Britain backs Ike peace plan in UN session
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd voiced full support for President Eisenhower’s Middle East peace plan. He condemned Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko as spreading "utter nonsense" and urged private UN talks to flesh out the six point proposal. Lloyd defended Western actions and urged private consultation during the emergency session.
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United Nations
UPI
Selwyn Lloyd
Eisenhower
Middle East
Andrei Gromyko
U. N
World Organization
Lebanon
Jordan
Lloyd
General Assembly
Dag Hammerskjold
Gromyko
United States
United Kingdom
Enrollment Schedule Sets 1958-59 Start Dates
The Lovington school system announces enrollment for the 1958-59 year from August 18 to August 23. Students are assigned by grade and home zone to Parkview Llano Yarbro Jefferson Central and high or junior high schools. Bus students enroll August 23 with zone-based placement.
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Avenue “D
Artesia Highway
Parkview Elementary
Llano Elementary
Artesian Highway
Jefferson Avenue
Yarbro
Jefferson Elementary
Central Elementary
Avenue K
Parkview
Llano
Avenue
Jefferson
Central
Yarbro, Jefferson
Central School
Lovington
Attempt To Close Polls Triggers Bond Election Turmoil
Controversy over voter lists sparks threats to close Hobbs polling places during a bond election. Lovington had a property tax list used by poll workers. other sites lacked official lists, prompting questions on who supplies qualified voter lists and how ballots would be handled. County officials faced pressure from Wycoff and local figures.
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Hobbs
Lovington
Winford Carlile
Chamber of Commerce
Loving
Love
Jack Love
Wycoff
Habbs
Warnock Motor Co. seeks wrecker service in two counties
The Warnock Motor Co. of Alamogordo has filed to operate a wrecker service in Otero and Lincoln counties. The State Corporation Commission will hear the application.
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Alamogordo
UPI
Warnock Motor Co
Otero
Lincoln Counties
Com
Soviet Attacks Ike Middle East Plan Speech
Moscow state media and radio condemned President Eisenhower's Middle East program as an attempt to justify U S intervention in Lebanon. A New York dispatch called the plan a so called peace initiative and accused Eisenhower of seeking armed intervention based on Lebanon's claim of a legal government. Radio Moscow echoed Gromyko criticizing the plan and urging immediate U S and British troop withdrawal.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
Eisenhower
Middle East
U. S
Lebanon
New York
Sai
Gromyko
Tulsa case widens as child swap story develops
A Texas woman claims she is the infant’s grandmother and plans to confront the alleged mother Mrs Richard Readdy in Tulsa. Police prepared to press child abandonment charges against the Readlys after a man swapped a 42 month old boy for a 1957 pickup truck and three people were jailed.
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Tulsa
Okla
UPI
Texas
Richard Readdy
E. C. Neal
Center
Tex
Readdy
Shamokin
Jim Divine
California
Richard Anthony Readdy
William Murphy
Readlys
Jesse Lester Burger
el Doardo Springs
Gromyko Hides as Police Guard Park Avenue Building
United Press International reports police guard the Park Avenue 68th Street offices housing the Soviet delegation to the United Nations as Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrives for the General Assembly. Extra patrols and a detective car accompany the convoy while rumors of trouble loom after Hungarian demonstrators once targeted the building.
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United Press International
New York
UPI
Park Avenue
68Th Street
Bureau of Municipal Research
United Nations
Andrei Gromyko
General Assembly
Gromyko
Nikita Khrushch
Stephen Kennedy
Waldorf - Astoria
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Gromwyko
Presley’s Mother Dies at 42 in Memphis Hospital
Mrs Vernon Presley, Elvis Presley’s mother, died of an apparent heart attack in a Memphis hospital at about 4:15 a.m. c.d.t. She was 42. Vernon Presley was at her side. Elvis slept at Graceland in Whitehaven. The physician said death was unexpected and followed a day of feeling better.
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Memphis
Tenn
Presley
Two Held Confess To Break-ins In Carrizozo
District Attorney Pat Hanna says two men arrested in Carrizozo confessed to breaking and entering two local sites Sacra Bros Lea County and Cotton Butane. They await trial in Lincoln County. Hanna predicts two more men confessed to over twenty robberies. The Sacra burglary involved a hauled off safe found later in the Pecos River containing money books and papers.
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Pat Hannagan
Carrizozo
Sacra Bros
Lea County
Cotton Butane
Lincoln County
Sacra
Pecos
Hobbs Gains On Midland In Rain-Interrupted Tilt
Hobbs rallied from a four run sixth to beat Plainview 12-11 after rain postponed the Braves game with Artesia. Robert Herrera drove in three Hobbs runs with two doubles, Ken Bryant added a double and two singles, while Bob Jacobson homered in the eighth to steady the comeback. Cal Grant won, Vince Pone took the loss. Carlsbad swept San Angelo with a 3-1 opener and 9-2 nightcap.
