Odessa Doctor Urges Public Hepatitis Study
Odessa physician Dr. F J Russel and an Ector County Health official call for a public health study as hepatitis A cases rise in the city. They warn of possible waterborne spread from sewage contamination, with schools such as Ector Junior High cited as potential hotspots. Most cases are not fatal, but illness lasts weeks and public awareness is urged.
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John McCartney
Odessa
F.J. Russel
Ector County Health Department
Russel
Ector
Russo
Debating limits on U S medical care costs
The article surveys the rising 287 billion dollar annual spend on health care with 1 200 per person, and discusses whether society should or will restrict life extending treatments for the terminally ill. It cites Dr David Cullen and Philip Callahan on limits and criteria for rationing care.
Doctors say society must decide care limits not clinicians
Doctors argue they cannot choose patient care based on cost. They insist decisions about who receives treatment should be made by society, not by individual physicians, to avoid bias and preserve medical ethics.
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Associated Press
Boston
America
U.S
Hastings-on-Hudson
N.Y
United States
Callahan
EPA shifts do not affect Shell Odessa refinery
EPA wastewater rules dropping additional pollution controls do not apply to Shell's Odessa refinery. A Shell environmental engineer, Dan McNeill, said the Odessa facility discharges no wastewater and instead recycles water, while heavy-laden wastewater is managed within the petrochemical complex south of Odessa.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Odessa
EPA
Dan McNeill
Shell
Petrochemical
White Student group formed at SMU to fight reverse discrimination
At Southern Methodist University a student group called the Association for White Students won Senate approval 32 to 4 to use campus facilities and seek funding. President L Donald Shields opposes the goal, planning to urge a second vote. The 21-year-old James T Robison said the group seeks equality by ending reverse discrimination, noting no minority recruitment program existed until recently. SMU lists about 9 200 students with 290 Black and 90 Mexican American students.
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University Park, Texas
Southern Methodist University
Association For White Students
SMU
L. Donald Shields
James T. Robison
Robison
Perspective on economic history and current indicators
Hindsight offers insight into the Dow Jones crossing 1000 in 1966 and 1972, the Morgan Guaranty prime rate drop to 12 percent, and the 1960s to 70s inflation and unemployment context. The piece argues perspective clarifies the meaning of shifts in the CPI, unemployment, and interest rates while noting ongoing long term trends and complexities.
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John Cunniff
New York
Lyndon Johnson
Wall Street Journal
Morgan Guaranty Trust
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Dennis Copeland
Tor
David J. Cullen
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