Roswell Holiday Retail Sales Show Mixed Strength
Roswell merchants report varied Christmas sales with Alco and Gibson's up about 20 percent and several stores ahead of 1977. Toy sales rise at Alco and K Mart while ready wear remains steady. Loans rise at Roswell State Bank and Household Finance as optimism grows for 1979.
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Alco
Gibson's
Roswell
al Knutson
the Daily Record
Knutson
Gibson
Clovis
Hobbs
Keith Albrecht
Albrecht
Tom Pappas
North Main
C.R. Anthony
Anthony
Fred Kimmey
Sears Roebuck & Co
John Hunt
K Mart
Hunt
Larry Knadle
Knadles Inc
Knadle
Beulah Woldridge
Wooldridge’s
Johnnie Caraway
Sweetbriar’s
Bray-Moore
Charles Butler
Ball
Ray
Model
B.F. Fields
Jerry Pritchard Chevrolet
Horizon Ford
Durham
Lincoln-Mercury
Santa Claus
Ford
Jim Grossman
Roswell State Bank
Acoustical Evidence Sparks Conspiracy Question in JFK Case
The House Assassinations Committee considers a possible conspiracy after new acoustical tests claim a fourth shot may have come from the grassy knoll beside Dallas. Blakey cites 95 percent probability of a second gunman, reopening the lone assassin premise.
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Washington Star
Washington
House
John F Kennedy
Dallas
Robert G Blakey
Kennedy
Blakey
Lee Harvey Oswald
Grassy Knoll
Martin Luther King Jr
Texas School Book Depository
Oswald
Harold Sawyer
R-Mich
Grand Rapids
Sawyer
Mark Weiss
Ernie Oskenoski
Queens College
New York
James Barger
Massachusetts Company of Bolt
Barger
Knoll
PLO rockets strike Kiryat Shmona in border flare up
A volley of Katyusha rockets from southern Lebanon hits Kiryat Shmona retaliating for Israeli air strikes on Palestinian camps. Seven wounded and five children treated for shock as PLO claims responsibility from Beirut. Israeli forces report further incidents in Jerusalem and Lebanon.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Lebanon
Kiryat Shmona
Galilee Panhandle
Beirut
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Moshe Dayan
Cyrus Vance
PLO
Judge fines officer for killing a hen near Bitter Lake
Game officer Gary Dollahan turned himself in after unintentionally shooting a pheasant hen near Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge east of Roswell. Magistrate Baudelio Ramirez fined him $10 court costs and $10 restitution to the Game and Fish Department for the incident.
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Dollahan
Ron Porter
Game
Department For the
Ird
RUIDOSO RIVER BANK COLLAPSE LEAVES MAN MISSING
State police halt search for 76 year old Gayon Luker after river bank washed out behind his Alto home. His son Rudi 50 escaped but the elder Luker is not found. Rescue teams to resume Sunday as waters recede. he recently had surgery.
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Ruidoso
Lincoln County
Alto
Kent Waller
Gayon Dean Luker
Rudi
Lukers
Luker
Kent, Wash
Carl Poschwatta
Poschwatta
Kent
U.S
Richard Jones
Roswell Holds First Public Christmas Celebration 1886
Roswellites gathered for the citys inaugural public Christmas celebration in 1886 with more than 300 attendees, a milestone noted on page 3. The item captures early town civic life and community spirit.
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Ciel Lonon
Montana Avenue
Country Club Road
Dan Barton
National Weather Service
Barton
Bernek
Newman
Old City
Jerusalem
Holy City
Egypt
Foreign Ministry
Cairo
Mustafa Khalil
Brussels
Lakers
Laker
Lincoln County Sheriff's Department
Dean Luker
Lincoln
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