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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1978
Page
1
Government outlines broad reforms touching multiple sectors. Current protections reach 67 percent of travelers, with plans to broaden eligibility and tighten oversight to close gaps. Officials highlight consumer impact and timelines for implementation.
The FAA announced a comprehensive plan to reduce in flight collisions by expanding radar at 80 airports, creating terminal control areas at 44 sites, placing busy routes under ATC, widening altitude reporting transponder use, and installing collision avoidance in most airliners. The program, prompted by the 1975 San Diego crash, requires 330 new air traffic controllers and about 54 million dollars in first year costs, with financing from Transportation Secretary Brock Adams. The effort aims to boost safety for millions of airline travelers as passenger numbers rise toward 1980.
Federal investigators accuse New Orleans of wasting and mismanaging millions in CETA funds. The FBI oversees payroll fraud embezzlement and political abuse as the Labor Department seeks $6.1 million returned and warns of losing $24 million in aid. Local programs are named as having serious problems amid broader national CETA issues.
A Texas Highway Patrol trooper stopped a 1967 sedan on I 10 at Balmorhea Tuesday evening. William Turner 53 is wanted by the FBI for bank robbery. Stan Hastings 38 and James Green 25 face charges including parole violation and hindering prosecution. All three were transferred to Reeves County Correctional Facility in Pecos after a judge set bonds and booked them for further court action.
A California Court of Appeal reverses a Superior Court ruling that set 2 to 1 minority hiring and 5 to 1 promotion quotas for Oakland's fire department. It finds reverse discrimination based on race unlawful though recognizing past bias. City officials note few new hires expected. minority share about 13 percent of 520 firefighters.
Debra Hart, senior voice major at Howard Payne University, named 1978-79 Presser Foundation Scholar. Announcement by Dr. George Baker at a Dec 15 luncheon in Veda Hodge Hall Blue Room. Hart, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jim Hart of Pecos, performed in operas and is a soprano studying for a Bachelor of Music, set to graduate May 1979.
Millionaire Cullen Davis told the Houston jury he avoided FBI informant David McCrory and denied meeting him often. He said McCrory sought a friendship, discussed his finances, and proposed a job to aid Davis’s divorce case. Prosecutors note Davis’s past acquittal in a 1976 mansion shootings trial.
Mostly fair today and tonight becoming partly cloudy. Thursday outlook calls for partly cloudy conditions in most sections with a warming trend. Lows tonight in the 30s, highs Thursday mostly in the 60s, with lower 70s in the Big Bend valley. Temperature readings: morning 20, Tuesday high 48.
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