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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1968
Page
7
Period ending 7 am Thursday with scattered showers and thundershowers forecast in the upper Midwest. Sunny to partly sunny skies elsewhere with warm temperatures. Cooler readings in the Northern Plains. record highs and lows noted. New Mexico expects fair weather tonight and tomorrow with scattered thundershowers east later, otherwise little precipitation.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan will plead Friday in a reinforced judges’ chamber on the 13th floor of the Hall of Justice. The room features steel plates to withstand blasts and is guarded by deputies amid ongoing death threats. This court setup may or may not host his trial.
Santa Fe AP Plans to create 10 new state parks in New Mexico were unveiled by State Parks Director James Dillard. He said the Park and Recreation Commission approved the expansion and that about 100000 dollars would fund full development. additional funds will be requested from the Legislature in January.
Santa Fe AP reports a U S 60 highway project in Debaca and Roosevelt counties has been postponed to the August bid letting. Chief Engineer L G Boles says the delay allows the Eastern New Mexico Gas Association to lower its gas line parallel to the highway. The project involves replacing five wooden bridges.
Peter and Gloria Mendiola of Roswell have applied to transfer federal grazing privileges with the BLM in Roswell. The move follows the sale of the ranch base property once owned by Porfirio Fresquez, two miles north of Picacho. Five hundred twenty acres of public land are involved, with Leon Berggren the range conservationist handling the matter.
Santa Fe AP State School Supt Leonard DeLayo to conduct consolidation surveys while not committing to actual mergers. Attorney General clarifies board may survey but local districts must initiate any consolidation. Board approves Public School Code changes allowing decisions at meetings held outside Santa Fe.
Rickey L. Thayer 20 of Kansas City was bound over to district court on murder charges in the death of Carla Vera Yocum 36. Witnesses testified Thayer borrowed a car and went to Tucumcari the night of the shooting while Christine Gomez placed them together at a bar and later saw Yocum slumped beside the wheel. An inquest ruled death by gunshot wound to the temple.
Santa Fe The State Game Director was ordered by Legislative Auditor C R Sebastian to provide a certified inventory of Game Department equipment after an audit found no inventory for two years. The audit also showed overspending in contractual services by 6327 and employee benefits by 4146 in the last fiscal year.
Greensboro police arrested 37 year old Edward Thompson Jr. an outlaw sought on multiple kidnaping and rape counts. Three teen girls held over 24 hours were released as Thompson was stopped in a stolen car. two rifles and a pistol were found. Victims included the mothers of two girls. The case ties to Hendersonville and Mooresville crimes.
An insecticide product named Johnston's No-Roach offers a brush on colorless coating that lasts months. It claims to kill roaches and ants without moving dishes or food and is harmless to pets.
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