Christmas lighting contest entries close December 19
Judging on December 20 will consider both quantity and quality of lighting. Prizes include a $50 cash award from Lea County Electric and a $20 hand painted wall picture from Miller Waldrop Furniture Co. Other prizes: Sea or Wildcat Theatre passes, gift certificates from Tipp's Men's Store Stell's Turner's Department Store and City Drug, $10 Fosteria gift, and a trophy for the winning merchant awarded by Field Service Inc. Applications are available at the Chamber of Commerce or Tipp's Men's Store with name, address, and category.
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Lea County Electric
Miller Waldrop Furniture Co
Turner's Department Store
Homemaker of America
City Drug
B & J Drug
Field Service, Inc
Eisenhower Promotes Food For Peace in New Delhi Visit
President Eisenhower unveiled a global food for peace campaign in New Delhi to foster friendship among nations and curb fear. He spoke at Delhi University on student exchanges for peace and opened India’s first international agricultural exhibition, receiving praise from Prime Minister Nehru as he toured the American pavilion and fair grounds.
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New Delhi
UPI
Eisenhower
Food For Peace
Camaign
Delhi University
India
Prime Min
Nehru
Martial law declared as guard joins strike clash in Albert Lea
Governor Freeman declared martial law ordering two National Guard units from Rochester and Mankato to Albert Lea to curb violence at Wilson & Co. Where more than 1,000 residents watched as pickets hurled rocks and snowballs at non-strikers cars. At least two injured and over 20 cars damaged. No arrests reported.
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Albert Lea
Minn
UPID
Minnesota
Orville L. Freeman
National Guard
United Packinghouse
Wilson & Co
Freeman
Rochester
Mankato
St. Paul
Wilson
James D. Cooney
Cooney
UPW
Ralph Helstein
Helstein
UNM Coach Sees Honors at Football Banquet
J R Neeld led UNM football awards collecting Most Valuable Play Best Defensive Back and Hardest Running Back as Leo Lowery Best Blocking Back Forrest Smith Best Blocking Lineman and Morris Pruit Best Defensive Lineman were among honorees at the Football Parents and Sons Banquet. Marvin Levy, UNM coach, spoke on football philosophy and highlighted the Lobos upset of Air Force 28 to 27.
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J. R. Neeld
Football Parents and Sons
Neeld
Wildcat
Leo Lowery
Forrest Smith
Morris Pruit
Marvin Levy
University of New Mexico
Levy
UNM
Air Force Academy
Lobos
Three New Lea County Drilling Ventures Set
Three wildcats are scheduled in Lea County. M B Rudman of Dallas will drill a 12 400 foot Devonian well two miles southwest of the Echols Devonian pool and 214 miles southeast of the Dickinson Devonian area in Lea as No 1. E Fife lays a 1 787 foot drill from section 9 11s 37e. Cabeen Exploration of Roswell reports a 25 100 foot Queen sand test southwest of the Seven Rivers lime discovery and south of a west extension to Queen sand production in the Pear pool No 1 E State 1 980 feet from North and 660 feet from West lines of section 36 19s 34e. El Cinco Production Company of Midland stakes a 5 000 foot San Andres wildcat 134 miles southwest of the South Sawyer San Andres pool in northeast Lea No 1 Harris 1 980 feet from South and 660 feet from East lines of section 8 10s 38e.
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Lea County
M. B. Rudman
Dallas
Echols
Seven Rivers
Queensand
el Cinco Production Company
Midland
San Andres
Nancy Lowery Wins Honors At Texas Tech Banquet
Nancy Lowery of 1105 W Van Buren joined 13 other Texas Tech students receiving Ethel Foster Scholarships for character, personality, and scholarship at a Home Economics Club banquet on campus. The junior also earned the Van Dyke Scholarship from Atlantic Refining.
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Nancy Lowery
van Buren
Texas Tech
Tech
Nancy
Ethel Foster
van Dyke
The
Atlantic Refining
Farmers To Choose Method On Quotas On 1960 Cotton
Cotton growers vote December 15 in Lea County referendum to decide marketing quotas for 1960 upland cotton. If two thirds approve quotas, penalties on excess cotton apply and growers choose between Choice A allotments with price support or Choice B allowing up to 40 percent increase. All 1959 upland cotton producers eligible to vote.
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Greer
Statewide business expansion listed in NM report
New Mexico Department of Development reports multiple projects across the state. Electronic Components Corp will start production January 1 at the old State TB Sanatorium site in Socorro and trains workers for electro mechanical subassemblies. Other ventures include a Hobbs office building, Lovington warehouses and plants, a Shiprock hospital completion, Artesia a natural gasoline plant, Estancia a feed mill, and a Roswell packing plant.
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Santa FE
UPD
Old State
Socorro
New Mexico Department of Development
Electronic Components Corp
J. Alan Lang
State Welfare Department
Department of Developments Monthly
New Mexico
Hobbs
Escape Ring Leader Captured as Six Fugitives Remain
Martinsville Virginia police captured Charles W Yank Stewart 52 the ringleader of a North Carolina prison escape after his stolen car crashed from a bridge on Route 220 near Martinsville. Six of the original twenty convicts remain at large with FBI fingerprints tying others to the Virginia area.
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Martinsville
Charles W
Yank) Stewart
North Carolina
Little Alcatraz
Stewart
Here
Ivy Bluff
Henry County
Virginia
Roanoke
Washington, D.C
FBI
Washington
Arlington
Wiley Cummings
Johnny Miller
John Kilbourne
Woodrow Stewart
Cleveland
Steel Bargaining Talks Suspended in Recess
Washington US Steel bargaining talks paused one week after President Eisenhower urged a round the clock settlement. Finnegan suspended talks citing no substantive progress. McDonald to observe aluminum talks in Chicago and push for company by company bargaining.
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Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
Federal
Joseph F. Finnegan
Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
Chicago
McDonald
Alcoa
Kaiser
Reynolds Metals
Finnegan
Lovington Weather Forecast Briefing Update
Weather note from Lovington indicates less cloudiness and cooler today with an occasional shower. Clearing and colder tonight. Fair and warmer Saturday with low around 28 and high near 60.
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Lovington
Jaycees To Sell Christmas Trees In Lovington
The Lovington Jaycees will sell Christmas trees at 319 S. Main at the old Witherspoon lot to raise funds for local needy baskets. All proceeds stay in Lovington. Santa Claus visits on Saturday from 9 to 11 am and 2 to 4 pm. Trees cost $1 for small, up to $8 for a 12 foot fir.
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Lovington Jaycees
Witherspoon
S. Main
Lovington
Jaycee
Kieth Kashner
Jaycees
Johnny Custer
Washington, D. C
Santa Claus
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Israel
Caio i Iit
Tipp’s Men’s Store
Stell’s
Ister Jawaharlal Nehru
Sot
Z. L. Dillon
Roswell
Lowery, Pruit
Smith
Wildcats
Lea
Floyd Greer
Lea County Agricultural
Phillips Petroleum Co
Artesia
Estancia Cooperative Assn
Glover Packing Co
R. Conrad Cooper
MacDonald
Cooper
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