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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1976
Page
2
Rev. Billy Graham states he has not forsaken Richard Nixon in a Kenya interview. He also comments on Jimmy Carter’s election, saying global and US problems are too large for any one man to solve quickly.
Richard Innamorato, 27, from New York City, neared the 2,360 mile end from the Maine Canadian border to Key West. He left his publishing job last fall to pursue the run along U S 1 with detours toward the coast and can cover up to 50 miles daily. He planned to finish Sunday night in Key West. The report also notes radio host Neil Rogers resuming his Miami Beach show with an unprecedented personal admission.
On Friday evening talk show host Rogers 34 announces on WKAT that he is a member of the gay community. He says he decided to reveal his sexual preference after hearing gay activists on a competing program.
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, 67, who ends 38 years in Congress amid the Fanne Foxe affair, says he knows he is becoming a has been. In Little Rock he added he did not regret leaving office and trusted Arkansans to forgive. Mills once became the youngest Ways and Means chairman in 1958.
The 1952 Roswell Master Plan describes a city guide for public improvements and private development, projecting a 1980 population of 58,000 and stressing water supply, industrial sites, downtown expansion, and park land for 580 acres. It notes Walker AFB and oil offices and urges downtown parking, street upgrades, and highway business zones.
A reward is offered for the return of a film and other merchandise stolen in October from 402 East Deming. The film contains only pictures of a deceased parent. Respond to Write Record Reply Service A.283 at P.O. Box 1897 Roswell New Mexico 88201.
May Williams from Great Britain Silka Mireya Christensen from Panama and Tamami Barnes from Japan took the oath. Absent from photos are Carmen Rosa Hurtado from Peru Trang Thi Thu Pannel from Laos and Pablo Valencia Jr from Mexico.
A federal study panel urged Congress to pivot from extending unemployment benefits to funding job training. The plan targets reducing unemployment to 5 percent by 1980 and creating 2.5 million jobs annually, with emphasis on youth and minority workers. The net cost of the package is projected at 4.5 billion over two years.
Condemned killer Gary Gilmore, recovering from a second suicide attempt in a month, was placed in isolation under 24 hour guard in the Utah State Prison infirmary after a hospital release. Authorities said inmates may have supplied the overdose drugs but no charges were filed.
District Court Judge John Wright rejected a DOC recommendation and suspended 15 year prison terms for inmates David Jenkins 18 and Brian Amos at the boys school. They must leave New Mexico by Jan 3 report to a probation officer on Dec 20 and pay 72 dollars restitution for jail property destroyed after pleading guilty to conspiring to assault a supervisor. Four inmates were involved in a summer escape attempt. two other conspiracy charges were dropped.
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