Roswell Antisnake Ordinance Move Sparks Long Controversy
The Roswell City Council reviews a draft antisnake ordinance after weeks of debate. City Attorney James Stapp and Mayor Bill Brainerd question outlawing snakes, while owner Colby White confirms relocation outside the city limits. A separate Roswell planning critique condemns the $140,000 Roswell Area Transportation Study as overdesigned, suggesting local efforts could have matched results at far lower cost.
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James Stapp
Stapp
Bill Brainerd
Colby White
Fie Lia
Roswell
White
Council
Roswell Area
New Jersey
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Nixon and aides weigh veto on large education HUD bills at Camp David
President Nixon met with staff at Camp David to decide whether to sign two major bills totaling 994 million over his budget requests. The education measure plus housing and urban renewal funding face possible vetoes, while he aims to sign the postal reform and unemployment insurance bills.
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Thurmont
Nixon
Camp David
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Space Agency
Hugh Scott
4-H Achievement Day Draws Sheep and Students
4-H Achievement Day at the Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds showcased livestock and home economics entries for the state fair in Albuquerque and the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Greg Smith, 15 months, peers into a livestock pen as he visits with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Smith.
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Greg Smith
Chaves County
New Mexico State
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Greg
Eugene Smith
S. Plains Park
Animals and Projects Highlight 4-H Achievement Day
Chaves County 4 H members displayed livestock and projects at the Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds. Ellen Bramblett Dexter led champion beef. Gary Kuykendall and Lane Kuykendall won top sheep in senior and junior divisions. Jake Schmid Roswell won best rabbit and high junior points. Charlene Schmid topped senior rabbit. First-place winners advance to the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque in September.
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Chaves
Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds
Ellen Bramblett
Dexter
Doug Reinecke
Gary Kuykendall
Lane Kuykendall
Jake Schmid
Roswell
Schmid
Charlene Schmid
Chaves County
Albuquerque
Hereford
Richard Bonham
Alan Sams
Rob Goodloe
Burl Lewis
Gayla Smith
Lee Ann Reinecke
Alan Sims
Clay Funk
Ellen Bramlett
Ann Brewer
James Tucker
Beverly Ridgeway
Mike Sims
Dena Ridgeway
Ray Acosta Dexter
Danny Baker
Lisa Reinecke
Jimmie Henson
Teresa Mobley
Ivan Schmid
Carroll Schmid
Mary Henson
Debra Mobley
Glen Sweatfied
Evert Sweatfield
Roswell County
Kathie Winham
Dexteers
Beth
Gayla Andrews
Hagerman
Kathleen Meagher
Belva Sanderson
Karen Lyles
Philmont Scout Ranch Quarantine Lifted After Death
Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico lifted a quarantine of 4000 Boy Scouts and leaders after tests and federal consultation found no pneumonic plague as the cause of death of 12 year old James Morris of Jackson Michigan. The move followed completion of tests and ongoing effort to determine the actual cause at the site near Cimarron.
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Cimarron
N.M
Philmont
Bruce Storrs
State Health and Social Services Department
Federal Center
Atlanta
Storrs
Department
James Morris
Jackson
Mich
Guns Are Silent on Suez as Israelis Pause Helmets
Associated Press reports the Suez Canal ceased hostilities on the cease-fire day with Israelis keeping helmets off. No incidents were recorded on the canal 12 hours after the truce began, while clashes elsewhere injured three Israeli soldiers and hit a Dead Sea area plant. Defense Minister Dayan toured canal defenses to assess the cease-fire.
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Middle East
Suez Canal
Tel Aviv
Lebanon
Jordan
Dead Sea
Sea of Galilee
Golan Heights
Syria
Suez
Sinai
Canal
Moshe Dayan
Dayan
Southern Command
Dan Laner
Airliner hijacked to Vienna. asylum sought
A Prague engineer and his two sons hijacked a Czechoslovak airliner on a Prague to Bratislava flight, armed with pistols and an explosive, seizing 31 people and diverting to Vienna Schwechat airport to seek political asylum. In El Paso, Braswell Motor Freight Lines sues two trucking associations and the Teamsters for $150 million in a federal antitrust case filed in Los Angeles.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Prague
Bratislava
Here
Schwechat
EL Paso
Tex
Texas Freight Line
Teamsters Union
U.S. District Court
Los Angeles
Calif
Joe V. Braswell
Braswell Motor Freight Lines, Inc
Dallas
Army to ship 3000 tons of nerve gas by rail to Atlantic
The Army prepared 3000 tons of nerve gas rockets for Monday movement from Kentucky and Alabama to the Atlantic with rail by rail inspections and pilot trains. Lt. Col. Roy Wells said two trains to Wilmington will be preceded by specialists as safety precautions. Florida congressmen urged an alternate disposal site off New Jersey while Kentucky representative Tim Lee Carter plans to ride the train near Virginia. U N Secretary General Thant warned the plan violates the Geneva Convention and a 1967 assembly resolution on ocean pollution.
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Oscar Serrat
Montevideo
Uruguay
U.S
Tupamaros
Tupamaros National Liberation Movement
Dan A. Mitrione
Associated Press
Army
Kentucky
Alabama
Atlantic
Roy Wells
Ft. Knox
Wilmington
N.C
Florida
Defense
Melvin Laird
Cape Kennedy
Paul G. Rogers
Lou Frey Jr
New Jersey
William Cramer
Tim Lee Carter
Virginia
United Nations
General U Thant
United States
General Assembly
Thant
Assembly
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Roswell Independent School
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Abdullah El-Erian
Muhammad H_ El Farra
Yosef Tekoah
Abba Eban
Eban
Tekozh
Nicosia
Cyprus
Philmont Scout Ranch
Rocky Mountains
Skip Boyer
Raton
Marcus Eliason
Bitter Lakes
Nasser
Dias Gomide
Claude L. Fly
Ft. Collins
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Guerrilas
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