Big Hearts at ENMU Roswell Campus Charity Dances
EMIL Behnke from ENMU Roswell praises student work while proceeds from a Friday dance by the Frantics go to the Retarded Children's Association. A second benefit dance by the Hysterical Society, hosted by Helping Services, supports the same cause. Nadene Franklin wins a car at Singer’s raffle amid Happy town scenes. Psi Chi Founder’s Day on campus initiates Stewart Stearns. Reality Therapy discussed with Indian training highlights. Local humor items close with cat and mouse anecdotes.
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Emil Behnke
Roswell
ENMU
Assa
Donald Simmermacher
Chuck Fleming
Psi Chi
Stewart Stearns
Simmermacher
Fleming
Emergency grant funds to aid Chaves County families
Senators Anderson and Montoya announced a 20889 emergency grant to Chaves County Community Action Programs to provide emergency food and medical services for low income families eligible for aid from other sources. The six month program targets those in need.
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Associated Press
Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
Joseph M. Montoya
Chaves County Community Action Programs, Inc
New Mexico Leaders Hint At 30 to 35 Million Tax Increase
House and Senate leaders signal consensus on raising state taxes to 30 to 35 million with a 1 percent sales tax. They discuss SB1 style school funding reform rather than the Runnels bill, aiming for 14 to 17 million for schools and 30 to 35 million total. Local option taxes are viewed as less likely.
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Santa FE
New Mexico House
Senate
Legislative School Study Committee
Harold Runnels
Dle
House
George Fettinger
D.oters
Chavez
New Mexico Faces Up to 60 Million Need for School Funding
The Legislature weighs possible 40 million in new taxes for fiscal 1969-70 to meet minimal general fund needs, with a school finance bill, reserve fund restoration, and higher education increases. If the school study's plan passes, the need could rise to 56.1 million. Senators seek public tolerance for tax hikes.
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Bill Feather Santa FE
New Mexico
Senate
Robert Kirkpatrick
Harold Runnels
D-Sen
Department of Finance
Legislative School Study Committee
Committee
Board of Educational Finance
Schools For the Deaf and Visually Handicapped
Museum of New Mexico
Albuquerque Technical - Vocational Institute
General Fund
Cap Arrington Is Honored With Service to Mankind Award
Cap Arrington of Roswell received the Roswell Sertoma Club Service to Mankind Award at a noon Roswell Inn luncheon. A Alabama native with 38 years in building, he led New Mexico contractors in 1956, ran Panorama Lodge in Ruidoso, built a $60,000 playground, founded the Royal Ambassadors Boy's Club near Roswell in 1966, and aided Royal Ambassador programs at Cloudcroft.
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C. Hr
Cap” Arrington
Roswell
Sertoma Club
Arrington
Royal Ambassadors Boy’s Club
D. Craig Protz
Service To Mankind
H. “Cap” Arrington
Jim Thompson
H. C. Sivells
Saat State Royal
New Mexico Baptist Convention
C.A
Cap” Arrington of
Roswell Sertoma Club
Roswell Inn
Alabama
New Mexico
Royal Ambassador’s Club
Cloudcroft
Royal Ambassador Congress
BYU Players Charged After Lobos Game
Albuquerque AP reports police Lt. Donald Christian said five BYU basketball players faced felony warrants for choking the Lobos after a 77-71 Western Athletic Conference win over New Mexico. No arrests were expected.
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Albuquerque
Donald Christian
Brigham Young University
Cougars
New Mexico
Christian
Lobos
Eisenhower Develops Pneumonia After Surgery
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 78, weakened by recent heart attacks and high risk surgery, has developed pneumonia. Army doctors said he is generally weaker but cooperative as he faces the lung complication, with Mamie and John at the hospital.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
California
Pentagon
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
No Roswellites on List
A statewide Medicaid probe lists 57 medical providers suspected of fraud, with no Roswell names found. The joint committee, after three weeks of hearings, forwarded the list to the attorney general for potential civil or criminal action, noting most names are from Albuquerque and that more names could be added.
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Roswell
Joseph Skeen
Joint
Attorney Generals Office
Joint Committee
Senator Skeen
Albuquerque
George Fettinger
Dotero
Ike Morgan
D Roosevelt-Curry
James Maloney
Medicaid Committee
Rep
Fettinger
Legislative Fact-Finding Committee
Ski report from Sierra Blanca area with open facilities
Lincoln County Ski Report says Sierra Blanca Ski Area conditions are excellent with a base snow depth of 42 inches and nine inches of new snow in the last five days. All facilities at the resort are open and operating daily.
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Lincoln County
Sierra Blanca
Soviet allows East Germany to curb West German protests
The Soviet Union said East Germany may take steps to stop what it calls illegal militaristic activities by West Germany. The move followed West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schuetz saying West German presidential elections would proceed in West Berlin next Wednesday despite Communist protests, per a note from Soviet ambassador Pyotr Abrassimov to East German Foreign Minister Otto Winzer.
Tears Sink Pueblo Hearing as Captain Cries Amid Torture Testimony
Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher, head of the USS Pueblo, sobbed in court after a Mexican American crewman testified about torture by North Korean captors who mistook him for a South Korean spy. The captive described beatings and mock executions as court officials pressed questions about religion and endurance.
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Richard Be. Meyer
Coronado
Calif
Uss Pueblo
Cmdr
Lloyd M. Bucher
E. Miles Harvey
Bucher
Harvey
Pueblo
Rose
Ramon Rosales
William Newsome
Rosales
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