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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1998
Page
1
Detroit crushes St Louis 1B to set up Western Conference finals with Dallas 1D doctors ready to enter a new era of cancer research 7A
Continental Airlines announced at Love Field plans to operate 50 seat regional jets to Houston and Cleveland. The Cleveland service would be the first non Texas or nearby state commercial landings at Love since the Wright Amendment. Southwest currently runs the only major scheduled service with 139 daily departures.
Ector County Independent School District trustees approved a plan requiring Nimitz Junior High students to wear uniforms. The measure followed a 77 percent favorable vote from 516 parents and teachers. The policy limits clothing to khaki or navy pants, shorts, skirts or jumpers and white, navy or gold shirts, with shirts to be tucked in. Shoes are not addressed. The district must designate funds to provide uniforms for economically disadvantaged students, defined as those eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. About 41 percent of Nimitz students qualify, roughly 400 pupils. Private donors have pledged help, and San Jacinto Junior High spent about $2,500 this year with $8,000 raised for needy students.
Shnea Wilson’s 6 month old Ryan stopped breathing while coughing in their Eastside apartment. Robert Menefee, 38, the Idlewood Terrace maintenance man, quickly cleared the infant’s airway by back blows and finger sweep. Ryan cried out and survived, and Wilson joked about him moving upstairs.
Texas now sees the nation’s highest truck mileage since NAFTA passed in 1994, with a 19 percent rise over three years while car miles rose 12 percent. About 80 percent of U.S. Mexican trade moves through Texas, stressing interstates like I-35 and I-10 and carrying costs over $2.7 billion annually for build and maintenance.
Hank Earl Carr, 30, killed three Tampa area officers in a dramatic early arrest breakout, then died in a four hour standoff at a highway gas station in Brooksville Florida. A hostage was freed unharmed and Carr had foreshadowed his death in a radio interview.
The Federal Reserve kept the federal funds rate at 5.5 percent after a 4 1/2 hour FOMC meeting. markets were little changed with the Dow inching up to 9,055 as officials flag inflation risk from robust growth and potential policy adjustments ahead.
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