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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1968
Page
2
More than 70 conferees will attend a 9 am Midland program meeting at Emerson Elementary School cafeteria led by William B Blakemore II. The session will review 71 proposed objectives and assign priorities to 14 top items as part of the long range goal to improve the Midland area.
Miss your paper or service unsatisfactory contact Odessa American circulation department by phone FE 7-4641. Offices open weekdays until 6 45 p m Saturdays until noon and Sundays until 10 30 a m.
Justice of the Peace Buck Smith ruled the shooting death of 35 year old Charles Skuball at a Austin trailer park was a homicide. Skuball was shot Tuesday and authorities delayed ruling until a one year old acquaintance could be questioned. Witnesses testified to an argument and the youth claiming to have witnessed the shooting before being turned over to juvenile authorities.
Two Czechoslovak committees labeled as counterrevolutionary by Moscow were disbanded under Soviet troop withdrawal pressure. Fire damage occurred at a political club garage used by survivors of Stalin-1, with Odessa firemen citing a water heater as the blaze source. Kan and D. E. Page were among the affected.
Witnesses described a blast in Saigon that tore through the information office on a main street, bending iron gates of a nearby school and injuring multiple people. Soldiers and locals aided rescue efforts as a 73-pound satchel charge was suspected. Separate vent in the dock area left a ward chief critically wounded.
Saigon and Midland area obituaries note the deaths of Mrs. Bessie Lee Moore in Odessa after eight years illness, and Mrs. W. E. Ern Baird in Kermit after a long illness. Also mentioned are Mrs. Mayme I Slaughter of Midland and regional military air activity amid tropical storm Bess and operations near Saigon.
The report details air sorties reduced to 33 against Vietnam, with Saigon police finding a tin containing 1214 pounds of TNT in a tax collection office in Cholon, and other incidents including a house explosion, mortar and rocket fire near Quang Ngai, and casualties among South Vietnamese forces.
The record notes Senator Mansfield comments that Fortas's chances to succeed Earl Warren are not encouraging and that he does not know when the Senate committee might act.
Suspect listed as If B Pollard age and address unknown named Friday in Ector County Court charge of defrauding a innkeeper. Pollard allegedly stayed at the Desert Ton Motel in Odessa August 12 to 14 and did not pay a 21 dollar bill.
A gang to serve about a dozen Odessa Chuck Wagon Giang members will provide barbecue for approximately 170 employees of Kermit's Cabat Corp at 3 p.m. Saturday in Winkler County.
Life story note: widow of C W Slaughter who died Nov 22 1923. she moved to Lovington nine months ago to live with a daughter. Survived by son Norman C Slaughter Seattle Wash. daughters Mrs G W Booth Lovington NM and Mrs Lee M Crane Aztec NM. eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Bienville Furniture and Manufacturing Co. of New Iberia Louisiana seeks a 2572 dollar judgment from Charles Marko representing Hub Furniture and Appliance of Odessa in the 70th District Court. The action covers merchandise purchased last year.
Odessa College will offer an aviation technology course for the first time this fall. The program includes a three hour ground school and an aviation lab providing 25 hours of flying time. Of this, 10 hours are solo flight and 15 hours with an instructor.
A damage suit filed in Ector County Court seeks 200 from Edward Lee Williams of Odessa. Plaintiff L L Stanton, an Ector County resident, says his car driven by Velm Stanton collided with Williams at Hancock and Sixth, causing damage.
Odessa College will hold a workshop Saturday with International Business Machines for area business administration and secretarial science teachers. The event begins at 4 am and runs through 3 30 pm in Derderck Hall. Mrs Belly Friesinger, chair of OC Business Administration, coordinates.
Odessa registration continued Friday as 1,493 students went through lines on Thursday. Of these, 1,138 enrolled in regular college classes and 1,358 joined the evening college. Last year over two days, 2,460 registered with 1,804 in regular and 656 in evening classes.
Heavy rain drenched Beaumont and San Antonio with flash flooding and debris removal underway as radar shows thundershowers along the Gulf from Corpus Christi toward Freeport and Galveston. Ground fog formed before dawn in parts of Northeast Texas while temperatures cooled behind a departing front with readings mostly in the 70s and 80s statewide.
Salvador Villegas of Ector County seeks 14035 in an appeal from an Industrial Accident Board award. The case filed Friday in 70th District Court targets Equitable Fire and Marine Insurance Co. for injuries alleged while working May 20 for Permian Air Conditioning Inc.
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