Weather outlook for Lovington with cooler on Wednesday
Variable high clouds drift over Lovington today and tonight with a cool spell on Wednesday. Tonight's low is 30 and the high Wednesday reaches 54.
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Newspaper
Lovington Daily Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1959
Page
1
Woody Allen Elected Lovington Chamber President
Woody Allen was elected president of the Lovington Chamber of Commerce as the new board of ten members formed. The meeting also named officers including Jerry Stoltz vice president Harold Denton treasurer and Mrs Tom Bridgforth secretary.
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Woody Allen
Lovington Chamber of Commerce
Lester Alston
Chuck Benson
Hoyt Caldwell
Kenneth Cox
Jim Whittenberg
Jerry Stoltz
Harold Denton
Tom Bridgforth
Allen
Jimmie Abbott
Roy Boland
Virgil Boteler
Winford Carlile
C. F E. Jackson
Peck Morgan
Chamber
Ed Bell
Bell
Mary Payne
Allen and Bell
Payne
Lovington
Chamber of Commerce
Ike Offers More Funds To Pakistan
President Eisenhower pledged new military and economic aid to Pakistan to counter communism and support a loyal, peace loving people. He conferred an 80 minute session with President Ayub Khan and spoke to a cheering crowd about common interests and cooperation for mutual security. A 400 word communique described broad talks on global issues and relations with the Sino Soviet Bloc.
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Eisenhower
Pakistan
Mohammed Ayub Kahn
Ayub
1959 U.S. cotton crop estimated at 14.7 million bales
The Agriculture Department pegs the 1959 cotton crop at 14,701,000 bales, down 100,000 from the November estimate, with yields near a record 465 pounds per acre and only 4 percent of planted cotton abandoned due to damage. Domestic sales and exports are rising to absorb the larger crop.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Crop Board
Democrats Reach $113 in Saturday Fund Drive
The Saturday fundraiser at the Heidel home collected $113 for the Democratic Party. Mrs. Heidel said the drive would continue through the week, conducted on a personal basis. Funds are divided into thirds among the precinct, state, and national organizations.
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Finis Heidel
Deadly Storm Strikes New England and South
A deadly winter storm swept the East Coast with gale winds and heavy snow from the Appalachians to Virginia and the Carolinas. Seven deaths were linked to the storm including a fire in the South and a Maine tragedy near Liberty.
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New England
Appalachians
Pennsylvania
New York State
Virginia
North Carolina
Liberty
Maine
Orlando
Ocala
Florida
Weather Bureau
Tennessee
Georgia
St. Lawrence Valley
Canada
Funeral set for Mrs. J. L. Killian in Colorado City
Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow at Riker Funeral Chapel in Colorado City Texas for Mrs. J. L. Killian who died at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday after years of ill health. Survivors include son Oscar Killian of Lovington and daughter Mrs. M. X. Carson of Lovington.
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Riker Funeral Chapel
Colorado City
Texas
J. L. Killian
Killian
Oscar Killian
W. Gore
M. X. Carson
Clayton
Lovington
Tatum Pioneer Dies At Melrose
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Green a Tatum area pioneer died Monday afternoon in Melrose at age 94. Services are set for 2 p m Wednesday at Melrose Church of Christ with burial in Melrose Cemetery. Green came to Tatum in 1907 and the family homesteaded a farm five miles southwest of town.
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Elizabeth C. Green
Tatum Area
Melrose
Melrose Church
Republicans to meet in Hobbs to elect county chairman
Lea County Republicans will hold a county meeting at the New Mexico Bank and Trust Co in Hobbs at 7 30 p m on December 10 to elect a new county chairman according to Howell Spear. All Republicans are invited.
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Lea County
New Mexico Bank and Trust Co
Hobbs
Howell Spear
Retired oil worker Charlie Norris plans to loaf in Waco
Charlie Norris, 806 West Ave E Lovington, after 36 years in oil fields with Magnolia/Mobil Oil, retires to move to Waco to loaf and fish. He recalls early 1920s work near Breckenridge, gas dangers, and roughneck days. Norris, his wife, Speck the fox terrier, and past colleagues mark a long career and move.
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Charlie Norris
W. Ave E
Magnolia Petroleum Corp
Mobile Oil Co
Speck
Norris
Mobile Oil Company
West Ave
Lovington
Waco
Texas
Texas Company
Breckenridge
Perry Oil and Gas Company
Crane
Mobile Oil
Kermit
20 Convicts Free Pen In Carolina
In Yanceyville North Carolina twenty dangerous convicts seized control of a maximum security prison sys tem and fled with 17 weapons including a submachine gun. They escaped in a prison truck and may have stolen two cars in Caswell County heading toward Virginia. The FBI is sending agents to assist as authorities believe they crossed into Virginia. Charles Yank Stewart led the break with James Edward Christy, both recently linked to a Raleigh infirmary escape.
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Yanceyville
N.C
North Carolina
Caswell County
Virginia State Line
Here
FBI
Washington
Virginia
Charles
Yank) Stewart
Ivy Bluff
Central Prison
Raleigh
James Edward Christy
Carsons Return From Funeral
Mr and Mrs W B Carson returned to Leevington Saturday morning after funeral services for her step father Jack Mack at Walnut Ridge Ark The Carsons went to St Louis Mo to get her mother visiting a son Alva H Harris Her mother accompanied Mrs Carson back to Lovington to make her home there Other survivors include two more sons William A Harris and Foster Leon Harris of St Louis Mo
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W. B. Carson
Leevington
Jack Mack
Walnut Ridge
Ark
Carsons
St. Louis
Alva H. Harris
Lovington
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Financial Statement
Lovington Industries
State Department of Development
New Mexico
Harold Runnels
Dave Caudle
Walter Hopkins
J. B. Selman
G. C. Hill
Bill Irwin
J. C. Whittenberg
Ike
Karachi
Free World
Sinco-Soviet Bloc
Tesco Neon Signs, Inc
Roswell
New Town and Country
Beecher Martin
Duane Swafford
U. S
New York
Tatum
Pumper
Mobil Oil Co
New York City
Syracuse
N.Y
Atlantic
A. G. Green
Julia Bess
Jack Green
Coshatta
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Mary Potts
First Presbyterian Church of
Patty Harty
Virginia Jones
Home Service Department
Southern Union Gas Company
Southern Union Gas Co
Carolina
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