Faithful Members Century Club awards at Rotary meeting
Rotary honored members with 100 or more consecutive attendances. Charles Butler leads with 1,752 weeks and 33 years without a miss. Other top attendees include Tom Hall Jr 1,169 Ted Hunt 1,307 Max Littell 1,136 Bill Merritt 1,123 Carl Rohr 1,227 Elbert Schuier 1,231 and Wallace Wilson 1,172.
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Century Club
Charles Butler
Butler
Tom Hall Jr
Ted Hunt
Max Littell
Bill Merritt
Carl Rohr
Elbert Schuier
Wallace Wilson
Senate Fails To End Filibuster On SST Funds
The Senate rejected a move to end the SST funds filibuster while urging compromise talks. Nixon threatens to convene the 92nd Congress early on Jan 3 if major bills aren’t cleared, with sessions urged to run around the clock and Sunday.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Transportation Department
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Nixon
U. S
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Mike Mansfield
Montana
House- Senate
William Proxmire
D-Wis
White House
Mansfield
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
House
U.S. Coast Guard
Financing urged to support health and welfare goals
Deputy finance chief William Stuart warns New Mexico leaders must set clear priorities for welfare and health programs and provide adequate funding to meet them. He resigns Dec 31 after nearly four years. He doubts a director change will solve persistent funding and understanding gaps.
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Santa FE
N.M
State Health and Social Services Department
William Stuart
Stuart
Health and Social Services
John Jasper
Legislative Finance Committee
Jasper
Richard Heim
Albuquerque
Heim
High Winds Hit Skiing At Sierra Bianca Resort
Extreme winds over 15 hours reduced skiing from fair to poor in parts of Sierra Bianca. Lifts at Lincoln Capitan and beginner area run, with Meadows and Chino trails open. chair and gondola lifts operate but conditions are poor. Roy Parker notes a new short ski school method and daily condition reports via Alto 336 4351.
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Ruidoso
Sierra Bianca
Lincoln
Capitan
Chino
Roy Parker
Alto
Release of POWs Ends, US Prisoner Talks Fracture
New York AP reports pacifist David Dellinger says Vietnamese negotiators told him there will be no further prisoner releases. Thuy and Mme. Binh accuse Nixon of using the POW issue to inflame war sentiment and demand a withdrawal date before any new talks.
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New York
U.S
North Vietnam
David Dellinger
Chicago 7
Paris
Nixon
Dellinger
Xuan Thuy
Mme
Nguyen Thi Binh
Viet Cong
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Thuy
Mme. Binh
United States
Binh
Vietnam
David K. E. Bruce
Riots in Poland Spread Destruction Across Coastal Cities
Strikes and violent riots raged in Gdansk Gdynia Sopot and Szczecin after price hikes. At least 20 people were killed and hundreds injured as ships yards factories and shops were damaged or looted. Soviet troops were rumored moving toward the border as unrest intensified.
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Warsaw
Szczecin
Gdansk
Warski
Baltic
Gdynia
Stockholm
Czechoslovakia
Rolf Bergstroem
Malmoe
Expressen
Soviet Union
Poland
Mail Keeps Moving at Roswell Post Office
Roswell post office workers Joe Abeyta and Jack Rees sort Christmas mail as the annual flood continues. Officials report steady throughput with no pileups and air mail moving without a hitch.
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Roswell
Joe Abeyta
Jack Rees
Postal Colte
Government announces sharp price hikes increase cost of living
The government announced last Saturday sharp rises in food fuel and clothes prices. The moves are expected to lift the overall cost of living by about 50 million dollars.
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AL Stubbs
Baptist New Mexican
Ruth Cress
Robert H. Cress
Michigan
South Africa
Ruth
Saldanha
Goddard Aero Singers
Aero Singers
Roswell High
Santa
Daddy
Associated Press
Rio DE Janeiro
Giovanni Enrico Bucher
Lee
Naha
Okinawa
U.S. Kadena Air Force Base
United
Pentagon
Tulsa
Okla
Continental Airlines
Tulsa International Airport
Oklahoma City
Denver
Colo
Reindeer
Santa Claus
Memorial Youth Center
Missouri
Tana Durham
Carol Durham
Lila Willock
Connie Jones
Snaris
Nicholas Lillitos
Tadio
Sopot
Stettin
Communist Party
Peter Hurd
Hughes
Georgia Tech
Lobos
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