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Newspaper
Lordsburg Liberal
Location
Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1964
Page
4
The Hidalgo General Hospital surgery department comprises three units: the operating room, Central Supply for instrument sterilization, and the anesthesia department with modern machines. Aides train to assist in the OR and central supply, with scrub technicians prepared under RN supervision.
Mrs Darrell Brooks of Virden and County Home Agent Eva M Thomas attend the Homemakers College opening at New Mexico State University. Over 1000 registrants from across the state and neighboring areas participate in vesper service on Morale Stadium football field. The event features bell program by St Johns Santa Fe, multiple classes, Italian lawn party, theater tour, milk and ice cream, and eight year certificates.
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Moorhead Sanford were held Friday at Heather Chapel at 2 p.m. officiated by Bishop Sidney Wright of the L D S Church. She died June 15 after years of arthritic illness at Haynie Nursing Home in Douglas Arizona. Survivors include her husband four children five grandsons six granddaughters a sister and a brother. Burial was at Mt View Cemetery with pallbearers De Vaon Richins Dean Richins Jack Gauthier Bryce Larue Crum and Bert Upshaw.
Mary Edith Hart of Lordsburg is on the Glorieta Baptist Assembly staff in Glorieta New Mexico for the summer. A sophomore at the University of Washington Seattle she is the daughter of Mrs James D Cureton and a member of the Brooklyn Avenue Baptist Church in Seattle. Glorieta Baptist Assembly is a leadership training program owned and run by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville Tennessee.
Gary Anderson, Gary Corbell and Gwen Shumway of Lordsburg were named to the spring dean's commendatory list at Western New Mexico University, joining 107 students with at least 15 credit hours and a 3.00 GPA, announced Dean Donald Overturf.
The hospital lists several patients still confined including Clyde Welkes Chandler Abslum Garland Kerns Ronald Johnson Susan Silva Louie Marco H Garretson Catherine Taczkosky Roark Carley and Mrs Antonio Ruiz Myrtle Richardson Joe Brickey Jose Ibarra R B Collins Diane Gandara Mathilda Johnson Paul Valavanis John Augustine Vina Wright George Gerald Marian Veck and Mrs Paula Sanchez.
In Cotton City the Tumble Weed wilted after hot weather and failed to revive for press time. Farmers consider braceros and shared hoeing work as conditions improve. Local residents travel to California and Oklahoma, report irrigation ideas, and joke about dinners for workers amid otherwise routine rural life.
The Organ Bowmen sponsor a field shoot in Las Cruces on Sunday at 1 p m. Flechadores Archery Club of Lordsburg is invited to attend to learn the field range and will shoot 14 field 14 big game and a round of archery golf. Members are urged to bring blunt and flight arrows if possible.
Seasonal farm workers are needed in Luna and Hidalgo counties to weed and pick cotton and vegetables. Housing is provided free, with wages from 75 to 80 cents per hour for 8 to 10 hours daily. Contact the New Mexico State Employment Service in Silver City or local farm bureaus in Deming Cotton City and Virden for details.
Lordsburg High School sent delegates to the 1964 Girls State session in Albuquerque. Delegates, including Beverly Alem from Cactus City and Lenora We Pinon City, won state offices such as senator and representative. Valerie Toney and Kathy Carpenter were elected New Mexico’s 1964 Girls Nation Senators for Washington, with local counselors Stephanie Chae and Mrs. Harry S. Chase assisting during the week-long program.
A birthday and anniversary party was held at Cora Kerr's home for Bett and Lloyd Washburn last Sunday. Marel Mahan supervised barbecue and cricket games. Steve Washburn Dellon Cox and Bills Baugh provided violin and guitar music. dinner cake and ice cream were served to family and friends including Kerr and Washburn relatives.
Miss Patty Warren assisted the Liberal office while Dick Rice was absent. Former Lords Earl Warner and a radio repairman from 01 burg, along with his father, visited The Literal Thursday. They have been staying in Albuquerque after leaving Lords.
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