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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1975
Page
3
A nationwide Food Day mobilization united consumer groups students and charities to fight hunger and malnutrition through fasting farm sales and public campaigns. Debates over problems and cures persisted with emphasis on developing nations high U.S. prices and nutrition in the American diet.
Washington AP report says the gross national product, the broad measure of U S economic performance, fell in the January-March quarter at a record rate. Predictions from James L. Pate and other administration sources suggest a decline around 10 to 12 percent annual rate, the worst since federal data began.
Electronic breathing began keeping quarterly records on the GNP in 1947 and revealed the nation’s deep recession. The worst prior quarterly drop was 9.2 percent in early 1958, with the fourth quarter last year at 9 percent and annual decline at 2.2 percent. Government economists expect gradual improvement by midyear as inventories fall, industrial output slows its decline, and housing shows signs of a turn-around.
The National Electric Reliability Council and Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb warn that cancelations of power plant projects threaten nationwide power shortages as early as 1978. The report predicts possible brownouts and rationing if demand rises and capacity remains tight, with Illinois eastern Wisconsin and northeast Missouri at highest risk.
The Internal Revenue Service disclosed that 8 210 complete or partial tax returns were provided to other federal agencies in 1974. IRS officials cited routine requests by department heads for investigative purposes, while critics urged stronger confidentiality safeguards. Agencies ranged from U S attorneys to the Justice Department and others, with counts including 4 448 to attorneys and 3 228 to the Justice Department for various investigations.
New Mexico Governor Jerry Apodaca told SMU students that Mexican Americans must engage the two party system to gain political influence. He dismissed third parties as ineffective, arguing major party support is essential for success in Texas and elsewhere.
Meyer Moore, 69, a retired El Paso shoe store owner and Titanic survivor, died Tuesday exactly 63 years after the ship sank on its maiden voyage. Immigrant from Russia, he and his mother were aboard the Titanic after changing plans from the Adriatic. He survived the lifeboats and Carpathia rescue, later keeping Titanic ticket stubs. Moore’s survivors include his wife Henrietta and three sons Ralph, Carl, and Ira, with four grandchildren. Funeral plans were incomplete.
In Duval County Texas a power struggle over county control pits the Old Party led by ousted Judge Archer Parr against a Carrillo family faction. District Judge Carrillo briefly suspended Parr. Parr’s “Parr court” plans a 9 a.m. session, while the Tobin court led by Dan Tobin Jr. schedules a 1 p.m. meeting.
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