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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1973
Page
3
Alaska officials say unemployed residents will fill the 18 000 jobs created by the 789 mile trans Alaska oil pipeline from North Slope fields to Valdez. Hiring preference goes to Alaskans under state law and work begins after year’s start. Alaska’s insured unemployment rate stands at 10.2 percent underscoring need.
Mrs LavVille Bair found a box on 24th Street filled with about two dozen top sirloin steaks. She contacted a local meat firm, and received a roast and patty meat as a reward after the missing steaks were returned.
President Nixon pledges to resist a court ordered production of Watergate tapes sought by Archibald Cox. Chief Judge Sirica rules the court, not the president, must decide privilege. The ruling sharpens the clash over executive privilege and congressional oversight.
In southeast Mexico authorities sweep up thousands of unsafe buildings after Tuesday’s quake. About 500 bodies recovered with the death toll feared to reach 1606 in Puebla and Veracruz. President Echeverria visits the disaster zone and orders demolitions of remaining structures.
The Interior Department released its final environmental impact statement on leasing six tracts in Colorado Utah and Wyoming for commercial shale oil development. Estimated resources total about 600 billion barrels from the Green River formation. If developed, major environmental social and economic changes are expected including increased urbanization and long term ecological disruption.
A 500 foot cooling tower rises for a new Port Clinton Ohio nuclear plant. The unit will house five million gallons of water and is slated to begin commercial power production in 1975 as Hage crews place steel beams at work stations inside the tower.
Jean Larrandaburu, a Paris postman, says inflation is manageable thanks to overtime pay and his wife’s work. He and Maddy, both Basque natives, live modestly in a rent about $42.50 monthly, grow vegetables at a nearby patch, and rely on a government wage-raising system to stay ahead of rising prices. Their son Robert, soon to enter a teaching institute, completes the family’s modest, cost-conscious life.
Two San Antonio hotels the Menger and the El Tropicano file a federal class action against Coastal States Gas Producing Co alleging they and other customers paid inflated utility charges due to prior contract terms. The suit seeks millions in damages and coincides with a separate $54 million case transfer tied to Coastal's merger with Colorado Interstate Corp.
Kansas City AP reports railroads hauling grain to export ports warn they may be stretched to capacity if all export sales for 1974 are shipped by midsummer. At a Board of Trade meeting executives said about 3.5 billion bushels await export with current Gulf and other port shipments near 75 million bushels weekly.
AP reports on naming sorghum as milo or maize with Agriculture Department considering a switch to simply sorghum. The piece notes customer and export figures, rail and elevator bottlenecks, and a Houston backlog affecting grain shipments. It also covers boxing trainer Yaney Durham's death and San Antonio utility gas shortages tied to Coastal's past gas sales.
Lawrence Parker and Alice Parker were arraigned in Barstow on man slaughter and child endangerment charges after their 11 year old son Wesley died days after they discarded his insulin. Authorities said the couple, who trusted a faith healer, remain held on $10,000 bonds each. The faith healer's name was not released.
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