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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1952
Page
1
AP dispatch from Chicago notes a crowded press of Democrats rallying for the nominating convention. Sen Estes Kefauver leads among candidates while others prize White House signals. Russell Kerr and Johnson claim delegate strength with talk of ballots and tally forecasts into mid campaign.
Arthur E. Summerfield, newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee with Eisenhower's approval, addresses a Chicago committee session after succeeding Guy Gabrielson as head of the Michigan GOP delegation.
Denver reports Gen Dwight D Eisenhower, new GOP nominee, plans a vacation of trout fishing and perhaps golf before a long campaign. He arrived with Mrs Eisenhower after winning the nomination in Chicago and thanked cheering crowds. He praised Denver as a good base for rest before the campaign.
The report lists three hour interval readings from 2 p m yesterday to 11 a m today with highs around 89 and a low near 61. Precipitation totals include .47 in 24 hours and 2.10 month to date. Sunrise 4 59 am sunset 7 09 pm, forecast calls for cloudy skies and scattered thunder showers with little temperature change.
Sheriff deputies and state police used dynamite at Lea Lake to raise the body of Ed Hood, 62, of San Antonio, who drowned at Bottomless Lakes State Park. A helicopter from Holloman AFB aided the search but choppy water hindered visibility. Hood lived at Van Winkle Courts, West Second, with relatives including sister in law Mrs. Frank Jackson watching hopeful.
Mrs. Walter C. Garges died suddenly at her Roswell home after a day of routine work. Native of Ohio she lived in Roswell since 1923 and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Survived by husband Walter C. Garges, two nieces, a sister-in-law, and a brother-in-law. Funeral Wednesday at 2 30 p.m. at Westrum Chapel with burial in South Park Cemetery. Remains lie in state tonight at the chapel.
A compact baseball record shows Chicago at 260 100-1080 with 3 15 3 and a sequence of pitchers Wilson Cooper Lown Ramsdell Kelly Manville Atwell Pramesa totaling nine, outlining runs and outs in a tense game.
The destroyer Southerland was hit four times in a 24 minute duel with Communist shore batteries off Korea's East Coast Sunday. Eight enlisted crewmen two from New Mexico sustained minor injuries and returned to duty. More than 200 rounds of five inch shells silenced five of seven batteries before the ship rejoined the line three hours later. The engagement mirrors a prior clash during the Inchon landings in 1950. The Navy listed injured crewmen including J. R. Gomez of Gallup New Mexico and U. G. Salvo of Santa Fe with ranks not immediately available.
The State Department ordered the Russian Embassy to stop publishing and distributing pamphlets in the United States. It suspended the American life magazine Amerika in response to Soviet obstruction of the publication, noting the effort could no longer reach Soviet readers and undermine cross cultural understanding.
Frank Sanchez age 11 of 910 West College sustained a broken arm yesterday in a collision of his bicycle and an auto near 420 East McGaffey. He was taken to St Marys Hospital in a Ballard ambulance. The car was driven by Leland Millett 24 of 911 East McGaffey police reported.
Ed Thompson of Roswell has been elected president of the Southeast New Mexico Life Underwriters Association at a meeting last Saturday in Roswell Chamber of Commerce. New officers include Bert Sears of Artesia as vice president and Ken Moore of Roswell as secretary, with about 15 attendees.
Civil Service Commission stripped the National Production Authority of the right to hire its own workers due to irregularities in appointing staff this year. It ordered corrective action possibly affecting over 100 NPA employees and required future hiring to be approved by the Commerce Department. Officials acknowledged past abuses mainly in ad hoc WAE appointments during 1951.
A flash flood forced about twelve families from their homes in Albuquerque as water rushed down Tijeras Arroyo. San Jose streets suffered heavy damage and Santa Fe Railway tracks near Barr Station north of the city were washed and trains halted for about three hours. Local farmer L. G. Zartman called it the worst flood in 18 years.
The annual Otero County Fair will be held September 19 and 20. The fair committee of the Chamber of Commerce is issuing bonds this week to finance new steel buildings for the fair grounds.
Circuit Judge Sam Bratton and U.S. District Judge Carl Rees will depart tomorrow to attend the annual conference of federal judges of the Tenth Circuit in Denver. The two jurists will join colleagues from multiple states for the event.
AMARILLO Former Mayor C. M. Henderson of Farwell Texas was found guilty on 47 counts of a 53 count indictment charging misuse of government grain. The federal court verdict came after two hours and 45 minutes of deliberation. Sentencing was deferred pending a retrial motion by Hendersons attorney R A Wilson. He was found not guilty on six counts tied to grain shipped to a New Braunfels elevator. The week long trial was before Judge Joe B Dooley. Henderson was released on the original $5 000 bond.
In Chicago the Democratic convention opens with extensive redecorating. Vertical nylon bunting replaces GOP flags, large presidential portraits replace eagle emblems, and a TV platform is built in the center aisle to capture head-on shots. Propmter usage will be dropped as layouts differ. Delegates’ HQs will mirror GOP footprints at the Hilton.
New Mexico Military Institute has mothballed its longtime cannon at the Main Street and College Boulevard corner as Col. Charlies F. Ward, the new superintendent, moves to secure a memorial arch. The arch is planned for the same corner and on the cannon’s former site, though the project remains in planning.
Joseph A. Beirne CIO vice president and head of 300000 communications workers labeled Dwight D. Eisenhower a rank amateur in civil government. He warned the Republican candidate would be a prisoner of advisers on major domestic issues if elected and spoke at the Democratic National Convention. The CIO, allied with Democrats since 1936, also noted Eisenhower’s campaign as out tasting Taft. A separate District Court filing by Myers Co. Roswell against Smith & Long seeks 215.38, and a judgment of 140 minus 39 was entered for Joseph and Dortha C. Tydlaska against E. F. and Ruby Nell Cochran over a mortgage note.
The city wins federal aid for a new 1,200-student high school to be built on south suburb land near Hobbs and Lea. Federal Office of Education provides 865,850 dollars. local board covers about 395,000. Construction to start after contract in November with completion hoped by fall 1954. 14 to 18 months projected.
The Get Out the Vote trailer sponsored by Operation American and the Chamber of Commerce registered over 100 voters yesterday at Pecos Theater and operated today at the Farmers Market from 3 to 8 pm. Remaining sites this week include Piggly-Wiggly North Union, Furr Food Market West Second, Safeway South Main, and Pecos Theater. Also, Santa Fe plans 200 entries for the 39th annual New Mexico artists exhibition.
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