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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1939
Page
5
Randolph Scott and Nancy Kelly star in Frontier Marshal with a frontier action packed scene at the Yucca Theatre. Wording for the contest should evoke old west flavor and mail to the Frontier Marshal Contest Editor before August 17 at midnight for a $5 prize.
Survivors recall a ghastly crash that killed 20 of 149 aboard the fli er as heroic acts by nurse Thelma Ristvedt and Penn State College professor E A Betts emerge. Engineer E F Hecox raced to summon aid amid shattered bridge and burning dining car while investigators cite deliberate tampering.
Miss Phyllis Marshall of Dexter, a New Mexico delegate to the National 4-H Club encampment in Washington, D C, will automatically be one of the Chaves county delegates to the state 4-H encampment program, highlighting local representation in the youth leadership event.
The state 4-H Club encampment will be held at State College in Las Cruces from August 28 to September 2. County agent Tom Reid announced the Chaves county delegates including Bobby Charles Michelet Earl Hendricks L D Fairbanks Wiggins Helen Goodwin Lois McVickers and the girl winner of the 4-H style review. Tom Gaynor of Circle Y will lead as representative. County agents Reid and Pauline Cowan will attend.
The narrative describes a renewed wage struggle fought across roads and fields where the grandfathers of many participants once battled with swords. The piece contrasts past and present conflicts, framing labor disputes as a continuation of historical clashes over work and reward.
Cc. O. Thompson and his wife and daughter are in town for a vacation. Thompson, formerly an attorney in Roswell for about ten years, left in 1917 and is now deputy district attorney in San Bernardino, California.
Galveston spot cotton remained steady at 8.80 cents per pound for middling, with sales totaling 468 bales. The report notes steady market conditions in Galveston on August 14.
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