Christmas issue plans and city notes summarize bustling season
The community buzzes with holiday energy as downtown activity surges and the Christmas issue of The Leader prepares a souvenir edition. The paper will close early for Christmas, print dated December 24, and deliver Friday with the regular edition, with no Sunday paper on Christmas Eve. A Lovington Never-close service feature at city meeting draws praise, while Lewie Lews remains the late-hour example among local workers.
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Leader
Carrier Boys
Jack Walstad
Lovington
Phillips
Walstead
Lewie Akin
Lewie’s
Weather Summary for Lovington New Mexico
Lovington reports variable clouds through Thursday with possible showers this afternoon or tonight. Colder tonight and late Thursday with gusty winds. highs near 47 and lows around 28. New Mexico warns travelers west and sections of the state to expect variable skies and occasional snow, locally heavy in central and northwest areas. rain and snow mix southwest today and east tomorrow. tonight lows expected 10 to 25. Thursday highs 28 to 36 north and 30 to 47 south.
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Lovington
New Mexico
City faces bid chaos under new State Purchasing Act
City commissioners struggled to compare unit bids and define consumption for several items under the new act. Unclear volume specs and incomplete bids led to delays in fire gasoline oil and grease purchases and forced extensions to determine lowest total costs.
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Tme
Joe Smith
Haddock Automotive
General Tire Company
Walstad Oil Company
Cotton Distributing Company
Wallace Oil Company
Cone Tract
Smith-Goad
Best Lighted Home Contest Announces Cash Prizes
Entries judged on quantity and quality of lights with prizes totaling 50 30 25 15 dollars donated by local banks and First Federal Savings. Businesses automatically entered. no registration needed. Stores judged before 7 00 p m December 22.
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Lea County Electric Coop., Inc
Lovington Nettone Bank
First Federal Savings
Turner's
Troop Withdrawal From Germany To Start In April
The Pentagon announced that up to 35,000 U S Army and Air Force troops will begin returning from Germany to the United States in April. Units remain pledged to NATO and will stay on high readiness with equipment kept in the Federal Republic of Germany for quick redeployment if needed.
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Washington
Pentagon
Germany
United States
U.S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Federal Republic of Germany
Defense Department
Double Eagle Awarded 1,372 Acre Feet of Lea County Water
State Engineer Steve Reynolds granted 1,372 acre feet of Lea County water to Double Eagle Water Corporation for oilfield water flooding in secondary recovery. The decision followed a Lovington hearing where Lea County land owners protested. Water will be drawn from Township 16 Range 34 East about 12 miles west of Lovington. Lovington uses about 2,000 acre feet annually.
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Lea Double Eagle Water Corporation
Roswell
Lea County
Steve Reynolds
Double E
Township 16
Range 34
Lovington
Lovingston
New Storm Hits Navajo Reservation Strains Aid Efforts
A new storm and high winds battered the Navajo Nation with up to a foot of snow in places, isolating bands and slowing airlifted food and medical supplies. Air force helicopters conducted 99 sorties, aiding about 60 thousand Navajos affected, while three deaths were confirmed. Flood warnings and powerfully cold conditions worsened the regional crisis across Arizona and New Mexico as relief efforts expanded.
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Howard Graves
Associated Press
Window Rock
Ariz
United States
Air Force
A.H. Wolf
Chinle
Holbrook
New Storm Moves Across NM Today
A renewed storm moves across New Mexico with heavy snow warnings for west central and northwest areas. Gallup reports four inches of new snow. mixed rain and snow seen in Zuni Grants Farmington and Albuquerque. traffic cautioned in Grants area Dauil Quemada to the Arizona border and NM 44 from Cube to Bloomfield though no major highways closed.
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Flagstaff
Arizona
California
Porterville
Tulare
Miami
Ariz
Bluebird Mine
Phoenix
U.S. Weather Bureau
New Mexico
Associated Press
Gallup
Zuni
Grants
Farmington
Albuquerque
Dauil_Quemada
N.M. 44
Cube
Bloomfield
U.S
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Mama
Graham
Ole Jax
Hal
Gandy’s
Jack
Lovington High School
VFW
Floyd Green
Sheila Harrison
Sherry Teas
American Legion
Chester Hamzy
Smith
Plymouth
James Robinson
Ford
Smith - Goad
Wayne Benson
Chamber of Commerce
Hobbs
Merry Christmas Kiwanis Club OF
and Your Chamber OF Commerce
Rephone
New Mexico Bank & Trust
Tipp's Men's Store
Chamber of Application
Chamber OF Cowerce
Tegns
Double Eagle
Ogala
Nakai
Graham Holmes
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Navajo
Holmes
New Mexico Welfare Department
Crown Point
Shiprock
N.M
Wise
Janesville
Public Health Service
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