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2 A THE ODESSA AMERICAN Soturdoy, June 3, 1972 Over Migrant's Care Mi Odessa Included In Road Funds Mi m.mm mm 7 uj nu (o ra Wth-ELPmo The Texas High Commission approved Friday mine II HOBBS.N.M. (Staff) -Three of 26 persons charged in a police roundup of suspected drug ALPINE. Tex. (AP) An Alpine physician. Dr.

E. Lock-hart, accused two hospitals and the Texas Department of Public Welfare Friday of refusing to provide prompt assistance to a critically injured migrant worker. Hospital spokesmen generally denied the charges, and late Friday night' Rogelio Arre-dondo. 20, was in satisfactory condition at one of the accused hart said. "No hospital would In EI Paso.

Leon Dietschwei-take him until someone agreed ler, administrator of Provi-to pay." de Memorial Hospital, said The physician said he tried to Friday the standing policy of obtain a guarantee from the Providence is to admit any Department of Public Welfare patient in any emergency con-office in El Paso to cover the ditj0n regardless of circum-injured man's medical bills, but was told "that it was a holiday Dietschweiler said his investi-and they could not accept the gation revealed that Lockhart responsibility." called Providence on Saturday. Alfredo Arrendondo. Ro- May 27, requesting admission gelio's 16-vear-old brother, re- of four migrant workers with extensive injuries who had been in Brewster Memorial Hospital for four days. mains in Alpine in satisfactory condition. The other crash victims were treated and released.

-n $38 million advance planning program for improving urban streets and highways, including over $700,000 worth for Ector County. According to Texas Highway Department District Engineer Paul H. Coleman of Odessa, the local projects included in the advance planning are: 'A mile-long reconstruction project on West 42nd Street from West County Road to the Andrews Highway. The job calls for reconstruction of the ground, base and surfacing at a estimated total cost of $294,600. Placing new, more modern traffic signals on 42nd Street at its intersections with Grandview, Dawn and Golder Avenues, at a total estimated cost of $29,700.

And new traffic signals to be placed at the intersection the Kermit Highway and Andrews Highway, and at 38 intersections of various city streets, the total estimated cost to be $386,300. Friday's action sets in motion work such as preliminary engineering, advance studies and determination of eligibility for financing under two federal aid programs. The federal programs are Traffic Operations Program to Increase Capacity and Safety (TOPICS) and a new program called the Federal Aid Urban Program. Both provide federal highway funds to be matched with state highway funds on a 50-50 basis. I After the advance planning is completed, each project will be referred back to the commission for financing of construction as traffic demands warrant.

Presidio Seeks Bank PRESIDIO (Staff Presidio WCJ Here is a breakdown of the felonies filed: Sammy Dean Billington, 25, one charge of distributing a controlled substance. Andrea Baxter, 19, distributing, one charge. Dennis Bolt, age unknown, distributing, two charges. Doyle Ray Douglas, 22. distributing, three charges.

Mary Faulkenberry, 24, distributing, two charges. Rosa Fuentez, age unknown, distributing, two charges. Sam Gilcrease. age unknown, distributing, one charge. Kevin Edward Greenway, 22.

distributing one charge. Jerry Hignight. 23. distributing, one charge. Lanita Gay Hudson.

20, distributing, one charge. Richard Louis Johnson 26. distributing, two charges. Stephen Kidd, distributing, three charges and one charge of trafficking. Distributing is a third degree felony and trafficking is a second degree felony under New Mexico law.

Dee Lynn Lawson. 1 8, distributingtwo charges. Sammy Lynn Rush. 19. trafficking, one charge.

Robert E. Tucker. 20, distributing, one charge. Danny Carl Tyree, 18. distributing, one charge.

Gerald Bob Vaughn. 22. one charge of trafficking and one charge of distributing. Larry Dale Vaughan, 21, one charge of distributing. Ricky Wayne Vaughn.

19, distributing, two charges. Greg Warren Votaw, age unkrawn, two charges of distributing and one charge of trafficking. Linda Mitchelle Teague. 18, distributing, one charge. Margaret Ruth McDaniel.

19. possession of a controlled' substance, one charge. Roy Clayton Pate, one charge pf distributing and one charge of trafficking. Greenway, Lanita Hudson and Hignight have been released under bonds of $1,000 each. Bolt had been released under $3,000 bond.

violaters pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges Friday. Dinina Jene Garrett. 19; Robert Joseph Oliver. 20: and Timmy Lee Godwin. 19.

were to be sentenced by Division 1 Magistrate Don Hallam. All admitted to possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Maxium sentence on conviction for the offense is 15 days in jail, $50 fine and $10 court costs. Twenty-three other persons were charged with either second or third degree felonies in Hallam's magistrate docket. After preliminary hearings.

