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Martin Child Welfare Supervisor Odessa at the old Ector County Health Dept building in 1976.
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The Texas Department of Human Resources consolidated State staff at a new Andrews Highway Office in Odessa,Texas. Ector County Children's Services would, for the first time, be out of Ector County's offices and it, in my opinion, degraded the State County relationship and our effectiveness. When we were in the Ector County courthouse, ECCS staff had easy access to the county officials (County Attorney, County Auditor, Sheriff's Dept., and District Judges). The Ector County Health Building was still close enough to maintain these relationships and was also across from the Odessa Police Department and near the Medical Center Hospital.
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Ector County Sheriff's Department continued licensing Martin to have two way law enforcement radios in his CPS work. The main radio was a Regency 4 channel scanning receiver/transmitter connecting Martin to all officers: Odessa City Police;Ector County Sheriff; DPS and Fire/EMS. There was also an eight channel scanner.
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Brandy Odessa |
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051276 Recorded Pat's husband's band "Old Friends" |
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June 15 & 16, 1976 Ruidosa Downs with the Carter family's second home |
June 1976 Ruidosa with Carter family |
Brandy in Ruidosa, NM |
072876 Went to Monahans to see Karl play little league and went to Monshans Sand Hills. Cheryl said walkings with Brandy and Kelly in the sand was one of her favorite days.
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Martin's Dad & Mom with Cheryl in Odessa |
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082476 Mike Murray Making Meetings Productive |
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09/17/76 Martin manning table Ector County Fair |
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09/25/76 cycle trailer pulled by our Mazda Rotary pickup. We drove through Pinto Canyon south of Marfa and & rode around the Candelaria area.
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Martin's Yamaha DT-360 and Cheryl on her Honda
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Cheryl west of Odessa in the oil field roads
Cheryl & Martin west of Odessa in the oil fields |
Martin also rode with Bruce at the motorcars area south of Odessa
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Martin (silver helmet) racing at motocross track south of Odessa, Texas
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1976 Bruce & Jackie riding in Big Bend looking Into Mexico |
10/09/76 to 10/15/76 Colorado vacation including ring the Mazda up Pikes Peak
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Pikes Peak |
10/09/76 to 10/15/76 Cheryl & Martin Colorado vacation & Grand Canyon
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Colorado vacation |
Colorado vacation |
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10/28/76 Brandy's puppies we kept one and named her Kelly
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Kelly |
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Kelly and Mom Brandy
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11/16/76 Missing child Hobbs, NM found in Odessa store |
Martin interviewed about case on Odessa News |
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Click to read more of the report
ECCS Resource File |
Brandy |
11/24/76 Cheryl's family to Arkansas |
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Cheryl's 1973 Ford Pinto station wagon |
Cheryl - Christmas 1976 in Odessa |
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12/25/76 Mom & Dad in Alpine Christmas |
Christmas 1976 at Peggy and Tom's home in Alpine |
Christmas 1976 Alpine - Dad, Karen, Cheryl, Mom and Peggy |
Odessa Brentwood bedroom |
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Regular turtle visitor |
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On November 11, 1975 Ector County Children's Services staff were moved from the old county health building to a consolidated Tx DHS building on Andrews Hwy in Odessa, Texas
This is some of the staff at the Andrews Hwy Odessa location in 1977 |
Sylvia, Pat, Bruce and Beverly |
Marcie - Martin's Admin Assistant • Beverly CPS |
Cheryl in Social Services at Andrews Hwy Offices |
Sylvia and Bruce |
Martin's Odessa office 1977. The orange high back office chair was provided by the County, however caused great consternation to the State Property Manager, as it was not standard issue. (:-)
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Kelly and Brandy |
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Martin (left) conducting ECCS Child Welfare Board meeting in 1977 with co- Supervisor Jane Connor. Martin had worked with this core group for seven years. We'd more than doubled Ector County's financial participation in the Ector County Children's Services (ECCS). Our ECCS was able to better support ECCS foster children and parents, as well as provide more essential medical and other services to the families we served. It made ECCS one of the most effective CPS entities in the State. We maintained great foster parents, never lost a child in our custody and provided many options for families we served. The Regional DHS Program Director for CPS was Molly Whittington (seated to Martin's right. Dr. First (long time supporter is to her right). She attended this meeting and was sharing with the ECCS Board that the State DHS CPS was taking more control of county services. Our Board members were not happy.
