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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1965
Page
4
West Lake commentator Kenneth L. Dixon questions the rush toward faster travel and space exploration while urging more funding for medical research. He contrasts jet planes and space programs funded by taxpayers with underfunded disease research and hospital care, urging clearer goals and priorities.
A Danville Rotary Club French nightfeaturing Simone delighted locals. Ginette Schray, wife of Capt John R Schray, spoke on Morocco and married in a cross cultural tale. M C Powell marked his 100th birthday in Anna Texas after a long local career. District 552 notes on the Roswell Youth Conference and a Terry County Pioneers reunion in Brownfield. Weathered snippets end with a playful note on pigeons and future moon aims.
Washington column condemns apologists for Negro violence amid Los Angeles riots. It argues against blaming deprivation for murder and urges accountability, warning that excusing crimes harms national honor and civil order. It notes politicians shifting away from endorsing violence in civil rights debates.
A Santa Fe Times feature revisits Smokey the Bear art and the living cub Smokey born after a 1950 rescue in Lincoln Forest. Ray Bell, then game department enforcer, fostered the cub later named Smokey and moved him to a Washington zoo where he remains.
An editorial urges a $50,000 investment to build a drag strip at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair Grounds. It cites benefits for youth, local pride, and weekend drivers, noting available electronic timing at Walker Air Force Base and local clubs to operate it.
An editorial argues against a proposed travel tax as damaging to freedom of movement. It praises Pan Am's low cost charter jet flights to Europe which attract new travelers and reduce the travel deficit by increasing foreign visitors to the United States. It links international travel to peaceful world relations, saying knowledge breeds friendship and tolerance.
Roswell Daily Record lists Albert A. 5 as editor and Jimmy C. Cox as advertising manager with R. M. Higginbotham as business manager. Subscription rates apply in Chaves County by mail and nationwide by carrier. Published weekday evenings and Sunday morning at 424 North Main Street Roswell New Mexico.
A brief column notes humor about reincarnation as people seem to come alive at quitting time in Greenville South Carolina.
A public forum letter thanks Roswell residents and officials for seven years of happiness and hospitality before a military family moves. It also includes critique of access to the Educational Opportunity Program and calls for equal educational chances for all, plus brief future-looking reflections.
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