Christmas Spirit Brings Roswell Families Together
Roswell hopeful for holiday cheer as Baptist Children's Home boys from Portales arrive by bus for Christmas visits with local families. A student preacher from Howard Payne College leads a Calvary Baptist Church service titled Student Night at Christmas. Roswell United Way nears its $176000 goal with about $3500 to raise. YMCA directors extend season's greetings and reflections on the year 1974.
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Roswell
Baptist
Portales
Howard Payne College
Terry Carter
Calvary Baptist Church
Carter
Virginia Tingley
Frances Tankersley resigns as church organist at First Baptist
Frances Tankersley, longtime organist at the First Baptist Church, resigns effective December 30. The notice notes she played there before World War II and reflects on cold weather patterns from past decades and familiar seasonal swings.
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Frances ‘Tankersley
The
First Baptist Church
Holiday traffic and amusement rides at Peppermint Park
The report notes light crowds at Peppermint Park on Saturday with few children on the merry go round and train ride. Both rides resume this afternoon but close Monday for a holiday, while power use rises as women bake Christmas goodies.
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Peppermint Park
America
Albuquer que pollution alert lasts long despite near warn ing
Albuquerque officials report record carbon monoxide levels from Thursday night to Saturday morning with 36 ppm hourly highs and nine ppm eight hour averages for 36 of 38 hours. A warning was avoided as a weather front improved conditions. Officials urge car pools and reduced driving through March.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Harry Davidson
Albuquerque-Bernalillo County
Davidson
National Weather Service
Four Corners
Last Christmas for ailing David Bowen in Buffalo
In Buffalo New York 17 year old David Bowen born with a congenital heart defect and cancerous tumors faces a bleak Christmas. The Buffalo Courier Express highlighted his case prompting gifts including three tape recorders and money. His family on welfare hopes to send him to Florida with a companion.
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Buffalo
N.Y
David Bowen
David
Adam
Jeanie
The
Buffalo Courier-Express
Florida
Hughes rites set for Alma E. Huggins
Funeral services for Alma E. Huggins 58 of 3203 Futura Drive will be 10 30 a.m. Monday at Ballard Funeral Home Chapel with Rev John J Fourie officiating. She died Friday night in Eastern New Mexico Medical Center. Cremation will follow at Fairview Crematory Albuquerque and remains buried later in Isabel Oklahoma. Survivors include husband two daughters Susan Hollingshead and Gail Giles three brothers four sisters and four grandchildren.
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Alma E. Huggins
Futura Drive
Ballard Funeral Home
John J. Fourie
First Christian Church
Gail Ann Giles
Albuquerque
Raymond Bowman
Phoenix
Ariz
Mark Bowman
Hillsboro
Cecil Bowman
Oklahoma City
Okla
Vera Tubbs
Pampa
Tex
Myrtle Throgmartin
Chicago
Ruth Stanley
Independence
Kan
Helen Hamilton
Blythe
Calif
First United Methodist Church
Hagerman
Sam Freeman
Bill Stamper
Bledsoe
St. Mary’s Hospital
Hagerman School Board of Iducation
Hagerman Lions Club
Raymond Bledsoe
Mountain Grove
Don Bledsoe
Las Cruces
Tommy Bledsoe
Artesia
Ross Bledsoe
Lubbock
Dorothy Ford
Peggy Hefner
Roswell
Dee Eastman
Bobby Utterback
Horace Freeman
Stanley Utterback
Lindell Andrews
Lee Roy Rhodes
Anthony Torres
Adolfo
Plasida Sanchez Torres
Dexter
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Joyce Finnigan
OFM
Hagerman Cemetery
LaGrone
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Joe Alfred Torres
Delia
Anita Torres
Two killed in separate highway crashes in New Mexico
Two men died in separate U S 82 crashes near Lovington and north of Gallup. The victims were Robert Brede, 19, of Cannon Air Force Base, and Bob Yazzie, 39, of Twin Lakes New Mexico. Brede's car left the highway west of Lovington. Yazzie's vehicle collided with Irene Watson’s car north of Gallup.
