Deficit hits $427 000 at hospital
Winter Medical Center Hospital ended its 1981-82 fiscal year on September 30 with a 427000 deficit, higher than projected. Officials attributed the shortfall to underfunded indigent care by Ector County, with $371000 cashing of CDs to cover losses and a 268000 cash reserve remaining. County funding for 1982-83 rose to 1250000, while total patient revenue reached 45200000 for 1981-82.
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Bennett Segal
Winter Medical Center Hospital
Ector County
Medical Center Hospital Board of Managers Finance Committee
Steve Thornburg
Thornburg
Board of Managers
Narita Holmes
Holmes
Gary Watkins
Watkins
Precinct 1
David Childers
Market opens mixed as traders watch for record high
The market opened mixed with the Dow at 1034.58 and 13 million shares traded. Broker David Harvey noted likely profit-taking but believed buying pressure could keep markets up while rumors of a Fed rate cut remained unconfirmed.
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Odessa
Dow Jones
David Harvey
Eppler, Guerin and Turner Inc
Chemical Bank
Federal Reserve Board
Harvey
Fed
Odessa Oil Show Parade Opens Public at Coliseum Grounds
Odessa preschoolers watched as the Permian Basin Oil Show parade moved along Grant Avenue at 10 a.m. A 1 p.m. grand opening signaled public admission to the Ector County Coliseum grounds. The biennial show, now in its third day, closes at 5 p.m. Saturday with a barbecue by the Odessa Chuck Wagon Gang.
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Odessa
Grant Avenue
Ector County Coliseum
Texas task force urges higher drinking age and tougher DWI rules
Gov. Bill Clements traffic safety group proposes raising the drinking age to 21 to cut highway deaths last year totaling 4,701. Recommends license suspensions for repeat offenses, stricter penalties for second and third DWI, child safety seats, helmet laws, 150 extra patrols costing about 7 million, and seat belt encouragement.
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Austin
Bill Clements
Clements
Texas
Interior taps accounting firms to curb oil royalty cheating
Large accounting firms with oil industry clients win Interior Department contracts to build a computerized system to prevent government losses in royalty fees. Officials warn conflicts of interest could arise from firms learning confidential auditing techniques. Government collects about 5 billion yearly, expected to rise to 14 billion by 1990. 1 million daily losses cited by a government commission.
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Newhouse News Service
Washington
Interior Department
Interior
Govern
Ment
Soviet Bear Intercepted by F-14 Off Virginia Coast
An F-14 Tomcat launched from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia intercepted a Soviet T-95 Bear aircraft Wednesday over international waters off the Virginia coast. The Soviet plane was tracked and escorted away without incident.
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Naval Air Station
Oceana
Virginia
Friction behind missile crisis still unsettled
Twenty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis the basic problems that led to the showdown remain unsettled. Cuba stays a communist thorn in the Monroe Doctrine and U S pride. Diplomats labor over threats to peace when missiles are planted in the name of security.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Cuba
U.S
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