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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1977
Page
3
Mary Bradix, 55, serving a life term for murder in a Texas state prison, received and plans to frame an invitation to President Carter's January 20 inauguration after praying for him. Warden Meyers at Goree Unit arranged the framing.
AP reports Hubert H. Humphrey concedes a bid to be Senate majority leader and accepts a special role as Democrats elect Robert Byrd as leader. Humphrey, gaunt after bladder cancer surgery, pledges to remain active, philosophical about his condition and future as a respected senator.
Texas inspectors checked records at the Geronimo Elevator in Wichita Falls to verify grain receipts against stored wheat as authorities investigate the disappearance of owner Robert Johnson 43 believed to have fallen overboard near Port Aransas. Farmers gathered outside his office for answers as the company faced license revocation over grain quality.
Howard Baker of Tennessee becomes the Senate minority leader after defeating Michigan's Robert Griffin by a 19 to TS vote. Baker caucused with Republicans on Capitol Hill Tuesday ahead of the decision, with AP Wirephoto.
Hong Kong reports a top secret Chinese document says the July Tangshan earthquake killed 655237 people and injured 779000, with 79000 seriously, making it the second largest toll in history. The note cites August emergency relief discussions and notes Tangshan’s extensive destruction near Peking.
Law officers in the Lubbock area have raised funds to buy a gold plated .45 pistol for the anonymous deer hunter who killed Larry Darnell Ewers, the man who killed State Trooper Sammy Long near Rankin last November. Aubrey Edwards will deliver the engraved weapon to the San Angelo man and present the case to a February grand jury with a request that the hunter be no billed. Any excess funds go to Long's widow.
Al bert H. Carter, a life term inmate and habitual criminal, had been granted pauper status by Judge Carl O. Bue, waiving filing fees across 70 suits since 1970. A federal court awarded Carter 5400 dollars in back pay from the Air Force, the only win, prompting Bue to strip pauper status and require fees on 30 pending cases totaling 826 dollars. Carter asked dismissal of 17 suits and offered to pay about 400 dollars for 13 remaining suits, with Jan 23 deadline set due to a missing Air Force check.
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