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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1977
Page
3
The nation’s ninth-largest steelmaker Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel said it will raise prices on flat-rolled and galvanized sheet products by about seven percent, effective next year, with effects likely to filter to automakers and appliance makers.
About 50,000 protesters jammed Freedom Square in Nicosia to back President Kyprianou after his son Achilleas was freed from EOKA B kidnappers. Kyprianou forgave the captors, saying repentant ones may stay, while non repentant face punishment. Achilleas described harsh captivity, including blindfolding and a six by six by 19 inch cell.
Fourteen year old Scott Fleming of Shreveport spotted an upside down plane near Alice Texas while returning from a Texas quail hunt. Diana M Tucker of San Antonio had flipped her plane on a freshly plowed field on her first solo cross country flight and was unharmed though frightened. A helicopter later ferried her to Alice.
The Cairo talks resume after Begin says Carter endorsed his peace plan, with Sadat awaiting a Carter report. Begin seeks to present a plan for Palestinian self rule and Sinai withdrawal, while the PLO rejects it and no final details are disclosed.
Rescuers searched the Atlantic for 17 missing after a chartered Swiss jetliner crashed near Porto Novo, Funchal. Nineteen killed, 21 survived as 57 aboard, most Swiss. Survivors reported extreme cold and lengthy rescue at sea. Flight bound for Santa Catarina Airport, Madeira.
A cold front sweeps through Texas dropping temperatures from Amarillo to El Paso and Texas Gulf Coast readings rise to the 70s in Brownsville. Blowing dust, cooler winds, and varying skies mark the weather pattern with flash flood watches on the East Coast and power outages noted in New Jersey and Maryland.
Scientists at Lamont Laboratory in Palisades report seven high altitude explosions, some like a 100 ton dynamite blast, shaking homes from Connecticut to South Carolina. William Donn notes readings from Dec 2 and last Thursday, ruling out sonic booms and military tests, with no seismic activity recorded.
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