Artesia Football Season Affects Friday Business
A column notes how Artesia businesses quiet on Fridays when the Bulldogs play at home or away. If the team is in town, salesmen struggle as football takes priority. if out of town, commerce largely stalls. The piece also mentions meteor sighting reports, a PhD awarded to a former Dexter superintendent, a Coronado Chorale concert, and NM legislative musings with mint relocation satire.
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Artesia
Artesia Bulldogs
Bulldogs
Hobbs
Dexter Supt
Ellis B. Scott
Bloomfield Municipal Schools
New Mexico State University
NMSU
Weed
Weed Public Schools
Dexter High School
Worldwide Tensions and Disasters Dominate Capsule News
Lima orders ambassador home as anti US sentiment grows after tuna-boat attacks. Karachi protests surge against Ayub Khan amid violence rumors. New Orleans shows case signs in Garrison Shaw trial with Kennedy conspiracy claims. Military court at Presidio sentences two soldiers amid mutiny trials. Carnival weekend brings revelry. Mt Etna erupts after earthquake rattles Sicily. Byrnes in hospital, age 89, improving after state service.
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New Orleans
Jim Garrison
Clay Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Garrison
Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
Tijerina conviction upheld in Echo Amphitheater assault case
The 10th Circuit upheld Reies Lopez Tijerina and four associates in a 1966 assault on forest rangers at Echo Amphitheater Camp Ground in Carson National Forest New Mexico. Sentences ranged from two years in prison to 60 days in jail, plus probation or suspended terms. The decision labeled the act a publicity demonstration violating federal law, with defense appealing on charges and venue grounds.
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Denver
Colo
U.S. 10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Reies Lopez Tijerina
Forest Rangers
Echo Amphitheater
New Mexico
Tijerina
Alianza de Pueblos Libres Alliance of Free City
Carson National Forest
Alianza
Cristobal
Jerry Noll
Ezekial Dominguez
Alfonso Chavez
Las Cruces
N.M
Albuquerque
U.S
Bill Higgs
Legislature to convene as scheduled with memorial planned
New Mexico Senate Majority Leader Tibo Chavez indicated the Legislature will meet Monday as scheduled, with a joint session in the House chamber around 10:30 a.m. for a memorial to former state senator T. E. Gene Lusk. Otherwise, calendar and committee hearings proceed per schedule.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Senate
Tibo Chavez
D-Valencia
T. E. “Gene” Lusk
Carlsbad
Chavez
House
Southeast storm lashes Arkansas to Florida with hurricane winds
A powerful low pressure system swept the Southeast, bringing heavy snow to Arkansas Tennessee and Kentucky while freezing rain and sleet hit Mississippi Alabama and Georgia. Tornado watches and hurricane force gusts near St. Petersburg marked widespread damage and travel dangers as the storm moved northward.
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Arkansas
Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Carolinas
Virginia
Gulf of Mexico
East Tennessee
South Georgia
Weather Bureau
Bay Isles
St. Petersburg
Fla
Florida Peninsula
Tampa
Lakeland
Panhandle
North
Fletcher Likely to Be Named County Commissioner
Fletcher appears set to win the Dexter post as Republicans rally behind him. Announcement expected Monday in Gov. Cargo's office. Thiokol favored in state industrial recruitment plan vote, 12 to 1, with Lopez dissenting. Contract could last two years at 492000 dollars, Roswell training cited as evidence of success. DOD director defended program amid opposition from state executives, while a Senate panel amended the memorial to let Gov. Cargo initiate any Thiokol contract.
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Rusty Fletcher
Dexter
Fletcher
Junio Lopez
San Miguel County
Thiokol
Roswell
Joint Finance Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Bernie Diamond
Utah
New Mexico
James Roberson
DOD
State Industrial Development Executives Association
Bob Hoffman
Association
Roberson
Gov. Cargo
Harold Runnels
D-Sea
West Berlin Squeeze Tightened Ahead of Election
East German border guards tightened traffic controls blocking West German motorists as West Berlin braces for the presidential election. Mayor Klaus Schuetz said Nixon will have no trouble during his Feb. 27 visit despite delays and patrol scrutiny on the autobahn.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Bonn
Klaus Schuetz
Nixon
West Berlin
East Germany
Schuetz
West Germany
Helmstedt
Voters told of concern over rising federal costs in NM
New Mexico voters are disgusted by government spending and a larger tax bite. U.S. Rep. Ed Foreman spoke in Roswell during an eight day swing, urging budget cuts and noting proposals to reduce overlap in government functions. He cited the Pueblo incident, campus riots funding, and push toward an all volunteer army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Foreman
R-N.m
New Mexico Jaycees
Foreman
Nixon
Jim West
New Mexico
U.S
Washington
Bud” Wilkinson
Oklahoma University
Roswell
Lincoln Day
Secretary of the Interior
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
Johnson
Carlsbad Caverns
Congress
West Texas
Department of Defense
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AL Stubbs
American Meteor Society
Springwood Rd
Jacksonville
Las Vegas
Coronado Chorale
ENMU
W. Russell Corbin
St. Michigan
Maurice la Fonte
Harry F. Taylor
W. Alameda
Lima
Peru
Karachi
Pakistan
Mohammed Ayub Khan
San Francisco
Army Presidio Stockade
Louis Oezepinsky
N.Y
Larry Reidel
Medford
Ore
Istanbul
Catania
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Europe
Columbia
D.C
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Baptist Hospital
Izard Josey
U.S. Supreme Court
Justice of the Peace
Tommy Thompson
Arnold Newkirk
LTV Electrosystems
RIAC
Thompson
J. R. Funk
10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Higgs
U. S. Supreme Court
Appeals Court
Morton Stavis
Law Center For Constitutional Rights
Newark
N. J
William Kunstler
Arthur Kinoy
New York City
Constitutional Group
Cristobal Tijerina
Sunday Reading Guide
Pueblo
Legislature
Mayfield
Rattlers
T. E. Lusk
Tallahassee
Alma
Santa Fe
Marge Beck
By Hubert J. Erb
Lewis C. Cox Jr
Vietnam
San Juan
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