Lecherous Leica and a West German Kodak Twist
Informal visit with Wilfried Raetzer in Lovington yields humor and camera talk. An offhand joke about a German camera leads to a discussion of Leicas and Kodaks. City finances provide a lighter moment as a dummy petition arrives from Lovington Daily Leader. Rockhound State Park opens with New Mexico Governor Campbell and Chihuahua's governor attending.
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Wilfried Raetzer
Glenn Hager
Lovington
Wilfried
Kodak
West
Germany
Deming
New Mexico
Rockhound State Park
Jack Campbell
Chihuahua
Florida
Hopper
Vote On City Sales Tax Faces Petition at Lovington Meeting
Lovington officials heard a petition led by Ralph Adams urging a citywide election on a one cent sales tax to begin August 15. The meeting yielded little discussion, but a preliminary draft for a back up frontage tax was presented as a financial option.
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Lovington
Ralph Adams
City Commission
A. L. Hahn
Adams
Osborne Fisher
Hammell Carrell
Levington
Carrell
Hahn
City plans special election on one cent sales tax
City Attorney Carrell said a definitive date for a special election to approve a new one cent sales tax cannot be given yet but likely within about 45 days. A petition with at least 10 percent of qualified voters is needed. circulators claimed over 600 names. The mayor will issue a proclamation and post notices to set the time and date for the election.
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Fisher
Lovington
Carrell
Hammel Carrer
City Commission
Campbell appoints C B Mayeshark development director
Santa Fe New Mexico July 1 appointment of C B Mayeshark to lead the Department of Development follows resignation of Robert J Hoffman. Mayeshark, former Campbell aide, came to New Mexico in 1950 from New York City and has run an advertising firm and a Santa Fe printing business. Board supports the choice.
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Santa FE
UPI
Jack M. Campbell
C.B. Mayeshark
Department of Development
Mayshark
Campbell
Robert J. Hoffman
New Mexico
New York City
State Development Advisory Board
T. A. Bonnell
Alamogordo
Lovington Forecast Quick Notes for Upcoming Days
Partly cloudy today tonight and Thursday with possible thunder showers after noons and at night. Temperatures little changed with 30 percent rain chance today and tonight and 20 percent Thursday. High near 92 tomorrow, low around 65. Tuesday high 84 and low 64 recorded. Nationwide high reached 108 in Blythe California. precipitation totals for 1966 stand at 5.50 inches.
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Lovington
U. S. Weather Bureau
Alaska
Hawaii
Blythe
Imperial California
Two Oxford Students Critique American Colleges
Two former Oxford University students who toured 64 American campuses say American students are prematurely middle aged and discuss sex freely yet do not fully enjoy it. Authors Jonathan Aitkin and Michael Beloff also call fraternities clubs and campus activities incubators of immaturity.
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London
UPI
Oxford University
U.S
Jonathan Aitkin
Michael Beloff
Imma
Co-Op Members To Meet In Ruidoso Over Rural Electrification
Electrical cooperative members from most New Mexico counties will gather in Ruidoso Thursday and Friday for the New Mexico Rural Electrification Cooperative Association annual meeting. About 200 members are expected to attend to discuss issues facing 17 rural electric cooperatives.
Hobbs Shooting Claims Life Of Local Man Woody Howell
Coroner ruled the Hobbs Hobbs General Hospital victim died from gunshot wounds after being shot three times with a .22 pistol Monday night. Police investigating with charges pending and Mrs. Howell to be questioned.
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Joe Walton
Hobbs
Woody Brown Howell
Hobbs Lea General Hospital
Walton
De Gaulle Seeks Soviet Backing for Viet Nam Peace Talks
In Moscow De Gaulle met three hours twenty minutes with Brezhnev Podgorny Kosygin and Gromyko to press for Russian support on potential joint moves toward a Viet Nam peace conference. He was accompanied by French foreign minister Couve de Murville and spoke at Moscow University about a new Russia France alliance.
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Moscow
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Kremlin
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nikolai Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
Andrei Gromyko
Maurice Couve de Murville
Moscow University
Russia
France
Johns Hopkins Reports Possible Second Operation for Pea Lopez
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said another operation is likely for Pea Lopez, the New Mexico boy born without an esophagus. Dr. John Cahill, a pediatric surgery resident, gave the update.
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Baltimore, Md
UPI
Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Little Pea Lopez
New Mexico
John Cahill
Lopez
Pea
Embudo
N.M.) Presbyterian Hospital
Porfirio Lopez
Bernalillo County Indian Hospital
Albuquerque
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Girl Injured at Texas Jumping School after Horse Kick
Jane Carter 18 of Plainview Texas sustained facial injuries when a horse kicked above her right eye at Punch Jones Farm eight miles west of Ta tum while attending a jumping school. She was rushed to Lovington Sea General Hospital for treatment and observation.
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Jane Carter
Plainview
Texas
Punch Jones
Tatum
Lovington Sea General Hospital
Cohen backs sale bill to curb wasteland sales
SEC Chairman Manuel F. Cohen endorsed Sen. Harrison Williams bill to halt interstate sales of subdivided wasteland. The measure would require detailed buyer explanations of property characteristics to curb a multimillion dollar racket.
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Washington
UPI
Manuel F. Cohen
Securities & Exchange Commission
SEC
Senate Banking
Cohen
Harrison Williams
D-N.j
Williams
Dodd
James Boyd
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Senate
West Germany
Julius Klein
Lewis B. Hershey
House Armed Services Committee
Poverty Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
City Commission approves city bill payments total 1816.51
A city mission meeting at City Hall approved a batch of bills from Water and Sewer, Delcome Corp, Gener Tire, Permian Mud Service, Southern Union Gas, United Supply, Alston Insurance, Lovington Leader, O K Electric, and others. Total funds amounted to 1816.51.
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City Hall
Delcome Mission
Corp
Gener Tire Serv
Mibil Oil Co
O, I Electric
Permian Mud Service
Quicksall Or Co., Inc
Southern Union Gas Co
United Supply Mfg. Co
Mfg. Co
Alston Insurance Agency
Miums
Baker & Jor Co
General Tire Serv
Hester Tractor & Fair Supply
Lea County Electric
Lovington Leader
Lovington Holstery & Trim
O. K. Electric
John O
Roger
Ing & Air Cond
Standard Co
Unites Ply & Mfg. Co
Xerox
Forty-First Folks Day Planned at Old School House
The forty first annual Folks Day will be held June 26 at the old School House seventeen miles east of Lovington. The event honors those tending to others who are over years of age. All are invited and asked to bring a basket lunch. attendees should arrive around 10 a.m.
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Lovington
Buckeye Buzzard Comments On New Mexico Roads
A regional voice in Lea County remarks on road conditions and welcomes improvements. The speaker notes long-standing residents, past decades, and the need for better infrastructure while acknowledging old and new residents.
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City Mail
Wes Allen
Lovington Daily Leader
Simpson
Intercommunity Water Supply Association
Enma
Logan
Veadh Payne
CITY
Glenn Scott
Jack Stoops
Virgil Buffington
American Business Club
Mildred Saffel
Lovington Association For
Howell
M.f.cohen
Buckeye Buzzard
Yestiday
Lea County
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