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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1977
Page
3
Charlie Chaplin was laid to rest in Corsier-sur-Vevey in a modest graveyard ceremony attended by about 30 relatives and staff. The 88 year old silent screen legend died Christmas Day and spent his last 25 years in the Lake Geneva region.
Chicago reports researchers urge replacing skull and crossbones with Mr. Yuk to prevent accidental poisonings. A study notes children misinterpret pirate imagery, prefer green symbols, and react to container color and odor. Illinois tests a green snake symbol as a safer alternative.
A Texas three day Christmas period ends with 364 highway deaths, 31 fewer than expected. Victims include Willie B. Van Dyke 76 of Galveston in Texas City, Roland C. 21 of Odessa, and Jefferson Brem 84 of San Antonio as DPS recorded traffic tolls through Monday. Commerce reports show state revenues at $185.2 billion in fiscal 1978.
Four new judges for the Court of Criminal Appeals will be sworn in at 3 p.m. January 3 in Austin. Commissioners Tom Davis and Carl Dally became judges after a constitutional amendment expanded the court from five to nine. Gov. Dolph Briscoe appointed Jim Wollers and W. C. Davis to fill the remaining seats.
Harriet Rosenberg, 34, of East Monroe New York in a coma for about a year shows small signs of progress after autogenous blood pumping therapy begun in Japan. Her husband Ted reports finger movement eyelid blinking and saliva swallowing improving. doctors caution against expectations while noting partial artery dilation aids blood flow to the brain.
In Los Angeles two men, Stephen D Orsey Devezin and Thomas Davis, were booked on murder charges after two women, Carolyn Williams and Paula Ward, were found slain in separate locations. Police link the killings to Hillside Strangler style but Pasadena police remain open to doubt as investigations continue.
In central Alberta Texan expert Red Adair drove a bulldozer to the edge of a roaring natural gas fire to tow a drilling rig clear of the wellhead. The West Pembina field well had blown out since December 6, threatening crews and equipment as Amoco Canada works planned water cooling and a dynamite charge to smother the blaze.
U S officials say Russia has started deploying a mobile land based missile with possible range to hit the United States. Analysts note SS-20 could extend to 5,500 nautical miles with a third stage, resembling an ICBM and altering the nuclear balance.
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