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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1973
Page
2
John W. Dean III, former presidential counsel, is suspended from practicing law in the District of Columbia by a three judge panel after pleading guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The action bars him from immediate legal work in D.C. pending further proceedings.
Finnish UN commander rushed to Suez to settle a traffic control dispute on the Cairo Suez highway inside Israeli lines. Israel says UN forces control the checkpoint but dismantled a UN roadblock due to lack of agreement. AL Ahram reports Egypt rejects keeping Israeli forces and road control post cease-fire.
South Vietnamese bombers conducted more than 50 attacks on Thien Noon an eight Viet Cong town 75 miles northwest of Saigon government military sources said. The town endured a three hour assault Monday with heavy casualties and major property damage. In Cambodia heavy fighting delayed the government effort to retake Kep near the border.
Washington AP reports energy week in Congress features an emergency fuel saving act directing Nixon to ration scarce fuels and a Senate approved Alaska pipeline bill for an 800 mile route from North Slope to a southern port. Also under discussion: long-range energy research, daylight saving shifts, and offshore takeovers.
Nixon energy adviser and API chairman say rationing ahead will involve extensive bureaucracy. ex Colorado Gov Love and Mobil Oil chief Warner call for eased anti trust rules to draft oilmen for supply expertise, with a need for a large administrative apparatus and Congress support.
A Pecos Enterprise summary notes statements by Warner Love and others on U S oil supply problems and a proposed rationing plan. They warn of a 2 to 3 million barrel per day shortfall and stress the need for knowledgeable professionals to assist government decisions. Charles E Spahr succeeds Warner as Institute chairman and anticipates long term supply solutions. Sockeye is another name for the Pacific salmon.
Fort Lauderdale police say the wife of white man Brian Barfield refuses to aid in locating 11 black assailants who abducted the couple at gunpoint. Barfield, 33, was beaten and burned with a flammable liquid. his wife, 26, was unharmed.
Mrs. Philip Stroud died at 1:20 p.m. Monday at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa after an illness. Born September 7, 1907 in Runnels County, she had lived in Pecos since 1947 after moving from Oklahoma. Services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Pecos Funeral Home chapel with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Survived by husband, a Pecos son Kenneth, a daughter Mrs. Bill Rhodes of Monahans, two stepsons Ralph and Max Minga of San Diego, a sister Mrs. Gordon Young of Dallas, and eight grandchildren.
Reeves County Commissioners Court invites sealed bids by 10:00 a.m. November 20, 1973 for a 130 by 100 foot metal building to be built in Toyah Texas. Specifications available from County Auditor Marguerite M Kent. County reserves right to reject any or all bids. decision final. Published in Pecos Enterprise November 6 and 13, 1973.
Calendar of evening meetings and events at Pecos area organizations including TOPS Eagle Booster Club the Saragosa Hall Amistad Lions PTA South Pecos Elementary and Rotary Club with times from 6 30 p m to noon plus a stray joke line about garlic sandwiches and coffee after the report.
A team charged with cutting welfare spending will relocate next month into HEW offices remodeled at a cost of $120000. A HEW spokesman calls the upgrade a good investment to improve communication among SRS leaders handling $14 billion in welfare, Medicaid, rehab and community services. Remodeling began last August after SRS administrator James Scull Dwight Jr. took office, with commissioners spread across three HEW floors and a suburban Maryland office building.
Senator Lloyd Bentsen praised the Cost of Living Council for removing fertilizers from Phase IV controls to boost domestic supply. He urged President Nixon to act on the fertilizer shortage, noting exports and foreign demand had reduced available farm inputs and that free-market prices would help American production.
Country music greats gather in Nashville for the funeral of David Akeman known as Stringbean the banjo picker and Opry veteran shot dead at his Goodlettsville home His wife Estelle also died Police find a ripped shirt two bullet holes a missing rifle and shotgun. robbery suspected though $5700 found with the couple Stringbean appeared on Hee Haw since 1969 and will be honored in taped segments through 1974.
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