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Newspaper

Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1978

Page

81

El Paso Products Company powers Permian Basin industry

El Paso Products Co and its Odessa Natural Corp employ 800 plus workers and drive the Permian Basin economy with tax payments of 784000 to Odessa Ecott County and school system and more than 38000 to the United Way. The firm, formed 1956, operates olefin ammonia and nitric acid plants and, with Dart Industries, makes polypropylene and polyethylene in Odessa and Bayport.

el Paso Products Company Permian Basin United States Odessa el Paso Products Odessa Natural Corporation Ecott County United Way The Products Company Esquire Magazine America EPPCO el Paso Natural Gas Company Texas ONC Foster Dart Industries Los Angeles Bayport Houston Ship Channel el Paso Algeria W.D. Noel J.M. McCleskey, Jr John B. Mason O.R. Clements W.A. Johnson Jesse Owens B.G. Rider W.T. Edwards Roy W. Allen, Jr

Bill Noel of Odessa A Pioneer in Oil and Community Growth

W. D. Noel known as Bill Noel shaped West Texas oil and petrochemicals for four decades. He led El Paso Products and Odessa Petrochemical Complex, diversified into banks and ranching, and served on multiple boards.

W. D Bill Noel Odessa Permian Bill Noel University of Texas el Paso Products Company Odessa Natural Corporation West Texas Gathering Company Gulf Oil Corporation Gulf M.h.mcwhirter J.b.tubb Monahans Trebol Oil Company West Texas McCamey E.g.rodman Foster Tubb McWhirter Trebol Rodman-Noel Oil Corporation RMN Corporation Trebol Drilling Company Rodman Permian Basin el Paso General Tire and Rubber Rexene Shell el Paso Products Kermit, Snyder San Angelo Lubbock San Antonio Texas American Bank Texas Commerce Bank San Angelo National Bank Texas Commerce Bankshares of Houston First National Bank Southwestern Drug Corporation Dallas el Paso Company el Paso Natural Gas

Wamega Industries makes compressor components

Wamega Industries, Inc. a machine shop and machinery and computer sales firm formed four and a half years ago employs nine people with an annual payroll of $70,000. It manufactures steel gas compressor valves using standard and numerically controlled equipment. Founder Melvin A. Brant, born in Cumberland Maryland, is a 25 year machinist and ordained minister with a master of divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary. Located at 2626 Kermit Highway.

Wamega Industries, Inc Company Melvin A. Brant Cumberland Evangelical Methodist Church Asbury Theological Seminary Wilmore

Abandoned dog on hillside smiles at rescuers

In Caerphilly Wales a dog spent a week guarding a coat bearing its owner's scent on a lonely hillside before the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals rescued it. Other rescuers were driven off by snarls the SPCA described as the animal smiling.

Caerphilly Wales Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To

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