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Hobbs
Carlsbad
Midland
Braves
Artesia
Plainview
Robert Herrera
Ken Bryant
Cardinal
Bob Jacobson
Cal Grant
Vince Pone
Reief
San Angelo
Potashers
Pirates
May Construction Funds For Clovis Armory Approved
UPI reports Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico says $94 000 has been made available for a National Guard Armory in Clovis. The money is federal contribution but funds released only if local enlistment strength is sufficient. Guard units from New Mexico are in Texas for summer maneuvers.
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Washington
UPI
Dennis Chaves
National Guard
Clovis
New Mexico
Texas
Oil Industry Testifies For Truck Haulers
State officials cite proposed pipeline expansion to move West Texas oil to New Mexico terminals at Tucumcari and Albuquerque. Flow could reach Tucumcari by August 15 and Albuquerque by October 1, boosting capacity from 20 000 to 30 000 barrels daily for 10 50 000 barrels annually.
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Santa FE Upi
West Texas
New Mexico
State Corporation Commission
Tucumcari
Albuquerque
K. J. Haslam
Salt Lake City
Utah
Phillips Petroleum Co
Commission
Shamrock, Phillips and
Small Watershed Project May Be Continued Here
Lea County may see a small watershed project continued with input from landowners in the designated area. The Lea Soil Conservation District is studying the plan and gathering data while a vote by those directly concerned will determine its fate. Continuous funding and part time work by hydrologist E G Minton have kept recharge experiments alive as officials weigh local support and federal conditions for possible district formation.
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Lea Soil Conservation District
Conservation District Board
E. G. Minton
Board of the District
Minton
Lea County
President likely to veto new Social Security law
Senator Frank Carlson Ryan says President Eisenhower will veto the election year Social Security bill as inflationary, claiming both the public assistance and old age sections are costly. He expects the Senate Finance Committee to approve the bill and Congress to pass it without removing the aid provisions.
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Washington
UPI
Frank Carlson Ryan
Eisenhower
Congress
Carlson
United Press International
Senate Finance Committee
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
White House
House
Senate
GOP
William F. Knowland
Eunice Prepares for 50th City Rodeo and Stampede
Eunice plans a Ranch Hands Rodeo and Stampede at City Park September 4 5 and 6 with a public barbecue. entry fees range from 10 to 30 dollars and a trophy saddle awaits the All Around Cowboy. Civic leaders expect over 5000 spectators.
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Eunice
Retraction Ends Suit Demand
The TATUM JOURNAL printed a retraction of a July 31 article ridiculing Sheriff J. G. McAdoo and Deputy Wendell Green. The item by Mud Dobber prompted a criminal libel charge to be dropped. Green will act only in his personal capacity, not as a deputy.
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Tatum Journal
J. G. McAdoo
Wendell Green
McAdoo
Green
Atty Pat Hanagan
Daily Leader
Premature Eunice Baby Gaining Strength
A one pound eight ounce baby boy born at Eunice Hospital Saturday night is alive and improving. The infant, four months premature, is in an incubator rushed from Hobbs, nourished by a feeding tube, with doctors reporting faint movement and a weak cry. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Poke Bowden and grandson of Judge and Mrs. Faugh Bodwen.
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Eunice Hospital
Poke Bowden
Judge
Faugh Bodwen
Hobbs
Eunice
Three Die On NM Highways
A head on collision about 22 miles east of Albuquerque killed three people. John J. Moore 48 and Grace Moore 45 of Manchester Connecticut died with John Patrick Henry driver of the other car. Moore couple were returning from a California vacation. Henry was entering Albuquerque. State highway deaths reached 210 for the year.
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Albuquerque
UPI
Here
John J. Moore
Grace
Manchester
Conn
John Patrick Henry
Longhorn Ranch
N. M
Moore
California
Henry
City Garbage Fleet Logs July Activity and Waste Volume
The city's garbage trucks traveled 2735 miles in July and disposed of 2794 yards of refuse. The city was sprayed once and the business district twice.
New Readers at City Library See July Uptick
City Library reports 89 new members in July and total readers of 1,658 for the month. Receipts totaled 30.97 dollars.
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City Library
Wreckage Spotted of KLN Airliner Missing Over Atlantic
RAF Shackleton sighted debris and life rafts about 130 miles west of Ireland from the KLN Amsterdam to New York flight 607E. 99 aboard, including 91 passengers and 8 crew, disappeared after leaving Shannon, with an extensive search underway.
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London
Newfoundland
New York
Shannon
C.d.t
Amsterdam
KLM
Gander
U. S. Coast Guard
Ocean
British ‘Overseas Airways Corp
RAF
Shackleton
Hague
BOAC
Missile Kill Demonstrates Talos Interceptor Over White Sands
At White Sands New Mexico a Talos anti aircraft interceptor destroyed a Kingfisher supersonic target missile in a defensive test. A radar operator activated the kill switch and the automatic ground tracking system guided the Talos to intercept the Kingfisher and record a successful impact for recovery purposes.
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Alamogordo
N. M
UPI
White Sands Range
U. S
White Sands
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Boston
Mass
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Ireland
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