Directors of New Mexico Publicity Assn Met in Alamogordo
Directors of the New Mexico Publicity Association met at the Alamogordo Town Hall to discuss state publicity plans for the year. Ladd Haystead presented details on tourist guides highway maps information signs and free distribution with minimal fees for out of state copies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. McKlvane
Carlsbad
New Mexico Publicity Association
Alamogordo
Town Hall
M. M Publicity Association
Southwest Chamber of Commerce
Silver City
Ladd Haystead
New Mexico Highway Department
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Haystead
New Leslio
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Clabe
Chambers of Commerce
White Sands Pictures Draw Big Crowds in Las Cruces
Alamogordo secretary W M Todd returned from Las Cruces and El Paso after arranging showings of the White Sands pictures. Mose Stevens of Las Cruces had urged a Las Cruces run and four packed houses greeted the films. The Fox films will later appear in El Paso under contract with the local syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Todd
Alamogordo
Sands
Todd
el Paso
Chamber of Commercce
el Paso Treatres
Fox
Fox Corporation
White Sands
Chamber of Commerce
State Bank of
Noted Archaeologist to Visit Alamogordo in June
Tom Charles reports that Dr. Ronald Olson of the American Museum of Natural History and University of California will arrive in Alamogordo around June 4 to study southwest archaeology. Olson is noted as an authority on prehistoric races and ancient man types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Charles
Ronald Olson
Department of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
New York
University of California
Alamogordo
Southwest
Olson
Young Couple From Tenas Arrested
A couple sought a marriage license at the court house but fled after the bride claimed lawful age. The father, alerted by telephone, travelled from a Texas plains town with an officer to intervene. Sheriff Lucero then arrested and held the couple at Las Cruces.
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Court House
Millie Thomas
Las Cruces
Lucero
Plans For Rodeo Are Coming On Nicely
Plans for the Annual Rodeo to be held July 3 and 4 were discussed by the Otero County Rodeo Association directors. Prizes total 1636 dollars with events including wild mare racing calf roping and goat roping. A free-for-all mile race and company race are planned along with a tournament ring race and a two day carnival setup with a Ferris wheel merry-go-round and possibly a miniature railroad ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otero County Rodeo Association
The
Rodeo Association
J. L. McDermitt
el Paso
Commencement Exercises At Local High School
The high school auditorium hosted a full crowd for commencement exercises led by President Frank Carroon of the N M Normal University. Mary Taggart gave the salutary and William Taggart the valedictory as diplomas were presented by Dr F B Eveans, board of education president.
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Theigh School
Frank Carroon
N M. Normal University
Mary Taggart
William Taggart
F B. Eveans
Board of Education
Ehiss
Eudward Babers
Louise Cady
Katherine Cowden
Fleck Danley
Onie Danley
Myrtle Dean
Leneth Jolly
Garnie Jones
Gertrude Joy
Leoni Cramer
Bernice Kilgore
Fred Louder
Elizabeth Lowenstein
Pauline Marshall
Francisca
Marque
Eber McKinley
Ednardis McNattrick Roberts
Morris Robertson
Maurice Lowell
Fred Steffey
Vivian Vorhees
Memorial Day Service Planned by Ex-Service Men Committee
A memorial day program for the soldier dead is arranged by a committee of ex service men. Attendees meet at the courthouse lawn at 9 00 a m Thursday May 30 and march to the cemetery for services led by D M Sutherland F E Walton and Dr D D DeNeen with taps and graveside decoration. Flower committee members include Mrs DeNeen Mrs Walton and Mrs Nagle ready to receive offerings at the speakers stand.
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Court House
D. M. Sutherland
Sutherland
Grand Army of the Republic
Southwest
F E. Walton
D. D. DeNeen
American Legion
DeNeen
Walton
Nagle
Eighth Grade Certificates Awarded at Alamo Schools
Ten o clock graduation exercises for eighth grade at Alamo schools featured Supt. Paul Fickinger of Tularosa delivering the address. Flossie Osborne gave the salutatory and Geraldine Gregg the valedictory as the class of twenty four received graduation certificates.
