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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1965
Page
1
The Labor Department reports the national jobless rate at 4.2 percent for November, an eight year low, with total employment at a record 72.8 million. Unemployed counted at 2,966,000, up about 200,000 from October, though November usually sees a rise and the rate is subject to BLS adjustments.
President Johnson told top business leaders via long distance that 1966 should bring record prosperity without inflation. He urged wage price restraint and cooperative actions by industry, labor, and government to keep prices in line with federal guideposts while noting Vietnam war costs and a push for unconditional talks for peace.
In Montgomery a white male jury begins deliberations on the case of three Alabama Ku Klux Klan members charged with conspiring to violate civil rights. The trial centers on the killing of Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five, during the Montgomery to Selma march period.
Aniston Alabama August 1969 Hu bert Damon Strange 23 white service station attendant waits for verdict in murder trial charged with killing Willie Breuster 38 a Negro foundry worker Jurors deliberated about four hours and then were locked up for the night Strange's attorney predicted a mistrial as no decision was reported by midmorning
Mary Wilson, 16, who ran away to work in a Bangkok orphanage, is back in California. She arrived with her mother at Los Angeles International Airport aboard a Pan American jet, ending a 12 day absence.
Gemini 7 maintains its Saturday launch time at Cape Kennedy while Gemini 6 undergoes final checks. Walter Schirra Jr and Thomas Stafford prepare for a Dec 13 rendezvous with Gemini 7, after Gemini 6’s Agena target satellite delay. Crew reviews and simulators completed as weather forecasters predict suitable Cape conditions for the 2:30 p.m. EST blastoff. Borman and Lovell will orbit Earth 206 times in 14 days for a historic double space mission.
A second planeload of U S financed Cuban refugees arrived as others left Miami for new lives in the north. Ten hours after 75 landed, a group of six boarded to join relatives in Elizabeth New Jersey while others prepared for Chicago and other points. The airlift aims to resettle about 900 Cubans weekly. Rosario Gonzalez, 19, hopes to join her husband in Chicago but laments leaving her parents. The first resettled in Eliza beth were Emilio Diaz Quintero, 81, a Cuban funeral home owner, his son, his granddaughter and her husband, and two great granddaughters.
Unofficial gathering of Roswell councilmen discusses future water sources and current distribution problems. City engineer Tom Mann and water committee chair Harold L. Hensley Jr. present study findings and proposed lines and reservoir to improve pressure and retire saline wells. Bert Murphy Associates seek water from a 50 mile southeast well field with nine townships of state rights. Lea County communities protest and file applications.
A June 30 1964 audit shows a 1 007 858 08 deficit in New Mexico State Welfare Department due to oversights and unpaid vouchers. Assistant Auditor Bouvet says most of the deficit was repaid and suggests even the remaining balance may have been settled. Department officials dispute the report and defend fiscal health.
Washington reports the 85 foot blue spruce from the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona arrived for placement between the White House and the Washington Monument. The notice accompanies other briefs on fire arson pleas and state audit findings.
AP dispatch analyzes the Viet Nam stalemate as Allied troops remain tied to security duties, limiting search operations against the Viet Cong. North Vietnamese reinforcements and base buildup shape a larger, bloodier fighting phase with a potential troop surge urged by McNamara.
American church leaders from 30 denominations assemble in Madison for a two day parley on critical issues facing Christianity. About 150 delegates from the National Council of Churches general board attend as Viet Nam Red China race relations and world population take up the agenda. The council, a cooperative agency of 30 Protestant Anglican and Eastern Orthodox denominations, claims 42 million members and was formed in 1950 for cooperative Christian action.
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