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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1968
Page
4
A scrambled OCR fragment mentions yesterday and a fracas aboard a voyage with nutty happenings. No clear names or locations emerge, leaving a fragmentary item about an event disturbance on a journey.
Two workmen were killed and 23 injured in a boiler explosion at Bethlehem Steels steam generating plant in Baltimore. A brief ensuing fire, damaged nearby homes and an elementary school, with a roof hurled into a parking lot and windows shattered.
In Marks Mississippi the Poor People's March faces organizational hurdles as Rev James Bevel and SCLC push to recruit the rural poor for a Washington protest. From an opening day crowd from Memphis only about 220 stayed, Quitman County schools protested violence by police, and local leaders weighed how to manage a march that aims to force economic change and money into the poor's mainstream.
An Arizona accountant, Everett Claire Thomas of Phoenix, is reported doing fine after receiving Texas first heart transplant at St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. The 47 year old, who had valves replaced earlier, woke three hours post operation and shows no rejection signs. donor was 15 year old Mrs Charles L Martin III, killed by gunshot. Baylor team led by Dr Denton A Cooley performed the three hour operation with minimal blood transfusion.
California heart patient Jassepis Rizer shows normal heartbeat and blood pressure after a second transplant at Stanford University Medical Center. Doctors caution the operation is not yet a success and report a critical period ahead. Rizer, 40, rests after receiving a donor heart from Rudy F. Anderson, a 43-year-old Pacific Telephone executive who died of a brain hemorrhage.
A 17 year old Odessa boy Gus Tijerina Jr. was held in city jail Friday night on $3000 bond for burglary. He was arraigned by Justice of the Peace Faye Robinson after an arrest for breaking into La Polka Bar and taking change from a vending machine and four beer cases. A 16 year old is in Ector County jail in connection with the same case, and two more youths are being sought.
Britain's first human heart transplant is performed at the National Heart Hospital in London. Donor Patrick Ryan, 26, of Galway, Ireland, died from head injuries. recipient is a 45-year-old man. Two police escorts and a speedy ambulance carried the donor across London to the hospital.
Dr E Duane Hulse was chosen by the Methodist Church to preach in South America for a month with an interpreter. The piece criticizes young clerics who blend welfare propaganda with theology, urges practical evangelism like St Paul, and champions lay backing over ivory tower professors.
Clearwater AP judge Robert A Halvorsen told a legislative committee that teens may be safer using marijuana than alcohol and urged lighter juvenile rules. He urged county or national studies before new laws and noted marijuana cases were extremely rare in his 16 months on the bench.
CHICKAMAUGA Ga AP Mayor Frank Pierce was hospitalized with a broken leg after a driveway accident at his home. He said he was riding a skateboard Wednesday when he suddenly fell, becoming twisted and injured.
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