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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1973
Page
2
Jacques Cousteau investigates a deep sea battlefield littered with mining waste for ABCs 500 Million Years Beneath the Sea? airing tonight at 8 p.m. EST. The piece links the 1942 Coral Sea clash to ongoing oceanic hazards and environmental damage.
Washington AP reports that the Nixon administration canceled federally subsidized housing loans to poor farmers, prompting rural housing groups to label the move a slap at rural America. A senator denounced it as a calculated difference toward farmers and pledged congressional action to overturn farm cutbacks.
The Agriculture Department dropped a requirement that farmers idle wheat acres for price supports, allowing grazing on set aside land to avert livestock feed shortages. About 15 million acres freed for crop use could raise spring plantings, while rural housing and loan programs face new suspensions amid broader budget cuts drawing criticism from ANCA, Rural Housing Alliance, and Sen. Dick Clark.
Congressman W R Poage of Texasillery a fellow House Agriculture Committee chairman says Nixon exceeds constitutional bounds with spending moves. He argues Congress must control expenditures, warning executive overreach risks dictatorship and rural programs face deep cuts. A Groton Connecticut firm runs the world’s only submarine library.
Deaths list two service notices. Mrs Ila Maude Cain 89 of Big Spring will have services at 2 p m Friday at Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel with burial at Belew Cemetery near Pilot Point. Survivors include daughter Mrs Curtiss Winterrowd and son Leon Cain plus grandchildren and great grandchildren. Glen B Estes 66 of Pecos dies at Providence Hospital El Paso and will be buried at Evergreen Cemetery after services at Pecos Funeral Home Chapel. survivors include wife Lucille three daughters three stepsons and several grandchildren.
The Pecos Enterprise publishes every evening except weekends from 324S Cedar St Pecos Texas. Subscription rates in Reeves County are 6 months 9.00 dollars and 12 months 18.00 dollars for mail, with all other mail 6 months 11.00 and 12 months 21.00. Postage paid at Pecos Texas 79772.
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