Magistrate Hallam will decide whether the cases will be bound over to district court for trails. Unlike Texas, grand jury action is not required in felony cases in New Mexico. The three accused of misdemeanors were charged Thursday. The felony offenses were filed Wednesday. Police Capt.

Bill Fowler said this is the largest number, of narcotics cases filed in connection with single investigation in the city's history. The cases were made over a 90-day period by an undercover agent from the Hobbs Police Department, he said. The arrests were made by Hobbs police and 60 other officers, including Lovington police. Lea County sheriff's deputies and New Mexico state policemen. Officers said the drugs seized included heroin, cocaine, speed and "a bathtub full of marijuana plants." The arrests were made at 14 Hobbs homes, police said.

Those arrested ranged in age from 16 to 26. Three taken into custody were below 18, juveniles in the eyes of the law and will not be charged; Instead, they will be handled through juvenib court procedures. Hallum set bonds 'for' the suspects at from $1 ,000 to $5,000. The charges filed were distributing, trafficking in or possession of controlled substances. r-VA Til Where To Vote Polls will open at 7 aim.

and close at 7 p.m. for Saturday's Democratic and Republican primary runoff, elections. Voting places are as follows DEMOCRATS COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 1 1-1 Commissioner's Courtroom in the Courthouse 1-2 Floyd Gvvin Auditorium, 10th and West County Road. 1-3 Pease Elementary School, 22nd and San Fernando. 1-4 Notrees Community Center Building.

1- 5 West Side Baptist Church, University and Flamingo COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 2 2- 1 Dowling Elementary School, 17th and Maple. 2-2 Bonham Junior High School, 2103 East 21st. 2-3 Permian High School Field House, 42nd and Dawn. 2-4 Burnet Elementary School, 3700 Permian. 2-5 John Ireland Elementary School, Lyndale and Dawn.

2-6 Goliad Elementary School. 52nd and Kingston. 2- 7 Gardendale Community Center. COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 3 3- 1 Bowie Junior High School, 21st and Alleghaney. 3-2 San Jacinto Elementary School, 19th and Beaty.

3-3 Barn Coliseum Grounds. 3-4 Sam Houston Elementary School, 37th and McKnight. xrA v. facilities. Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio.

The hospital said he had "some paralysis." Arredondo was admitted to San Antonio's Santa Rosa hospital at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, eight days after the accident on May 24 when he suffered a broken back, resulting in waist-down paralysis. Lockhart said Santa Rosa refused admittance of Arredondo until some plan of payment could be worked out. He said he finally called Dr. Andrew Magliolo.

chief medical service officer of the State Department of Public Welfare in Austin. "Dr. Magliola called Santa Rosa immediately and authorized the payment." he said. Those injured in the crash were first taken to Brewster Memorial Hospital in Alpine, but that facility did not have the neurosurgeon and orthopedic that Arredondo needed. Lockhart said.

"This man was a migratory worker with no insurance and no financial resources," Lock- Midlander Shoots Self- MIDLAND (Staff) A 46-year-old Midland man died in his front yard Friday afternoon after being shot in the head. Midland police said Manuel Natividad died in the front yard of his residence at 801 Whitaker at 2 :30 p.m. Friday. Justice of the Peace Robert Pine ruled the victim died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sgt.

Jack Lay of the Midland Police Department said a automatic pistol lav-near the body. He said the man apparently shot himself after a family squabble. The victim apparently walked outside after the argument and shot himself in the head once. The victim's wife and a child were in the house when the LOOKING OVER THE LOOT Police "Sgt. A.

S. Lawrence looks over the haul in Friday niqht's armed holdup at The Permian Pharmacy, 319 North Golder. The green handbag next to the police officer contains narcotics taken in the heist at 6 p.m. The blond wig shown is thought to have been worn by a woman suspect and the bullets are from the pistol the gunman is thought to have used. A Fort Worth couple remained in city jail in lieu of 525,000 bond each.

(Staff Photo) Armed Bond if Mitf Drugstore S3 3-5 Goldsmith Community Center. 3-6 Greenfield Acres Baptist Church, 21 14 Yukon. COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 4 An armed bandit struck at an Odessa pharmacy at 6 p.m. Friday, escaping with narcotics and $10. An hour later Odessa 4-1 Lamar Elementary bchool, bixth and Jefferson.