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Alamo
Paul Fickinger
Tularosa
Flossie Osborne
Geraldine Gregg
Bacilio Barilla
Robert Billips
Leonard Small
Walter Gray
Dean Hennessee
Bill Jones
Jim Roberts
Alfred Flowers
Ralph Williams
Ross Turner
Verdine Ware
Marie Daugherty
Betty Woods
Wilma Fite
Emma Mae Wilkerson
Gertrude McCracken
Harvey Robertson
Bessie Schultz
Hazel Weems
Helen Wilkerson
Zallah Thompson
Margaret Chenault
Roswell Dentist Grissom Sentenced to Long Prison Term
Dr Milton A Grissom once a prominent Roswell and Alamogordo dentist received a prison term of not less than 9 and not more than 47 years after a Roswell jury found him guilty of second degree murder in the death of Mrs Mary I Parsell following an illegal operation. Judge G A Richardson imposed the sentence and defense lawyers immediately announced an appeal to the state supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton A. Grissom
Roswell
Alamogordo
Santa Fe
State Supreme Court Intereferes
Grissom
Mary I. Tarsell
G. A. Richardson
Parsell
Richardson
State Supreme Court
Three Cent a Day Shelf At Alamo Public Library
The Library Committee of the Civic League announces a renewal of the Three Cent a Day shelf featuring popular titles. Reads include The Cradle of the Deep by Joan Lowell Seabrooke The Magic Isle Elizabeth and Essex by Strachey Believe It or Not Ripley Dodsworth and others, highlighting current reading trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library Committee
The
Civil League
Shell
Joan Lowell
Magic Isle
Seabrooke
Elizabeth and
Essex
Fox Films Bring Movietone Crews To Local Shoot
Movietone team including Herbert filmed three days of local bathing beauties on skis and a goat corral near the White Sands. Western cowboys, goats, and a deputy sheriff figure in scenes with famed figures such as Pancho Villa. plans include visits to Carlsbad Caverns, Santa Rita mines, Arizona and Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert
Priday
Fox Film Corporation
Andrege Goat Lane
White Sands
Otero County
Prairie
Chisholm Trail
Art McNatt
Uncle Tom” Frazier
Pancho Villa
Carlsbad Caverns
Santa Rita
Arizona
Montana
Last NM 8 B dance at Stout's Pavilion May 25
Saturday night May 25 promises the final NM 8 B dance of the season at Stout's Pavilion. Local dancers are urged to attend before the year ends.
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Stout's Pavilion
Freight train load records reach new peak in 1925
The data show the average freight load per train rose from 708 tons in 1920 to 793 tons in 1925, marking the best average performance on record.
Summer features and travel musings from Alamogordo to El Paso
The piece blends light essays on summer life in Alamogordo with trips to El Paso and Las Cruces, noting hay fever, heat, and May pleasures. It reflects on travel, White Sands film showings, and regional attitudes, while briefly surveying Turkey’s alphabet reform and President Hoover’s early presidency challenges.
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el Paso
Las Cruces
White Sands
Cruces
First State Bank of Alamogordo Receives Partial Dividend
W. W. Hayward, receiver for the defunct First State Bank of Alamogordo, mails 2 percent dividends to 1987 depositors from the bank's liabilities of 574,761.24. Further dividends and asset liquidation await a pending Supreme Court decision on a preferred claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First State Bank of
Alamogordo
W. W. Hayward
Supreme Court
Alamogordo Bank
Border National
Federal Reserve
First National
el Paso
Texas
Liberty Central Trust Co
Kansas City
Seaboard National
St. Louis
Death Of W. J. Pace At His Home In Tularosa
Rev. W. J. Pace died at his Tularosa home after months of illness on Sunday May 19. He organized the Tularosa Baptist church about fifteen years ago and served as pastor until health failed. He was born February 21 1860 in Mississippi and married Ethel Chamberlain in 1882. The family moved to Alamogordo in 1904 and Pace left a widow and five children Maxwell Bert Harold Jack and Mabel.
