Skunks Invade Childress City in Olfactory Crisis
AP reports Childress faces a musk skunk surge as water scarcity drives animals into town. Animal control officer Charles Anders notes calls have surged to four to eight daily as skunks repeatedly spray when captured, while city manager Roger Davis says the animals “give as good as they get.”
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Halliburton Dresser merger could cut up to 5000 jobs
The merger may create redundancies with as many as five thousand jobs at risk, though officials say exact impacts on local staff are unknown. Halliburton employs about twenty five thousand in Texas and one hundred thousand globally. the combined firms posted revenues of sixteen point three billion and net income of seven hundred seventy two million in 1997.
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Congress approves $270.5 billion defense bill
The Senate narrow but widespread approval backed a $270.5 billion defense budget. It would raise military pay 3.6 percent, allow joint training for branches, and maintain U S troops in Bosnia. Clinton expected to sign despite White House objections. vote 96 to 2 with two defections.
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Texas Supreme Court to hear Texas Tech eligibility case
The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments in December over Texas Tech football lineman Casey Jones who was ruled ineligible for academics in 1996. The NCAA appeals after a lower court granted a temporary injunction to finish the season and seeks review of the Amarillo appeals court ruling.
Bush and Mexican official discuss nuke dump and energy trade
TX Governor George W. Bush and Mexican Secretary of Energy Luis Tellez Kuenzler met at the Governor's Mansion to discuss Mexico's rising electricity demand and potential U S Texas energy imports. They also probed a possible zero tariff on natural gas and addressed opposition to a planned Sierra Blanca nuclear waste dump near the Rio Grande.
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