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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1986
Page
7
A reader asks why the military assigns a two year minimum term and details a mother’s heartbreak as her 19 year old son serves in Germany. The columnist notes two years is needed for proper training and discusses the emotional impact on families with experience and empathy.
A collection of Dear Abby letters on teen separation, weddings, and how to handle family heartbreak. Advice covers letting go for campers and military moves, whether a father with a live-in partner should attend a wedding, and how to send letters to Abby for personal or published replies.
Multiple Odessa groups held meetings in May, including Alpha Mu Kappa Beta Sigma Phi with pledge rituals and officer installations. Gamma Eta Conclave and Kappa Kappa Iota discussed state conventions, while Odessa/Ector County Retired Teachers honored leaders and noted new officers. Toastmasters District 44 elected Jerri Fielding to lieutenant governor and Sage Brushes, Sunset Extension Homemakers, Grandmothers Club, Odessa Writers Club and others reported events, programs, awards, visits, and upcoming activities.
The craze shifts from glare shield to image enhancer with 160 million pairs sold in the U S last year, up 40 million from 1984. Ray Ban Wayfarers surge from a low in 1981 to over 800,000 sold in 1985 as designers label shades. experts tout both style and eye protection, urging multiple pairs to match outfits and warn against distorted lenses for driving.
Lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary near completion of a fourth supplement started 29 years ago. The update will include terms like yuppie yuck and wimmin drawing mixed feminist attention.
Country star Lee Greenwood has canceled an appearance scheduled for tonight at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Midland. Ticket refunds are available at the point of purchase.
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