Local Fair Parade Plans Include Calliope and Music
The 197 Lea County Fair and Rodeo hosts volunteers struggling to rebuild floats and booths amid rising costs. Windburn Hard, Farwell, Texas, will bring a 1920 Muscatine caliope with 43 keys, played by Florence Anderson on parade day after confirming her ability to meet professional standards.
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197 Lea
Lovington
Mama
Portales
Eastern
Windburn Hard
Ill Baldwin
Enmu Pyschology
Indburn
Farwell
Texas
Clovis
Herb Cunningham
America
Muscatine
Iowa
Bovina
Buzz Sawyer
Roscoe Weeney
Florence Anderson
Windburn
Florence
Welfare reform plan faces unknown outcome in missing figure
President Carter's 34 billion welfare reform plan aims to move able bodied recipients into private jobs. The key unknown is how many people will actually shift from welfare to unsubsidized work, a figure not specified in White House briefing papers.
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Michael J. Sniffen
Associated Press
Washington
Carter
White House
Ter
Plains
GCNM Eyes Gas Service Expansion to EPNG Irrigation Users
Gas Company of New Mexico plans to market surplus Lovington gas to irrigation customers now served by El Paso Natural Gas. If approved, they will build a 4 inch line east of Prairieview to connect Spears Lowe and L&B extensions. About 600 EPNG customers in Lea County may switch to GCNM, reducing EPNG load and safeguarding irrigation users during gas moratoriums.
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Prairieview
State Line
Spears
Lowe
L&b
el Paso
North Lea County
Tatum
Summers
GCNM
EPNG
Portales
Clovis
KPNG
Southern Union Production
Carter edges forward on clean air and water bill
President Carter plans to sign a $10 billion public works bill with nine of 18 water projects restored, while a broad water program totals 500 projects. He kept to Plains Baptist Church amid a race and policy dispute as Congress opponents argued over pork and breeder reactor funding.
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Richard E. Meyer
Associated Press
Plains, Ga
Carter
White House
Jody Powell
Plains Baptist Church
New Maranatha Baptist Church
Congress
Applegate Lake
Ore
Atchafalaya River
Cache Basin
Ark
Columbia Dam
Tenn
Hillsdale Lake
Kan
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
South Carolina
Tallahala Creek
Miss
Auburn
Calif
Bayou’ Bodeau
Clinch River
Tennessee
Top Cowboys In Lea Rodeo
Denver report notes top professional cowboys head to Lea County Fair and Rodeo in Levin New Mexico August 10 to 13. Events include saddle bronc bareback bull riding calf roping steer wrestling and team rope with a $4 200 purse plus up to 150 per event in added money. The PRCA runs about 600 rodeos annually across North America and features famed winners like Tom Fe garnering large season prizes.
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Denver
Colo
Levin
N.M
Lea Co
Tom Fe
Ferguson
PRCA
Old
Avondale
Lovington
Sister Bertha Linton Dies in Buena Vista Burial Planned
Mrs. Bertha Linton of Buena Vista Colorado died Saturday. She was sister of Jane Rice Smith and had visited Lovington often. Her husband died five years ago. Services set for 10 a m Tuesday at First Baptist Church in Buena Vista. She will be buried there.
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Bertha Linton
Buena Vista
Colo
Jane Rice Smith
Lovington
First Baptist Church
Buena An
Trial of Betty Mata Underway in Las Cruces
Former Otero County treasurer Betty Mata faces 19 counts after a prior venue change and a sealed record. Jury selection proceeded with an expanded panel, as District Judge Thomas A. Sandenaw Jr. aims to speed evidence and testimony, including nights and weekends.
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Las Cruces
Otero County
Betty Mata
Thomas A. Sandenaw Jr
Otero
Sandenaw
Dist
Atty
Robert Doughty
John Wallace
Thomas Overstreet
Frank Burrows
Doughty
Mata
Aw Re
Wallace, Mobbs
200000 Migrants Hoarded at Border Besieges U.S.
The New York Times reports 200000 to 250000 destitute Mexican migrants wait near the border for a chance to slip into the United States before Congress acts on amnesty. Nightly about 3500 attempt to cross. around 1000 are caught and sent back. Smugglers in Tijuana charge 250 for guidance and up to 400 more for fake documents to qualify under President Carters proposal.
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New York
U.S
Congress
New York Times
Mexico
Tijuana
Los Angeles
Carter
Anderson to Speak at Hobbs Chamber Luncheon
John Anderson, chairman of Hobbs Chamber ton committee, will address Levin Chamber members at Pearl's luncheon. He helped arrange Texas International jet service for Lea County Hobbs and will outline benefits and remaining county needs. Miss Don Mitshell, Queen, and Miss Evelyn Foster of Lovington will be guests.
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John Anderson
Ton
Hobbs Chamber of Commerce
Levin Chamber of Commerce
Arrow
Pearl’s
Anderson
Texas Internationals
Lea County
Hobbs
Don Mitshell
Evelyn Foster
New Mexico
Lovington
Connally to Albuquerque for fund raising dinner
Former Texas governor and U S treasury secretary John Connally will speak at a $50 plate dinner in Albuquerque on August 26 to aid the New Mexico Republican Legislative Campaign Committee. State Senator William Valentine says the event marks a first for the committee and will fund recruitments and campaigns for legislative candidates.
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Albuquerque
John Connally
Texas
U.S. Treasury
New Mexico
Republican Legislative Campaign Committee
William Valentine
R-Bernalillo
Lea County Fair Schedule of Events Week of August
The Lea County Fair lists daily events from Tuesday to Saturday with judging at 8:00 a.m. including swine home economics poultry and junior rabbit judging and a horse clinic at 10:00 a.m. The schedule also includes a queen contest at 7:30 p.m. and rodeo performances each evening at various arenas. Key dates show August 9 through August 13 with related activities and dismantling at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday.
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Jake McClure
Canada hit by sweeping air controller strike halting flights
Virtually all commercial flights into and out of Canadian airports were grounded as CATCA demands a 12.6 percent pay increase clash with inflation rules. Parliament heads back to Ottawa to consider orders to reassign workers. Losses reach up to 7 million daily as flights are cancelled or rerouted via the U S border.
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Canada
Air Transport Association of Cana
Canadian Airlines
Canadian Air Traffic Control Association
CATCA
Air Canada
CP Air Canada
Ean
United States
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