Claude Ballard Declares Candidacy For Congress
Claude T. Ballard announces the Modern Party with offices in Roswell and seeks a House seat. An organizational meeting is set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Room A at the chamber of commerce. Ballard, a World War veteran and former real estate and insurance man, cites a cotton policy and shorter work hours as key planks while noting unemployment and economic concerns among Americans.
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Claude T. Ballard
W. 13Th St
House of Representatives
United States
Chamber of Commerce
Ballard
New Mexico
Roswell
Quartermaster Corps
San Antonio
Dole
Grant Declined Call to Quit State Treasurer Post
Santa Fe Joseph B. Grant Democratic candidate for state treasurer was urged by George R. Stevens of Catron County and Louis A. Garcia of Santa Fe to resign as party treasurer. Grant said he would not comment until receiving the letter.
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Santa FE
Joseph B. Grant
George R. Stevens
Catron County
Louis A. Garcia
Grant
Temperatures and Outlook From Yesterday to Today
Readings show highs near 70 and a low around 27 with clear skies. Forecast calls for warm afternoons with a high around 74 and chilly nights near 28, and a five day outlook of 5 to 15 degrees above normal.
Former carnival owner faces death penalty in Pennsylvania mother murder case
Carl J. Folk, 60, once of Clovis, N M, is to stand trial in Holbrook Ariz on a charge of raping torturing and killing 22 year old Betty Faye Allen of Wattsburg Pa In court the county attorney said he would seek the death penalty 12 jurors will be chosen from 125 summoned Folk was wounded by the victim's husband who later aided in the pursuit and Folk has been jailed since their attack last December 2.
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Carl Folk Holbrook
Ariz
Melvin Shelly
Carl J. Folk
Clovis
N. M
Pennsylvania
Folk
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Bon
Wattsburg
Allen
Holbrook
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Albuquerque
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Soviet Union
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Anthony Eden
France
Georges Bidault
East Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Eden
West Berlin Technical University
Legion Back To God Movement Sunday Chiefs
President Eisenhower and Arthur J. Connell will head the American Legion Back To God program broadcast Sunday February 7 from the White House and on four networks. Roswell's Post No 28 will run a local program with Grace before meals cards in restaurants as part of the two fold Legion effort.
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Eisenhower
Arthur J. Connell
American Legion
Kermit Shotts
Roswell Legion
Shotts
Roswell de Bremond
New York City
CBS
NBC
ABC
MBS
White House
KSWS
Roswell
KGFL
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Norman Salit
America
Tom B. Clark
Artesia Lodge No
Hagerman
Lake Arthur
Artesia
Roy V.tyner
Roy V. Tyner
Thomas C. Williams
Boyd Scott
Roswell Lodge
Richard Lang
H. M. Whatley
Joe T. Mitchell
Nine convicts escape through tunnel at Atmore Prison
Nine desperadoes long termers escaped through a tunnel beneath Atmore Prison in Alabama last night. A large manhunt with bloodhounds and shoot to kill instructions continued as guards, deputies, and state troopers followed a muddy trail five miles south of the prison. officials vowed a full investigation into security lapses during a major rebuilding program nearing completion.
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Atmore
Ala
L. A. Strubble
Alabama
Mobile
Worley Enters Sheriff Race as Third Candidate
Earl Worley a Roswell automobile dealer announces his run for sheriff becoming the third candidate in the field. He is a Democrat from New Mexico resident since 1938 and vows to run on the People ticket with the slogan Your Sheriff for the People.
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Earl Worley
Earl
Red) Worley
Worley
New Mexico
Roswell
S. Main St
Rabies Drive In Dona Ana County Opened In Las Cruces
Dr. James R. Scott district health officer reports 1 170 animals in Dona Ana County were inoculated in a rabies drive to stamp out the disease in the county.
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Las Cruces
James R. Scott
Dona Ana
American Wins Grim Game with Czech Reds
John Hvasta, a 26 year old Czechoslovakia born U S Navy veteran, escapes a five year cat and mouse ordeal ending with a flight to safety via Munich Zurich London New York. He was jailed as a spy, fled as a fugitive, and sheltered in Prague embassy before US officials arranged his release and return to Hillside New Jersey.
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Germany
John Hvasta
Czechoslovakia
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Hrasta
Grand Hotel
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Hillside
N.J
United States
Hvasta
Overcoat Makes Blankets For Army Squad Tale
In Albuquerque State Corporation Commissioner Gram B. Pickett, seven feet tall and size 49, is missing his overcoat. He jokes that anyone who wears it will be found out, while the odd angle of the item sparks a humorous local note.
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Albuquerque
Ingram B. Pickett
Anxiety Over Pope Pius Health Worsens in Vatican
The first official bulletin on Pope Pius XII's condition reports continued weakness from gastritis and feeding difficulty. It notes intermittent hiccups, normal lab tests, and that X rays of the gastric area were previously normal.
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Vatican City
Pius
Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
Holy Father
Vatican
Sticks to cheap cup Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa merchants keep selling coffee at five cents a cup despite high costs. The cheap cup draws traffic to this highway point and benefits a local dealer, who says the goodwill is worth the loss, noting that similar advertising would cost far more.
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Santa Rosa
Highway Point
Santa Fe Tax Arrears Foe Begins Prison Term
Kir by K. Kennedy of Santa Fe started a two year sentence yesterday at La Tuba Texas federal reformatory after being convicted in November for evading 17 756 36 in income taxes. He was sentenced last December for filing fraudulent returns from 1946 through 1949.
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Santa Fe
la Tuba
Tex
Santa
Model Town in Gallup: Navajo Council Seeks Reform
Navajo Tribal Council chair Sam Ahkeah softened an advisory committee blast that Gallup abuses Navajo civil rights. The panel urged a joint effort to keep the area Indian office in Gallup and to build a model community through citizen cooperation with Gallup leaders and Indian Service personnel.
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Gallup
Navajo Tribal Council
Indians’ Advisory Committee
New Mexico
Indian Service
Council
Maurice McCabe
Window Rock
Ariz
Sam Ahkeah
Area
Indian Bureau
Albuquerque
Advisory Committee
Ahkeah
Roswell Leads January Building Permits by Cash Total
Building permits issued in Roswell last month totaled 63 and amounted to 196012.65 dollars. Class 1-A new residences led with 24 permits totaling 138204 dollars, followed by skating rink 27,741.65 dollars. Other classes included repairs and alterations to houses and non residential repairs for a combined total of 196012.65 dollars.
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Roswell
Charlie O'Neal
Cotton Caravan Planners Set for County Meeting
The Cotton Caravan planning committee will meet tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the office of county agent Al W. Woodburn to organize the visit of the Cotton Caravan on Wednesday Feb 24. Attending will be representatives from all county gun clubs including George Bogart Clarence Taylor Virgil Grantham Phenix Fletcher Bill Bogle Hal Bogle O J Ford H C Chowning Ellis Whitney W E Utterback J P White Jr Carl F Clardy and Wayne Adams.
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al W. Woodburn
George Bogart
Clarence Taylor
Virgil Grantham
Phenix Fletcher
Bill Bogle
Hal Bogle
O. J. Ford
H. C. Chow
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