Four Candidates Vie For GOP Nominaton In Chicago Clash
Eisenhower Taft and Warren led the arrival scramble in Chicago for the Republican National Convention opening Monday. Stassen urged unity as supporters set out to win delegates, while battles over tactics and harmony raged among rival camps.
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Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Arthur Summerfield
Michigan
John S. Fine
Pennsylvania
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Eisenhower
Taft
Stassen
Conrad Hilton
Tit
Philadelphia
Washington
Denver
Dwight Eisenhower
Dewey
Arthur Vandenberg
Douglas MacArthur
Two Brothers Die In Wreck In Roswell City Limits
In Roswell New Mexico two young boys Denis 4 and Dwight 3 died after a pickup collided with a car at East Third and Shartell in light rain. Mrs Della Mills was injured and the driver Tommy Miller was ticketed for reckless driving. An inquest will be held Tuesday. The deaths are the 10th and 11th fatalities in Chaves County this year. Funeral services are planned at First Baptist Church Carrizozo. The second item notes District Judge Scoggins will hold court in Alamogordo July 15-18 after months of illness.
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Chaves
Roswell
Dennis
Dwight
Bertha Aguayo
Herbert Aguayo
North Carolina
Tommy Dwayne Miller
Eldon Miller
Route Two
East Third
Shartell
Della Mills
Small Brothers
St. Mary’s Hospital
Mills
Colonial Club
T. M. Mills
East Bland
Ballard
Westrum
Young Miller
Tommy Thompson
Phoenix
Ariz
Carrizozo Cemetery
Westrum Funeral Home
Howell Underwood Dies After Holiday Boat Trip
Roswell resident Howell Monroe Underwood 56 died suddenly Friday at 6 55 p m after a heart attack at Bottomless Lakes while in a boat His son rushed him to town but he died shortly after Born April 11 1896 in Breckenridge Texas he moved to Roswell in 1922 from Amarillo He worked for Southwestern Public Service Company until retirement in 1948 active in Boy Scout work and civic affairs Survived by wife Opal Foster four children mother sister and five grandchildren Funeral services will be tomorrow at 2 30 p m Ballard Chapel with Rev Austin Dillon directing burial in South Park Cemetery
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Howell Monroe Underwood
North Main Street
Roswell
Underwood
Breckenridge
Texas
Amarillo
Southwestern Public Service Company
SWPSC
Chaves County Game Protective Association
Cooley Bell
South Park Cemetery
Roswell Girls Reported Man Shot In White Mountains
Santa Fe officials state police and Lincoln County deputies hunted the Capitan Ruidoso area after two Roswell teens raced into Ruidoso with scant details of a shooting near Monjo Lookout Tower. A gray car, a wounded or dead man, and a 12 year old boy were reportedly involved as roadblocks spread toward Roswell Alamogordo and other East Side towns.
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Santa FE
Capitan-Ruidoso
Monjo
White Mountains
Ruidoso
Lincoln County
Roswell
Alamggordo
East Side
Nancy Talmage
Nannie Keller
Gray Auto
Miss Talmage
Miss Keller
Montean
Alto
Mescalero
Here
Police set roadblocks after White Mountains shooting
State police set roadblocks in the Capitan Ruidoso area after a reported shooting near Mon Jean Lookout tower west of Roswell. Witnesses said a man in a gray auto shot a pedestrian, loaded the body into the car, and drove off with a boy about 12 accompanying the driver.
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Santa FE
Capitan-Ruidoso
Mon Jean
White Mountains
Roswell
Ernest Tafoya
A.B. Muncie
I. B. Miller Named To Higher Job with Highway Department
I B Miller of Roswell becomes state maintenance engineer at seven hundred dollars per month. James Bird will fill his Roswell district post at six hundred dollars. John T Watson named department attorney on retainer plus hourly fee. In three days twenty six New Mexico drivers were denied highway use for driving while intoxicated.
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Santa FE
I. B. Miller
Roswell
Miller
Highway Department
C. O. Erwin
James Bird
Bird
John T. Watson
New Mexico
Local Weather Summary From United States Weather Bureau
Temperatures logged in 3 hour intervals from 2 am yesterday to 11 pm yesterday show a high of 95 and a low of 65. Unofficial readings indicate 24 hour precipitation of 0 with month to date 0.19 inches and year to date 2.13 inches. Forecast calls for some cloudiness but mostly fair today and tonight with a high near 97 and a low around 67. Sunrise 4 54, sunset ial, day length about 14.3 hours.
Congress Determined to Quit, President Puts up Red Flag
A Roswell area foreman, Harley U Perkins, 31, died in California while on vacation. He worked for J P White Tile Co near Blythe, born January 29 1929 in Oklahoma. He served in World War II and leaves a wife Lillian Underwood plus parents and siblings. Funeral held at Ballard Chapel. In Albuquerque, a $3 500 000 defense housing project in Lea County may be let soon. President Truman urged Congress to strike provisions hindering atomic production, warning adjournment could jeopardize national security.
