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YOUNG MOI HER—(Continued ’rum Page 1)DC and thought that workrould be better here.So with 16 month-old Debraouise and two-month old Sonja -ail, the Portis' came east. Tire rouble throughout Arizona took Imost all of their reserve cash nd the car limped into Alamo* ordo in need of repairs.Rut work wasn't to be bad “My husband put in applica ions at Holloman and then tred 11 over town to get a job,'* Mrs. 'ortis said. “But he just couldn’t et anything. The employmentffiec said they couldn’t help him nless he had a permanent ad-ress and the welfare people ouldn't help because we were *nm out of state.“All the time we were living i the car and getting hungrier II the time Johnnv and his r i e n d-s tried to help with 'hat they could but it wasn’t meh I wouldn't eat much so lat we could give it to the ba-ies but then 1 got sick and mv usband got inad and said that e'd had enough.That must have been the day lat Portis and Dye pulled the II Paso station robbery. But lev only netted $34.“My husband left here with ohnny Friday night,” Mrs. Por lis said I waited all night for icm to come back Then Sat-rday afternoon the sheriffame by and told me that they ere in jail.“I don't know what the haies and I will do.With her blonde hair braided round her head and wearing urt and play shorts, Roberta oks like a high school student, ut the 18 year old mother is •arful and distraught Trying to e calm and make some plans ke an adult and mature per m is something she hasn't had i face and the effort is tellingNo Help, No FriendsHer family virtually has diswned her and no help can hexpeeted from that quarter. Sheas no friends in Alamogordo, nlv what monev kindlv citv and** •*' w vounty police officers have giv n her out of their own pockets nd a broken down car for shel er at night in the dark city ark“It's my babies that I'm wotted about, -*he said bravely If we had some place to stay, might he able to find work and ome one to look alter them dole I'm working Roberta has been getting mm food from restaurants lor he children and buying cold gro cries for herself I sing the pub ic restrooms in tiie park, shelas kept both herself and the halies clean and neat, hut it is a osmg hattle She thought that perhaps she hould go to Kl Paso to be near ier husband in county jail there nit without funds or friends here, it seemed a pointless noveRoberta Portis and her babies
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Alamogordo Daily News
Alamogordo, New Mexico, US
Mon, Jul 22, 1957
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