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THE ODESSA AMERICAN Tuesday, May 30, 1972 DA I NEW OFFICERS The 4-H Club of Ector Cowden Ranch, reporter; Clayton County recently elected new officers. Cantrell, Route 3, president; and Mrs. Jay They are (L-R) Mrs. Buck Nix, Bessye Hooks, 2719 Verde, vice president. (Staff Photo) March Of Dimes Picks Officers An Odessa attorney is new chairman of the Permian Basin Chapter of March of Dimes.

Glen Pipes was chosen to head the board during a recent awards banquet. Other board members include Wayne Easterling of Odessa, vice chairman; Mrs. Linda Kidd, secretary from Midland; David Morrell of Odessa, treasurer; and Larry Melton of Midland, chapter adviser. Also serving on the board as executive committee chairmen are: Dr. Edwin Dempsey of Odessa, medical adviser; Mrs.

John Tinney of Odessa representing the Lambda Alpha chapter of ESA, women's volunteer services; Mrs. W.R. Blair of Odessa, public health education; Mrs. Ronnie Henry of Odessa and Charles Bullion of Midland, publicity and public relations; and Mrs. Tinney, speeches bureau.

Another group on the board which aids on voluntary services are: Mrs. John George of Odessa Mrs. L. J. Bryant.

representing the Odessa Jaycee-Ettes, Mrs. Jack Dillard, of Odessa representing Epstion Mu chapter of ESA. Mrs. John Dyson of Odessa representing Fidelis Radio Club, Mrs. Charlene Thomas of the Sigma Theta chapter of ESA from Fort Stockton, Mrs.

Donna Hayes of the Theta Gamma chapter of ESA from Kermit, Mrs. Barbara O'Neil from the Rho Delta chapter of ESA from Pecos, McCamey, T. N. Mike Garrett Starkey from Crane, Dr. J.

N. Burkholder and Mrs. Billie Huckabee from Andrews. Midland is represented by Robert Southerland, Mrs. Marie Eptinz, Mrs.

Carol Hunt, Mrs. Sandra Medley of the Beta Eta chapter ESA, Joe Campbell and Mrs. Kidd of the Midland Jayce Mrs. Vern Foreman, chapter executive, presented awards to the members of the board, to Lee High School for their help with the Mother's March in Midland and to Volunteers Ini Midland from the Junior Service League for their work in the different campaigns undertaken during 1971-72. Funds raised in the 1972 campaign fight against birth defects amounted to $27,323.

Donations to Texas' four birth defects centers located in Dallas. Houston, Galveston and Youth Hurt Eloy Flores, 17, 603 South Grant, was released after treatment Sunday at Medical Center Hospital for a swollen nose he said he sustained when beaten up by some other boys in the Floyd Gwin Park on West County Road. San Antonio was a total of $3,434. Local patients recieved aid in the amount of $1,161. The Permian Basin Chapter of March of Dimes, 811 West 25th, serves eight counties as well as Ector County.

Absentee Vote To End Today Today was the final day for absentee voting in the Saturday's run off elections. Since absentee voting began last Wednesday 22, Republicans and 581 Democrats have cast votes in Ector County. In Midland, 524 Democrats and 46 Republicans have voted. Of primary interest in the run off is the local Democratic: contest between Mrs. Leland Counts Filed On 4 Suspects Four persons were free under $1,000 bond each Monday after being charged before Peace Justice Otis Moore with driving while intoxicated.

Belinda Justia Jasso, 17, of Midland was arrested Sunday at U.S. 80 and Meadow. Cecil Edge, 54, 2511 Andrews Highway, was arrested Saturday one mile north of the city on U.S. 385. Robert Cecil Bell, 59, of Lubbock was arrested Sunday 12 miles north of the city on (1.S.

385. Carlos Galindo Lopez, 48, South Alleghaney, was arrested Sunday at 42nd and U.S. 385. Free On Bond A charge of driving while intoxicated was on file Monday in Ector County Court against William N. Suttle, 46, Kerrville.

He was arrested at 11 p.m. Wednesday at 50th and U.S 385. He was free on a $1,000 bond. 4-Car Wreck Leaves 3 Hurt Three Odessans received minor injuries in an accident Monday on U.S. 80 in Midland County involving four automobiles, one of which was parked on the shoulder of the highway.

