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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1976
Page
3
The Mississippi GOP chair Clarke Reed said Ford may have less backing in the delegation after party tactics to woo delegates backfired. Across Washington labor disputes unfold as can you strike actions and UAW negotiations with automakers press on.
Three wealthy Bay Area youths, Frederick Woods James Schoenfeld and Richard Schoenfeld, are the subject of a nationwide search as armed and dangerous suspects in the Chowchilla school bus kidnapping. Warrants may be issued. ransom suspected. Police report van used buried under Livermore quarry owned by Woods' father. 26 children and driver tunnel out after 18 hours.
Viking officials diagnose a jam in the soil-scooping arm and plan a Sunday test to extend the arm again until a locking pin drops free. If correct, the Mars life search timeline remains intact. A troubled seismometer and limited communications may limit data and photos.
President Ford’s veto of a 3.3 billion military construction bill is sustained while the 3.95 billion public works employment measure clears Congress. House overrides both in part, but Senate fails to reach two thirds on the military bill. Ford laments that Congress would rather fund temporary public jobs than private sector employment opportunities.
Washington AP reports Rep Wayne Hays and several colleagues remain under investigation for payroll sex charges. The grand jury meets in secret with no set end date, while ethics hearings are postponed until after the Republican convention. Other figures like Rep John Young and Rep Allan Howe face related scrutiny amid ongoing probes and elapsed testimony.
In Colerain Township Ohio Jesse Clark reported to police that a driver’s door was stolen from his 1973 automobile parked in his driveway. He added that nothing else was touched and speculated that someone “knew what they were doing.”
In eastern Beirut the Christian side escalated operations to clear Nabaa slum and Palestinian refugee pockets after a 48 hour barrage. Reports cite about 50 killed in Nabaa and more than 50 elsewhere in the last 24 hours. Palestinian leaders held Damascus talks with Syria while Nahr el Bared near Tripoli faced continued bombardment. Syrian radio reported frank positive talks with Palestinian representatives amid pressure from Egyptian calls for troop withdrawal.
Sen Walter Mondale opens his vice presidential campaign with a swing through Georgia and South Carolina and a stop at Plains Georgia home of Jimmy Carter. Southerners wary of Carter Mondale ticket clash with GOP attacks over his liberal record as a Minnesota senator.
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