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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1973
Page
2
Humberto Cardinal Medeiros will assume titular rule of Santa Susana Church in Rome on Thursday, after previously serving as bishop of Brownsville and archbishop of Boston.
Dallas AP Carl C. Ulsaker postmaster general of the 11 state Southern Region told about 500 businessmen at a postal customer council conference that service is not as efficient as it should be but improvements are being made. He said cost cuts of 60 million last year and planned hires and mechanization this year aim to boost efficiency. Murray Comarow stressed myths about mail rates and said Life magazine would not have survived with proposed increases.
Pearl S Buck, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author famed for works on China, died at her Danby home at about 7 25 a m She was born in West Virginia on June 26 1892 and raised in China where she learned Chinese before English Her upbringing shaped her writing style and subjects and she spent 17 years in China before returning to the United States.
Nabuti Tabutoa and Taraia Teketaba survived a 44 day open boat ordeal after losing direction in a rainstorm and running out of gas. They subsisted on coconuts and turtles while drifting over 1000 miles until a Taiwanese fishing boat rescued them near Western Samoa and brought them back to Tarawa.
Operation Home coming released times for the arrival of four POW flights carrying 80 freed prisoners. Local times listed for Andrews Washington Scott Illinois Kelly Texas and Travis California bases. Names of prisoners not announced until shortly before takeoff.
In Fort Worth Texas the cattle market shows 800 head with slaughter cows steady and bulls not tested. Feeder cattle steady with prices across weight ranges and hogs up to 50 cents higher in most categories. Sows rise, boars up, lambs show limited testing with spring slaughter lambs around 40.00.
Reeves County subscribers may pay 6 months 10.50 dollars or 1 year 21.00 dollars in advance. All other mail costs 6 months 12.50 dollars or 12 months 24.00 dollars. Second class postage paid at Pecos Texas.
In a note to Lt Gen Du Quoc Dong Col Dang Van Thu of the Viet Cong urged Saigon to release one fourth of the prisoners in phase two of exchanges and complete the second phase by week’s end. He cited 26,734 military prisoners on Paris lists, demanding at least a quarter released. The Saigon side offered 3,000. no immediate comment from Saigon. The report also notes a secret Atlas Agena satellite launch from Cape Kennedy for intelligence purposes.
The columnist notes the boss values even a half loaf for four hours of work. He compares this to the global monetary system facing dollar problems, likening it to common folk. The piece ends with a wry remark about the sap rising and a fight for a bus seat.
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