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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1970
Page
1
Lakeland Florida reports citrus growers exploring orange juice as a flexible product for diverse markets including possible medical and personal care uses. USDA estimates this season’s crop at 168 million boxes, beating 1966-67’s 145 million by 23 million as prices remained barely profitable at 75 cents per box.
Washington AP reported Democrats in the House began a wide open contest for a new floor leader after the retirement of Speaker John W. McCormack. Aspirants seek votes as Congress plans to return November 16 to tally new members and set the party’s internal power balance.
Officials say a fugitive can flee the United States with little trouble by seeking asylum abroad. If aligned politically, passage to a sympathetic country is nearly guaranteed as one official notes walking to the Cuban Embassy and requesting to go to Algeria. Eldridge Cleaver and Timothy Leary are among recent examples.
Dr. Paul B. Cornely, head of the American Public Health Association, said Nixon’s attitude toward health is deadly and that the president has not acted to improve health. He urged voluntary health groups to push politically to advance health interests.
The Associated Press reports fair and pleasant conditions across most of the United States. Rain or drizzle appeared along the Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina to New England, with thundershowers in central Oklahoma. Snow flurries dotted the mountains from the Pacific Northwest to the North Central Rockies as far south as Denver. Temperatures ranged from 18 in Kalispell Montana to 79 in Brownsville and Kingsville Texas.
Pablo Picasso turned 89 in seclusion at Mougins France with bouquets gifts and letters arriving at his villa. The artist who dislikes birthdays did not confirm his whereabouts and the residence status remained unannounced as calls went unanswered.
AP reports two Brooklyn patrolmen Arthur Davis 30 and Eugene Scarfidi 23 were shot while investigating a holdup. Both underwent surgery and remained in critical condition. The year has seen 40 officers shot on duty and four deaths, with 2100 attacks against New York police.
AP reports Timothy Leary, fugitive from a U.S. prison term on drug charges, is believed to be moving through the Middle East after leaving Algiers for Amman, Jordan. He is accompanied by his wife Rosemary and Jenifer Dohrn, sister of Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn, a FBI most wanted figure.
The Saigon offensive, led by two armored columns and backed by American artillery, involves about 6,000 South Vietnamese troops advancing into Snuol with light resistance. Command reports 2 Vietnamese killed and 1 wounded, as 17,500 troops operate across three highways. North Vietnamese casualties rise to 139 since the prior operation.
A family friend says a gunman killed Virginia Ohta in her home and waited to kill four more people including Dr. Victor M. Ohta’s secretary Dorothy Cadwallader and one of the Ohta sons. The friend notes Dr. Ohta and another son arrived, the doctor lunged at the killer, and was shot dead. Five people are tied to the case with John Linley Frazier charged on a five count warrant.
In Santiago a high mass funeral is planned for Gen Rene Schneider, the army commander killed in what authorities say was a rightist assassination. A state of emergency and curfew were in place as police hunted suspects and Allende prepared to take office on November 3.
Two U.S. consuls fly to Soviet Armenia to interview Maj. Gen. Edward C. D. Scherrer and Brig. Gen. Claude M. McQuarrie Jr., held since their plane crossed into Soviet territory near Leninakan. Soviet authorities cite air space violation. U.S. insists accidental. Prolonged detention under consular rules unclear.
Fire damaged the Bank of America campus branch at University of California Irvine. Authorities said messages including Death to the Pigs were sprayed on exterior walls with black paint. In Washington, President Nixon rejected a commission's recommendations to ease pornography restrictions.
West of the Pecos area remains fair through Tuesday with cooler nights. Tonight’s low is 40 to 52 degrees, Tuesday's high 65 to 78 degrees.
Gen. Aharon Yariv said Egypt and the Soviet Union have built 500 to 600 missile launchers in the 30 mile Suez standstill zone near the canal. He noted about 3,000 Soviet personnel in the area and suggested US armor and artillery sales may offset Egypt's missile advantage.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad prepared to open a UN General Assembly session as Cairo asks the world body to join its effort to remove Israel from territory seized in the 1967 war with Egypt Jordan and Syria.
Detroit witnesses describe a tense scene as 15 Black youths face murder charges in the shooting death of Patrolman Glenn E. Smith near the National Committee to Combat Fascism headquarters. Police report two more suspects linked to car arsons.
MIT professor Paul A. Samuelson won the 1970 Nobel Prize in economics for advancing static and dynamic economic theory and expanding central economic theory. The 55 year old from Gary Indiana joined an elite group recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his extensive work and the textbook Foundations of Economic Analysis.
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