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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1972
Page
2
Clifford Irving Grove Press paperback due in September at $1.95 recounts the Howard Hughes autobiography hoax with his wife Edith and researcher Richard Suskind sharing profits on a negligible advance while serving prison terms.
In Miami Florida a giant time and temperature sign displayed 3 degrees below zero Tuesday while eight miles away Miami International Airport logged 82 degrees. Police in Moultrie Georgia rounded up seven people over a bakery warehouse burglary totaling 173 dollars. Suspects ages 4 to 9 were released to their parents with unclear charges. In New Mexico State Parks motorcycles dune buggies and other land recreational vehicles were banned from all but improved roads. Vehicles must be properly muffled and cannot be used at night.
Saratoga California AP reports Santa Clara County presiding judge Marshall S Hall refuses to fill a jury duty questionnaire. Jury Commissioner Paul Steeling notes Hall was randomly drawn with thousands by a computer. Hall says he would be summoned and would be ashamed to read the duty pamphlet, adding he wrote it years ago.
Mrs Martha Leigh Stine 90, a Pecos pioneer, died June 28 in Wichita Falls where she had lived 38 of her 90 years. Born November 4, 1881 in Lampasas she moved to Pecos in the early 1960s. Her husband worked at Pecos Valley State Bank and helped organize the Pecos Valley Southern Railway. She painted hand dyed china and oils, starting at age 70, with her own studio and kiln. Survivors: daughter Mrs Mary S Schneider of Wichita Falls, son Dr J Bryan Stine of Chicago, six grandchildren, five great grandchildren.
The text provides a weather brief with temperature highs and lows and precipitation outlook, but lacks named locations, dates, or specific figures. Unable to extract concrete entities beyond generic weather terms and the Associated Press attribution.
The report lists hospital admissions on July 11 12 13 and 14 1972 with names Anna Luz Valeriano Christine Jenkins Enriqueta Natividad Lin da Ruiz Jane Murry Bobby Tarin Ida Atkinson Andrew Cueto and Baby births for Mr and Mrs Amelio Natividad and Mr and Mrs Mike Harrison plus Lewis Schuessler all linked to Pecos Texas. A Pecos address appears for multiple entries with July dates and familial connections.
The Pecos Enterprise publishes daily except Saturdays and Sundays from 324 S Cedar St Pecos Texas 79772 with mail subscriptions in Reeves County priced at 6 months 9.00 1 year 18.00 and all other mail 6 months 11.00 12 months 21.00 Second class postage paid in Texas 79772.
Los Angeles experiences mild air readings and few alert levels while Eastern cities show stricter standards. EPA guidelines vary nationwide as residents cope with smog and protective measures. The piece compares regional alert thresholds and notes health uncertainty in air pollution science.
A steamy air mass lingered over the Eastern seaboard causing heat indices in the high 80s to mid 90s and tying up electric supplies. Pollution alerts, factory cuts, and power curtailments spread from Pittsburgh to Washington as utilities borrowed from Canada and set records while showers offered brief relief in New York.
Shirley Martin of Vancouver bought a box of buttons at a Salvation Army store and found a large uncut diamond inside. The jeweler valued it, RCMP investigated, she kept it, then sold it back to the jeweler for 3000 dollars.
Ambulance calls on July 21 at 12 01 a.m from 717 East 13th to hospital. Fire call on July 20 at 11 50 a.m. at 1506 Johnson due to gas leak in stove causing wall fire.
Washington AP report shows the second quarter GNP rising 8.9 percent in real terms, the fastest since late 1965, with inflation at 2.1 percent the lowest in years. Cost of living up 0.2 percent in June, supporting Nixon administration aims for tame inflation.
The outlook calls for continued warm temperatures and partly cloudy to cloudy skies through Saturday. Precipitation chances are 20 percent today, 30 percent tonight, and 40 percent Saturday with highs near 95 and overnight lows around 68. Pecos reports a rainfall total of 0.10 inches on Thursday. The Swig Cotton Oil Mill recorded a high of 94 and an overnight low of 68 on Thursday.
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