The accident occurred at 10:45 p.m. seven miles west of Midland when a 1971-model car driven by William D. Sheffield 49, 1401 Maple, traveling east on U.S. 80 ran off the road and struck a 1964-model auto in the rear. The car was legally parked on the shoulder of the highway.

It was not occupied. in The the Sheffield westbound car lane came of to traffic rest. on U.S. 80 where it was struck head-on by a 1964-model vehicle driven by Royce Charles Perking of Odessa. Perking's car in turn was Treated and released from Medical Center Hospital were Sheffield who received minor cuts and abrasions and Floyd Edwards, 27, 205 Wabash, who also sustained minor cuts and abrasion.

Edwards was a passenger in the car driven by Perking. Perking was not injured. struck in the rear by a 1972-car driven by Jenny Huitt Sutherland, 24, 3609 Springdale. The Sutherland woman was taken to Midland Memorial Hospital where she was treated and released for minor cuts and abrasions. Highway Patrolman Robert Petty of Midland investigated the accident.

Continued From Page One Ozona Gets Ha for decreasing cloudiness temperatures. The high today is expected lower 80's with the low tonight high Wednesday should be 85. Monday's high was 81 with low of 60. Precipitation probability is hold at 20 per cent today and will blow out of the northeast gusting from 5 to 15 miles-per-hour. Briefly torrential downpours warnings against flash floods time Sunday night in parts HHH-- and mild Texas as through that to reach the damage, near 60.

The Gusty through the an overnight San Angelo, of the Pecos expected to By this tonight. Winds sluggish cool and east, state along a Del Rio, the light showers caused the frontal to go up for a Skies were of Northeast sections. the $463,000 ceiling on radio and television advertising in California. Humphrey is known to be facing a financial squeeze in his California campaign, and McGovern is certain to outspend him by a wide margin. A new federal campaign finance law requires full disclosure of spending in the presidential primaries.

In San Diego Monday, McGovern said Humphrey is a former defender of U.S war policy in Vietnam who "now goes across this land posing as a convert to peace, and I don't intend to let him get away with it." He said that during the escalation of the war in the 1960s "there was no louder nor any more consistent, any more exuberant voice defending our policy," than that of Humphrey as vice president. Humphrey said night that while McGovern spoke out early against the war. he nonetheless voted to finance it. McGovern told the California Federation of Teachers that comparison of his record and Humphrey's was of the most shocking statements I have heard since I've been in Humphrey, in Fresno, renewed his critique of McGovern's position on welfare. He said he favors a public service job program that would cost.

$6 billion and put one million unemployed people to work within a month. "I'd rather put a million people to work at a cost of $6 billion than put 104 million people on welfare at a cost of $27 billion," Humphrey said. McGovern has said he doesn't favor the latter plan, either, having introduced such a plan in the Senate only as a courtesy to the National Welfare Rights Organization. McGovern instead has proposed an income supplement program that would provide flat payments of perhaps $1,000 a year to all Americans. Humphrey has assailed that, too.

What it would cost is still in dispute. McGovern said in San Diego that his income redistribution plan might cost $20 billion to $27 billion, but he said that was Bombers Damage- and around the city. South Vietnamese casualties were reported as 22 troops killed and 96 wounded. the latest cool front moved area. There was no word of however, thunderstorms also were scattered area between Brownwood and and over the countryside west River in far West Texas.

morning, as the weak and front pushed deeper into the line from College Station to storms, tapered into scattered along and 100 miles north of system. clear to partly cloudy in other B52 bombers dropped 1,250 tons of explosives on the outskirts of Kontum in an attempt to keep North Vietnamese For the second day in a row, about 50 U.S. reinforcements from driving into the town. Nixon- Early morning temperatures sagged to 54 degrees behind the front at Amarillo and Dalhart in the Texas Panhandle while farther south it was still 73 at San Angelo and 75 at Galveston. Monday afternoon's top marks went as high as 91 at Dallas and Waco.

More scattered showers were in prospect as the cool front eased farther toward the southeast through South Central and Southeast Texas to the coastal plains and into the Laredo area by. evening. It was expected to be partly cloudy over the rest of the state. only an estimate and that he had no firm figures. As Humphrey addressed about 2,000 people in Citrus Heights, a Sacramento suburb, a man carrying a rifle was arrested nearby.

