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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 2011
Page
1
During World War I the New York Navy Yard completed the USS New Mexico in 18 months. The 624 foot battleship symbolizes wartime industrial effort and naval expansion.
Crime brief summary noting committee assignments evening out and wildlife refuge duck banding begins. An accused murderer denies bond reduction while Crime Stoppers seeks information on a criminal damage case and a man is arrested.
Venus Williams, in her 251st Grand Slam appearance, was forced to retire from a match in Melbourne leaving Williams unable to finish the rally as the injury sidelined her early in the bout.
In the early session phase Roswell lawmakers introduced five bills and one joint resolution while a senator filed a bill. Representative Dennis Kintigh proposed HB 19 to cut film subsidies from 25 to 15 percent and HB 20 to raise second degree murder penalties. HB 18 would boost legislator retirement contributions to 600 annually, and HJR 2 would set term limits for officials. Nora Espinoza backed HB 99 to permit anesthesiologist assistants to practice statewide beyond medical schools.
The caravan returns Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from Tucson to Houston where she will begin rehabilitation after being shot in the head. Crowds cheered as the motorcade passed and doctors reported a flawless 930 mile transfer to the intensive care unit.
The Roswell Museum debuts Resonance and Wonder Curatorial Reflections a seven member curator group organizing themes from the vault. Vignettes by Caroline Brooks Andrew John Cecil Ellen Moore Stacie Petersen Mike Van Raes Laurie Rufe and Candace Jordan Russell explore space landscape texture block printing and immigrant pilgrim themes. Visitors can engage in interactive wall activities and create poems or drawings to take home.
Roswell native Sherry Mumford serves as director of the United Way of Chaves County. She describes how funds support abused children, domestic violence victims, education, and community services. A 1976 Roswell High School graduate, she recalls growing up on a grandfather's cotton farm and working Roswell cotton fields in earlier decades.
Mumford recalls growing up in Roswell with harsh heat and hard farm labor in cotton rows. She describes finding purpose through family support, low wages, and later her work with the Roswell Refuge. Her life reflects resilience after a childhood without both parents and a later divorce, shaping her charitable mission.
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