Roswell Ambulance Call Policy Scrutinized by City Panel
A five member committee reported to Mayor Warren R. Cobean that there was no favoritism in ambulance calls by the Roswell Police Department. The panel urged reviewing the new call recording system and regular meetings with law enforcement and ambulance drivers to improve service for citizen safety.
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Warren R. Cobean
Roswell
City ‘Council
Nickson Hotel
Cobean
R. L. Tessier
Field Robinson
W. Jack Rodden
Paul Wilmot
Howard C.bratton
Tommy Thompson
Second Street
New Mexico
French Plan Mercy Flight To Dien Bien Phu Wounded
The French announced a plane evacuation of wounded at Dien Bien Phu. Gen. Navarre said Red Cross marked mercy planes would land near noon Monday after Vietminh are informed. Neutral observers will verify no supplies are carried, only medical crews.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Henri Navarre
French Union
International Press Corps
Christian de Castries
Navarre
Red Cross
Ho Nguyen Giap
Red River
Spring style witness Oveta Hobby testifies on social security bill
Oveta Culp Hobby Secretary of Welfare appears before the House Ways and Means Committee as a witness on the proposed social security extension. She is dressed in a dark suit with a maple leaf scarf and a simple lapel pin.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
House
Ways and Means
Nixon praises mass retaliation policy easing Indochina risk
Vice President Nixon told a Detroit banquet that the Eisenhower administration's mass retaliation policy has reduced the chance that Red China will send troops into Indochina. He asserted internal security is being well handled and touted the legislative program as promising prosperity, noting the hydrogen bomb could deter war.
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Detroit
Mich
Nixon
Eisenhower
Red China
America
United States
White House
Adlai E. Stevenson
State Dulles
Indochina
Ferguson
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Michigan
United States Senate
New Mexico Citizens Head Postward Tuesday
Citizens of over twenty New Mexico communities head to the polls Tuesday to establish municipal government and fund bonds totaling more than 92 million dollars. Campaigns vary in heat, with Albuquerque hosting crowded races for city commission and several bond issues.
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Sanky Trimble
Associated Press
New Mexico
Cily
Albuquerque
Clyde Tingley
Commission
Tinsley
Las Vegas
Carlsbad
Roswell
Fort Sumner
Socorro
Portales
Santa Fe
Local Weather Summary United States Weather Bureau
Reading at 3 hour intervals shows temperatures from 2 PM yesterday to 11 PM yesterday with highs near 88 and lows around 34. Precipitation is none for the 24 hours to 11 PM yesterday and month to date. Cloudiness fair today with increasing wind this afternoon and cooler tonight with a low near 34.
Famed French Pilot Dies in Jet Crash Near Officials
Paris reports a Mystere IV jet crashed near Defense Minister Rene Pleven and British minister Duncan Sandys during a demonstration at Melun Villaroche air port. Col Constantin Rozanoff, 49, died. he was famed for early speeds and breaking the sound barrier in a French jet.
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Paris
Defense
Renee Pleven
Duncan Sandys
Supply
Sandys
Churchill
Constantin Rozanoff
France
Poland
Pleven
Louis Christiaens
G. B. A. Baker
Melun-Villaroche
Rozanoff
Lafayette
North
Africa
Armed Forces
Restaurant convention invites state owners to Tucumcari
Restaurant owners from across New Mexico are expected in Tucumcari for a three day convention of the New Mexico Restaurant Association starting Tuesday.
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New Mexico
Dulles to Explain U S Overseas Operations Before House Panel
Secretary of State Dulles will brief the House Foreign Affairs Committee on two weeks of hearings outlining U S overseas operations. The panel will review foreign aid funding, the European Defense Community issue, and policy amid Indochina tensions and Geneva talks.
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Washington
State Dulles
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U. S
Rep. Vorys
Ohio
Shearings
Congress
Vorys
Gordon Dill
France
Indochina
House
Death leaves four survivors of Civil War in Texas
Thomas Evans Riddle, a Confederate Army private in the Army of Tennessee and later a Nebraska Navy admiral and colonel of the Confederate Air Force, died just weeks before turning 108. His death reduces Civil War veteran survivors to four as illness and age took him after a period of pneumonia and heart failure.
