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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1972
Page
3
At Moscow’s Bird Market on a sunny Sunday buyers mill about stalls selling puppies, birds, and small animals. A woman touts a fuzzy terrier puppy for 13 to 15 rubles while noting its qualities as she shows the last of a litter.
Three men who hijacked a Southern Airways plane to Cuba will be tried in Havana on various charges including extortion. U S officials say the hijackers violated Cuban law by threatening to blow up the plane during its 29 hour odyssey and two Havana visits with 30 passengers aboard.
Government figures show consumer prices rose three tenths of a percent in October lifting inflation to 3.7 percent over six months. Clothing led the gain with other increases in used cars health insurance and property taxes. Food costs were mixed with fruit and meat prices easing. Average weekly earnings fell but real earnings remained up 3.9 percent from a year earlier.
Photos from this year’s Grand Nationals in Monroe Michigan show Scott Slonaker of York Haven Pennsylvania defending his title as winner with 17 year old Scott receiving champagne from his father. Nearby, 18 year old Danny Stevens of Pontiac Michigan stands as the runner up and a bird is released for luck.
The U S Command reports two more American Phantom jets down in the Vietnam air war near North Vietnam and Udorn Thailand. One Navy F4 from the carrier Saratoga was hit by a surface to air missile with two crew rescued, while another F4 crashed east of Udorn with both crew killed. Ground fighting and shelling intensify as cease fire talks continue in Paris.
San Francisco officials report a 218 week old mountain lion cub born at the Sacramento Zoo will be trained to hunt and released in California. A radio transmitter will track the animal named Sioux as its progress informs wildlife biologists about adapting captive stars to the wild. The project tests release of captive mountain lions amid a dwindling wild population and may lead to further releases if successful.
Houston AP A federal grand jury indicted Govie Er nest Waller former president of the Angleton Bank of Commerce on charges he misapplied 347000 of bank funds in 1930 The indictment alleges he made loans totaling that amount through another man Waller gained controlling interest in the Angleton Bank of Commerce in 1961 after selling his stake in the First State Bank of Aransas Pass He had previously been with the First National Bank in Houston.
Al Kulan, who helped discover a 63 million ton lead zinc ore body near Faro, Yukon, owns a Rolls Royce and a crystal chandelier house in Ross River. He says money brings new problems and remains active prospecting with his sons, preferring challenge over a South Seas retirement.
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