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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1975
Page
3
In Raleigh a North Carolina Senate committee chair uses door prizes to improve quorum. Sen. Dallas Alford noted past attendance problems that led to cancellations. The tactic aims to raise participation and ensure smoother meetings.
Tito Killian 19 of San Antonio won the Texas high overall skeet title with an aggregate 497x500 as the three day event ended Sunday at the Waco Gun Club ending Robert Paxton's three year reign. In Salina a homeless drifter with Texas and Illinois links was arraigned for first degree murder in the shooting death of Policeman Jerry Ivey after a supermarket robbery. In San Antonio a young couple and their eight month old daughter died when their car overturned in East Bexar County. In Fort Worth Russell G. Livermore 28 was shot to death during a robbery on the south side.
Former President Richard Nixon left his San Clemente seaside villa for strolls along Red Beach. The Los Angeles Times ran front-page pictures of Nixon walking with his daughter Julie Eisenhower and greeting people near campers, a popular spot for Southern California surfers.
An early morning blast at Banco de Ponce in 10 Rockefeller Plaza shattered windows and injured a bakery truck driver. A caller claimed the Weather Underground and Puerto Rican cement workers solidarity. The incident follows a spate of violence linked to the Puerto Rican labor dispute and FALN activity.
Baltimore Teamsters Local 937 plans to open four food stamp sales outlets to reach eligible residents not now receiving stamps. The first center should open July 1 and a second on August 1, with others pending. Union president Joseph Townsley says the program could be copied nationwide and aims to serve low income workers who cannot access existing outlets.
In Holman New Mexico Catholics explore an image on the wall of an old church school building that appears nightly. Thousands visit the tiny Sangre de Cristo community to view it. Some call it a miracle while others attribute it to shadows and discolored plaster. The archdiocese official says no supernatural cause is evident at present.
Residents and clergy in Mora New Mexico watch an apparent image on a church wall at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. Father Leonard Bayer and others describe the scene as possibly divine while noting the steady, orderly behavior of worshippers and a road crowded with cars around the village church.
A group of former Vietnam paramedics will launch Medevac Paramedic Services Inc to provide rapid emergency care across 24 North Texas counties from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Six twin turbine helicopters will fly 150 mph with computer linked patient data shared to hospitals in seconds.
The Associated Press reports 26 deaths in Texas from Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight. Of these, 16 were vehicle related, with drownings, shootings, and a plane crash also counted. A San Antonio family of Baladezs—Rosita Baladez 20, Frank Baladez 46, Margarita Baladez 42, Martina Baladez 15—died in a Sunday night crash near Hondo on U.S. 90. five others were hurt, two critically.
In Miami area, a dozen squatters on a coral strip along Card Sound Road refuse to leave after hurricanes Betsy and Donna. They fear losing electricity if they stay, while county officials say the shacks are illegally built on public right of way and unsafe.
In Virginia City Nevada the last crank telephones were replaced with dial and push button ones ending an era. An 84 year old caller used old equipment to reach Pi per's Opera House, while longtime operator Frances Avansino recalls personalized service and nostalgic calls that will be missed.
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