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Austin, Tex
Thomas Evans Riddle
Army of Tennessee
Nebraska
Riddle
Roswell Fire Rates To Drop After Class 6 Rating
Roswell will see a fire insurance rate reduction around June after earning a top Class 6 rating from Mountain States Inspection Bureau. The change follows a five member survey last month and will cut residential rates by about 15 percent from the current 20 cents per $100 valuation. Only Roswell and Albuquerque in New Mexico share this favorable rating with Denver in Colorado receiving similar credit.
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Roswell
C. M. Woodbury
Mountain States Inspection Bureau
Woodbury
Albuquerque
Colorado
Denver
Colorado Springs
Greeley
Pueblo
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Mountain States Bureau
New Mexico
Bureau
George E. Daniels
United States and Britain push for early disarmament session
The United States and Britain called for an early meeting of the twelve nation U N Disarmament Commission to address atomic and conventional arms limits. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr and a British envoy delivered notes to T F Tsiang and the commission chair in April in New York. A source said the move wasn’t directly tied to recent Washington talks between John Foster Dulles and Georgi Zarubin. The Security Council members including Russia and Canada belong to the commission.
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United Nations
N. Y
United States
Britain
U.N. Disarmament Commission
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U.N
T. F. Tsiang
John Foster Dulles
Georgi Zarubin
Washington
Security Council
Russia
Canada
Commission
Contractors Pick Roswell for 1955 Convention
Otis Campbell of Albuquerque was elected president of the Associated Plumbing Heating and Piping Contractors of New Mexico. Roswell was chosen as the site of the 1955 convention and J. S. Sites of Roswell was named first vice president.
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Albuquerque
Otis Campbell
Associated Plumbing, Heating and Piping Contractors of
New Mexico
Roswell
J. S. Sites of
Fire Damages Farmington Building in Carrier City
Smoke and heat from an undetermined origin damaged the old Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co building in Farmington early Saturday. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars.
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Farmington
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co
Mr. Roberts delayed one day at Pearson Auditorium
The Broadway play Mr. Roberts scheduled for last night at Pearson Auditorium was postponed due to a transportation breakdown. Maj. Dwight Star announced the production will be performed tonight at 8 p.m. at Pearson Auditorium, for the NMMI organization sponsoring the show.
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Mr. Roberts
Pearson Auditorium
Maj
Dwight Star
NMMI
City PTA Drives Million Penny Push for Eastern New Mexico Center
Friday pennies totaling 22.627 cents were dumped into the Public Service window to raise the county and Roswell school children contributions. The City-County PTA Council sponsors the Million Penny drive to fund the new Eastern New Mexico Medical Center.
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Public Service Company
Roswell
PTA
New
Eastern
Senate signals reversal to back housing program
Key senators indicated the Senate would reverse House action and authorize continuation of the administration's public housing program, signaling a possible bipartisan shift on housing policy.
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Washington
Senate
House
GOP Chairman Hall Claims Stevenson Is Again Candidate
Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall said he is reasonably certain Adlai E. Stevenson is again a candidate and accused Stevenson of glib misstatements for publicity. Hall rejected Stevenson's criticism of the Eisenhower administration and defended slogans of prosperity with peace as a years long goal.
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Washington
Leonard W. Hall
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Hall
Charlotte
N.C. Stevenson
Eisenhower
America
Truman-Stevenson
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Attlee Works to Keep H-Bomb from Splitting UK US Ties
London April 3 Prime Minister Attlee uses tight control of the Labour party to prevent hydrogen bomb fears from hurting British American relations. He resists a left wing push to censure Churchill and seeks a Churchill Eisenhower Malenkov meeting after U S H bomb tests spark public concern. Attlee urges restraint and avoids party capital on the issue.
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London
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Attlee
House of Commons
Churchill
Aneurin Bevan
Britain
United States
52 Election Ballots Locked in Basement
Federal grand jury impounded 1952 election ballots and locked them in the basement of the Albuquerque Federal Building. FBI investigates possible fraud across twelve counties including Bernalillo Rio Arriba San Miguel Mora Socorro Valencia Sandoval Eddy Lea Grant McKinley and Taos.
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Albuquerque
Federal
FBI
Bernalillo
Rio Arriba
San Miguel
Mora
Socorro
Valencia
Sandoval
Eddy
Lea
Grant
McKinley
Taos
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U.S
Sen.romam
R-Mich
Sen. Knowland
Southeast Asia
Dulles
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Geneva
Knowland
Free World
Formosa
Free Nations of Asia
Dulles-Radford
European Defense Community
GOP
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Claude Music
G. D. Longe
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