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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1976
Page
1
Rhodesia ordered a 20 percent cut in fuel rations after Mozambique blockade and said its army would be enlarged, offering blacks a chance to become commissioned officers for the first time.
Band boosters and band students are selling tickets for an enchilada supper on March 12. Tickets are $1.75 each. The supper will be from 5 30 to 8 p m in the high school cafeteria. This is one of the many projects band boosters plan to pay the bands expenses.
A Federal Highway Administration funded project to build on off ramps at I 20 and Country Club Drive in Pecos seeks 133 200 dollars. The eight item agenda for the Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission meeting includes Midland Ector counties community development funds Goldsmith city funds and second year EMS funding. Reeves County Judge H D Glover is vice chairman of the PBRPC board.
In a lengthy talk with Rev. Ray Powell the speaker argues humans remain animals at core with primal drives for warmth fire water and territory. He links hunting and war to genetic heritage and notes modern life masks but does not erase these instincts.
U S officials say Cuba plans likely military training and advisers for Rhodesian guerrillas operating from Mozambique. The move would be smaller in scope than Angola, with 12 000 to 14 000 Cuban troops in Angola possibly redeployed to the Mozambique border. Kissinger urged circumspection and warned against assuming U S action.
Jesus Abila was misnamed as the driver of a car that jumped the railroad tracks east of Pecos Monday. The actual driver was Jose Abila of Barstow, the lone occupant who sustained minor injuries.
In Vitoria the coffins of three workers slain by police were carried through the streets as about half of the Basque town's population joined a massive defiance. Labor groups called for a general Basque region strike while police reinforced guard the streets amid clashes elsewhere in the Basque country.
The CDC reported 1,191 pneumonia or flu deaths in 121 cities for the week ending Feb 28, 656 above expected. Epidemic thresholds were exceeded in New England Middle Atlantic Western states and for the first time in the central and Midwestern areas. The A-Victoria flu strain remained dominant.
In Pecos an auto struck by a pickup at Palmer and Country Club Drive killed Georgia Jayetta Birkla 21. Paul M. Paluda 34 of Monahans faces voluntary manslaughter while intoxicated charges after admitting he drove the truck. Two others were detained on drunkenness charges.
The Labor Department reports February unemployment fell to 7.6 percent from 7.8 percent as total employment rose by 125000, returning to the July 1974 prerecession peak of 86.3 million. The labor force grew to 93.5 million, keeping the jobless rate higher.
Hunters roam the Pecos countryside ahead of the first Jaycee rattlesnake roundup to be judged at the county fair barn Saturday morning. Participants pay a five dollar entry for cash prizes while Fort Worth Venomaires stages hourly shows and a flea market runs alongside.
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