15 Dec 1965
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Newspaper
Lovington Daily Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1965
Page
1
Effie Haldiman announces plans to run for County Clerk, with Jane Rice due to leave the office after two terms. The Leader notes campaign ad costs and credit issues in politics, alongside a personal aside about Red Skelton's comic appeal.
Colorado University Young Republicans president Mike South of Lovington New Mexico charged the Colorado Daily with failing to publish notices and a pre speech story about State Republican Chairman Howard Propst and a planned appearance by State Senator Joe Shoemaker. The editor apologized after the incident.
John Warren opens John's Drive-In Grocery at Ninth and Taylor intersection in Lovington. Warren, a former telephone company employee from Hobbs, has lived in Lovington about 14 years.
A Hobbs resident, Vaughan Jordan aged 49, died seven miles north of Lovington when his truck spun on an icy Highway 18 and overturned. State Patrol reported loss of control on the icy stretch. the vehicle rolled onto the west shoulder and the driver was thrown. Jordan’s body was taken to Lovington’s Smith Rodgers Funeral Home. an inquest was planned.
Lovington civic groups meet at Western Grill with ten organizations. They propose a 1966 Christmas season screening panel including school city and county reps to prevent multiple gifts to the same family, with the Chamber of Commerce as central registry.
King of the banjoists Eddie Peabody will headline Lovington Chamber of Commerce event on January 11 at the Auditorium. Tickets cost 1.50 for adults and 0.50 for students, available at the Champ door. The meeting will also install new officers and name citizen of the year. Peabody, who serves in the U S Naval Reserves, is slated to perform after a Detroit Roostertail engagement.
Five Lovington residents reported Christmas bulbs stolen from outside lighting displays Monday night in the south part of town. Value estimated around 20 dollars with individual losses listed for Mrs Barbee, Miller, Allen Wemehreys, Mrs Aoie, and Percy Wirte, all on West M or West N streets.
A 36 year old Artesia man who had moved to Lovington with his family six days earlier died last night at Lea General Hospital about 10 30.
A high cost collision occurred around 9 45 a m on South Main Street between Avenue L and Avenue M Lovington involving a 1964 Cadillac driven by Joe Del Eads 30 of 511 North Love and a 1966 Chevrolet driven by Horace Mitchell 33 of De Berry Texas. Each vehicle sustained about 1000 and 500 dollars in damage respectively. Police officers prepared the estimates. A second local crash happened at the Ninth and Tyr intersection.
Funeral services for 76 year old Eugene H. Hodge longtime Lea County rancher will be held Thursday at First Baptist Church in Tatum at 1 p.m. He died after a two vehicle crash near Lovington Tuesday. Hodge born October 9 1889 in Kentucky came to New Mexico in 1908. Burial will be in Tatum Cemetery with Smith Rogers Funeral Home in charge. He is survived by a daughter Virginia Badker of Medford Oregon a son J Preseley Hodge of Lovington six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Casket bearers Prentice Harris Irby Harris Bobby Brian and J B Selman.
Lovington Postmaster Reese Greaves designates today as the Christmas mail deadline. Cards must include return addresses with ZIP codes. 20 000 Gabriel stamps have been sold at the Lovington office. The stamps carry first class privileges and offer forwarding if recipients have moved.
Lovington Municipal School District trustees plan to add four teachers in the upcoming second semester two elementary special teachers and two secondary English language arts instructors. The board also accepted Ethel Purdue's resignation, discussed nepotism rules, approved using Pannell Auditorium for the January Chamber of Commerce meeting, and announced attendance at a county school-board meeting with Dr. Mildred Fitzpatrick addressing quality education.
Two mail trucks overturned on icy U S Highway 380 east of Tatum. Drivers Jake C. Osborn and Mary Goldston suffered shoulder injuries and lacerations, with both vehicles destroyed. No hospital treatment required. mail moved to Tatum Post Office. State Patrolman Todd and Deputy Joe Price led the response with the Tatum Ambulance Service.
State police urged Lea County motorists to reduce speed on Highway 24 after a series of crashes left two dead and four injured in the past hours. Weather was blamed for three of the four traffic mishaps, according to authorities.
Mrs. W A Wisdom of Lowington announces the reopening of her dress shop Beverly's Feminine Apparel at the Yarbro Shopping Center. The store, a continuation of her former business, closed two years ago with plans to resume once space in West Ashway 82 Center became available.
A weather brief predicts intermittent snow tonight and Thursday with a colder trend. Lows near 28 tonight and a high around 43 Thursday, with continued cold conditions into the day.
Lovington posted a high of 52 degrees at 3 PM and a morning low of 24 degrees at 4 30 AM. The Creee Nation area notes a wide region high of 83 in West Palm Florida and a bitter low of 15 below zero at Butte Montana.
A 24 year old Lovington man Leland D. Siils of 714 South Third is in Lea County Jail charged with burglary in connection with a weekend break in at Jackson Chevrolet around December 4 5. Bond set at $1000.
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