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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1977
Page
3
President Carter steps up effort to win Senate approval for the Panama Canal treaty. He meets with a new blue ribbon panel of business and labor leaders and former officers who back the treaty, led by Averill Harriman, in a move developed with limited White House involvement.
Four demonstrators disrupted President Carter's church services denouncing the neutron bomb and were ejected by ushers. Three men and two women freed on personal recognizance. a sixth participant read but was not arrested. Carter said he agrees with the objective to eliminate nuclear weapons but opposing disruption of services. He noted the neutron bomb aims to kill people while preserving buildings and discussed potential deployment as a deterrent against a Warsaw Pact invasion.
A low pressure system in southern New England spreads rain and thunderstorms from Virginia to Maine while bringing rain and snow from New York State to the lower Great Lakes and upper Ohio valley. Gale warnings along the southern New England coast. Frost and freeze warnings issued for Tennessee and the South Carolina mountains and midlands. Early temperatures span 20 in Pelston Michigan to 78 in Phoenix.
The USDA notes deer farming in New Zealand is a small but rapidly expanding business. Venison imports to the United States rose from 71,000 pounds in 1975 to 242,000 pounds in 1976 with prices up. Most foreign venison comes from New Zealand, though some arrives from Bangladesh and other sources.
Morgan Sibbett publicly acknowledged he allowed his 39 year friend Wallace Proctor to use his Swarthmore home for a death by own action by drug overdose. Proctor, 75, a dermatologist from Idaho, suffered advancing Parkinsons disease and wrote relatives that increasing medicine doses were needed. Sibbett recalls quiet days together and says no charges will be filed. death by own action is a crime only if another assists.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan national director David Duke said Klan members will patrol the U S Mexican border from Brownsville to the Pacific to curb illegal aliens. Duke faced eggs thrown by demonstrators at the San Ysidro Port of Entry as about a dozen white power clad supporters surrounded his car. One demonstrator was arrested after a rock damaged a Klan car window. The protest drew groups including Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Committee Against Racism.
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