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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1976
Page
3
Sheriff Tom Welch said officers killed Waymond Liner, 35, after a 20 minute siege at his rural home when he fired a pistol at his father during a welfare seizure. Tear gas forced surrender but ended in fatality.
J Fike Godfrey West Texas Chamber of Commerce executive vice president named four f s fat frills fraud and fairy tales as pitfalls in state government at a conference at Angelo State University. Texas House Speaker Bill Clayton spoke on limiting government and boosting free enterprise amid calls to solve water and energy issues by 2026. Joint sponsors included the San Angelo Standard Times and the West Texas Chamber of Commerce.
In Des Moines a new nonprofit shop promotes books that challenge gender norms. Volunteers led by Judy Brunk run the store with a 12 person board. Proceeds fund the store or feminist groups.
Texas Republican Chairman Ray Hutchison said a president should not have Lawrence Klein as chief economic adviser due to Klein's prior Communist Party membership. Klein, now at Penn, noted past affiliation but said he remains with Penn and has consulted for Ford on an economic forecasting model at Wharton.
President Ford says his leadership is a pretty good batting average compared with Jimmy Carter despite distractions from the Earl Butz affair and policy confusions. Ford tours New York and New Jersey as Carter rests in Plains, Georgia before a New York trip. Gallup poll data show near parity but results are incomplete and contested by Ford and the Post. Ford defends his record amid criticism over the Butz remark and stance on Eastern Europe and the Arab boycott, contrasting leadership with Carter and quarreling over Kelley’s handling of FBI gifts and visits.
London AP reports Chinese troops rounded up numerous radicals at Peking University, signaling a widening purge that began with the arrest of Mao Tse-tung’s widow. The London Daily cited the development as part of ongoing political crackdown in the capital.
Ford workers at several plants dusted machinery and prepared to restart as the United Auto Workers narrowly ratified a three year national contract ending a four week strike. Local agreements still pending at 29 of 99 bargaining locals may delay full production across 102 facilities in 22 states.
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