Local Weather Summary and Temperature Extremes
Reading at three hour intervals from 2 p.m yesterday to 11 a.m today shows highs of 81 and a low of 60. Normal for this date is 91 to 65. Precipitation totals include .01 inches in past 24 hours and .76 inches month to date with regional totals listed for Roswell Santa Fe Albuquerque Carlsbad Clovis Amarillo and others. Partly cloudy in New Mexico with overall cloudiness in the northwest and a sunset at 6 37.
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Roswell
Santa Fe
Albuquerque
Carlsbad Jatones
Lengt
Clovis
Amarillo
Caine
New Mexico
Chicago
Bismarck
Inflation Pressure Spurs Possible Discount Rate Hike
Washington reports suggest a surge in borrowing and spending could push the Federal Reserve to raise the discount rate again. Officials point to steel wage settlements, highway spending, and broad credit expansion as inflationary signals, with past hikes in 1955 already tightening credit.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
Reserve
Eisenhower
Minneapolis
San Francisco
State seeks bids for additions to Public Welfare Bldg
State of New Mexico invites sealed bids for construction of additions and alterations to the Administration Building for the Public Welfare Department. Bids to be opened August 31 1956 at 11:00 a.m. MST in the Capitol Building Room 192 Santa Fe. Bid blanks and specs available from C F Horne State Purchasing Agent. Carlsbad New Mexico. Published August 21 1956.
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State OF New Mexico
Capitol
Public Welfare Department
Fob
Carlsbad
N. M
C. F. Horne
Santa Fe
New Mexico
City of Roswell Seeks Bids for Scrap Metal Sale
The City of Roswell invites bids for scrap steel iron and copper from the City Garage at Railroad and Alameda Streets. Inspect the site before bids due 4:00 p.m. Tuesday August 28 1956. The city reserves the right to reject all bids. Seal /s/ L. G. Link City Clerk.
President Meets With His New HUAP Commission
President Eisenhower met with his new Commission on Increased Industrial Use of Agricultural Products and called its mission very important to the country. The five member panel was created by Congress to find new uses for farm crops and cut surpluses. The president said members aim to apply modern science and technology to reduce surpluses through profitable industrial use.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Missing Santa Fe Boy Sought In Upper Pecos Mountains
A large, reinforced search party probes the rough upper Pecos country for 11 year old Bobby Martinez of Santa Fe who disappeared Saturday noon during a trek back to Geronimo Ranch quarters. He wore a light T shirt and thin trousers as he left a group of weekend children and adults including attorney Albert Gonzales to summon a ride. The Cowles ranch lies about 20 miles northeast of Santa Fe in the Sangre de Cristo range.
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Santa FE
Pecos
Bobby Martinez
Ben Martinez
Geronimo
Albert Gonzales
Cowles
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Eisenhower Backs US Passport Ban for Red China Newsmen
President Eisenhower approves State Department policy denying valid passports to newsmen seeking to visit Communist China. Acting Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr. confirms White House concurrence. AP chief says reporters in Hong Kong will not visit mainland China, citing eight years since such access.
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Washington
Eisenhower
State Department
Red
China
Herbert Hoover Jr
White House
New York
Frank Starzel
Associated Press
Hong Kong
New Operating Contractor Named For Ordnance Plant
The Mason and Hanger Silas Mason Co Inc of New York and Lexington Ky was named the new operating contractor of the Pantex Ordnance Plant near Amarillo Texas. The plant employs about 500 workers and performs work for the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Joliet, Ill
Army Ordnance Ammunition Command
Mason and Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc
New York
Lexington
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Amarillo
Tex
Procter and Gamble Defense Corp
Pantex
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada
Iowa
Burlington
El Paso Man Believed Drowned After Boat Overturns
Lloyd N. Ellis former El Paso Tex man employed by the telephone company here is believed to have drowned in the Snake River Sunday night when a fishing boat overturned. Searchers have failed to locate Ellis body.
Reverence and rib cages in Hollywood bosoms debate
In Hollywood a discussion among Anita Ekberg Marie Windsor Lex Barker and others centers on the display of a actress bosom and rib cage in publicity shots. Windsor argues a 38 inch bust with a 36 inch rib cage reads too prominent and jokes about wearing false rib cages.
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Hollywood
Anita Ekberg
Marie Windsor
Lex Barker
Miss Windsor
Marie
Lex
Lana
Barker
Lana Turner
Anne Bancroft
Victor Mature
Oil Production Average Jumps 37 450 Barrels
Tulsa daily oil production rose by 37 450 barrels in the week ended Aug 18, with most gains in Oklahoma according to the Oil and Gas Journal. The report notes a rise in the national daily average.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Oil and Gas Journal
Jury Rules Woman's Death A Gunshot Result
A coroner's jury in the Elva Ollie Westover case found death from a gunshot wound. The inquest, led by District Attorney Pat Hanagan, heard from J L Westover husband Dr L D Barbour mortician Joe Lucas Police Chief Tommy Thompson and jurors H G Ashcraft Brink Randle J T Lynn G W Caywood E R Duvall and L F Stevens. The body was found at 800 North Atkinson Avenue. The hearing was before Justice R Perry Bean at 11 a.m. Saturday.
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Pat Hanagan
Elva Ollie
Westover
J. L. Westover
Oil production totals rise across several states in 1956 update
The Journal raises its 1956 production estimate to 1,651,674,920 barrels, up from 1,551,630,006 last year. Texas holds at 3,023,300 barrels. Oklahoma climbs to 587,800. Colorado 158,800. Louisiana 791,200. Arkansas 76,250. New Mexico 233,300. Mississippi 112,550 and Florida 1,375 are unchanged. Nevada averages 200 barrels daily.
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Journal
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Louisiana
Arkansas
New Mexico
Mississippi
Florida
Nevada
Boy Wins Bike Prize for Tam ing Cattle at Denver Zoo
Thirteen year old Bobby Peterson wins the bicycle first prize for taming two long horn cattle sent to the Denver Zoo. He suggests the bull be named Sir Loin and the heifer Miss Steak.
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Denve Wu
Bobby Peterson
Denver
Stolen Pigeons Recovered in Pennsylvania
Mrs. Emily DeLong reported six pigeons stolen in Reading, Pennsylvania. Police recovered seven birds and returned them to her, with detectives noting the extra birds as interest for her mental anguish.
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Reading
Emily DeLong
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