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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1973
Page
3
London officials warned the transit network faces widespread disruption as vehicles clog streets with 40 percent of cars banned. The annual report cited 144,606 central passengers on 3,560 buses and 146,000 travelers in 97,060 cars, with hundreds of cancellations and 3 million miles lost.
President Nixon surveys flood zones in the Mississippi River valley where about 10,000 people are homeless and damage estimates exceed 200 million dollars. Ten deaths are reported along the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers and their tributaries.
AP reports Rep. Tom Foley says future agriculture focus should educate consumers on costs of food and fiber. He warns higher production costs may raise raw agricultural prices and notes DES ban would add 8 to 15 cents per pound.
LP dealers in Austin warn of a cold winter as shortages worsen. They accuse major refiners of diverting LP gas to higher paying markets, risk rationing and black market pressures. They urge action from the Texas Railroad Commission and lawmakers to curb large suppliers.
Danny McCrary 20 is sentenced to life for the 1971 slaying of Jena Covey 19 and Forrest Covey 24 after they were kidnapped from a Mesquite, Texas store and murdered in a Quinlan area barn. Witnesses and police tied him to the crime scene with his father and brother-in-law. McCrary's conviction follows a seven hour-plus jury deliberation in Greenville Texas. The case also links to a Colorado murder case against his father Sherman McCrary and brother-in-law Carl Taylor, both facing related charges.
Karen Anderson of Brush Prairie Washington gave birth to quintuplets at Bess Kaiser Hospital Portland. The five babies three boys and two girls weighed under three pounds and were kept in incubators breathing independently. Delivery began 12 hours after labor started with births exactly two minutes apart at 2 48 p m. The couple already has two adopted sons. Mrs Anderson had been hospitalized since March 24 awaiting quadruplets and had taken clomide the prior year.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Clay Yeutter urged Congress consider legislation to bring futures trading of all commodities under federal regulation. He pressed exchanges to expand internal investigations and audits and warned about unregulated option selling harming markets and customer protections.
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