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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1955
Page
6
A late report recalls a Cloudcroft to Hobbs Alamogordo salesman possibly shot and robbed by a hitchhiker in uniform. Police note wartime ruses by servicemen increased such crimes. Driver caution urged near highways.
As President Eisenhower recovers, constitutional lawyers urge a clear rule for temporary inability to govern. They propose a court-checked temporary transfer of power, with the Vice President acting and courts deciding legality, but practical limits and revival procedures raise questions. Congress may revisit next session, though progress seems unlikely now.
Agriculture Department scientist N R Ellis reports antibiotic drugs in animal feeds raise litter size by one to two pigs and improve piglet survival. University of Florida’s T J Cunha notes 10–20 percent faster hog growth and 5 percent feed efficiency gains, with protein reduction possible. Experts from Denmark and Minnesota discuss varied effects and unresolved questions at a Washington conference with 14 nations.
Police Sergeant Leonard Salas spoke on juvenile delinquency at the West Side Voters League in San Antonio when a gang of youths slashed tires outside the meeting. Salas said the act illustrates the problem he warned about inside.
Judge George Fish er in Chicago ruled that Emily Post etiquette does not govern a case where a woman sought wedding gifts from a former husband. The dispute involved gifts including 12 china dolls and four teapots and whether ownership rested with the bride or the husband per Illinois law.
Instructions suggest adding a crayon game and securing paper covers with transparent celluloid tape to prevent breakage during the party. This guidance emphasizes keeping materials intact for young participants.
District Judge Langston King upheld the constitutionality of Texas is new narcotics addiction law. Luther L. Hensley, first grand jury indictment under the measure, faced a denial of release. Attorney John Cutler challenged the statute as violating the 14th Amendment, and appealed after the court fixed its ruling.
Joseph Spang, 62, named chairman of the United Community Campaign, directing a nationwide educational push for fall drives by 19 000 local Community Chests and United Funds. Boston born Harvard graduate, longtime industrialist and civic leader, pledges full effort for children's programs and preventive aid.
Holland councilman John Van Eerden faced a speeding charge backed by radar evidence and was sent to traffic school instead of a fine. Muskegon resident Bernard Reigler finally pays 46 dollars for a well drilled 13 years ago after bitter water improved. Cambridge educator Ross Vardon died at 85 leaving an epitaph about schools. French tenant George Gayraud fights seven years of evictions against landlord Honore Pignade who used barbed wire and blocked entries yet Gayraud remains in the downstairs flat.
In Bridgeport Connecticut a teenage babysitter rushed from a home as Dr. and Mrs. John Gulash prepared to leave. She reported a strange animal in the bathroom prompting the couple to check. They calmed her, explaining the visitor was only a Davy Crockett hat.
Dr. Alton Ochsner warns lung cancer deaths rose fivefold from 1920 to 1953 as more people smoke earlier. He argues filters do little to curb harm and cites British findings that city non-smokers have higher lung cancer in urban areas. A USC scientist blames vehicle exhausts for cancer risk amid urban smog. Molotov’s political fate in Soviet leadership shifts and Moscow signals dulled smiles as Khrushchev and Bulganin gain influence ahead of conferences.
Washington report shows consumer prices rose 0.3 percent from mid August to mid September pushing the index to 114.9 percent of 1947 49 averages. The rise brings the cost of living within half a percent of the October 1953 record.
More than one fifth of 1 912 million bushels of wheat in storage in the United States on April 1 1955 was stored in Kansas. Kansas accounted for a substantial share of the national wheat stock, reflecting regional concentration in storage.
Earl Hatfield entered the Kalamazoo County Fair cake contest on a dare from his wife and secured first prize with a white cake and second prize with a devil's food cake.
The text identifies Yellowstone as the largest national park at 2,213,207 acres and Platt National Park in southern Oklahoma as the smallest at 912 acres.
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