United Roswell Ticket heads for city elections
Mayoral candidate Jerry Smith announced his run for Roswell's March 5 general elections leading a slate including incumbents Sterling Grant and Tom Stephens. Other nominees are Bob Cress and Bob Wafful with questions about second ward and municipal judge slots. Incumbent judge Earl Tankersley also states he will seek office. Smith, head of Smith Machinery and ENM Fair Board member, cites growth and flood-control needs as key issues.
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Louis Davies
United Roswell
Roswell
Jerry Smith
Smith
Sterling R. Grant
Tom P. Stephens
Robert H
Bob” Cress
Robert “Bob” Wafful
Jim Lilley
William J. Schnedar
William G. McCoy
Earl G. Tankersley
the Daily Record
Tankersley
James R. Webb Jr
Albuquerque
Smith Machinery Co., Inc
New Mexico Military Institute
Eastern New Mexico State Fair Board
Chaves County
William F. Brainerd
County Flood Commission
Roswell candidates sign nominating petitions and city issues discussed
Democratic petition signing drew Secretary of State Betty Fiorina and Roswell figures. Anthony J. Fiorina seeks public lands post while Drew Cloud hints he will oppose legalized gambling in a governor bid. City bond and sewer plans cite separate projects with East Second Street widening. Local council hopefuls Wafful and Cress emphasize resident wards and public concerns include food prices and gasoline. International brief items note New Mexico Court of Appeals overturning a heroin sale conviction, an Alamagordo man. Also reports of Egypt snowstorm, a Colombian plane hijack, Argentina terrorism response, and Middle East oil deliveries.
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Betty Fiorina
New Mexico State Racing Commission
Drew Cloud
Fiorina
Anthony J. Fiorina
Commissioner of Public Lands
Cloud
East Second Street
State Highway Department
Spring River
Roswell
Smith
Wafful
Cress
Oil embargo lift signals progress from Mideast talks
Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott said the strongest blockade to lifting the oil embargo was removed by the Israel Egypt agreement. He hoped for constructive progress between Israel and Syria and noted no secret guarantees. Kissinger and Nixon were praised by bipartisan leaders after a briefing on 11 days of diplomacy.
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Washington
Senate
Hugh Scott
White House
Henry Kissinger
Pennsylvania
Israel
Syria
Kissinger
Nixon
Scott
United States
Egypt
Mideast
Mike Mansfield
Montana
George H. Mahon
D-Tex
Mahon
Vietnamese seek UN action after Paracels defeat
South Vietnam failed to win U.S. intervention as 7th Fleet planes conducted reconnaissance over Paracels at Saigon’s request. A missing civilian, reportedly a former U.S. Marine officer, is linked to the island battle won by Chinese forces, with Saigon appealing to the UN Security Council and reporting Vietnamese casualties and ship losses amid ongoing regional fighting.
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Associated Press
Saigon
United States 7Th Fleet
Paracel Islands
U.S
China
Paracels
United Nations Security Council
Vuong van Bac
Kurt Waldheim
Nguyen Huu Chi
South Vietnam
U.N
New York
Gonzalo Facio
Costa Rica
Chinese Foreign Ministry
South China Sea
le ‘Trung Hien
Hien
da Nang
Hainan
Segura quadruplets moved to hospital for care
Four Segura babies born today were loaded in isolette carriers and taken by ambulance to Artesia General Hospital. Kenneth Bridge, director of patient services at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, supervised the transfer. Mrs. Bridge is the attending nurse. Three babies remain in Artesia General. the fourth will go home with Mr. and Mrs. Florencio Segura of Artesia.
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Segura
Artesia General Hospital
Kenneth Bridge
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Bridge
Florencio Segura
Artesia
Mountain lion kills boy near Arroyo Seco New Mexico
Kenneth Clark Nolan, 6, was killed while hiking with his stepsister near Arroyo Seco on a ridge two miles from home. The father shot the lion and a neighbor, James Meyer, killed it. The 40 to 50 pound cub was sent for rabies testing at the University of New Mexico lab.
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Arroyo Seco
N.M
Kenneth Clark Nolan
James Meyer
David Cordry
Charles Anaya
David Langston Cordry
Nolan
Meyer
University of New Mexico Public Health Laboratory
Albuquerque
New Mexico
U.S. 285
Espanola
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Bob Cress
Tom Stephens
Jerry N. Smith
Bob Wafful
Heads United Ticket
Santa Fe, N.M
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Alamogordo
Manuel Coyazo
Otero County
Cairo
Alexandria
Cali
Colombia
Cuba
Bogota
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Beirut
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
San Francisco
Mekong
Vinh Long
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
State Game Department
George Merrill
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