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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1982
Page
1
A fragmented OCR line hints at a local feature about Mickey Mou and Rin-Tin-Tin, with a curious reference to a term Brodnax and a 1D page. The readable text suggests a light entertainment note or column item rather than a full story. The precise details and dates are unclear from the fragment.
State and county officials are examining irregularities that may have led to as much as 100000 dollars missing from the Ector County Tax Assessor Motor Vehicle Division. The Texas Comptroller will audit Curtis Winn’s office as part of a broader probe, with figures ranging from 20000 to 100000 dollars likely taken in the past year. A prior Highway Department audit also suggested discrepancies. Auditors from the Odessa office will begin next Tuesday, with completion expected in four weeks.
Braniff International shut its Midland Regional Airport station at 4 p.m. on Wednesday after orders to close as Flight 434 departed for Dallas. About 17 local employees faced layoffs threatening $500,000 yearly payroll loss and $15,000 in monthly airport revenues. The carrier, facing $732 million debt and $160 million annual loss, filed Chapter 11 seven hours later.
Braniff International filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy shortly after midnight at the Fort Worth federal judge’s home. The move leaves customers and employees in confusion as executives weigh operating options while authorities begin reorganization talks. Thurman, a 24 year Braniff station manager, faced possible job loss and waited at Midland Air Terminal for updates.
Braniff International suspends flights marking a dramatic result of a sectorwide slump. The industry faces fuel costs, fierce low fare competition, and weak demand, with a projected 1 billion loss for the year ending June. Major carriers question survival amid deregulation and rising fuel prices.
About 2,000 students at Hermanos Escobar agriculture school in Ciudad Juarez seized director Rigoberto Delgado Perez to protest Mexico’s Department of Agriculture. They demand the March agreement for 220 million pesos nearly $5 million and state university status. current funding is about $900,000.
Gov. Bill Clements ordered the Texas Department of Corrections to reopen prison doors on Monday and told the prison board to accept only certain inmates. The board had frozen admissions to avoid violating a federal court order for 40 square feet per inmate. Clements planned a Friday meeting in Austin with board members.
Mary Ann McCoy ten slept through a tornado that split and tossed her mobile home in Seminole. The entire McCoy family evacuated to Seminole Memorial Hospital with bumps, bruises, and a damaged hip. Though the trailer disintegrated, Mary Ann awoke unharmed by a sheet of metal pinning her bed as the rest of the family endured injuries but survived.
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