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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1972
Page
1
In 1912 Reeves County Pecos residents debated a bandstand plan with Carl Beck asking for 163 dollars and a courthouse site permit. The board granted permission but no funding. The notes recount J A Crane becoming county attorney and later district judge, courthouse sanitation fixes, and the 1912 election bringing names like John Y Leavell Willie de Woods and others to county offices.
Willie de Woods won county and district clerk in the November 5 1912 general election becoming Reeves County’s first elective officeholder and likely Texas’s first. John Y Leavell longtime county judge died January 19 1913 and H N McKellar was appointed January 13 to fill his term. On March 10 1913 W D Cowan gained permission to build a Pecos to Toyah telephone line.
The piece warns 1410 Americans died on highways in ten months of 1972 and urges buckling up as a simple act of love and self preservation. It cites the safety council estimates of high fatalities during holidays and stresses staying belted to save lives and avoid family grief.
Apollo 17 launches December 6 with astronauts Eugene Cernan Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans. The mission carries six surface and three orbital experiments to seek water ice and map subsurface structures while testing tidal gravity waves tied to early universe events.
A hotel dining room mirror injures a diner and a court uses res ipsa loquitur to find negligence. Other rulings show negligence from a car on a slope and a spinach can injury, while a trolley incident fails due to equal odds. Public service feature by Will Bernard for ABA and Texas Bar.
Pollster Louis Harris finds 48 percent of Americans rate banks as highly concerned about community life, more than the 32 percent for all business. Banks are urged to translate solid business success into active local leadership, with criticisms on minority help and pollution addressed as a decade‑long challenge.
U S Geological Survey estimates about 400 billion tons of sand lie in the upper ten feet of the Atlantic margin off the northeastern United States. The deposits could meet U S and Canadian needs for several thousand years, ensuring a long term resource.
Readers are invited to submit signed letters up to 500 words. The letters must address general interest topics and avoid poor taste. The newspaper will withhold the writer's signature and address upon request.
HAL Boyle lists curious facts from mailbag lore including how diamond and tung sten-carbon tools cut bronze, burning rocks used by western frontiersmen, large animals safe from predators except man, and a Virginia doctor disputing pre columbian tuberculosis evidence in a Peruvian child.
President Nixon confronts a sprawling federal bureaucracy and a large White House operation at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Critics warn that policy control is eroding as coordination falters and foreign economic policy suffers from fragmentation across State, Treasury, Agriculture and Commerce.
On this date in history events include Edison announcing the phonograph in 1877 and North Carolina’s ratification of the Constitution in 1789. Notable items cover Napoleon’s Berlin decrees, Port Arthur capture, and China’s cease-fire with India, among others. Birthdays include Vivian Blaine and Stan Musial.
The World Almanac recalls Louis Braille who became blind after an early accident and as a Paris teacher simplified Charles Barbier's dot system by using six raised dots to encode writing. The 1971 note credits Braille with developing the tactile reading method.
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