Hobbs Daily News-Sun (Newspaper) - December 24, 1961, Hobbs, New Mexico HARRISONS SANTA FE Statehouse Christmas list A pretty for Land Commission er Johnny Ke put the peoples land in proper Chief Highway Engineer He took Fabian He came out from behind the post in the senate to become a strong and constructive majority Earl He went after the hay Welfare Director Dale Hels He checked the climb of the relief WEATHER HOBBS Fair through Warmer otherwise lit tle temperature High Sunday Complete weather data on 35 NUMBER 267 NEW DECEMBER SUNDAY 15 CENTS CAREER SERVANTS IN GOVERNMENT Liquor Chief George Frank Hes going to make a good out of the liquor busi ness State Engineer Steve Rey and Oil Conservation Di rector Pete They put in another year of giving more than they take in fine public Tom Hes working at being lieutenant gov A MONEY STRETCHER FOR THE SCHOOLS Gardener Aguinaldo He keeps the summer School Finance Officer John He stretched the money and kept the schools Republican State Chairman Joe Hes a fresh and welcome breeze in GIRLS DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY CAN DO IT Maralyn Budke and Inez Gill of the legislative finance com Blanche Lucero of the auditors Truck ProRation Officer Grace Theyre showing that if a man can do it can and maybe Purchasing saving the saps Hes Corporation Commissioner He wouldnt let the collect money for him OLD RECORDS MESS PUT IN Records Administrator Joe He brought order out of a mess of state records for the first time since Jim Patton of Las He carried through the difficult tax adjustments on horse racing and uranium min Legislative Council Director Clay He serves the Legislature and the COURT AN OLD Income Tax Director Frank The only career of ficer in the bureau of indispensable to both Jim Gruber of the electronic data processing division in the finance Betcha never heard of him the guy who has straightened out the capitol The Supreme For fin ally clarifying the authority of the state board of Oil and Gas Association Di rector Fred A r City and County Budget Of ficer Willard They say JM jo wan is Manslaughter Charge Filed Railroad Car Plunge Kills 60 Shoppers Italy AP A runaway railroad car jammed with Christmas shoppers plunged down a 100foot river embankment killing 60 Rescuers said another 33 per sons were injured when the last car of a train snapped loose and rolled off a The jampacked railway car crashed on the rocks at the foot of a river Police said 32 persons were killed instantly and two others died after being taken to hospi A number of the injured were reported in grave condition A driving rain slowed rescue workers who resorted to blow torches to cut through the twisted wreckage and reach the 80 trav elers trapped in the Vic tims still being removed more than two hours after the Hospitals in this town of in southern Italy sent calls for blood Doctors and nurses who had started vacations were called back to reinforce the holiday medical is iff the foothills over looking the Gulf i of Villagers for Christmas shopping sprees in Ca were packed in the diesel powered It rounded a curve and roared small river Fiumarella between here Two cars got across but the third twisted toppled over the side of the bridge and car ried victims to their Postoffice Fires Teacher of Twist BOSTON 19yearold college employed as atem clerk in the South Postal demonstrated the iie new dance for several hundred Soon the whole department was a maze of twisting postal Enter the Stop that he You are a disturbing influ he told the Youre The girl was not John Heads John is new president of the Lovington Country with John Easley as vice presi They were elected at the clubs annual Club members voted to open of the club both for about him Another John Gott aild to the pub in the loral The rule will be in in the local budget And heres for a good Christ mas for all the statehouse HERBERT MacAHAN comments at Christmastime in effect for an undetermined Joe Kizer was to the board of Bulletin Katan ga AP The body of Georges Swiss chief Red Cross dele gate in was found Camp SImonet in The bodies of two of his Dutchman and a Belgian woman ACCENT ON YOUTH SALUTE To Our Top Teens A boy who already has taken every ics course offered in Hobbs High and a who studies up to five hoursa day are agers of the Each The NewsSun will teen agers as outstanding with an anonymous committee of At the end of the school the boy and girl selected as top teenagers of the year will Deceive special V weeks selections Lon Page In WATERS he season in the days before oil of many a exciting time than it is over Then sophisticated and unspoiled by fastmoving automobiles forward with greater expectancy REPORTED MISSING few and delight Todays children would view with disdain the Yule activities of 40 years ago which usually centered around community ac on Christmas Eve in the still liv ing who did participate in the programs look back upon them with In that day and time there were paved highways in Lea and the lack of bus transportation resulted in t each community having its a structure standing in the approximate center of the walked to and from the for a lucky few rode In Lea County there were the communities of Har Murphys High Know ThomhilL Lone Eden East Bar Hes Brash and Enter Nearly all of these today faded into oblivion and children who live where these communities once flourished now ride sleek school buses into Ta Eunice or Until the Roscow of has been missing from home since 5 police here were told Described as 6 feet weighing 170 end of the evergreen Christmas trees were seen in Lea How nearly every community had its