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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1970
Page
2
A playful column describes how a favorite deeply tanned individual avoids sunburn by staying indoors in a cool pub. It notes odd habits like applying shantan lotion internally and jokes about a child taking a comb to walk the dog.
Firefighters and cooler weather tightened lines around brush and timber as California’s largest fires calmed. The Malibu Chatsworth Simi blaze perimeter was closed at 147 miles, a 200000 acre San Diego area fire largely contained, with 10 dead and about 175 million dollars in damage.
News notes record wildfires across Southern California with an 18 000 acre Sequoia blaze near Bakersfield and a 32 500 acre brush fire nearby. A 12 000 acre Cuyamaca Park fire and an 8 600 acre San Bernardino blaze continued as winds and humidity shaped the crisis. A 21 year old man was booked for investigation of setting off fire crackers in a fire hazard area amid arson suspicions.
Gen Creighton W. Abrams commander of U S forces in Vietnam was hospitalized tonight for the third time this year after collapsing in the arms of an aide. He has a virus infection and mild lung inflammation and rests at the 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon.
The article notes that Carlsbad Caverns remains at a steady 56 degrees. It describes the chill felt by visitors arriving late to their assigned galleys and the cave environment.
Anwar Sadat and Gen Mohammed Fawzi welcomed arriving VIPs as news spread of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s death. Sadat presided over a Cabinet emergency meeting as Egypt faced a provisional presidency under the constitution. Ben Gurion praised Nasser as a capable Arab leader.
The last six American hostages held by Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan since Sept 6 left Amman for New York via Nicosia Cyprus. They were quartered in a school basement near Irbid and treated well. The six, all in good health, were handed to the Red Cross and will join 32 others freed earlier. John Hollingsworth said conditions were very satisfactory.
The report finds no strong link between adult pornography and organized crime or crime rates. It notes adults seek explicit material for entertainment and marriage dialogue, supports age-restricted laws for graphic images, and urges parental control while advocating broad sex education for adults and children.
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