Allstate Wins Lovington Hospital Bid Over Jourdan
County Commissioners awarded the Lovington hospital contract to Allstate Builders of Hobbs for 453 487 dollars with two alternates. Jourdan of Hobbs bid 454 600 and two Lovington firms offered higher totals. The award used bid plus alternates with all bids including paving and roofing options.
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Allstate Builders
Hobbs
Levinton Hospital
Allstate
W. A. Jourdan, Inc
Jourdan
C. S. Lambie
Amarillo
Lovington
Lubbock
Roswell
Clovis
Eunice
Jal
Lea County Construction Co
Verhan Construction Co
Charles Ramsey and Co
V&m Construction Co
New Mexico Vegetable Shippers Seek 10,000 Acre Harvest
The New Mexico Vegetable and Canteloupe Shippers plan to seek almost 10 000 acres for next season. A general meeting is set for 7 p m tonight in the Lovington courthouse basement to discuss acreage for crops including cantaloupe onions tomatoes carrots and okra. Details include costs per acre and maturity dates from 22 to 200 days.
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Lovington Area
Roads Slick But Open In Snowbound Vaughn
Snowbound motorists, a few at a time, began driving out of Vaughn New Mexico at daybreak as state police watched departures for spacing and urged caution. US 285 was reported open from Roswell to Clines Corners through the beleaguered town.
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Vaughn
UPD
New Mexico
Roswell
Clines Corners
Grants
Albuquerque
Pool Table
Two Day Deadline For Christmas Home Lighting Contest
Mrs. R E Smith announces December 19 as the entry deadline for the Christmas Homelighting Contest with entries at the Chamber of Commerce or Tipps Mews Store. Previous winners included Donald Tatum for best lighted home and multiple $10 prizes for exterior decorations.
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R. E. Smith
Chamber of Commerce
Tipp’s Mews
Donald Tatum
Lea County Electric Cooperative Inc
L. S. Williams, Jr
Miller - Waldrop
the Sea
Wildcat
W. R. Hall
Tipps
E. L. Lawson
Stell’s
Turner's
City Drug
Tipps Men's Store
Levington Community College Maps Spring Session
Levington Community College plans the spring semester as a fully accredited evening branch of Eastern New Mexico University. Enrollment will justify offering most courses, with Carl Carlton in Lovington Schools Administration Building handling information on course offerings.
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Levington Community College
Eastern New Mexico University
Carl Carlton
Lovington Schools
Town and Country Shopping Center Opens in Lovington
Town and Country Shopping Center on North Main Street opens at 9 am Friday with Beverly's women’s apparel Food Time supermarket and an automatic laundry operated by F I White family. Planned by E B Yarbro and sons the center houses three firms and marks Lovington’s first shopping center. Food Time will be closed Sundays but offers Grand Opening specials all day Friday and Saturday.
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E. B. Yarbro and Sons
North Main Street
Beverly
Food Time, Inc
F. I. White
Town and Country
Lovington
Beecher Martin
O C Smith Funeral Set At 2 P M Friday
Services for O C Bugs Smith age 50 who died Wednesday will be at 2 P M Friday in the First Methodist Church. Burial in Lovington cemetery. Survived by wife Hallie Jane Smith a daughter Mary Evelyn Hale his mother Effie Dean Smith two brothers Bill Smith and Bob Smith a sister Mrs Tom Shoemake and two grandchildren. Oddfellows will be casket bearers.
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O. C
Bugs) Smith
First Methodist Church
Lovington
Mr. Smith
Wingate
Texas
Hallie Jane (Copper) Smith
Mary Evelyn Hale
Dallas
Effie Dean Smith
Gatesville
Bill Smith
Paducah
Bob Smith
Pearl
Tom Shoemake
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Ike Ends Talks In Turns Headed For French Site
Five state insurance fraud ring smashed nine arrested across Texas Arizona New Mexico. Leader Donald Lee Garrett 27 indicted in Houston admitted part in fake accidents to collect at least 25000. Operations staged in Wichita Falls San Bernardino Fort Worth Pacoima Albuquerque Lubbock Chandler Houston and Denver with victims filing car damage and injury claims.
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Dallas
Tex
UPD
Charles F. Holmans
The
Association of Casualty & Surety Companies
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Donald Lee Garrett
Houston
Holmans
Wichita Falls
San Bernardino
Calif
Fort Worth
Pacoima
Albuquerque
N. M
Lubbock
President Eisenhower’s Tunisia visit recalls World War II rally
In Tunis President Eisenhower tours his old wartime haunts with President Bourguiba and pledges aid to raise living standards. He notes Africa’s last colonial outposts must end before peace, visits war graves, and returns to the Des Moines after a rapid stop at Dar Es Saada Palace.
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Tunis
UPI
Eisenhower
Tunisia
Sicily
Habib Bourguiba
Bourguiba
Africa
France
U.S.S. Des Moines
Toulon
USS
Des Moines
Dar Es Saada
House of Happiness
Air Force Plane Forced To Land At Dominican Airport
A U S military C47 carrying Lt Col Robert Foley and Maj Gen John G Williams was intercepted near the Dominican Haiti border by Dominican Republic fighter jets and forced to land in the Dominican Republic during a routine flight from Ciudad Trujillo to Haiti.
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Westover Afb
Mass
UPD
Air Force
U. S
Dominican Republic
Eighth Air Force
U.S
Dominican - Haiti
Robert Foley
Venezuela
Haiti
John G. Williams
Ciudad Trujillo
Gangland Era Mobster Slain 23 Days After Parole
Roeger Touhy, a Prohibition era beer baron, aged 61, was shot to death on a West Side street hours after leaving a home where he lived with his sister. His bodyguard Walter Miller was wounded. Factor, the book author, was nearby in Chicago with libel suit ties. The attack echoed the era’s gang violence as detectives and witnesses recounted the night.
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Chicago
UPS
Roeger Touhy
Touhy
West Side
Walter Miller
John
Jake the Barber
Factor
United Press International
Richard McCormick
Near North Side
Beverly Hills
Calif
Roger
Brennan
Miller
Touwhy
al Capone
Alesia
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Anabaena SR
W. R. Bauske and Co
Allstate Building
D. Hayes
Sumner - Molesworth
Co. S. Lambie
Santa Claus
George Rich
Bobby Benson
Tommy Griffin
Mike Knave
Max Rort
Mike Claude
Dale Hereford
Steve McNeil
James Cargaugh
David Finley
Ing
E. Washington
Budd Jones
Norma Hampton
Snow Bound Vaughn
Weather Bureau
Santa Rosa
Carrizore
Duane Swafford
W. M. Shortes
Lovington Grocery
O. C. Smith
Ike
Tion
Ethel Alesia
Chicago Sun-Times
Ray Brennan
Facter
Chicago Press Club
Charles Mueller
Mueller
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