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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1971
Page
1
A July 7 meeting at the Roswell Inn hosted by the New Mexico Water Pollution Assn. drew many attendees and left material behind. Officials seek the owner or retrieve items, while locals and media recall no coverage or names. The note includes a poem and a stray joke about a poker player as printed from the Sertoma Breakfast News.
West European governments fear a U S Japan monetary clash could trigger chaos and a trade war. Nixon ends dollar gold link, 10 percent import surtax, and Europe debates policy with Brussels and London amid closed markets. Noboru Takeshita pledges Japan will fight policies.
A Roswell area forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a few showers. Temperatures rise in the afternoon with a high near 89 and a low tonight around 66. The outlook covers Roswell and surrounding vicinity.
A F Grospiron, head of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, condemned President Nixon's inflation actions as punitive to workers. He urged freezing all income sources if wages and salaries are frozen.
Five people died in two crashes near Roswell on Monday. Charles M. Statham 53 and his daughter Laurann 9 of Roswell died when a car carrying them rolled on U.S. 285 north of Roswell. Martha Anne Statham 37 was listed in critical condition along with other injured passengers.
Prosecution witness Charles Sledge testified that Captain Ernest L. Medina told Charlie Company troops before the March 16 1968 attack to avoid harming noncombatants in My Lai. Sledge said the warning was given at a pre assault briefing, while defense counsel challenged relevance of the testimony.
Eleven quarter horses were unloaded at Roswell Industrial Air Center after a two hour flight from Ontario California. Seven yearlings were consigned to the 10th annual American Futurity Sale at Ruidoso Downs August 27 to 29. Bar Bally the Bay Meadows winner flies to Santa Fe with other horses bound for Ruidoso Downs.
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