06 Oct 1921
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Newspaper
Alamogordo News
Location
Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
1
The Senate debates treaties with Germany Austria and Hungary amid tax reform and canal toll debates. Battles over reparations rights, naval and land armament limits, and a broad agenda mark congressional sessions as 1921 international talks loom.
An anonymous donor funds a 100000 prize through the Cosmopolitan Cancer Research Society of Brooklyn for a medicinal remedy to relieve cancer. The Cosmopolitan cancer prize will honor National Cancer Week October 30 to November 5 with clinics and conferences. Submissions must include treatment method, formulas, and therapeutic proof from at least fifty cases.
President Harding calls governors and mayors to organize unemployment relief as urged by the Washington conference. He announces a central agency for national coordination and reports Secretary Hoover will outline the plan while Arthur Woods is eyed as head. The piece also notes a separate science feature on Protococcus nivialis coloring snow and its Arctic origins.
Returns from most precincts show only amendments No 1 2 4 and 11 ratified with No 3 and others defeated. Bursum leads Hanna for U S Senate. several counties show majorities against the road bond issue and school levy cuts. Red snow in Rocky Mountain National Park draws tourist attention during the summer drive.
Smith Bros dairy men start milk collection and shipment to El Paso with plans for a community creamery. The piece highlights Sacramento mountains and Tularosa La Luz districts as promising dairy regions and the potential use of flood waters for forage. It urges local support to build a lasting county dairy industry.
The Federal Reserve Board reports distinctly optimistic September business conditions with better credit, improving basic sectors, and strong liquidation driven by higher cotton prices. Employment edges up slightly as harvests move. railroads hire more in the far west and building contractors hit a record for the year. agricultural shipments to centers rise with price gains in most farm commodities though livestock prices fall locally.
Secretary of the Interior A. B. Fall and aides passed Alamogordo en route to Three Rivers for several days rest before returning to Washington. He described his west tour of Indian reservations as work oriented, not recreation, and criticized publicity around his activities while promising no immediate legislation.
Washington Oct 3 Secretary Wallace appoints a five scientist committee from the Department of Agriculture to study land utilization for future country needs The panel chaired by Dr L C Gray includes C V Piper C F Marbut and KE Carter They will assess current crop production home use and foreign demand and map arid lands suitable for irrigation swamp lands for drainage and cut over timber areas for cultivation and reforestation
Santa Fe October 1 Secundino Romero Republican of Las Vegas San Miguel county assumed the office of U S marshal of New Mexico succeeding Democrat Andy H Hudspeth Romero promised a businesslike approach and equal treatment He announced appointments chief deputy James J Goutchey reappointed field deputies Lee Wilkerson Miguel Romero John E Brady Henry Cifre Las Vegas and Hondo Lincoln county Cifre previously served as chief deputy.
Presbyterians in Gallup New Mexico plan to install a moving picture machine in their church. Movies will join Sunday night services to illustrate sermons and educate the youth, providing a modern educational tool in line with churches nationwide.
Oct 4 report: New Mexico sets deer and turkey seasons at No 0 to 30 and applies the same to tassel-eared gray squirrels. A state game commission gains power to close seasons locally and suspend hunting during extreme forest fire danger, aiming to place game matters on a sound basis.
The State Game Commission approved eighteen new game refuges across New Mexico and closed eight streams and lakes to fishing, with some Rio Grande areas restricted from migratory bird hunting. Refuges protect breeding grounds and rest habitats, with penalties for hunting or fishing in closed zones. The White Mountain Refuge in Lincoln County is described, spanning about 5100 acres within the Lincoln National Forest and Mescalero reservation.
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