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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1981
Page
1
A mixed page featuring classified listings and several sections such as a crossword puzzle, doctor’s column, financial and arts notes, lifestyle items, matter of record, and an obituary. It hints at humor or persona features with brief health and horoscopes content included.
About 250 coal miners in eastern Ohio stayed off the job on the last day of the old contract as UMW leadership campaigned for ratification of a new three year pact with a 36 percent wage rise. The strike began despite a tentative agreement and voting is to decide if work resumes after ratification. The union projects broad support, while some rank and file voices criticize the deal including the elimination of royalties on non union coal.
The Texas House approved a measure to raise maximum legal interest rates on auto loans cards and other credit. The 91 to 54 vote keeps floating ceilings at 24 percent after a six hour debate. The bill now goes to the Senate amid opposition from liberal and conservative lawmakers.
White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico has prepared a dry lake bed as a backup landing site for a shuttle mission. If Edwards Air Force Base is unavailable, Northrup Strip on the desert lake bed will host touchdown, with Cape Canaveral launch slated for April 10 and a 54 hour earth return.
Secretary of State Alexander Haig told a Senate subcommittee the time has come to get on with conducting American foreign policy and to focus on substance rather than form. He denied threatening resignation and noted some confusion over George Bush heading a crisis management team, while asserting he will stay involved in the process.
A Texas bill raising the drinking age from 18 to 19 faced four major obstacles as the House rejected a House Senate conference committee report by a 96 to 42 vote. The key issue centered on an amendment that would presume bar owners knowingly sold to minors if they did not check IDs, complicating efforts to finalize a compromise.
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