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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1973
Page
3
Government forces began a sweep to drive about 400 Khmer Rouge insurgents from a triangular area southwest of Phnom Penh. In South Vietnam sappers destroyed two trains on the central coast, killing a child and wounding five adults.
Rome's Anna Magnani dies at 65 from cancer. The Italian star won the 1955 Academy Award for The Rose Tattoo and helped make Rome Open City a landmark in postwar cinema. In a separate note, Cathleen Douglas passes the Washington bar exam, while her husband, Justice William O. Douglas, cannot practice there.
In Minneapolis, the FBI announced a federal fugitive warrant for Dennis Banks, head of the American Indian Movement. Special Agent in Charge Joseph Trimbach said the warrant was issued at Rapid City, South Dakota, with Banks believed to have fled from state charges tied to a February 6 disturbance at the Custer courthouse in South Dakota.
Washington AP report says Agriculture Department cafeteria workers resumed serving hamburgers after a month without them. Supplies had dried up in August causing suspensions amid rising prices.
Adolf Hitler’s black armored 1941 Mercedes is set for auction on October 8 among as many as 100 antique and historical cars. The vehicle previously sold for 153000 dollars to Earl Clark and has been on display at a Lancaster tourist complex this summer.
Skylab 2 astronauts Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma return to Earth after a 59 day mission and head to Texas for reunions with their wives aboard the recovery carrier USS New Orleans. A flight surgeon reports their readjustment to gravity is rapid two days after splashdown.
Don Hamilton son of Mr and Mrs W E Hamilton of 2412 Country Club Dr will attend The Third World Congress of Underwater Activities in London England Oct 5 14 He serves as conservator of the Antiquities Conservation Facility at the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory UT Austin and will deliver a paper titled Electrolytic Cleaning of Metal Artifacts Recovered from the Sea The lab catalogs photographs X rays and conserves artifacts from Gulf shipwrecks near Padre Island Port Mansfield
Washington AP reports Navy Secretary John R. Warner dropped charges of misconduct and mutiny pending against two former POWs after a three month personal investigation. The decision avoids courts martial but calls for a public censure for their actions during years in North Vietnamese prison camps, a Pentagon source said Wednesday.
In Ansbach and other West German towns, wives of American service members say reduced GI pay due to dollar devaluation forces them into local factories. One wife notes she chose work over returning to the United States to support the family.
A University of Texas study reports Austin visitors spent 41 million dollars in 1972 with an average daily expenditure of 21.51 dollars. About 1,163,678 people stayed at least one night, 80 percent in hotels or motels, and Texas residents made up 80 percent of visitors. Among out of state visitors, Californians, Oklahomans, Louisianans, Illinoisans, Missourians, and New Yorkers led. Mexican overnight visitors were notably scarce.
Tass reports Lt. Col. Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov launched to Earth orbit in Soyuz 12, a two day test flight. The crew are described as well, with improved systems and ongoing testing of manual and automatic control. Lazarev, 45, is a test pilot and doctor. Makarov, 46, joined the program in 1966.
Lone Star Producing Co., Midland, plans a 21 560 foot Ellenburger wildcat No. 1 Pat Hos in northwest Winkler five miles southeast of the Ebe Lenburger well in the Critendon multipay gas field. Location 829 feet from south and 467 feet from east lines of section 6, block 74, PSL survey, 12 miles northwest of Kermit. Ellenburger production in the field is at 21 450 feet and five Pennsylvanian gas wells exist.
President Nixon urged Congress to reform the patent system with the Patent Modernization and Reform Act of 1973. He outlined four goals including public confidence, faster disclosure, streamlined procedures, and extended protection from 17 to 20 years. The bill would expand who can obtain patents and allow six months for public comment on published applications.
Two guided bus tours at LBJ Ranch near Stonewall Texas are free through the week. The Texas White House tour runs 9 am to 3 pm Tuesday through Saturday with a tape featuring Mrs Johnson. The Ranch Lands Tour begins after 3 pm and operates Tuesday through Saturday, plus all day Sunday and Monday, looping through fields and pastures.
The El Paso Radiation Center Foundation and the El Paso Cancer Radiation Treatment Center relocate to Plaza Building Room 167, Medical Center, 15061 Arizona Avenue, El Paso 77902. Main phone 915-544-6750. Send communications to Ralph S. Clayton, M.D., president, at the new address. Tours of LBJ sites follow from LBJ State Park with hourly stops and depart at 15 minute intervals.
Agriculture Commissioner John White will address the annual meeting of the Rio Grande Electric Cooperative in Bracketville at TE a.m. Saturday. The cooperative spans 20 Texas counties and two New Mexico counties, with over 4,000 members. Manager Jack Murrah will introduce White who will discuss agriculture’s role in the region and economy.
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