Apportionment Bill Introduced In Legislature
In Santa Fe New Mexico on January 24, lawmakers studied a reapportionment bill to see how counties would be affected and whether the new line-up would favor certain areas. Rep. TUSKA Walker introduced the House measure aiming for direct county representation, with McKinley Taos Valencia unaffected and shoestring districts dropping from 28 to 10. The bill maintains 24 senate seats and 49 House seats while cutting senate districts from 24 to 23.
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Santa FE
N. M
Tuska Walker
D-Roosevelt
McKinley
Taos
Valencia
House
San Miguel
Guadalupe
Senate
Move to Control Heaters in Camps SANTA FE Move to Control Heaters in Camps
The New Mexico state moved to regulate open gas heaters in tourist camps and roaming houses after seven deaths this year. Paul Fox announced rules enforcing ventilation, rigid connections, warning signs, pilot shutoff, prohibition of gas plates and cooking units as heat sources, and mandatory inspections with 30 day notices for violations.
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Santa FE
N. M
Paul Fox
State Board of Health
Fatal Accident Claims 17 Year Old Maurice Bradley
Maurice Bradley 17 son of D A and Mrs D A Bradley of Cottonwood died at Artesia hospital at 10 33 after a fall from a horse last Sunday. Funeral services will be at Hagerman Presbyterian Church tomorrow at two with Dr LeRoy Thompson officiating burial in Hagerman Mason cemetery. Surviving are his parents two brothers Sam Bradley of Roswell C A Bradley of Carlsbad and sister Mrs Owen Phillips of Roswell. Mason funeral home of Hagerman in charge of arrangements.
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Maurice Bradley
D. A. Bradley
Cottonwood
Artesia
Hagerman
Hagerman Presbyterian Church
LeRoy Thompson
Presbyterian Church
Roswell
Masonic Cemetery
Maurice
Sam Bradley
C. A. Bradley
Carlsbad
Owen Phillips
Mason Funeral Home
Pagerman
Tenth Annual Hereford Sale Set For Jan 31
The Eastern New Mexico Hereford Breeders' Association schedules its 10th annual sale at the fair grounds heat ed pavilion on January 31. Forty five bulls and 15 heifers, a record consignment of 60 purebreds, will be offered by Roswell breeders and others from Lovington Portales Clovis Elida Glencoe and Carlsbad with Earl Garten as auctioneer and John Easley as sale manager.
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Eastern
Teaching Spanish In The Public Schools In New Mexico
In Santa Fe on January 24 Representative R E Daughtry urged full support for a bill to require Spanish in New Mexico grade schools. He called it a crime to miss the chance to learn Spanish and suggested broadening the measure to cover all grades and high school. The bill was introduced in the senate by Ralph Gallegos and Joe Montoya.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
R. E. Daughtry
Senate
Ralph Gallegos
Rio Arriba
Joe Montoya
D Sandoval
Wool Growers Name 1942 Salt Lake Meeting Hosts
Spokane dispatch reports delegates of the National Woolgrowers Association elect to convene in Salt Lake City for the 1942 meeting. C B Wardlaw of Del Rio Texas is re elected president with Pauly Winter and others as officers. A closing session resolution blasts critics claiming wool prices are out of line while defending wartime price stability.
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Spokane
Wash
Salt Lake City
National
Woolgrowers Association
Utah
C. B. Wardlaw
del Rio
Tex
Sylvan J. Pauly
Deer Lodge
Mont
G. N. Winter
Craige
Cole
Drumheller
Walla Walla
F. R. Marshall
Washington
Closed Session To Hear Army And Navy Leaders
In Washington on January 24 the house foreign affairs committee voted to compel top army navy and air corps officers to testify in secret rather than at public sessions over the administration's aid-to-Britain bill. The panel split over secrecy versus publicity as chairman Bloom and minority spokesman Fish clashed, with Fish denouncing a gag rule preventing him from moving for military testimony.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
Army
Navy
Air Corps
Democratic
Republican Committee
Bloom
P-Ny
Rep
Fish
R-Ny
Youth Pinned Under Tractor Not Seriously Injured
Lester Wickware a 20 year old enrollee of CC C C Camm was trapped under a tractor for about an hour at a gravel pit 15 miles north of Roswell. He was rushed to St Marys hospital on hydraulic jacks and reported to be progressing well with no broken bones or internal injuries.
