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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1973
Page
3
Educational Testing Service reports Vietnam era veterans receive fewer educational benefits than World War II veterans. The finding was shared in a preliminary memo to the Veterans Administration. The report examines access to schooling and financial aid for veterans across generations.
President Nixon moves to the U S Court of Appeals to challenge U S District Judge Sirica order requiring production of Watergate tapes for private inspection. He said he will seek review while White House lawyers prepare papers and the case may reach the Supreme Court in due course.
The EPA told the Texas Air Control Board three Texas metro areas Houston Galveston San Antonio and El Paso will need automobile exhaust inspections by Oct 1. Equipment costs run about 2000 per station with 6000 stations in Texas totaling 12 million if all purchase.
The piece observes that keeping up with peers is easier than paying up the bills. It notes many youths need parental guidance to straighten out finances and jokes about morning routines with failing alarm clocks and the impracticality of cat flavored vegetables for kids.
The sweltering heat wave hits the East Coast and Midwest with water shortages and power problems. New York declares a water emergency as temperatures reach 98 degrees. Philadelphia increases reservoir inflows while the DC area shuts a vehicle inspection station amid fumes and heat.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services faces a searing report by Patrick Keenan alleging Illinois wards in Texas facilities endured brutal treatment. The document cites tranquilizer use without medical approval, extended confinement, runaways unaccounted for, and three child deaths, plus alleged experimental birth control drug trials.
Nixon administration withdraws from contesting a federal suit seeking release of 59 million dollars for school funds. Justice Department promises release. Judge Hart set a 10 a.m. Tuesday deadline for a stipulation to halt impoundment. Plaintiffs include Washington Pennsylvania Texas North Carolina Oklahoma Illinois Connecticut Florida Alabama Maryland Nevada plus San Diego Fairfax County and the District of Columbia. The suit argues only 567.5 million of 635.5 million appropriated by Congress last year has been distributed to high federal expense districts.
The Permian Basic Law Enforcement Academy will conduct a second 480 hour basic recruit school in Midland from September 3 to November 23. Students and instructors come from a 17 county Permian Basin region. The program covers patrol procedures and enforcement and is funded by a Criminal Justice Council training grant from the Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission.
A new Texas law granting 18 year olds adult rights led to 79 reform school releases. Mountain View School at Gatesville sent 26 boys home. most were 19 and had about 18 months in custody. Deputy director Clinton Kersey warned about 346 youths removed from juvenile parole supervision and urged support to prevent future penitentiary paths.
Premier Chou En-lai, in a policy speech to the 10th Chinese Communist Party Congress, said Defense Minister Lin Piao orchestrated two coups aimed at Mao Zedong, first in August 1970 and again in March 1971. He claimed Lin then fled as a defector and died in a 1971 plane crash in Mongolia.
Antonio Fiumara, a Rome mailman earning $4,000 yearly, relies on $1,700 in annual tips to feed his family of four. Inflation, up 14.4 percent this year, drives up meat by 16 percent, fruit 22 percent, and wine 32 percent while wages barely rise. Public benefits cover healthcare and schooling, but luxuries are out of reach and meals shrink to stretch dollars.
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