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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1979
Page
2
Rocker Rod Stewart shared the spotlight as he greeted newborn daughter Alana in Los Angeles. The child weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces and is the couple's first child together, while Alana Stewart has a son from a previous marriage to George Hamilton.
Vincent Zarrilli pitches converting an obsolete Navy aircraft carrier into a waterfront parking garage to solve Boston’s parking shortage. He suggests purchasing the carrier, anchoring it on the waterfront, and repurposing it as a multi level lot.
New York plastic surgeon James Reardon states he refuses certain requests such as making a patient resemble Farrah Fawcett Majors or Cheryl Ladd. He says there are women he would not touch with a ten foot scalpel and will draw the line on specific imitation goals.
The singer best known as Debbie Boone’s father also penned the words to the Exodus theme. His musical talents spanned singing and songwriting for popular works.
Forum magazine sponsors the first National Singles Convention next month in San Francisco. Editor Albert Z. Freedman will head a panel on Sexual Morality with Rev. Harry Schlitt and Chris Grumm of Planned Parenthood, discussing morality and sex.
In Las Vegas Milton Berle shot a new TV skit featuring Penthouse centerfold starlets Cheryl Rixon Debora Zullo Carmen Pope and Corinne Alphen vying for the magazine’s Pet of the Year title during a guest appearance.
Burlington, Iowa window cleaner Jerry Rigdon meets President Carter at a town meeting and jokes about dirty windows. Carter replies that Washington needs a lot more light.
Nearly 100 attendees at the Sally Port Inn gather for a solar energy conference led by John Hofacre of Davis California. The day features talks by David Miller of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association and Roger Farrer of the New Mexico Solar Energy Institute on passive and active solar systems, retrofitting, and hot water solar options.
President Carter and family disembarked in St. Louis to cheering crowds and protesters after a weeklong 659 mile river voyage from St. Paul. He praised the trip as the most remarkable and enjoyable of our lives while addressing energy and Middle East policy amid protest over oil price decontrol.
July consumer prices rose 1 percent matching June, spendable earnings fell 0.4 percent. Money supply surged 1.8 billion in the latest week as the Dow slid about 3.7 points near noon. Trading showed 870 declines to 335 advances on 1,673 NYSE issues. Superior Oil jumped 3 to 491 after announcing a 5 for 1 stock split.
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