4-2 Gonzales Elementary School, Custer and Disney. 4-3 Blackshear Junior High School, 801 Morningside. 4-4 La Fiesta Community Building, 501 Ruth. 4-5 Southside Community Center, 600 Clements. 4-6 Zavala Elementary School, Pine and Clifford.

REPUBLICANS COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 1 1-1 Fannin Elementary School, 400 North Kelly. 1-2 Fire Station No. 7. Eiehth and Santa Rosa. police had a man and a woman jailed as suspects, The bandit struck the Permian Pharmacy, 319 North Golder, just at closing time.

"I was just getting ready to close," said owner-manager Chester James Calmes. 2911 Klrkwood, "when he came in." The bandit forced Calmes to hopes to have its own bank for the first time in more than 30 years. State Banking Commissioner Robert E. Stewart disclosed in Austin Friday he had received applications for three new banks in the state. One of the applications is for the Presidio State Bank, with a capital of $100,000.

a surplus of $100,000 and reserves of $50,000. "We just think we need a bank." said rancher C.B. Black of Presidio, a rancher who is also in the import and export business. "We think there is a good potential here, or we wouldn't be putting up the money." Black-ts-oneuf Iheproposed directors listed in' the Midland Woman Reports Attack MIDLAND (Staff) Police her get up and take off all her late Friday continued an clothing and then he attacked in vesti cation of a reDorted her. Police said she was not he was preparing to lock the front door and walked to the end of the drug counter.

The pharmacist said the man asked him to come to the end of the counter and tell him something. As Calmes walked up to him, he said, the man pulled a big revolver from a pocket and ordered him to give him all the money and drugs. All the store's cash was already locked into the safe, the druggist said, and so he could only give the robber $10 from the cash register. The man excaped with the money and about 25 bottles and boxes from the store shelves. Af ter police were summoned to the store, they began to put the story together and decided the woman who made the call might have been in with the bandit.

Officers began combing the area, looking for a white Cadillac. 1-3 Pease Elementary School, 22nd and San Fernando. 1-4 Notrees Old School. 1- 5 Pease Elementary School, 22nd and San Fernando. COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 2 2- 1 Alamo Elementary School, 23rd and Center.

fchand over all the cash he had in '(he'casR register, which shooting occurred. 2-2 Reagan Elementary School, 21st and Redbud. Services orNatividad-were 2.3 Permianghhoor742nTOd Da wn7 -criminal assaulttm a 40-yearold injured with, Thomas Funeral pending She said the man awoke her at Midland woman. 2-4 Fire Station No. 6, 3414 Brentwood.

Home. Matter Record Officers were called to a residence in the 500 block of East Kentucky at 3:16 a.m. Friday by the victim. She told, police a Negro man had attacked her while holding a knife to her throat. She said she had fallen asleep in all her rlnthina nn hpr hiH hoi it 215 Detective Jack Fillyaw found one which matched the application for the new charter.

Other directors proposed are L.T. Van Eman, an attorney; Louis E. Erhlich, farmer: B.J. Bishop, a farmer, all of Presidio, and Gill Youngdoff, who owns the concession facilities at the Big. Bend National Park.

Black said the last bank Presidio had closed its doors during the early 1930s, during the depression. He pointed to growing activity in produce farming in the area, which, combined with ranching, is brightening the area's economic picture. Presidio has a population of about 1.000 residents. about 3 a.m. Police think he entered the home through an open front window.

He remained in the house about 10 minutes during the attack and then exited through a kitchen door. The victim's two boys, aged 7 and II. slept through the incident in another bedroom. She said she had just moved into the Ijouse Tuesday and had been up late putting things away. Police said the victim is presently separated from her husband.

The woman was unable to give police any description of her attacker as she said it was pretty dark in the home and she could not see the suspect well. Police Friday had no suspects 2-5 Ross Elementary School, 46th and Everglade. 2-6 Goliad Elementary School, 52nd and Kingston. 2- 7 Gardendale Community Center COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 3 3- 1 Bowie Junior High School, 500 West 21st. 3-2 San Jacinto Elementary School, 1901 Beaty.

3-3 Coliseum, Barn A. 3-4 Fire Station No. 5, 38th and East County Road. 3-5 Goldsmith School. 3- 6 Coliseum, Barn A COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 4 4- 1 Lamar Elementary School, 610 North Jefferson.

