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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1970
Page
2
For August 24 1970 readers born under Leo receive guidance to pursue inner drive, meet challenges, and push for gains. The column notes Leos are sociable, organized, and generous with assets, valuing home and family while enjoying travel and self improvement.
Joann Gordon and son Travis left Thursday for Portland after a three week visit with her mother Mary Gordon. Sister Billy J. Briggs and family will stay a year as her husband serves in Vietnam. Joann also saw father Joe W. Gordon in Wichita Falls who is ill but recovering.
The 31st Tactical Fighter Wing will pull nearly 100 supersonic jets from Tuy Hoa on the central coast while the 5,000-man base at Takhli Thailand may close. Nixon aims to cut U.S. Vietnam strength to 384,000 by mid October. U.S. troop strength fell to 403,700 as Cambodian concerns rise with Phnom Penh urging food stockpiles amid Viet Cong and North Vietnamese advances within 50 miles of the city.
The Supreme Court ruling requires desegregation across about 2 700 districts with 159 unsent desegregated by late last week. Sixty percent of remaining districts lack court orders or formal agreements and many sit in Georgia Arkansas Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee Texas. Mississippi and Texas face statewide suits with orders expected soon.
A barleycorn remains an archaic unit of length equal to one third of an inch and is still employed in determining shoe sizes. This old measure traces back through textile and footwear trade practices and persists in modern fitting standards.
Texas faces widespread drought with crops and ranges suffering. Moisture remains short in Panhandle and Northeast Texas, while Far West Texas sees light showers. Dryland cotton and sorghum yields down. cattle forage and stock water are strained. fires increasing as weather stays hot and dry.
Egyptian President Nasser and King Hussein wrapped three days of talks in Cairo signaling a push to involve Iraq keeping 18 000 troops in Jordan as part of efforts to sustain the Palestinian guerrilla movement. A separate note from Jordan indicated Palestinian delegates may be blocked from negotiations.
Quick quiz covers Four Corners where four states meet and Warren G Harding's first radio broadcast on June 14 1922. Other items note Noahs Ark altar, Leonardo paintings, and mixed crop conditions with Celia hurricane impact and ongoing planting and markets in Texas agriculture.
U Thant called for a planetary authority to control pollution, warning mankind could perish without global management. He spoke to World Federalists about environmental stakes and reluctant nations to entrust the UN with ecological duties.
A fragment quotes Old Tomer noting that when a man forgets himself he often does something memorable for others. The remark suggests self-forgetfulness leads to actions that leave a lasting impression on people.
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