Inmates Take Four Hostages PATERSON, N.J. (AP) Prisoners seized control of a second-floor cell block at Passaic County Jail and took four hostages today following a melee in which a guard was stabbed, prison officials reported. A jail spokesman said the warden, a guard and a nurse were attempting to negotiate with the inmates. The guard was stabbed in the stomach and was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital.

Further details were not immediately available. The U.S. Command an Army OH6 observation helicopter was shot down six miles northwest of Kontum and the two crewmen were missing. Nixon- High School and a holder of a B.A. degree from Baylor contribute by which the world may have a Iranian capital, then flies to Warsaw on and Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski will University in Waco, he is the period in which the tragedy of war will Wednesday for another overnight stop and sign a consular agreement that was under son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. never again be visited upon this city or any a meeting with Edward Gierek, the chief of negotiation for 10 years. Watson of 424 East 47th.

His other city like it in the world." the Polish Communist party. During the The President flies home to Washington wife, Martha, is a teacher at Nixon spends tonight in Tehran. the visit Secretary of State William P. Rogers on Thursday. Texas City High School.

1 DEATHS Croft, a longtime Odessa music teacher, and Assistant District Attorney John Hoestenbach battling for state representative of the 73rd District. Also expected to bring out the voters is the hotly-contested gubernatorial race between Francis Farenthold, a Corpus Christi attorney, and Uvalde rancher Dolph Briscoe. Both are running for the Democratic position on the November ballot. Republicans have only one race, that between Hank Grover and Albert Fay for governor. Any registered voter will be eligible to vote Saturday.

Those who voted in the May 6 primary must cast their vote in the same party. Those who did not vote in the May 6 election may vote on any party ticket. Persons who expect to be out of town Saturday, could vote absentee 5 p.m. Tech Students Joins Ad Staff As An Intern Donald Boyd Fancher, 21, a senior advertising major at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, has joined The Odessa American's advertising staff as a summer intern. His job will entail selling advertising, laying out ads and writing.

the copy for the advertising. A 1968 graduate of Olton High School, Fancher was active in sports playing football and was a member of the track team. He was president of his high school band for two years, a member of the choir and the, student council. He was also in the National Honor Society for two years. At Tech, Fancher has been on the Dean's Honor List for academic achievement for two semesters, with a 3.2 grade point in advertising and related courses.

He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity and has served as pledge trainer, lodge manager and public relations officer for the organization. He was also member of the Tech singers for or two years. Following his summer internship, at The Odessa American, he will return to Tech where he will receive his B.A. from the Department of Communications next May. After graduation, Fancher hopes to work for a newspaper for several years before signing up with an advertising agency.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fancher of Olton.

DONALD FANCHER Intern Earns Honors A student from Odessa has been listed on the honor roll at Texas University at Kingsville. George Beau Hollingsworth, 21, is an art education major with a 3.6 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hollingsworth, Route 1.

FUTURE DOCTOR Larry Cordell Watson is a candidate for a doctor of medicine degree at the University of Texas Medical School Branch in Galveston. A 1964 graduate of Permian GEORGE E. WILLIAMS KERRVILLE (Staff) Services for George Eli Williams, 82, a resident of Rocksprings for 25 years, were held Monday with burial in Rocksprings Cemetery directed by Plummer-Fair Funeral Home. Williams died early Sunday morning in his home following an illness. Born March 25, 1890, in Carrizo Springs, he was a retired.

water well driller. former employe of the Edwards County sheriff's department and former custodian of Edwards County courthouse. He was a member of the Baptist Church. He was married June 9, 1909, in Hext to Nora Baldwin. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in June, 1959.

Survivors include his wife of the home; three daughters, Mrs. Frances Doran of Fort Stockton, Mrs. Myrtle Franklin of Dallas and Mrs. E. B.

Smith of Monahans; two sons, Walter Williams of Belton and Afton Williams of Garland; 12 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. JOHN CATCHINGS MONAHANS (Staff) Graveside rites for John Catchings, 93, of Monahans, were set for 10 a.m. Tuesday in Odessa Cemetery directed by Wilson-Miller Funeral Home here. Catchings, a retired pawn shop owner, died Sunday in Ward County Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was born July 21, 1878, in Red Rock.

He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Margaret Richards of Austin. MRS. HUGH RICHARDS SWEETWATER (Staff) Services for Mrs. Hugh Richards, 85, mother of Mrs.

