09 Dec 1983
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1983
Page
1
County Commission considers a plan to create a county fire marshal and civil defense coordinator position. The measure aims to strengthen emergency management and fire safety oversight within the county government.
At Edwards Air Force Base NASA investigates a computer and navigation system failure delaying landing of the Columbia on its 10 day mission. The flight included the $1 billion European Spacelab and 73 experiments by 14 nations, ending with a dusty touchdown at 3 47 p m Pacific time.
Olivia Reid of SNMAAA contends Gov Anaya and Agency on Aging favor a structure that could cut administrative levels and shift control from regional bodies to Santa Fe. She notes widespread opposition from seniors and providers and plans to meet with Domenici and Skeen to discuss the amendment to the Older Americans Act.
The Justice Department sues Shell Oil Co for nearly 1.9 billion to fund cleanup of Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver. The case, described as the largest federal natural resources damages suit, targets hazardous chemicals from a Shell facility at the site a decade and a half after leasing land in 1947.
The New Mexico Military Institute Board of Regents and staff held a groundbreaking for the $3.4 million J. Penrod Toles Learning Center on the NMMI campus. Roswell attorney J. Penrod Toles attended, with Maj. Gen. Gerald Childress and architect Richard Waggoner. The ceremony followed a regents meeting at Lusk Hall, with all members present. John C. Cornell Co. of Clovis will build in the military Gothic style, with completion set for August 1985.
Modesto report says Lil Pickens a gravelly voiced actor famed for a nuclear bomber role in Mr. Strangelove died Thursday night at Evergreen Convalescent Hospital aged 64. His wife Maggie confirms. In 1982 UCSF neurosurgeons removed a brain tumor from Pickens.
In Deadwood South Dakota three of five coworkers share a birthday at KSQY FM. The announcers Tom Sneeley Scott Jeffrey and Greg Olson celebrate today with Tom Juntti of Black Hills State College noting the odds of a five person group producing a triple birthday at about one in a million.
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