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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1956
Page
2
A 1956 note explains open houses differ from housewarmings by region. In the South a housewarming is often a surprise hosted by neighbors. in the North the hosts host and open houses may accompany large weddings or anniversaries.
Amy Vanderbilt author of the top etiquette book releases a new booklet titled Weddings No 201 priced at 25 cents. For copies send requests to Miss Amy Vanderbilt care of this newspaper P O Box 503 Radio City Station New York NY 19.
Baking instructions for Florence's Cookies with cream cheese and butter dough. Includes ingredients such as cream cheese butter vanilla flour salt sugar and cinnamon with jelly centers and a bake at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes yielding about 30 cookies.
Denver judge dissolves a 15 year marriage after Marion Ellsworth Woodmansee testifies her husband forced her to live in a cave with snakes. She says snakes crawled over the cupboard and over the baby, wrecking her nerves.
In Sandimas California State Polytechnic College a sheep valued at 25 dollars disappeared from its barn. Superintendent James Oxley told sheriff's deputies the animal was missing and the sign warned no sheep raising class today.
Wednesday events include Our Lady's Sociality at 9:30 a.m. and Roswell Woman's Club program on Safety by John L. Fowler. Other meetings include Immanuel Lutheran Missionary League, Playhouses'56, Graduate Nurses, Story League, D A R, Beta Sigma Phi, Welcome Wagon lunch, American Auxiliary, Licensed Practical Nurse Association, Berrendo Women's Club, Roswell Osteopathic Hospital Guild, and Friday Valentine exchanges. Saturday features a bake sale at Farr's and a Valentine dance for Junior High students.
A 1954 report shows Americans used about 575 million toothpaste tubes, roughly three per person, highlighting growing consumer toothpaste demand and changing dental care habits.
The department faces a maximum 5 percent annual reduction rule and uses a flexible system for price supports at 75 to 90 percent of parity. Cotton reaches full transition with old parity at 35.09 cents per pound, new price about 1 cent lower. Wheat, corn, and peanuts cannot fully transition in one year due to large gaps between new and old standards.
Old parity prices for wheat corn and peanuts are shown with new effective values and projected futures. Wheat drops 5 percent to 2.375 dollars per bushel, with a further 5 percent cut expected next year. 1956 wheat support is set at 1.81 per bushel. Corn parity falls to 1.73 now, could reach 1.60 if fully implemented. peanuts transition parity about 12.92 cents per pound, with 11 cents possible if the new formula takes full effect. No announcements yet for cotton or peanuts?
The people of Chaves County can expect continued prompt efficient and courteous service. Jones, a native of New Mexico born on a ranch 62 miles east, has lived in the state since infancy and now serves as sheriff with Mrs. Jones, Mil dred James Robertson, as his wife. They are parents to Carlan Elaine 16, Diana Carol 13, and Johnny Carroll 9.
Two injured men including Noyes were flown to Nome after eight CAP planes and eight military craft scoured the biting Alaskan tundra for three days. The crash occurred amid 10 degree below zero night temperatures with little hope for survival.
Noyes and Siegwart, on a return flight to Shishmaref from here, inspect ANG facilities in the Bering Strait coastal region. Noyes, a Juneau resident and former Army commander of the ANG since 1933, leads the group with three other men and their families nearby.
New Mexico A&M moved ahead with four minutes left to secure a 57 48 non conference victory over Santa Barbara. Paul Plodzinski led A&M with 15 points while Tom Miller topped Santa Barbara with 19 points.
About 100000 acres in Cha ves County will be sprayed using B-17 type planes as part of a coordinated grasshopper suppression effort. Woodburn notes success hinges on rapid, cooperative action by ranchers and timing to target hatch periods. New Mexico faces a high grasshopper threat per the Agriculture Department early 1955 forecast.
The 1956 forecast predicts grasshopper outbreaks on over 4 million rangeland acres across 16 states led by New Mexico and Arizona with others including California Colorado Idaho Kansas Montana Nebraska Nevada Wyoming Oklahoma Oregon Texas Utah Washington and Missouri. About 100000 acres of range in six states may need Mormon cricket treatment next year.
Hosmer convened reporters to display Chinle shale and its role as a major ingredient for canyon walls along the Glen Canyon reservoir site on the San Juan and Colorado rivers. He showed the shale dissolving into mud within five minutes when placed in water.
Hosmer warned a grand scale project could turn the Glen Canyon reservoir into a billion-dollar mud puddle with collapses in the upper Colorado project. Reclamation Bureau officials counter that Chinle shale poses little threat, noting ancient erosion shows no evidence of large slides blocking the canal.
The statement notes the damsite forms about 700 feet below the river bed. It compares it with a northeast Arizona reservoir built in similar shale and operating safely for 10 to 15 years.
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