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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1975
Page
3
Pre election clashes leave more than 20 injured as armed leftists besiege a Guimares campaign theater. Military units deployed to protect CDS officials while the siege continues amid tense political unrest across the region.
President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned in Saigon amid looming Viet Cong advances after saying the United States failed to provide enough aid. He named Tran Van Huong as successor and warned of further challenges as fighting pressed toward Saigon.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe of Texas urges Gulf Coast governors to join in scrutinizing a proposed federal plan to use salt domes for nuclear explosions to generate electricity. He asks each governor to designate staff to meet Briscoe’s team and discuss the pacer plan.
In Austin, Senator Raul Longoria urged using state funds to support migrant housing due to high costs for farmers to meet minimum standards set since 1973. Texas hosts about 325 migrant camps housing 15 plus workers each, raising concerns over astronomical costs.
In College Park Maryland Dr Dan Melnick at University of Maryland teaches Government 240 via videotaped lectures watched in the library by students including George Fields who has never met his professor. The Carnegie Commission hails TV lectures as a major academic shift while a $400000 console streams 10 video tapes and 26 audio tapes. Professor Harris J Linder notes both strengths and personal dissatisfaction with televised teaching as many students still prefer the on campus class.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a Kentucky desegregation dispute. It left in place a Cincinnati circuit court ruling requiring Louisville and Jefferson County districts to eliminate state-enforced discrimination. Despite integrated systems, residential patterns created imbalanced schools with Louisville at roughly equal white and black proportions and Jefferson County predominantly white. The circuit court ordered a desegregation plan crossing district lines if needed, noting both districts bore responsibility for lingering segregation.
A 17 hour inmate uprising at the District of Columbia Jail ended with guards seizing a cache of handmade metal and wooden clubs. Twelve hostages including eleven guards and a nurse were freed after a negotiated end. Inmate Robert Seegars, 24, found dead later ruled a homicide by strangulation. Officials cited testimony against other cases and granted a citizens committee and more frequent family visits.
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