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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1970
Page
4
News editor Fran Sunday is associated with 21a South Cedar Street Pecos Texas with a contact telephone 445-5475 as of Wednesday June 10 1970.
Editorial notes high accident rate at Pecos intersections on Hwy 8 and Hwy 80 due to outdated 1920s traffic lights. Four injured at Cedar and Hwy 8, over 4000 dollars in damages at Cypress and Hwy 80, with out-of-towners involved. Calls for new overhang signals in city budget to reduce crashes and ticketing.
The piece discusses police as both victims and villains amid revolutionary turmoil and rising crime. It notes long hours low pay and community hostility, but cites signs of improved police community relations and growing demand for protection, especially among low income Black residents.
New York AP columnist HAL Boyle surveys oddities and facts about life, science, travel, and folklore. He notes headaches cost 40 million dollars in remedies, atoms count, old princesses with many wives, dog domestication, camping trends, ballooning pioneer Francois Blanchard, emphysema advances, and a Good Friday dish breaking omen along with a quote from George Moore.
Quotes cover football violence debates with Charlie Winner and Dave Meggyesy, plus Chip Oliver leaving pro football. Vanderbilt’s Alexander Heard comments on campus anxiety amid Vietnam. AP reports Argonne scientists hunt for quarks in lunar rocks from Apollo missions.
The article defines crimes and penalties under Texas law, explains felonies and misdemeanors, and details juvenile versus adult handling. It covers principals and accessories, and uses a scenario with Bill, Larry, Don, and Jim to illustrate burglary, breaking and entering, theft, and accomplice liability with potential sentences and concurrent or consecutive sentencing.
NEA Washington Correspondent analyzes Hanoi's likely next moves in the Vietnam War, arguing that six to nine months of planned dramatic attacks could undermine American public will. Tet showed psychological gains for Hanoi despite military defeats.
The 1970 Catholic Directory records a drop in the Roman Catholic population of England and Wales and a further decline in conversions.
A newspaper column compares Japan's proposed nationwide law imposing a maximum two year prison term on any automobile driver who has one or more drinks in an accident and on the person who supplied the drinks. It weighs practicality and possible deterrence versus current U.S. state laws.
Investigation into the oxygen tank explosion aboard the Apollo 13 mission attributes the abort to an error in applying excessive power to thermostat switches. Human error triggered the crisis, while human ingenuity transformed near disaster into a triumph.
Congress moves to authorize a federal infusion of funds toward the American SST program as costs mount toward an estimated 1.3 billion dollar price tag. The article notes the SST’s potential monopoly on trans Atlantic service and questions the program’s viability. It also reports the SS United States lay in harbor, a money loser despite its record crossing time and decades-old subsidies.
The Cambodian campaign has seen many newsmen captured or killed in a short span, illustrating how war news reaches home front rooms and prompts comment and criticism about the price of conflict.
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