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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1976
Page
3
Edinburg Texas lawyer Nago Alaniz testified to deny involvement in a water district office burglary. He is to return for completion and cross examination the next day as the trial proceeds.
Oil heir Thomas Cullen Davis, charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, was released on $80,000 bond after a shooting spree at his estranged wife Priscilla Davis's mansion. Two people died and two were wounded, including Priscilla Davis.
In Pasadena the Viking 1 lander is stalled for a second time as its bulky robotic arm fails to reach its programmed goal of delivering soil to the lander's automated lab. Scientists weigh a fail‑safe mechanism while noting oxygen gas production in a test cell appears non-biological and likely chemistries involving surface oxygen and added nutrients.
Gov. Lamm surveyed the devastated Big Thompson Canyon near Loveland Colorado where nearly 100 people died. Rescue teams, National Guard, and volunteers continued a four day search among debris as bodies were recovered at a makeshift morgue. Property damage was estimated at up to 100 million dollars and cleanup could take a year.
Beir ut Lebanon AP. Efforts to evacuate the wounded from Tal Zaatar camp and an armistice to end the 16 month civil war slowed as an International Red Cross convoy to east Beirut was delayed. Security sources said Red Cross delegate Jean Hoefliger and Arab League mediator Hassan Sabri Khali faced trouble renewing the Christian cease fire that allowed removal of 91 casualties from Tal Zaatar on Tuesday.
In Chowchilla California state deputies fortified Main Street as three men Frederick Woods James Schoenfeld and Richard Schoenfeld faced arraignment on 43 felony counts of kidnaping and robbery with each held on 1 million bail The case stems from the July 15 abduction of 26 school children and their bus driver Ed Ray and their 17 hour confinement in a buried moving van at a Livermore quarry.
Congress advances a stalled federal vaccine plan to back a government funded swine flu program. Rep Paul Rogers says bill aims to cover damages from shots as medical officials in Pennsylvania explore possible ties to deaths at an American Legion convention. If approved, two months remain before vaccine distribution to 200 million Americans.
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