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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1979
Page
10
An Omni magazine futures survey of 20 000 readers released last March shows broad forecasts from space travel to political events but fails to foresee gasoline prices staying under a dollar a gallon into 1982. The piece urges staying with weather forecasts over grand prophecies.
West German producer Horst P. faced a fine for dissemination of propaganda for an illegal organization after his film Nazi Games featured a swastika decorated panty worn by a star. The court did not align with U S Supreme Court attitudes, rendering the case closed.
AP analysis notes a 30 billion dollar federal deficit this year while debt exceeds 813 billion. It highlights giant loans to Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel, inflation concerns, Buy American rhetoric, windfall profits for oil, and stock market uncertainty as the era’s economic confusion deepens. Thomas Edison quote closes the piece.
On this date in 1609 Henry Hudson found Manhattan. Other entries include Maine’s first liquor law in 1677, Washington’s 1777 defeat at Brandywine, Champlain victory in 1814, Churchill warning in 1940, Khrushchev’s 1971 death, Allende's 1973 ouster, Kosygin’s 1969 visit to Peking, a 1970s Eastern DC-9 crash, and Somoza’s 1980s gun battles in Nicaragua with casualty figures.
Federal grand jurors pressed to summon President Carter over the Vesco payoffs. The probe traces payments via Spencer Lee to Jordan and Harden, plus a Nassau dummy firm and $12 million in stock moved to Georgia influence peddlers. Carter aides dispute, while letters and memos surface amid resignations and duplicity charges.
Pierre Hollebeke moved from Knowles to a Delaware River ranch in Culberson County by 1921, trading 16 Midland county sections for 70 along the river. He died after a stroke during a 1928 snowstorm while checking cattle near his Delaware ranch, buried Pecos Fairview Cemetery. Ed Hollebeke, born 1879 in Belgium, became a famed wolf hunter friend Wolfie Bill, later selling his state line ranch in 1910 before further adventures and family lore.
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