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03/05/77 Cheryl & Martin went to see Fleetwood Mac concert in Lubbock
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March 31, 1977 ECCS Foster Care Banquet
View more Ector County Children's Services history at this link |
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Martin was Master of Ceremonies |
Ronnie & Jane Conner with ECCS Board Chair Dr. First |
Rev. Miller gave key note address to the banquet. |
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Cheryl & Martin
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Sylvia took photos |
Dr. First (top left) and Beverly (rt) visiting with ECCS foster parents
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James and Susie |
Foster parents with Billie O'Dowdy |
Ronnie Sanchez and his wife |
04/02/77 Alpine - Dad,Bitsie, Mom, Cherry, Brindle & Martin |
04/16/77 Parents in Odessa |
04/16/77 Parents in Odessa at Cheryl & Martin's Brentwood home |
Cheryl and Brandy |
Martin's Mazda Rotary pickup with UT Permian Basin in the back ground
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1974 Mazda pickup with Pioneer Super Tuner a regency 8 channel scanner and a Regency 4 channel 2 way public safety radio used in DHS Child Protective Services in conjunction with the Ector County Sheriff's Dept.
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Martin's Odessa office 1977. The orange high back office chair was provided by the County, however caused great consternation to the State Property Manager, as it was not standard issue. (:-)
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051877 Pat & Curtis' wedding (Curtis was on Odessa City Council and presented Martin with plaques before we moved to El Paso)
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Brandy 1977 Brentwood, Odessa, TX
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Brandy with her pups & below with Kelly
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Kelly & mother Brandy 1977
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Brandy 1977 |
Kelly 1977
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04/02/77 Alpine Dad's Birthday - Dad • Bitsi and Kelly
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Cheryl & Kelly |
When the tornado hit Monahans on April 19, 1977, Martin and Louie Thorp went to assist.
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A tornado hit Monahans on April 19, 1977. Here are some of Martin's photos.
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070177 Carol let me know Tonya was gone. At some point Carol had shared with me that Richard had abused both Baron and Tonya most likely because they were remembrances of Martin. At one point Richard had been so intense Carol sank into a catatonic trance state.
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070277 Ordered new Chrysler LeBaron in Grandbury
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07/29/77 Picked up LeBaron |
September 1977 Cheryl & Martin vacation
09/16/77 Cheryl & Martin drove to Ruidosa, Flagstaff, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and the Grand Canyon. In Vegas we went to several shows including Ben Vereen's performance.
Ben Vereen
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San Diego Sept '77
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Went through the Los Angeles movie studios with demonstrations of how they performed special effects.
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Martin looking out to the Pacific ocean |
Alcatraz
Black's Beach CA
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In Los Angeles we also went to a shooting of the Midnight Special. When we told Jane Conner we were going, she said her brother Red Roe was the house sound engineer and he could get us access. He did! It turned out that in addition to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Ben Vereen was the act. So we saw his show twice, once in Vegas and once in LA.
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Sailing Sept 16, 1977
September 16, 1977 Cheryl & Martin Grand Canyon |
06/15/76 to 06/16/76 Ruidosa Martin was able to take Brandy to the TxDHS retreat in Ruidosa, NM. Ken & George by the van. A stay Irish setter wondered up and we found a home for it while there.
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TxDHS El Paso regional Personnel/Staff development retreat at cabin belonging to Hazel Baylor
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Gary Frederick (left) TxDHS El Paso region Director of Personnel & Staff Development & DHS property manager
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08/01/77 Parents leave for UK trip |
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10/12/77 Martin bought a Chevy Silverado pickup in Odessa to carry recording gear, however it made more sense to have an air conditioned van vs just a camper. An unsold '77 Dodge van was found and bought in Big Springs Texas on 08/16/78
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10/30/77 Martin Austin 1 week orientation for training Director
10/30/77 Midland DHS trainers Louie Thorp & Carol Turner at Austin DHS Staff Development Training
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Ken Burks and his family at DHS reception at the Zilker Clubhouse. Ken was a trainer for TDHS and later headed the MHMR Training Division
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10/30/77 DHS Staff Dev Training - Art Hopkins & Bill Pace |
Martin promoted to Tx DHS Training Director 11/07/77
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10/30/77 Martin went to Austin for a one week orientation for Texas DHS training directors.
