Mavericks Rally For First Win Of The Season
Underdog Mavericks, led by the Duncans, edged Lordsburg 20 14 Friday night as Alvarez and Estrada connected for TDs and Chaires added a TD pass. Don Santee starred for the Wildcats. Lordsburg clinched late with a TD to seal the result. The win boosts optimism for a Friday showdown with Thatcher at Lordsburg Stadium.
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Tors
Lordsburg
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Estrada
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Alvarez
Duncan
Don Santee
Wildcats
Thatcher
Lordsburg Stadium
Horace Heidt Show Scheduled for Silver City Monday
Horace Heidt with his band and 50 entertainers will stage a 2.5 hour variety show at Western College field house in Silver City on Monday Oct. 22. Talent scouts will hold local auditions for CBS and Sunday night shows. entrants must be solo performers over 16 with own accompanist. Ticket sales are underway.
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Horace Heidt
Rpm Western College
Starmaker
Horae Heidt
CBS
Silver City
Burglaries at Lone Star Service Station Reported
Local thieves burglarized the Lone Star service station on Wednesday morning taking canned meat vegetables a case of grape preserves about twelve five pound bags of sugar and a case of oxydol investigators note a similar theft occurred on the 3rd of July with a window broken on both occasions
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Lone Star
Jimmy Brown Passes Naval ROTC Exam
Jimmy Brown son of Assessor and Mrs Percy Brown passes his Naval ROTC entrance exam at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Upon completing a four year degree he will receive a Navy commission.
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Jimmy Brown
Percy Brown
Naval R.O.T.C
University of New Mexico
Albuquarque
Navy
Legion Auxiliary Sponsors Many New Projects
The American Legion Auxiliary met at Mrs. Harold Bishop’s home on Tuesday night September 25 with Mrs. Claude Fuller presiding. Members voted to donate to the Crusade of Freedom and planned fundraisers including a food sale and teen dances at the Legion hall.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Harold Bishop
Claude Fuller
Crusade of Freedom
Legion Hall
Business and Professional Womens Club
Moselle Messecar
Rehabilitation and Child Welfare
Hidalgo County
American Legion To Sponsor Teen Age Dance Friday
The American Legion will sponsor a second Teen Age Dance on Friday night September 28 at the Legion hall. Music by Beto Lopez and his orchestra. Dancing from 10 to 12 with a small admission. Last Friday's dance after the Maverick Duncan game was successful.
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Legion Hell
Beto Lopez
Parent and Cub Meeting Tonight at Central School Gym
A special Pack meeting for all Cub Scouts and parents is scheduled for Thursday September 27 at 7 30 PM in the Central School Gym. No Cub will be admitted without a parent or both parents.
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Central
Three Wonders Poem by Aunt Anna Ownby Recorded
Mrs. Anna Ownby known as Aunt Anna wrote Three Wonders that describe a grand Southwest Wonderland. Nearly blind she could not write it, but with help from Principal A. A. McAlister and students Wenda Keylon and Frances Gutierrez the poem was recorded.
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Anne Ownby
Anna
A. A. McAlister
Wenda Keylon
Frances Gutierrez
Mertice Brooks Elected Grand Chief At Pythian Sisters Convention
The 65th annual Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge and 29th Pythian Sisters Grand Temple session met in Roswell starting Monday September 17. Mrs Mertice Brooks of Western Star Temple Lordsburg was chosen grand chief as meetings and events filled the new Pythian Castle Hall.
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Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
Grand Temple of Pythian Sisters
Roswell
Mertice Brooks
Western Star Temple of
Sunshine Girls of
Lady Damon Temple
Albuquerque
Field Lunch Room Supervisors Praise Lordsburg School
Miss Juanita Taylor and Mrs Kathleen Doyle of the Department of Education spent days in Hidalgo county reviewing the Lordsburg school lunch program. Doyle calls the program a fine example of a good system with well planned meals meeting type A lunch requirements. Cory and her staff are praised for feeding the children, with teacher encouragement noted and Superintendent Weasley Freeburg credited for a modern system.
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Juanita Taylor
Kathleen Doyle
Department of Education
Hidalgo County
Doyle
Lordsburg
IL. W. Cory
Weasley Freeburg
D D G Exalted Ruler to Visit Lordsburg Lodge No 1813
The District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler BR New Mexico South will visit Lordsburg Lodge No 1813 on October 4, 1951. Robert J. Cunningham, D D G E BR from Carlsbad Lodge No 1558, is a Potash Division employee and World War I veteran with extensive community roles. He moved from Missouri to Carlsbad in 1938 and held leadership posts in American Legion, church, Masons, Shrine, and Boy Scouts.
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Lordsburg Lodge
Robert J. Cunningham
New Mexico
South
Carlsbad
Cunningham
American Legion
Episcopal Church
Masons and Shrine
Carlsbad U. S. O. Council
Local Residents Named Officers To U S W Corps
Mrs Emma Muir named department commander of the Ladies Corps of the United Indian War Veterans of America at the 21st National convention in San Francisco September 14 15. Her daughter Mrs Mary Dee Kipp and Mrs Anna Ownby named Ladies Corps National Aides.
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Emma Muir
Ladies’ Corps
United Indian War Veterans
San Francisco
California
Range of Lordsburg Rifle and Pistol Club Opens Sunday
The Lordsburg Rifle and Pistol Club range opens Sunday at 9 a m for practice and sighting in rifles. Members provide guns and ammo. targets and phones supplied. Firing from 100 to 300 yards with three big bore carriages installed. Located 3 miles west of town on old U S Highway 80 north of the tracks. Affiliated with the National Rifle Association contact Arthur A Richards. Club officers include M J Rolfe president Leo Cohen vice president C F E Speer executive officer J Eldon Taylor range officer. Members will shoot annual qualification scores soon.
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Lordsburg Rifle and Pistol Club
National Rifleman Assoc
Arthur A. Richards
M. J. Rolfe
Leo Cohen
C. F E. Speer
J. Eldon Taylor
Exchange of Letters Reveals Old Lordsburg Radio Lore
Paul Humphries, Southern Pacific storekeeper and Lordsburg reporter, replies to a letter from Henry H. West, Morse Telegraph Club historian, recalling Lordsburg days in 1893 94. West, once SP operator at Lordsburg, seeks memories of pioneer residents and mentions the Rio Grande Division reporting station.
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Paul Humphries
Southern Pacific Railroad
Lordsburg
S. P. Bulletin
Henry H. West
Morse Telegraph Club of America, Inc
E. Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles
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Mr .Humphries
Southern Pacific Bulletin
Rio Grande Division
Associated Press
Houston
Texas
Robin Vaugham
Filbert
Jack Howell
Will Shine
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