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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1976
Page
3
The Associated Press reports an estimated 2.6 million federal civilian and military employees will receive an average 4.83 percent pay raise starting Friday, totaling about 2.5 billion dollars. Ford approved the hike despite labor opposition and declines to boost beyond the suggested amount.
Congress mulls overriding a presidential veto and extending a federal revenue sharing program as it edges toward adjournment. Ford conditions signings on action on the revenue-sharing bill, while House consideration focuses on a $56.6 billion HEW and Labor appropriation and two public works and public service job measures. The outcome hinges on whether Congress acts before its weekend deadline.
In Del Rio Texas AP. Billy Jack Blackwell a 19 year old lookout in a bold Piedras Negras jail break testified he thought he worked for the U S government during the March 11 raid that freed 14 American prisoners He said Hill recruited him promising pay and that he would be walking a bridge to report police numbers as a war like mission for the government He was paid 500 for relaying messages to leaders Fielden Donald Fielden the jailbreak mastermind pleaded guilty earlier and could face up to five years in prison Hill and Davis face related charges in the same federal case
The Social Security Administration raised the standard Medicare beneficiary cost share by 19 percent effective January 1 1977. Patients pay the first 124 of the initial bill covering up to two months, rising from 104, with higher daily and longer stay charges for 61st to 90th day and post hospital skilled nursing care. Total Medicare hospital insurance costs are forecast to rise from 13.6 to 16.1 billion dollars with 24.7 million eligible this year and 25.3 million next year.
A Texas water commission voted to back a sunset law or constitutional amendment to curb agency lifespans, proposing scrutiny of 36 regulatory bodies and 96 advisory committees. Plans include a twoagency structure under a single super-agency with independent water rights adjudication by three governor-appointed commissioners.
Dr. William Hazzard of the University of Washington told an American Heart Association symposium that women show remarkable resistance to coronary disease despite work pressures and outlive men, challenging theories about estrogen. He noted male sex is a major risk factor in Western societies.
William and Emily Harris, longtime associates of Patricia Hearst, are indicted in Alameda County on 13 counts for the February 4 1974 abduction of Hearst from her Berkeley apartment. The charges include kidnapping for ransom with bodily harm and seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Bail set at 300000 each. arraignment Friday in Alameda Superior Court.
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