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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1972
Page
2
A 250 billion dollar spending cap and a trimmed foreign aid bill threaten to stall lawmakers as they near adjournment. Senators press to restrict presidential spending power, opposing the House-Senate compromise and likely delay the House vote.
Balmorhea City Council with Mayor Jane Moore approved a 5 percent rise in natural gas rates for the Balmorhea system. The meeting also covered council history, town improvements since incorporation in 1957, and ongoing city projects including housing, cemetery support, and the charity fund.
Military spokesmen report Communist forces capture six government hamlets in the central highlands and retake one by dusk. The wave of attacks, ordered as political mobilization under Resolution X10, aims to plant the Viet Cong flag in villages. Montagnard and Vietnamese residents lived there, with militia withdrawal under pressure and civilians fleeing where possible.
Services for Mrs. Ted Gardner, 66, of Kent were set for 4 p m today at Pico s Funeral Home Chapel with interment in Evergreen Cemetery. She died at 6 a m Tuesday in an Odessa hospital after living in the area 38 years. A Baptist, she was born September 26 1906 in Dunn. Survivors include widower Ted, one daughter Mrs. Chuck Carruth Andrews, two grandchildren five sisters and two brothers.
An independent Pecos Enterprise notices address and mailing details for its publication. It specifies Pecos Texas 79772 with office at 324 S Car St and P O Box 1131. It notes subscription payments by mail options and frequency, including six month and annual terms.
A compact local record lists fire calls on Oct. 16 at 8:05 a.m. 217 E Sixth St and Oct. 17 at 2:18 a.m. North Hwy 285. Ambulance calls include Ha g ar’s Supermarket fainting patient and Lillie Mae Bailey shallow knife wounds. Accidents feature a Cedar Street collision with two injured and a hit and run on W Second Street. Hospital notes cover admissions dismissals births and a shark attack noted from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
President Nixon will sign the revenue sharing bill at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Friday. Invitations have been sent to 50 governors, members of Congress, about 100 mayors, and state and county officials for a 12:30 p.m. ceremony. The initial six months’ checks will be mailed October 27.
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