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W. J. Pace
Tularosa
The
Baptist Church
Alamogordo
Pace
Mississippi
Texas
Ethel Chamberlain
Blevins
Southwest
Tour Wons
Maxwell
Bert
Harold
Jack
Mabel
Political tensions over farm relief and export debenture policy
The text notes disappointment from progressives like Brookhart and Borah as President faces opposition early in his term. Critics fear farm blocs opposing his stance on a debenture feature. Hoover argues the debenture plan benefits exporters more than farmers since farmers rarely export grain, with grain dealers handling exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Brookhart
Borah
Farmers split over proposed law amid debenture debate
The article notes disagreement among farmers on a proposed law with many leaders opposing the debenture feature while working farmers favor it. Senator Capper and Hoover critics add to the debate as Hoover’s stance gains support from voters, and railroads reach an unprecedented investment level of 100000 dollars per mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Senator Capper
Kansas
U.S. Senate
Above Normal Rainfall So Far in May at Alamogordo
Rain measured on May 22, 1929 shows .73 inch, about .09 inch above the May normal of .64 inch. A .30 inch shower occurred Tuesday night into Wednesday, with heavier mountain rainfall. Fire risk in Sacramentos' farms and forests is lower than typical for May in the Southwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamogordo
Sacramentos
Noted Smithsonian Archaeologist Visits Alamogordo This Week
Dr. Edward L. Hewett of Santa Fe, director of the School of American Research and Museum of New Mexico and UNM anthropology chief, lectures on Archaeology of the Southwest at La Luz Lodge Thursday night. He is accompanied by Wesley Bradfield to inspect several Childs-listed prehistoric sites. his report is awaited with interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward L. Hewett
Santa Fe
School of American Research and Museum of
N. M
University of New
Tom Childs
Hewett
Alamogordo Golfers Hold Chicken Bean Banquet
Fifteen members of the Alamogordo Municipal Golf Club shared a bean dinner after a 36 hole match split into two teams led by Captain Strickland Jost and Captain Groom. A challenge to Roswell and Las Cruces clubs for a three game tournament was proposed amid Las Cruces boasting superiority. The local course has seen greens enlarged and rebuilt with kept fairways. Las Cruces Country Club accepted the challenge to begin next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamogordo Municipal
Las Cruces
Cloudcroft High School Graduation Marks First Four-Year Course
Cloudcroft High School held commencement on Thursday night May 16 and awarded diplomas to Hubert Herndon Donald Bonnell and Wanda Rogers. They are the first graduates of a four-year accredited high school course, replacing the former three-year program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cloudcroft High School
Hubert Herndon
Donald Bonnell
Wanda Rogers
Cloudcrott
Alamogordo shuts out Shelton-Payne 5-0 in Sunday game
Gifford pitched a two-hitter with 17 strikeouts for Alamogordo as Alf Gillis and Ware starred in the infield and outfield. Smoky Brown anchored behind the plate and Geo Shipley umpired seven innings before surrendering the mask to Sid Searey amid fan protests.
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Gifford
Alamogordo
Shelton Paynes
EL Paso
Smoky” Brown
Ware
Campbell
Geo. Shipley
Sid Searey
TULAROSA Tigers Host Ludlamites Next Saturday
The Tularosa Tigers meet the Ludlamites at Alamogordo Bat Park next Saturday May 26 at 2 30 pm. Admission is free and stands are expected to be crowded. Four starters will miss the game including Baldes Hegien Martinez and Dominguz.