own Christmas tree erected by grownups in the with eyes wearing a black leather a and blue Mobley had been paid on the day of his disappear ance and had about on his Police were told that is for the Christmas tree usually cot ton wood cut from the earthen tank bank or yard of someone living in the Load ed a it was hauled to the school house and erected Continued Three In Accident Here Three were involved in a collision here Friday but only minor damage said a 1960 driven by Cherie of 119 Baja Drive and owned by Mildred was going west on Broadway and had stopped to let another vehicle A 1957 driven by Jimmy of East Green Acres Drive and by stopped behind Miss the accident report a 1957 Pontiac driven by Gearold Wayne of 1625 Cath erine Drive and owned by Rob bie struck the Linam car and knocked it into the No lan Main damage was that to the headlight and back bumper of the Linam estimated at Garner was cited for fol lowing too CAR OVERTURNS Thelma the driv er of a car that overturned this morning on five miles west of was admitted to Lovington Lea General Hospit al for observation following the Also examined at the hospital but not admitted were four children who were passen gers in the hospital atten dants Tatum authorities said the car overturned two times Gibsons condition was termed not Army Officer Indignant at Red com mandant in Al bert Watson Saturday can celed an appointment at Soviet headquarters in East Berlin be cause of a calculated affront on the part of the a spokesman Watson canceled his call after refusing to bow to a demand by EastGerman border guards that three civilian aides accompanying him identify The incident occurred at Fried the only crossing point for the Allies into East It was the second such incident this The political ad Howard was re fused entry to Berlin Thurs day when he refused to identify He and two other officials were way to an appoint ment at Soviet Botti Trivers and Watson were bound for the East Berlin suburb where Soviet head quarters is in official Referring to Saturdays inci dent the spokesman said A stiff protest is being made to the So viets about the demand at Fried to have the accom three civilian in an identify Using some of the toughest lan guage heard from the West since the Communists put up their wall last The spokesman added the commandant was going to by ap pointment and since State Depart ment officials and a civilian inter preter have always accompanied todays action by Soviet sec tor German police can only be considered a calculated affront on the part of the Soviets designed to rupture hitherto existing con tacts between the comman der and spokesman said interfer ence with contacts through this additional provoca tive for which So viets bear sole will inevitably heighten tension in Ber lin at a time when the Soviet gov is proclaiming its willing ness to seek peaceful solutions of international did not explain why Watson was going to Soviet His appointment was presumably the Soviet as Watson would not talk to any Solovyev in the past has brushed off Allied protests against the be havior of East German He says what the police do is no con cern of the Soviet authorities be cause East Germany is a sover eign The Allies that the Soviets are responsible for what goes on in East Berlin because the city still has four power occupation Since October the East Ger mans have been demanding that all civilians in military vehicles identify themselves at the cross ing point These demands led to forays qf armed soldiers into t j was reported ac East Berlin to escort officials and culminated with the confron tation on the border of Soviet and Since then private visits by car to East Berlin by officials out of uniform have GAS LINE FIRE A small gas line broke and caught fire at a Pan American lease a mile southwest of town about and some of the insulation on the pipe was The Hobbs fire department was notified and sent a truck to the but the fire had been extinguished Youngster has shoe fitting in Anthony downtown store while other children look era played host Lea County children at then took the guests on a shopping spree Shrines annual bought clothing fornine children photo by Jim Soldier Held In Jail for Bail or A soldier who was iii volved in a fatal accident near Hobbs Thursday has been charged with man Larry Allen assign ed to the 85th Ordnance at Fort nocent Friday at His bond was set at Preliminary hearing the case is scheduled at 1 Jan 8 State police filed the charge against whose 1956 Chevrolet allegedly struck a 1961 Renault eight miles west of Hobbs on Highway Bradley son of and Billy Gene Vin was the child and his mother thrown from the small Quick Work Its a small world a fact probably not to the liking of James who discover there s not enough distance between and the Hobbs city Roberts waived extradition to Montana after being caught up in an electronic web here And the whole affair only took 15 Police dispatcher Harry Grimes recorded it thus Sheriffs office in called report ing a bank in Hobbs was stalling a man wanted in Lew for Des James alias James white 5 8 160 blond crewcut A warrant was being telegraph to the Montana caller The Montana officials had learned of Roberts where Hobbs bank to cash a check on a Lewistown Bank of called Lewistown to the check and the Lew bank notified sheriffs officials Police here cal ed the First National Bank and learned their quarry was not They telephoned the downtown office of the New Mexico Bank and Trust and found he had been there but had The man described had not possessed enough money to pay for the telephone call to bank officials