Four Convicts Return for Retrial Plea and Guilty Verdicts
Four men who sought a retrial on armed robbery charges pled guilty before District Judge E T Hensley Jr in Portales. Three received five to eight year terms. one is suspended but held for a federal charge of transporting a stolen vehicle across a state line. The judge noted loss of credit for ten months already served and urged accountability for perjury.
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Portales
E. T. Hensley, Jr
U. S. Marshall
Hensley
Santa Fe
Carmody
Neighbors Tend Polio Patient Buster Knox in Iron Lung
The Portales Daily News notes locals assist the Knox family as Buster Knox lies in Plainview Hospital with polio in an iron lung yet remains in good spirits. The community spirit and neighborly help highlight the era’s shared values.
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Portales Daily News
Buster Knox
Plainview Hospital
Knox
Farm youth aid urged for recovery effort
A brief line expresses support to help a young farmer toward recovery, highlighting community involvement and the aim of assisting with his rehabilitation and return to work.
A Down to Earth Definition of Bureaucracy
The St Louis County Medical Bulletin quotes Rev Kenneth W Sollitt of Mendota Illinois in a sermon. He compares a bouquet given by a foreign guest to government offerings from one’s own garden. He calls this a precise definition of bureaucracy today.
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Kenneth W. Sollitt
First Baptist Church
Mendota
Vermont
ST. Louis County Medical Bulletin
Compost Manure Best For Gardens
Extension agronomist Gordon Hoff says manure alone is low in phosphorus and should be boosted with superphosphate. Use in field or garden. add nitrogen phosphate fertilizer during composting. Well rotted manure is best. if not decomposed, compost by layering with soil and organic matter to speed decay.
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Gordon Hoff
Extension Agronomist
New Mexico A & M College
Hoff
Cabinet picks in play as campaigns loom
Speculation swirls over who could fill key posts for both Eisenhower and Stevenson. Dulles tops the State list, with Stassen, Warren, Aldrich and Dewey among GOP possibilities. Averill Harriman is a leading Democratic option for secretary of state amid Stevenson’s pledge to purge the Washington establishment.
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John Foster Dulles
Dwight Eisenhower
Dulles
Eisenhower
GOP
Gov. Warran
California
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
New York
Winthrop Aldrich
Omar Bradley
Senate
Adlai Stevenson
Eisen
Stevenson
Democratic National Committee
Averill Harriman
Truman
Chicago
State Acheson
Oregon
Washington
It's a Boy For L. C. Greens
Mr and Mrs L C Green Sr announce a grandson born to their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs L C Green Jr Mrs Green formerly Pat Wallace is in Houston with her parents while her husband serves in Korea in the army She plans to visit Lovington in about six weeks
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L. C. Green Sr
Mrs
L. C. Green Jr
Mrs. Green
Pat Wallace
Houston
Texas
Korea
The
Lovington
Phony Prosperity Cited In NAM Economic Report
The NAM Research Council says local workers face real decline in purchasing power since 1939 due to inflation and taxes. It cites a $250 monthly family of four today equaling $130 in 1939, and notes federal spending and deficits erode living standards.
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Research Council
National Association of Manufacturers
Pacific Southwest
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Nevada
NAM
NAM Research Council
USDA Announces Plentiful Foods For September
The September plentiful foods list highlights Fresh Bartlett pears and stewing hens as leaders with other abundant items including grapes lettuce peaches turkeys frozen fish and cottage cheese. The list also includes honey nonfat dry milk solids buttermilk salad oils vegetable shortening and fats such as lard. The program is a cooperative effort to move abundant crops through normal trade channels.
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USDA
Oasis blooms at Love Street trailer court garden
Mrs. H A Davis creates a bright garden at Modern Village Trailer Court on Love Street. She plants marigolds bachelor buttons touch me nots caster beans sweet peas and other flowers around her mobile home. She also grows onions radishes mustard and tomatoes with four foot tall plants. Her husband is an oil driller.
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Debra Howell
D. Howell
Trailer Court
H. A. Davis
North Love St
N. Love St
Davis
Columbia Trail
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