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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1941
Page
11
Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll star in Ce cil DeMille's stirring drama North West Mounted Police opening today at Pecos Theatre. The feature promises frontier action and romance as the lead pair face mounting tensions and peril on the Canadian frontier.
Amateur rodeos in Taos and Cimarron pivot to open ground events this Fourth of July season. The shift weakens professional union influence, likely slowing times but widening access and earnings as Taos Lions rent a refurbished machine for revenue. Taos pack plans other rentals.
After heavy rainfall and floods, the highway department cannot complete promised extensions. Most roads suffer some damage, with several costly bridges needing immediate rebuilding. A total of about one million dollars may be required to restore normal conditions, prioritizing bridge replacements and salvage of damaged stretches before new construction. Public patience is expected as the situation is viewed as unavoidable.
The Lions Club at Taos is praised for securing a steady income source to cover most of the organization's expenses. The piece recalls New Mexico's old timers remembering primitive flying devices before modern powered machines with music and ornate design.
Pecos Valley readers recall the shingle bearing Dr Ashley Pond in Taos. The once tiny Roswell child has grown into a respected all around surgeon and general practitioner in Taos and nearby areas. His mother remains with him in Taos, continuing a gracious local presence.
Taos County struggles with tax collection and incomplete rolls as 50 percent of property not on the tax list. Complicated governance and weak maps hinder orderly administration. Calls for reform note Taos ranks low in class brackets, with consolidation proposed but unlikely.
H H Robins, longtime Roswell highway engineer, now serves on the massive shore air base near Anchorage Alaska and expects to stay about a year. He notes the port is usable but far from complete and ties the airport project to fears Hitler may strike the United States.
The piece argues that Russia would strike Stalin and that Uncle Sam planned a vast construction to serve as a concentration point for American aircraft if Japan acts, presenting it as common military knowledge rather than deductions from Mr Robins' letter.
Bennie Stewart stops in New Mexico during his annual vacation while his late father, an engineer on the Honda reservoir project, had worked with government engineers in Honolulu. The trip yields little exploitable material for writers, as Stewart and associates across junk dealers and a national aluminum drive reference mix with memories of World War II era gambling and a grandson serving as a bomber pilot for England.
The passage recalls B. G. Stannard, a red headed former Roswell auto driver who worked with Herb Smurl on the Roswell-Torrance mail line. He was among pilots on the first auto mail route west from Winnipeg and remains with Dominion Transportation in a white collar role. On vacation, he may have recently landed in Roswell while en route toward the Carlsbad Caverns, pondering a paved Santa Fe to Carlsbad road.
Anton Lesinsky, once a wool buyer for Will Prager or the Jaffa Prager Co, reappears in public life after thirty years away. At 75, he serves as a full field man for the National Association of Waste Material Dealers, the official group name.
Harriet Connell, once 90 pounds leaving Roswell and now about 175, lives in Denver and visits Santa Fe yearly. She has no marriage history, holds a high-brow job with the University of Colorado, and returns with in-laws in Santa Fe. Her last Roswell job was teaching school under Marcellus Brasher.
F G Spaulding, long known in Roswell for risky real estate bets linked to the Kennedy railroad hype, now located in Everett Washington, was among a DeVargas lobby crowd. He says the Roswell spree cured him though he admits some lumber dealing during wartime jitters. He is 82 and resembles a man of 60. Camille Spaulding, a contralto, is his daughter and once sang in the Roswell Methodist church.
Andersons Gardens notice to truckers about wholesale onions cabbage beets carrots beans. Also advert asks builders and painters to see R V Young at Triangle Lumber Co located at 23rd and N Main for supplies and services.
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