Blossoms In Hondo Valley Attract Tourists
The Hondo Valley bloom is at its peak as orchards display thousands of blossoms drawing yearly pilgrimages from area residents and visitors. Community life in Roswell honors late attorney George E. Ward, active Rotary member, while Rotary visits in Dexter highlight a Rural Urban Dinner and new buses from New Mexico Transportation Co. Carlsbad Caverns reports March visitor totals up 60 percent from last year, with 64 126 visitors in Jan-March 1967. A Roswell event notes a newborn colt concern, and a state Woman's Club convention in Rio do so draws Roswell attendees and contrasts in camera comfort between men and women.
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George E. Ward
George
Roswell
Rotary Club
Carlsbad Caverns
State Woman’s Club
Ruidoso
Lincoln County
Don Riggenbach
Dexter
Charles Meister
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales
Center
E. P. Messick
B. F. Fields
Rotary Rural- Urban Committee
Meister
Marvin Bramblett
Jud Roberts
Seaway bids seek eight road projects including Albuquerque freeway
Santa Fe News Capsule reports eight road projects bid letting set for April 28 with an estimated 5 million dollar Albuquerque freeway job. Other work includes a 500 thousand dollar traffic signals package in Carlsbad Roswell Artesia and Alamogordo plus curb gutters pavement and sidewalks.
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Santa FE
Seaway Department
Albuquerque
Roswell
Eddy- Chaves-Otero
Carlsbad
Artesia
Alamogordo
Training Program To Include Group Training At Base
About 75 to 80 tubercular patients will be moved to Walker Air Force Base after July 1 to join ENMU's vocational and academic programs. Patients will be housed in the WAFB hospital and receive medical care, with four months to a year of treatment, and may pursue academic or vocational studies through the Roswell Campus of ENMU. Contingent plans for 80 to 90 disabled children depend on identifying a user for WAFB elementary school. Contagious TB and chronic patients stay at Fort Bayard.
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Ed AL Stubbs
Walker Air Force Base
Eastern New Mexico University
Bill Bacon
Roswell
ENMU
WAFB
Villa Solano
Los Lunas Training School
Chaves County
Bacon
Fort Bayard
New Mexico
Teamsters Press for Round-The-Clock Talks With Truckers
Federal mediators push near continuous talks between the Teamsters Union and trucking industry to reach a national contract for 450,000 workers. Progress noted in overnight sessions that ended at 4:30 a.m. with further talks set for 1 p.m.
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Washington
Teamsters Union
Trucking Employers Inc
Teamsters
ENMU President Explains Base Training Programs for Farms
Eastern New Mexico University officials told Dexter and Hagerman area citizens that on base vocational training will grow from business advisory committees to fit local farm and ranch manpower needs. WAFB will offer academics and helping services, with Roswell Campus leaders seeking funding options for economically deprived students.
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Eastern New Mexico University
Dexter and Hagerman Area
Dexter
Charles Meister
Eastern
Roswell
Rotary Club
Meister
Howard Melton
WAFB
John Gillis
Melton
New Mexico
Chaves
Seaman Testifies Of Drinking With Speck After Nurses Slain
A South Carolina merchant seaman testified he drank in three Chicago saloons with Richard Speck within hours of the eight nurses being found dead. Gerrald said Speck, met on July 14, 1966, described the killings as he and Speck moved between Eddie's Cooney's Ebbside and Shipyard Inn, with casual remarks about the case.
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F. Richard Ciccone
Peoria
Ill
South Carolina
Richard Speck
Speck
Robert
Red) Gerrald
Mullins
S.C
Chicago
South Side
Eddie’s
Cooney
95Th
Ewing
Gerrald
Great Lakes
Grover Praises Roswell Vegetable Fields
Portage Wisconsin producer Don Buller called Roswell vegetable fields excellent and promising for expansion after touring local carrot plots with Paul Schoenburg of Schoenburg Vegetable Co. Buller’s Buller Brothers farm grows onions potatoes and carrots across about 800 acres plus 700 more acres of other crops.
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Don Buller
Portage
Wis
Roswell
Buller
Buller Brothers
Portage, Wis
Paul Schoenburg
Schoenburg Vegetable Co
Judge Refuses Powell Seat U S District Court Dismissal
U S District Court Judge George L Hart Jr dismissed Adam Clayton Powell s suit seeking his seating in Congress ruling the court lacks jurisdiction over House membership decisions An appeal is planned Powell s attorney Herbert Reid said the issue would go to the Court of Appeals Hart cited separation of powers to justify the ruling noting seating Powell would violate constitutional structure
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Washington
George L. Hart Jr
Adam Clayton Powell
Congress
House
Harlem
Hart
Powell
Herbert Reid
U.S. Court of Appeals
Reid
State Highway Defendants Are Arraigned
Dist. Court Judge Robert Reidy in Santa Fe says a full afternoon of arguments will await motions to dismiss grand jury indictments against top state officials. Defendants include Rep. Fred Foster, Highway Chairman John Sudderth, Thaxton, T. B. White, C. W. Johnson, Luther Edwards, Bob DeLaRue, Mayo T. Boucher, and G. W. Burris among others.
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Santa FE
Robert Reidy
Albuquerque
Highway Department
Fred Foster
D-Grant
Highway Commission
John Sudderth
John Q. Thaxton
T. B. White
C. W. Johnson
Luther Edwards
Bob
George E Ward Dies in Roswell at 35
George Ehinger Ward 35 of Roswell dies after a long illness. Funeral services set for 3:30 p.m. Saturday at St Andrew's Church with military rites led by cadets from New Mexico Military Institute and burial at South Park Cemetery. Ward, a Roswell attorney and NMMI graduate, leaves a son George Ehinger Ward Jr and sister Mrs. Tom Pearson. He was married to Mary Lane Reed Ward.
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South Park Cemetery
Cadets of
New Mexico Military Institute
St. Andrew’s Church
George Ehinger Ward
Chiquita Lane
Roswell
St. Andrew’s Episocal Church
Charles R. Davies
George Eubanks
Ward
Chaves County
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas
Washington and Lee University
Board of Regents of
NMMI
Republican State Central
Chaves
George Ehinger Ward Jr
Tom Pearson
Refugio
Tex
Father Davies
Father Eubanks
Harry D. Blake Jr
William F. Brainerd
Paul A. Cooter
Langford Keith Jr
Baynard W. Malone
David McGee
Dick Mulkey
Ted Kerr
Midland
Rube Evans
Marfa
Bill Kitts
Albuquerque
John Otto
Alamogordo
Jack Redman
Bob Vestal
Guyman
Okla
Frank 0. Elliott
Robert V. Ely
Rolla Hinkle
Dewey Stokes
Phelps White
J. P. Williams
Lee F. Wallard Jr
Chaves County Bar Assa. Ballard Funeral Home
New Mexico Neurological Foundation
St. Andrew’s Foundation
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AL Stubbs
Hondo Valley
Oscar Kunkel
Kunkel
Pilley
New Mexico Transportation Co
H. L. Garton
Md’s. Jack Wiseman
THE
Associated Press
Johnson
Houston
Space Agency
Federal Reserve
Manila
Bataan and
Corregidor
Columbus
Ohio
Gordon Novel
New Orleans
Dist. Atty
Jim Garrison
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Yvette Diago Powell
Naples
Fla
Carl Cappolino
F. Lee Bailey
N. M
Richard
Gerrard
Ebbside
92Nd Street
Shipyard Inn
Grover
U.S
TV Strike
Kenneth Young
Beverly Hills
Calif
UPI
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