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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1973
Page
3
The Nixon administration invites key lawmakers to draft next year’s federal budget. Budget Director Roy L. Ash reports meetings with Senate leaders were quickly accepted, signaling early budget shaping in the administration’s plan. The move comes as lawmakers prepare to scrutinize spending priorities.
The trial of former Cabinet officers John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans is postponed by a federal judge for about three weeks to two months due to ongoing federal investigations linked to the 1972 presidential campaign. The report notes applied delays and context in the national political turmoil.
Nearly 600 financial experts from 166 countries gather in Tokyo for a three day session to set rules for wider negotiations over the next two years aimed at lowering tariffs and trade barriers. France and the European Market warn of delays if monetary instability persists. In Cairo Israel’s Arab neighbors draw closer after Jordan dispute. Sadat and Assad meet Hussein and discuss resuming relations and a potential joint military command.
House-to-house fighting is reported continuing in Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city, while the Cambodian army says its forces have gained on the town's northern and southern edges, about 47 miles northeast of Phnom Penh.
Premier Souvanna Phouma announced that all political factions agreed to a proposed political peace agreement for Laos. It plans a coalition government including right-wingers neutralists and the Pathet Lao and recognizes the country’s division between the Pathet Lao and anti Communist armies.
Twelve U S F11 bombers and ten KC135 tankers departed bases in Thailand for the United States marking the first phase of a Southeast Asia aircraft withdrawal. About 110 planes have been pulled out and more than 3,500 troops will depart in about two weeks, leaving over 300 American aircraft and just under 40,000 personnel.
In Carltonville South Africa police opened fire on rioting black miners near a gold mine 40 miles southwest of Johannesburg killing 11 and wounding nine. Police say they fired in self defense after miners attacked with stones and axes injuring a sergeant. one more miner died in the clashes.
Salvador Allende, after 18 years in politics and a vow to be carried out in a pine box, is ousted as a military coup in Santiago ends his six year term. Police report says he died by his own hand. The coup halts nearly five decades of democratic rule in Chile and removes the hemisphere's only freely elected Marxist president. Allende, a Socialist, led Popular Unity a coalition of six leftist groups and had just won in a runoff against Jorge Alessandri.
Washington AP notes farmers harvest record wheat and corn but shoppers may wait for relief as foreign buyers push grain prices higher for livestock feed. USDA estimates corn at a record 5.77 billion bushels. 0.8 billion needed for domestic and foreign demand, shrinking reserves.
Mimi Ornes a 27 year old automotive designer at the Ford Design Center shows she can navigate a male dominated field. She speaks on car interiors for the International Motor Press but reveals little about the Mustang project. She notes gate access limits and seniority blocking new ideas yet highlights progress in luxury features and small car trends influenced by European design.
An old-timer recalls a past beef shortage on the counter side of customers. The piece notes people who held hands at a poker party and comments that college students write for money when away from home. It ends with a memo to surgeons stating no operation is trivial to the patient.
Three senior women in technology say they would reach higher levels if they were men. Esther Williams of Lockheed Missiles in Sunnyvale Cynthia Pruett of IBM in San Jose and Sandra Hawley of ESL in Sunnyvale discuss barriers to top management and the scarcity of women in the field.
Coastal States Gas Corp and its subsidiaries agreed to a consent decree settling an SEC civil complaint over failure to disclose facts about gas delivery capacity from La-Vaca Gathering Co. The order, issued by Judge Carl O. Bue, calls for possible board and executive committee restructuring. The firm serves about 400 customers in 81 Texas counties, including San Antonio and Austin.
Speaker Price Daniel Jr. aims to open parts of three file drawers containing secret materials from a 1968 House investigation of the juke box industry. A news conference and tape review are planned with documents kept under lock by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Rep. Arthur Temple Jr. will screen materials for Open Records Law exclusions ahead of a broader probe.
Federal authorities were to begin an investigation after a plant crash Monday in rugged mountains near Van Horn Texas. Bodies recovered Tuesday were identified as J. A. Armstrong of Milton Florida and Jessie Lott of Gretna Louisiana. The single engine plane was en route from Tucson Arizona to Florida.
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