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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1935
Page
7
The page shows the Roswell Daily Record publishing details from May 19 1903 including publication office addresses editors and staff labels for advertising society and city editors and subscription pricing. It notes Second Class Mail Matter under federal act and AP news rights and New Mexico Newspaper Association membership.
The 1935 discussion questions a constitutional amendment to restore a four-year term for elective officers, arguing four years would reduce election turmoil and expense while acknowledging two-year terms keep officials accountable. Tax increases and funding strains loom as lawmakers seek new revenue sources.
Editor cites Observer note on Park to Park Highway idea and memory of a long-sought North South connection. He recalls a Gallup to Shiprock road built 32 years ago with funds diverted from Navajo, and critiques exclusions like the rola costa and sand-hill stretch near the Texas line through Kea and Roosevelt counties.
A tangled plot centers on Rhoda Cornboise arranged to marry Maj. Ralph Stornack while secretly loving Colin Briarey, a prisoner serving a twenty year term for a murder in London. Jack Caermaen helps Colin escape, Rhoda elopes with him, and Stornack pursues both truth and control as betrayals unfold amid a web of motive, memory, and manipulation.
A Sacramento news column discusses land trading questions involving state forests and 38,000,000 B. W. of merchantable timber in the Sacramento mountains. Land Commissioner Vesely opposes the Harvey land swap without equal value and timber supervision. It warns of potential denudation and water impact, urges careful action to prevent needless destruction, and notes a New Mexico Pharmaceutical Association meeting in Clovis on May 22 across the wider context.
A lively town meeting of three to four hundred residents debates a corporate tax and a 2 percent sales tax on utilities. The piece questions exemption for railroads and utilities and nods to Judge A S Pateman on taxes. It mentions January 30 bill deadlines and a $65000 bond issue by the American Legion at Clovis, plus school funding critiques, veterans councils, and partisan politics.
The phrase asserts that burdens should fall most lightly on those with the least ability to pay. It frames tax or policy equity by prioritizing relief for low income groups and suggests proportionality in financial obligations.
The Rev Roy L Smith cautions that some men seek praise, not genuine counsel, friendship for influence, help to be used, and prayers from a goodwill facade. This brief devotional fragment critiques self serving motives behind requests for support.
Public enemy Robert Mais of the Tri State Gang awaits execution in Virginia while his sweetheart Mariece Keever 34 is jailed in Philadelphia on 15000 bail by federal authorities pending trial on aiding Mais.
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