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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1973
Page
3
UFO reports sweep through Mississippi Tennessee South Carolina and neighboring states with witnesses describing blue crafts cigar shapes and turnips. Experts remain divided while police note misidentified reflections and weather balloons and Tass cites unexplained signals from upper atmospheres.
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, ousted as Thailand's premier by a student revolt, sails with his family to Boston to take up residence in an apartment. Other regime exiles, Praphas Charusathien and Narong Kittikachorn, move to Taiwan with their families.
AP reports the House is poised to approve a mandatory fuel allocation law expanding beyond Nixon era controls. The bill would require allocation of crude oil and all refined products including home heating oil and gasoline.
The Nixon administration, wary of abrupt repeal, weighs gradual withdrawal from wage price controls. Officials fear immediate removal would spark price hikes and demand new controls, while economists note controls barely curb inflation. Burns backs gradual roll back and a review board to curb monopolies and delays.
Senate Rules Committee asks the Internal Revenue Service to audit Gerald R Ford tax returns for five years and to make seven years available. The move aims to examine his record ahead of Ford's nomination as Spiro Agnew successor. The committee also seeks campaign finance reports and medical records with FBI field investigations planned. Hearings could begin Oct 30 or 31 and run two to five days.
Atlanta elected its first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, in a runoff defeating Sam Massell. Jackson led overwhelmingly in black precincts, while white precincts vote split with Wyche Fowler winning the council presidency race against Hosea Williams. Jackson, 35, becomes one of the city’s youngest leaders as a new city charter ends the vice mayor post.
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