Pro Football Shifts and a Tennis Clash Highlight Season
The piece notes Dallas Cowboys changes as veterans depart and contracts strain with players like Howley Andrie Morton and Jor dan. It also previews a September Bobby Riggs Billie Jean King match and pokes at Nixon era cabinet guesses.
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Dallas Cowboys
John Niland
Cowboys
Bobby Riggs
Billie Jean King
Wimbleon
Riggs
Margaret Court
Bobby
Margaret
Billie Jean
State to Consider Control Over Non Game Animals
New Mexico moves to study giving the State Game and Fish Department authority to manage all non game species. Hearings across 10 districts begin in Farmington and end in Albuquerque with a legislative report planned.
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Patrick Lamb
Santa FE
N.M
UPI
State Game and Fish Department
New Mexico
Game and Fish Department
Bill Huey
Senate
Huey
Roswell Man Arraigned On Murder Charge
Wil lie Lee Finch 21 of Roswell was arraigned on an open murder charge in the stabbing death of Laura Lee Hobby 22. Judge Kent Shannon ordered him held without bond after Finch’s arrest Saturday when Hobby's body was found in her Roswell home Friday.
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Roswell
N.M. Upi
Willie Lee Finch
Finch
Kent Shannon
Laura Lee Hobby
Weather Update for Eastern Plains and Surrounding Areas
Increasing thundershower activity today and Wednesday with localized heavy rainfall. Temperatures vary little across locations. highs range from 64 to 92 degrees. Central Mountains see showers become more scattered by Wednesday. Santa Fe and Las Cruces warming afternoons with isolated thunderstorms.
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Clovis
Lovineton
Artesia
Tucumcari
Central Mountains
Santa Fe
Las Cruces
Former Lea County Resident Dies in Mineral Wells Texas
Tom W. Greene 84 longtime Lea County resident died Thursday July 12 in Mineral Wells Texas. He managed W M Snyder ranches over 30 years and lived there eleven years after retirement. Funeral July 14 at First Methodist Church Mineral Wells with Masonic graveside rites. His wife Ruby died May 18 1873. He was uncle of Francis Macatee Lovington.
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Tom W. Greene
Lea County
Mineral Wells
Texas
First Methodist Church
Ruby
Francis Macatee
Lovington
Services Set For J. H. Fulton
Ira Hobson Fulton of Overton Nevada, father of Robert Fulton an engineer with Foster Wheeler, died Sunday night in Las Vegas. Bunker Brothers Mortuary handles arrangements. Funeral in Overton Nevada on Wednesday July 18 at 10 30 a m.
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Ira Hobson Fulton
Overton
Nevada
Robert
Bob) H. Fulton
Foster-Wheeler Corporation
Lovington
Las Vegas
Bunker Brothers Mortuary
Las Vegas Boulevard
Summer rains lift Lea County crops and pastures
Scattered thundershowers across Lovington Lea County bring 1.6 to 4 inches in places over the past week. Farmers report greening grass and crops starting strong though some hay damage occurred. Cotton blooms and silage corn shows growth as moisture improves dryness.
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Lovington-Lea County
Lea County
Jal
Bob Henard
County Extension Office
Eunice
Lovington
Lea County Electric
Tatum Highway
Howard
Heward
Drenching Rains Hit New Mexico Statewide
United Press International reports heavy rain across New Mexico with Las Vegas receiving 2.20 inches Albuquerque 1.01 inches Socorro 1.02 inches and other towns recording lighter totals. A flash flood watch existed for Dona Ana County with thunder showers forecast for the eastern plains and a warming trend later in the week.
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United Press International
New Mexico
Las Vegas
Albuquerme
Socorro
Dona Ana County
Santa Fe
Deming
Silver City
Taos
Farmington
Gallup
Raton
Truth Or Consequences
Quemada
Carlsbad
Forest Service cancels plan to move Albuquerque office
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz cancelled a reorganization that would have moved the Albuquerque Regional Office to Atlanta and closed other regional offices. The decision preserves nine Forest regions and eight research stations while citing congressional opposition and a federal energy department proposal as factors.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture
Earl L. Buzz Monday
Forest Service
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Butz
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Buts
The
Albuqerque
Missoula
Mont
Ogden
Utah
Asheville
N.C
Investigation ends no criminal charge on Adams
Norvell and district attorney Lee Cathey announced in Santa Fe that city commissioner Glenn Adams will not face criminal charges over bribery allegations. Bob Carter accused Adams of seeking a city employee to influence a Famariss refinery contract. Adams denied the charges and resigned, with a special election set for July 27.
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David Norvell
Santa Fe
Lee Cathey
Glenn Adams
Adams
Bob Carter
Carter
Famariss
Norvell
John Sanders
Public Works Act Violations Studied In New Mexico
Attorney General David Norvell announced a memo to public agencies contractors and labor groups on Public Works Act compliance. Investigators will enforce wage rules require wage classifications bid specs weekly payrolls and posting wage scales. Violators may face disbarment from future contracts up to ten dollar daily fines per worker and legal action by district attorneys.
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Santa FE
N.M
UPI
David Norvell
Norvell
State Labor Commission
Public Works
New Mexico State Labor and Industrial Commission
Attornney General
Labor Commission
District Atformey
English Reverend Strikes Blow For Women's Lib
The Rev John Waterson of Stoke Dabernon refuses to perform marriages that include the word obey for the bride saying women should be equal partners. He called the notion of women constantly obeying husbands senseless and romantic.
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Stoke Dabernon
England
John Waterson
Federal Grant Funds Summer Youth Jobs In New Mexico
A seven million dollar federal grant will fund over 4100 six week jobs for youths in New Mexico under the Neighborhood Youth Corps Program. Jobs will be placed with public agencies across the state, supplementing the summer public employment program that produced more than 2500 positions. Agencies include Midwest New Mexico Community Action Program Valencia Datron McKinley and San Juan counties with hundreds of postings in Socorro Lincoln and Sierra counties.
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Santa FE
N.M. Ypi
New Mexico
Fred Rael
Midwest New Meico
Valencia
Datron
McKinley
San Juan
Socorro
Lincol
Sierra
Albuquerque Holds Nation's Most Nuclear Weapons, Says Author
Roger Rapoport told an audience at the University of New Mexico that storage facilities in the Manzano Mountains east of Albuquerque contain more nuclear weapons than any other place in the country, possibly the world, and a nuclear accident could force evacuation or condemnation of the city. Greenpeace sponsored the talk amid demonstrations at Kirtland AFB. no Atomic Energy Commission official attended.
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Albuquerqe
Roger Rapoport
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
Manzano Mountains
Apoport
Rapoport
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
New Mexico
Greenpeace
War Resisters League
Kirtland Air Force Base
Albugerma
Atomic Energy Commission
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Youth For Understanding
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