Alamogordo Band to Play at Community Christmas Program
The Alamogordo School Band in new uniforms will provide music for the Community Christmas Tree program at 2 30 Sunday afternoon. Santa will distribute candy packages as the crowd sings and the band performs selections. All residents are invited to attend and support this countywide celebration.
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Alamogordo
Santa Claus
Adams
Baptist Church
America
Herald Angels
Shepherds Watch
Capitol remodeling fight advances in New Mexico courts
In Clovis on December 18 Judge Harry L. Patton will hear G W Carr's mandamus challenge over filing fees for a 750000 dollar bond issue. A Las Cruces suit by Louis Burleson attacks the law's constitutionality for failing to state the filing tax purpose. Earlier rulings in Roswell and Mosqueiro split on double subject concerns.
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Clovis
N. M
Capitol
Harry L. Patton
G. W. Carr
Roosevelt County
Lewess Terrell
Las Cruces
Dona Ana
Supreme Court
Louis Burleson
W. C. Whatley
Whatley
James B. McGhee
Roswell
Livingston Taylor
Mosquero
Stout Leaves Rousseaau Hospital After Accident
Johnny Stout was released from Rousseaau Hospital Thursday after treatment for a severe concussion from an automobile crash near Orogrande. His companion John Gregg suffered minor injuries as their pickup left the road and overturned when a right front tire blew out, state patrolman James M. Roach said.
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Johnny Stout
Orogrande
Johnny
John Gregg
Stout
James M. Roach
Lula Hesker Undergoes Emergency Appendectomy
Miss Lula Hesker underwent an emergency appendectomy Thursday morning to treat acute abdominal pain. Her condition was reported stable after the procedure.
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Lula Hesker
Annual Charity Ball Night in Alamogordo Pavilion
A charity ball is set for Saturday night December 30 at the Alamogordo Pavilion. Organizers invite residents to attend for a festive fundraiser with proceeds directed to local causes.
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Alamogordo Pavilion
Annual Alamogordo High Senior Classes Reunion Dinner
The Alamogordo High School senior classes of 1937 38 and 39 hold their annual reunion dinner at the Methodist church on Thursday night December 28 at 6 30. Plates are 50 cents and all members are urged to attend with spouses welcome. Need headcount by 6 00 Friday December 27 and tickets are available from Shirley Beacham Bennie Daugherty and Bob Doane at local stores. A dance follows the dinner for alumni and friends.
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Alamogordo
Methodist Church
Brusbanes
Shirley Beacham
Light Co
Bennie Daugherty
Tolland’s
Bob Doane
Corner Drug Store
H. S
Recreation Schools in Four Districts
State College New Mexico December reports recreation leaders training schools held in four districts. One hundred twenty five members from 15 counties attended with 4 H leaders and Extension club members. Miss Madeline Stevens directed, with Jack Knapp assisting in two locations.
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State College
N. M
Madeline Stevens
National Recreation Association
New Mexico Extension Service
Espanola
Socorro
Alamogordo
Tucumcari
New Mexico
Mountain Resorts Await Snowfall
Mountain resorts prepare for winter sports as snow remains scarce. Cloudcroft ski course lacks snow while a new 60 by 120 foot rink nears completion under a dome by Frank Carr. Cedar Creek at Ruidoso advances with a CCC crew building a gravel road and shelter facilities ahead of snowfall.
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Cloudcroft
Frank Carr
Skyland Club
Cedar Creek
Ruidoso
CCC
Chas Wood
Soll Conservation Studies In Pularosa Area
Las Cruces New Mexico November 21 preliminary examination of the Tularosa Three Rivers and other drainages in northern Otero county to assess soil erosion remedy options. Study covers Sierra Blanca west slopes to White Sands Tularosa Valley and notes diverse geology climate and vegetation. Water from mountains feeds springs and irrigates orchards and cropland with runoff partly used for stock tanks and fields.
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Las Cruces
N. M
Tularosa
Three
Otero County
R. A. Young
Mesilla
Sierra Blanca
Young
Dr Arthur King To See Patients At Sorensen's Saturdays
Optometrist Dr Arthur King will examine eyes at Sorensen's Jewelry Store each Saturday. Services include glasses fitting and lens duplication.
