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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1975
Page
5
Multiple AP dateline items report the S S Hope stuck on a sand bar near Port Isabel while being guided into Brownsville. the ship once served as the U S Navy hospital ship Consolation in WWII and Korea.
At the OPEC summit in Algiers the non Communist world’s major oil exporters clash over future ties with consumer nations. Talks yielded consensus on most texts, but some political issues remain unsettled. Boumedienne opened the three day conference amid an absent Saudi king and other leaders.
Oklahoma City AP Attorney General Larry Derryberry returns to the stand in the bribery case against former Governor David Hall and Dallas financier W W Taylor. Rogers testified he reported a Dec. 3 bribery offer and Hall’s plan to split a payoff, while immunity for witnesses was noted. The case also involves Taylor’s firm Guaranteed Investors Corp and accusations of extortion.
Washington AP reports Congress faces deadlock on national health insurance as 20 plus proposals stall over coverage scope, service breadth, and financing. Leaders hope action this year but energy and tax bills may push the bill to November before a full House vote.
General Telephone Co. opposes parts of a proposed statewide utility regulation bill. VP Hubert Preston testifies that original cost pricing would hurt stockholders and cites inflation. He notes opposition to allowing cities to exempt themselves and to limits on buying equipment from owned firms as a conflict with fair pricing.
Houston AP Texas Department of Public Safety head Col Wilson E Speir urged raising Texas speed limit from 55 to 60 mph to boost voluntary compliance. He warned that faster driving would raise traffic deaths and cited 3,692 fatalities in 1973 with 3,042 so far this year through March 15. He noted January’s 15 percent rise versus 1974. Arnold pressed for statewide free driver education and renewal tests plus harsher penalties for drunken driving.
Steve Marks, 64, king of America's estimated 250,000 Gypsies, was entombed in Rose City Cemetery Portland after a three day wake. A dispute over alleged racial discrimination by Portland funeral homes delayed the funeral with a complaint filed to the Oregon Bureau of Labor.
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