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Lester Wickware
Roswell
St. Mary’s Hospital
Co. Cc. C
Why the Bloody Revolt Has Taken Place in Rumania
By Dewitt MacKenzie the bloody Rumanian revolt appears driven by youthful extremists in the Iron Guard and notorious Communists resentful of General Antonescu. Discontent with non conservative military rule and opposition to the Nazi occupation mix with war weariness and economic concerns shaping the unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumania
Iron Guard
Antonescu
German Praise For Lindbergh Courage in US deposition praised
Berlin reports German sources lauded Charles Lindbergh for his courage before a U S house committee. They called his stand exemplary amid what they termed moral terrorism by interventionists and noted few others in the United States might act as bravely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Charles Lindbergh
United States
House
Lindbergh
Mescalero Road Reopened After Wet Repairs
Mescalero Road on U S Highway 70 between Roswell and Tularosa reopened after a week of closure due to excess moisture. The district highway office said the road is in good shape and will receive more gravel by next Monday to prevent further moisture-related trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mescalero
Roswell
Tularosa
District Highway Office
Carrizozo
Bloodworth Speaks At Artesia Chamber Dinner
L P Bloodworth manager of the El Paso Chamber spoke at the Artesia Chamber of Commerce annual meeting urging citizen responsibility to make democracy work. He substituted for Hollis Thompson of American Airlines as a capacity crowd of 150 listened at the Artesia hotel root garden with visitors from Roswell Lake Arthur Carlsbad Elk Mayhill and Alamogordo. Roswell officials attended including Mayor Thomas J. Hall Ross Malone Jr Col D C Pearson Ed J. Williams and Claude Simpson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
L. P. Bloodworth
el Paso Chamber of Commerce
Artesia
Neil Watson
Charles Morgan
Artesia Chamber of Commerce
Roswell
Lake Arthur
Carlsbad
Elk
Mayhill
Alamogordo
Thomas J. Hall
Ross Malone, Jr
Col. D. C. Pearson
Ed J. Williams
Claude Simpson
Dye Heads State Baptist Pastors Conference Leader
The Rev. Harold Dye of Las Cruces leads the New Mexico Baptist Pastors Conference after a vote by 125 clergy from New Mexico and west Texas in Portales. Other officers named include Rev. J. T. Barbee of Clovis as vice president and Rev. P. G. Woodruff of Portales as secretary treasurer.
Building Permits Issued For Local Homes And Roof Work
R W Fall plans a 3 room adobe house at 604 N Richardson costing 1800 dollars. Kerland Bates to build a 4 room adobe house at 1814 N Maryland for 200 dollars. Roswell Auto Co to reroof a property for 340 dollars.
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R. W. Fall
N. Richardson
Kerland Bates
Maryland
Roswell Auto Co
President May Go To Meet British Ambassador Today
President Roosevelt hinted he may travel to Annapolis to meet Lord Halifax as the 35,000 ton battleship King George V nears U S shores with the new ambassador aboard. Officials cited secrecy to protect lives while Baltimore shipping sources placed the ship off Chesapeake Bay this afternoon. Roosevelt also said he spoke with John G Winant, a former Republican governor of New Hampshire, who has been mentioned for a post.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Annapolis
Lord Halifax
London
United States
Halifax
Lord and Lady Halifax
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
John G. Winant
New Hampshire
Fire at Hot Springs Hospital Damages Basement
In Hot Springs New Mexico on January 24 a fuel oil basement fire at a private Hot Springs hospital was confined to the basement with smoke filling the building. Seven patients were wrapped in blankets and rushed to cars then returned to bed after firefighters extinguished the flames. Damage was about 1000 dollars.
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Hot Springs
N. M
Hot Springs Hospital
Ban On Liquor At N. M. Air Base
City and county authorities at the request of the war department plan a two mile liquor ban zone around the new army air corps base in Albuquerque. Major A D Smith says the goal is to prevent openings of dives as about four thousand five hundred men will be stationed there.
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Albuquerque
N. M
War Department
Army Air Corps
A. D. Smith
Plead Not Guilty In Hit and Run Case
Roy Odell and Dean Breffle pleaded not guilty before Judge Pat ONeill to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. No preliminary hearing date set. The men, arrested in Las Cruces at the request of local sheriff and state police, were returned to Roswell yesterday. They are accused of failing to stop after their truck struck a car near Hagerman on January 17, injuring Artesia residents Jack Kennedy and Jack Hastie. Odell resides in Hot Springs and Breffle in Radium Springs, New Mexico.
