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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1973
Page
3
Space Center Houston reports more than 250 papers will be presented this week at the Lunar Science Conference with two Soviet researchers identified as Vladamir Shcherbin and Lev Tarasov slated to attend and present papers during the four day event.
At Clark Air Base in the Philippines Air Force sources describe freed POWs from Hanoi sharing memories of captivity alongside chatter about changing fashion trends such as miniskirts and see through blouses. They traveled home aboard a C141 StarLifter with 106 servicemen liberated from North Vietnamese prisons.
The White House said four of every five letters oppose amnesty for draft dodgers who left for Vietnam. It noted Nixon's Jan. 31 statement that amnesty implies forgiveness and that unconditional forgiveness has never been given in U. S. history. Thousands have written or telegramged in support of Nixon's stance.
A voluntary quarantine was imposed on a migrant farm labor camp in Homestead Florida as typhoid infections reached 15 of 107 tested. The public health director said residents may leave to buy food or work but little else, amid tight security around Operation Homecoming.
In Dallas AP report Joe Novotny of the Sharpstown stock scandal pleads guilty to one mail fraud count as his federal trial opens with two co-defendants facing 12 counts. The deal could dismiss remaining charges. Carr Osorio deny others, while Sharp earlier pleaded guilty to one count for immunity.
President Nixon announces a 2.3 billion increase in broad community development grants to state and local governments. He proposes replacing seven urban programs with a Better Communities Act, permits flexible fund use, and advocates a new Department of Community Development to unify scattered programs.
A celebration on Texas Independence Day highlighted plans by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission to restore the 1836 Republic of Texas capitol site. Funding would support a 13‑house Ferry Street restoration, a ferry, and a new museum, with capacity for 500,000 visitors annually. Gov. Briscoe and Lt. Gov. Hobby spoke in favor of the project.
Militant AIM led group at Wounded Knee S D plans to stay as talks resume in a tepee on no man s land between outposts and 150 federal officers. The government offered departure with no arrest if states weapons passed through lines.
Navy flier Lt Cmdr Michael D Christian, among Hanoi Hilton prisoners freed in the Philippines, writes letters to his three daughters after six years apart. He recalls anger over his absence, pledges to learn about their world, hopes to be a normal father again, and asks to be kept up to speed on their lives and interests.
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