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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1966
Page
4
A collection of light reader letters from HAL BOYLE featuring anecdotes about hair growth on eggs as a cure for baldness, humorous tax return praise, imagined business ventures, and family tales. The notes lampoon everyday hopes for money, careers, and social life with a Midwest and New York flavor.
The piece reviews 1964 65 school district insurance premiums statewide totaling 63803 covering liability medical and property damage for 1328 privately owned buses and 161 district vehicles. It notes state senator George Amaya critiques private contracts and the tax funded insurance for private contractors and district buses. It also discusses political patronage linked to state contracts and a push for a central governing board over all state boards, with hearings on barber boards proposed as part of oversight.
Arthur R. McQuiddy, former Roswell resident and longtime U S Steel public relations official, is named president of the Deadline Club for 1966 67. The move was announced by Sigma Delta Chi, Roswell section, noting McQuiddy’s varied journalism and industry background in Missouri, Roswell, California, and New York.
Roswell Daily Record lists Albert A. Stubbs as Managing Editor with the business phone 622 9710. Publication details note weekday evenings except Saturday and Sunday morning at 424 North Main Street Roswell New Mexico and 2nd class postage paid. The paper is a member of The Associated Press with AP rights to local news and dispatches.
A reader condemns state foster care as a subsidy for welfare mothers and proposes a centralized facility like Villa Solano. The letter argues parents should work, questions who is punished, and urges stronger enforcement of parental responsibility to protect children.
Henry J. Taylor accuses Sargent Shriver of double talk over Job Corps funding. He cites inflated per enrollee costs, altered amortization periods, and delayed graduation figures to claim taxpayers pay far more than publicized. Taylor argues Shriver’s publicity misrepresents actual program outcomes and costs.
A 1913 tax provision enables percentage depletion at 27.5 percent of gross oil and gas income. It preserves capital, supports exploration, and keeps prices reasonable, arguing the method has stood the test of time.
A study of model ranches in Arizona and New Mexico shows smaller operations averaged a 4 percent loss while larger ones earned about 6 percent profit. The Arizona Farm Bureau notes profits come from management flexibility and responding to demand, with meat prices shaped by competitive free market forces from farm to table.
On this date in 1953 the United Nations and the Communists signed at Panmunjom an armistice ending the fighting in the Korean War. In 1789 the U S State Department was established. In 1922 the United States granted diplomatic recognition to Albania Lithuania Latvia and Estonia. In 1943 Winston Churchill hailed Mussolini's downfall.
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