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Roy Odell
Dean Breffle
Pat O'Neill
J. P
Hagerman
Jack Kennedy
Jack Hastie
Artesia
O'Dell
Hot Springs
N. M
Breffle
Radium Springs
Las Cruces
Sheriff's Department
State Police
Roswell
Woodmen of the World Convene Head Camp in Carlsbad
New Mexico and Arizona Woodmen of the World units plan a head camp convention in Carlsbad on March 31 and April 1. Head consul G. E. McDonald says national officers will attend, including president D. E. Bradshaw and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Woodmen of the World
New Mexico
Arizona
Carlsbad
G. E. McDonald
McDonald
D. E. Bradshaw
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Mrs. Smith Improves After Auto Crash Near Tucumcari
Mrs. C. Ray Smith wife of a Santa Fe attorney was reported to be satisfactorily improving today after a ten day old automobile accident west of Tucumcari N M Her husband and Howard Mitchell of Albuquerque also received minor injuries when the car overturned Albuquerque man injured minor injuries sustained in the crash near Tucumcari Santa Fe attorney spouse involved injured in crash near west of town.
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Tucumcari
N. M
C. Ray Smith
Santa Fe
Here
Howard Mitchell
Albuquerque
Germans and Romanians seize Bucharest amid revolt
Dispatches report Iron Guard violence during four days of civil strife in Bucharest and other Romanian cities. German and Romanian troops patrolled streets as hospitals filled and deaths mounted. authorities pledge swift trials and punishment for Iron Guard leaders and rebels.
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Associated Press
Bucharest
Balkan
J. Webb Benton
Fort Myer
U. S
Legation
Britain
Tobruk
Africa
England
Balkans
Horia Sima
Iron Guard
Ion Antonescu
Sima
Rumania
Council of Ministers
Antonescu
Two Scandinavian Youths Tell Story Of Adventures
Two youths recount a seafaring life with Henning Rudolf Calberg 18 from Copenhagen and Wayne Ellisen from Tonsberg Norway. Ellisen, a marine engineer, has sailed worldwide five times and speaks six languages. Calberg has traveled twice and speaks six. Ellisen’s ship Primero docked at Trelleborg Sweden in April 1940 during a two month vacation.
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Henning Rudolf Calberg
Copenhagen
Denmark
Wayne Ellisen
Tonsbverg
Norway
Roswell
Ellison
Mdétorman
Calberg
Calbere
Ellisen
Primero
Trelleborg
Sweden
Weather conditions forecast across the United States
The report notes widespread precipitation Friday from the Pacific to the Atlantic, mainly snow in the north and heavy rain in Tennessee and the southern Pacific coast. Temperatures fall sharply in New England and the northern plateau, with Montana and parts of Canada seeing extreme cold. Cloudy to partly cloudy conditions expected elsewhere with no large temperature changes in 36 hours. Cleve Hallenbeck.
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Pacific
Atlantic
Tennessee
South Pacific
Mountain States
Upper
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
United States
New England
Plateau
Montana
Canada
New Mexico
Texas
Pecos Valley
Roswell
Cleve Hallenbeck
Marital Licenses Issued in New Mexico Towns
Clyde Everett Tullis and Juanita Delores Barrett of Weed, Jimmie Raglin and Inez Mullins of Roswell, and Clifton Wilson with Tuesetta Lewis of Roswell obtained marriage licenses.
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Clyde Everett Tullis
Juanita Delores Barrett
Weed
N. M
Jimmie Raglin
Inez Mullins
Roswell
Clifton Wilson
Tuesetta Lewis
Dr Bennett Speaks At Lions Meeting In Hobbs
Dr Bennett of Hobbs spoke at the Lions Club here last night on Lea county oil fields and El Paso Natural Gas Co development. New members R D Little and Floyd Ikard were welcomed. Curtis Hill vice president presided in Rusty Etz’s absence.
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Dr. Bennett
Hobbs
Lions
Lea County
el Paso Natural Gas Co
R. D. Little
Floyd Ikard
Curtis Hill
Rusty” Etz
Direct Hit Rent Ad Sparks Quick Letting
E G Minton of Equitable Building & Loan places a rent ad in Record classifieds and, on the second issue, the house is rented. He notes the ad produced immediate inquiries and rentals, and says sometimes no immediate response means no demand.
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E. G. Minton
Equitable Building & Loan
Little Classified
Mr. Minton
Classified
Classified Confidence From Mr. Minton
The speaker thanks Mr. Minton and affirms that Record classified consistently delivers the message, underscoring trust in the newspaper’s classified section as a dependable channel for notices and ads.
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Mr. Minton
Classified
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Chaves County
A. D. Jones
Pres
Hereford Breeders’ Assn
Salt Lake
Secret Service
Capitol
Mrs. Roosevelt
Dewitt MacKenzie
Mescalero Road
Bloodworth
Artesia C. of C
Dye
N. M. Air Base
Mrs. Smith
Ethiopia
Lions Meeting
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