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Associated Press
Cannon Air Force Base
U.S
Lovington
Twin Lakes
N.M
Gallup
Robert Ray Brede
Cannon
Bob Yazzie
Brede
Steven Person
Person
Lea General Hospital
Yazzie
Irene Watson
U.S. 656
Watson
Ex POW Dad Jerry Singleton Welcomes New Baby John
The Jerry Singleton family greets a new son, John, born to Bonnie and Maj. Singleton, who was released from a North Vietnamese prison camp earlier this year. Rick, now seven, recalls Christmas in 1965 when Bonnie was pregnant. Maj. Singleton remains in the Air Force and attends SMU Law School in Dallas.
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Dallas
Jerry Singleton
Singletons
John
Singleton
May
Bonnie Singleton
Bonnie
Rick
Maj
Air Force
Southern Methodist University Law School
Man Found Dead In Vehicle In Roswell
Roswell police report a man, Richard A. Willis, 30, of 320 F Seventh St., found dead in his car at 8:05 a.m. Saturday from carbon monoxide poisoning after the vehicle was pulled to the roadside on West Second Street in front of Trailer City West.
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Richard Allen Willis
Seventh St
LaGrone
John McCoy
South Main
Roswell
Alexis Beckerich
C.A
Ssephine Pruitt Willis
Judy Willis
Ozona
Tex
Judy Alene Oso
Lloyd Burch
Dub Collums
Jim Ross
Don Easton
Jim Robinson
Jack Sisk
Roswell City
West Second Street
Trailer City West
Richard A. Willis
F. Seventh St
Chaves County
Fred Sweeney
Berg Auto Welding and Auto Firm
Garden Ave
Harry Woods
Third St
City man arrested in Roswell knifing case
Roswell police arrested Frank Billy Montoya 28 for aggravated battery after a stabbing at 2200 block South Virginia Avenue. Orlando Padilla 88 KEK Wells St Roswell Industrial Air Center was hospitalized with facial and arm cuts. Bond set at 2500. arraignment expected Monday morning.
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Roswell
South Virginia Avenue
Frank Billy Montoya
Redwood
Orlando Padilla
Wells St
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Padilla
Memorial Osteopathic Hospital
Montoya
Roswell City
Morocco says Kuwait turned over five hijack suspects
The Moroccan government said Kuwait handed five Arab terrorists linked to the Kore airport massacre to Yasser Arafat's Fatah group for trial by a Palestinian tribunal. PLO positions varied with a commander supporting a PLO court while a Kuwait report said no request for jurisdiction had been made.
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Rabat
Morocco
Kuwait
Yasir Arafat
Kore
Mideast
PLO
Ment
Italy
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AL Stubbs
Bountiful
United Way
Roswell Family Ymca
Minnesota
USA
LEE Mack Laundry
N. Main
Bowen
Pecos Valley
W.R. Pulley
Douglas Pulley
New Mexico State University
Michigan Ave
Pulley
J. G. Blanchard
Thomas Albert Bledsoe
Hager
Kristie M. Frye
Kristie Marie Frye
Pontiac Drive
South Park Cemetery
Austin H. Dillon
St Mary's Hospital
Sandra Casad Frye
John Cyphers
Mary Bicknese
New Mexico
Ashland
Orin . Atkins
Ashland Oil Inc
Atkins
Hobson's Gardens
ED and
Evelyn
Harry
Larry & Jerry
Main St
Albert A. Stubbs
Jerry McCormack
Lois Purvis Weggianal
Duto
RM Higginbotham
Cecil Goins
John Pettit Digssiied
Ady
AL Geary
Lee Allison
Faves County
Mad
Roswell and Trade
Roswell NM
Mathew Cress
Goddard High School
Tom Lester
Linda Circle
Rosemary Hayworth
Alameda St
Athens
Hassan
Emir Sabah el-Sabah
Sabah Ahmed al-Jaber
Ahmed ‘Taieb Benhima
CALL
E. J. Fresquez
Deborah DJ
KSWS
Safeco
Cadillac
Mallard
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