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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1976
Page
2
California Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. and First Lady Betty Ford shook hands during a campaign stop at a Los Angeles hospital dedication. Brown welcomed Mrs. Ford to his home state as he spoke at the event before her husband’s GOP primary address.
Richard Burton flew into Port au Prince with an unidentified woman to pursue a divorce from Elizabeth Taylor amid their recent reconciliation and 1974 remarriage. The couple, first wed in 1964 after Cleopatra filming in Rome, separated in 1973 and divorced in June 1974 before reuniting in September and remarrying in October.
Rev. Sun Myung Moon acknowledges that about ten percent of production at Moon's Korean industrial group includes small weapons parts for South Korea's government. The Unification Church founder, linked to a rally at Yankee Stadium, heads a conglomerate with roughly $15 million yearly sales producing heavy machinery to shotguns.
Three 1975 Boys State alumni Tim Fields Kerwin Gober and Mark Antweil describe how the week long program changed their understanding of politics They say involvement in mock city county and state activities clarified the legislative process and the federal picture Antweil plans Stanford University and Fields Coast Guard Academy while Gober eyes law school after Watergate era skepticism fades.
A quake lasting over a minute shook Mexico City with tremors felt across skyscrapers. No immediate reports of casualties or damage were available.
The New York stock market declined again as unease over higher rates persisted. The Dow stood at 956.94, down 9.1 today, with losers outpacing gainers two to one. Banks raised prime lending to 7 percent, GM fell on a Saudi venture snag, and the NYSE composite slipped to 52.44 while the AMEX index dropped 0.62 to 101.58.
The New Mexico Public Service Commission approved Gas Co. of New Mexico to build a $5 million intrastate pipeline from Farmington to Albuquerque Grants and on to Gallup. Completion is planned for early next year, with anticipated rate increase of 2.4 cents per thousand cubic feet. Commission chair Richard Montoya cited growing Grants Gallup demand and uranium industry growth as drivers for new supplies amid interstate gas limits.
Representative Peter Peyser said the Internal Revenue Service is reviewing the tax exempt status of his church. He indicated the church faces scrutiny over its financial practices and nonprofit designation. The remarks were made amid ongoing IRS actions affecting religious organizations.
Actress Helen Hayes receives a star studded tribute at the Shubert Theatre in Boston with Colleen Dewhurst Julie Harris Anne Jackson Rosemary Harris and Sylvia Sidney among the performers. The event benefits the Massachusetts Center Tory Company ahead of a 28 week season next fall. Hayes expressed gratitude and lasting memory from the night.
A nostalgic plea extols the shift to college-educated young officers in patrol cars and on motorcycles. It emphasizes constant crime-fighting readiness, child protection, emergency aid, courteous conduct, and friendship with the public.
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