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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1975
Page
2
Venezuela gave Gulf Oil Corp until Thursday to declare if four million dollars in alleged bribes were paid to officials or to stop operations in the oil rich nation. Gulf spokesman in Pittsburgh said no official communique had been received and no comment will be offered until word is official.
Texas House moves to create a federally mandated state board to screen hospital expansion plans, limiting the board to certificate of need oversight while making the State Health Department the main health planning agency. A separate measure evaluates agricultural land for tax purposes based on five year productivity, affecting rural property values. Senate-adopted insurance bills address medical malpractice costs and health coverage, establishing pooled risk and minimum standards.
Texas Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong urged lawmakers to approve an $8 million appropriation to purchase 220000 acres west of Big Bend National Park for under $36 an acre. The land, with 23 miles of Rio Grande frontage and water across much of it, would add to state holdings and include the Solitario uplift area and minerals. Armstrong cites geothermals and potential, seeking to swap land for a waterfall and to expand public land holdings in the Bi Centennial year.
A sea of people gathered at South Vietnam's former presidential palace to hear the Saigon area commander promise leniency for former Viet Cong opponents and respect for foreign residents. The rally introduced the new Saigon administration while Cambodia and the Philippines faced separate wartime upheavals and refugee movements.
Thousands of South Vietnamese refugees cry for a return as the American Challenger and Pioneer Commander evacuate more than 14,000 people from Phu Quoc and other coastal areas. Capt. Arthur Boucher says 30,000 to 50,000 stranded on beaches begged to board, many refugees arriving in poor health but transported by U. S. vessels under military control to Guam after a week at sea.
Diggers on the La Paloma Ranch near Riviera Texas found fossilized mammoth bones described as possibly the most recent remains of the extinct animal in North America. Paleontologist Dr Raymond W Suhm of Texas A&I deemed the find significant with early estimates of 5 000 to 6 000 years old. The discovery occurred April 25 by Allen Mittag an employee digging an earth tank who noticed a long curved yellowish object and later uncovered ribs and vertebrae. His brother Eugene Mittag aided the next day with the assessment.
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