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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1977
Page
3
Vatican news reports Pope Paul VI, 79, receiving ashes during the Lent rite in St Peter's Basilica. The ceremony featured the pontiff bowing as a priest marked his head with ashes in the sign of a cross.
A 32 year old Brooklyn man received a new kidney just 48 hours after the donor, a 16 year old youth, died in a Moscow car crash. Surgeon Dr William Stubenboch called it a testament to human brotherhood at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center.
Senator Bill Moore promised Ike Harris a friendly subcommittee on the Texas Open Records Act access bill. The measure is expected to return soon for a full Senate State Affairs Committee vote. National Federation of Republican Women opened its biannual board meeting in San Antonio focusing on recruiting GOP candidates and building campaign support teams. Bond for Jacinto Villareal Jr. set at 750,000 dollars on conspiracy to import marijuana after a large seizure in Donna.
Former Castroville Police Chief Frank Hayes already in state prison faces a two count federal indictment with his wife Dorothy and sister in law Alice Baldwin. The charges arise from the 1975 shooting of Mexican American construction worker Richard Morales and the disposal of his body over 400 miles away near Carthage Texas. If convicted Hayes faces life imprisonment on the civil rights count while his wife and sister in law face up to 10 years.
In Grogan's Mill Village near The Woodlands Texas residents join village meetings via WCATV. Viewers use a remote to vote yes or no and request details while a computer tallies opinions and prints results at the meeting. The system debuted at the monthly gathering with mostly positive feedback.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin clinched the Labor party leadership with 1,445 votes to 1,404 for Defence Minister Shimon Peres. Rabin urged unity while analysts warned the narrow margin could hurt the party's May 17 election bid against Likud and the Democratic Movement for Change.
President Carter and Vice President Mondale pressed Congress to limit panels with CIA secrets as seven committees reportedly have access. Carter spoke at a news conference and reiterated concerns while Mondale and O'Neill discussed the issue over lunch. He avoided commenting on unverified claims of CIA payments to King Hussein.
UT researchers report a Central African tribe near Lake Chad has eaten blue green algae for 2000 years and could supply protein through photosynthesis. A proposed 100000-ton algae plant would produce 65000 tons of protein yearly, feeding over two million people at $130 a ton vs soybeans at $260.
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