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Arthur King
Sorensen’s
Funeral Services for Mrs. Margaret Stark
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Margaret Curry Stark at the Ger en Leadinghaus Chapel with Rev. Earl R Keating officiating. Interment followed at Mount Vista Cemetery. Born March 17 1852 she died at her Alamogordo home on December 18 1939 aged 87. Her survivors include daughter Minnie Stark of Los Angeles and son R E Stark of Alamogordo. She had moved to Otero County in 1906 and had been a Methodist communicant since age 18.
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Earl R. Keating
Margaret Curry Stark
Geren-Leadinghaus
Mount Vista Cemetery
Alamogordo
John Barton Stark
Old Town
Kentucky
Stark
Methodist Church
Students Return Home From College Campuses
A list of students from multiple colleges and universities who have returned home or are due to arrive by week’s end includes names from University of New Mexico N M State College State Teachers College Las Vegas Normal N M Military Institute and others with several named individuals such as Mary Jo Armstrong Charles Moore Harold Lane Roberta Parker and Margaret Ellen Cooper among many.
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College of Higher Learning
University of New Mexico
Mary Jo Armstrong
Charles Moore
Leonard Small
Fred Evans
Jack Shelton
Betty Rolland
Man Tatum
N. M. State College
Harold Lane
Herbert
Ruth Holcomb
Howard Beaty
L. E. Parker
John Denney
John Hoffman
Dick Garner
George Allen
John Gregg
Junior Jones
Perry McNew
State Teachers College
Ray Osborn
William Holbert
Las Vegas
Read What Sen Wheeler Has To Say
Senator Wheeler of Montana spoke to 4 000 industrial leaders in New York on December 15. He is described as a logically liberal figure, a potential presidential candidate, with readers urged to see excerpts in the editorial column this week.
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Wheeler
Montana
New York City
Senator Wheeler
Iversion Fron
Alamogordo Prepares for Sun Bowl Parade Float
Alamogordo readies for the Sun Bowl Carnival in El Paso. Cabeza de Vaca Float features a 70 member band and Chamber of Commerce Princess Miss Dorothy Ann Geren. Forest Service warehouse builds the float with Douglas Reding Ray Mattison supervising design. Sacramento Motor Co loaning a truck. Southwest Lumber Co donating lumber. Band drills in new uniforms for New Year’s Day parade.
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Alamogordo
el Paso
Chamber of Commerce
Dorothy Ann Geren
Forest Service
Douglas Reding
Ray Mattison
Chas Sutton
Fritz Heilbronn
Cabeza de Vaca
de Vaca
Southwest Lumber Co
Sacramento Motor Co
Square Deal for Transportation urged by railways
A statement from the Association of American Railways argues that America needs mass transportation via railroads. It stresses low cost, efficiency, and the vision of trains pulled by one powerful engine along steel rails to tie the nation’s future to railroading.
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America
Association of American Railways
Lest We Forget Poem By Rudyard Kipling
A wartime poem invokes memory of ancestors and divine protection. It laments the rising glory of battle and calls for humility and mercy for a nation’s people. The lines reflect on leadership, sacrifice, and faith amid conflict.
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God
Gabrielle Name Meaning and French Royalty Link
The name Gabrielle from the Hebrew Gabriel means God is my strength. It is more popular in France than in the US, per an authority. Gabrielle d Estrees, who died in 1599, reportedly fascinated Henry IV enough to threaten divorce from his wife before her sudden death.
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Gabrielle
Gabriel
France
Gabrielle d’Estrees
Henry IV
Mescalero Road To Be Let To Bid In January
State Highway Engineer Burton Dwyre announced that 20 miles of U S Highway 70 through the Mescalero Reservation will be let to bid in January. The project covers drainage grading base-course surfacing and includes underpasses and approaches ending the long dispute with the U S Indian Service. The plan is part of a broader road program totaling about eleven projects to be awarded in two bid settings.
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Mescalero Reservation
Burton Dwyre
State Highway Department
U. S. Indian Service
Dwyre
Labor Leader Green Denounces Stalin Hitler Triumphs
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor vows that free Americans will not accept the victory of Stalinism or Hitlerism and will use all means short of war to stop them. He spoke at Madison Square Garden for a rally called by Jewish and labor groups condemning Nazi treatment of Jews in Germany and Poland. Messages of sympathy came from Herbert Hoover and others.
