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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1975
Page
4
Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, who entered an alcoholism treatment clinic in February, will stay through the six to eight week program. An aide said Mills likes the clinic staff and intends to complete treatment.
The body of Aristotle Onassis is moved by air, land, and sea to the chapel where he married Jacqueline Kennedy 62 years ago for burial beside his only son, in Scorpios, Greece.
Army seeks tentative authorization to purchase 20,000 acres west of Fort Hood for expanded facilities, while 350 to 400 Coryell County landowners deny giving up land held by families for generations. The Our Land Our Lives group pushes protests to public officials amid criticism of eminent domain.
Dallas County Judge Whittington says counties must face reality about jail upgrades after the Supreme Court refused to review a lower court order. He notes the Fifth Circuit ruling challenges Texas jail operations and prompts counties to plan and seek neighboring help to finance improvements.
Oklahoma City AP Hall and Taylor seek federal court permission to interview the 12 jurors who convicted them last week on bribery charges to probe whether juror illness or extraneous influence affected the verdict. The case involves a scheme to bribe Secretary of State John Rogers to sway a retirement fund board vote. Taylor is a Dallas financier.
Railroads and the Interstate Commerce Commission discussed a possible government takeover of the Rock Island Lines after the board voted to end shipments by March 31. The 7,500 miles of track in 13 states could be operated by another carrier for up to eight months, with estimated costs reaching 60 million dollars. The Rock Island has posted recurring losses, a 23.1 million deficit in 1974, and sought 100 million in USRA loans which were denied. The system serves 700 communities, 2,000 grain elevators, 5,000 factories and 20 utilities with 167,000 workers.
President Ford at Notre Dame links Southeast Asia communist gains to a domino effect. He says the loss of Cambodia or another ally could vitally affect U S security, noting Thailand withdrawal talk and Colombia reviews as signs of waning faith in U S commitments.
President Ford plans a new federal highway program to return half of the four cent per gallon federal gasoline tax to the states, about 2 billion dollars yearly. States could spend as they wish on roads with no fixed interstate match, while Ford considers diverting tax receipts and has already released 2 billion in impounded highway funds for upgrades.
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