U N Security Council Debates Formosa Cease Fire Invite
Sir Leslie Knox Munro urged inviting Red China to send a representative to the U N to take part in Formosan cease fire talks. The council rejected a Soviet demand to bar Nationalist China by a 10 to 1 vote, then opened a procedural agenda discussion.
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United Nations
N.Y
Leslie Knox Munro
New Zealand
U.N. Security Council
Red China
Soviet Union
China
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Communists Fire on Tachens as U S Fleet Discusses Evacuation
Communist guns on captured Yikiangshan fired toward the Tachens as the U S 7th Fleet weighed orders to evacuate the Tachens north of Formosa. Navy officials and Chinese Nationalists reported shells landing in the sea and planned redeployments around Quemoy and Matsu.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Yikiangshan
Defense Ministry
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Tachen Islands
U.S. Navy
Pacific
Quemoy
7Th Fleet
Adm
Felix B. Stump
U. S. Pacific
Stump
Pearl Harbor
Taipei
Tokyo
China News
Matsu
Amoy
Foochow
Lower Tachen Island
Yikiangshan Island
Tachen Island
Upper Tachen Island
Tateing Island
New Zealand
Peiping
Army secretary warns on small wars in House hearing
Secretary Stevens told the House Armed Services Committee the Army must guard against small wars and creeping expansion amid reduced manpower and funds. He noted no specific danger area and cited a planned Army strength drop to 1,027,000 by June 1956 and spending cuts from 16.2 to 8.9 billion dollars.
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Washington (Ap
Stevens
House Armed Services Committee
Matthew B. Ridgway
United States
Formosa
Ridgway
Department of Pa
Defense Department
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Eisenhower
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sparkman
D-Ala
Douglas
D-Ill
Far East
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Senate Leaders Back President on China Peace Efforts
Senator Mansfield urges Congress to trust President Eisenhower to secure peace with the United Nations role in ending hostilities between Nationalists and Communists in Formosa. Douglas supports eventual two Chinas in the UN, while others push peaceful talks from strength, and Knowland warns against territorial concessions. Humphrey proposes Senate action favoring a UN cease-fire.
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Washington
Sen
Mansfield
D-Mont
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
United Nations
Formosa
U. N
Red
China
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
China Problem.’’ Douglas
New York University School of Law
George
D-Ga
NBC
Eastland
D-Miss
Knowland
R-Calif
Chiang Kai-shek
Quemoy
Matsu
U.S
Chiang
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Mrs. A B Elliott Former Raton Hospital Official Dies
Funeral services in the Methodist Church will be held at 2 30 p m for Mrs A B Elliott 60 wife of Dr C B Elliott longtime Raton physician She died in a hospital late Saturday after a long illness former superintendent of the New Mexico Miners Hospital here
Free Chest X-Ray Schedule For Roswell Area Units
The State Health Department announces free chest X-rays for residents over 15. Unit I will operate Tuesday at Farmers Market on E Second St from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at New Mexico Military Institute from 2 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Unit II is in front of The First National Bank daily Tuesday to Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. A separate unit in the trailer near the bank offers a free Wasserman blood test.
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State Health Department
Chaves County
First National Bank of Roswell
State County Health Department
First National Bank
Wasserman
Weather Summary United States Weather Bureau Reading
A three hour interval weather log shows highs and lows with a 70 degree high and 36 degree low. Precipitation none in the last 24 hours. Month to date and year to date totals remain 0.29. Sunrise 6 55 and sunset 5 28. Forecast calls for considerable cloudiness through Tuesday with increasing wind and cooler temperatures.
Youth Week Banquet Date Is Changed
Youth Week banquet postponed from tonight to Thursday at 6 30 p m at the Woman's Club announced by Sylvia Blea Youth Week chairman due to Golden Gloves fights tonight Tuesday and Wednesday
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Sylvia Blea
Youth Week
Miss Blea
Woman's Club
Electronic Eye to Give Alarm at Alaska Radar Station
A western Alaska radar outpost tops a snowbound mountain with a giant fiberglass bubble housing a rotating antenna. Inside a dark room, a blue light traces aircraft while operators relay sightings to a distant control center for national alert readiness.
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Alaska
United States
Northland
Bering Sea
Bering Strait
America
Artesia Man Named To Head District in 20-30 Election
Gail Ray of Artesia elected district lieutenant governor at the 20 30 club state convention in Artesia. Ray succeeds Loren Ford of Santa Fe and has led his Artesia chapter through five years in the organization. Albuquerque will host the next state convention June 17 19 and Santa Fe hosts an international convention in September.
