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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1941
Page
3
Dearborn, Michigan reports Ford Motor Company has completed a plastic body for a tudor sedan. The design weighs about 2000 pounds with a 250 pound plastic panel set, uses farm crop based materials, and promises potential steel savings despite higher raw material costs.
In Philadelphia a dental office technician Henry Pettit was tied and gagged with towels after a visitor complained of a toothache. The man drew a pistol, robbed Pettit, and fled with $15 from the cash drawer.
Air Course at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque offers an Air Corps Preparatory Program for young men as a regular college course with credit. It includes math English history and chemistry and may exempt certain subjects from Army education exams if college credits are earned. Eligible candidates must enroll as regular students and be under twenty. Registration opens August 25 with details via Dean Marshal E. Farris or the Army Recruiting Office in Santa Fe.
Legal studies opened this week on the legality of a Motion Pictures Defense committee plan to award a weekly $25 Defense bond and a 10 cent Defense Stamp to Wednesday or Thursday theatergoers and ladies. Opponents may challenge the scheme in Luna county district court, arguing it resembles banned bank nights though promoters insist it is promotional. The plan involves weekly bonds and stamps with registry and no dead signatures.
Jerry Trujillo son of state auditor E DPD Trujillo regained citizenship early today after Governor John Miles pardoned him within eight hours of a suspended one year prison term for fraudulent voting in the last Santa Fe school district election. He pleaded guilty before District Judge David Chavez Jr and the pardon did not erase a $150 fine. Trujillo was indicted by a Santa Fe county grand jury. another indicted co defendant was acquitted earlier.
Washington reports American hosiery makers will offer cotton stockings that resemble silk as a government backed substitute for imported silks. Beltsville researchers supplied 50 patterns using sea island and other long fibers. First stockings appear in about four months as retailers run down chiffon supplies.
Boy Scouts will volunteer for a traffic count on Thursday and must register tomorrow at the Scout office located in the First National Bank building.
Beltsville researchers unveil cotton stockings as strong and sheer as silk with wide mesh patterns. Delegations of women approve the patterns as a viable substitute for chiffon, noting nylon’s limited appeal and hoping for durable, smooth appearance without runs. Officials say the project stacks up against silk and nylon amid wartime shortages.
LAS CRUCES NM Aug 26 TM%- Fred L OCheskey chair man of the AAA state office announced cotton producers enrolled under the AAA program will be eligible for loans on their 1941 crop at 85 percent of the parity price as of August 1. For 7/8 inch middling cotton the loan rate is 14.02 cents per pound based on a parity price of 16.49 cents. last year’s rate was 8.39 cents. Rates for 15 16 inch middling vary due to regional differentials from 15.29 cents in Carolina to 14.40 cents in New Mexico.
W C Strawbridge, formerly assistant manager at the Concordia Kansas Montgomery Ward, arrived in Roswell yesterday to take the position of assistant store manager. He has been with the company for three years and is accompanied by his wife.
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