Between The Book Ends Mock Show Impresses Local Audience
Parents teachers and students from the area filled the gym Friday for the First Four Grade Between The Book Ends program. About 2 500 to 3 000 attended as first grade and second grade pupils acted out Mother Goose Rhymes and Cinderella with striking costumes and scenes coordinated by Miss Robbie Keen.
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Dents
Robbie Keen
Josie Shakelford
Jennie den
Jean Whitfield
Wayne Clardy
Ruth Wood
Jean Howell
Agness Childre
Maurine Frost
Mauldin Service Held Tuesday
Lovington farmer Felix Stanford Mauldin 56 died March 11 1952 when his car struck a railroad diesel engine near Lovington. Funeral at First Baptist Church with Rev Chester Watt. burial in Lovington Cemetery. Mauldin survived by wife two sons and two daughters. Thirty teachers and students performed school plays at the service.
Wide-Awake Sheriff, District Judge Catch Up With Homer Kelly
Homer C. Kelly, 30, of Tatum, freed from Lea County jail on four bonds totaling 15000. Sheriff Charlie Trimble and Judge George T. Harris arranged custody after a habeas corpus writ freed him from the state pen Sunday. He faces district court on charges of statutory rape and related offenses stemming from a 1949 conviction and earlier testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer C. Kelly
Hobbs
Lea County
Kelly
Tatum
Charlie Trimble
Pat Hamilton
Santa Fe
Roswell
George T. Harris
Justice of the Peace
John W. Green
State Penitentiary
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Wideawake
Taft Kefauver Triumph Reported In Early Returns
United Press reports Taft and Kefauver win in early returns while Eisenhower in Frankfurt expresses pride despite not planning a U S return soon. Taft backers call the result strong in hostile territory as Truman faces continued criticism. Wilder reactions emphasize a Southern appeal and arguments about nomination viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
New Hampshire
Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Taft
Texas
Truman
Uman
Tennessee
Five State Police Meet Senator Taft In Carlsbad Tour
Hobbs native Sergeant Jake Ramsey among five state policemen assigned to meet Senator Robert Taft of Ohio in Carlsbad on Thursday morning. They will escort Taft around Carlsbad and then proceed to Artesia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake Ramsey
Hobbs
Senator Robert Taft
Ohio
Carlsbad
Artesia
Publisher Attends Taft Press Conference in New Mexico
Agnes Eggmer Head of The Leader and her husband J. C. Head will attend a Taft press conference in Albuquerque. Taft begins New Mexico tour with stops in Carlsbad Artesia Roswell and a university auditorium event. The Heads will also visit Miss Rosevery at Loretta Academy in Santa Fe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leader
Agnes Eggmer
Albuquerque
J. C. Head
Hobbs
Robert Taft
Ohio
Taft
New Mexico
Carlsbad
Lea County
Artesia
Roswell
University
Santa Fe
Rosevery
Loretta Academy
Farm Bureau Directors Set Bi Monthly Meeting Date
Lea County Farm and Livestock directors will hold their regular bi monthly meeting on Thursday March 20 at 7 30 p m in their office. Directors will discuss ongoing farm and livestock matters and county agricultural issues.
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Farm Bureau
Lea County Farm and Livestock
Farm Festival Brings Local 4-H FFA and FHA Share Evening
Four to five hundred people attended a Monday Farm Festival at a local garage. 4-H FFA and FHA members reported on trips to Ft Worth and the El Paso stock show with Sally Blackmon Lynn Medlin and Phyllis Roark delivering the Ft Worth and El Paso notes. Dudley Pruit spoke on the El Paso stock show as Dallas Clark and his daughter Beverly performed musical pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
4-H Clubs
Future Farmers of America
FHA
4-H
FFA
Ft. Worth
el Paso
Sally Blackmon
Lynn Medlin
Phyllis Roark
Dudley Pruit
Dallas Clark
Beverly
New Extension Agent Arrives in Lea County
Miss Lucy Kelly is appointed Home Demonstration Agent in Lea County effective March 17. She earned a 1948 B S in Home Economics from New Mexico A and M College and later served as assistant Home Demonstration Agent in Albuquerque until 1949, active in organizing 4 H clubs and home economic affairs. She lived on a Magdalena ranch before college and returned there after Extension Service work, while in college she was in the New Mexico A and M Band and Chi Omega Seniority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Kelly
Agen
Lea County
New Mexico A & M College
Albuquerque
Miss Kelly
Magdalena
New Mexico
Extension Service
Kelly
New Mexico A.& M
Chi Omega
Art Exhibit Planned by Lovington BPW Club
The Lovington Business and Professional Women's Club will sponsor an art exhibit at the Lovington Public Library on March 18 featuring oil paintings by New Mexico artists, mostly still lifes. Everyone is invited to attend.
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The
Lovington
Last Rites Held At Eunice For Billy Vaught
Billy Dale Vaught twenty four year old son of Mr and Mrs Hector A Vaught of Eunice was killed in action October 1951 His body was brought from Carlsbad March 9 by Griffin's Funeral Home He attended Eunice high school and Albuquerque and served in the Army on his second enlistment his first enlistment was with the Navy Survivors include his parents two sisters Mrs Billy West and Mrs Lester Worrell both of Hollywood California five brothers Glen Hector and Eddie all of Eunice Cpl Jessie Robert in the Army at Camp Chaffee Arkansas and Cpl Jimmy in the Navy at San Diego California Funeral services will be in the First Methodist Church Eunice Rev Buren Stewart officiating Military graveside at Eunice cemetery March 16.
