New York Hires Austrian Teachers Amid International Bid
New York plans to recruit math and science instructors from Austria and Scotland to fill gaps for 1.1 million students and 65,000 teachers. Austrian candidates applied in hundreds after a campaign, with interviews via video conferences. Savine, Fritz and Anderwald relocate to the Bronx, sharing a modest three bedroom apartment as they start teaching at Washington Irving High.
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Scotland
Switzerland
Austria
Big Apple
Alfred Posamentier
City University of New York
Vienna University
Washington Irving High
Eckhard Savine
Mohammed Kaba
Savine
Hans Fritz
Asia
Russia
Fritz
Europe
Anderwald
Bronx
New York City
Men Suspects in Meter Scam Shake Up Galveston
In Galveston city, meter scams led to firings in the finance department after thefts exceeding 100000 dollars. Vernon Mills and Carlton Holt were dismissed as the probe widens. Mills pled guilty to a small theft and has a burglary conviction from 1976. Authorities found missing coin boxes at Lake Charles. The mayor floated a temporary halt on tickets at disabled meters, angering locals and visitors.
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Galveston
Ing
Daily News
Galveston County
Lake Charles
Schoolcraft
Bo Quiroga
Vernon Mills
Carlton Holt
Finance Department
Mills
Texas Employment News
Holt
Associated Press
The
Death notices from Midland and area October 4 1998
Obituaries list multiple regional figures including Earl Whitworth of Smithville Earl Edward Whitworth 77 of Upton and Dean Froman 71 of Big Spring with funeral and burial details and arrangers Marrs Jones Myers and Smith Hubbard Kelly. Bertha Wilson 92 of Odessa died October 4 1998 with arrangements pending. Funeral services set for Westminster Presbyterian Church and Sunset Memorial Gardens with local family listed.
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Midland
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Earl Whitworth
Smithville
Earl Edward Whitworth
Upton
Marrs-Jones
Y.J. Jimenez
Fairview Cemetery
Bastrop
Marrs-Jones Funeral Home
Dean Froman
Big Spring
Myers & Smith Funeral Home
Bertha Wilson
Odessa
Seabury Care Center
Hubbard-Kelly
Woman shot dead after aiming gun at Houston officers
In Clear Lake southeast of Houston, 35 year old Stephanie Paulet Rhyne a transgender woman living as a woman was shot by Officer J D Hudson after she pointed a cocked pistol at him during a police response to a possible death by own action. Rhyne died after surgery at Ben Taub Hospital.
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Houston
Stephanie Paulet Rhyne
Clear Lake
Rhyne
Jay Evans
Evans
J.D. Hudson
Ben Taub
Hudson
Force
State seeks funds to shield Texas beaches from erosion
Galveston officials press for state money to fight erosion after Tropical Storm Frances damaged two thirds of the upper Texas coast. Lawmakers consider revenue options and the General Land Office would run a new anti erosion program, pending land commissioner race results.
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Galveston
Frances
Texas
Jim Yarbrough
Alamo
American Shore and Beach Preservation Association
Patricia Gray
Dalveston
Craig Eiland
General Land Office
State Senate
House
Yarbrough
Former Fort Worth Mayor Bayard Friedman Dies at 71
Former Fort Worth mayor Bayard H. Friedman died at 71 after a heart attack. Services are set for Tuesday at the Bass Performance Hall. Friedman, the city’s youngest mayor at 36, served from 1963 to 1965 and helped guide municipal affairs during his term.
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Fort Worth
Bass Performance
Bayard H. Friedman
Friedman
Odessa teacher dies after I 20 collision near Midland
Tracy DAnne Dickerson an Odessa teacher dies after a truck collides with a legally parked pickup on Interstate 20 near mile marker 130 outside Midland at 12 55 a m. Robert Dickerson Jr treated and released. Dickerson born 1969 taught sixth grade at Pease Elementary in Ector County. Funeral services set for Tuesday at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
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Interstate 20
Midland
Tracy D'Anne Dickerson
Memorial Hospital and Medical Center of
Robert Dickerson Jr
Memorial Hospital
Dickersons
Robert Dickerson
Midland Department of Public Safety
DPS
Dickerson
University of North Texas At
Denton
Ector County Independent
Pease
Westminster Presbyterian Church
German exchange student dies in Texas car crash
A 16 year old German exchange student from Frankfurt, Mark Felix Olemetz, died in a single vehicle crash 27 miles north of Fort Davis at 3 30 p m Saturday. Steven Drury, 19, of El Paso was medevaced to Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine and listed in serious condition with head injuries, later reported as satisfactory. Olemetz was driving a 1998 Chevrolet S-10 south on Texas Highway 118 when he lost control, skidded broadside into a large tree, DPS said.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Mark Felix Olemetz
Jeff Davis County
George Vickers
Steven Drury
el Paso
Big Bend Regional Medical Center
Alpine
Medical Center
Olemetz
Texas Highway 118
Pecos
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Bayard Friedman
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Cornerstone Financial
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