Seeks Probe of Licensing Boards in New Mexico
Senate Majority Leader M E Morgan proposes an emergency bill to create an interim joint committee to investigate licensing and examining boards, aiming to ensure boards act within the spirit of the law and do not stifle competition. The measure would run until the 23rd Legislature.
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Santa FE
M. E. Morgan
D-Otero
Morgan
Senate
House
John F. Simms
Rules Committee
Fred C. Barron
Employment Securities Commission
Edwin B. Swope
Mike M. Gallegos
Revenue
Eber McKinley
George Lavender
Highway Commission
Weather Summary From U S Weather Bureau Report
Reading at 3 hour intervals from yesterday afternoon to today shows a peak of 47 and a low of 19 degrees. No precipitation in 24 hours ending 11 a m. Forecast calls for increasing cloudiness today with a high near 48 and a low around 26 tonight, followed by warmer conditions tomorrow.
Baptist Hunter Uses Shotgun to Find $1955 Gift Balloon
Louisville hunter Forrest Wilson fired at a floating plastic balloon seeking rabbits and found a certificate worth 1955 dollars for charity. He handed it to his granddaughter who donates the amount to Father Moore and St. Jerome's Catholic Church building project.
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Louisville
Forrest Wilson
Wilson
Marie Lacefield
St. Jerome’s Catholic Church
Jerome Moore
Ike Seeks UN Role to Mediate Chinese Cease Fire
President Eisenhower told reporters he would like the United Nations to attempt a cease fire between Chinese Nationalists and Red China. He said he did not know if the UN could succeed but favored the effort to reduce hostilities amid the escalating conflict.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United Nations
Red China
U. N
Young Denver woman dies after four days in wrecked light plane
Melba Tomlinson, 22, of Denver, died en route to St. John's after spending four days immobilized in snow following a Stinson Voyager crash near the New Mexico Arizona line. Secretary to William C. Wilson, she lay beside the wreckage until rescue.
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ST. John’s
Aris.p
Melba Tomlinson
Denver
Brant Hamblin
William C. Wilson
Altona
Tomlinson
Sheriff Gamblin
Arizona
R. E. Powell
Stinson
Wilson
Santa Fe
Winslow
Ariz
New Mexico
St. John’s Hospital
CAA
Gousling Ranch
Tank En Route as Convicts Hold Five Guards in Massachusetts Prison
Massachusetts State Prison faces a tense standoff as four convicts, led by Theodore Teddy Green, hold five guards and six other inmates in solitary confinement. An Army M41 Walker Bulldog tank from Fort Devens is deployed, equipped to breach steel doors, with police ordering no compromise.
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Boston
Fort Devens
Charlestown State Prison
Otis M. Whitney
National Guard
Army Post
Massachusetts State Prison
John J. O’brien
George Fingold
O’brien
Fingold
Theodore Teddy Green
Boston Post
Green
Post
Toby
Walter H. Balbin
Hudson
Mass
Fritz O. Swenson
Joseph Flaherty
Legislators Hear Rosy Outlook for New Mexico in 1960
George Doolittle and eight other New Mexico industrial leaders told the 1955 Legislature that the state faces rapid growth and big opportunities alongside needs. They cited expanding oil and gas, rising unemployment concerns, drought driven agriculture, and a budding uranium industry. Projected population and labor growth imply 70,000 more jobs and 800 million dollars in new capital, with housing needs at 240 million and 26,000 new firms by 1960.
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Santa FE
New Mexiceo
George Doolittle
Albuquerque Lumber Co
New Mexico
Legislative Council Service
Doolittle
National Association of Manufacturers
California Storm Peters Out Today
A major winter storm that drenched southern California with rain and snow began to ease today though more showers and mountain snow are forecast. The system dumped 1.10 inches in Los Angeles for the day and 6.59 inches this season, with up to 53 inches in the mountains. One man died shoveling snow and many streets flooded as lightning struck two industrial plants and wind toppled trees.
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Los Angeles
California
Weather Bureau
Mobile chest X-ray units list locations in Chaves County
Mobile units offering chest X-rays in Chaves County will operate at Union Plaza, Union and West Second on Thursday and Friday from 8:30 to 11 a.m. and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. On Saturday they will be at Safeway Store, South Main, from 12 noon to 7 p.m.
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Chaves County
Union Plaza
Union and
West Second
Safeway Store
South Main
Ike and Knowland Confer on Parley Topic at Breakfast
Senate Republican leader Knowland met with President Eisenhower at the White House to discuss various problems including the case of American fliers imprisoned in Red China. Knowland declined to detail whether the airmen’s release was raised and said there was nothing unusual about their breakfast meeting.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Senate
Red
China
United Nations
Peiping
White House
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N
Automobile collision awards $320 in Levick vs Manzi case
An award of 320.75 dollars was ordered for William B. Levick in a district court judgment. The case arises from a vehicle collision in Virginia and Second streets at 2:20 a.m. on July 25 last year, with defendants including Nicholas J. Manzi.
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William B. Levick
District Court
Nicholas J. Manzi
Virginia
Hobbs Elects Ed Laughlin Mayor Succeeding Walter Linam
Ed Laughlin, a pioneering Hobbs businessman, has been elected mayor, succeeding Walter Linam. The post has rotated among city commissioners in recent years.
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Hobbs
Ed Laughlin
Walter Linam
Penasco Valley Okays Lines Bid in Rural System
The Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative approved an $187,000 bid from Irby Construction Company of Jackson Mississippi to install 382 miles of rural telephone lines. The REA must still approve the line and four central office building bids. Artesia contractor Milt Losee led the building bid at $13,675, $305 under rival Charles F. Brown. Six firms bid on the lines. four on the buildings.
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Artelia
Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative
Mississippi
Irby Construction Company
Jackson
Miss
REA
Washington
Artesia
Milt Losee
Charles F. Brown
200 Commie Warplanes Hit Islands
Formosa front in heavy air assault as more than 200 Communist planes bomb the Tachens and Yikiangshan. Nationalists claim near total conquest of the isles while U S officials report Tachens fall but warn of ongoing resistance. Dulles hints at UN cease fire talks provoking nationalist rejection.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Tachen Islands
Nationalist Defense Ministry
Yikiangshan
Reds
Red
Peiping
People’s Daily
Taiwan
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pentagon
U.S
State Dulles
United States
United Nations
The
China News
China
Dulles
Death of Dr Sam Sheppard's father foreshadows case turmoil
The elderly Dr Richard Sheppard died at Bay View Hospital from a respiratory ailment, as his son Dr Samuel Sheppard remains in a close watch at the county jail amid legal appeals. The elder Sheppard, founder of Bay View Hospital and former head of osteopathic groups, was a Methodist minister's son born in Fostoria Ohio.
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Cleveland
Samuel Sheppard
Bay View Hospital
Sam
Marilyn
Richard Sheppard
Sheppard
Richard N
Stephen
Richard
Bay View Osteopathic Hospital
Fostoria
Ohio
Paris
Ill
Ethel Leah Niles
Fayetteville
N. C
Upper Sandusky
National Osteopathic Hospital Assn
American College of Osteopathic Surgeons
Wonderful relief after teen breathes through nose again
In Chickasha Oklahoma Mil dred Taylor, 18, recalls stuffing pebbles up her nose at age three. A doctor removed five pebbles from her nose cavity and she praised the result saying she can finally breathe from the previously blocked side.
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Chickasha
Okla
Mildred Taylor
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