4-2 Gonzales Elementary School, Custer and Disney. 4-3 Ector High School, Crane and Clements. 4-4 Ector High School, Crane and Clements. 4-5 Ector High School, Crane and Clements. 4-6 Ector High School, Crane and Clements.

description in the parking lot of am- and that the next tning sne De Luxe Motel. Calmes was knew, she was awakened by her called to the scene and agreed attackpr holdine a knife on her. consisted of a $10 bill. Then he had Calmes fill a pillow case with all the narcotics in the f-store An hour later, Odessa police i had a Fort Worth couple in jail. The pair remained in city jail Friday night in lieu of $25,000 bond each on charges of armed robbery.

Named in the counts were James Jerald Jourden, 39, and Neida Johnson Jourden, 25. both of Fort Worth. The pair was arrested by city police at a room of the De Luxe Motel, 1202 West Second, at about 7p.m. Calmes said a woman came into the store at about five minutes before 6 p.m. and asked to use the phone.

He showed her where it was and she called someone. He said the woman, while on the phone, asked him ihen the store closed. "I told her it closed at 6 p.m.. and she said she might be back shortly to make another call," the druggist said. She left the store and drove away in what Calmes believed to the 1964-model Cadillac did look She said the man told her he COUNi 1 COURT Marruae licenses issued: Robert Manuef Looet and Eva Bitolas Oeanda; Evaristo Rosas Corte; and Amelia Hinoios Ouran; Allen Jav Kerlev ana Karen Anita Pickett.

DISTRICT COURT Divorces filed: Catnenne Wimoerlev Freasier vs. Jack Freasier CITY TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS 1200 block ot West Htn Janett 3. 2800 East 3'5I and Wencell G. Roomson. 33.

309 2eneta. Damage, minor. biock of Norm Grandview Jana K. Tharo, 20. 3TO Crestview.

and Del M. Stume. 32. 1013 North Grant. Damage, minor.

3100 block of Andrews Highway Linda P. Williams. 30. of Odessa, and Sam Lance. 53.

591 1 North Austin. Damage. like the one he had seen parked in front of his store. Officers went to the door of the apartment in front of the car and knocked. The couple inside offered no resistance and agreed to accompany officers to the police headquarters.

However, on questioning neighbors at the motel, police learned that the female suspect had been seen shortly before entering a vacant apartment next to the room in which they were arrested. A search of that vacant room turned up a green bag containing a loaded blue steel revolver, a blond wig. in the case. Four Thefts Reported tmtimei fivom Pe Mm, Record Run oflF Vote Expected- be a white Cadillac. Calmes told officers that a man came into the store just as Four theft cases were being investigated Friday by Ector County law enforcement personnel.

Oil field equipment valued at about $800 was stolen from a wellsite about a half mile east of Texas 866 and a half mile south of University. The set of slips and set of elevators belong to would kill her if she cried out. She told police the man made 3 Vandalisms Are Reported Local lawmen Friday were seeking clues in three vandalism cases. Two boys riding a horse and throwing water balloons were blamed with breaking a mirror on a truck of Gene Prather. 3830 Englewood Circle.

The boys were not caught. A car window was broken on the parked auto of R. E. Merritt in front of the residence at 1105 'Royalty. Judy Smith.

4325 Kirkwood. reported a mailbox marker was bent by someone. Suspect Free Under Bond Gary Lee Theesfield, 23. 3H6 Crestview, was free Friday after posting $1,000 bond on a charge of seriously threatening to take a human life. Theesfield was named in a complaint files in Ector County Court Thursday with Osorio, both figures in the Sharpstown imnfliirmnimiHraHiinntnimuiimiji and a pillow case filled with MISS YOUR bottles ol narcotics.

PAPER' Justice of the Peace Manuel nj Valles set bonds on the couple. Ul It ll WIVICt HUH i Circulation Department Phone 337-4661 Open until 6:45 p.m. Mondays through fridiy. Open Saturdiyj until II on 3 Struck By car A lour-year-old Odessa girl was treated and released at Medical Center Hospital Friday night for injuries she sustained when struck by an auU-trfTront of her home. Kari Stevens, daughter of Onella Saunders.

42S East 42nd. was treated for a cut over her left eye. The girl was Open Sunday i Until 10:30 a.m. -Stimmiiiniiiiiinnimimiutiniiiiuiiij taken to the hospital at 8 the Democratic nomination in 1970 after serving 13 years in Washington, called for more aid io the elderly and termed Sanders the chief lobbyist for school busing in 1968. He wants income tax exemptions raised to $1,000.

Yarborough almost made it to the November elections without a runoff, getting 44.88 per cent of the vote in the first primary in a 5-man field. He got 1,032.606 ballots to 787,504 for Sanders. The race for nomination for state comptroller, as usual, drew little interest. The Democratic winner is elected since there is no GOP opposition. The contest is between Robert S.

