Lovington area eyed for cattle feeding growth
Robert Howard cites a summer tour of beef regions in Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming as inspiration for expanding cattle feeding in Lea County. Local figures like Leon Langford praise recent progress, while financial details show the scale and risk of large feed yards.
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Lovington
Lea County
Robert Howard
Bob
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
Grahams
Hereford
Clovis
Leon Langford
Farswell
Leon
Pioneer 8 launches to study solar radiation risks for astronauts
Cape Kennedy reports the launch of Pioneer 8 aboard a Delta rocket to orbit between Earth and Mars. The mission tests a sun circling path and an Earth relay satellite to improve tracking for the Apollo program and warn of solar flares and radiation storms.
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Jim Strothman
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Earth
Pioneer 8
America
Mars
TTS
Space
van Allen
Ortiz joins Garcia in meeting over OEO probe
Planning Officer Arthur Ortiz defended the state Office of Economic Opportunity against Witt's findings. He said Witt's personal evaluations of Garcia lacked factual substantiation and relied on incomplete testimony and newspaper reports. Dr. Clark Knowlton criticized attacks on Garcia who helped ease June Tierra Amarilla tensions.
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Santa FE
Ton Wirtt
State Office of Economic Opportunity
Robert Garcia
Arthur Ortiz
Father Garcia
Legislative Finance Committee
OEO
Witt
David Cargo
State Planning Office
Ortiz
Garcia
Reies Lopez Tijerina
Rio Arriba
Tierra Amarilla
Dr. Knowlton
New Mexico
Francis
Knowlton
el Paso
Unemployment Rate Drops Four Points in November
The national unemployment rate fell four points to 3.9 percent in November, the sharpest drop in over six years, with unemployment at 2.9 million and total employment rising to 75.1 million. Manufacturing and transportation gains, plus higher retail sales, support a recovering economy amid lingering strike effects.
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Washington
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Arthur B. Ross
Ford Motor Co
Ross
Snow Falls Across NM With More Expected
Heavy snow fell overnight in Grants with 3 inches reported in Raton and Las Vegas. Cuba Wagon Mound Mora areas saw up to one foot, schools closed, and travel discouraged due to slick roads. Freezing drizzle reached Roswell as warnings to travelers were issued.
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Associated Press
Grants
Raton
Las Vegas
Clayton
Zuni
Tucumcari - Clovis
Roswell
Weather Bureau
Continental
Mora
Cuba
Farmington
Canada Calls For Gamble For Peace In Vietnam
Canadian Foreign Secretary Paul Martin urged the United States to risk as much for peace as it has in war, offering Canada’s unrestricted help to end the Vietnam conflict. In Brussels with 14 NATO foreign ministers, Martin and U S Secretary of State Rusk discussed possible peacemaking roles for NATO and the Harmel Exercise to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union.
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Carl Hartman
Associated Press
Brussels
Belgium
Paul Martin
Canada
United States
Vietnam
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Martin
NATO
U.S
North Vietnam
International Control Commission
Cambodia
Laos
Pierre Harmel
Soviet Union
Maurice Couve de
Charles de Gaulle
France
Alliance
Johnson vows steady course on Vietnam amid labor rally
President Johnson tells AFLCIO delegates in Miami Beach he will not be deterred or inflamed by critics or polls and will push ahead for a great Congress in 1968. He rejects GOP obstruction and urges labor support for his Vietnam policy and social programs.
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LBJ
Neil Gilbride
Associated Press
Miami Beach
Fla
Johnson
Aflcio
Organized Labor
Thouse
Labor
Congress
Vietnam
White House
Hello Dollys
Whichohnson
Lyndon
Labor Federation
Hanoi
U.S
Washington
Central Texas College
Killeen
Tex
New Orleans
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