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Artesia
Gail Ray
Artesia Club
Ray
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Loren Ford
Veterans Memorial Building
Paul Scott
van Dyke
Coots Authorized on California Farmlands to Fight Crop Damage
California authorizes taking coots on agricultural lands in 28 counties to curb crop depredations. Birds may not be sold and must be used for food. only on lands suffering damage may they be taken.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Parents Whisk 6 Year Old Truck Driver Homeward
In Galveston Texas two policemen found a stalled truck with no visible driver. A tuft of hair showed a 6 year old boy had climbed into the parked vehicle and driven away because he was tired of walking. His parents quickly took him home.
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Galveston
Tex
700 Women To March In Polio Event
Nearly 700 women will take part in the annual Mothers March for Polio tonight from 7 to 8. Mrs. George G Hansen chairs. residents are urged to light porch lamps to welcome marchers collecting funds for the March of Dimes. George G Duke Hansen notes 74,000 victims need ongoing care and support for the new Salk vaccine rollout in 1955.
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George G. Hansen
George G. “Duke” Hansen
Chaves County
George Hansen
S. Sycamore Ave
Roswell
N.M
Chavles County
March of Dimes
J. W. Marberry
E. M. Praisner
Seventh St
Eisenhower Outlines Broad Health Plan and Aid
President Eisenhower asked Congress for a broad health program including a federal reinsurance service to back private plans and extend coverage to farm and low income families. He urged grants for states to fight delinquency, smog, water pollution, nurse training, mental health projects, and mortgage insurance for new clinics and hospitals.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
America
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Hobby
United States
Hero Nadine Salcido Paralyzed by Car Crash
Three year old Nadine Salcido was in St. Marys Hospital with a broken hip after being struck by a 1951 Chevrolet sedan at 11 35 am yesterday on South Holland Avenue near her home 509 8 S Holland Ave. Cecil W. McCann 19 driver was cited for reckless driving. The child was knocked 33 feet then dragged 58 feet as the car skidded 91 feet before stopping. Police report says she was resting easy.
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Nadine Salcido
St. Mary’s Hospital
South Holland
S. Holland Ave
Holland
Cecil W. McCann
Box 178
Route 1
City School Board Election Set for Tomorrow
Election for one school board member tomorrow with two candidates Byron B White and J C Burkhead. Polls open 8 a m to 7 p m. South side voters use Missouri Avenue School north side use Washington Elementary. Roswell District voters eligible. Last election in 1953 drew about 260 voters.
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Byron B. White
J. C. Burkhead
Second Street
Missouri Avenue
Washington
Roswell
Benson Sees Cotton Exports Rising This Year
Secretary Benson says cotton exports could rise about 20 percent with the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act aiding foreign sales. He cites planned deals totaling 500000 bales in currency exchanges under the program and ongoing talks with Yugoslavia Japan and other nations to expand sales beyond normal transactions.
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Houston
Benson
Bensonr
National Cotton Council
A. L. Durand
Hobart
Okla
Yugoslavia
Japan
Congress
Commodity Credit Corp
America
Hutchins Sentenced 1 to 10 Years in Slaying Case
James William Hutchins, a 25 year old airman, was convicted of manslaughter in the April death of Bruce Weibel, a 32 year old Dallas truck driver. The jury accepted self defense claims and he faces a one to ten year term. Hutchins fled his post to be with his wife and was arrested in Oklahoma after the slaying.
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Gallup
James William Hutchins
Hutchins
Dallas
Bruce Weibel
Here
Weibel
Henry Glasscock
Sallisaw
Okla
New Mexico
Major Battle Looms in State Senate Over Liquor Law
Santa Fe reports a fiery fight anticipated in the Senate as Sen. John P. Cusack leads a repeal of the fair trades liquor law to eliminate minimum markups on whisky. Supporters predict a clash with Sen. Henry Eager to block the measure.
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Senate
Santa FE
John P.cusack
R-Chaves
Public and Military Affairs Committee
Henry Eager
Quay
Eager
T. E. Lusk
D-Eddy
Robert S. Palmer
D-Luna
R. A. Chavez
R-Guadalupe
Cusack
Lusk
Roswell Socials Open with Wick ershaw and Chaves
Social notes from Roswell highlight appearances by Mrs Charles Wick ershaw and Mr and Mrs Reginald Chaves among local gatherings and introductions in the community listings.
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Charles Wickershaw
Reginald Chaves
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Army
Sen. Mansfield
Estelle Gardner
New York
Serge Rubinstein
Rubinstein
Fifth Avenue
Miss Gardner
Rubenstein
Farmers Market
E. Second St
New Mexico Military Institute
UNIT
United States Weather Bureau
City School Board
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