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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1978
Page
4
HUD asks for lower valuations on two apartment complexes, claiming losses from fixed rents. County disputes the request noting the valuation matches size and condition. HUD argues for relief due to serving the poor, while locals warn of subsidizing the federal government and potential tax pool impact.
State highway officials confirm Chaves County receives far less funding than neighboring counties. In 1977 the county got 0 dollars from the state for highway repairs and 76 207 federal aid for roads, while comparisons show Catron and Guadalupe counties receiving much higher per vehicle funds. City officials warn Roswell faces EPA drainage project delays as funds lag, prompting local residents to question state distribution practices and press commissioners for answers.
A RoswellDaily Record letter urges parents and students to support Roswell High School amid many staff changes including a new band director. The writer warns against demotion or slander of new faculty and stresses the role of attitudes from students, teachers, and parents in a successful year.
Senior Civil Air Patrol member Ed McKeag led a meteorology class focusing on cloud formation and weather eye meanings. Capt. Tony Redman delivered Washington orders to the group. Roswell residents face lower municipal payroll costs, $1.72 per capita, versus $3.45 in other cities per the US Census Bureau. Ernest Utterback spoke on water conservation at Hagerman Lions Club at the Methodist undercroft, with a Belle Bennett circle dinner, stressing valley water waste dangers and consequences.
Two years of Khmer Rouge violence in Cambodia drive refugees across the border to Thailand where they endure beatings, imprisonment, and possible return to danger. Authorities deny abuses as camps hold families in crowded, sporadically fed quarters under brutal overseers.
SANTA FE supporters of Bruce King attack headlines labeling Independent Democrats for Joe Sheen as prominent. They argue many named switchers have long flirted with the GOP and reference Ralph Gallegos as an umbrella organizer for dissenters.
The article traces emeralds from ancient times to modern Colombia where most world deposits lie near Bogota in the Chivor and Muzo mines. It notes high value versus diamonds, diverse imperfections called jardins, and a 1969 surge in poaching and violence by armed groups called Emeradoes, with government protection costs of about 12 million annually.
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