Roswell Scene Includes City Pickup Stunt and Team Wins
Roswell residents wake to a parked city pickup in Optimist Park after a city employee left it with the brakes set. ENMU gymnasts led by Roswell’s Ted Herman win at Odessa 119 to 115 and prepare for Las Cruces. Also noted are local bank deposits rising to 73.4 million and Spur of the Month Kathleen Wecker at NMSU.
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John
Roswell
Eastern
Odessa
ENMU
Texas
Ted Herman
Herman
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Kathleen Wecker
New Mexico State University
Miss Wecker
NMSU
W. R. Weckel
S. Cedar
Miss Weckel
Roswell High School
White House denies Goldberg resignation talk
A White House spokesman said there is nothing on stories about ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg possibly resigning. The State Department declined comment. Goldberg attended a Cabinet meeting today.
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Washington
White House
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S
United Nations
State Department
Goldberg
Antipoverty Bill Inches Toward Passage After Compromise
House and Senate conferees reach a compromise on the antipoverty bill after 11 days of bargaining. The plan shifts Community Action control to public officials while keeping total funding at 1.98 billion in 1968 and 2.18 billion in 1969, with final Senate and House approval still pending.
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John Beckler
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
House
Senate
Congress
Clark
Office of Economic Opportunity
Police foil second march at Army induction center in NYC
New York police halted a second Stop the Draft Week protest at the Army induction center with about 4 000 officers on duty. Up to 2 000 demonstrators moved to uptown to picket Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a Waldorf Astoria luncheon. At least 30 arrested outside the center and eight near the Waldorf.
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New York
Dean Rusk
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Rusk
National Association of Manufacturers
Induction Center
Lower Manhattan
Philadelphia
Whitehall St
Roswell Council Rejects Gold Star Ambulance Subsidy
Roswell may lose ambulance service after the City Council voted against a 1200 dollar monthly subsidy for Gold Star Ambulance. Officials fear the funeral homes may block service with a prior agreement, while some council members urge public provision or court review.
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Roswell
Gold Star Ambulance Company
Gold Star
E. L. Hodges
Ballard Funeral Homes
Gail Harris
Harris
Hodges
L. C. Stiles
Bob Gambill
Clovis
Harold Smith
F Ree
Funeral Homes
Stiles
Baby Receives World’s Second Heart Transplant
In New York, surgeons at Maimonides Hospital performed the first U S heart transplant on a 22 day old boy from Philadelphia. The infant died 62 hours after the 4:15 am operation despite a 22 member team effort.
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Brooklyn
Maimonides Hospital
Adrian Kantrowitz
Kantrowitz
New York
United States
Philadelphia
Maimonides Hospittal
Pecos River Bridge Wreck Kills Lubbock Resident
A two fatal and two injured in a 2 p.m. crash on U.S. 380 near Roswell. Willie Lee Cooper of Lubbock died from severe head and internal injuries after the Pecos River bridge collision. James Ogden, 34, also of Lubbock, is in St Marys Hospital with severe head injuries. Herbert Johnson, 30, of Lubbock, was treated for minor injuries and released.
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Roswell
Larkin A. Clements
Lubbock
Tex
Rodden
Pecos River
Pecos River Bridge
U.S. 380
Willie Lee Cooper
St Mary's Hospital
James Ogden
Herbert Johnson
Cooper
Ogden
Johnson
U.S. 386
Chaves County
Clements
James Jordan
FitzGerald
Ruth
Justice of the Peace
L. O. Thompson
Steel Price Hikes Hit Steel Makers Across Industry
U S Steel Leads another price rise with a five dollar per ton increase on galvanized and aluminum coated sheets. Armco Bethlehem Republic and others followed with boosts on cold rolled sheet and strip. U S Steel also cuts automotive steel pricing by three dollars per ton.
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Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
Big Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
Armco
U.S. Steel
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AL Stubbs
John Turner
Optimist
Roswell Optimist Club
Optimist Park
11Th and Main
al Woodburn
Colfax
Donald O. Clifton
King’s Food Store
Lincoln
Neb
America
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Federal Power Commission
Farmington
Atomic Energy Commission
Hubert H. Humphrey
Africa
Liberia
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Congo
Ethiopia
Somalia
Kenya
Tunisia
Oakland
Calif
Joe A. Smith
Army
Smith
Oakland Army Base
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
House Education and Labor Committee
Hedges
Joe Cotton
Comanche Hill
Percy C. FitzGerald
Route 1
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