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Harley U. Perkins
J. P. White Tile Company
Roswell
Blythe
Calif
Mr. Perkins
Oklahoma
California
The
White Co
Lillian Underwood
Brooks Perkins
Albuquerque
Lea County
Edward C. Robertson
Albuquerque Area
Federal Housing Administration
Washington
Truman
Congress
Pellmell
Barkley
Senate
Sam Rayburn
House
Senate House
Atomic Energy Commission
Roswell Eyes Site for State Alcoholism Institute
O B Johnson a Roswell business leader and acting chairman of New Mexico’s Commission on Alcoholism appealed for community help to establish an alcoholism rehabilitation institution in Roswell. One of three such facilities will be built in the state aided by a new liquor tax, with Roswell favored for the East Side site.
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O. B. Johnson
Roswell
Commission On Alcoholism
Johnson
State Supreme Court
Albuquerque
Johason
Supreme Court
New State Commission
New Mexico
Four Boys Born on Independence Day at St Marys
Four boys born Friday Independence Day at St Marys Hospital weighed a total 26 pounds 6 ounces. Parents listed include Claude Dunn, 602 South Delaware. Herbert King, 1110 West Tilden. Dick Hull, 602 South Kansas. and William Montgomery, 405 South Michigan.
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St. Mary’s Hospital
King
Claude Dunn
South
Delaware
Herbert King
West Tilden
Dick Hull
Kansas
William Montgomery
Michigan
Violence lifts July Fourth toll toward 400 deaths
Violent holiday deaths rose toward 400 as auto crashes claimed at least 226 lives with more counts expected for the long weekend. The National Safety Council predicted a total of 430 deaths from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday, while drownings reached 101 and other causes 42. Only two fireworks deaths offered a modest bright note amid 371 total violent fatalities.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Maine
Arkansas
Sergeant Struck By Auto on Main
Sergeant Charles Felker Jr of the 342d Bomb Squadron received a minor head injury when struck by an auto at Fifth and Main. Police identified the driver as Samuel H. Exel, an airman with the 509th Air Police. Felker did not require hospitalization.
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Charles Felker Jr
342D
Fifth and Main
Samuel H. Exel
509Th Air Police
Felkner
Airman Waener 20 Dies After Vehicle Collision
Airman William W. Waener, 20, stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, died from injuries after being struck by a car. The incident occurred today, authorities said, as Waener was involved in the accident while off base.
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Albuquerque
William W. Waener
Kirtland Air Force Base
Albuquerque Woman Accidently Kills Sergeant Husband
Mrs. William R. Wilkins fatally shot her husband S/Sgt. William R. Wilkins at their Albuquerque home after he joked with a mock gun. The couple had been teaching self defense. he died after pleading for help as he was bleeding from the mouth. Police report the incident occurred Friday.
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Albuquerque
William R. Wilkins
Cowboy
Kirtland Air Force Base
Hobbsville
N. C
Wilkins
Washington fights over carbon spending and river harbor cuts
Congressional wrangling over a vast atomic weapons expansion and river and harbor project cuts triggered filibuster talk. The dispute tied Congress in knots as Sunday sessions began.
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Washington
Congress
Independence Day Charges and Fireworks Quiet in City
Police reported a safe Fourth with mostly legal fireworks and only one injury from a traffic crash at Fifth and Main. Doran A Crider, charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty and was fined 150 dollars with a one year license revocation. other arrests included three youths for reckless driving and Cecile Brown for vagrancy and license violations.
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Set
Doran A. Crider
Fifth and Main
George Thorne
North Richardson
Crider
St. Mary’s Hospital
R. L. Ballard
Jim J. Branham
William H. McLain
Richard McLain
Wilbur T. Roberts
Ballard Cecile Brown
Quickies by Ken Reynolds barometer notes rain
A brief item notes a weather hint from a barometer bought at The Rec ord Want Ads suggesting light showers may occur. The quirky column frames the forecast as a casual question about impending rain.
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Ieee Y Committee
Operation American Way Committee
Col
Carl Rohr
Warren S. Cobean
Boyd Scott
Roy Tyner
Tom Hall, Jr
Morris Pruitt
Scoggins
Alamogordo
W. T. Scoggins
Howell Underwood
H. M. Underwood
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Hills
United States Weather Bureau
Ballard Chapel
J. A. Brister
Cavalary Baptist Church
W. C. Long
Box Cox
Jodie Gates
Jim Churchman
Jess Miller
Leonard Shackleford
East Side Institution
Chamber of Commerce
Rome
Ingrid Bergman
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Taylor Golden
D. G. McWilliama
J. T. Fuqua
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