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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1973
Page
2
The House defeated the Senate approved amendment 215 to 190 that would let states spend highway trust funds on mass transit. The vote affects a $25.6 billion highway bill awaiting final approval. In Texas, a sub committee approved a wholesale revision of the Penal Code 222 pages long.
Former prisoners of war from the Son Tay camp will meet the Green Berets who tried to free them in an April celebration organized by Lex Byers and H Ross Perot. About 60 Green Berets and 2,600 ex POWs with their wives will attend the San Francisco event amid hospital locations of the veterans.
Secretary of State William P Rodgers warned Hanoi that the United States will not seek congressional approval of economic aid to North Vietnam unless the Viet Nam cease fire is fully implemented. He spoke at a foreign policy conference of business leaders.
The Vatican unveiled coats of mail and carriages from papal eras at its new historical museum and opened an ethnological wing with documents on the Cult of the Dead and multiple religions. In Texas, a third party suit filed against the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad cites blame in the Feb 6 collision that killed seven, with two other suits seeking 1.9 million in damages against the railroad and driver Ray Johnson.
The State Insurance Board authorized Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. to set premiums 26 percent below normal for fire and extended coverage protection across Texas, as part of encouraging competition among insurers.
A new experimental bus system will shuttle visitors at the LBJ National Historic Site and LBJ State Park in Stonewall Texas. Buses will offer free transport to the LBJ birthplace and Johnson family cemetery where the former president is buried.
In Catahoula Parish Louisiana the flood reaches Jonesville with bean fields 15 to 20 feet underwater and two-thirds of the parish submerged. Residents shore up makeshift levees haul belongings and watch farms stall while the Mississippi River’s high levels hinder drainage and threaten local livelihoods. National Guard troops assist residents as rain continues with no sign of end.
President Nixon submits a plan to replace numerous categorical community aid programs with 2.3 billion dollars a year in revenue sharing. The measure aims to fund cities and counties by needs, keep some programs, and let local leaders spend with minimal federal strings.
The Texas Railroad Commission sets the statewide oil allowable at 100 percent for May marking the 14th straight month at maximum. Exceptions keep East Texas Field at 86 percent and other fields near 70 to 80 percent, with gasoline stocks at 189.5 million barrels as of April 13.
Pecos Enterprise announces mailing address at 324 S. Cedar Pecos Texas and P. O. Box 2057 for subscriptions. Rates listed include county six months ten dollars fifty cents and twelve months twenty four dollars, all payable in advance.
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