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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1976
Page
3
Two British French Concordes roared off Dulles International on their first U.S. departures to Europe. FAA noise meters showed Air France’s Concorde 160 percent louder than the next-noisiest jet, a Boeing 707, on the same runway.
Six primaries Tuesday produced three Reagan landslides and narrow Ford wins in Tennessee Kentucky and Oregon. Carter won Arkansas Kentucky and Tennessee while Church beat Carter in Oregon. Brown carried Nevada and Church won Idaho as California looms with 167 delegates at stake.
Rep. Wayne Hays admitted a personal relationship with Elizabeth Ray, a clerk on the House Administration Committee, while denying keeping her on the payroll for sexual services. FBI probes and ethics calls loom as questions linger about her $14,000 annual pay and her role. Twenty-eight House members urged an ethics inquiry to protect Congress' integrity.
More than 50 states 53 labor unions and 22 church groups join 73 food stamp families to sue the Ford administration over planned reductions. About 1.66 million families could be eliminated from stamps and 1.72 million more face higher costs under regulations to take effect next week. Officials say remaining families will see benefits rise and tax savings of 1.2 billion dollars yearly once fully in force.
Failures by speculators to deliver nearly 50 million pounds of Maine potatoes triggered a rare default on 997 contracts at the NYMEX. Officials from the exchange and the CFTC ordered inquiries as traders warned the episode could threaten the futures market’s integrity and prompt major changes. The potato consumer market remained steady due to adequate supply.
The Texas Railroad Commission unitized the Yates Oil Field in Pecos County on Tuesday, aiming to boost output by about 200 million barrels. It authorizes injection of liquids to raise pressure and productivity and doubles the field’s allowable to 100000 barrels daily. Marathon Oil Co. led the application with near unanimous working interest support and strong royalty consent. The move allows unified field withdrawal and cross-lease pressure maintenance.
U S officials say pressure from Africa and possibly the Soviet Union prompted Cuba to begin withdrawing its about 15 000 troops from Angola at roughly 200 a week Secretary of State Kissinger called the move positive but said a full withdrawal is needed before any talk of normalizing ties The plan was discussed with Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and follows fears Cuba would support Rhodesian rebels.
The Postal Service profits by auctioning damaged books and records ripped from wrappers by new sorting machines. Industry spokesmen say many items are intact but separated from packaging or address labels. A 60 day waiting period governs auctions, sparking calls to end them. A moratorium runs June 1 to August 31 while alternatives are sought.
A blond European man arriving on a foreign airline carried a suitcase bomb that killed himself and a woman security guard and wounded ten at Ben Gurion Airport. A second device went off later as police retrieved it. a third contained only clothes. PFLP claimed responsibility from Beirut with conflicting details.
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