Robin League Opens Play With Six Teams In Round Robin
The Little League begins Monday night with six teams in regular season play. CPS meets Bishops in the opener as Gene's Shell and Service faces Sporting Goods in the nightcap. The schedule runs Monday and Wednesday with a one game finale Friday to decide first and second place and award player trophies once results are tabulated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wimp's Service
Bishop Lumber Co
Shell and the Elks
Sporting Goods
Gene's Shell and Service
Ellis
CPS
Bishop Lum
Reunion of 11 Descendants at Colonia Juarez Mexico
In Colonia Juarez Mexico over 200 descendants of John and Maria gathered in August for the Allen Hill family reunion. Attendees included 11 living children and numerous grandchildren from Keeler Deming Blanding Hatch Hatch Wright and others. They spent three days boating on Dublan Lake visited Indian ruins at Casa Grande and enjoyed a hamburger fry a meeting of the Shealogical society a dance and Mexican orchestra performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Maria
Colonia
Juarua
Mex
Keeler
Deming
Irene Blanding
Utah
Lynn
Animas
Ildren
John Hatch Ariz
Hugh Hatch Ja. Juarez
Hatch
Mack Hatch
Sidney Wright
Har
Allen
Roy Hatch
Dublan Lake
Casa Grande
Transloading Center Opens In El Paso
Southern Pacific announces a new El Paso transloading center costing 100000 to speed freight movement. The facility will handle 25 30 incoming cars and shift loads into 70 75 outbound cars within 24 hours, enabling multi destination service to Portland San Francisco Phoenix and Los Angeles.
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Southern Pacific
el Paso
Fred B. Bunsen
S.P
Paso
Bunsen
Eaytern
New York
Phoenix
Portland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Reno
San Antonio
Dallas
Pine Bluff
Cotton Belt
Las Cruces Man Held In Lordsburg Car Theft
Doise Wayne Routh of Las Cruces was arrested in Lordsburg at 9 p.m. Monday August 10 and held for Hidalgo County officers in connection with the theft of a pickup truck owned by Up-to-Date Grocery Co. of Lordsburg. He pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace C. L. Brown and was bound over to district court with bond set at 2500 dollars. The truck was stolen Monday afternoon while left unattended behind the store and was recovered undamaged.
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Doise Wayne Routh
Las Cruces
Hidalgo County
Routh
Justice of the Peace
C. L. Brown
Fierro Wins Who's Who Contest at Liberal Office
Fierr named the right person in a Who's Who contest. Dick Robson appears in the tally with 32 wrong clues and 84 correct ones totaling 144 entries. Slips were found in envelopes and future envelopes will not be opened. The box will be placed at Kirby's Cafe this week for readers to choose their Mystery Person.
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Kirby's Cafe
Growth in Telephone Installations Boosts Lordsburg Outlook
Growth in Lordsburg and statewide gains in telephone connections mark a strong first half of 1958. Mountain States Telephone manager Howard Ross reports a 36 telephone gain in Lordsburg exchanges and a statewide rise of over 35 percent from the prior year. He notes plans to expand statewide spending to about 18 million dollars this year to fund new dial installations in Silver City Deming Lordsburg Raton Clayton Red River Tijeras and Bloomfield with expected dial conversion in Silver City Lordsburg Deming and others by next April.
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Lordsburg
Howard Ross
Mountain States Telephone Company
Mountain States
New Mexico
Ross
Thare
United States
Mountain States Telephone
Rosa
Silver City
Deming
Raton
Clayton
Red River
Tijeras
Bloomfield
Animas Legion Meets At Cloverdale Grounds
Coronado Unit 29 of the American Legion Auxiliary of Animas held its monthly meeting at the Cloverdale picnic grounds on August 9. Mrs. Akin Youngblood resigned as treasurer and was moved to Ruidoso. Mrs. Jack Vaughan was elected treasurer. The chairman appointed by president Mrs. Buford Slover Jr. was approved. A reporting party is set for September 4. district president will be invited to the September 11 meeting. The group provided a noon meal for Legion members and helpers for cleanup ahead of the Cloverdale picnic on August 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coronado
American Legion Auxiliary of Animas
Cloverdale
Akin Youngblood
Ruidoso
Jack Vaughan
Buford Slover
Legion
Hidalgo County Fair and Rodeo Opens Sept 18 at Lordsburg
Ninth Hidalgo County Fair and Rodeo kicks off Friday Sept 18 at Lordsburg with three days of events. Ed Hitson says livestock displays will be expanded, Oldtimers parade Friday morning, chamber dance Saturday, junior livestock sale by Elks No 1813, and a three day rodeo featuring calf roping team tying bull riding barrel races and more with Butler Brothers supplying stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hidalgo County
Lordsburg
SRA
Ed Hitson
4H Club
FFA
Chamber of Commerce
Elks Lodge No
Ihe
Sheriff's Posse
Butler Brothers
Sue Ann Freeburg Chosen for Wayland A Capella Choir
Sue Ann Freeburg of Lordsbury New Mexico has been selected for Wayland Baptist College’s 47 member international A Capella choir. She will report August 31 for training ahead of the September 7 registration. The choir tours internationally and across many states, with its first appearance September 9 at the fall convocation in Wayland chapel.
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Plainview
Tex
Wayland Baptist College
47 Voice International
Sue Ann Freeburg
Lordsbury
N.M
Wayland International
Wayland Chapel
Texas
New Mexico
Health Department meeting held in Silver City
Mrs. Dick Rice, Robert Matin and Mrs. Jimiffeson attended a district Health Department staff meeting in Silver City on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Rice
Robert Matin
Jimiffeson
Health Department
Silver City
Temperature Readings Recorded by Southern Pacific Railroad
The following temperature readings were recorded by the Southern Pacific Railroad here.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Albuquerque Man Named New March of Dimes Head
Arthur L. Welsh of Keenan and Welsh was named New Mexico state chairman for the March of Dimes. Basil O’Connor praised Welsh for his past work in health and civic service as the national foundation expands its program to fight polio and other rheumatic diseases. Welsh said the appointment reflects humanitarian efforts and aims to aid 11 million Americans in New Mexico and nationwide, including 250 000 infants born yearly with birth defects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur L. Welsh
Keenan and
Welsh
New Mexico
Foundal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bish
Gene
Shell
Mrs
Allen Hill
E Fierro
Robson
Animas Legion
Cloverdale Grounds
Robert Swan
American Legion
Legion Hall
Grant County
Harber Heather
Harold E. Scofield
Marshal Fuller
Franklin Hood
Robert Williams
Lalo Sanchez
Homer Brooks
Elmer Jean
Baptist A Capella Choir
Albuquerque
New March of Dimes Head
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