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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1971
Page
4
Editorial notes liberals oppose Hickel then praise Morton, now target Connally for Treasury. They seek oil background conflicts though no grounds found yet. Connally, a Texan with oil ties, faces scrutiny in a bid to influence 1972 politics and White House life.
The Illinois electorate approved a new state constitution challenging a national pattern of voter rejection for reform. Despite widespread skepticism, reformers winning a morale boost by showing a reform can succeed.
Jumping to conclusions good fishermen are usually good gardeners. A boss on the carpet is less likely to fire you if he shouts than if he glances out the window and speaks quietly. Beware a girl who values nails over mind. The chief reward of too much indignation is indigestion. If you can't swallow a thing eschew it. Executives would vanish if office suggestions were followed. American men chase fashion and hats with tiny brims. Husbands are henpecked not from lack of courage but mental laziness. I would rather be bored by a bore in person than over the telephone. Modern design clouds function except trees and street fire plugs. An alcoholic trades hangups for hangovers and keeps both. A woman fears losing a Christmas present more than anything else this time of year. A perfect life ends in a serene sunset after long stress and storm.
A reader quiz lists questions and answers on opera Porgy and Bess the Bastille Day radio wave speed and Eisenhower meaning iron worker. It notes Porgy and Bess as the first American opera to triumph abroad and cites Eisenhower Nixon as the only repeatedly elected Republican ticket.
AP interview with 59 Texas legislators shows split views on local funding and tuition. A committee favored an equalization tax, while 35 backed higher college tuition for state supported schools and 32 opposed. Public aid to private colleges found 32 in favor, 18 against, 12 needing study. Lt. Gov. Barnes cites taxpayer skepticism on higher education funding.
In New York reporting, strikes and bread riots in Poland eroded Wladyslaw Gomulka’s grip and exposed fragility in the Soviet bloc. Brezhnev’s strategy to court West Germany faltered as East German leader Ulbricht confronts Moscow, signaling renewed volatility behind the Iron Curtain.
NEA Washington correspondent Ray Cromley outlines a plan to sway Hanoi by informing North Vietnamese families that a prisoner exchange is possible. The strategy hinges on leaflets urging pressure on leaders to swap 36 000 prisoners for 3 600, enabling 8 000 North Vietnamese to return home.
A correspondent describes Poland under Soviet influence as repressed and tense with tanks and police on the streets. Food shortages and rising prices spark unrest while ordinary citizens feel cut off from progress and freedom, highlighting disillusionment with Marxist rule.
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