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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1952
Page
4
Roswell daily paper prints subscription and advertising rates in advance. Published weekly at 424 North Main Street Roswell New Mexico, entered May 19 1903. Associated Press member.
The piece reflects four decades of political observation and hopes for ideal leaders. It endorses General Eisenhower and Governor Stevenson as presidential nominees trustworthy enough to pursue duty over party. The author suggests possibilities of returning to sane, honorable governance despite intense political pressure.
Polio cases in Chaves county, while not epidemic, are frequent enough to spur ongoing March of Dimes support. The county organization is ready to aid victims, as shown by a youth quickly flown to El Paso for treatment. Local volunteers provide time and funds, with National help available if a serious outbreak occurs.
A historical critique argues that U S presidential selection via conventions undermines democracy. It calls for genuine popular elections where the people choose candidates, warning that bribery, deal making, and spectacle harm America’s image abroad and threaten domestic integrity.
A politician’s routine back-slapping and handshakes face critique as rivals claim such displays are undermined by leg pulling. The row centers on public gestures and political image management amid partisan tensions.
The Silver City Daily Press promotes immediate weed cutting to destroy seeds and prevent pests. It argues weeds offer cover for rattlesnakes and portrays both weeds and varmints as undesirable neighbors, pressuring readers to act quickly.
Paul Lees, a Las Cruces housing project manager, is a distinguished veteran and former World War II casualty who was wounded at Corregidor, lost most of his sight, and has regained about ten percent. He earned 32 of the Marines' highest decorations and later pursued a movie career, appearing in bit parts alongside renowned Hollywood figures.
W. Wilson Cliff will relieve Prof. Everton Conger as an instructor in the University of New Mexico school of journalism while Conger pursues graduate work. Cliff is currently a faculty member at the University of Omaha.
Las Cruces has secured a state plumbing board field office to inspect all city plumbing as part of anti polio efforts in Dona Ana county where thirty polio cases have been reported.
The report describes four observers from Carlsbad area noting a round object radiating white light west of Cave City on the Medley ranch. They say it moved southwest and resembled no airplane or shooting star. The department states it has never seen a flying saucer.
Residents misbelieve hospitals are county owned and funded, leading to unpaid bills. In Port Vales the word county was removed from the hospital name, and Lea county plans a similar change to avoid financial losses. The pattern leaves hospitals incurring red ink.
This story recounts Poi a German Pointer pup given to Dr. D H Reed of Portales by a Honolulu friend The Honolulu sender arranged air express delivery to return the pup to its American owner preserving a tale of travel by air.
Santa Fe city officials announce strict enforcement of a city ordinance prohibiting the sale of BB guns to anyone under 16. The law also bans firearms sling shots and air rifles from such sales to minors.
In 1933 the New Mexico highway department faced bankruptcy and creditors threatened to cut off supply. Phillips Petroleum extended all needed credit, securing most state business for years while collecting old accounts. Leonard Oil of Roswell ranked fourth last year with a $21 million in sales to the state.
Gallup has promoted a grass covered park project for the city and, after recent plans accepted by the city council, work is to begin soon. The park will be connected with a municipal golf course.
Albuquerque Journal reports toll road legislation likely in the upcoming state legislature and Route 66 poised for designation as the only toll road entering New Mexico. The route would tie into the ongoing Oklahoma City to Tulsa super-highway project as discussion of toll roads grows nationwide due to aging and overburdened main arteries.
A record room worker jokes that the radar contacts over Washington might be Republicans landing, reflecting playful speculation among newsroom staff about unusual aerial signals near the capital.
Peiping’s People Daily reports industrial trial and error in Red China. Workers at the Harbin branch of the Northeast Manchurian Engineering Co. improved and invented 215 kinds of tools, with 54 found satisfactory.
Drew Pearson surveys the 1952 Democratic convention aftermath noting Southern tensions over seating three states, public impression of House tactics, and personal rifts. Sparkman’s vice presidential nomination is seen as a step to mend regional wounds and unify factions amid Harriman Kefauver clashes and Rayburn party rigidities.
The Washington Wire reports on high society rumors involving Marianne O'Brien Reynolds and a $750,000 settlement, Anna Roosevelt’s possible remarriage, and Cary Grant’s visiting doctors. It notes Bayard Peakes’s murder case, Oveta Culp Hobby’s Ike campaign switch, and Republican power shifts away from Old Guard leaders amid a broad rollout of party education messages.
A collage of eccentric notes and rumors touches on communism under capitalism, a Kansas City judge, political realignments, Kefauver hearings, industry figures, marriages, and celebrity sightings. It references Frank Costello, Charles Margiotti, J Vogel, Nancy Nugent, Milton Berle, Greta Garbo, Picasso, and other names in a slice-of-life column with no single core event.
A collage of society chatter from jet set Europe to New York, naming Pitt Oakes and Mary Bailey, Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor on Paris film set, plus a chain of tales about entertainers, aristocrats and political hints, including Leo Lew Ayres plans, a Palm Beach Cannes dispute, and a potential King Zog shelter project.
New York profiles Oshkosh producer George Foley who says outsiders rarely sell fresh TV ideas. He notes costs to package a show run from $15,000 to $50,000 and cites the need to clear titles, hire writers, create designs, and secure sponsors. He blames industry imitation and urges riskier, imaginative programming.
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