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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1973
Page
1
Stonewall hosts its annual Peach Jamboree attracting visitors from near and far. Highlights include the Smokey Davis Rodeo Company, Peach Parade, Peach Auction, and Peach Bowl with barbecue aromas wafting from school grounds. Guests from the LBJ Ranch share tales of the town’s famed peaches. The festival honors peaches and peach enthusiasts alike.
A distorted notice discusses energy rationing lines and a caller seeking abortion guidance amid Texas law history. It explains the 1973 Supreme Court decision striking down Texas abortion statutes, upholding medical judgment in the first trimester and allowing state regulation within limits. The piece notes welfare, single parenthood, and a call for physician guidance.
Texas Rail Road Commission hearings reveal La-Vaca and other utilities expect peak day gas use to reach 2.5 billion cubic feet, with 1.9 billion for average demand and only 1.136 billion available. Officials urge prioritizing human needs and converting electric plants to gas where possible to stabilize supplies.
City officials ordered an emergency plan for electricity rationing as CPS warns fuel shortages could be catastrophic. A public hearing was set for June 27 to decide San Antonio’s participation in the South Texas Nuclear Project, with weekly CPS fuel reports pledged.
The House passed a multibillion-dollar appropriations bill covering agriculture and consumer protection, sending it to the Senate. The debate centered on subsidy provisions for cotton, with a key amendment limiting per person benefits and addressing acreage leasing. Final passage in the House occurred on a 403 roll call.
United Press international reports Texas faces major flooding as Trinity and San Jacinto rivers threaten Southeast Texas. Gov. Briscoe asks President Nixon to declare four counties disaster area citing potential $74 million in property damage and ongoing river rises.
Masked gunmen burst into the Belfast home of a Northern Ireland militant Friday and held his wife and children at gunpoint. They shot his brother-in-law in bed as police watched. The killing marks a notable flare in nearly four years of sectarian violence involving Ulster Protestants and Catholics with British forces.
Texas Highway Department plans a safety overlay and pavement markings project affecting more than 44 miles of San Antonio highways. Traffic will be diverted through pavement operations with short term side street closures. Highways include Loop 13 US 1 to US 10, US 51 from Nogalitos to Loop 410, US 10 west from TH 1, and US 8 on Broadway toward New Braunfels and Pratt interchange.
Secretary Morton testified that the U S cannot abandon the Alaska oil line for a Canadian route and rejected a six month study of a trans Canadian pipeline. He defended the Alaska project amid court rulings and House subcommittee hearings while Interior officials argued the National Environmental Policy Act guided the right of way process.
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