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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1971
Page
4
Friday release quotes Governor Smith urging opponents to become realistic or shut up and work while directing ire at legislators and the press. The writer warns taxes may drive voters to oust incumbents and reflects on colonial independence and Rome as cautionary parallels.
Opinion piece argues ongoing moon missions are worth the cost despite waning public interest. It notes Apollo 14 viewers about 45 million versus Apollo 11's 100 million and contends continued space exploration justifies billions spent, citing national prestige and future scientific gains.
After a six month bank clerks strike, Irish businesses collapse under bad checks. Travel agencies, shoe factories, and a transport firm close as 68 percent of checks bounce, with losses near 96 million dollars. Unemployment soars across Ireland as companies fail and confidence erodes in the crisis period.
HAL BOYLE riffs on modern foibles from high living costs to television doctors and militant grandmothers. He lampoons hot pants for poodles, lamp bottles, taxicab manners, mugging sounds, and social pretenses while railing against politicians, moodiness on buses, and vanity amid a restless era.
In Smithville Tennessee Rep. Joe L. Evins steers over $20 billion in federal dollars, boosting non defense outlays in his 21 county district. The AP study notes Model Cities designations and HUD programs, plus Oak Ridge funding, spurring new schools, housing, roads, and industry while population slowly grows. Local officials credit Evins with securing benefits and opportunities for nearby towns like Cookeville and Smithville.
A reflexive life-affirming line stresses that each person has one life and urges regular annual checkups as the first line of defense against cancer. It notes the value of discovering good health early and feeling healthy.
President Nixon backed a Laos Cambodian offensive after weeks of hesitation due to worsening reports from Cambodia and Laos and a growing South Vietnam supply buildup. Analysts see a May 1 drive after rains, with elections ahead in Vietnam raising the stakes and prompting a need to act.
Bruce Biassot discusses U S lead in computing and the coming Illinic IV fourth generation at the University of Illinois. The system, 64 independent machines, could perform 100 to 200 million instructions per second, widening scientific horizons and aiding weather, resources, and ecological studies while US dominance grows.
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