Odessa Socials: Meals on Wheels and Community Listings
Odessa notices feature Meals on Wheels recruiting participants and volunteers, Junior Miss contestant call, sewing and needlework classes at Interfaith Sewing Center, nursing home volunteer needs, square dancing lessons, Overeaters Anonymous meetings, Zoological Society gathering, AAUW branch event with Suzuki program, Vision screening volunteers, Sound-Off meeting, Women’s Auxiliary hospital board, United Daughters of the Confederacy program, ABWA enrollment event, Odessa High Band booster retirement reception, battered women center volunteer training, and Retired Teachers Association enlistment tea with a musical program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
American Association of University Women
AAUW
Jack Rodgers
Odessa-Ector County
Retired Teachers’ Association
First United Methodist Church
Jim Fall
First Baptist Church
Jack Hendrix
Odessa College
Drugs may lower cholesterol level
Dramas from Boston Globe 1981 report on compactin and mevinolin, penicillin fungus drugs lowering cholesterol by cutting production and increasing clearance. Early seven patients showed a 29 percent drop with no side effects. Experts caution small sample but foresee major impact on heart attack and stroke risk linked to high cholesterol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Globe
William Castelli
Framingham (Mass
Castelli
New cholesterol drugs target LDL removal and production
The article explains cholesterol basics, noting LDL as the harmful portion and HDL as protective. It details how cells regulate cholesterol, how LDL enters cells, and how new drugs suppress the master-switch enzyme HMG CoA reductase while increasing LDL receptor sites to clear LDL from blood. It credits Akira Endo with discovering compactin and mentions mevinolin by Endo and Merck researchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akira Endo
Sankyo Drug Co
Tokyo
Dear Abby letters on marriage, manners, and family
A reader seeks guidance on exposing a husband’s long pattern of affairs, another asks if divorced couples can marry in a Southern Baptist church and dress norms, and a mother’s rude remarks to teens spark a plea for help. Abby suggests the wife tell nothing and the husband tell the man, notes church cautions, and labels the grandmother’s behavior as hopeless yet improvable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby
Alice
Ray
Southern Baptist Church
Monotony of TV reruns prompts familiar reactions
In a casual exchange the speakers note how reruns invade daily life. Viewers turn off sound to avoid familiar shows and voices. The dialogue sits on mundane routines, jokes, and a storm door salesman interrupting a moment of TV fatigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Dan
Laverne
Shirley
Mandrell Sisters
Mark
Louis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Society
Odessa Meals On Wheels
Meals On Wheels
Permian Basin
Robbie Henderson
Spur
Interfaith Sewing Center
Truman McCreeless
Deerings West
Jeans
Queens Square
Slater Park
Rex Coats
Jerry
Karen Wade
Jim Crownover
Sandhills Marine
Overeaters Anonymous
St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church
Permian Basin Zoological Society
Rotary
Ector County Library
Larry Deville
Liz Robertson
Trula Palmer
Parker House
Maple Ave
Womens Auxiliary of Medical Center Hospital
W.C. Faulkner
Verde Ave
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Matthew Duncan Ector
Otis E. Brasfield
Black Gold
ABWA
Lutheran Church of the Risen Lord
Odessa High School
Composite Technology
OHS
Bill Dean
Cathy
By Loretta McLaughlin
America
Hiroshi Mabuchi
Kanazawa University School of Medicine
Japan
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
By Erma Bombeck
Rukeyser
Alice’s Fashions
Dallas
Bealls
Westgate Plaza
W. University
Winwood Mall
42Nd & Grandview
Men’s Levi
Pan
Mone Hane
Sue Zoetors
Anne Adams
Odessa American
West
New York
Haneling
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