Odessa Council probes tax rate cut and surplus
Odessa City Council members met in a special session to review a proposed 20.5 million general budget and a 5.4 million surplus. They questioned a 99 cent tax rate and discussed possible cuts, comparing reserves to other cities and examining revenue from permit fees and trash collection while planning further budget hearings.
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Shelley Barker
Odessa
Kerry Sweatt
Sweatt
Frank Childs
Ray Fuqua
Childs
Curtis Webster
Texas Municipal League
Webster
Midland
Fred George
Fuqua
Bob Bryant
Bryant
McMonigle
Lawson Cook
Water Quality Board
More Rain Forecast as Texas Sees Flood Threat this Weekend
The National Weather Service in Midland expects scattered showers and possible thunderstorms across Texas through the weekend with a Labor Day forecast of fair and warm conditions. Rain amounts include .05 inch at Midland and up to six inches locally near Junction to Wichita Falls, while flood warnings remain along the Nueces and Frio Rivers.
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Permian
National Weather Service
NWS
Midland
Texas
Big Bend
Junction
Wichita Falls
Nueces
Frio
Calliham
Three Rivers
Panhandle
Alice
Longview
Odessa Council debates federal revenue sharing budget
Odessa City Council discussed a proposed 1 million federal revenue sharing budget with tension over the Monahans Draw Park funds. City Manager Kerry Sweatt said 210,000 from last year remains unneeded and Councilman Lawson Cook urged allocating funds to the Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center.
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Odessa
Kerry Sweatt
Monahans Draw Park
Sweatt
Lawson Cook
Permian Basin
Bob Bryant
Monahans Draw
South Odessa
Dick’ McMonigle
Bryant
Ray Fuqua
Fuqua
Baron Named VP and Editor in Chief of Pocket Books
Carole Baron is appointed vice president and editor in chief of Pocket Books. Ronald Busch, president of Pocket Books, said she joined the firm in 1975 as administrative editor.
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New York
Carole Baron
Pocket Books
Ronald Busch
Weather Outlook From Midland Regional Airport
National Weather Service forecast calls for partly cloudy skies through Sunday with a 40 percent chance of rain today and a 20 percent chance tonight. Southerly winds 5 to 15 mph. High today 85, low tonight 65, high tomorrow 88. Overnight low 66. Sun sets 8:12 p.m. rises 7:25 a.m. Precipitation last 24 hours 0.05 inches, year to date 7.34 inches.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Odessa College enrollment sets fall record at 3780 students
Odessa College reports a fall enrollment of 3778 students with late registration remaining. OC president Dr. Philip Speegle attributes the rise to expanded services and programs and greater community awareness of educational opportunities, with expected total surpassing 3900.
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Odessa College
Philip Speegle
Four burglaries under investigation in city
Police report Friday night burglaries at several locations. Jack Harvey lost a bicycle and parts worth 200 from an unlocked garage. Debbie Pate reported rings and a necklace valued at 133 from her home after entry via a bedroom window. A Photo Hut employee said a cash box was stolen through an unlocked south door. An employee at the Clinical Weight Control Center said three vials of medicine worth 21 were taken.
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Jack Harvey
North McKinney
Debbie Pate
West 39Th
Photo Hut
42Nd
Dixie
North Grandview
District Judge Connally and Lanita Feeler Wed at Brittany Lane
District Judge Joe Connally and Lanita A Feeler were married Friday at the Connally residence on Brittany Lane in a ceremony performed by District Judge C V Milburn.
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Joe Connally
Lanita A. Feeler
Connally
Brittany Lane
C.V. Milburn
Death notices for five residents in Kermit area
Obituaries record the deaths of Lance Corporal Charles Allen Jackson 23 of Kermit Marion C Pearson 63 Lovington Lino Palacios 78 Kermit John Casey Jones 46 Odessa area James Walter Dickson 54 Fort Stockton A wallet theft reported by Hugh McNaul at Albertsons in Odessa city police investigation continues.
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Kermit
Charles Allen Jackson
Brooke Army Hospital
San Antonio
Cooper Funeral Home Chapel
Kermit Cemetery
Alexandria
Jackson
Second Marine Division
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Kermit High School
Blake Jackson
Patricia Dunn
Severn
Teresa Marin
Rockdale
C. E. Carnahan
John Casey Jones
Odessa
Easterling Funeral Home
Resthaven Cemetery
Oklahoma City
Foster
Okla
Jones
First Church of God
Dorothy Mahan
Lovington
N.M
Billy F. Jones
Norfolk
Sam Casey Jones
James Ray Jones
Larry Wasson
Charlie Kinnington
George Jones
Pason, Ariz
J.A. Jones
Denver City
Jay Matthews
Bud Pool
Seymour
Paul Maddox
San Bernardino
Calif
Jimmy Dickson
Fort Stockton
James Walter
Jimmy) Dickson
Veterans Administration Hospital
Big Spring
Restland Cemetery
McCamey
Larry Sheppard
Albany
Ore
Dorothy Lambright
Andrews
Opel Wilson
Betty Farmer
Grandfalls
Ruby Nelson
Tucson
Ariz
E.0. Dickson
Portland
W.L. Dickson
Fort Worth
Sealand develops with German investment and pirate raids
The Sealand project plans a 70.4 million dollar first phase including a radio station casino and hotel with a second phase for a bulk cargo port. German groups may finance the initial phase while Bates denies tax haven aims. A 1975 constitution claims English as language and British law, with four permanent residents and 180 passport holders. A August raid by four raiders led to a quick rescue and no British involvement.
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Sealand
Bates
Britain
Michael
Post Office unions battle to keep no-layoff clause in talks
The Postal Service seeks to weaken the no-layoff clause retained after a bitter fight that produced a tentative contract on July 21. APWU chief Emmet Andrews vows no concessions as Judge John Pratt extends a strike ban to Sept 18. A fourth union, the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, approved its contract rejected by others. Healy leads a 15 day bargaining window with potential settlement or external resolution.
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Postal Service
Emmet Andrews
APWU
U.S
John Pratt
National Rural Letter Carriers Association
Healy
Two Bellaire Men Injured In Sanderson Crash
Two 20 year old Bellaire men were treated at Medical Center Hospital in satisfactory condition after a 5 30 a m crash on Highway 90 about 11 miles west of Sanderson. Rick Garza had a broken leg and Oscar Cantu suffered multiple lacerations after their vehicle with a trailer ran off the road, struck a culvert and overturned. They were transferred from Big Bend Memorial Hospital in Alpine shortly after noon Friday.
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Bellaire
Medical Center Hospital
Sanderson
Rick Garza
Oscar Cantu
Big Bend Memorial Hospital
Alpine
Highway 90
Texas
Tom Lowrance
Lowrance
Odessa CAP Squadron Meet at Schleymer Field
The 7:30 P.M. Odessa Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol will gather at the Civil Air Patrol Building on Schleymer Field for a scheduled meeting and briefing.
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Odessa
Civil Air Patrol
Schleymer Field
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Loyd H. Curlee
Fernwood
Chicago Firemen
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
Congress
Charles A. Jackson
John C. Jones
Marion C. Pearson
Albuquerque
Smith-Rogers Funeral Home
Terry County Memorial Cemetery
Brownfield
San Diego
Betty Kettle
Jean Holbert
Hereford
Damond Pearson
Seminole
Bob Ballard
Seagraves
Leo Ehly
Nazareth
Lino Palacios
Memorial Hospital
Mexico
Palacios
Catalina Palacios
el Paso
Cooper Funeral Home
Hugh McNaul
West 21St
Albertsons
East Eighth
Post Office
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