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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1978
Page
6
Lassen Peak, the most recently active volcano in the continental United States, is located in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California. The article highlights its location within the park and notes its recent activity status.
The weekly Reed Drilling Equipment survey shows 302 rotary rigs operating in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico last week, down by two from the prior period. The total includes drilling activity across major fields in the basin as operators adjust capacity and pace.
The report lists top 10 singles and top 10 LPs from a music chart, then shifts to Basin drilling activity. Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico lead oil rigs with 28 and 27, Pecos County tops West Texas with 26, Ward 20, Reeves 16, Gaines 13, with counts unchanged from the prior week.
Corporations with year end December 31 must file 1977 federal income tax by March 15. An automatic extension is possible by filing Form 7004 by that date. At filing or extension, at least 50 percent of the balance due must be deposited in a bank or Federal Reserve, using FTD Form 503. IRS Publication 542 offers guidance.
San Clemente Calif AP thousands of guests visited Richard Nixon's seaside estate for an eight hour tour benefiting a city birthday celebration. Buses ferried 7800 visitors past guards with no sign of the former president who was said to be in his office.
Smithsonian researchers identify several new species in Carlsbad Caverns fossils while dating bones to about 25,500 years ago. The finds include bush oxen, a dire wolf, a Pleistocene pronghorn, an extinct cheetah like cat, and other species. Guadalupe Mountains studies show DDT metabolite effects on birds and a 240 year tree ring chronology.
President Carter gradually moves U.S. policy in Africa from idealism to practicality amid Soviet Cuban influence in Ethiopia and Rhodesia. Washington hints at backing a negotiated Rhodesia opening with Muzorewa and black leaders while remaining wary of the Patriotic Front. The administration adopts a hands-off approach in the Horn, reassesses who can mediate, and faces Moscow backed by Cuba in the region.
Odessa College announces a new block time machine shop program starting March 1. Over 2,000 machinist jobs exist in the Permian Basin. The program lets students work full time while attending half day classes. Students may take one course at a time and then enroll for more courses to complete the 12 month plan.
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