Assault Charges Dismissed Against Lovington Police
Criminal charges against three Lovington policemen over the alleged beating of a Negro prisoner were dismissed on motion by the district attorney after a preliminary hearing. Acting Chief Bill White and Officers Billy Wiggington and Herschel Cunningham faced counts of assault with various aims. The hearing revealed disputed testimony about the use of force during the arrest and subsequent events.
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Lovington
Bill White
Billy Wiggington
Herschel Cunningham
Justice of the Peace
Robert Bensing
Pat Hanagan
Williams
Wiggington
John Green
Cunningham
Hanagan
Huntsville
Swarthout
George Williams
Hobbs
Andrew M. Swarthout
Harmony Dominates Florida Debate Between Adlai and Kefauver
United Press report describes a friendly Florida primary debate where Adlai Stevenson and Senator Estes Kefauver shared similar views on segregation foreign policy and atomic energy use. They lightly sparred over Stevenson missing Senate duties and addressed Eisenhower era initiatives. A separate note records Texas Democrats planning to oppose Lyndon Johnson’s wishes at the state convention with Houston Harris County delegates aiming to push changes to the party leadership.
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Florida
Adlia Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Miami
Oth
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Stevenson
Senate
Texas
Democratic
Lyndon Johnson
Houston
Harris County
Allen Shivers
Do It Yourself Popularity Grows in America
A government survey shows a shift in American life from reliance on others to Do It Yourself efforts. Americans spent 383 percent of income on others’ work in 1929, falling to 34 percent in 1955. Movie attendance declined since 1947 due to television.
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America
George
Simms Chavez Draw Political Battle Lines
Observers see a growing split between Senator Dennis Chavez and Governor John F. Simms in the upcoming campaign. Chavez criticized the lien and responsibility laws in a Clovis interview while Simms defended restrictive welfare laws in a separate newspaper discussion.
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United Press
Dennis Chavez
John F. Simms
Chavez
Clovis
Simms
Simm
Eisenhower committee names Hobbs woman co chair
Richard Spurrier newly named Mrs. A. A. Kemnitz of Hobbs to co chair the Citizens for Eisenhower committee in New Mexico. Kemnitz is Hobbs City Council member and wife of an oilman. Spurrier says a finance chairman is being sought and operations will begin soon. Spurrier is a former state geologist.
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United Press
Citizens For Eisenhower Committee
New Mexico
Richard Spurrier
Hobbs
Cochairman
A. A. Kemnitz
Spurrier
Traffic Deaths Total 126 For New Mexico
The New Mexico traffic toll reaches 126 for the year with two new names added. Clair Ernest Lenox, 45, of Las Cruces died when his car hit a truck seven miles south of San Antonio. Nazario Alvarado, 33, Mexican national, died in Lea County General Hospital Hobbs from injuries suffered May 11 when struck by a Lovington man’s car.
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New Mexico
Clair Ernest Lenox
Las Cruces
Nazario Alvarado
Lenox
San Antonio
Alvarado
Lea County General Hospital
Hobbs
Lovington
Weather forecast for New York and scattered storms nationwide
The weatherman predicts sunny skies for most of the nation today with a small area of scattered thunderstorms from the middle Atlantic Coast southwest to western North Carolina and West Virginia. A few afternoon showers are forecast for Florida and widely scattered afternoon thunderstorms for Western Texas and the Panhandle, and from Central Rockies east to northern Missouri.
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New York
Middle Atlantic
North Carolina
West Virginia
Florida
Texas
Panhandle
Central Rockies
Missouri
Radioactivity Reported 1300 Miles From H-Bomb Test
A Japanese ship reported high radioactivity in the Pacific about 1300 miles south of Bikini where the hydrogen bomb exploded. Officials said most radioactivity entered the stratosphere and drifted over open sea north of the Marshalls while the bomber that dropped the bomb heads toward an undisclosed U.S. base.
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Pacific Ocean
Japan
Solomon Islands
Bikini
All-Japan Seamen’s Union
Kobe
Marshall Islands
Marshalls
Honolulu
United States
Lea County approves $119000 budget increase for operations
Lea County commissioners set a tentative budget for the coming year increasing county operations by 119000. Total spending from July this year to July 1957 is estimated at 1479476 with major rises for water basin recharge plumbing health center shed road equipment sheriff elections and airport fund changes. Taxes valuations rose from 159,523,815 to 167,860,379 and salaries for commissioners increased to 5400 annually.
