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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1940
Page
4
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Community groups from First Baptist First Christian and First Methodist hold meetings and luncheons at homes and churches from Monday through Friday. Roswell clubs host suppers book reviews and birthday parties with multiple attendees listed. travel notes include trips to Waverly Tennessee and Yellowstone Park.
The S E visits Roswell Carnegie Library to report July 2004 circulation. Volumes: 352 fiction, 1205 nonfiction, 64 juvenile fiction, 4262 total with 162 daily average. Thirty new books added. / Popular titles include Gone With The Wind bound copies, Rebecca, All This And Heaven Too, Grapes of Wrath, Oh Promised Land, Wild Geese Calling, Nights in Bombay, Hell On Trial, Dry Guillotine. Men read serious works. women are the greatest readers. children frequent the library. New cooler installed. Miss Hamilton on vacation.
A Wichita library pledge article opens this page with a poem honoring the library. The rest covers numerous notices from Jerry Hargett’s second birthday party to family visits, births at St Mary’s Hospital, Red Cross sewing for war refugees, and a Dallas report noting a Hamm family with their sixth set of twins among fifteen children.
Hollywood notes describe Kay Kyser testing spectacle lenses after an incident in his first film as he prepares for a future release. Wayne Morris listed as the season’s first grid casualty while Paramount’s Touchdown features an actor spraining a ligament during a pigskin play. In New Mexico, the Probate Court in Chaves County sets September 10 for hearing final report in the estate of J. E. Rose with administrator V. E. Rose seeking heirship and distribution details. D. P. Greiner, Clerk.
Sealed bids for labor and materials for a Vocational Training and Gymnasium Addition to Roswell High School, Roswell New Mexico, are due August 20 1940 at noon. Bids require a 5 percent bid bond, with surety, and may cover plumbing heating and electrical work separately or combined. Plans may be obtained for 25 dollars. The board may reject any bid and waives technicalities.
The Roswell Army Recruiting Station offers a wide choice of branches and stations for young men wishing to enlist. Available assignments include Cavalry at Fort Bliss Texas Medical Department at Fort Bliss and William Beaumont General Hospital El Paso Texas Field Artillery at Fort D A Russell Marfa Texas Quartermaster Corps at San Antonio Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Crockett Galveston Texas and Air Corps at Lowry Field Denver Colorado.
Walter Driver of El Paso Texas and Jack Blair of Miami Beach Florida were eliminated 1 6 6 3 6 0 in doubles by Robert Smith and Bill Bauman of Oak Park Illinois in the junior and boys western tournament played yesterday in Gambier Ohio.
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