Merger Issue Shaken Loose to Legislature
Attorney general says a full merger of the Health and Welfare departments would require legislative action or a constitutional mandate. He warns that executive orders could create conflict and notes the Health Department’s secrecy obligations and historical separation since 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. K. Wylder
Albuquerque
State Board of Public Health
Wylder
Mechem
Halth
Welfare
Gerald R. Tions
Capitol
Director of Public Health
Health Department
Robinson
Agriculture Department
Health and Welfare Departments
Department of Public Welfare
Unreleased Meeting Program Leaves Details Unclear
The report notes that counties will be represented and mentions a meeting held recently, but a program for the gathering has not been released. No further specifics on attendees or agenda are provided.
GOP Meeting Planned in Albuquerque Invite for Nixon
Gordon Houser regional director of the Young Republicans says members from Wyoming Utah Colorado and New Mexico will meet in Albuquerque this summer. He notes Vice President Nixon has been invited to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GOP
Albuquerque
Gordon Houser
The
Young Republicans
Colorado Springs
Colo
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
New Mexico
Nixon
Marriage License Issued to Mc Neely and Watson
A marriage license was issued yesterday to John T. Mc Neely Jr., 32, of Longview Texas, and Ouida Davenport Watson, 40, of Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. McNeely Jr
Longview
Tex
Ouida Davenport Watson
Fort Worth
Weather outlook with scattered showers and cool today
Reading at 3 hour intervals from 2 p.m. shows temperatures high 75 and low 50 with a 24 hour precipitation total of none. Normal highs 77 and lows 46. Expect considerable cloudiness with a few showers today and tomorrow. Sunset 6:34, day length 13.2 hours.
Schine Leaves Capitol amid McCarthy Army Hearings
Army Pvt. G. David Schine departs a Capitol room after a conference with the Senate Investigations subcommittee staff. He declines to talk to newsmen as hearings on the McCarthy Army dispute open today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
David Schine
Capitol
Washington
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Schine
Worthless check case lands man in court
Sheriff Harry Pur’s department aided by Deputy Jim Decker arrested a man named Pat Longan after he attempted to pass a $25 check at Safe Way Grocery. Longan pleaded guilty to a bad check count in R. Perry Bean’s court with bond set at 750 dollars and was bound over to the District Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of
Harry Puryear
Mirror Lounge
E. Third St
Sheriff's Department
Jim Decker
Safeway Grocery
Decker
R. Perry Bean
Pat Longan
District Court
Airlift of Paratroops Bypasses India for Far East Route
The U S Air Force confirms a detour around India for paratroop airlift to Indochina. The Paris Indochina path is 8500 miles versus 14000 miles westward. India opposes foreign troops transiting by air. About 10 planes and 1000 troops are involved per Paris reports. Tokyo suspends South Korea Japan rest flights as Globemasters divert to troop airlift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Despie
India
Air Force
Dien Bien Phu
United States
Pacific
Paris
Indochina
Pakistan
China
Tibet
Ehru
Delhi
Orly Field
State Department
Tokyo
US Far East Command
South Korea
Japan
Globemasters
Tufts Faces Reduced Bite Charge In Dance Case
Actor Sonny Tufts now faces a single thigh bite accusation after the right thigh charge was dropped by Barbara Gray Atkins a 27 year old dancer who declines further embarrassment. A $25 000 damage suit was dismissed while another $26 000 divorce action proceeds from Margarie Von 22 in district court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Sonny Tufts
Barbara Gray Atkins
Aatire Pancemaion
Margarie
District Court
Reon
Ton
Ignatio Leaton
Two Men Fined Ten Dollars Each for Drunkenness
In Police Court this morning two men were charged with drunkenness and each fined ten dollars.
Fire Crew Delays After Skunk Detour in North Haven
North Haven firefighters abruptly quit the scene of a grass fire to ensure a skunk had also left. They returned to extinguish the blaze once the animal was out of the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Haven
Conn
Jerass
Albuquerque hosts weekend liquor dealers convention
New Mexico liquor dealers meet in Albuquerque for a convention sponsored by the Lounge and Package Association. The gathering follows the breakup of the former New Mexico Liquor Dealers Association and is set to address industry matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALBUQ
New Mexico Liquor Dealers
Albuquerque
The
Lounge and Package Assn
Old New Mexico Liquor Dealers Assn
Real estate group urges tighter FHA controls in hearings
A spokesman for the National Association of Real Estate Boards urged Congress to tighten FHA loan rules to curb abuses while ensuring housing aid continues. He backed stricter cost certifications, tighter appraisal checks, and disciplinary action against guilty lenders as investigations focus on windfall profits in apartment projects. Senate Banking Committee hearings probe irregularities in the FHA program and the ongoing housing bill for 1954.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
John C. Williamson
National Assn
Federal Housing Administration
PHA
FHA
Williamson
Senate Banking Committee
Senate Committee
Executive Branch
Eisenhower
House
Capehart
R-Ind
The McCarthy Army Story heads for Capitol press event
Capitol officials packed the Senate Office Building hearing room for the premiere of The McCarthy Army Story. About 650 to 700 people filled the 72 by 53 foot space with 120 reporters at press tables and many more including subcommittee members witnesses and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William 0. Warn
Washington
Capitol
Caucus
Senate
Harold R. Beckley
Senate Press Gallery
Beckley
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Subcommittee
Congress
Akers Services Today in Hatch Burial
Jon Burton Akers was buried today in Hatch after services at the First Methodist Church. The 60-year-old Hatch resident died Sunday in a Las Cruces hospital. He had lived in Hatch 24 years and worked for the Reclamation Service in Pueblo Lands and Ysleta, Texas, and Las Cruces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akers
