1950 Football Prospects For A&M Aggies
Preview of 1950 Aggies football season outlines Border Conference context and coaching staff led by Vaughan Corley. Details include College location State College New Mexico Las Cruces, Aggie Memorial Stadium capacity, enrollment, and the 1950 schedule with opponents such as Texas Western Howard Payne New Mexico Albuquerque and Arizona State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Border Conference
Vaughan Corley
Texas Tech
Hardin Simons
Texas Western
el Paso
Howard Payne
New Mexico U
Albu
Aggies Face 1950 Season With Rebuilt Lineup
Tempe and Colorado Mines notes mark the 1950 prep for the Aggies led by Phil Neale and Marvin Diplock. A lengthy roster lists returning lettermen, new prospects, transfers, and a cautious coach Vaughn Corley facing scholastic ineligibility and a lean, fast backfield strategy.
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Vaughn Corley
Sam McGowin
Marvin Diplock
Pierce Junior College
McGowin
Local JC Names List and Figures
A brief roster lists Marvin Diplock George Miller Rueben Jimeniz and Don Trinity with numbers 190 185 170 150 respectively, identified as JC members or participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diplock
Marvin
Miller
George
Jimeniz
Rueben
Trinity
Don
Miss New Mexico 1950 Crowned at Carlsbad
Margaret Rose Wilson, a 21 year old beauty from Albuquerque, won the Miss New Mexico title at Carlsbad in a State Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored contest. Runners up were Pat Branch of Carlsbad and Francis C De Baca of Santa Fe. Wilson will compete in Miss America in Atlantic City in September.
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United Press
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Margaret Rose Wilson
Carlsbad
State Junior Chamber of Commerce
Pat Branch
Francis C. de Baca
Santa Fe
Miss Wilson
Atlantic City
Census Bureau Lists Capital Populations in 1950
The Census Bureau reports Santa Fe New Mexico has 29,038 residents in 1950, ranking ahead of 13 state capitals whose populations are smaller. Carson City Nevada is the smallest at 3,069, while Boston Massachusetts is the largest capital with 788,000 people.
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New Mexico
Santa Fe
Census Bureau
Delaware
Florida
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
North Dakota
South Dakota
Vermont
Washington
Carson City
Boston
Rain makers featured in New Mexico Magazine
In the August 1950 issue of New Mexico Magazine the Rain Makers at the New Mexico School of Mines Socorro are profiled with crowd photos. Editor George Fitzpatrick outlines experiments by Dr. E J Workman and Stephen E Reynolds and cautions against wildcat cloud busting with silver iodide.
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New Mexico School of Mines
Socorro
New Mexico
George Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
E. J. Workman
School of Mines
Stephen E. Reynolds
de Ba & Workman
Irving Langmuir
Polio case totals rise to 41 in New Mexico
The State Health Department reports one new polio case in Bernalillo County bringing the year total to 41, a figure aligned with 58 cases reported by August 8 last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FF
New Mexico
State Health Department
Bernalillo County
First Confirmed Death in War Reported
The first confirmed death of a New Mexico man in the Korean War is Pfe William F. Brown 18 son of Mrs Gladys Brown of Alamogordo. The Defense Department says he died July 23 from wounds. He served in the 1st Cavalry Division after leaving Alamogordo High School in 1948.
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United Press
New Mexico
Pfe
William F. Brown
Gladys Brown
Alamogordo
Defense Department
Betty Brown
Womens Army Corps
Fort Leavenworth
Roswell
Albuquerque bids for new H bomb plant
Albuquerque officials led by Elliott of the Chamber of Commerce urged landing the large H bomb project. A conference was arranged in Washington with Sumner Pike of the Atomic Energy Commission to discuss the matter. The AEC has commissioned DuPont to construct the plant.
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Albuquerque
Elmer Elliott
Chamber of Comerce
Washington
Sumner Pike
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
E. I. DuPone de Nemours and Company
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A&m Aggies
James M. Patton
Oklahoma A & M
George McCarty
New Mexico A & M
State College
N. M
Cruces
Aggie Memorial
Linkegm
Sunbeam
Causa
Tempe
Southwestern
Oklahoma
Aggies
WSPG
Arizona U
N. M. Mil
San Diego St
Highlands
Flagstaff
Colorado A&m
Phil Neale
Charlie Styron
Joe Dean
Bill Mounce
Omer Parker
Parison
Sammy McGowin
Bob Abercrombie
Jack Steger
Gale Hungate
Gene Dale
Bill Walden
Ed Pearce
Buddy Reeves
Leslie Paul
Picket Randall
Art West
Dick Andrews
Bill Wilkinson
Bill Stringer
Leonard Henderson
Herb Adams
Gerald Mayfield
Tne
Adams
Little Man
Big Man
Com
Henderson
Neale
Dean
Stringer
Mounce
Wilkinson
End West
Randall
Andrews
Fense
Herb Addams
Pickett Randall
Pickett
Conn
Jack
Thomas
Roland
West
Art
Mayfield
Gerald
Myatt
Bob
Bill
Jones
Fred
Smith
Sterrett
Floyd
Pufal
Phillips
James
Sunbean Automatic Waffle Baker
Tnil
Army
Iiss
Duke City
Capital
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