Deaf and blind artist teaches through instinct and courage
Geraldine Lawhorn, 63, who lost sight at 12 and hearing at 19, has built a 40 year career teaching, lecturing, writing, and performing despite blindness and deafness. She travels the country, runs an independent living course at Hadley School for the Blind, and uses an interpreter Morse code and touch to communicate.
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Chicago
Geraldine Lawhorn
Miss Lawhorn
Hadley School For the
Winnetka
Lawhorns
Carnegie Hall
South Side
Jan Warren
Weather outlook and flood impact across Odessa area
The Odessa region faces partly cloudy skies with a 30 percent chance of showers or storms through Saturday night and warming highs near 85 to 90 degrees. A flash flood watch was in effect Friday. funnel clouds were spotted near Stanton but caused no damage. Amarillo reports waist high water, emergency pumping equipment approved, and partial evacuations. Western Plaza mall area hit hard by runoff.
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Odessa
Stanton
Amarillo
Tainted oil linked to Spain pneumonia outbreak
Atlanta reports say researchers, with help from the CDC, seek the cause of tainted cooking oil linked to a toxic pneumonia outbreak in Madrid area. Since May, 12,147 people hospitalized as investigators chase the substance behind the illness. CHICAGO note follows on Labor Day traffic toll estimates for the weekend.
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Spain
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Madrid
Chicago
National Safety Council
CBS Drops AFL-CIO Labor Day Address Over Politics
CBS Radio will not broadcast AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland’s Labor Day message this year, citing political controversy. Kirkland likened the move to Poland’s Solidarity clash with state media amid broadcasting access disputes.
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Washington
CBS Radio
Afl-Cio
Lane Kirkland
Kirkland
Poland
Solidarity Union
Warrant Issued in Boyce Case Near Bonners Ferry
Federal warrant targets Gloria White of northern Idaho for knowingly harboring convicted spy Christopher Boyce while he was a fugitive. Marshals searched White home about nine miles from Bonners Ferry on Katka Mountain Friday morning.
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Seattle
Idaho
Christopher Boyce
U.S
Gloria White
Bonners Ferry
Katka Mountain
Delivery Subscriptions and Service Disruption Folio
A fragment from the Odessa American notes delivery mail subscriptions and a delivery problem. It mentions weekend dates and service issues affecting subscribers on Sundays and Saturdays. Names and exact dates are unreadable. the item highlights subscription management concerns and potential interruptions in mail delivery.
Phoebe Moon of Saturn May Be Captured Comet
Voyager 2’s first closeup photos of Saturn’s distant moon Phoebe suggest it is a captured comet. The moon rotates backward relative to Saturn’s other moons, supporting theories that the planet’s gravity pulled a passing comet into orbit.
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Pasadena
Calif
Saturn
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Alan Wood
Phoebe
Earth
Uranus
Wood
Hughes kin battle ends in probate settlement amid tax dispute
A settlement among 22 Hughes cousins and heirs divides the estate after five years of probate fights. It sets 25 percent to charity, 71 percent to maternal heirs, and 282 percent to paternal cousins, with appeals and a California Texas residency/tax dispute delaying final distribution while the Supreme Court weighs the issue. Genealogist W A Jones helped unite hundreds of cousins who vow to appeal.
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Hughes
Charity
California
Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
W.A. Jones
Nashville
Hendryx recalls contempt for lobbyists in Texas Legislature
Former Brewster County lawmaker Hendryx recounts his warning to clear lobbyists from the House foyer and worries about political contributions in Austin. He notes a debt dynamic when candidates accept such money, reflecting on his votes in 1963 against expanding four-year state supported status to Odessa College, San Angelo Junior College and Pan American College.
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Brewster County
Austin
Hendryx
Odessa College
San Angelo Junior College
Pan American College
Heirs feud over Hughes estate heirs after 40 wills found
Attorneys for first and distant cousins spar over a Houston area will battle linked to Gregory's ruling that Hughes left no immediate survivors. The case centers on Elspeth's legitimacy and a cascade of contested wills filed since Hughes died aboard an emergency flight from Acapulco to Houston.
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Wayne Fisher
George Parnham
Parnham
Gregory
Hughes
Hendryx Reflects on Public Service and Education Funding
Sul Ross State University graduate Hendryx recalls his 1960s view favoring vocational schools over new colleges and universities. He laments how public office fights deterring qualified candidates, notes a heart attack ended his Legislature tenure, and recounts his 1967 retirement surprise in Monahans.
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Brewster
Monahans
Hendryx
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