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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1979
Page
4
A compact TV guide for Tuesday January 16 1978 listing hourly programs including News e Studio, Mary Tyler Moore, Joker's Wild, Carole Burnett, Happy Days, Gunsmoke, Laverne and Shirley, Star Trek, Murder in Music City, Sky Riders, Tax!, African Bob Newhart Show, Starsky and Hutch, Fright, and Cinema Showcase with actors Sonny Bono James Coburn Ruth Gordon.
A radio TV schedule fragment lists The Tonight Show Best Of Carson with guests Tony Randall Beverly Sills George Miller and Carl Sagan. It notes You Cant Steal Love 1978 with Robert Conrad Don Stroud and a high profile jewel heist. CBS Barnaby Jones Day Of The Viper and Banacek Now You See Me Now You Dont air.
James Coburn Robert Culp Susannah York and Charles Aznavour star in Sky Riders a kidnapping and rescue drama. Bracken and his family are held for 25 million in munitions as the police chief and a private party pursue the terrorists and a hang glider assault unfolds at a fortress monastery.
Texas farmers split this month with the American Agriculture Movement planning a Washington migration to lobby for higher crop prices while the Texas Farm Bureau gathers in Miami Beach to vote on a new national policy. About 125 Texans expected to join the Washington march. leaders debate parity rules and 90 percent of parity loans, with Bureau executives cautioning against blanket price supports.
The government cites rising head injury deaths among motorcyclists and urges Congress to reinstate sanctions favoring helmet use. A survey shows deaths doubled in Colorado Kansas and South Dakota after repeals, while compliance remains high in states with laws.
Gulf Oil Corp announces the seventh dry hole off the mid Atlantic coast in the Baltimore Canyon Trough. The New Era semisubmersible drilled to 18,554 feet about 90 miles east southeast of Atlantic City in 349 feet of water, then will drill a second well nearby. An earlier test in a 17,640 foot well indicated a non commercial gas zone. Gulf and partners Aminoil U.S.A. Inc Tenneco Oil Co Cities Service Inc and others hold stakes. Shell joins rivals in the effort.
The week’s Billboard top singles and LPs are listed with Chic at number one on the hot singles chart and Barbra Streisand and Billy Joel among tops. Oil drilling updates report Texaco’s dry holes east of Atlantic City and a second confirmation well near a prior gas find, plus a federal lease plan for 109 tracts totaling about 650 thousand acres near the Baltimore Canyon Trough.
Carolyn Wyeth, recluse and sister to Andrew Wyeth, unveils the largest exhibit of her paintings. Fifty three of about one hundred works are showcased at Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford through May 20.
Chester R Upham Jr president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association argues inflation fears should not block oil price deregulation. He claims deregulation would boost domestic output and link prices to development costs while foreign dependence keeps prices politically driven. A DOE hearing discussed limited relief for marginal wells with another public session set for Jan 11 in Los Angeles. Mandatory controls on crude oil and products end May 31, with a presidential extension to Sept 30, 1981.
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