Calvert. 80, who has held the job since 1949. and Jim Wilson, 42v who formerly worked in Calvert's office. Calvert led Wilson by 592.075 votes in the first primary. Wilson claimed Calvert is too elderly and is turning the office into an old folks' home.

Calvert, who campaigned almost none at all. made public four, divorces and one annulment of Wilson's and some misdemeanors. The Republican runoff for governor, in which 50,000 to 75.000 persons are expected to vote, was between veteran GOP leader Albert Fay and state Sen: Henry Grover. a former Democrat This race, too, got into personalities centering on whether a $30,000 Glover note endorsed by Fay was for campaign or expenses. The Republican runoffs for the U.S.

House were in Dists. 5 and 24. both in North Central Texas. In Dist. 5.

entirely in Dallas, Alan Steelman and Robert Lyle sought the GOP nomination and the winner will meet Democratic Rep. Earle Cabell. The Dist. '24 race, in Denton County and parts of Tarrant and Dallas counties, involved Courtney Roberts and Don Reeves meet. AAecav April.

In fact, the rate has been hovering around 6 per cent for a year and a half. The total number of unemployed persons was 4.3 million last month. After statistical corrections for normal seasonal variations, the Labor Department figured the number at 5.1 million, the same as the two earlier imonths. There Was an increase of about 200.000 persons holding jobs. Geoffrey H.

Moore, commissioner of the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, said this increase is too small to be statistically significant. Reaction to the job and price figures fell predictably along political lines. Nixon's chief economic adviser. Hert J. Stein, said they "underscore the progress that the economy has made in the past year." AFL-CIO President George Meany said they show the administration "favors, corporations over Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F.

O'Brien said they show Nixon's economic policies to be a "disaster." Stein, in a briefing for newsmen, said he sees no need for significant changes in-price regulations. He said the Price Commission's rules on profit margins and productivity gains will begin having more, effect on prices in months to come. scandals which rocked state government and have resulted in four criminal convictions. Connally said the checks were payment for hunting leases on Connally's ranch. Connally countered with charges that Hobby had spanked an 11-year-old boy after the boy attacked Hobby's son who was three years old at the time.

Hobby was charged but the complaint was dismissed the following day by the district attorney's office as not a "meritious one." Hobby also said Connally had accepted contributions from 18 corporations, which is against the law. but then the dispute broke down into a definition of "corporation" and that of a "company" which can contribute to political campaigns. The campaign for Democratic nomination for U.S. senator failed to draw much fire from either candidate veteran exsenator Ralph Yarbroough. 68, trying to recapture a place in the Senate, and Barefoot Sanders, 47, Dallas lawyer who has held several Justice Department jobs and was a legislative counsel for former President Lyndon B.

Johnson. -The winner will meet Sen. John Tower, one of the few Republicans holding higher office in Texas, in the November election. Sanders called Yarborough an absentee senator and said the senator failed to vote on 13 key Senate ballots on busing and integration in 1970. He said he.favors crime control, consumer protection and more support for health and education.

Yarborough, beaten by Sen. Bentsen for threatening the life of Sue Denice -Theesfield, 18. 2612 Verde. In the complaint, Mrs. Theesfield alleged that the defendant threatened her on Sunday.

Justice of the Peace Otis Moore set bond on the suspect. Beckman 2919 Maurice Road. A 1971-model car of -Clara Cude, 1202 West Second, was taken from the carpoit at the residence. Reporting stolen bicycles were Patti Redding. 2302 and Clay Spruill.

1205 Smith. Theft Charge Faces Suspect A 23-year-old Midlander remained in Ector County jail Friday in lieu of $1,500 bond on a charge of theft. Rickey Don Awbrey is accused of taking a motorcycle foot bar valued at $17.95 from Klusmeyer Motorcycle Parts. 6103 Andrews Highway, The reported theft occurred. Tuesday.

Charges against Awbrey were filed Friday in Ector County Court. Bond on Awbrey was set by Justice of the Peace Manuel Valles. The suspect was arrested by Midland County Sheriff's deputjes Friday afternoon and he was returned to Odessa at 3: 15 am. If you need a ride to the polls to JOHN HOESTEHBACH FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE HEADQUARTERS, 337-0781 ooess American, Entered rr Ir Od- Tas PvA 0ct vecono cij mnjf unf' Th A ot MrcH 3rrJ wr Oomm Amrxn. Tewcfton n-Wl or LOJ-0 Home In Odewo Ector County SO per monM in ReUil Trading Zone 00 per month.

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