T. A. Newbold of Midland, were held at 4 p.m. Monday in the First Presbyterian Church here with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. She died Saturday in a Lubbock nursing home, where she had resided for four years.

In addition to her daughter in Midland, she is survived by two other daughters, two sons, a sister, 13 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. MRS. SIDNEY J. BLACKWELL MILES (Staff) Rites for Mrs. Sidney J.

(Eula Ann) Blackwell, 73, of Miles, will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in St. Thomas Catholic Church. Burial, directed Johnson-Lacy Funeral, will be in Miles Cemetery. She died at 10:45 p.m.

Sunday in St. John's Hospital. She was born Feb. 12, 1899, in Hardin County and had resided in Miles since 1969. A Catholic, she was married June 3, Sidney J.

Blackwell. Survivors include her husband and a stepdaughter, Mrs: Sherrin Hutcheson of Denver City. DR. STEPHEN M. NAGY BELMONT, Mass.

(AP) Dr. Stephen M. Nagy, 61, a leading microanalyst credited. with numerous contributions in the field of atomic energy, died Monday. Nagy headed the Micro-Chemical Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1945 1969 and then was promoted to head of MIT's Material Science Department.

Commencement Set For Ector Commencement for 182 seniors at Ector High School will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Ector County Coliseum. Odessa High School's 595 seniors will graduate Wednesday evening and and Permian High School's 692 Thursday evening. Auto Hits Boy Cilatilo Arana, 5, son of John Arana, 1419 South Sam Houston, was reported in satisfactory condition Monday in Medical Center Hospital after being run over by an automobile Sunday night at 1141 West Wilson. He was treated for a fractured left shoulder and body bruises.

Police did not investigate the incident. RICHARD GLASS WEATHERFORD (Staff) Services were to be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in White's Chapel of Memories for Richard Glass, 28, who was found dead in the kitchen of his Midland residence Sunday evening. Burial will be in East Greenwood Cemetery. Justice of the peace Robert Pine ruled death to be the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A native of South Carolina, Glass came to Midland six months ago and was a salesman. Survivors include his widow, Jo Ann; two daughters, Renae and Diane, both of the home; parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Glass of Weatherford; two sisters, Mrs.

Sue Watson of Midland and Mrs. Beatrice Perry of Denton; and grandfather, George Wood of Roanoke. MRS. MARTHA M. SIMMONS LUBBOCK (Staff) Services for Mrs.

Martha Marie Simmons, 76, formerly of Seminole, are pending with Sanders Funeral Home here. Mrs. Simmons died Monday in the Methodist Hospital here after a month-long illness. She and her husband, the late Leo Clyde Simmons moved to Littlefield and established the Littlefield Memorial Park Cemetery in 1952. After his death in 1957, Mrs.

Simmons and her daughter moved to Seminole and established the Gaines County Memorial Cemetery, which she operated until they moved to Lubbock. Mrs. Simmons was a native of Max, Ind. She moved to in 1948 and lived there until 1952, when she moved to Littlefield. She was a member of the Christian Church.

Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. Marie Alice Pittock of Lubbock; and two nieces of Fort Worth. HOMER ROUNTREE PECOS (Staff) Services for Homer Gray Rountree, 75, were set for 2 p.m. Tuesday in First United Methodist Church here with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Rountree, a retired electrician, died Sunday in his home after a sudden illness.

Born Sept. 19, 1896, in Rogers, he moved to the Pecos area 14 years ago from California. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife, Berta; a son, Homer Rountree Jr. of El Paso; two brothers, Bill Rountree and Delbert Rountree, both of Hamlin; two sisters, Miss Villa Rountree of Abilene and Miss Buna Rountree of Hamlin.

GEORGE F. LORENZ BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) George F. Lorenz, owner of radio station WBLK in Buffalo and one of the early pioneers in rock 'n' roll broadcasting, died Monday at 52. Lorenz owned controlling interest in WBLK since the station went on the air in 1964.

His 10-year "Hound Dog" show on another Buffalo station, WKBW, served as a prototype for pop-oriented ra- Four Killed In Training Flight Crash FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP) A Delta Airlines DC9 plane on a crew training flight crashed and burned today at Greater Southwest Airport apparently, killing three members of the crew and a Federal Aviation Agency inspector. Names of the victims were not at once known. County Fire Marshal Mason Lankford said the crew members and the FAA inspector were trapped inside the burning plane. State police officer David McNatt said he saw the crash and watched the plane burst into flames as it hit the ground.

