Roswell Survey Finds Jobless Ready to Work and Seeking Better Positions
About 3,000 people form Roswell's adaptable labor force in a survey by RHS DECA and the Roswell Chamber of Development and Commerce. Results show many underemployed workers seek better roles, 98.7 percent would take full time work, and 66 percent are willing to train for new skills.
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Roswell
Marilyn Holmes
Roswell High School
Distributive Education Clubs of America
RCDC
Starkey
RHS
DECA
Roswell Area
Roswell-Goddard banquet honors 400 plus vocational students
More than 400 students and employers attended the sixth annual joint Roswell Goddard employer employee appreciation banquet. DECA VICA and DOA presidents from RHS and GHS presented about 80 marble paper weights to Roswell employers while state and local vocational officials attended.
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Roswell Nn
Bill Jackson
Billy Bell
Leroy Estes
Wiley Mauldin
Waymond Smith
Santa Fe
DECA
CFA
James Finical
Eastern New Mexico University- Portales
DEA
Linda Cassidy
Dorothy Hefner
Sharon Gomez
Virginia Sterret
Lucille Wolf
Ray Miller
Fred Kimmey
Larry Knadle
Earl Ganaway
VICA
James Collins
Robert Briggs
Emmett Ray
Skip Bickner
Harold DeShurley
Ben Childs
Charles S. Thomas
Clyde Voliva
Don Clark
T. L. Stangebye
RHS
Kathryn Boldra
OFA
Weldon Walker
Phil Corbett
GHS
Patsy Buzbee
Ray Gormley
Grady Jacobs
Roswell
Auto makers shift to smaller cars amid energy crisis
Detroit's Big Three push conversion of large car plants to smaller models as demand shifts with the energy crisis. GM plans plant conversions in Doraville Norwood Leeds and St Theresa with increased Vega and compact production. Ford converts Chicago and Wayne plants to intermediate Torino and compact Maverick. Chrysler to switch Newark plant to Dart and Valiant.
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Ford
General Motor
Richard Gerstenberg
Chrysler
U.S
Doraville
Norwood
Ohio
Leeds
St. Theresa
Que
Chicago
Wayne
Mich
Newark
Del
Kelley promises report on Hoover era counter intelligence
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley pledged a full detailed report on the three year operation aimed at exposing disrupting and neutralizing the New Left movement launched by J Edgar Hoover. The report to the attorney general would not be public immediately and details remain undisclosed.
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Clarence M. Kelley
J. Edgar Hoover
New Left
Kelley
Hoover
Justice Department
NBC
Socialist Workers Party
Communist Party USA
Ku Klux Klan
Robert H. Bork
Bork
Department
NBC Television
Carl Stern
Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
Ralph Nader
Truth or Consequences approves $1.06 million bond for schools
Voters in Truth or Consequences New Mexico pass a 1.06 million dollar bond for a new elementary school and additions to existing schools. Unofficial tally 933 for 162 against with rural ballots pending.
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Truth OR Consequences, N.M
Truth Or Consequences
Unemployment Rate Rises to 4.7 Percent in November
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 200,000 more unemployed in November raising the rate from 4.5 to 4.7 percent as fuel shortages and a weak economy weigh on jobs. Employment held at 85.7 million with 4.3 million unemployed, led by adults, women, and youths, while earnings stayed around 147.60 dollars per week.
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Washington
Nixon
Bureau
Montoya Secures Roswell Facility Funding Halt
U S Senator Joseph Montoya announces language in Interior Department supplemental appropriations to block 400000 for tearing down the Roswell brackish water test facility and to seek 1 million to keep it running for the new fiscal year. The move was added during an appropriations subcommittee hearing and will go to the full committee.
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Washington
U. S
Joseph M. Montoya
D-N.m
Interior Department
Nixon Administration
Roswell
Montoya
Appropriations Subcommittee On Interior and Related Agencies
Ford A man with more influence
Washington AP: Vice President Gerald Ford shows background and temperament to shape Congress more than Spiro Agnew did. Ford is relaxed, informal, and on first name terms with Capitol Hill figures, while Agnew remained an outsider wary of veteran lawmakers.
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Len B. Jordan
Idaho
Capitol
U.S
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Pennsylvania Avenue
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