Fair Racing Fuss Appears Settled
Gov. Jack M. Campbell told Albuquerque ministers the New Mexico State Fair racing season will end with the fair in 1964. The extension protests prompted discussion of party financial pressures from the fair board and banks while ministers framed the outcome as a settlement and praised the governor’s action.
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Santa FE
UPS
New Mexico
Jack M. Campbell
Albuquerque
New Mexico Racing Commission
Campbell
Fair Board
The
Racing Commission
Fair
Floyd Rigdon
Carlsbad
Bypasses Meet Shift in Attitude on Roads in West
At the Santa Fe session of the Better Highway Association executives noted a change in stance on bypasses. Texas Good Roads Association vice president Callan Graham said bypasses offer advantages after public education and experience. Moriarty delegates discussed access routes and plans to work with New Mexico officials to improve highway funding and coordination.
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Tex
Texas
New Mexico
U.S. Bureau of Public
Paul Dannevick
Moriarty
Dannevick
Highway Association
BPR
Graham
New Mexico Association
Texas Group
New Mexico Group
N.C. Ribble
Albu
Querque
Scouts To Host Watermelon Feed At City Park
Lovington Boy Scout troops sponsor a watermelon feast today at the city park. Ice cold watermelon slices will be on sale from 2 30 to 4 30. Public invites attend. Price is 25 cents per slice.
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Lovington
Last Chapter in Modern Fairy Tale Yet To Tell
Mary Lee Davis 15 and John Paul Jones Jr. 18 wed in Des Moines after eloping to a church ceremony despite Iowa age rules. They lived together briefly before authorities located them. their families forgave the match and secured court approval for the wedding.
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Des Moines
Iowa
UPI
Philadelphia
Prince Charming
Mary Lee Davis
John Paul Jones Jr
Mary Lee
Grace of
Monaco
John Paul
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Grace Kelly
Princess Grace
Monte Carlo
P.M. Casady
Jones
Extra Session Burdens New Mexico Personnel Board
The State Personnel Board held an extended session in Santa Fe after two lengthy appeals hearings. Dawn Riley, cottage supervisor at Los Lunas Hospital, faced charges including negligence and misappropriation amid a critical pediatric injury. the board will issue a decision within 15 working days.
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Santa FE
UPD
State Personnel Board
Dawn Riley
Los Lunas Hospital
Thomas A. Donnelly
Phil Carter
Riley
Florence Ruth Brown
Brown
Anne B. Barela
Grant County Welfare District
Juanita Wilkins
Wilkins
Barela
John Donnell
Donnell
Trinidad Oakley
Taos County
Liquor License Transfer Hearing in Lea County
New Mexico Liquor Control Di vision Chief Howard Babcock promised a decision within ten days after a public hearing on Glen Farmer's request to move his license from Bronco to a site near Humble City between Hobbs and Lovington. Petitions for and against the transfer were filed, with key objections citing traffic danger and potential overproliferation of liquor.
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Duke Smith
New Mexico Liquor Control Division
Howard Babcock
Glen Farmer
Lea County Court House
Farmer
New Mexico
Bronco
Hobbs
Lovington
Humble City
College of the South
Babcock
King Threatens New Civil Rights Drive in Birmingham
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was due in Birmingham to begin a large new desegregation campaign. A local leader said King would arrive today or tomorrow and warned he would renew mass protests if substantial racial progress was not made by Monday.
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William O. Bryant
United Press International
Birmingham
Ala
UPD
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Steel City
E. C. Overton
J. L. Ware
Ware
Kennedy
Army
Kenneth Royall
West Point
Earl Blaik
Big Three Seek New Ways to Lessen Nuclear War Danger
Secretary of State Rusk met with Soviet and British ministers in New York to pursue a nonaggression pact and fixed observation posts along the Iron Curtain. The talks, the first since the Moscow treaty, aimed to reduce European nuclear threats amid cautious optimism from Adlai Stevenson. The Birmingham desegregation crisis and related violence continued to trigger protests and legal actions in multiple cities.
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Stewart Hensley
United Press International
NEW York
UPI
Dean Rusk
Europe
Moscow
Nikita 8
Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Lord Home
U.S
Waldorf-Astoria
Home
United Nations
Stevenson
Gromyko
Lovington Banker Carlile Named Kiwanis Lieutenant Governor
Winford Carlile of Lovington elected lieutenant governor of Division 3 in the Southwest District Kiwanis International at Santa Fe during the state convention. He is the first Lovington Kiwanian to attain a state post and will oversee clubs in Carlsbad, Ruidoso, Roswell, Clovis, Lovington, Portales and Hobbs.
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Winford Carlile
Lovington
Lovington Kiwanis Club
Friday
Kiwanis International
Stan Walker
Roswell
Santa Fe
Carlile
Clovis
Portales
Hobbs
Ed Rebets
Jerry Hanners
Jack Humesr
Parsons Infant Dies in Lovington Hours after Birth
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Parsons of Lovington died Friday at Lea General Hospital six hours after birth. Born Thursday at the hospital, the child is survived by the parents a two year old sister Carol and four grandparents. Funeral arrangements are pending with Smith Yarbro Funeral Home.
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Donald Parsons
Lovington
Lea General Hospital
Parsons
Alaska
United States Air Forcs
Smith Yarbro Funeral Home
Carol
W. W. Parsons
C. M. Hayziett
Ulysses
Kansas
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Charles Fish
A. C. Rood
United Christian Women
Lovington Lions Club
Lions
New Mexico Industries
Lions Club
Drayton Wasson
Tom White
Ernest McNutt
Leon Jones
Art Mhoon
By Mike Peary
Appeals Burden Personnel Board
College of the Southwest
Big
Shreveport
City Hall
New Orleans
Oxford
Cleve McDowell
University of Mississippi
McDowell
Justice of the Peace Court
G ‘ Meadows
N.Y
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George C. Wallace
State Kiwanis Post
Farmers Home Administration
New Mexico Bankers Association
United Fuod
Red Cross
March of Dimes
Abilene Christian Colelege
Abilene
College of Southwest
Levington National Bank
Church of Christ
Nancy
W. Ave. I
Cathy
Paige
Sera
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