11/03/77 Moved from Andrews highway DHS office to the new DHS Midland Training Center. He began commuting from His home in Odessa to the Midland office. Strange because when he and Carol moved to Midland in 1970, Martin was commuting from Midland to Odessa every day until they built their Odessa home.
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Midland DHS Training Staff 1977 • Back row: Martin, Louie, Jane, _, Johnny, Carol and Glenn
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Midland DHS Staff Development support staff
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Louie and Ron Conner during snow at the Midland DHS training center
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Brandy snow Brentwood back yard Odessa
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10/29/77 Cheryl and Martin in Alpine
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In 11/14/77 Martin acquired Teac equipment for Phantom Productions, Inc.
With this equipment Martin began completing on location albums around Texas for Austin Custom Records.
I bought a 100'snake and 11/1/877 had 50" mic cables cut by Radio Shack
I then needed mic cables to go from the mics to the snake. So I went to the Radio Shack in Odessa and asked for four 50 foot mic cables and the necessary connectors. The salesperson said they did not have 50 foot cables, just raw cable on a reel. So I said lets just measure four 50 foot lengths off the reel. He said, we don’t have a tape measure. I said, “Do you have a yard stick?” “Yes” he answered. So we take three yard stick lengths, add one foot for ten feet and then use that five times to get 50 feet. “Oh, Okay!”
So we measure the first 10 feet and he cuts he wire. I say “No I don’t want 10 feet, I need 50 feet.” “Oh right.” We finish measuring the four 50 foot cables and there is a bit of cable still on the reel. He said “do you want that?” I said sure just leave it on that last 50 foot cable.” Snip! “No, now I don’t want that short piece by itself.” Argh!
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Odessa, Texas on-location recording
Due to all the club noise, Martin asked this Odessa band if he could use their equipment truck for isolation in mixing the live recording.
The success of
that set-up resulted in Phantom's creating the on-location van below (bought new '77 Dodge van that had not been sold in Big Springs, TX 09/05/78).
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Teac Model 2 mixer, Tapco 4400 reverb, Garrard Lab 80, Sony 580,Marantz 5420, Yamaha Amp, Teac A-3340, Altec Seville speakers, Teac, Shure and EV mics, Pickering headphones
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Phantom's
on-location recording set-up in the late 1970s included the TeacA-3340, Teac mixer, Teac A-3300 2T master recorder, Tapco 4400 reverb and Marantz cassette master. Operating out of the Odessa/Midland, Texas area,
Phantom began completing on-location recordings for bands, schools and churches.
Austin Custom Records contracted with Phantom for albums in the Dallas/Fort
Worth and Houston areas.
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10/26/77 Doobie Brothers concert Ector County Coliseum
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Cheryl with recording equipment another on-location church
11/20/77 Newbirth Baptist Church Dallas for Austin Custom Records
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11/22/77 Parents & sister Odessa
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11/22/77 Thanksgiving at Cheryl and Martin's home in Odessa with Martin's parents and Peggy's family
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Midland DHS Training Staff 1977 • Back row: Martin, Louie, Jane, _, Johnny, Carol and Glenn
Martin's Midland DHS office. Interestingly, Don Abernathy with the State Office Training staff saw Martin's Child Protective Services scrapbook and encouraged Martin to apply for the Austin job that resulted in his moving to Austin.
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Children's Services Christmas party 1977 on Brentwood
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Children's Services party 1977 on Brentwood
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Brandy and Kelly on couch 12/25/23 |
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121377 Dad in hosp
121777 Cheryl early Christmas in Alpine
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122977 Dad's surgery
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12/23/77 Ruidosa
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12/23/77 Ruidosa with Cheryl’s family skiing-Martin Cheryl, Cindy & Mike
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12/23/77 Martin, Cheryl, Mr. Carter, Mrs. Carter, Cindy and Mike at the Carter's second house in Ruidosa, NM
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Cheryl & Martin on Brentwood at Christmas time 1976
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Cheryl in her Andrews Hwy DHS office
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12/31/77 Martin rode cycle to Sylvia and Michele's house |
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