Wool Bowl profits trail expenses despite higher ticket sales
Wool Bowl chairman Jerry Smith reported at a Wool Bowl Committee dinner at the airport restaurant that gross ticket sales reached 5 777 dollars up 500 but expenses exceeded income by about 1 000 dollars due to back taxes paid to New Mexico and missing contributions from sponsors. Gate receipts doubled from last year and plans to expand the committee were announced for next year.
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Wool Bowl
Jerry Smith
Wool Bowl Committee
Smith
New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc
Sheep Producers Council
Phoenix Junior College
Kilgore Rangers
New Mexico
Roswell links in historic western irrigation notes
The Colorado River Water Users Assn meeting in Las Vegas featured Dr. Dan M. Wells of Texas Tech detailing historic water systems. He highlighted the 1889 1890 Northern Canal at Roswell later Hagerman Canal and other early western diversions including City Creek near Salt Lake City from 1847 and the Hondo project west of Roswell. Mrs. John Lorentzen earned a master’s degree in education at Eastern New Mexico University Portales, daughter of Gean and Lois Whited.
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Roswell
Colorado River Water Users Assn
Colorado
Las Vegas
Nev
Dan M. Wells
Texas Tech University Water Resources Center
Pecos River
Hagerman Canal
American West
City Creek
Feo Salt Lake City
John Lorentzen
Eastern
New Mexico
New Mexico Realtors Highlight ENMA Installation News
Mathis helps enroll sixteen new Rho Epsilon members at ENMA Portales with prominent New Mexico realtors among inductees. Stanley H. Mathis of Roswell is an honorary member while Kenneth Miller of Albuquerque becomes executive secretary of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission. Robert D. Thompson, a Roswell native and DAV officer trainee, attends a Cincinnati seminar after service in Vietnam and prior work with ENMAR and Roswell Police. Approximately one third of DAV officers are Vietnam veterans.
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Rho Epsilon
ENMA
Portales
New Mexico
Stanley H. Mathis
Roswell
Kenneth Miller
Albuquerque
New Mexico Real Estate Commission
Robert D. Thompson
Baylor
DAV National
Cincinnati
Ohio
Thompson
RHS
U.S. Marines
Enmar
DAV
Food bank bill advances to Senate from House vote
The House approved a $1.5 billion national food bank plan and a 25 percent rise in price supports for wheat and feed grains, raising the grain crop value by over $2 billion. The measure, opposed by Republicans, would stock 300 million bushels of wheat and 25 million tons of feed grains for emergencies.
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Washington
House
Senate
National Food Bank of Wheat
Food Bank
Agriculture Committee
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
Poage
Earl L. Butz
Butz
Local Roswell News Page Subscriptions and Staff
The Roswell newspaper lists circulation terms for Chaves County and surrounding areas with monthly and yearly subscription rates. It notes editors Albert Stubbs Jerry Cormack and regional coverage by Jimmy Cox along with AP partnership and mailing details.
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Ening
N. Main St
Roswell
Roswell NM
Associated Press
Agyance Nm
High North Vietnamese losses in Cambodia air and ground actions
U S helicopters and South Vietnamese troops report 73 North Vietnamese killed and 26 weapons captured in Cambodia near Highway 7 with no Vietnamese casualties. A second day of major losses followed 39 more killed the prior day as U S air power intensified across Laos and Cambodia.
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Saigon
USS
Cambodia
de Viet
Cam Be
Col. Viet
South Vietnam
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Featherstone heads local AARP group
New officers of the Roswell Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons met with their board of directors and committee chairmen at the Roswell Inn Wednesday afternoon. Charles T. Featherstone, president, will take office in January. Other officers include Don Bryant, Meta Hartmeister, Ricky Schmiede, treasurer, and Jeannett Weeks, secretary.
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Roswell
The
American Association of Retired Persons
Ricky Schmiede
Don Bryant
Jeannett Weeks
E. A. Bael
Charles T. Featherstone
Meta Hartmeister
Roswell Inn
Hartmeister
E.A. Bael
Beatrice Godfriax
Edward Heckle
Fred Heely
Earl Hester
Minor Huffman
E.L. Lusk
L.D. Smith
Florence Wartenburg
Farming taxes debate heard by New Mexico committee
Melrose stock farmer Paul Hudson told the Legislative Tax Study Committee that proposed tax changes would raise costs for agriculture. A package of 45 measures would repeal a 50 percent deduction on gross receipts taxes for tractors and farm implements and affect heavy construction equipment and non highway vehicles. Other bills would remove deductions on insecticides fungicides and related chemicals. Hudson spoke as a New Mexico representative of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union which counts about 1 000 member families in Quay Roosevelt and Curry counties.
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Santa FE
Legislative Tax Study Committee
Melrose
Paul Hudson
Hudson
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain Farmers’ Union
Quay
Roosevelt
Curry
New Mexico Tax Package Faces Opposition at Hearing
The Tax Study Committee heard public testimony on proposed state tax structure changes amid strong opposition to any plan that would raise taxes. Farmers, car dealers, and coal industry reps urged caution as the 45 bill package moves through hearings.
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Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
Cadets to Train in Air Mobile Exercise at NMMI
More than 80 contract cadets from New Mexico Military Institute will take part Saturday in an air mobile assault exercise using five U S Army helicopters from White Sands Missile Range. Col George B Robbins Jr notes helicopters will land at the NMMI drill field to load cadets for tactical helicopter infantry drills.
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New Mexico Military Institute
U.S. Army
George B. Robbins, Jr
White Sands Missile Range
Alamogordo
NMMI
Roswell Inn
17Th Street
ROTC
U. S. Army
Roswell Library Highlights Staff Efforts and New Atlas Arrival
The Roswell Public Library notes that fiction and nonfiction are organized by author and subject catalogs. Special thanks go to Nancy Langston Nancy Harbach Rosella Arambula and the Technical Services Department for improving accessibility and book repair. The Kiwanis Club of La Honda funds 100 free copies of Drugs and You while The Times of London atlas arrives in the Reference Room for reader use.
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Nancy Langston
Nancy Harbach
Rosella Arambula
Kiwanis Club of
la Honda
Times” of London
Sherwood Green
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Ake
AL Stubbs
AARP
Vegas Mention
U. S
Hondo Dam
Mrs. Lorentzen
Lois Whited
Gean Whited
E. Tilden
Mathis
Vietnam
Angus
Santa Ffe AP
Henry A Kelly
Jerry J. Williams
Lovington
Stuart S. Keown
Leslie C. Smith
Truth Or Consequences
Ernest R. Wright
North Vietnam
By George Esper
Wrnter
Demilitarized Zone
Bill's TV Service
E. McGaffey
Featherstone Heads
Aarp Group
Diamond
By Bill Feather
Utah International Inc
Navajo
Utah International
Arizona Public Service Co
Four Corners
William W. Grant
Grant
Legislative Committee
Roswell Public Library
Turkey
Usda Choice
CKI
Usda Choice Arm Roast
Hormel
USDA
CRMC
Uma Tarsiya
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