City park project eyed for summer basketball and park upgrades
Hidalgo County Commissioner White urged funding for North Park basketball courts and Short Park tennis, volleyball, and fencing plus benches. Commissioner Hatch questioned revenue sharing use. White said funds go to Civic Center repayment with no surplus for park work. Local officials pressed for city county cooperation as Lordsburg lies in the county.
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Frank Chaires
Doctor Hammock Expected to Begin Practice in Lordsburg
A New Mexico health search ends as Dr. Hammock accepts to move to Hidalgo County. He toured Lordsburg and met with local doctors, confirming intent to practice there soon. Hammock, married with one child, is a Drew High School alumnus who studied at Mississippi and Alabama universities and completed internship at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
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James Baxter
Hidalgo County
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University of Alabama
Delegation Heads to Santa Fe for Road Plan Talks
Mayor Warren Ted White and County Commissioner Frank Kiki Chaires depart for Santa Fe to meet with Governor's aide Bobb Cooper. City officials Glenn Dorsett Gary Corbell and Felipe Alvarez accompany them to discuss feasible routes from Lordsburg to the Playas smelter area with results due next week in Liberal.
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Ted’’ White
Frank ‘Kiki
Chaires
Santa Fe
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White
Glenn Dorsett
Gary Corbell
Felipe Alvarez
Lordsburg
Playas Smelter
Culberson Rancher James Culberson Dies in Phoenix
Funeral services for James Sherwood Culberson 63 prominent Lordsburg rancher who died February 10 in Phoenix Arizona will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Chapel of the Heather Mortuary Lordsburg with Rev Gerald White officiating. Interment will follow at Mountain View Cemetery Lordsburg. He was a Santa Rita native from an early ranching family and held leadership roles in the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association and Federal Farm Credit Board. Survivors include widow Betty Jane Culberson a daughter Mary Ann Burton a son James Jr and seven grandchildren. Pallbearers are Tommy Anderson Steven Briggs Tommy Spurgeon Bobby Reynolds Bill Clark and Tuck Grimes. Honorary pallbearers are Freeman McWhorter Dr J H Baxter Marshall Fuller and Jim Wells.
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Ariz
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Santa Rita
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Federal Farm Credit Board
Federal Land Bank
Wichita
Kan
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AF & AM
Elks Lodge
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Mary Ann Burton
Cotton City
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Tommy Anderson
Steven Briggs
Tommy Spurgeon
Bobby Reynolds
Bill Clark
Tuck Grimes
Freeman McWhorter
Western Auto Coupon Sale Opens in Liberal
A 24 page Western Auto supplement inside the Liberal issue offers money saving coupons and items from spark plugs to roto tillers. The sale starts immediately and runs through February 22, per local Western Auto franchise owner Jiggs Reed. The supplement features many Price Fighter items sold below normal prices.
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Liberal
Jiggs Reed
Suspect Arrested in Aggravated Rape Warrants Case
Hidalgo County deputies arrest Donnie Roy Lee, 25, of Playas on a Louisiana warrant charging aggravated rape. Lee, a former Louisiana resident, was employed by Brown and Root at arrest time.
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Donnie Roy Lee
Playas
Louisiana
Lee
Brown and Root
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