Roswell remembers Gold Star Mother Mrs Edward Melendez
Roswell notes honor and service of Mrs Edward Melendez who died New Year’s Day. She raised five sons with two officers killed in World War II and was named Mother of the Year in 1963 and honored in 1965. The Community Action Program closes the Neighborhood Center in her memory. A New Year breakfast at Roswell Inn drew 60 attendees.
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Edward Melendez
Roswell
Lionel Melendez
Moises Melendez
Melendez
New Mexico
Bernice Santheson D'Abadie
Roswell Inn
Global caps and crises in brief across continents
Gasoline tax boosts raise prices to 85.65 cents a gallon as austerity aims to curb inflation. A Montreal fire kills six, including five of a woman’s eight children and a niece, husband and a son survive. Tampico searches for a missing Mexican DC3 with 26 aboard. A Greek hijack forces an Olympics Airway DC6 to Cairo before return to Athens. In Jackson, winter storms block the Grand Teton ascent attempts by two parties. A Los Lunas train crash claims one dead. Actor Barton MacLane dies at 66 after a 33 year career. Nixon undergoes a routine medical exam with Dr. Lungren. U.S.-Soviet talks on Middle East tensions continue at a lunch with Rostow and Tchernakov.
Democrats Still Await Vote On Challenge to McCormack
In Washington Rep John B. Anderson won the House Republican Conference chair as Democrats planned a vote on Speaker John W. McCormack amid Udall’s challenge. McCormack seeks re election with strong GOP support and ongoing intra party debates over research panels and party schedules.
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Illinois
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Anderson
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Minnesota
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Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
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Florida
Richard H. Poff
Virginia
Leslie C. Arends
Donald Rumsfeld
Ford
Melvin R. Laird
Wisconsin
Betts
Quie
Udall
Democratic Study Group
DSG
Gerald R Ford
McCormack-Udall
Senate
Splid Ward M. Kennedy
Louisiana
Russell B. Long
Kennedy
White House
Warfare Flares Anew In Middle East Region
Israeli warplanes struck Arab positions in Jordan and Israeli Egyptian troops traded fire on the Suez Canal front. Jordan said six Mirage jets attacked the Ziglab Dam and that a Jordanian soldier was killed in a separate helicopter strike, with civilians wounded.
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Associated Press
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Jordan River
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Sea of Galilee
Ziglab
Jordan Valley
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East Bank
Massada
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Cargo Begins Second Term as New Mexico Governor
Governor David F. Cargo was sworn in for a second term in a indoors ceremony at the state capitol. He urged an opportunity state not a welfare state and called for civil rights vigilance, new constitutional focus, urban reform, and greater conservation.
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New Mexico
David F. Cargo
Jack M. Campbell
Santa Fe
Cargo
UPI
Former Roswell Mother of the Year dies after lengthy illness
Mrs Edward Urbana Melendez 68 longtime Roswell resident and community advocate died New Year's Day at the Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She championed education and helped many families through her work with Spanish Calvary Baptist Church, the American Legion Auxiliaries, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Highland School PTA, and Girl Scouts.
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Roswell
Edward
Urbana) Melendez
Melendez
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales
Manuel Joel Melendez
ENMU
U.S. Air Force
Spanish Calvary Baptist Church
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