Clovis News-Journal (Newspaper) - October 27, 1970, Clovis, New Mexico YOUR FREEDOM it in on Oft Ml Nixon Pens Tougher Drug Law Clevis Octogenarian Only Hobby Is Work BY SHERRIN COWAN Staff Writer Youre only as old as you the old adage ft d It has never been truer then in the case of M Rodgers of who at the age of 17 My only hobby is work The only concessions he mak es to his 17 years is the time of the morning ne gets out of I used to get up h e but when you are as old as I you sleep as long a s you Rodders came to the Clovis area in He retired from the Santa Ff Railway as an en gineer in after working his way up from He work ed for the railroad un til he was He can remember when a railroad man was not the most respected in but ex plains It this j It says somewhere in the scriptures that a prophet is not welcome in his own Oa Own I to New from Texas by way of be My father settled i n Texas in We moved to Ok lahoma when I was very but I came to New Mexico on my Although Rodgers has had two major operations within four years the last in August and can only walk with the aid o f he manages to keep busier than men II years Recently he sold his last tract of He once owned 185 acr es near The transaction left him with a small orchard containing a collection of almond and apricot trees that he cares for by My son Swain fixed me u p marriages last that long nowa he You we older people see what the youth in our coun i try are have never so much change in such a j short Thats why some j times we wonder what will be i com of youngsters who ey their parents and have spect for law and Other Interests Besides tending his Rodgers is in partnership with his in a pecan or chard in near Lub you leam to use them for more than just Besides Rodgers and his have two other six grandchildren and two Their does promotion work in and their lives with her family adjacent to the Rodgers home located on in the east eadge of He and his wife married years in You dont aee very many the of their WO p e can They have planted 102 trees per which is a 1 most unheard of in this part of the Some people say it cant be In thp deep south they plant only M trees to the acre and sometimes he but were trying a new method and it looks like we may p u r chase more land and start a larger operation before Rodgers is still looking to See CLOVIS M Page 14 Raises Agent Number WASHINGTON UPI President Nixon signed into law a major new to attack the na tions growing narcotics expressing hope it would save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ouf young people who would otherwise be hooked on In a ceremony at Bureau of Narcotics the current electing Dangerous passed the drug bul stressed that the and other Nixon crime ment must have by overwhelming support to cope with the just before recessing major crisis in increasing 14 of drugs among our young But some congressmen voted for the bills com Besides providing 300 addipiaining most Of them con tional federal narcotics provisions that art the President noted that the repressive and possibly new law broadens attorney generals jurisdiction far be yond barbiturates and The new drug law lowers all and provides a federal first offense cases for narcotics users from felonies to very program to treat drug In every house in in every school in in every church in this Under this vision someone found guilty of possessing marijuana for the first time in a federal case RODGERS Going Strong at 17 nation faces a major crisis in would not necessar y be increasing use of drugs among i to an automate stiff our young Nixon The law aims the attack at the drug giving federal authorities more power to crack down on It also expands programs for Sae M Page 14 ABBY i BRIDGE i i II II CLOVIS IN BRUT ll S CROSSWORD I DEATHS EDITORIAL I HOSPITAL MARKETS 14 It STATE NEWS Area Texas Counties See Turnout Of Voters Outline Put Forth On NM Amendments New Mexico voters will have eight proposed constitutional amendments to vote on at next Tuesdays genera Summaries of the first two of those amendments follow Referred to as the Home Rule this sal would permit a municipality to establish districts ia the any member ol the gov erning body of the municipality would have to be a resident of and elected by the qualified vot ers in that The proposed amendment doss not require that a city di vide itself into districts but al lows that to be There are three ways by which district ing could be brought about 1 An act of the ture 2 Action initiated by the governing body of a city b u t this method requires approval by a majority vote ia the mu and S By petitions signed by not less than five per cent of the registered voters of the requiring the governing body to call an election on the districting la Clovis current city man ager commission form of city ars are elected at large and Sea OUTLINE ea Page 11 County Clerks hi the West Texas Counties of Bailey and Farmer report a small voter turnout is expected for the S from the Texas Election indicate about two million votes are expected across Bob Price is the only lican incumbent on the He U the Representative from the 18th Preston Smith Di wii seek reelection to another four year term as governor of the na tions second largest Paul Eggers R carries the oppositions j Jesse James Is the Democrat Incumbent Ben Barnes incumbent for State will oppose Republican Robert Koennecke will Fullerton for Lieutenant Gover No successor is running for try to unseat Abbott is the Republi can candidate for Comptroller Bentsen of Public He will try D will try and defeat lican hopeful George Crawford Martin is t h e Democrat incumbent for Attor ney His opposition comes from Edward Y t u r r i Cold Surge Hits State Out of all the campaign pro made by those seeking