December Events In New Mexico Highlight Holiday Festivals
The San Francisco Travel Bureau reports a busy December in New Mexico with the Bi-State Poultry Show and Turkey Scramble in Portales December 7 to 9, Madrid Christmas Festival December 3 to January 2, Santa Fe Feast Day December 11 to 12 and Nativity Pageant before Christmas, Zuni Shal- Ceremonial December 13, Taos Pueblo night procession December 24 and Deer Dance on Christmas Day, and multiple Midnight and After Christmas dances at Indian pueblos December 24 and 26 to 28. Portales Christmas Cantata December 14. Los Pastores performances in Santa Fe and Rio Grande Valley Spanish-speaking villages. Chandler Rodeo December 1 to 3, with December 28 opening Flagstaff winter sports season.
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San Francisco
Calif
Dec
United States Travel Bureau
Department of the Interior
Mississippi
Bureau
New Mexico
Portales
Madrid
Santa Fe
Los Pastores
Rio Grande Valley
Arizona
Chandler
Flagstaff
New Mexico Truck Crop and Fruit Outlook for 1940
The 1940 truck crop and fruit outlook suggests improved demand and higher prices for major truck crops, with possible higher production and acreages in crops like snapbeans, cabbage, cantaloupes, carrots, cauliflower, celery, lettuce, and tomatoes. Sweet potatoes and onions may dip. fruit demand should rise modestly despite European war impacts on exports.
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W. A. Wunsch
New Mexico
Europe
Citrus production trend notes sharp per capita rise
The report observes that by 1938 per capita citrus fruit production had risen significantly, with a 200 percent increase despite other factors noted in the broader agricultural data. The statement highlights growth in fruit outputs relative to population measures.
Dame Neil Watson Rising Attorney From Artesia
Dame Neil Watson, a rising attorney from Artesia who spent many years in Roswell, married a Roswell girl and began life with solid footing. He built a good practice and kept affairs in order.
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Neil Watson
Artesia
Roswell
Magnate Came Ben Pior Plans Artesia Plant Move
Concentrating on his Artesia plant the longtime magnate Came Ben Pior is preparing to hand over the headaches to a successor. Ned Revelle, now head of the Pior interests in Roswell, piloted the transition.
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Ben Pior
Seiberling
Ned Revelle
Pior
Roswell
Fragmented Reflective Note on Race Perception
A terse remark contrasts black ink with white snow and notes a man who believes his own statements as truth. It suggests few people like him in this modern age, and it touches on sensitivity to racial labeling without direct narrative context.
Roswell City Hall to glow as Christmas lights campaign begins
City officials authorize decorating the new city hall and urge widespread participation in outdoor lighting to make Roswell a leading Southwest Christmas display. Businesses must have lights on by next Monday for prizes while residences start lighting by December 18. pamphlets offer decoration ideas and planners note changes from prior years are optional.
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Roswell
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Air Trip for 11 Day Ft Stanton Baby
In New Orleans a baby named William Robert Smith aged 11 days completed an airplane trip from Houston to New Orleans with his mother Mrs. Richard H. Smith wife of a Fort Stanton Fort Stanton public health Service doctor. The mother said the infant took the flight fine and was born an hour after leaving a train in Houston.
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New Orleans
William Robert Smith
Houston
Tex
Richard H. Smith
Public Health Service
Fort Stanton
N. M
New Mexico Conference Meets in Albuquerque
Representatives of the New Mexico Athletic Conference gathered for a midwinter meeting in Albuquerque. The chief business is readmission for Eastern New Mexico College, plus naming an all-star team and crowning New Mexico Teachers College of Silver City as 1939 football champions. Conference members: New Mexico School of Mines, New Mexico Teachers, New Mexico Normal University, New Mexico Military Institute, and the Panhandle Aggies of Goodwell Oklahoma. East ENMU had withdrawn earlier from the conference, citing travel and interest factors.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico Athletic Conference
Eastern New Mexico Colege
New Mexico Teachers College of
Silver City
New Mexico School of Mines
New Mexico
Teachers, New Mexico Normal University
New Mexico Military Institute and
the Panhandle Aggies of
Goodwell, Ok
Lahoma
Eastern New Mexico College of Portales
Floyd Golden
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