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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1976
Page
3
Thousands of blacks streamed back to work in Johannesburg after a three day general strike while in Cape Town a similar boycott expanded. Police in Cape Town area stepped up patrols to prevent intimidation in segregated townships amid the unrest.
In Friuli Italy thousands flee quake wreckage as aftershocks continue after the May 6 6.9 quake that killed nearly 1000 and left 70000 homeless. Army trucks aid evacuees heading to coast hotels and mountain towns amid rain and mud. Seismologists note unprecedented aftershocks, with officials lamenting loss of buildings and art treasures.
A special assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson, Douglass Cater, told a LBJ Library symposium that educational equality must be a seamless web spanning prenatal to mature life, involving family, school, and environment. He warned of dilemmas in federal role while courts challenge funding. Federal education spending rose sevenfold in the 1960s, from 5.1 to 7.5 percent of GDP, with future needs demanding renewed commitment.
Washington AP Nine times Daniel Schorr refused to identify his source for a House intelligence report during sworn testimony as Ethics Committee members weighed contempt. An informal poll suggested a majority opposed citing him, effectively ending the committee's five month, $150000 bid to locate the source.
Secretary of State Kissinger arrives in Lusaka to a strong Zambian pledge of intensified armed struggle until black rule is achieved in Rhodesia and Namibia and apartheid is erased. Kissinger leaves Tanzania hopeful for progress amid regional resistance and regional leaders coordinating policy.
Atlanta AP reports a national campaign Roll Up Your Sleeve to promote swine flu vaccination. Vaccine supply will lag demand as adults only receive shots initially, with 20 million doses by Oct 1, 97 million by December, and 130 million by January. CDC polling shows 93% aware, 53% willing, 13% refusing, 34% undecided.
A government study by Research Triangle Institute recommends eliminating the one cent piece by 1980 due to production costs and low spending. It also suggests replacing half dollars with a smaller one-dollar coin. The change could affect language references to pennies and even Abe Lincoln on coinage.
In Dallas the first of six nationwide USDA hearings on a 30 to 40 million beef industry promotion program ended with unanimous backing from about 24 cattlemen. The plan would fund marketing via a up to 0.5 percent assessment on slaughtered cattle, with refunds for nonparticipants, and awaits final approval from Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. Roy Lilley of Boerne, executive secretary of the International Brangus Breeders Association, praised the move as long overdue.
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