election in the 3 no candidate has yet come u p with the promise to do fome thing about the With Uie demise of Indian Summer in Eastern New Mesi co political hopefuls may be well wishing they had tome way to keep the weather to insure a food voter turn if if Tuesday morning brought icy north winds and heavy cloud co ver to the Clovis area and i f such cold continues until elec tion the weather will have to be counted as At thats what the nal political guessers The new cold which brought up to two inches o snow ia through Clovis at approximate I p Monday The cold ast spot ia the state II de grees in Carlsbad record ed a low aod at till a In Clovis the thermo meter registered drop of 31 to beat Democratic incumbent Robert Incumbent Jerry Sadler is not running for reelection as Com missioner of General Land Of Either Harry Trippett R or Bob Armstrong D will succeed Commissioner of Agriculture is the only other contested spot on the Incumbent John White D will seek tion against Daniel All the other offices on the two ballots will find Democrats running Ben Railroad Com Associate Justice Su Court place James State Senator See AREA Page 14 North Korean Contact Reported In Cambodia I hope at the time the federal government is moving the whole nation is moving with us to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of our young people who otherwise would be hooked on drugs and morally Nixon signed the to a small conference room of the narcotics bureau headquarters at a table set up beside a display The larger table was with cash seized ia drug raids plus piles of bundles labeled cocaine and The money and drugs represented million worth of illicit narcotics taken in a Detroit Attorney General John Mitchell said the new tion also was intended as model which he hoped the SO states use in their own attacks on the drug The Democratic controlled anxious to avoid being labeled soft on crime UP foal from the Monday high W WW tkl of tA High today kw M A oi I si all a SI to this mornings low of M I and II Mon day the temperature U from tt to called dar temperatures U the aing dUMps af have MMI BAsA PHNOM PENH Cambodian field commander said today North Korean troops operating inside Cambodia with other foreign Communist Kim com manding the regiment defend ing the Dam about M miles southwest of Phnom said his patrols had made three separate contacts with North He also said his radio intercept section had monitored numerous radio transmissions in the Korean We have not been able to determine whether the North Koreans are volunteers or if complete North Korean have been sent into Bunny intelligence ear lier had reported recording numerous Chinese radio Across the border at Bien Do Cao Tri saic he hoped the South Vietnamese army operation launched Cambodia Sunday will ease some of the pressure on the surrounded Cambodian provin cial capital of Kompong M miles north of Phnom Penh The largest Cambodian opera tion of the wa was launched early last mont to relieve the Kompong Thorn Notice To Candidates FOR ADVER TISING IN THE CLOVIS ARE AS FOLLOWS Fit Paper Su Ne Ads WSJ Accepted After Hew Clovis planning oS rials have announced that tat matter of the final the put of the ill Part Addition tf the c evf will be heard at meeting of the board in the as sembly room of the municipal Fourth and Connelly at In order that remarks might be limited to those which are pertinent to the controversy the board will recognize no one except through bis Don city commission er and member of the planning Interested persons should make arrangements to be the announcement garrison but has been stalled at Tang 30 miles to the for commander of South Vietnams HI Corps Tactical sent troops across the border to in what he palled in force designed at forcing the Commu nist troops to react against its advance and to bring them into challenging our combat units and then bringing our firepower to bear to destroy The US Navy said it hat cut its aircraft carrier strength in the Western Pacific to the pre Vietnam war level as part of President Nixons tion Naval sources the withdrawal of one carrier would have little effect oa tot 7th Fleets capacity in the war Yeggs Get Rich After Bout LPJ toWm to a party Quarry fight OR downtown then greeted at home early today with aad iaa at p my said refund ta give Iff aame ar at tat and was said they received from five watt Aral ia INI mil and tla thieves laak Ms Mid appeared tha laid tha for ia fuel ij wU Mate af S Election School Some 200 or more Curry county election officials are expected for a school of instruction beginning at Thursday at Highland Elementary County Clerk Dorothy Thomas ana Frank machine will conduct the including a demonstration of the use of two types of voting machines printer and non printer to be used in the county for the S general Israeli Minister Worm UN Assembly UNITED NATIONS UPI Israeli Foreign Min ister Abba Eban warned Monday the General Assembly may hinder peace negotiations if it es a more forceful resolution on the Middle Eban told a news conference the ambiguity of the Security Council resolution the latest word on the touchy situation makes it a better vehicle for getting peace with tht Arabs started again than any more specific reso lution that might be MOSCOW UPI The pilot of a light Ameri can plane which crossed the Turkish der last week told diplomats a freak gust of wind made him accidentally tend on Soviet a Embassy spokesman said today All four men are in good the spokesman The em bassy requested the Soviet Foreign Ministry today to allow the consular Peter B Swim Richard to meet with the detained There no w DETROIT VPf between eral Motors and the striking United Auto have reached the chief OM of te made at the in the two I
