Chaves Economy Gains Ground After Missile Phaseout
Chaves County shows a substantial recovery in non agricultural employment, estimated at 18 100, down from about 19 100 at peak missile site activity in 1962. Farm employment peaks at 1 600 in early July, now about 1 550 as cotton weedings progress, with 1 140 unemployed and local shortages for stenographers, bookkeepers, tractor operators, and irrigators.
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Chaves County
H. O. Pruet
Aswell
New Mexico
Pruet
Roswell
Chaves
Schauer Attacks Democrats at Young Republicans Meeting
Chaves County Commissioner William C. Schauer blasted Democrats for smokescreen issues and warned of a socialist drift, telling the Cha ves County Young Republicans the 1964 campaign centers on conservatism versus liberal extremes. Local GOP leaders faulted Democrats for clouding issues and supported open primaries and Medicare opposition.
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Chaves County
William C. Schauer
John Birch Society
America
Schauer
Colin McMillan
Jack Campbell
Ed Mechem
McMillan
Jack
Joe
Joe Montoya
Kennedy
Roswell Daily Record offers weekly news tip prize
The Roswell Daily Record will pay five dollars each week for the best news tip of the week with the winner announced every Sunday. Call MA 272-7710 during business hours or 622-4918 after 5. Tipster may request confidentiality of their name.
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Roswell Daily Record
Seven Beauties to Compete in Miss Wool of New Mexico
The Miss Wool of New Mexico contest and the New Mexico wool ranch tour are set for August 16 17 in Roswell. Seven contestants from New Mexico State University University of New Mexico Highlands University and local colleges compete for the crown to precede the national contest in San Angelo. The event includes a coronation banquet style show and dance with Michele Mitchell of Albuquerque presenting the crown. The caravan tours Fuller J P White Mennecke and McKnight ranches and a neon barbecue at Robert O Anderson headquarters precede a tour of the Roswell saline water plant and Walker Air Force Base on August 17.
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New Mexico
New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc
San Angelo
Camilla Emerick
Las Cruces
Sandra Glass
Anthony
New Mexico State University
Robin Read
Susan Rundles
University of New Mexico
Mary Beth Tucker
Santa Rosa
Donna Kesrich
Las Vegas
Highlands University
Carole Bowman
Roswell
Michele Mitchell
Albuquerque
Miss Wool
Roswell Country Club
Robert Corn
Holiday Inn
Highway 70
Fuller
Two Women Jailed Here After Fight
Roswell police jailed two women and cited two others after a Thursday night disturbance on South Mulberry. Officers battled several housewives, one armed with a butcher knife, and a woman tore a pistol from an officer. Minor injuries reported. knife recovered from trash.
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Daily Record
Roswell
South Mulberry
Tommy Thompson
Navy to send Trieste to sea for Thresher search
Washington AP reports the Navy will deploy the bathyscaphe Trieste in mid August to renew attempts to locate the sunken submarine Thresher. New York AP notes James M. Landis, former Harvard Law School dean and JFK adviser, pleaded guilty to late filing and payment of income taxes for five years in federal court.
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Washington
Navy
NEW York
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Kennedy
Below Ground Nuclear Tests Will Continue
President Kennedy announced the United States will keep underground nuclear testing, excluded from the atmospheric space and underwater ban. He said efforts to perfect more effective weapons will continue, with 89 percent of development from underground experiments. Senators Jackson Mansfield and Dirksen weighed how the underground program might influence treaty ratification. Kennedy urged a wait and see approach by some lawmakers.
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Washington
Kennedy
United States
Senate
Soviet Union
Britain
Henry M. Jackson
D.wash
Jackson
House Atomic Energy Subcommittee
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
New Mexico Road Toll This Year
The toll on New Mexico roads for the current year totals 197 up to this date, compared with 247 at the same point last year, indicating a decline in road usage or incidents.
Space Budget Passed by House for NASA Program
The House approved 5.2 billion dollars for space exploration this year, a 500 million cut from NASA's request. The 334 to 57 vote reflected broad support with limited Republican opposition. The space effort remains among the top federal expenses, behind only agriculture and defense. A separate 3.9 million authorization for a Boston area electronics research center survived a GOP challenge, with Rep. Martin stating national interest over party politics. NASA must justify need before funding for the center can proceed.
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Washington
House
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ben Jenson
Joseph Martin
R-Mass
Martin
Boston
GOP
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
NASA
Rusk Heads to Moscow to sign limited test ban pact
Secretary of State Dean Rusk travels to Moscow to sign the limited nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union and Britain. The ceremony is set for Monday in the Kremlin with officials and six senators accompanying him.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Andrei A. Gromyko
Rusk
Lord Home
Gromyko
Kremlin
St. Catherine Hall
Red Chinese Leaders Call Soviets Freaks in Nuclear Pact Row
Tokyo AP reports Beijing decries Soviet leaders as freaks and monsters for backing the nuclear test ban treaty while Moscow accuses Premier Chou En-lai of bad faith since four years ago Albania joins the clash calling Khrushchev’s partial ban a capitulation to imperialists. The People’s Daily blasts the three treaty partners as nuclear overlords and plots a world peace struggle. Khrushchev is named in a separate charge. Liao Cheng chih accuses him of seeking a deal with U.S. imperialism to push peaceful coexistence and calls the treaty a sellout to socialist interests.
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Tokyo
China
Moscow
Chou En-lai
Albania
Peking
Khrushchev
United States
Britain
Peking People’s Daily
Chinese Communist Party
Soviet Union
U.S
People’s Daily
Liao Chengchih
China Peace Committee
Liao
Rail Strike Could Wreck U.S. Economy Says FDR Jr
Under secretary Franklin D Roosevelt Jr testified before the House Commerce Committee that a nationwide rail strike would trigger an economic downturn, causing 6.5 million job losses in a month and a 13 percent GDP drop, with a potential $25 billion cost, unless Kennedy’s plan shifts the dispute to the Interstate Commerce Commission for two years.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Roosevelt
House Commerce Committee
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ward at death's door as threats from girlfriend arise
Stephen Ward lay in a coma after a massive drug overdose and a guilty verdict in the Profumo scandal case. Julie Gulliver, Ward's 23 year old girlfriend, warned reporters she would avenge him if he dies, saying a crowd prays for his death to erase their names. Ward faced up to 14 years, was unconscious, and in a hospital with a breathing machine aiding his ailing condition. Ward believed he was a scapegoat in the scandal that toppled Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who described the affair as deeply wounding.
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London (Ap
Stephen Ward
Stephen
Ward
Society
Old Bailey
Christine Keeler
Marilyn
Mandy) Rice-Davies
Harold Macmillan
John D. Profumo
House of Commons
Macmillan
Profumo
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Bottomless Lakes
Emmett
Demos
Norman Rourke
Gus Hall
Communist Party
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N. M
Flouse
FDR JR
Dr. Ward
Death's Door
Julie Gulliver
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