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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
2
Joe Foss, famed war pilot and Medal of Honor recipient, won the South Dakota Republican primary by a wide margin, signaling likely election. The Sioux Falls native defeated rivals after a wartime heroics and a strong farm economy focus, with a celebratory parade of 50,000.
Roswell reports 241 houses still not connected to sewer service. Over the past year the city has reduced the number through regular notices, two dwellings torn down for lack of sewer connection, two other cases closed, and 42 eating and drinking establishments inspected. Thirty six water samples were sent to the state public health lab. The article notes fossil trilobites with lenses up to 15 000 in the compound eyes.
Mereworth Farm in Kentucky must rebuild a pre Civil War stone fence using the original stones. The wall once circled 269 acres and is buried in a road bed and a home foundation, sparking a rights suit after heirs of Joseph P Dolan threatened to cancel a 50 year lease unless terms are met.
Gene Abbott, a 12 year old boy, will preach at United Pentecostal Church located at 1212 N Washington Ave in a series beginning tonight at the local church event.
US food stores feature chuck roast as top meat bargain this week with boneless or bone-in options and prices four to six cents lower. Round roast, sirloin and round steaks, pork loin, leg of lamb, bacon and eggs are discounted, while produce includes cabbage cucumbers peppers and tomatoes from the south. Watermelons and cantaloupes appear with variable prices. peaches are modestly higher.
Chaves County commissioners have branded a courthouse basement room as the Board of County Commissioners. The space, once the site of an agricultural committee meeting, now bears a bold title on a frosted pane.
After the conquest, historians estimate about 300000 Spaniards entered Mexico and settled among a population of several million Indians, reshaping the region's demographic landscape.
Roasters report ample strawberry supply and moderate prices. Major coffee producers foresee no broad price increases in the near future.
In Santa Monica, Shelley Winters testified in Superior Court that Italian actor Vittorio Gassman was temperamentally unsuited for marriage and subjected her to cruelty. She obtained an interlocutory decree with custody of their 15 month old daughter Vittoria Gina and a property settlement, including ten percent of Gassman's earnings.
Funeral services and burial planned for Nell Kemp Himbert 54 who died Sunday from a stroke at her Stafford Court House farm Virginia She spent her early years in Roswell New Mexico Survivors include husband Arthur Himbert and niece Mrs Sarah Ann Foster of Worthington Ohio Rites set for San Mateo California tomorrow
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