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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1971
Page
4
The piece notes a few hundred millionaires paid income tax while many workers paid 20 to 70 percent. It critiques tax exempt bonds used by the wealthy to avoid taxes and laments a California proposal to cap fortunes. It argues welfare state leveling lowers overall standards.
The piece argues the United States trails the Soviet Union in space station plans and urges accelerating Skylab. It notes Skylab's 1973 start date and calls for earlier unmanned Mars exploration, while stressing Skylab’s potential for Earth observation, weather forecasting, and deeper space study.
A USC 12 month study funded by a $240000 grant from the Western Oil and Gas Association finds marine life damage from the Santa Barbara spill to be far less than predicted and the ecosystem recovering. In June a Conference on Prevention and Control of Oil Spills will convene in Washington with sponsors API US Coast Guard and EPA.
Boyle surveys trivia from garbage tonnages to language speed by sign, presidents, grass cooling power, rich athletes, birds, and channel swimmers. He notes Nobel quips, passenger pigeons, and a Rochester prospectus offering Vacation College brochures to visitors.
The Justice Department probes possible income tax violations in campaign fund handling linked to Alabama Governor George C. Wallace associates. Gerald Wallace and Seymore Trammell linked to the inquiry. no direct involvement by the governor is indicated. The grand jury in Montgomery weighs phony invoices, campaign donations, and payments by state contractors in 1966 and 1968 races.
A reader thanks President Nixon for sacrifices and jokes about giving up ping pong. Roy Sylvan Dunn seeks first hand Texas weather memories especially droughts floods and the 1934 cattle shoot. Sequoyah created a Cherokee writing system with 85 characters in 1821.
Davis Poling D D outlines how religious figures praised work and charity, shaping modern business ethics. He highlights Hunt Wesson chief Edward Gelsthorphe who links profits to social responsibility, noting programs for low income families and black women shop guides in LA.
Analysis notes that Chinese leaders fear a Moscow US bloc and view Russia as a perpetual threat. The piece traces decades of Russian meddling, economic pressure, and military co option with China, including losses, loans, and the Korean War link. It cites Mao’s private 1944 stance and ongoing Sino Soviet frictions shaping Beijing's self interest.
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