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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1950
Page
3
Catholics gather for mass at 11 o clock led by Father Hugh Rochkes. The church is situated two and a half blocks west of the H and C Gulf line.
Sunday School and morning worship planned at Nazarene Church with a young peoples meeting in the afternoon and evening sessions. Names listed include Pastor and Albert Fairweather as Sunday School Superintendent with additional Presbyterian Church services noted.
The Church of Christ advertises a Sunday worship pattern with 8:30 to 9:30 A M Bible study 9:45 to 10:35 and 10:45 to 11:50 A M worship. A youth meeting is at 6:45 P M followed by an evening service at 7:30 P M. A Ladies' Bible Class meets Wednesday at 9:30 A M and a Wednesday service at 7:30 P M. Thursday Buckeye area Bible study is at 7:30 P M.
The New Mexico GOP platform calls for honest elections with a full voter registry and prompt public vote counts. It advocates prosecuting election fraud, revising state purchasing laws, eliminating dead-head salaries, tightening enforcement against corruption, and restructuring state agencies including the Police, Liquor Division, and Corporate Commission. It supports a bipartisan school board, tax relief on gasoline, and an amendment to depoliticize judicial selection and tenure.
A. Kaune longtime Santa Fe resident and former city treasurer declares candidacy for State Treasurer. He cites 23 years with Public Service Co and service on the School Board, noting his claim to honesty competence and experience while promising to bring reform and drop politics from the office.
The state auditor candidate vows to run the office on a business basis with hired competence, removing political influence, and ensuring open public access to records. He has worked in business and as a railroad agent, currently an Albuquerque auto salesman.
In Lagrange Indiana dentist James K Duff filled four tooth holes with a plastic used for human teeth after a washing machine timing gear was brought to his office for repairs. The gear now operates perfectly.
Dozens of dogs roamed the Kent County animal shelter during a burglary in Grand Rapids Michigan as a burglar robbed the safe. No dogs offered aid and authorities investigated the incident.
Police hunt burglar after burglary at a grocery. Detectives traced signals to a radio in a safe, but the suspect fled before capture.
E. W. Schaefer, who resigned as Boyd mayor in October 1949, reappointed himself after declining to seek re election in spring. A silent write in campaign secured his return to office.
Victor C. Leiker editor of the Christopher Progress in Illinois presses for cleanup of relief administration irregularities. Four townships are warned they will lose state grants exceeding 60 000 dollars monthly unless they provide evidence of corrective action. He continues the campaign despite losing major advertising accounts.
Sid Rowe of Birmingham Alabama after half a century at sea crafts an automatic caster for fishing. The device attaches to the rod as a square aluminum tube housing a motorized rubber band drive and roller mechanism. A rifle like trigger releases line that shoots out fifty feet or more then rewinds automatically.
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