Sunray Oil buys Carlsbad mineral lease in Riverside area
Sunray Oil Corp purchased a 10 year state mineral lease for a large Carlsbad residential zone including North Shore Addition along the Pecos River and Riverside Drive. The bid, $720, was the highest among six bidders at the Santa Fe land office sale. Company officials would not discuss immediate drilling plans though they cited area sediment potential.
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Carlsbad
Argus
Sunray Oil Corp
North Shore
Pecos River
Riverside Drive
Country Club
Sunray Company
State Land Office
Santa Fe
Sunray
Clarence Stymes
Roswell
Stymes
Plans for District Youth Home Near Artesia
Ginner and Associates of Albuquerque presented architectural plans for a youth home near Artesia to house 24 boys and the probation officer family. The District Youth Home Committee, Inc. expects final plans and specs within 60 days. Financing ideas and fundraising were also discussed.
Tornado Hits Louisiana State Penitentiary Wounding Three
A tornado ripped through a section of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola last night. One inmate was killed and two others injured as guards and medical staff responded to the damage and casualties.
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Angola
Louwiana State Penitentiary
Weather summary from United States Weather Bureau
Reading at three hour intervals yesterday shows highs 67 and 72 forecast, with a low around 21 to 32. Precipitation is none for 24 hours, month to date, and year to date totals. Sunrise 6 37 AM sunset 5 47 PM length of day 11.2 hours. Forecast calls for fair skies today and tonight with continued mild temperatures.
Artesia Woman Crushed in Mayhill Road Wreck
A back tire blew on a car seven miles east of Mayhill on State Road 83 causing the vehicle to leave the road and overturn in water. Carrie May Austin 22 Artesia was killed. Three others including driver Robert Lee Williams 34 and passengers James Clay 24 Dorothy Scales 28 were injured. The second crash on U S Highway 85 near Socorro killed three people including a mother and a 4 year old.
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Mayhill
Carrie May Austin
Artesia
H. C. Stanbrough
Robert Lee Williams
James Clay
Dorothy Scales
U. S
Socorro Hospital
Marvin W. James Albuquerque
Belen
Photo grapher Admits Pumpkin Papers Brings Hiss Case Back
Albany New York February 195P A Moscow trained American photographer confessed after 15 years he filmed the Pumpkin Papers used to convict Alger Hiss of perjury He identified 1937 1938 State Department documents photographed for the Whittaker Chambers ring and recalled names Grew and Bullitt The hearing led to removal of two GE employees and connected Chambers Insterman to the Red underground as McCarthy sought to align notes with Chambers in a wider probe
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Albany
N.Y
Alger Hiss
Felix A. Insterman
Cambridge
Joseph R. McCarthy
Senate Investigations
McCarthy
General Electric Co
Schenectady
Defense
Insterman
Red Underground
Grew
Bullitt
Joseph Clark Grew
U.S
Japan
William C. Bullitt
Russia
France
Chambers
FBI
Westminster
State Department
Hiss
Carnegie Foundation For World Peace
Federal Penitentiary
Lewisburg
Ex-Courier
Inslerman
New York City
Banks
T. E. Lane
Willie Porter
County Demos Seek to Fill All Offices
Chaves County Democrats urged strong fundraising and full ticket campaigns from mayor to state levels at the county convention in the district courtroom. Judge Brice pressed unity after Republicans swept county posts and Richard G. Bean announced the state pre primary delegates for Albuquerque on March 12.
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Chaves County
Charles Brice
Albuquerque
Richard G. Bean
Chaves
Alvarado Hotel
Carl Joplin
Clovis
John F. Russell
Lake J. Frazier
Hiram Dow
Aubra Powell
Pat Hanagan
Gerald McBride
George H. Hunter Jr
Wayne Adams
Ross L. Malone
Loman Wiley
Bob McNeil
Hal Bogie
Harry Puryear
Charlie Marsh
Indian man to receive one third of oil lease payout
A 49 year old Indian man in Roswell faces jail without cash to pay a $15 fine while an oil company plans to pay his family $113 425. Police sought him after a Muskogee lawyer requested his signature on papers. he had been jailed under another name for drunkenness and was later traced to a Oklahoma contact readying the payout.