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Tularoa Tigers
Ludlamites
Alamogordo Bat
Tigers
Tiger
Baldes
Hegien
Martinez
Dominguz
D. ?. Brannon
R. A. Brannon
James Goforth
Joannia Diugherty
Lost Baseball Suit Recovered At El Paso Road
A baseball suit lost Sunday on El Paso road is sought by its owner. Please return to Miller Buick Garage at 21 for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Miller-Buick
State Tax Official Delays Interview In Alamogordo
John W. Chapman attorney for the state tax commission visited Alamogordo to explain a new delinquent tax record system. He declined interviews citing an injunction against discussing tax matters with reporters and refused further speaking engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Chapman
State Tax Commission
Alamogordo
Chapman
Alamogordo News
Rotary
Death by own action at Arabella Lincoln County
District Attorney J Benson Newell returned from Arabella to report a coroner's jury verdict of death by own action in the case of Mrs. Severo Gallegos. The woman lay dead for hours as two small children slept nearby. Sheriff Brady and Newell found no grounds for arrest or disagreement with the jury's finding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Benson Newell
Arabella
Lincoln County
Hondo
Severo Gallegos
Brady
Newell
Lions and Rotary clash in Memorial Day baseball lineup
Lions Club manager Joe Ware and Rotary manager Shorty Miller announce the expected lineups for a Memorial Day clash at the local ball park. Rotary features Wolfinger Cochran Lewis Carr Rolland Gardner Newsom Cdy Loggains and Loggains. Lions lineup includes Walker Webber Mesgrave Lawler Ware Carpenter Searcy Lewis Johnson and others. umpire deemed uncertain with a local woman likely to be asked to officiate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Ware
Lions Club
Shorty Miller
Rotary
Rotary Club
George Wolfinger
Bob Cochran
EB. Lewis
Louis Carr
Searcy Polk Wedding A Surprise Event
Mr and Mrs J T Searcy announce the marriage of their daughter Mary to Mr Raymond Polk in El Paso Texas on Saturday May 4 The groom is a highway engineer with the state highway department on the Saluz flightous project and is working west of Carrizozo The couple have many well wishers for a happy married life
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.T. Searcy
Mary
Raymond Polk
el Paso
Texas
Polk
Alamoxorde
State Highway Department
Carrizozo
Tularosa Tigers Defeat Carrizozo High in Seven Innings
The Tularosa Tigers edged Carrizozo High 16 to 0 in seven innings on Saturday at Carrizozo. Winsett Stradley Martinez Mit chel Baldes Denoise powered offense while Denoise hit a homer triple and a double. Tigers improve to 7-0 on the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tularosa
Denoise
Buni
Tigers
Hailstorm Leavs Damage Across Ruidoso Valley Farmland
Residents report a severe hailstorm in the Ruidoso Valley Saturday afternoon stripping trees and crops. Stones varied from walnut to egg size, barns lost fowls, and fruit survived only rarely after recent freezes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruidoso
Rural schools set to start September 2 in Otero County
County superintendent Mrs. A. E. Thomas says rural schools in Otero County will begin the next school year on September 2. The teacher list is near completion though some resignations are expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Thomas
Otero County
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N. M. Publicity Ass
WF. Melloane
Claudia Simpson
Fred Arthur
George Robinson
Deming
J. M. Ord
Te Silver City Chamber of Commerce
of Bassett
Deming Chamber of Commerce
J. 8. Wolford
J. B. French
Carrigoo
EB. Greisen
Capitan
George Db. Robinson
Archie Campbell
White Sands Pictures
Tenas
M.A. Grissom
Alamo Public Library
Fox Films
By W. M. Todd
Yeterday
Sol
Duluth
Minn
Dross
South Sea
BF Vaso
Turkey
Derby
Constantinople
Alamorardo
Tata
Alamagordo
Challenge Crucers
Cloudcroft Schools
Shelton-Payne
Tularosa “Tigers
St. Tax Com
Lions
Rotary Baseball
Tularosa Tigers
Carrizozo High School
Ruidoso Valley
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