County roads funding shows uneven per-vehicle aid across counties
Winter State Highway figures show Chaves County spent 76 207 dollars in 1977 for highway contracts, averaging 1.80 dollars per registered vehicle, far below state and national per-vehicle averages. Data highlights include Torrance Union Guadalupe and Lea counties with higher per-vehicle funding and notes on commission influence.
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Ciel Lonon Record
State Highway Department
Chaves County
New Mexico
Union County
Chaves
State Highway Commission
Torrance County
J. W. Chaney
Moriarty
Lea County
Commission
Jim Dennison
Julian Garcia
Albuquerque
Bernalillo
County
Albert N. Sanchez
Guadalupe County
Dona Ana
Paul Rader
Mesilla
Donald L. Hayes
Highway Department
Santa Fe
Hayes
Jeff States
Tax Research Department
State Bureau of Revenue
Catron
Curry
Eddy
Grant
Guadalupe
Lea
Lincoln Ak
Los Alamos
Luna
McKinley
Mora Sree Otero
Quay
Rio Arriba
San Juan
San Miguel
Sandoval
Santa
DeBaca
Harding
Hidalgo
Colfax County
Dona Ana County
TMC workers reject contract offer in union meeting
More than 80 percent of Local Lodge No. 2577 members, about 200 employees, voted against a Transportation Manufacturing Corp contract. The package would not provide a cost of living raise or paid sick leave, and would raise top pay from 3.88 to 4.38 per hour with higher employee insurance. Both sides planned to resume talks today at the Roswell Industrial Air Center.
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Lodge No. 2577
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Transportation Manufacturing Corp
Daily Record
TMC
Greyhound
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Balloonists Aim for Atlantic Crossing From Ireland
Three Americans aboard Double Eagle II drift toward a record Atlantic crossing from Presque Isle Maine. If winds hold, Ben Abruzzo Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman may extend their flight into Europe, risking more miles as meteorologists monitor conditions.
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Bedford
Mass
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
Michael Leavitt
Leavitt
Ben Abruzzo
Maxie Anderson
Larry Newman
Albuquerque
N.M
Abruzzo
Newman
Iceland
Presque Isle
Maine
Roswell Daily Record highlights pages and events
A collection notes Roswell features including a Bible publication celebration, a tractor pull team setup for the Southwestern Grand Futurity, interest rate strategies by PSC NM, and the Equal Rights Amendment extension moving to the Senate. Also mentions hot football practice, local resident memories, and Rhode Island’s measured mile controversy.
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Dexter
Roswell
Witness IDs stolen coat in armed robbery trial
An industrial engineer from El Paso was admitted as an expert witness in the trial of Jerry Ray James of Ruidoso. He testified about a jacket tied to the Dessie Sawyer jewelry theft and the January 27 1977 holdup, with multiple witnesses tying James to the weekend in Ruidoso and Irving, Texas.
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Scott Merville
el Paso
Texas
Jerry Ray James
Ruidoso
Richard Edward Elmendorf
James
Delbert Dobbins
Thomas
Okla
Dessie Sawyer
Tatum
Irving
Robert
Janice Eusch
Odessa
Kuidoso
Jerry
Shirley James
Joth
Jerry Ray
Ruidos
Enschs
Ernest Carroll
Lovington
Beagles hearing set on multiple motions in Roswell case
District Judge C Fincher Neal will hear eight defense motions at 9 a m Friday on Beagles case filed Aug 4. Beagles faces charges including perjury auto theft arson and conspiracy with Sept 18 trial in District Court. Indicted June 2 by the Chaves County Grand Jury for five counts of perjury and charges of auto theft arson and conspiracy.
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C. Fincher Neal
Virgil Beagles
Beagles
Roswell
Chaves
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New Mexico Military Institute
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Jack Mask
Lee Dixon Photo
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Transportation Department
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Ramada Inn
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