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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1940
Page
3
Advertises pattern 9438 a Marian Martin cape style dress for misses sizes 12 through 20. Describes front buttoning, back yoke, waist seams, optional back belt, and contrast panels with suggested fabric and yardage for size 16. Order instructions and prices for pattern book and pattern.
Mr E J Kurre hosted a back garden stag supper at 704 South Kentucky with Roswell Daily Record staff as guests. Guests included C E Mason Harold Cooley Bob Bear Ed Scarritt Alf Guffey and others. Mrs Kurre and Mrs C W Boone served.
A wave of travel and social plans fills the page as Mrs. R H Turner arrives in Roswell from Independence Kansas to observe the Coronado Cuarto Centen nial preparations and preside over Kansas clubs. Others head to New York Am arillo Dallas and North Carolina on family and charity business, while Miss Effie Jane Crosby hosts a card party for Miss Roberta Vandewart prior to a forthcoming wedding.
Misses Marion Roney Frances Schultz Genevieve Cooney and Lucille Hanagan left yesterday for Ruidoso and Cloudcroft for a week long vacation. Mrs Wade H Corn and son Billy with her sister Mrs Sam Lusk and children Jimmy and June left Friday for a six week motor trip to Rochester Minnesota Chicago and other northern states. The first session of the Civil Aeronautics Authority aviation training school drew over 50 attendees. The Chamber of Commerce urged enrollment as classes move to Junior high library Friday and then weekly Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Friday nights. Ground instruction continues and flight scholarships will be awarded to the most promising students aged 18 to 26. 10 or 12 more are needed to reach 50 enrollment.
Ground school course participants ineligible for flight scholarships include Dr. R. H. Goddard and Mrs. Goddard. A $10 fee applies to this group. Elwin Miller starts the first ten hours, followed by Ernest Harp Jr to finish. Record War Ads Get Results. LAS CRUCES New Mexico July 17 7 Local officials and Dorothy Eaton seek a welfare plan as county funds face a 90 percent cut. Leo Valdez notes a year end deficit of $100 and potential county welfare funding crisis. Record Want-Ans Get Results.
Camp Wehinahpay, the Boy Scout camp for Eastern New Mexico in the Sacramento mountains, is described as one of the safest places for boys. It notes no snakes or insects, no traffic, no cliffs, strict attendance tracking, state health tested water, and bans on firearms. Meals and rest are regulated with hot showers available. parents are urged that no better place exists for a few weeks for their sons.
The War Department signed today a $25,000,000 contract with E. I. DuPont De Nemours and Company to build a smokeless powder plant near Charlestown Indiana in the Louisville Kentucky industrial area. In Asia, Chinese headquarters said three years of warfare cost Japan 1,644,988 killed wounded or dead from disease and Tokyo put Japanese losses at 85,800 with Chinese losses at 3,000,000. In Argentina, deputies advanced a bill to authorize a $1,800,000 bond issue to train 5,000 civilian airplane pilots and subsidize aviation training centers. Oklahoma Governor Leon Phillips said he will call a general business meeting of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission after returning home.
Mayberry Bond has been very sick for a week but shows improvement and remains confined to bed as he continues to recover
Alfredo M. Baca, Sandoval County clerk, faced a July 23 hearing after a district judge halted his suspension by the state comptroller pending a new charging action. The judge delayed reinstatement to hear charges of failing to change voters party affiliation upon request.
Silver City New Mexico reports P. T. Hulse aged 52 died after his horse fell on him at his Beaverhead ranch late Monday. He was a World War II veteran. A widow and children survive the fallen rider.
Walter Hammond awaits trial in district court on arson charges related to a fire at The Palace night club near El Paso. Justice of Peace Cruz Garcia held him on a $500 bond after the district attorney charged gasoline soaked rags were hung in the club attic and set afire. Weather forecast notes showers and thunderstorms across the region with fair heat Thursday in New Mexico and neighboring states.
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