Lovington Christmas Lighting Contest Set This Year
The Lovington Chamber of Commerce announces the annual Home Lighting Contest with entries due by December 21. Judging runs December 21 to 23 by the Lovington Kiwanis Club, with winners named December 24. Prizes include cash, savings accounts, and gift certificates from local sponsors for categories such as Best Lighted Home, Most Original Exterior, General Outside Appearance, Most Outstanding Window, and Most Outstanding Door.
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Lovington Chamber of Commerce
Jim Jackson
Chamber of Commerce
Emry
Chamber
Lovington Kiwanis Club
Field Service, Inc
Lea County Electric Cooperative, Inc
Lovington National Bank
First Federal Savings & Loan
Turners
Lovington Appliance
Southwestern Builders
C. R. Anthony's
City Drug
Jake’s Pharmacy
S@en
Corner Grocery
Tipp’s Men's Store
Steil’s
B&j
Communist Party Convicted and Fined in Registration Case
A federal jury in Washington found the Communist Party of the United States guilty of failing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union under the Subversive Activities Control Act. Judge Holtzoff imposed the maximum $120,000 fine, to be held in abeyance pending appeal. The verdict paves the way for further trials of Party leaders Gus Hall and Benjamin Davis on the same charges.
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Washington
UPI
Communist Party of the
United States
Soviet Union
Alexander Holtzoff
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Gus Hall
Benjamin Davis
Soviets Call for U S Boost in U N Dues
The Soviet Union proposed raising U S payments to the United Nations while lowering its own. the plan, aimed at the United States as the largest contributor at about 32 percent of assessments, drew little interest from neutralist nations at U N headquarters.
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United Nations
N.Y
UPI
Soviet Union
U.S
Ukraine
Byelorussia
Bulgaria
Poland
World Organization
United States
General Assembly
Russia
Cuban Invasion Prisoners May Be Home Christmas
An informed source says Fidel Castro must give the go ahead to free and return 1,113 Cuban invasion prisoners from Havana by Christmas. James B. Donovan and Cuban negotiators arrived in Miami to push talks via medicines and baby foods after Castro’s tentative shift. The Red Cross backs negotiations with a merce cargo freighter ready to ship.
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Miami
UPI
Fidel Castro
Havana
New York
James B. Donovan
Castro
Baltimore
Florida
Mercy
Sanchez
Barreto
Betancourt
Donovan
Washington
American Red Cross
Farrell Lines
Red Cross
Cuba
Peace Corps Candidates Begin Training at UNM
Sixty five Peace Corps candidates will start training at the University of New Mexico on Feb 9 becoming the first volunteers trained there. The program will rotate monthly between Spanish and Portuguese with UNM under a $1.5 million contract to train about volunteers over a year establishing the university as a permanent training center.
Death of Gulf Oil Scout John R. Remmel in 1947
Word reached the M C Scott family Monday of the death of John R. Remmel age 40 of Oklahoma City Oklahoma a Gulf Oil Scout in Lea County in 1947. He died after a heart attack Friday night. He was an independent oil operator in Oklahoma City. He is survived by his wife and four children of Oklahoma City and his mother of Hooker Oklahoma. Funeral services were set for 9:30 a.m. today at Smith Reynke Funeral Home with burial in Hooker. Scotts left Monday to attend the funeral.
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M.C. Scott
John R. Remmel
Oklahoma City
Okla
Gulf Oil
Lea County
Remmel
Hooker
Smith Reynke Funeral
Scotts
Meredith Claims Unfair Treatment
Kosciusko Mississippi mayor Emmitt Carr pledged that James Meredith will receive a fair and impartial trial on Wednesday regarding a cut foundation charge. Meredith, a native of Kosciusko and the first Negro admitted to the University of Mississippi, said he was treated like a dog by arresting officers.
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Kosciusko
Miss
UPI
Emmitt Carr
James Meredith
Meredith
University of Mississippi
Lovington Police Log Reports Three Crashes Over Weekend
Lovington officers logged three accidents from Saturday to Monday causing a total of 1275 in damages and minor injuries. A 1961 Ford and a 1984 Buick collided on West Tyler at North 4th, Hopkins cited for failure to yield. A 1987 Pontiac and a 1961 Falcon collided on Main Street with both cars damaged and Huffman cited for following too close. A scooter and a 1962 Ford collided at South 5th and West Avenue H injuring David Large. scooter damage about 25 while the Ford front and side damage was about 150.
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West Tyler
North 4Th Street
Tyler
Almond Cornelius Hopkins
Lovington
Geraldine S. Ford
W. Polk
Ford
Buick
4Th Street
Hopkins
Main Street
Washington St
Joyce Marion Huffman
W. Ave. G
Robert Alexander Dawson
Dawson
Huffman
Abshire
West Ave
Sth. Street
Large
Death ruled accidental in juvenile quail hunt incident
Inquest led by Reese Greaves found Richard Dale Gregory died from an accidental gunshot. Gary Morton reportedly admitted firing the shot while the youths splashed water during a quail hunting outing 15 miles north of Maljamar in Chaves County. The case goes to District Attorney Patrick F. Hanagan in Roswell.
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Reese Greaves
Justice of Peace
Richard Dale Gregory
Clarence Harris
Gary Morton
Gregory
Patrick F. Hanagan
Roswell
Chaves County
Maljamar
Kennedy Sees 1960s as Dangerous Era in World Peace
President Kennedy in a televised radio interview summing his first two years in office labeled the Chinese as the era's greatest threat to world peace, arguing Khrushchev’s stance is preferable to Beijing but both nations endanger the West. He warned one misstep could trigger a nuclear and global crisis while urging vigilance and support for freedom.
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Merriman Smith
UPI
White House
Washington
Kennedy
Russia
China
Sile
United States
Khrushchev
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Jane Wills
J. V. (Veech) Payne
Sand Hills
Odessa
Jake McClure
West Texas
New Mexico
Ruth Love
Barbara Patterson
Margaret Heward
Communist Party
United Press International
World Communist Movement
Subversive Activities Control Board
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Holtzef
Holtzoff
Control Board
U.N
East
Madison
Alvaro Sanchez Jr
Berta Barreto
Virginia Betancourt
Principe Prison
Isle of Pines
Cuban Families Committee
Philip M. Klutznick
U. N
NMU
Oklahoma
Virgil B. Abshire
W. Ave
Pravda
Nikita Khrushchev
Peking
Nikita S. Khrushcev
The
Union
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