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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1971
Page
4
The piece argues money escapes through inflation, rising living standards, and taxes. It notes the dollar’s shrinking value since 1955, rising consumer desires, car replacement cycles, and tax collection growth from 1956 to 1970, ending with a brief note on the koto.
In Denton Texas researchers at Texas Woman’s University Textile Research Laboratories test interlinings to measure shirt stability during wear and laundering. Six types of interlinings including cotton blends and a South African twill are compared while volunteers wear shirts eight hours daily and launder them 25 times at home.
Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins born in Siam, lived to 62 and died within three hours of each other. Their birth in Siam gave the name to the condition.
Miss Janice Black daughter of Mr and Mrs Oscar Hall Black of Las Cruces NM and Pat Vaughn were married in El Paso after a lengthy Barstow travel tale. The service featured organ music and a Mendelssohn procession with about 200 guests attending the wedding and reception at Faith Presbyterian Church and University Presbyterian Church venues.
The Rolling Stones create Rolling Stones Records to issue music in the United States through Atco Records. The first single will be Brown Sugar followed by the album Sticky Fingers with a Warhol designed cover. The band moves from London to their new label.
Dallas officials weigh tearing down the old Union Terminal to build a modern Amtrak passenger station. Fort Worth already has Amtrak service, and Dallas is set to receive it later this year, leaving the city as the largest in the nation without passenger service.
A reader reflection asks why humans harm the planet and themselves, pondering life, media, drugs, youth rebellion, and moral decay. The column includes two letters debating nudity on screen and a warning about dangerous diet pills with a caller urging caution and a response noting growing medical scrutiny.
Texas will have 7.2 million motor vehicles registered for 1971, per H C Pittman of the Texas Automobile Dealers Association. Only California will exceed Texas. Pittman notes Texas sales rose in early 1971 with Dallas County registrations up 2,252 through May compared with last year and predicts a 10 million annual production pace within years.
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