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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1970
Page
2
The notice lists Monday meals including orange juice scrambled eggs hash brown potatoes toast jelly and milk. It notes high schools will serve Monday with snack bar open Tuesday and Wednesday. Other schools menus will vary.
G E refrigerator in good condition with freezing unit priced at 85 dollars. Early American sofa and bed frame offered together for 25 dollars. TV floor model from Baw, price 100 dollars. Call 447.2369.
Sen. Hart says the Refuse Act of 1899 should be enforced to curb water pollution. The act requires a license from Army Engineers to dump solids into navigable waters, with fines up to 2500 dollars and cleanup duties for violators. Other items note lawmakers rejecting 250 honorariums from postal group and debates on housing finance and Eisenhower’s putting green.
In South Vietnam a five-truck U.S. convoy was ambushed near Dalat, two Americans killed and three helicopters shot down with three crew wounded. Norodom Sihanouk denounced Cambodian leaders in Peking, pledging perseverance in a protracted struggle against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces.
The Raiders returned safely to bases as the General Command claimed sabotage of a Swiss air jetliner, later retracted. Beirut conducts Mirage patrols amid fears of Israeli air attack. UN denounces May 12 Lebanese border raid while Israel vows further retaliation. Cairo cites escalating Suez Canal air attacks and U.S. helicopter deliveries to Israel.
A brief trivia column notes that astronautics is space navigation, Cy Young pitched the first perfect game in 1904 for the Boston Americans, Apollo 12 emblem linked to Navy officers and the 19th century clipper ship, and that France’s remaining North American possessions are Miquelon and St Pierre islands near Newfoundland.
Dallas AP Charles Allen Tippit son of officer J. D. Tippit killed after Kennedy assassination faces a $100000 damage suit for exemplary damages and medical costs from Marilyn Smith Weaver who alleges aggravated assault on December 21 1968 in Judge Charles E Long's court.
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