"The wings were tipping to one side and then the other as the plane came in for a landing with its nose pointing upward," McNatt said. "Then the plane fell to the ground with its tail hitting first and skidded down the runway about half a mile." TOMORROW IN ODESSA NOON Downtown American Business Club. Inn of the Golden West Coach Room. NOON Odessa Rotary, Inn of Golden West Ballroom. NOON Tri-Service Lions, Sands Restaurant.

8 P.M. Odessa High School commencement, Ector County Coliseum. GUY SWAIN SUNDOWN (Staff) -Services for Guy Swain, 75, a longtime Sundown resident, will be 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First United Methodist Church here with: burial in Rest Haven Cemetery: in Lubbock, directed by George Funeral Home Lubbock. Masonic rites will be held at graveside.

Swain, sheriff of Hockley County from 1947 to 1949, died Monday in Lubbock's Methodist Hospital following a lengthy illness. A native of Combs, Swain moved to Hockley County in 1941 from Wink. Swain was a 32nd Degree Mason in the Scottish Rite Consistory at El Paso. He also was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 1289 at Sundown and the Levelland Scottish Rite Association.

A veteran of World War he was married to the former Pansy Caldwell in Oklahoma in 1918. Survivors include his wife; two sons, Jack of Levelland and Bob of Lovington, N. two daughters, Mrs. Dick Smith of Whiteface and Mrs. Freddie Carter, of Lovington; a brother 0.

E. Swain of Okemah, a sister, Mrs. Wilburn Cunningham of Siloam Springs, seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. EDWIN B. KNOX MONAHANS (Staff) Services for Edwin Bosch Knox, 62, of Monahans will be 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday in First United Methodist Church here with burial in Monahans: Cemetery directed by Wilson-Miller Funeral Knox died Sunday morning in Kermit Hospital following an illness. Born Dec. 30, 1909, in Waco, he was field superintendent for Glen-Rex Inc. and a member of the Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife; a son, Edwin Bert Knox of Satellite Beach, a daughter, Mrs.

L. A. Willitte of Circle Pines, a brother Albert Knox of Perryton; three sisters, Mrs. Tom Barron of Plains, Mrs. J.

M. Wood of Lubbock, and Mrs. Gordon Correy of San Diego, Calif. and seven grandchildren. UTPB Chief Is Contributor Dr.

Bill Amstead, president of The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, is a contributing editor to a recently released reference volume in the field of manufacturing operation, and control. For the recently published third edition of "Production Handbook, contributed the first two sections, entitled "Industrial Organization and Systems" and "Production Planning," and served as advisor on other sections of the work. Amstead, who holds the Ph. D. degree in engineering, is author of a number of other articles and books in his field.

Suspect Held As Fugitive A 26-year-old New Mexico man, arrested Sunday night by the highway patrol as a hitchhiker, was being held in lieu of $5,000 bond Monday as a fugitive from justice. The fugitive charged was filed against Carl Douglas Cady of Alamogordo before Peace Justice Otis Moore, the sheriff's department reported, after a check with the federal Crime Information Center disclosed he was wanted in Alamogordo on a charge of embezzling an automobile. Boy Injured A four-year-old Midland boy was listed in satisfactory condition in Medical Center Hospital Tuesday after being injured in a fall from a bicycle. Roger A. Urias, son of Alfredo Urias, was admitted for observation for a head injury.

Worker Hurt Johnny W. Phillips, 21, 1124 Drury Lane, was listed in satisfactory condition in Medical Center Hospital Tuesday after apparently being injured on the job Monday. Hospital officials said the man's right hand was crushed. A motor apparently fell on his hand at work. Glass Smashed Two cases of vandalism were reported Sunday to Odessa police.

Fred Winslett, 1432 South Alleghaney, said a window in his home was broken, apparently by a shot from an air rifle. M.H. Perry, 2809 North Holley. reported a trailer window had been broken by a bottle..

The Odessa American from Odessa, Texas (2024)

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Jay Gould's Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, which reached the survey in 1881, provided the impetus for further settlement. In 1886, when the population was only sixty, the Texas and Pacific transferred the acreage to John Hoge of Ohio, who then formed the Odessa Land and Townsite Company.

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