Envy of the Town as Wool Events Draw Dignitaries
The President's Club of the Chamber of Commerce hosts a busy weekend with Miss Wool of America and Miss Wool of New Mexico in town. Cisco football team arrives for red carpet treatment while locals remark the club views hospitality as nonwork. Other notes include Vietnam service of Jack Talley, Oklahoma City University singers with Susan English, a Roswell student in college, and aviation training by Gerald S Taylor in Reno.
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President's Club
The
Chamber of Commerce
New Mexico
Cisco, Tex
Miss Wool
America
Wool
Texas
Susan English
Roswell
Oklahoma City University
Gerald S Taylor
Ag Aviation Academy
Reno
Nev
Taylor
Minden
Pearson Auditorium
Cisco
Tex
Broncos
Municipal Stadium
Rodden
Rn Sherry Briggs
Hobbs
Alanna Crimmins
Bartles Okla
Sherrill Reagan
Ft. Worth
Underground nuclear test prep surfaces in San Juan Basin
News capsules report technicians continuing preparations for an underground nuclear explosion Sunday in the gas rich San Juan Basin of northern New Mexico amid broader international and domestic events.
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Farmington
San Juan
New Mexico
Indians Rights Bill Moves Through Senate For Indian Jurisdiction
The Senate approved a bill to extend Bill of Rights guarantees to reservation Indians. Sponsor Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. says it begins granting fundamental constitutional rights to Indians and calls for a model code for justice in tribal courts. The measure also repeals a statute allowing states to assume criminal and civil jurisdiction with tribal consent via referendum.
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Sam J. Ervin Jr
Dn.c
Interior Secretary
Congress
Workman Electrocuted Near Artesia
Raul Anaya 28 of Lovington died after an electric arc or crane boom touched a high line while unloading eight inch pipe near Artesia. His brother Johnny suffered burns. both were taken to Artesia General Hospital by company pickup. Coroner ruled accidental electrocution. Body taken to Terpening-Paulin Mortuary for arrangements.
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Artesia
Raul Anaya
Lovington
Anaya
Ferguson Construction Pipeline Co
Aubrey Faught
Johnny
Artesia General Hospital
Jack Windham
Lovington Anaya
Catherine Johnson
Terpening-Paulin Mortuary
New Mexico Toll Road Traffic This Year
Toll counts show 399 vehicles recorded on NM roads so far this year, compared with 396 at the same date last year.
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N. M
Governors press for role in 1968 GOP platform
At Palm Beach Illinois Senator Everett M Dirksen pledged governors will help shape the 1968 Republican platform while ruling out immediate cochairman plans. Gov Nelson Rockefeller of New York heads a subcommittee urging governors be used on the platform panels. Rockefeller said he is not seeking the presidency but did not rule out a draft at the convention.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Cochairman
Ray Bliss
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Platform Committee
Rockefeller
Ambulance Service May Come to End Here Today
Roswell could lose ambulance service Saturday as Gold Star Ambulance Co owner Bob Gambill threatens to pull out. He states a contract with Roswell and Ballard funeral homes blocks operation and may seek legal action. County commission rejected his offer to lease ambulances and refused to cover $1,500 in alleged unpaid indigent bills.
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Roswell
Gold Star Ambulance Co
Bob Gambill
Ballard Funeral Home
Gambill
Chaves County
County Commission
Commission
Paul
Eaton
Clean-up at Jail Gets Under Way
A thorough clean-up paint-up and fix-up program started at the Chaves County Jail. Trustees painted the first floor and began on third-floor cells while prisoners were moved to the second floor. Sheriff Tom Nord seeks year-end completion and notes chronic budget shortfalls. He outlines needs including juvenile facilities, security cells, plumbing upgrades, kitchen equipment, a drunk tank, visitors rooms, and exercise space to improve conditions.
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Chaves County
Tom Nord
Conferees Reach Final Agreement on Social Security Bill
Washington AP Conferees reached final agreement on a Social Security bill providing the largest cash benefits and tax increases in history while falling short of administration proposals. The measure boosts basic benefits for 24 million recipients, raises the minimum to 55 dollars, and expands tax bases. It tightens Medicaid costs, requires welfare work, raises the individual maximum benefit, and narrows liberal amendments.
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Washington
Senate House
Congress
Johnson
House
Senate
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Merritt
Talleys
Oklahoma City
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Cairo
Yemen
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Peace Corps
Samuel H. Sheppard
Cleveland Osteopath
Pittsburgh
Phil G. Goulding
Pentagon
Soviet Union
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