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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1973
Page
2
City Councilman Thomas Bradley is seen as the clear frontrunner over incumbent Sam Yorty in the Los Angeles mayoral primary. Yorty, 63, seeks a fourth term and aims for a runoff with Stadley May 29 amid a low profile campaign.
The 9th U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled President Nixon illegally impounded 89 million dollars in federal highway funds for Missouri, upholding a district court finding that funds may not be withheld for non highway related purposes. The court held the 1956 act does not grant executive discretion to withhold approval for unrelated reasons.
U S warplanes including B52 bombers conducted a heavy nighttime strike against Communist positions in Cambodia as part of the Nixon administration’s push for a cease fire. Sources compare it to Hanoi Haiphong attacks, noting Cambodia’s dispersed forces lack key industrial targets. Missouri sues over federal impoundment of highway funds. five states join in support.
Sen. Lowell Weicker urges Haldeman resignation to President Nixon over Wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee. Weicker, a Republican on the Watergate committee, says Haldeman knew policies and must take responsibility. The panel will end secret sessions with McCord Jr. to stem leaks.
The House Banking Committee voted 23 to 11 for a rollback of food prices to May 1 1972 levels, with support from Rep. Frank Annunzio and Rep. Garry Brown amid internal party splits. The panel rejected Nixon’s request for a simple extension of discretionary powers and signaled a move toward mandatory ceilings and controls in a forthcoming bill. The process allows reconsideration by any member on the winning side.
Funeral services for Mrs Ed Carpenter who died Monday in Alpine Nursing Home will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Nalley Pickle Chapel in Big Spring. Burial follows in Big Spring cemetery. She was preceded in death by her husband Ed J in 1965. Survivors include four daughters Mrs M A Cate of Verhalen Mrs Willis Winters of Alpine Mrs James C Barr of Vincent Tenn and Mrs Elaine Rogers of Dallas one son Eddy of Lamesa one sister Mrs W G Cooke of Hobbs N M one brother Hubert Warren of Baird Texas and 14 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
A Lithuanian court sentenced four Jehovah's Witnesses to five years in labor camps and several others to lesser terms for forming an underground organization, printing anti Soviet literature, and urging disobedience of laws. The Sovietskaya Litva paper credited the Brooklynist headquarters and cited a multi region leadership.
Consumers press on with a week long meat boycott cutting sales by up to 80 percent in many supermarkets coast to coast. Prices fall in several stores while cattle and hog markets show mixed moves and plants briefly halt production in some states.
Elvira Beaza Prieto filed March 29 1973 with Reeves County Judge for a Beer Retailers Off Premises License to operate Prieto Grocery at two tenths mile north of FM 1215 and State Hwy 17 on the west side in Saragosa Reeves County Texas 79780. The owner is an individual and the hearing is set for April 5 1973 at Pecos County Courthouse.
The Pecos Enterprise publishes mail subscription rates for Reeves County and all other mail. Rates include six months and one year options with prices listed for in county and out of county mail.
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