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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1977
Page
3
Reported eight fatalities between Friday evening and Sunday night include three traffic deaths two in a private plane crash and three homicides. The briefing also covers metrication trends and various political and social notes across the nation.
Jimmy Robinson a Chandler plumber says John Harvey Adamson named others to dodge a death sentence. Adamson pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the Don Bolles case as Max Dunlap and Robinson were linked by a police affidavit. Marley Sr. is tied to the motive and Dunlap’s debt, while Marley’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Ford presents a $440 billion 1978 federal budget calling for higher defense outlays and a $47.5 billion six year tax cut plan. The deficit would reach $47 billion in 1978 with receipts at $393 billion, despite campaign pledges for restraint and a balanced budget by 1979. Carter advisers expect changes as Congress drafts a final budget starting Oct 1.
A proposed rider to the Texas appropriations bill could bar colleges from paying coaches from faculty funds unless they teach a minimum load, potentially affecting small programs including West Texas State. Regents delayed a decision to raise funds and avert cuts as critics warn the measure would handicap athletic programs at smaller colleges.
A U S Navy 56 foot launch carrying 110 sailors collided with the Spanish freighter Urlea in Barcelona harbor at about 2 am. Twenty servicemen were killed and 19 injured. most victims died before hospitals could receive them. The Guam and Trenton were on a goodwill visit.
Andrew D. Lee and Christopher J. Boyce were arrested in a conspiracy to sell U.S. rocket secrets to the Soviet Union. The FBI links the scheme to Boris Grishin, a Soviet embassy attache in Mexico City, with Lee to be returned from Mexico for trial.
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