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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1941
Page
8
A column notes longstanding class clash over road routing from East 2nd Street to South Main, arguing that traffic and business shifts mirror bigger have versus have not tensions. It jokes about a loyal townsman, a quip about a hospital anesthetic, and a skunk sighting on Lea Street before tagging along to Richardson.
Capt John Gioscio Roswell Salvation Army commander long kept under observation at Mayo Clinic Rochester still described as very sick by his wife in a letter dated April 2 to Major George W Johnstone. The letter notes uncertainty over operation and intense abdominal pain hindering examinations. Story also reports the death of Billy Earl Chastain five week old son of Mr and Mrs Adram Chastain with funeral details and local shop ads.
The Roswell Museum seeks old woolen material for rug making and asks donors to contact Mrs. Lucy Bond at the Museum to arrange donation.
In this advertisement, Anderson's Gardens urges readers to try a Vegetable Soup Package and a Salad Package. The offer highlights fresh ingredients and a combo deal for meal planning, inviting customers to visit the market for a complete lunch or dinner solution. The tone reflects a small business promotion from a local garden-focused vendor.
An advancing barometric system that moved from the northwestern states covers the region between the Rockies and the Mississippi, central in Oklahoma. Rain and snow are reported across the central and northern plains with fair conditions elsewhere. Temperatures have fallen in northern plateaus and central mountains with freezing reaching southern Colorado and Utah. Travel from Roswell should expect fair weather in all directions. Cleve Hallenbeck.
The colored Cub Pack No. 27 will hold a party at Carver school tonight from 7 to 8 30. Arthur Sisley will show a movie and summer activities will be discussed. Refreshments will be served.
The Coterie Club meeting planned for Wednesday has been indefinitely postponed due to Mrs Albert Hodson illness.
Bruce Cabot the film actor was planning a visit to Roswell today but had not arrived by afternoon. He was born in Carlsbad as Etienne de Bujac and briefly attended New Mexico Military Institute.
The project draws emergency funding from surplus water department money into a jail account. Eight cells for four prisoners each and a ninth for two, plus a jailer’s room, office, safety block, bull pen, and runway are planned. The building fronts Third Street, with a high barbed wire fence and a 59 foot by 25.4 foot footprint. Foundations and steel reinforcement are nearly complete as plumbing rough-ins begin.
The Boston wool market showed very light trading on greasy shorn domestic wools. Buyers sought country packed three-eighths and quarter blood bright fleece wools near 44 cents in the grease delivered to mills, while Western sellers asked more. Fine original territory wools remained steady at $1 to $1.03 scoured delivered.
Chicago wheat futures for May at 91 3 4 to 90 1 4 as July, September quoted between 90 7 8 and 90 3 4. Corn May at 67 66 to 67 7 8, July 67 3 8, Sep 67 1 2 to 5 8. Oats May 37 1 8, July old 34 3 8, July new 34 3 8, Sep old 33 3 8, Sep new 33 3 4.
In New York on April 7 greas e wool futures edged up by three tenths of a penny with May at 94.0 and July at 94.0. Certificated grease wooled spot traded at 94.3 for one lot while wool top futures rose 1 to 3 tenths of a cent with July 122.5 and Oct 119.2 and Dec 117.7 in the futures curve. Certificated spot wool tops traded at 124.5. B bid.
The New York Stock exchange closed with a generally firmer bias amid a cloudier foreign outlook and light trading. Declines were common but a number of issues edged higher while many pivotal stocks held near Saturday’s levels. transfers totaled 354 600 shares as steel and industrials showed steadier movement.
Washington April 7 Two leaders in the drive for tighter federal political regulation Senators Hatch and Gillette unveiled plans to require all political contributions to be reported on annual income tax returns with public disclosure. Proposals include a fixed contribution limit, monthly reporting of receipts and expenditures, and a legal penalty for false reporting. Gillette favors a fiscal agent system modeled on English law to enforce compliance.
Chicago produce rounds show butter eggs and live poultry prices with varied receipts and grade descriptions. Kansas City reports hogs and cattle receipts, price ranges, and early steady to firm trades with bulls, yearlings, and stockers noted.
Spot cotton in New Orleans on April 7 closed quietly down seven points with 416 sales. Prices listed include low mid dlng 9.60 middling 11.05 and good middling 11.60. Receipts 1351 and stock at 496,254. Phone your classified to No. 1.
New York April 7. Treasury notes showed varied results with 2 1/2s trading around 53 49 to 106 12. Federal Farm Mortgage and Home Owners Loan rates were not quoted in today's close.
A ride is offered to Pasadena California or nearby areas on Monday April 14 by Edwin Hadder contact 012R4.
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