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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1933
Page
7
Fragments from the Roswell Daily Record show masthead details for SEZCORDUBLISHING COMPANY with editor and staff roles listed. It includes publication notice and a standard newspaper boilerplate about Associated Press news use and republication rights.
The Record discusses why front page crime coverage varies among papers. It argues editors select stories with fit, nonimmoral content and prominent figures, viewing crime reports as warnings rather than invitations. It concludes that crime does not pay.
A WCTU column catalogs dry and wet factions including Supreme Court decisions and major organizations backing prohibition. It critiques liquor taxes, arguing taxes harm the poor and raise false promises, tracing taxes paid versus charitable costs and liquor profits. The passage then shifts to a serialized synopsis involving Gold Franklyn and Barney Pierce aboard a voyage with Doria Hathaway and Gip Allen, detailing early deck tennis, social intrigue, and budding tensions.
A quiet New Mexico town shifts to horror as two deadly events unfold touching Tucumcari, Roswell, and Clovis. Baseball talk frames a regionwide tournament with a one run setback for the Giants. The piece also mocks Boston satire and lists social expectations.
More than 142,400 people gather nightly on the Charles River banks to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler. The sunlit setting reflects on the water as 100 artists perform, while grateful listeners contribute to July and August entertainments.
Santa Fe, N M Aug 30 AP Diego Salazar vehicle commissioner has the first set of motor car plates run off at the state penitentiary auto license plant. They are trailer plates numbered and unpainted. The penitentiary will manufacture plates this year under a new law, with colors reversing those of 1933 plates. Passenger cars will have a red background with yellow letters, trucks a yellow background with red lettering.
State Supreme Court in Santa Fe sustains Colfax County District Court ruling to vacate the 163.01 judgment against Lee Schuth in the Mares Agency suit. The original award directed recovery from Sanchez’s funds in Schuth’s possession. Justice Zinn wrote the opinion with Chief Justice Watson and three other justices concurring.
About 30 million children from near birth to kindergarten will flood streets this September to head to school. Drivers are urged to slow at intersections, watch curves, and expect the unexpected to reduce school related fatalities and injuries.
San Miguel county proposes constructing two dams on the Red River to aid irrigation and flood control. New Mexico holds many reservoir sites valuable for irrigation flood control and power, but state administration is preoccupied with Senate trips and Democratic convention control, neglecting resource development.
Santa Fe officials would host a 200 man CCC winter camp to work on flood control and river beautification along the Santa Fe river. Gov seeks approval from Washington to station 20 camps statewide, with Santa Fe River Park planned at no cost to the city if approved.
Albuquerque resident A. K. Harrington of Roswell was placed in custody by Roswell city marshal Frank Young and deputy Homer Dunagan yesterday. He faces extradition to Roswell on a felony warrant related to a drunken driving charge.
Funeral services for Mrs Max Nordheus wife of the president of the Charles Ilfeld Company and member of the State Child Welfare Board were held here today for a sudden death Monday at her summer home near Las Vegas reflecting her public service in welfare efforts and business leadership in New Mexico.
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