Zinnias Along Schrimsher Farm At North Main
Roswell landscape features a long half mile flower bed of zinnias along U.S. 285 70 near the Berrendo Bridge beside corn fields. Ted Schrimshher proposed the display. Chuck Reed tends the bed as tourists pass driving into or from Roswell. PALS hold a roadside car wash at Hilltop Gulf 8 30 to 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Schrimscher Bros
North Main
Berrendo Bridge
Ted
Schrimshher
Fred
Roswell
U.S
Chuck Reed
Schrimshher Farm
Nixon renomination eyed as Denver San Diego hosts 1972 GOP
A GOP source said the 1972 Republican National Convention will be held in Denver San Diego next Aug. 21 to renominate President Nixon for a second term. In Denver Fifth District Court a jury heard testimony in the marijuana possession case against Gifford McGinty. Defense counsel is Ronald Higginbotham. In Washington Defense Secretary Laird warned Congress may need to draft men with expired deferments if draft authority is not extended.
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Denver
San Diego
California
Nixon
White House
Gifford McGinty
Montana Ave
McGinty
Roswell
Ronald Higginbotham
Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Congress
Republican National Committee
U.S
Robert Dole
Colo
Richard Nixon
China
GOP National Committee
Rain Ends Roswell Month-Long Dry Spell
A rain event in Roswell breaks a month of drought with .04 inch, boosting the yearly total to 1.00 inch and offering 30 percent, 20 percent and 30 percent chances of more rain today tonight and tomorrow. Ranch reports show scattered totals from 0.05 to 2.4 inches in nearby areas. Local officials note the moisture improves grazing prospects and grass growth, with some optimism for general rain to support winter forage.
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Roswell
Bill Crane
National Weather Service
Old Municipal
Crane
Charles Jones
Capitan
Joe Skeen
Picacho
Skeen
Francis Owen
Fred W. Corn
Louis Purcella
Ranchers Radio
Dexter
Buster Bird
Ruidoso
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Diamond A. Ranch
New Mexico
Jones
Purcella
Inflation Rises Sharply in June Driving Up Costs
The government reports a six tenths rise in the Consumer Price Index in June the steepest in 15 months led by groceries transportation and housing. Earnings rose to 127.57 a week while purchasing power increased seven tenths percent but remains below late 1968 records. About 41 500 workers with cost of living clauses gain small raises and 4500 workers face no further increases due to contract caps.
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Washington
Nixon
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Apollo 15 battery fix keeps moon mission on track
Apollo 15 mission managers fixed a battery issue in the lunar module during activation testing. Magnesium contamination led to a replacement battery from a different lot while countdown continued toward the 9 34 a m EDT Monday launch.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Richard Proffitt
Raleigh
N.C
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Lunar
Scott
Irwin
Moon
Earth
Sudanese junta leaders face court martial amid coup reversal
Cairo reports say Maj Hasem Atta and three aides were sentenced to death by a Sudanese court martial but an Numeiri aide later denied they had been executed. Numairi, restored to power, set up tribunals and urged pursuit of Communist leaders as observers expect moves toward Arab Federation with Egypt Syria and Libya.
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Cairo
Sudan
Hasem Atta
Jaafar el Numeiri
Numeiri
Mounir Hammad
Associated Press
Atta
Abdul Moneim Mohammed Ahmed
Mander
Osman Hussein
Muawiya Abdul Haq
Numairi
Communist Party
Omdurman Radio
Hashem el Atta
Khartoum
Libya
Egypt
Syria
Anwar Sadat
Muammar Kaddafi
VEE Clinic to Vaccinate Roswell Horses and Mules
The Chaves County Medical Association holds a one day free inoculation clinic for Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis at the Eastern New Mexico Fair Grounds Rodeo arena. Dr. Bob Bond urges Roswell and Chaves County horse and mule owners to bring animals for vaccination as forms and animal IDs are required for federal program paperwork.
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Chaves
Bond
Roswell
Chaves County Medical Association
South Texas
Solon urges decision on NM port of entry
Senator Joseph Montoya urged Mexican and U S officials to decide on an international port of entry at Anapra in southern New Mexico. The proposal sought for nearly 20 years aims to meet cross border commercial needs and was discussed at a two day Chihuahua state conference with Gov Bruce King and Mexican dignitaries.
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Chihuahua City
Chil
Mexico
Joseph M. Montoya
United States
New Mexico
Montoya
Anapra
Health fan dies of accidental starvation in Florida
Arthur Bothmann a 42 year old former weightlifter living on a diet of sunflower seeds and 16 ounces of food daily was found dead in his bathtub. The Pinellas County medical examiner ruled the death accidental starvation.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Arthur Bothmann
Bothmann
Phyllis
Pinellas County
John Skinner
Shinner
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Goopee
AL Stubbs
Ira May Smith
Ruidoso Downs
R & R Magazine
PALS
Hilltop Gulf
Spring River Park
Norman Stevens
Associated Press and Record News
Leslie Harris
Sheen
UPI Telephoto
Moon Launch Team
Solon
Georgia
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