Las Cruces
Jon Burton Akers
Hatch
First Methodist Church
Pabens
Ysleta
Tex
McKee Suit Barred in Santa Fe Court Ruling
The Santa Fe District Court barred the state from collecting 38535 in use or compensating charges related to a McKee suit. The ruling affects the pending enforcement of the claim and sets a procedural limit on the state's recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MCKEE
Santa FE
Detroit party for dead man divides his trinkets
Carl Clarke millionaire and Monroe Michigan Steel Castings Co. president left 261 personal items to 45 guests at a will inspired gathering. The items ranged from snowshoes to a Lincoln etching while Clarke pledged rest of fortune to nine charities. Gordon MacEdward recalled Clarke as quiet and charitable with a life devoted to American Indian and Negro rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Carl Clarke
Monroe ‘Mich. Steel Castings Co
Carl
Wednesday Nighters Club
Clarke
Straw Hat Day Declared In Roswell By Mayor Ballard
Mayor Bert Ballard signed a proclamation declaring Saturday April 24 1954 Straw Hat Day in Roswell urging male citizens to wear new straw hats advertised by local merchants to welcome spring headwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Ballard
Roswell
Graduation Dates Listed for Schools
Walker and Littlefield hold graduation on May 17, Berrendo on May 18, Mountain View on May 19, East Grand Plains on May 20. May 21 marks the end of the 1953 44 session in all county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker and
Littlefield
Berrendo
Mountain View
East Grand Plains
All County
Russian defector reveals Soviet assassination plot details
A Russian Secret Service captain, Nikolai Khoklov, defected to the West and provided U S authorities with extensive disclosures on Moscow Berlin operations. He named two East German agents Hans Kukowiccz and Kurt Weber and described a plan to kill NTS leader Okolovich in Frankfurt. The document outlines silenced pistols and poison pellet devices and notes suspected recent kidnapping of Berlin leader Dr Alexander Truchnovich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Nikolai Evgenyevich Khoklov
High Commission
Khaklov
MVD
Red Police
Moscow
Berlin
Vienna
Hans Kukowiccz
Kurt Weber
George S. Okolovich
Frankfurt
NTS
Germany
Alexander Truchnovich
Red
Okolovich
Soviet Union
East Germany
Khoklovy
Studenikov
Auto Manslaughter Case to Be Tried Tomorrow
State of New Mexico versus Patrick Simmons set for trial in district court tomorrow on voluntary manslaughter charges from a February 14 automobile crash at Washington and Lith streets that killed Jesse Howell Mangum 43 and wife Bessie Loraine Mangum 33. Attorneys O. O. Askren and Richard G. Bean for the defense and Pat Hanagen for the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of New Mexico
Patrick Simmons
O. O. Askren
Richard G. Bean
Simmons
Pat Hanagen
Washington and Lith St
Jesse Howell Mangum
Bessie Loraine Mangum
Officials Enjoined as Rio Arriba Poll Clerks Named
District Judge David Carmody ordered Rio Arriba County officials to pick election poll clerks from a list submitted by the county Democratic chairman or explain on April 29 why not. The chairman Ernesto Lopez alleged commissioners used names not on his list in 11 precincts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE
David Carmody
Rio Arriba
Ernesto Lopez
Court
Steen Denies Libel Claim In U S District Court
Utah uranium magnate Charles Steen replies to a libel suit in U S District Court denying any intent to injure reputations of Colorado engineers Alan Simpson and J E Simpson of Grand Junction who seek 1 050 000 dollars in damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steen
T Lake City
U. S
Charles Steen
Utah
Colorado
Alan Simpson
J. E. Simpson
Grand Junction
Colo
Stockton and Bursum Meet Publicly Without Fireworks
Two Republican gubernatorial candidates Alvin Stockton of Raton and Holm Bursom of Socorro spoke at a peaceful Albuquerque rally attended by about 300. Stockton urged voter participation and endorsed Gov. Mechem’s four year record while Bursom backed voting machines as safeguards against fraud and proposed regional education initiatives to reduce juvenile delinquency. Democratic challenger John Simms Jr. sent a telegram due to illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
Alvin Stockton
Raton
Holm Bursom
Socorro
John Simms Jr
Ed Mechem
New Mexico
Stockton
Wisconsin Senator Demanded Schine Commission Amid Hearings
Maj. Gen. Miles Reber testified that Sen McCarthy and Roy Cohn pressed for an officer commission for G David Schine. Reber noted two calls daily from Cohn and two to three from McCarthy between July 17 and 31 of last year, after an earlier office visit by the senator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Miles Reber
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Roy Cohn
G. David Schine
Reber
Cohn
Schine
McCarthy demands individual Army case at hearings
At the Army hearings opening Senator McCarthy challenged that charges against him were presented by the Department of the Army not as individual officials. He noted charges against himself Roy Cohn and Francis Carr and objected to departmental framing as Mundt and McClellan had just finished opening statements. Mundt warned that reputations and integrity of public officials are at stake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Army
Department of the Army
Mundt
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
Wisconsin
Robert T. Stevens
John G. Adams
Defense
H. Struve Hensel
Senate
Army Department
Roy Cohn
Francis P. Carr
G. David Schine
Frolics Days Proclaimed by Roswell Mayor
Mayor Bert Ballard proclaims April 26 and 27 as Frolics Days in Roswell. The Roswell Assistance League sponsors Prolies of 1954 at 8 p.m. in the Junior High School auditorium with proceeds split between the Eastern New Mexico Medical Center and other worthy organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Ballard
Roswell Assistance League
Roswell
City of
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Beta Sigma Phi Council
Dexter
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New Mexico Medical Center
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Dan Hinton Wilmot Jr
C. R. Chapman
BOM
West Germany
Krem‘lin
Bursum
Ank
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Alvin
Roswel
Bessie Melvin
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