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New York
William Green
American Federation of Labor
America
Poland
Austria
Balkan States
Green
Madison Square Garden
American Jewish Congress
The
One Seventh of Americans Receive Public Relief in October
A published report by the Social Security Board shows 17,000,000+ people in 6,040,000+ households benefited from old age pensions, dependent children aid, blind aid, and other relief during October. Total outlay reached 257.982 million dollars, up 4 percent from September, with 7,894,000 old age pension beneficiaries and 69,000 blind aid recipients. Uncle Sam also supported 3,274,000 through WPA PWA CCC NYA and related agencies, while states and localities cared for about 1.633 million people. Mrs. A. L. Dunn shows marked improvement after a week of treatment.
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Social Security Board
Uncle Sam
WPA
PWA
CCC
NYA
Marriage of Miss Helen Duggins and Jesse Lane in Cloudcroft
Miss Helen Marie Duggins and Mr. Jesse Vance Lane of Cloudcroft were married here on December 17 by Justice D. M. Barringer. The notice records the couple and the officiant for the ceremony.
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Helen Marie Duggins
Jesse Vance Lane
Cloudcroft
D. M. Barringer
Britain and France pledge aid to Finland in war
Britain and France reportedly reached a full agreement on moral and material aid for Finland in its battle with the Soviet Union. The move was discussed at the Allied Supreme War Council in Paris with Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier. The accord could shift the war's balance and even bring the Soviet Union closer to Germany.
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Paris
Great Britain
France
Finland
Russia
Supreme War Council
Chamberlain
Daladier
Soviet Union
Germany
Will Robinson Presents New Know Your New Mexico Program
Will Robinson introduces an illustrated talk for the Christmas Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting featuring new Know Your New Mexico pictures. The program covers geology of the Sacramento valley and ranges, includes Malpais lava beds by Dwight McNally, Gran Quivera ruins, San Cristobal tower, Three Rivers petroglyphs, White Sands, and a portrait of a noted mountain sheep. A new Alamogordo Canyon cisterns picture and Carlsbad Caverns segment join the series, with free admission for high school and adult audiences.
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Roswell Dispatch
Will Robinson
Veterans of Foreign Wars
New Mexico
Mr. Robinson
Great Valley
Sacramentos
San Andreas, Oscuras
Malpais
Lava
Dwight McNally
Edward Peneld
J. L. Kelly
Carrizozo
Gran Quivera
Tower of
San Cristobal
Three Rives
White Sands
Tom Charles
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
The
Sands
Alamogordo Canyon
Sacramento
Tularosa Basin
Pecos River
Carlsbad Caverns
Robinson
Alamo School Band Delights Crowd In Alamogordo Concert
The H. B. auditorium overflowed last Friday as the Alamo school band of seven under Roy G. Holbert performed with drum major Ollie Jarvis and twirlers. The concert funded new uniforms from carnival patronage and promised a strong Sun Bowl Carnival showing in El Paso.
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H. 8 S
Alamo
Roy G. Holbert
Ollie Jarvis
Holbert
Alamogordo
el Paso
Survey Sundry Routes For Kew Highway 83
The 20 man Bureau of Public Roads crew led by A O Stinson surveyed multiple routes for the Alamogordo Cloudcroft road from Cloudcroft to Alamogordo. Proposed paths include a parallel to the old Box Canyon road and a route via La Luz Canyon to Mountain Park. Officials expect engineering to finish by year end with construction after July 1.
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Alamo Cloudcroft Road
Bureau of Public Roads
A. O. Stinson
Cloudcroft
Alamogordo
Washington
Box Canyon
The Mountain and the Mole Hill
The column argues that Russia’s aggression against Finland will fail under justice and global sympathy for the Finns. It notes Finland’s resolve, international concern, and aid while asserting God supports freedom and right will prevail over might.
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Russia
Finland
God
Goliath
David
Republic
Banks in Ancient Greece
The earliest banks on record were the national temple at Delphi and Delos in Greece, serving as early financial hubs. These temples stored valuables and facilitated transfers, forming the groundwork for later banking systems.
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Ancient
Greece
Delphi
Delos
Used Tires at Shook Tire Co Across from Ford Garage
Shook Tire Co on the Highway offers good used tires in most sizes at fair prices across from Ford Garage. Locally available inventory targets drivers seeking affordable tire replacements and casual automotive service.
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Shook Tire Co
Ford
Xmas Dance Sponsored by Junior Woman's Club
A Christmas dance sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club is set for Saturday night December 23. Proceeds support community activities and plans for the holiday season.
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Junior Woman's Club
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Rudyard
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U. S
Stalin
Hitler
A. L. Dunn
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Lane
Kew
Carrizozo Outlook
Melissa
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