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Lea
Barrett
State Tax Commission
EDC Plans Summer Meeting in Tucumcari
The Economic Development Commission announced a summer meeting to be held outside Santa Fe, at Tucumcari, with no date set. It met in Hobbs and proposed seeking legislative authority to issue revenue bonds for filling stations motor courts and other facilities to be leased to private operators. The commission also runs ads in the Wall Street Journal extolling New Mexico as an industrial area.
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Hobbs
Economic Development Commission
Santa Fe
Tucumcari
Capitol City
Wall Street Journal
New Mexico
Search Continues For Lost Airman Crumley Atoll
A Pacific task force hunts for Captain Paul M. Crumley of Albuquerque New Mexico after his plane went down before a hydrogen bomb drop was canceled. The observer parachuted but did not reach a life raft as seven planes searched Monday and five more today with little hope of success.
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Eniwetok Atoll
Pacific
Paul M. Crumley
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Air Force
Crumley
Poisonous Snake Found In Albuquerque Mailbox
Mrs. Simon Deschler discovered a 40 inch water moccasin in her rural Albuquerque mailbox. A postal inspector arrived as her husband killed the snake. The incident raises questions who sent it since no return address was included.
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Simon Deschler
Albuquerque
Bodies Of Hobbs Fishermen Found
Three Hobbs men A B Stanfield Jr 7 A B Stanfield Sr 35 and A E Ellington 56 drowned while fishing on Balmorhea Lake near Pecos Texas. An all day search failed to locate them or their 12 foot aluminum boat until divers found the two adults in the morning and the boy later. The trio’s car boat trailer and camping gear were found on shore. Mrs Stanfield identified a cap as one her husband wore.
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Hobbs
Balmorhea Lake
Pecos
Tex
A.B. Stanfield, Jr
A. B. Stanfield, Sr
A. E. Ellington
Ellington
Continental Oil Company
Stanfield
Hobbs Auto
Stowaway Falls In Love On Ship Romance In England
A 17 year old American officer’s son, Jimmy MacLeod of Virginia, stowed away on the Queen Elizabeth. He is held in England to be returned to the United States aboard the Geiger while he pursues a romance with a girl named Sue whose last name is unknown.
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England
Jimmy MacLeod
New York
Southhampton
Jimmy
Janes MacLeod
Alexandria
Virginia
United States
Geiger
Newsman
Sue
New
York City
Liquormen Oppose Lifting Fair Trade Laws in New Mexico
Frank Padilla Jr. of the New Mexico Retail Licensed Beverage Association signals potential repeal of the fair trades law if uniform municipal liquor licenses are enacted. The group favored retaining the profit-guarantee law and re elected Padilla while convening in Albuquerque.
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United Press
New Mexico
Frank Padilla Jr
New Mexico Retail Licensed Beverage Association
Hilton Dickson
Dickson
Padilla
Albuquerque
Seminole Youth Escapes Injury In Car Spill
Winfred Baggett 20 of Seminole was injured when his 1951 Chevrolet overturned after he fell asleep while driving east toward Hobbs on the Hobbs Carlsbad highway. The crash occurred 27 miles west of Hobbs at 4 a.m. Sunday. State Police Sgt. Nolan Utz said Baggett left the road and overturned after the sleep incident.
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Winfred Baggett
Seminole
Hobbs
Carlsbad
Nolan Utz
Baggett
Twelve Cases Heard By City Court
City Magistrate Judge John Green presided over twelve cases on Monday. Fines and forfeitures totaled $190 for drunkenness and related offenses. several defendants paid or remained jailed for nonpayment. Traffic violations included two who ran stop signs and one speeding citation. Letting licenses lapse and second drunkenness offenses drew fines.
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John Green
G. A. Floyd
R. Garcia
W. D. Jacobs
F. C. Hernandez
Raymond Whisenhunt
I. B. Haynes
Dock Jones
J. M. Bass
S. D. Smith
C. A. Humphrey
Jerry Clark
Jerry Lawson
End Leasing Of Federal Lands For Surplus Crops Ended
President Eisenhower ordered stopping new leases of federally owned farmland for surplus and price supported crops. Existing leases stay in effect. new leases within 60 days must prohibit cultivation of surplus crops. Affects about 13 to 2 million acres. grazing lands and wildlife refuges unchanged. Move aims to reduce price depressing surpluses and align production with markets.
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White House
Five Day Forecast With Scattered Thunder Showers
The forecast calls for average temperatures near seasonal levels in the northwest and a few degrees above in the southeast with small daily changes. Widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers expected mainly in the north. Afternoon highs range from the 70s to 80s in the northwest and up to the low 90s in the southeast. Night lows mostly in the 40s to 60s.
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Simms-Chavez
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