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Roswell Daily Record

Location

Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1939

Page

2

Birth registration and Christmas spirit in New Mexico towns

The editorial urges birth certificates for children as vital as livestock registration, ties holiday cheer to New Mexico’s Christian identity, and highlights community efforts. It notes 10,000 lights in Madrid, Christmas dinners aided by the American Legion, Salvation Army distributions, and public events from Albuquerque to Roswell, all framed by a religious season and charitable acts.

State Health Department New Mexico State Department of Public Health Albuquerque Clyde Tingley Clyde Oden Rio Grande Park Rio Grande Valley American Legion Auxiliary

Registering births eases future for newborns

A public health appeal urges registering every birth with the state vital statistics division to ensure a birth certificate. It warns that unrecorded births create barriers to jobs pensions property inheritance voting education and legal rights, and emphasizes the child’s future difficulties without proper documentation.

Vital Statistics Division State Department of Public Health New Mexico

Roswell Explores Library Relocation and Cemetery Takeover

The passage discusses relocating Roswell's library to a more economical site and the city taking over management of the neglected South Park cemetery. It notes current inadequacies in library facilities and cemetery maintenance, urging city action for public institutions to better serve the community.

Roswell South Park

Roswell Sees Bright 1940 With Airport Plans and Wages

An editorial notes 1940 should be better for Roswell, aided by federal programs and improved conditions. It urges municipal airport ownership to secure air mail service, water and sewer extensions, Carnegie library updates, and warns wage hikes on highway projects will raise costs for taxpayers across millions in payroll.

Roswell Carnegie Library

New Old Age Plan In Effect Next Month

Washington reports the Social Security board will launch the old age insurance program next month. About 178 575 workers who were previously paid lump sums and are now eligible may file for monthly benefits, with deductions from future checks equal to past lump sums. Eligibility requires 65 plus and at least six quarters of covered earnings since 1937, with $50 per quarter. Remaining details describe lump sum origins and deduction method before monthly benefits begin.

Washington Dec Social Security Board Congress New Plan Social Security Allied

Dixie Davis Leaves Albuquerque Hospital Secrets Still Unknown

J Richard Dixie Davis a former New York gangland attorney disappears into seclusion after discharge from an Albuquerque hospital where doctors said his intestinal ailment improved but continued treatment is planned. His exact whereabouts remain undetermined.

Dixie Davis Albuquerque Hospital Albuquerque N. M J. Richard Dixie” Davis New York J. W. Hannett

Jail towel and spoon land man back in cell

Frank Williams, 51, after a 41 day sentence for a minor offense, was searched at Fort Wayne. Deputy Robert Bledsoe found a jail owned towel, soap and spoon in his pocket and sent him back to a cell on charges of petit larceny.

Emerson Fort Wayne Ind Frank Williams Robert Bledsoe Williams

License mixup nets Strauss $291.10 holiday gift

Kansas City reports a 16 year old tax error tied to a lot adjoining Ben Strauss. The assessor listed the property under Strauss's name and the city could not collect the tax difference from the house owner. Now Strauss, living in Cleveland, will receive a $291.10 Christmas present as restitution.

Kansas City Ben Strauss Strauss Cleveland

Man is greatest of God's creation in redemption

The meditation on nature leads David to affirm that despite vast cosmos man, crowned with glory, is lord of creation in God’s image. Redeemed man embodies the highest divine potential, surpassing even the majestic universe. Record Want-Ads Get Results.

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