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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1973
Page
2
Detroit reports auto manufacturers grappling with material scarcities tied to energy turmoil. GM Ford and Chrysler cite shortages of wiring harnesses and interior plastics from polyvinyl chloride, with implications for dashboards armrests and wiring as plants race to source vinyl.
Park superintendent Donald Davtian announced Telesonics Systems of Fairfield will install an electronic interpretive system inside Carlsbad Cavern. A test phase begins in January with full installation to follow, delivering automated narrated messages via central console and buried cabling along the three mile trail. More than 40 messages will launch in English with Spanish and a Children’s version to come. The bid was awarded by park staff with National Park Service and Harper Ferry input. the firm already has a similar system at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Reeves and Ward county drilling notes report finaled wells and new extensions across multiple fields. Union Texas Petroleum Corp No 136 northwest of Pyote shows high gas production, while other operators such as Gulf Oil and Hilliard Oil & Gas pursue completions, reentries, or abandonments in the Shipley, Monahans, and Kermit regions with various perforation depths and yields including 4.6 million cubic feet daily.
The New York Stock Exchange sees a thin session with the Dow off 2.03 to 852.95 at noon while advances lead declines 6 to 5 among 1,538 issues. The American Exchange up .65 to 96.45. British Petroleum and Gulf Oil fall, McDonald’s slides, Howard Johnson drops, and American Telephone rises on dividend news as MGM declares a $1.75 cash dividend.
Washington AP report says USDA researchers are testing logs made from ground peanut hulls mixed with waxes and salt to produce colored blue green flames with red flares. If feasible, these logs could supplement fireplaces at half the cost of existing artificial logs.
Pecos, Texas based newspaper Pecos Enterprise notes second class postage is paid at Pecos Texas and provides standard circulation details for readers and advertisers.
A 14 year old Pecos resident Albert Contreras was wounded in the right hip when his brother Ruben cleaned a .22 rifle and it discharged injuring the youth. He received ER care at Memorial Hospital and was released after a brief stay. An Orla man, Robert F Caldwell, was shot in the heel with a .22 pistol he thought was unloaded and was treated and released at Memorial Hospital.
The menu lists Monday no school. Tuesday offers chili mae with cheese sauce buttered corn mixed greens chilled peaches ranch style bread butter and milk. Wednesday features a chicken fried patty with gravy mashed potatoes baked tomato casserole apple cobbler hot rolls butter and milk. The charburger meal includes fries haystacks salad chocolate cake with milk and tuna croquettes pinto beans potato salad corn bread and butter with milk.
President Luis Echeverria urged calm amid escalating Mexico violence including the temporary detention of National Polytechnic Institute director Manuel Zorrilla Carcano by about 150 students seeking 2,000 scholarships. Across states, a guerrilla ambush killed four troopers in Guerrero and a kidnapping occurred in Sinaloa. An electronics firm in Guadalajara was looted of 40,000 dollars and university leaders at Guerrero faced rector removal demands.
MILPITAS California AP Henry Carter 38 runs an artificial insemination service for rabbits charging $1 per rabbit to impregnate up to 50 an hour. He serves professional breeders supplying laboratories with rabbits, mostly when clients have at least 30 rabbits. Carter works part time for a birth control pill firm.
Pecos officers joined a statewide search for a camouflaged U S Army jeep reported stolen from the Army recruiting office Thursday night. Gary Biller and Oscar Gonzales said the vehicle had been parked in front of the recruiting office Thursday morning after someone used a chain to lock the steering wheel. Van Horn deputies found the jeep abandoned on a back road at daybreak, the vehicle operable but left there after the theft and fuel shortage.
AP reports Chicago market prices for wheat and corn with No 2 size categories and futures notes. Prices listed include No 2 soft red wheat at 0.60n, No 2 yellow corn at 2.77n, and No 1 yellow soybeans around 6.20n, with Wednesday corn at 2.77 78n.
The Colorado River has shaped the Grand Canyon over 600 million years, cutting 4,000-foot cliffs as water erodes rock at about an inch every century, revealing the slow, monumental geologic process.
Evening Lions meet 7 30 p m at American Motor Inn. Amistad Lions 7 30 p m at Lions Den 102 S Pecan. TOPS Club 6 30 p m at drivers license bureau. BPW 7 30 p m at Federation Parlor. Amistad Lions bingo 8 p m. Evening Optimist 8 p m at Saragosa Hall Sixth and Peach. Downtown Lions noon at Holiday Inn. Rotary Club noon at Holiday Inn.
A Cypriot freighter named Annette broke up and sank in Ashdod harbor after hitting a breakwater during a Mediterranean storm. Twenty one crew members were missing with only three survivors reported. Winds reached 50 knots as rescue efforts continued and seven bodies were recovered.
Tovah and his wife narrowly avoided injury when a car and a North American Van Lines truck collided about 12:30 near Pecos on SH 20. Joe Talamantez tried to pass as Dwayne Corcoran of Dallas drove the truck, causing a rollover that blocked the north service road. Firemen were summoned. a tire was blown but extinguished.
Cotton futures No 2 climbed in early trading in New York led by nearby months. Some deliveries reached the 10 dollar per bale limit as commission-house buying supported the market. Middling 11-16 inch spot cotton averaged 68.10 cents per pound. Dec 73.50, Mar 70.65, May 69.50.
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