said he had gone to a pawn shop to pawn a and was to re turn to the bank and pay for the Detective Rob ert Pevey Givens Barkley A telegram con firming the warrant for the arrest of Roberts was received at the police Captain Barkley reported Roberts had been tak en into NO PAPER MONDAY In order to permit its em ployes to enjoy a Christmas The wilt not publish This Sunday issue was produced early for the same Blizzard Slaps At 3 States Ky Associated Press A crippling blizzard howled across the Midwest Il linois and Wisconsin whipping up drifts that blocked roads and stranded thou sands of holiday The which struck on the first day of was so violent in parts of southern Iowa and northern Missouri that snowplows were pulled off the roads for sev eral Hotels and motels were jammed with stranded mo Snow whipped by winds up to 45 miles per hour piled up the eaves of houses in Des Moines where traffic was ports were closed and power tele phone lines Another which had near ly blown itself out in a three day rampage in Utah and Mon pushed across the Northern Plains with renewed Blasts of cold arctic air gave it new punch as it sent temperatures skidding zero in the Da kotas and in the night included 9 at Minot and t Both storms wheeled eastward toward the Great Lakes and Ohio assuring a vast central re gion of a white The new blizzard in the Mid dealt a surprise blow to Kansas and dumping up to 10 inches of new snow in some The storm was originally forecast as possi bly changing to Buses were stalled Gower and by drifting Most of the roads in northwest Missouri north of Joseph were Blowing snow stranded 125 school children in where 8 inches was More than 25 school buses were unable to reach their rural desti nations in southern and central Iowa even though many schools let out Packed snow made driving haz in most of the storm area where roads were Parts of Minnesota and the Da kotas were ice that formed when drizzle was frozen by icy Buses and loaded trith homeward bound were running hours behind schedule in the storm The job of clear ing highways was hampered by stalled The snow belt extended into the eastern Great Lakes and south ward into the Ohio where on car when it was hit from be investigators The also from Fort were en route to on a Christmas Vinyard was hospitalized here then taken to a Tex hospital for fur ther treatment Neither man was injured Brown was en route to Mis souri on a holiday Educators Attack Nohl Proposal To Delay Session ALBUQUERQUE CAP Tha executive secretary of Mexico School Boards Association has lashed out at a statement by Albert Nohl which said a special session of the Legislature on school finances should not bfe held until John the school boards group executive said in a written statement Saturday that if the states schools are to be run on a sound fiscal the plan rung cannot be put off until the middle of next published statement earlier this advocated post of a special legislative session until He is the executive secretary of the New Mexico Taxpayers One cant call a on school which must of classes for purchasing of supplies and the hiring of school professional til middle of next Aragon Not only is this abeyance un in X highly competitive mar but further it borders on being in that legislative enactment provides that people not otherwise notified the end of school will be automatically re he Pamela Chosen Dance Queen Pamela daugh ter of and Mont gomery of 721 Luna Drive was crowned Friday night as sopho mora Christmas queen at Hobbs High The coronation was at the annual sophomore Christmas The queen was crowned by Bob her Attendants to the queen were Jara daughter of and Hoke Ambrose of 1211 South Morris and Kay Mc daughter of and Glenn McClain of East Ben der Miss Ambrose was crowned by Ray Sopho more Class president and Miss McClain by Max a member of the Lea C y Medical de parts a hit from the customary Odors of cookies sounds of presents being wrap oises of children making unnecessary trips from the bed routine of his scries on health out of nr J 3 and writes of the Physician what of Bethlehem and medical The more specific discussions problems in The gastric can Daddy write about tonight for the Sunday paper j im on n y ax and the Bethlehem down Or of what came the of our Lord The first real of The beginning of the importance of the Be it or Mary Magdal or the good Who stopped think realize hat with the birth of the or with lep We are told that many were healed of their afflictions and that miracles were perform is not uncommon for peo ple to think that with the pass ing of also ended the performance of This writer also thought He entered the field of medicine equipped to diagnose many a but he was help less as to His pneumonia cases followed a prescribed course of and in of many nursing It was common to talk to a boy of 25 about his children and his hopes for knowing that his rheumatic heart could not carry him for doctor felt came a Miracles started to be noticed by Sir Flemings penicillin broke through as a bacteriocidal Different sulfa drugs The weapons to fight mans enemies very People now re cover from illnesses who form erly art constantly developing drugs of great Operative methods are being mastered for many conditions formerly Dread diseases are almost for gotten anil life expectancy is growing greater and Practicing medicine now is very But with it all comes a ity realization of own small in the writer always for the help of the Physician of he knows that miracles still The day 25 is a happy of material but because a Physician was born whose is ever ready for the doctor who desires it lor it
