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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1971
Page
2
A three year contract ends a 10 week steel strike with a pay boost averaging 35 percent. Builders and shipyards will pass the increase to customers, though effects on consumer prices are not immediate. Bethlehem placed 4.7 percent boosts on auto body and appliance steels last April under a one year no-change guarantee.
Kentucky paid 256519 for a railroad trestle over I 78 near Georgetown and four years later spent 25000 to remove the bridge after freight trains were abandoned for highway safety.
A telegram signed by 50 Jewish leaders condemns the JDL for attacking Soviet installations in the United States. The State Department weighs steps with the Justice Department to curb the group while Lindsay pledges police vigilance. Three Soviet defectors call violence unjust and say it harms the Soviet Jewry cause.
Nixon officials defend a new depreciation rule package as boosting investment and productivity. They claim long run tax revenue will rise despite short term losses, with Treasury noting an effective loan through tax savings. Critics call it a $2 billion bonanza for business amid 6 percent unemployment and inflation.
Several individuals are recorded as employed but not currently at work. The notes list their names and positions, indicating temporary nonattendance or leave status. Further details on industries or locations are not specified in the readable text.
President Nixon will stop at the University of Nebraska on his way back East after a nine-day Southern California stay. The Western White House announced he will address a student faculty convocation at the university.
Chicago public schools close as the teachers union walks out for a second time in two years, cancelling classes for 577,679 students. Union demands include a 15 percent raise, changes on class size, safety, and protections after a rejected 4 percent offer.
The Metropolitan Opera will stage Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment next season with Joan Sutherland in the title role. The company has bought scenery and costumes from Royal Opera House London. Sandro Segui will direct the revival, with Richard Bonynge conducting and cast including Luciano Pavarotti Regina Resnik and Fernando Corena.
The U S Command reported a second protective reaction air attack inside North Vietnam last Friday when a Shrike missile missed a SAM site at the coast and landed in the sea. The strike 110 miles north of the DMZ followed radar tracking of an unarmed Navy reconnaissance jet. A separate F105 escort to a B52 mission near the Laos border also fired Shrikes at a SAM site with no confirmed hit.
The Art Institute of Chicago announced 1969 70 attendance reached 2,392,431 the second highest in its history a gain of 293000 plus over last year Director Charles C Cunningham noted gifts to the Annual Contributors Fund rose to 596 555 from nearly 5 500 donors about 800 more than the prior year Corporate support improved 46 percent to 104 837 but the institute faces a large operating deficit of 411 000.
The Texas Highway Commission reduced the hourly paid maintenance work week from 45 to 40 hours effective March 1. The move aligns with salaried staff’s 40-hour week and advances a plan to unify all employees under a single schedule without reducing gross pay.
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