Utilities Bills In Legislature During the Week
In New Mexico the governor backs a three member utilities regulatory commission to oversee rates, mergers, franchises, and service changes. The bill requires public hearings, outlines funding from fees, and sets six year terms for commissioners with protections against conflicts of interest. Legislative debate includes a competing McCormick bill to ensure hearings and civil action for noncompliance, while the education and labor bills surface as other major issues for the session.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Miles
Corporation Commission
Don McCormick
Lea County
Greenwich matron testifies against chauffeur in assault case
Mrs Elea nor Strubing of Greenwich, a Bridgeport society figure, leaves the Bridgeport court house after testifying against her chauffeur Joseph Spell, accused of assaulting her and attempting to kill her.
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Eleanor Strubing
Greenwich
Colorado River Explorer James Fennemore Dies
Phoenix obit reports James Fennemore aged 92 died after accompanying Maj. John Wesley Powell as photographer on the 1871 pioneering Colorado River expedition. Fennemore helped document the river voyage and its exploration milestones.
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Phoenix
Ariz
James Fennemore
John Welsey Powell
Colorado River
Amendment Opens Way for Tabling Motion After Work Period
The remark suggests that while the action may not be final, it clears the path for a tabling motion once the current thirty day work span concludes, pending further debate and decisions by the body.
Hereford breeders to hold tenth annual sale in Roswell
Many eastern New Mexico cow persons attended the state association meeting weekend. Sessions were interesting but few legislative recommendations emerged as members appeared satisfied with current affairs. The highlight was the tenth annual sale of the New Mexico Hereford Breeders Association set for January 31 at the Roswell Fair Grounds.
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New Mexico
State Association
New Mexico Hereford Breeders Association
Roswell Fair Grounds
Agricultural committee led by Jesse I Funk yet to draft laws
Jesse I Funk chairs the shouse agricultural committee which has begun hearings on farm problems. No legislation has formed yet and none is planned without a need. The first half ends with anticipated introductions, while Funk a Cottonwood farmer near Artesia remains a busy leader prioritizing practical business over formal codes.
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Shouse
Jesse I. Funk
Funk
Cottonwood
Artesia
Racial makeup fuels New Mexico Legislature start
In the new legislature the Senate has seven Anglos in twenty four and the House thirty elected last year has twenty one Spanish American natives. Officials expect Anglo leadership to steer delegations. Also: a public utilities regulation bill backed by Governor Miles is due in the House, while a proposal to bar legislators from state jobs faces opposition. Albuquerque and Santa Fe announce school tax reapportionment based on average daily attendance.
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Senate
Miles
Santa FE
N. M
John Miles
New Mexico
Corporation Commission
George Armijo
Ralph Gallegos
Rio Arriba Democrat
Gallegos
Albuquerque
New Mexico City
The
New Mexico Educational Association
Citizens’ Taxpayers Committee
Hungary Signer Of Axis Pact Dies
Foreign minister Count Istvan Csaky aged 46 who linked Hungary to the Rome Berlin Tokyo Axis last November died at 2 34 a m after seven weeks illness. He had been in a coma since Saturday and was stricken in December 9 aboard a train in Yugoslavia after signing a Yugoslav Hungarian friendship pact. His wife Maria Chorinsky of Moravia was at his bedside. Csaky, Hungary’s youngest foreign minister, had led the portfolio since 1938 and was a strong proponent of closer ties with Germany.
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Budapest
Hungary
Istvan Csaky
Yugoslavia
Csaky
Maria Chorinsky
Moravia
Foreign Office
Czecho-Slovakia
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Maid of Cotton Alice Beasley Named Goodwill Rep
Alice Beasley of Memphis Tennessee wins the Maid of Cotton title from hundreds of contestants and will travel on a United States air tour as a goodwill representative for King Cotton.
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Maid of Cotton
Alice Beasley
Memphis, Tenn
United States
King Cotton
Italy on the Brink in Africa Crisis Amid British Drive
An informed London source notes German air staff movements into Italy, while Mussolini's regime faces collapse as Tobruk holds and Derna nears attack. British actions push Graziani’s forces back, with Eritrea Somaliland and Ethiopia rising against fascist rule. Hitler's full-scale aid deemed necessary to salvage the southern axis.
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Ively
Mussolini
Italy
Tobruk
Derna
Marshal Graziana
Eritrea
Somaliland
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Hitler
Axis
Fuehrer
Britain
Germany
Royal Air Force
Plow Woman Held in Slaying Near Portsmouth Farm
In Portsmouth Ohio region a woman, Goldie Pauley 30, is held in connection with the shotgun killing of her husband Lee 42 at their isolated farm. Pauley says she acted in self defense after he threatened her life and forced her and daughter Ollie 14 to pull a plow through clay. Ollie recalls fearing he would kill them.
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Portsmouth
Goldie Pauley
Rockefeller Volunteer Inducted Into U S Army
Winthrop Rockefeller, son of the Rockefeller family, is inducted at the selective service board in New York. He meets Charlie McCarthy of New York, with Rockefeller noted as the tallest among the volunteers and McCarthy as the smallest.
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U. S. Army
Selective Service Board
New York
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Charlie McCarthy
McCarthy
Crop Failures In The Dust Bowl
Crop failures in the dust bowl prompted notes on wheat varieties able to endure droughts and winds. Charles J. Whitfield of the Soil Conservation Service said SCS and Texas A&M scientists are jointly developing strains suited to high plains conditions across western Kansas eastern Colorado northeastern New Mexico the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma.
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Amarillo
Tex
Dust Bowl
Charles J. Whitfield
Soil Conservation Service Research Department
SCS
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Beverly Broun Named President of National Racing Board
Beverly Broun of Charleston West Virginia has been elected president of the National Association of Racing Commissioners, succeeding John Sloan of New York, marking a notable leadership change in American racing governance.
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Beverly Broun
Charleston
W. Va
National Association of Racing Commissioners
John Sloan
New York
Transmission Lines To Bids
The Federal Reclamation Bureau will open bids February 25 at El Paso on 115 kilo volt transmission lines from Elephant Butte dam to Deming New Mexico and from Deming to Central New Mexico. The combined route would span 118 miles.
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Denver
Federal Reclamation Bureau
el Paso
Texas
Elephant Butte Dam
Deming
N. M
Central, N. M
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