Former police chief faces two added counts in preliminary hearing
Frank Aguilera once police chief faces two additional counts of destroying or impairing public property after testimony in a preliminary hearing. Mayor A Koff testified about the night of the alleged break in at West Supply Co. and chase across the lumber yard.
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Frank Aguilera
Moil
Norman
Justice of the Peace C. L
Peil
Aguilera
Wayne Woodbury
Claud Nunn, Jr
Woobury and
Lumber Yard
Aguileranh
Hugh
Ing. Pace
Kolf
Pace
Thespaper
Steve Dunagan
City Police
Offi
Sene
Agusto
Koff
John A. Anderson
District Court
Brown
Temperature Readings Recorded by Southern Pacific Railroad
Temperature readings were recorded here by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The brief item notes measurements taken on site with no further details on dates, values, or personnel.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Street Paving Extended Across City Under Plan
The Board of Aldermen approved a plan to extend paving for almost even citywide coverage. Unpaved streets will be paved with an inverted crown for drainage and curbs and gutters will not be provided. Repairs to existing pavement estimated at about 64 280 dollars under William Matotan’s plan. Refunding of the current gasoline tax is planned to raise funds for repair paving lighting and related equipment.
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Board of Aldermen
William Matotan
Matotan
Former Resident Dies In Albuquerque
Mrs. Lida Lewis 83 died at her Albuquerque home on Monday April 10 after eight years there. Widow of Edward Lewis former president of the First National Bank, she had earlier worked at Carrie Tingley hospital in Truth or Consequences. Funeral services were in Albuquerque Wednesday April 12 and the body shipped to Lordsburg for burial at Mountain View Cemetery with services Thursday April 13 conducted by Rev. Arthur Shaw. She leaves two sons Edward S. Lewis of Albuquerque and William I. of California and a daughter Mrs. W. G. Miller of California. Pallbearers listed.
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Lida Lewis
Sway
Albuquerque
Edward Lewis
First National Bank
Truth Or Consequences
Carrie Tingley Hospital
Albuqueraque
FE. O
Methodist Church
Lordsburg
Mountain View Cemetery
Arthur Shaw
First Methodist Church
Hudgens Accepts Pastorate in Lordsburg
Evangelist H L Hudgens of Aransas Pass Texas has accepted the pastorate of the Assembly of God Church in Lordsburg He has worked in evangelistic outreach in Texas and Oklahoma for four years and was ordained in 1945 Mrs Hudgens and son James will join after school ends James is a high school junior Mrs Hudgens is a Bible teacher and Women s Missionary Council worker They invite Lordsburg residents to visit the church and meet the family
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H. L. Hudgens
Aransas Pass
Texas
Assembly of God Church
Lordsburg
Oklahoma
Hudgens
James
Rev. Hudgens
New Telephone Directories To Be Delivered Next Week
Lordsburg will receive the 1961 Mountain States Telephone Company directory next week. Howard Ross notes new issues are quickly opened by businesses and households to verify names addresses and numbers, with minor errors corrected individually. He urges checking older directories before discarding them due to hidden money or important addresses on covers.
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Lordsburg
Dustin
Howard Ross
Mountain States Telephone Company
Rex
National Library Week Observed April 16 22
National Library Week will be observed annually April 16 to 22. The Sage and Sand Extension Club sponsors the event in Lordsburg with the theme Read-For a Richer Fuller Life. Local residents are urged to use public libraries school libraries bookmobiles and church libraries to enrich life.
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Lordsburg
Sage and Sand Extension Club
Driver and Chauffeur License Fees Increased Statewide
The legislature passed a bill with an emergency clause raising driver license fees to 1.25 and extending chauffeur license expiration to the applicant's birth month end. Provisional minor and scooter licenses incur a 1.25 fee. two year licenses cost 3.25. Chauffeur licenses, once annual, rise 75 cents to 2.75.
County Rural Schools Suffer Budget Cut
Lordsburg Municipal Schools faced a minor reduction in its 1961-62 maintenance budget after a budget hearing with Santa Fe finance director John C. Gott. The proposed request was 404,586 dollars, while the approved total stood at 398,182 dollars.
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Lordsburg
John C. Gott
Santa Fe
Mount
State Health Department
Virden
Sign Up Feed Grain Program To Bevin Soon
Farmers may register their intentions to participate in the 1961 Feed Grain Program starting next Monday. Cooperators will receive immediate payments and price supports for crops in 1961, with nonparticipants missing those benefits. The program aims to bolster income, stabilize prices, reduce taxpayer costs, and curb surpluses through 20 percent diversion to approved soil conservation uses.
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Bevin
Secretary of Agriculture
CCC
Elks Lodge 1813 Confers Degrees of Office on Silver Elks
Elks Lodge No 1813 traveled to Silver City on April 5 to confer degrees of office on newly elected and appointed Silver City Lodge No 413 officers. The Silver City lodge will install their officials at a ceremony on April 12. Exalted Ruler William L. Miller led the Lordsburg Elks with a delegation including Dennis Kerr Elmer Harris Jr John T Miller Edward Fisher Jr John M Jeffus Ralph H Poindexter Jr Speer Charles R Walter Nation J Doty in the ceremony.
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Elks Lodge No. 1813
Silver City
Lordsburg Elks
William L. Miller
Silver
Dennis Kerr
Elmer Harris, Jr
John T. Miller
Edward Fisher, Jr
John M. Jeffus
Ralph H
J. R. Poindexter, Jr
Speer
Charles R. Walter
Nation J. Doty
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National Library
Animas
R. H. Wamel
Animes
Redeo
Hachita
Wamnell
Adelaide Kerr
Gott
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