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Billy Dale Vaught
Hector A. Vaught
Eunice
Carlsbad
Griffin
Billy
Albuquerque
Army
Navy
Billy West
Lester Worrell
Hollywood California
Glen
Hector
Eddie
Jessie Robert
Camp Chaffee
Arkansas
Jimmy
San Diego
California
First Methodist Church
Buren Stewart
Eunice Cemetary
Motorists Get Atto License Extension
Mrs. T. M. Vaughn learned Tuesday of the extended deadline for obtaining automobile license plates or receipts entitling motorists to receive plates when in stock, with no penalties until the new date for the Lovington locality.
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T. M. Vaughn
Lions Plan Softball Season For Coming Summer
The Lions club begins organizing softball efforts for the upcoming summer. A March meeting is expected to form teams and work on the diamond, buildings, and fences at the park as spring hints arrive.
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Lions Club
Alu
New Wildcat Drilling reported in Texas and New Mexico
Three new wildcat locations and a San Andres discovery completed in southeast Roosevelt County New Mexico and central west Cochran County Texas. Austral Oil Exploration No 1 McGrail reported near Shell Pitman site with 104 barrels daily from 26 gravity oil. Multiple deep wildcats planned in Lea County including Warren-Davis No 1 and Bennett No 1 with Devonian tests, plus Amerada Pennsylvanian project in Saunders field and other Devonian tests in Lea and Eddy counties.
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San Andres
New Mexico
Austral Oil Exploration Co
McGrail
Roosevelt County
Shell Oil Co
Pitman
San Andres Discovery
Cochran County
Texas
Lone Star Producing Co
New Wild Cats
Lea County
Warren-Davis
Ralph E. McKee
Ralph Nix
Turkey Tract
Eddy County
Amerada Petroleum Corp
West
District Court Judgements Feature Default Cases and Name Changes
District Court heard mostly default and non jury civil actions led by Judge George T. Harris. March 18 and 19 will bring Judge C. Roy Anderson to the bench. Unusual orders included a court opening of Billy Dal Vaught’s casket with his family present and a name change for Holloway Stretch to Robert Young Holloway.
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George T. Harris
Roswell
C. Roy Anderson
Carlsbad
Billy Dal Vaught
H. A. Vaught
Eunice
Holloway
Robert Young Holloway
Griffin Funeral Home Visions
Roberest
Ses
Hobbs
Heidel and Swarthout
Lovingto
C.J. Voorhies
Baker and Taylor Drilling Company
Employers Casualty Company, A Corporation
Mrs. Chris Anderson Undergoes Surgery in Clovis
Mrs. Chris Anderson underwent surgery at Clovis Hospital Monday morning. By Wednesday, officials reported she was improving as well as could be expected.
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Chris Anderson
Clovis
Clovis Hospital
Banquet Tickets On Sale For Levington Event
Banquet chairman H S Pannell announces the Chamber of Commerce event in Levington on March 25 at 7 30 pm Tickets cost 2 00 including the meal 1 75 for the meal and 25 cents for other costs Jake Hill says tickets go on sale Saturday at the Chamber of Commerce office Dr Martin L Cole dean of BNMU will give the main address with additional music and entertainment expected
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. S. Pannell
Chamber of Commerce
Levington
Jake Hill
Chamber
Martin JL. Cole
B N.M.U
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Parents and
Resi
Felix Stanford Mauldin
Gine
Texas-New Mexico
First Baptist Church
Chester Watt
Mauldin
Mauldin Was Born
March 11
Earl B
Lov
Ington
Albuqu
Ruth Mayhew
Cleene Humphreys
Opal Moore
Faye Harrington
Frances Trott
Faye Hallock
Jack and the
Ethel Lampman
Frieda Eshenbaugh
Ruby Wiley
Mollie Price
Jean Haugen
Franklin Isaacs
Helen Petty
Carl Martin
Bernice Ehrlich
Rosemary Black
Paull
L. M. Blackmon
E. H. Byers
Joe Carson
W. G. Edgar
Dewey Gann
J. E. Henderson
C. V. Darden
L. D. Gann
Clarence King
C. A. McElroy
B. H. Pope
Earl T. Wilks
Ray Short
Bro. Baldwin
Jesus
Homer Kelly
Anderson
Kelley
Mack Easley
Atorney
KE. G
Jake) Hill
Chambr of Commerce
Jake
Portzsles
Taft Kefauver
United Press
Fefauver
Sgt
Sen
Rort
Lowton Bpw
Billy Vaught
Lions
New Discovery
North Sea Co
Kink, Warren, Dye and
Yeckel
Joseph I. O’neil Jr
Bennett
Mation
Ralph Lowe
Dickenson
Denton
Forest Oil Corp
Lowe
Wolfcamp
Gladelia
Cities Service Oil Co
Air State
Tide Water Associated Oil Co
T Wteggtaen
Paul E. Simpson
William H. Pesky
Commercial Standard Insurance Company
Margaret Ann Webb
William Edgar Webb
Webb
E. E. Kuvghendall
Ideal Food Store
D. A. Hinl Defendent
Fred Wolf
W M. Walker Trucking Contractor
And
Pacific Employers Insurance Company
George W. Tucker
George Tucker Pineline Company
Os T. P Sudderth
M. W
D. W. Erwin
Household Sun
Piv and
Weldon Cox Swent Severs
Dallas
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