Unclear Laws Prompt New Homestead Exemption Debate
County officials weigh conflicting state and constitutional rules on homestead exemptions as voters approved a 40 percent cap, with future steps to resolve how minimums or percentages apply. Separately the commission increases exemptions for disabled veterans and seniors while ensuring the basic deduction remains unaffected by home value.
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Watkins
Texas
Blakeway
Atkins
Special Commissioners Court
Ector County
Odessa council sheds Escapade amid decency protests
At the May 11 meeting the Odessa council deleted the Escapade program from a hotly debated cable franchise for Cable TV of West Odessa amid protests by Decency leaders John Cope and Joe Seay. The council approved a franchise for Cablevision of Odessa and tabled a controversial raw water grant for Gagewood for 30 days.
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Bob Bryant
Cablevision of
Odessa
Gagewood
Seabolt
Weddell
Dick Sivalls
Mason
Fred C. Gage
Gage
Sivalls and
Bryant
First baby born from Nobel sperm bank in California
Escondido's Repository for Germinal Choice reports the first delivery from a donor described as an eminent mathematician. The nine-pound daughter was born in April to a highly intelligent mother. the donor, a professor at a major university, remains unnamed. The program, founded in 1979 by Robert Klark Graham, aims to produce more creative, intelligent people.
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Escondido
Calif
Nobel
Repository For Germinal Choice
Sperm Bank
Robert Klark Graham
Graham
San Diego
Wiliam B. Shockley
Stanford Univeristy
Shockley
Mensa
Weather Outlook and Texas Storms Across the State
Fair skies give way to evening clouds and possible thunder showers in the Permian Basin. Severe storms, flooding in Falfurrias and Concepcion evacuees, tornado sightings near San Angelo and Big Spring, hail in Midland County and Stanton, and wind damage near Andrews. Temperatures in the 80s, overnight low near 59.
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Permian
Texas
Falfurrias
Brooks County Sheriff’s Department
Duval County
Concepcion
San Angelo
West Texas
Big Spring
Dallas
Stanton
Midland County
Andrews
Abilene
Lake Abilene
Hunger strike enters second week for ERA in Illinois
Seven women in Springfield continue a water fast for the Equal Rights Amendment. They walk 12 blocks daily from a Methodist church to the Illinois Capitol for three hours of protest at the rotunda. They seek ratification by June 30 or indefinite fasting, amid concerns of inadequate medical care. Illinois remains the only northern industrial state yet to ratify the ERA and the sole unratified state requiring three-fifths approval in both chambers.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Capitol
Illinois
Cancer rate in Lake Dalecarlia blamed on sewage lack noted
Health officials examine cancer deaths in Lake Dalecarlia Indiana after a Hammond paper reported a cancer rate twice the national average and five Hodgkin’s disease cases in a 1000-person lakeside community. Investigators warn data are raw and no cancer registry exists.
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Chicago
Indiana
Lake Dalecarlin
Hammond
Hammond Sunday Times
David Edwards
Indiana State Board of Health
Edwards
Lakeside
the Times
Brazil jetliner breaks apart on landing at Brasilia
A Brasilia bound Boeing 737 with 112 aboard broke in half during a heavy rain landing at Brasilia airport. Two were killed and 15 injured as the fuselage split. the plane reportedly lost an engine on approach with no clear link to the crash. The flight originated in Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo. Citibank cuts prime rate to 16 percent, first big-bank move since March.
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Brasilia, Brazil
Brasilia
Porto Alegre
Sao Paulo
New York
Citibank
John Maloney
Odessa American Addresses Change Notices
Public notices list address changes for readers of the Odessa American. The notice provides postal details and contact information for updating subscribers.
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Jovy
Odessa
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