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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1977
Page
3
House banking subcommittee hearings hear from bill collector groups who say enforcement efforts raise prices for paying customers. Consumer groups testify as panel closes hearings. Washington leaders consider King assassination inquiry hearings with possible witnesses.
A series of blasts at the Chemetron Corp Industrial Gases Division plant sent fireballs over 100 feet high in South Dallas. Firemen fought the blaze for about two hours and cooled acetylene containers with thousands of gallons of water after containment. No serious injuries reported.
Fae Hoffman 32 executive director of Bnai B’rith Women was saved by a police SWAT team after barricading in her office with four others during an attack that killed one and wounded several. Her mother said Hoffman called from a police command post and told of the rescue via a stairwell breach.
The FDA moves toward a federal ban on saccharin effective after the proposed rule becomes final. Diabetics and others unable to eat sugar may obtain saccharin by prescription as Canada also bans the sweetener.
California labor dispute ends as Cesar Chavez led United Farm Workers and the Teamsters plan to divide organizing rights. UFW to hold field jurisdiction, Teamsters control over canneries. Announcement expected at a Burlingame news conference.
An undercover agent, masked for protection, testified before a congressional subcommittee that he paid a smuggling ring $275 to cross from Tijuana to Los Angeles and another $300 to reach Washington, D.C. The hearing probes alien worker smuggling while INS officials note a possible multimillion count of illegal residents.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner John White is named Deputy Secretary of the USDA in Washington. He will focus on helping farmers and ranchers earn a living while remaining based in Austin and maintaining Texas political involvement.
The Senate voted 58 to 40 to approve Paul C. Warnke as the nominee to negotiate nuclear arms reductions with the Soviet Union. The vote falls short of the two thirds required to ratify any future treaty he may return, signaling vigorous Senate scrutiny of a new SALT agreement and insisting on U S Russian equality in any deal.
Twelve year old Phillip Blankenship, blind since birth, won the school spelling championship at T.J. Lee Elementary in Irving Texas after doing overtime after school.
In Austin the House considers a horse race betting bill limited to counties approved by voters. A Senate committee backs allowing riders over 18 to go helmet free. Banking board reform proposals seek more citizen members while banking interests warn of governor control. Senate and House panels advance school finance measures aimed at a unified proposal by early April.
The U.N. Human Rights Commission, with U.S. support, condemns repression by Chile's military junta in a 26-1 vote. The panel rejects Britain’s bid for public debate on mass murders in Uganda as Cuba and the Soviet Union back a private inquiry motion.
Bibb County Atty Don Thompson says three men were caught fleeing a large Macon crackdown with 25 pounds of Columbian marijuana worth 10 000 dollars. Indicted on marijuana with intent to distribute charges, the suspects are Lester Lee Collins Jr. of Macon a former post office employee Hernando Hernandez Duna Jr. 29 of Houston Texas and Charles Allen Norris 31 of Detroit.
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