 16 percent for the 1984 national convention, up from 14.5 percent in 1980, while Hispanics rise to 21 percent from 16.5. The plan, to be approved by the national party, preserves gender parity and 15 percent for youths and outlines district-based delegate selection aligned with 1980 and 1982 election results.
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Austin
Democratic Party
Texas
Aurora Sanchez
Alice
Ed Cogburn
Houston
Sanchez
Charles Yarborough
Abilene
State Committee
Bob Slagle
Slagle
Odessa American Debuts Local Stock Service in Business Section
The Odessa American launches a Sunday stock service on pages 4 and 5 with 100 regional stocks and six industry groups. It uses AP and Media General Financial Service data, highlights latest quotes, changes, five year highs and lows, earnings per share, dividends, and price/earnings ratios, tailored to the Permian Basin market.
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Odessa
Associated Press
Media General Financial Service
Dave Lyons
Permian Basin
Lyons
The
American
California trail ends for cowboy rider honors mother
Robert Roberts, 29, from Framingham Massachusetts, completed a 10 month coast to coast horseback journey begun last April. He had never ridden a horse before and rode through New England Tennessee Odessa Texas and the Southwest deserts to honor his deceased mother.
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Los Angeles
Robert Roberts
Framingham
Mass
New England
Tennessee
Odessa
Texas
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Advance Party
Fox and Levin
Seattle
McCarthy
Alaska
Demos
California Trail
Cowboy
Odessa American
Dennis Copeland
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