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Ed Yesteday
Vaughan
Ruby
Lordsburg
N. M. Darnell
el Paso
Amos Clarence Burgess
Burgess
Dick Richards
Ledsburg
Vaughans
Charleston
W. Va
Florida
Birmingham
Illinois
FBI
Atlanta
Atmore
Ala
Ruby Webb
San Antonio
Tex
Detroit
Chicago
Las Vegas
Nev
Mr. Darnell
Roswell
Tommy Thompson
Muskogee
Okla
H bomb explosion may be imminent signals from Eniwetok airport
A Feb 20 dispatch from Honolulu says a message ordered Eniwetok airport closed to all aircraft for about 36 hours starting tonight. Eniwetok serves as the advance base for AEC announced H bomb tests planned this year. Whether the message signalled an imminent explosion remains speculation.
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Honolulu
Eniwetok
Atomic Energy Commission
Dr. Dulaney Named To Help Find Site For Orphans Home
Portales reports New Mexico Baptists plan a Spanish children home near Belen under Walker Hubbard. A five member committee, including Dr A A Dulaney of Roswell, seeks at least 160 irrigated acres for the site. The Portales home opened in 1919 with four children and plans to grow.
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Dr. Dulaney
Portales
New Mexico
R. T. Baker
Albuquerque
Portaleg
Bet Hubbard
Cas Ealam Acme Ie
Chaves County Cotton Acreage Increases Under New Law
Unofficial figures show Chaves county’s 1954 cotton allotment at 41 438 acres, up from 31 848. total 1953 acres were 59 058 yielding 70 619 bales. The 65-40-40 formula links past cotton history to minimum 40 percent of cropland, with 65 percent potential adjustments.
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Chaves County
PMA
O. F. Crawford
ASC
Ezra T. Benson
Benson
Congress
Eisenhower
Rowellah R. Lukens
Crawford
Minister Unfrocked For Red Teachings
Detroit February action unrobes 59 year old Rev Claude Williams once wartime industrial chaplain of Detroit Presbytery He had been accused by HUAC and McCarthy aides of infiltrating ministry with Communism The church delivered a censure on the communism charge and disbarred him from ministerial functions while Williams appeals to higher church courts.
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Detroit
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church of the United
Henry J. Walch
Plymouth
Mich
Judicial Commission
Williams
Walch
City Democrats To Nominate State For Offices Here
Howard C. Buchly chairs a mass Democratic convention set for 7 30 p m Friday March 12 at the Junior High School to nominate a full slate for city offices including mayor police judge and six aldermen. The meeting followed a committee session with James T Jennings H A Poorbaugh and Byron White present while R L Burrows was out of town.
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Howard C. Buchly
City
Democratic Central Committee
James T. Jennings
H. A. Poorbaugh
Byron White
R. L. Burrows
Indian Fighter Paxton Dies at Mayhill at 92
ALAMOGORDO February 20 A veteran Indian fighter of the Tula oosa Basin William Paxton known as Uncle Billy died Friday night at age 92 He came to Otero County in 1902 and settled in James Canyon where he ranched He is survived by two sons Earl Paxton of Greentree and Carol a Paxton died in May hill
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Alamogordo
Tulaoosa Basin
William Paxton
Billy
Otero County
James Canyon
Earl Paxton
Greentree
Carol A Paxton
Mayhill
Navy Flier Dies Voluntarily In Plane Crash Over City
Lt. George Garfield Jeffries of Frostburg Md died saving Lake Charles during a routine flight from Kingsville Naval Air Base Texas to MacDill AFB Florida. With engine trouble he chose to bail at 2,500 feet, then attempted to reach a rice field before a belly landing, dying when the plane crashed near Lake Charles.
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Lake Charles
Navy
George Garfield Jeffries
Frostburg
Kingsville Naval Airbase
Tex
MacDill Afb
Tampa
Fla
Walter H. Maddox
Jeffries
Maddox
Lake Charles Afb
Orange
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Marvin Vaughan
Ed Darnell
Kilis
United States Weather Bureau
Mayhill Road
Salvador Coucholla
Butch Coachella
Socorro
Edward Riede
Morrill
Wis
Sandia Hospital
Albino Griego
County Demos
D. H. Cahoon
Chaves County Heart Association
Gene Reischman
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
E. W. Lander
Local Heart Association
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Pecos Valley
Quickies
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Charlies Lusk
C. G. Moreland
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