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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1975
Page
3
AP reports backers urge former North Carolina governor Terry Sanford to enter the Texas presidential primary though his candidacy is announced and he has not decided on Texas participation.
President Ford appears ready to veto a government subsidy bill for home buyers as May housing starts jump 14.2 percent and permits rise 8.6 percent to 909000 annual rate. Rhodes cites deficit fears while Nor man Jr. doubts a veto. Hills calls data encouraging and signals recovery underway.
Engineers say Congress should settle the Corps of Engineers jurisdiction over waterways. A panel noted at least 20 bills seek to set the scope of permits for dredging and filling. The debate centers on whether the Corps controls activities that affect water quality nationwide, not just navigable waters.
Austin AP reports that Texas begins a temporary risk sharing pool to address medical malpractice insurance woes. The pool will not issue policies until a plan of operation is approved by the State Insurance Board. Chairman Joe Christie urged quick action and July 7 as a deadline for plan readiness. Oran Needham of Millers Mutual in Fort Worth elected as pool chairman, bringing experience from property insurance pools.
The Postal Service warned that a judge's rate recommendations could cut business mail, lowering revenue by over 350 million yearly and forcing taxpayers to cover shortfalls. A brief to the Postal Rate Commission urged rejection of Seymour Wenner's plan to cut first class letters from 10 to eight and a half cents. Christie pool panel folds into malpractice coverage talks with doctors delaying strikes.
Texas Welfare Commissioner Raymond Vowell attacked a Senate bill to distribute food stamps with minimal questions. He warned the proposal would invite wholesale fraud while supporting the bill’s general aim to extend food stamps to Supplemental Security Income recipients. He urged removing an amendment that would let households obtain cards without documentation.
PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. AP A heroin addict held four policemen at bay for 90 minutes and forced Police Chief Tom Courtney to play a version of Russian roulette before giving up peacefully. Dane Garrison 22 of Hollywood surrendered after his family doctor arrived. Garrison, arrested with a stolen TV, took over the station house, forced officers into an interrogation room, and confiscated their weapons before being talked into hospital for withdrawal treatment.
The House voted to abolish the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Board of Review and its executive secretary post. Jubal Hale, in the role since 1971, says he will seek another job as the panel’s role is transferred to the interior secretary amid a House-passed funding package.
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