The annexation added about 1,900 new residents to Odessa's population. Forty-five companies avoided annexation by signing seven year contracts in which they agreed to pay equivalent city taxes to remain outside the city limits. Crane County becomes the third county in Texas and the fourth in the United States to produce 1 billion barrels of oil. Alabama Gov. George Wallace, campaigning for president in Maryland, is shot and crippled by Arthur Bremer on May 15. One consequence of the visit is declaration by the United States that Taiwan is part of China.
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