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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1976
Page
3
Coast Guard reports a Norwegian tanker rammed the commuter ferry George Prince causing a capsize with about 100 dead and 18 survivors. Divers recover 64 bodies. pilot says the ferry had time to avoid collision but did not.
Carter and Ford race through key states ahead of the 1980 election. Ford toured the West Coast and returned east while Carter moved from Plains Georgia into South Carolina and Illinois. Mondale and Dole also campaigned. a Harris poll shows a shift toward Ford among college educated voters amid debate season.
In Portland Ford praised nuclear energy as a key part of national energy policy and predicted momentum for his campaign. He noted a scheduled meeting with Oregon labor leaders failed to materialize and urged them to be available for future talks.
Bruce Collins, navigator for a 42-foot ketch Spirit, survived 28 days adrift after a Sept. 27 storm sank the vessel about 900 miles west of San Francisco. He shared a life raft with Camilla Arthur and Jim Ahola before their group split from a separate raft carrying Darel Miller and Nancy Perry, who were rescued 24 days later. Collins, malnourished and dehydrated, was found by a Coast Guard search plane and is expected to arrive aboard a cutter. his two companions perished at sea.
Clarence Norris, 64, the surviving Scottsboro Boy pardoned after 45 years, vows to keep fighting for justice and plans to visit Alabama despite past fugitive status. He spoke at NAACP headquarters after receiving a full pardon, acknowledging innocence of the 1931 rape charges and praising the state for the act.
Five gunmen, three men and two women, were jailed on charges of attempting to kill a police officer after a wild shootout near Fort Worth. The incident left Orvall Hall’s wife Jean wounded and hostages unharmed. Police connected the suspects to rural church robberies across Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri. The Ming Dynasty line appears as unrelated text.
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