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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1972
Page
2
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley says 25000 from the Mayor Daley Irish Relief Fund will aid families of those killed or wounded in Northern Ireland. He cites many Irish detainees facing jail without charges and blames Britain for the situation.
Entertainer Danny Kaye was presented with a 135569 dollar check in New York to aid UNICEF rehabilitation work in Peru after last May’s earthquake. The amount comes from six million product wrappers and labels collected by volunteers for the United Nations Children’s Fund. Companies Bristol Myers Clark Gum General Foods Hunt Wesson Peter Paul Welch Foods supported the Treat of Life’s fund drive.
In Minneapolis Minnesota AP reports fifty former college and technical school graduates enroll as Minnesota Metropolitan State College opens with no courses or athletic teams. Chairman Clark Kerr hails it as innovative. In Warren Ohio GM plant workers vote on a potential strike over alleged speedup and layoffs amid disputed workmanship.
The notice lists multiple divorce filings and a damages suit between Elizabeth Ann Vernon and Jerdi Lee Vernon, Castula Ortega and Gilbert Ortega, Jewel Duncan and Bruce W. Person, Jal Boroughs and Glenn Ray Boroughs, plus a deed cancellation and quiet title suit. It also records marriage licenses issued for several couples and municipal and JP court citations for various offenses including drunk in public and speeding with fines listed.
The case from Nashua New Hampshire tests whether a union may fine members who quit during a strike and return to work. The NLRB calls fines illegal under Taft-Hartley, while the Circuit Court sided with the union. the Supreme Court is to decide whether they will hear the appeal.
Cold wave warnings issued this afternoon and tonight. Winds rise and temperatures plunge with a hard freeze expected. Partly cloudy skies with a few snow flurries in higher terrain. Clearing and colder Thursday with highs 30 to 44 and lows 14 to 28.
The article describes a draft lottery process with red birthdate capsules and blue numbers. Four youths and two women from state Selective Service Youth Advisory Commissions in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania draw capsules. Each red birthdate and blue number are read aloud by announcers, assigning call numbers to eligible men. Civil cases will be tried by six jurors in Tennessee, while criminal cases keep the traditional twelve.
AP Business Analyst John Cunniff notes two recurring failings among consumers and investors. He cites cigarette warning ineffectiveness and widespread ignorance of borrowing costs, alongside memory lapses in stock speculation and small investor behavior amid market volatility.
Thousands in Londonderry mourn 13 victims of Bloody Sunday as Catholics strike across Northern Ireland. IRA gunmen kill a sentry in Belfast, raising total deaths to 233. Security tightens in Ireland and Britain amid fears of fresh violence. De Valera to attend Londonderry mass.
Funeral services for Ernesto P. Hernandez 38 are scheduled at 10 a.m. Thursday at Santa Rosa Catholic Church with burial at Santa Rosa Cemetery. He died of a heart attack about 5:30 p.m. Monday. Born August 13, 1913 in Balmorhea, he lived most of his life in the area. Survivors include his widow, a daughter in Kermit, six sisters, three brothers, and two granddaughters.
A quirky individual described as a delightful eccentric holds more than 3,500,000 in assets. The piece highlights their unusual tastes and distinctive personality as a defining trait.
Two hundred British motorists drive autos onto rail cars daily to test tunnel design for the Channel link. Officials estimate a 900 million dollar project could open by 1978, with financing via international capital and eventual state operation. The 32 mile project would run 23 miles underwater and handle 6000 to 7000 cars per hour.
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