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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1973
Page
2
HAL BOYLE notes a humorous annual dinner for a 25 year office club in Odessa. Gags center on pensions, bonuses, cutbacks, drink portions, and morale staff in various departments. The quips play on mispronounced names and long service memories amid light office banter.
A reader asks if he should invite his critical mother to a home meal. DEAR SAM suggests involving the girlfriend and kin with small visits to ease mom’s fears, then possibly a picnic later. DEAR ELE covers parents’ concerns about contraception discussion and suggests resources and counseling. DEAR WALT and ELE note dating questions and promote the pamphlet Date and Marriage Timetable from Odessa.
A Texas Department of Public Safety report says 1 127 people died in state traffic accidents this year up 1 percent from 1972. There have been 930 fatal crashes, down 2 percent from last year, as DPS details the ongoing toll on Texas roads. Separately in Albuquerque, the Love Lace-Bataan Medical Center’s Bataan Memorial Hospital Division received a two year accreditation renewal from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. The 244 bed facility has been accredited since opening in 1952.
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