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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1975
Page
3
The administration proposed cutting welfare payments to mothers who refuse to help identify the father of their children, while offering cash bounties to those who cooperate. The plan also requires all adult welfare applicants to provide Social Security numbers.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe loses a round as the House Public Education Committee rejects his weighted pupil approach and sends the plan toward floor debate. The dispute centers on funding formulas, local option aid, and teacher salaries with a looming May 12 schedule.
In Kingston during the Commonwealth conference Indira Gandhi says resumed U S arms sales to Pakistan queered India Pakistan relations as they appeared to improve after the 1972 Simla agreement. She argues Washington misread the Subcontinent and warns against equating Pakistan with India.
House sponsors of an emergency farm bill plan to seek a veto override of President Ford’s measure next week. If unsuccessful, Congress will abandon higher supports for 1975 crops and return to a broader farm bill addressing future years plus foreign aid and food stamps. The bill aimed to lift target prices for corn, wheat, and cotton and boost milk price supports, while triggering more subsidies and higher consumer prices.
Arlington investigators rounded up 61 suspected drug distributors and sellers after a six month undercover operation. DEA and local officers seized three cars and 50 pounds of marijuana. Officials warn of rising heroin, cocaine, and marijuana use across ages, with a younger arrest profile and anticipation ofTurkey opium harvest impact.
American businesses abandoned investments totaling about $60 million in Vietnam as Saigon fell. Oil ventures, banks, manufacturers and an airline left behind eroding assets including a sewing plant, fuel tanks, dairy plant, office gear, and loans deemed uncollectable. Many investments were transferred to Vietnamese staff or French custodians, with nationalization rumors clouding recovery hopes.
The British West Indian islands did not ally politically with the 13 colonies though they offered sympathetic supplies and arms for the Revolution. They were more vulnerable to Royal Navy police action and to attacks by hostile navies, relying more on Britain for protection.
Donald Wistrom of Witch Lake Michigan, isolated since youth, taught himself 22 languages. He pursued farming and logging before translating for northern Michigan mining firms, other U.S. companies, and later some government work. He is married with three children.
In a small village of 50, a resident claims to have translated about six million words and filled 120 books. He works 8 to 10 hours daily on Wixtrom projects, learns a new language each winter, and takes three weeks off each spring to make maple syrup. He speaks five languages well but has few chances to converse with foreigners, hoping to rush up in a week if needed.
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