Energy bill aids strippers and energy savers
President Ford signed a sweeping energy bill expanding domestic oil incentives and conservation programs. The law ends price controls on stripper wells producing under 10 barrels daily, raising gasoline prices by about half a cent per gallon and injecting roughly $2 billion in long term guarantees for energy-saving projects. It also extends the Federal Energy Administration to December 1977 and funds loans, insulation grants, and state conservation programs aimed at homeowners and small businesses.
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Frances Lewine
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Ford
Federal Energy Administration
Congressional Energy Specialists
Federal Energy Ad
Odessa College to launch one and two year building trades programs
Odessa College unveils a fall building trades program offering a one year certificate and a two year associate degree. The effort addresses a 15 to 20 year lag in skilled construction workers in the Permian Basin. Students will build a project house and learn carpentry masonry plumbing electrical and architectural drawing while earning credit for prior experience. preregistration Friday in the Counseling Center with regular registration August 23 in the Composite Technology Building.
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Odessa
Odessa College
John T. Price
Permian Basin
Price
Bernie Sedate
Composite Technology
Odessa College Fall Registration Schedule and Fees
Odessa College lists all day fall registration for day and evening classes. Daytime registration assigns time by alphabet with blocks from N to S at Sam through Y for 9 am and Z to E at 10 am, F to G at 11 am, H to K at 1 pm, L to M at 2 pm. Evening registration covers A to L from 7 to 7:30 pm and M to Z from 7:30 to 9 pm. Pre-registered students receive mailed bills by Aug 6. others pay in person Aug 9 to 13 or during Aug 23 registration. About 2,340 students enrolled for fall.
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Odessa
Odessa College
Sam
Gister
Midland College pre-registration tops 1000 for fall term
Pre-registration at Midland College reaches over 1,000 students with seven days left before official start. Registrar Dee Windsor notes daily averages near 100 and projects over 1,500 preregistrants and about 2,200 fall enrollment. Time permits limit registration slots on Aug 25 26.
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Midland College
Dee Windsor
Optometry professor sees cure for near sightedness soon
University of Houston optometry professor Sami El-Mage proposes a research program to correct myopia by reshaping the cornea with controlled contact lens pressure. Assisted by David Schultz and Ken Lane, he says braces for the eye could restore normal vision in about a year, with no pain or side effects.
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Rob Wood
Associated Press
Houston
University of Houston
Sami El-Mage
Lebanon
University of Paris
El-Hage
David Schultz
Ken Lane
End of school marks a family’s sudden loss
A mother recalls her son’s first day of school and the moment a traffic accident ends his life. The piece blends tender memory with tragedy as the cap, lunch pail, and hopeful future fade in an instant. Satinwood is noted as a wood used in fine cabinet work.
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Dad
Mama
India
West Indies
Swine flu bill dangerous move
Representative criticizes House action on swine flu, warning against federal intrusion into private health decisions. He questions liability and precedent for government, drug makers, and doctors, and urges careful health care debates with protection of individual responsibility.
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Bob KR
Eger
House
Congress
Public Health Service
David Mathews
West Texan opposes energy bill over HUD building codes
Fellow West Texans object to federal overreach in the Energy Conservation and Production Act Conference Report. The bill, passed 293 to 88, exempts stripper well production yet includes HUD regulated building codes. The Texan stance cites climate and fire risk, arguing against a Washington imposed code and defending regional building standards.
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Congress
House
Price Village
Xas
Texas
Southwest
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Washington
Midland desegregation master named for schools plan
San Antonio attorney John Skogland will review Midland desegregation efforts and propose a plan as special master and consultant after Judge D W Suttle rejected the board’s plans and ordered full desegregation of elementary schools by the 1976 77 year. Odessan drug raids net four more arrests and bonds set at tens of thousands. A West Odessa water district vote passed 21 to 1 with 293 for and 14 against. Monahans school board approves a 5 552 914 budget and cuts the tax rate to 1 05 per 100 assessment, the sixth consecutive reduction.
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Midland
San Antonio
John Skogland
Midland Public Schools
U.S
D.W. Suttle
Skogland
Odessa
Jimmy Wilson
Robert Mishler
Michael Holbrook
Monahans
Robison Moorer
West Odessa
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