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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1935
Page
3
Grace Thorpe Bear outlines how to use the Federal Housing Administration modernization credit up to 2000 dollars to brighten kitchens. Advice covers color harmony, lighting, space perception, climate considerations, and practical enamel paints for easy cleaning.
Mr and Mrs Donald E Gillespie hosted a garden supper at their Morningside Place home honoring Mrs Paul G Schultz of Santa Fe and Miss Ruth Yoder of Omaha. A card party followed with attendees including Dr and Mrs J P Williams Major and Mrs George L Erwin Will Rhodes Wade Corn A D Jones K A Yoder Thornton H Boswell Donald Dye and others. Miss Josephine and Dorothy Dow will be in Albuquerque until Sunday as Dorothy teaches Red Cross life saving and swimming.
Langford Keith Jr. celebrated his third birthday at his grandmother’s Roswell home with a garden party. Guests included Rolla Hinkle Jr and many local families. Community notices mention club meetings, visits, and trips by residents across Roswell with names and destinations.
The report notes that using influence to control a department convention is an offense under Legion law, risking expulsion. Districts are formed with commanders named: District One Santa Fe Bernalillo Torrance Felipe M. Garcia Albuquerque commander. District Two Colfax Harding Union Mora San Miguel Quay Guadalupe Curry DeBaca Eben Jones Raton commander. District Three Lincoln Chaves Roosevelt Eddy Lee L A Conarty Carlsbad commander. District Four Catron Socorro Grant Sierra Hidalgo Luna Dona Ana Harron Hyland Las Cruces commander. District Five San Juan Rio Arriba Taos McKinley Sandoval Valencia Don Redenbaugh Belen commander.
An advertisement claims hay fever and asthma can be successfully treated by natural methods. It lists Dr. Esther Seale and Dr. R. Van Deusen at Apt 102 Fowler Apartments with telephone 576 and references Adv. A7Tt6c as the ad identifier.
Ten years ago today Roswell records note Elizabeth Nicholas entertaining at bridge at her parents home. Guests included Eloise Slaughter Zoa White Hester Anderson Virginia Bradstreet Laura Ballard and many others. Also mentions Mrs Stephenie Prager Cassedy tea and Naomi McNally hosting bridge for Merle Strickland.
Paris fashion notes highlight softening silhouettes with reduced sleeves and bows. Lucien Lelong dress features lamp black silk crepe, neck drapery joined to the bodice by a gold scroll, gathered sleeves, and a crushed girdle with a second gold scroll.
Hoover raises constitutional issues as he critiques proposed changes like the Guffey coal bill. He argues the president aims to force a constitutional shift to federalize all business, urging public discussion before January 3. Senator Borah remains silent while Robert H. Lucas touts a poll favoring Borah for 1936.
Elizabeth Lorimer of Chicopee Mass and Robert Pate of Englewood Cal were trapped on a narrow ledge high on Half Dome. Rangers lowered them 2,500 feet to safety after hours on the sheer rock. Both suffered no ill effects from the perilous ordeal.
Santa Fe August 12 AP The New Mexico state game and fish commission will not enforce new federal dove season dates and keeps state dates unchanged. Duck and goose seasons align with federal dates. A Magdalena mountains doe season runs Nov 20 to 24 with 125 permits at $2 each. New refuges include Patos in Lincoln Forest East Elk Mountain near Beaverhead and Tom Summers west of Quemado. Open pheasant season Oct 20 21 in several counties with a three cock bag limit. Commission rejects Bassett Lake purchase and prairie chicken season due to drought. Lake Van Roswell closes until Oct 15 for bass activity.
Entries received include a bouquet of Fraysers zinnias by Mrs. W. P. Turner and a bouquet of dahlias by T. L. Gardner.
American athletes dominated two track meets, winning 11 of 13 firsts in Biarritz and Amsterdam events while facing strong French and European challengers. Norman Norland and Gene Venzke led Americans, but Normand and Polish Kucharsky claimed standout times, amid labor news from New York and wage debates over the security wage for relief workers.
Police treat Mrs. Mary James of La Crescenta as a drowning case after an autopsy. A link emerges to another death in 1932 Manitous Colorado where the husband Robert S. James had a second wife found dead in a tub.
Washington August 12 AP The Guffey coal stabilization bill won 12 to 11 in the House Ways and Means Committee breaking a two month deadlock. A new draft with amendments will be reported to the House and likely floor action by Wednesday. The plan creates a national commission to regulate wages hours fair trade and price fixing in soft coal with a tax on operators largely rebated to compliant firms. President Roosevelt backs the bill though questions about constitutionality persist.
Walter Robillard, 32, of Boston, swam 150 miles from shore while aboard the Notre Dame. He was spotted by the Ripple crew near Georges Banks, dragged into a dory, treated for exhaustion, then flown to East Boston where he was later moved to a psychopathic hospital for observation.
The Tucumcari Daily News, an afternoon daily, joined the Associated Press today receiving daily service. Editor Paul Dodge oversees a paper that previously carried only city and county news.
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