City Council Eyes Social Security Withdrawal and Self-Funded Insurance
Council considers issuing a resolution to withdraw from Social Security with a survey for city employees, a plan for self-funded life health and accident insurance, and possible investment of savings. Also on the agenda are wrecking services contracting changes and issuing Industrial Development Bonds for Hotel Investors Granada Royale and a Odessa Holidome Convention Center. Republican Rep. Roberts hails a farm policy breakthrough amid grain sale hopes to the Soviets.
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Employees Retirement System of Texas Social Security Division
Hall
Thomas Perkins
Dick Sivalls
Weddell
Odessa
Hotel Investors Ltd
7Th Street
Dixie Boulevard
Holiday Inn
Odessa Holidome
East Highway 80
Roberts
House Agriculture Committee
Soviets
Canada
France
United States
GOP
Agriculture, State and Treasury Departments
Dan Glickman
Chan
Agriculture Committee
Inmate Holds Hospital Hostages in Brooklyn Situation
Larry Gardner, a 33 year old inmate and informant, seized a prison guard’s gun and held five hostages at King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn. Police say he showed no clear goal but used hostages to air complaints about prison conditions while negotiators and over sixty officers surrounded the basement room for a second day.
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New York
Brooklyn
Larry Gardner
King’s County Hospital
Gardner
Vernon Burton
John Leonard
Elton Smith
Alice McGillion
Ed Hershey
Department of Correction
Larry van Dyke
Buffalo Evening News
Poly area killings tied to gang burglaries in deaths of elderly
Detectives link three slayings in the Polytechnic area to a gang suspected of burglaries. Ruby English 88 was beaten to death in her Littlejohn home on June 13 and Clifford Leach 56 was killed outside a Campbell Street grocery. George Chris Washington 17 faces capital murder charges. others arrested or unnamed are under investigation. Elderly residents fear staying home as violence prompts relocation considerations.
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Tarrant County
Ewing
Ruby English
Littlejohn
Poly
Hopkins
Clifford Leach
Campbell St. George
Chris Washington
Miller
T.C. Swan
Thurman E. Self
Polytechnic Church of Christ
Self
IRS cuts penalty rate on back taxes to 16 percent
The Internal Revenue Service said the penalty for late federal tax payments will drop to 16 percent annually starting Jan 1 1983 for amounts outstanding on that date or arising after. The 20 percent rate remains for penalties accruing in the meantime, with biannual adjustments tied to bank prime rates.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Fair warm weekend with scattered Texas weather notes
Odessa area forecasters predict a fair warm Saturday with a high in the upper 70s and southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Saturday night remains fair with a low near 50, and Sunday should see fair skies with a low 80s high. National Weather Service Midland records show no precipitation in past 24 hours and October totals at 1.01 inches. A separate Bergen County jury cleared TV documentary Scared Straight and related parties of defamation in a case brought by eight teenagers.
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Odessa
Texas
Dallas
Shreveport
Texarkana
del Rio
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Panhandle
Big Bend
Rio Grande
Hackensack
N.J
Bergen County
New York
Wnew-Tv
Peter Falk
Golden West Broadcasting Inc
Arnold Shapiro
Ridgefield Park
Charles Martini
Odessa American subscription notice details and contact
The Odessa American provides daily and Sunday home delivery for 73 dollars per year. Subscriptions include second class postage and mail delivery problems can be reported by calling 37 7314 with service hours before 7 p.m. for daily and before 10 p.m. on weekends.
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Fourth Street
Odessa
Texas
Odessa American
P.O
McDonald ranch clash at Army bombing range escalates
McDonald presses dispute with the U S Army over land taken in 1942 for a bombing range. Army officials served papers demanding leaving the site while McDonald, joined by his niece, refused. Talks aimed to open a peaceful channel between the range and the rancher amid threats of trespass arrests.
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Army
Dave Olmstead
McDonald
Albuquerque Journal
Duggan
McDonalds
Casper Weinberger
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