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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1973
Page
3
The Agriculture Department said Mexico will build a 170 acre facility near Tuxtla Gutierrez in southern Mexico to produce sterile screwworm flies for a joint program with the United States in a voluntary birth control effort.
Space Center crews in Florida and Cape Kennedy rush to ready a rescue rocket as Skylab 2 astronauts continue experiments in orbit. Apollo propulsion trouble prompts a cautious plan with 24 hour operations and a possible Sept 5 launch window for a rescue mission if needed.
A federal judge in San Francisco will decide soon on a suit to end the beef price freeze that the meat industry says damps supplies and hurts its operations. Shutdowns spread to plants in Pennsylvania, California, Texas and Nebraska as bills move through Congress and the House.
Five year old Billy Barnard fell from a playground slide and broke his right leg. His brother Jimmy, 16, arrived with a swollen hand from a prior fall. Daughter Deanna, 4, suffered a puncture wound after a cement stairs fall. The Barnards have six children and may return a tent trailer rented for vacation.
Texas tourism rose with 22.9 million visitors to 45 attractions in the first six months of 1973, compared with 22.3 million a year earlier. The Highway Department’s roadside bureaus also saw about a 9 percent rise, aided by more Texans and neighboring-state families despite gasoline shortages.
AFL-CIO President George Meany says he will skip inviting President Nixon to the October convention marking a break with decades of bipartisanship. He blames Watergate for the decision and accuses Charles Colson of engineering a confrontation at the 1971 Miami Beach meeting. Meany also says he will keep ties with the White House on policy councils while distancing from presidential relations.
Los Alamitos California residents can borrow a pet for a week with a library card from the Rossmoor Library. Twenty animals including rabbit chameleon guinea pig hamster turtle and rat are kept in the children's section. A waiting list exists for Honey Bunny the rabbit and animals are loaned for summer reading activities with a week’s food supplied by library friends.
U S District Court Judge Weinstein orders seizure of a Braniff DC8 used by three convicted narcotics smugglers from South America. U S Attorney Morse says he seeks guidance from Washington before forfeiture actions, arguing the plane’s loss would prompt airline vigilance.
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