10 Jun 1966
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Newspaper
Lovington Daily Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1966
Page
1
The piece centers on Walter Dill, Alamogordo’s food store proprietor, facing a Department of Labor wage-and-hour dispute over a 40 hour workweek and back wages. Dill defends practice, notes payroll shares, and quips about inspectors while recounting local anecdotes and community color.
In western Lea County a grasshopper control district forms under the Grasshopper Control Act. The plan may force participation if a majority of landowners vote to coop erate. Rancher Johnny Etcheverry blasts the program as coercive and costly, noting his 19 000 acres would owe about 4800 dollars even if no guaranteed benefits are proven. He questions spray efficacy and price gaps for Malathion, and warns of possible legal actions without clearer notices or hearings.
Lovington school system starts its second Head Start program on June 20 and runs to August 12. The program, costing over 12 000 dollars in federal funds, aims to ready underprivileged children for the upcoming school term with health and social support. Enrollment is open and contact is C E Jackson 396 2892 who directs the program.
Clouds delay aerial anti grasshopper spray across Briscoe, Armstrong and Floyd Counties. Three bi planes stand by to treat 33 000 acres as one billion grasshoppers threaten crops. Planters cover costs with 25 000 dollar program split between ranchers and federal government. Laying eggs prompts urgency as eggs from last fall hatch in late summer. New low level marathion spray used per acre eight ounces.
Local rumor says the city commission plans an annual revenue boost of fifty thousand dollars via a sales tax increase. They reportedly expect the tax to yield more than three times that amount, with possible tax cuts elsewhere to balance the difference. The writer doubts any real tax relief will come and criticizes tax increases for shoppers and merchants.
Louise Bundy of Albuquerque campaigns for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State meeting Ernestine Evans in November. She promotes women’s unity, aims to replace career politicians with businesswomen, and balances motherhood with a busy political career.
Helicopters plucked seven wounded from two trapped American paratroop companies in Kontum as they fought off waves of Communist forces. The 101st Airborne, led by Capt. Bill Carpenter and Capt. Walter R. Brown, endured a night of heavy assaults with three rescue columns slicing through bamboo thickets to reach them.
In Albuquerque, a station wagon carrying four teens and a man from Reno collided with a large truck on U S 66. Peter Boehm 26 sustained critical injuries, others 13 to 15 in fair to satisfactory condition at Presbyterian Hospital. Boehm pinned 20 minutes with severe facial wounds.
One rider, John Edwards of Cheyenne Wyoming, was hurt during the bare back bronc event and treated at Lea General Hospital before being released. Results list winners in bare back bronc, saddle bronc, bull dogging, barrel riding, and bull riding with participants from Texas New Mexico Oklahoma Colorado and others.
Mary Hamzy, clerk of selective service board number 13, says the office in the courthouse basement will open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. effective June 13. The previous hours were 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Variable clouds today through Saturday with isolated showers or thunderstorms. Temperatures rise this afternoon with a high near 89 and a low near 60 tomorrow. The state record high 92 at Deming and low 44 at Santa Fe were noted. Lovington reached 75 by 2:30 p.m. Thursday and 55 this morning at 4:00 p.m. Year to date precipitation sits at one inch.
Collins 35 as co pilot with John Young for Gemini 10 slated to blast off July 18. A planned rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle and multiple spacewalks on a 50 foot line are described in preliminary flight plans under consideration by NASA officials.
Maj. Carl Cross and Maj. Walker died when the XB70 and a chase plane collided during a tight formation flight for a GE photographer near Barstow in the Mojave Desert. Air Force Col. Joe Cotton radioed the unfolding breakup as the bomber spun and two capsules deployed.
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