Roswell Community Gathers To Help Missing Social Security Family
Roswell residents mobilize to aid widow Alexis Willis and her four children after Social Security payments stopped since October. Local volunteers and charities including the Salvation Army, Lions Club, Oasis Dairy Farm worker Peggy Wells organize donations of toys and meals for the family and their dog Pudgy.
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Marian McQuiddy
Santa Claus
Roswell
Pudge
Alexis Willis
S. Sherman Ave
Willis
Peggy Wells
P.O. Box
Oasis Dairy Farm
Carter to Name One Energy Head for Two Agencies
President elect Carter plans to appoint a single leader for the Federal Energy Administration and the Energy Research and Development Administration as he pursues a unified energy policy by April 1. He aims to cut federal departments from about 1 900 to no more than 200 over four years.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Howard Metzenbaum
Carter
Capitol
Ohio Democrat
Federal Energy Administration
Energy Research and Development Administration
Metzenbaum
Benjamin
Rosenthal
D-Ny
House Democratic Caucus
Congress
Executive
Democratic
Pentagon
Plains
Sen
William Hathaway
D-Maine
White House
Thomas McIntyre
D-N.h
Bronfman heirs kidnapping case ends with extortion guilty
Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne were acquitted of the kidnapping of Samuel Bronfman 2nd but convicted of extorting a 2.3 million ransom. The jury found no real kidnapping and set January 6 for sentencing. Also notes Patricia Hearst's LA trial delayed to January with her expected testimony in multiple jurisdictions.
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White Plains
N.Y
Mel Patrick Lynch
Dominic Byrne
Samuel Bronfman
Seagram
Byrne
Lynch
State Supreme Court
George Beisheim Jr
Bronfman
Beisheim
Johnson
Miss Hearst
William
Emily Harris
State energy chief urges Gas Co. to be cut or regulated
Roswell hearing features Energy Resources Board director John F. O’Leary calling Gas Co. of New Mexico an unwilling participant and urging voluntary price limits by producers. He warns deregulation could raise bills to 800 to 1000 dollars and predicts gas shortages in the early 1980s while favoring voluntary settlements over federal price controls.
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State Energy Resources Board
Roswell
Gas Co. of
New Mexico
John F. O'Leary
O'Leary
National Congress
Energy Resources Board
Northwestern Producers and Gas Co
Gas Co
el Paso Natural Gas
New Mexico Open Meetings Ruling Narrows Personnel Exemption
The state Supreme Court ruled that personnel matters must follow dictionary definitions, potentially gutting the open meetings law. Attorney General Toney Anaya warned the decision could render the act unenforceable and urged legislative tightening to restrict the exemption to discipline or hiring actions.
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Santa FE
New Mexico Supreme Court
Atty Gen. Toney
High Court
Santa Fe School Board
Anaya
Edwin Felter
Supreme Court
Lafel Oman
Felter
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Daily Record
Pudgy
Salvation Army
Roswell Lion's Club
Thomas P
Tip’ O'Neill
House
O'Neill
Banks of America
Bill Moffitt Photo
Don McCampbel
W.H. Baird
State Energy
John F. O'Leary Gas Co
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