Inconspicuous Agencies Draw Big Stage Spotlight
Washington talks around the CIA and the AEC as secret agencies face public scrutiny. Allen Dulles rejects McCarthy’s charges while Strauss governance and Oppenheimer hearings stir debate. Senate hearings consider elevating the chairman’s power amid five equal commissioners.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Atomic Energy Commission
CIA
Navy
Army
Air Force
State Department
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
AEC
Strauss
Oppenheimer
Truman
Allout
Eisenhower
Strauss Aec
Senate House Committee On Atomic Energy
Commission
Congressional Committee
Rep
W. Sterling Cole
New York
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Joseph Campbell
Henry DeWolfth
Thomas E. Murray
Evgene Muckert
Othe
New Mexico Group Pushes U S Stockpiling of Lead Zinc
The Silver City Grant County Chamber of Commerce Mining Committee urged New Mexico's congressional delegation to back stockpiling of domestically produced lead and zinc ores. The plan aims to aid mines closed by weak markets and foreign ore dumping despite existing approval to buy strategic metals.
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Roswell
New Mexico
Daily Record
Yoshii
Joseph Taylor
Commerce Chamber
Peru Mining Co
Hanover
Japan
Taylor
Silver City
Grant County
Japanese party leaders meet to seek national crisis end
Leaders of major Japanese parties including Liberal party supporters and Socialists held two hour peace talks in Tokyo aimed at ending a national crisis sparked by a fist fight in the Diet last Thursday. Progressives from the conservative coalition mediated the session as a second talks were scheduled.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Liberal Party
Yoshiida
Artesia Firemen Head to State Convention
Artesia firemen led by J E Richards Phil lip Krantz and Joe Howell left Sunday for the Truth or Consequences convention returning Wednesday. Demonstrations on explosives recognition and competitive games including fishing contests with prizes were planned along with a banquet and dance in honor of visiting firemen. Critics included Tom Mason and Lu Baker.
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Artesia
J.E. Richards
Phillip Krantz
Joe Howell
Artesia Theta Rho Convention Attended by Local Delegation
Twelve Artesia girls and two advisors attended the Theta Rho convention in Albuquerque June 3-5. A banquet and dance featured speakers Nancy Franklin and Lu Peral Conner.
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Tom Franklin
Effie Winsield
Albuquerque
Nancy Franklin
Lu Peral Conner
Artesia C of C reps tour to discuss three projects
William Siegenthaler and Paul Scott left Tuesday for Albuquerque and Santa Fe to meet with the State Highway Department the Army Engineer and the U S Forest Service about Artesia Chamber of Commerce projects The urban project on First Street paving of Highway 283 completion of flood control efforts in Artesia
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Artesia
William Siegenthaler
Paul Scott
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
State Highway Department
Army Engineer
U. S. Forest Service
Chamber of Commerce
First Street
Artesia Boys State attendees and sponsors listed
Seven Artesia boys travel Sunday June 6 to Socorro for a week at Boys State to study government and run campaigns. Attending are John Riddle Larry Weehunt Bill Cox Leo Barker Wayne Blankenship Jimmy Shipp and Donald Kiddy. John Simons and Buster Mulcock drive to Roswell to catch the bus. Sponsors include the American Legion Disabled American Veterans Kiwanis Rotary Lions and Artesia Alfalfa Growers.
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Artesia
Boys State
Socorro
John Riddle
Larry Weehunt
Bill Cox
Leo Barker
Wayne Blankenship
Jimmy Shipp
Donald Kiddy
John Simons
Buster Mulcock
Roswell
Colfax Commission Approves Voting Machine Purchase
Colfax County Commission authorized buying 14 voting machines from Rhea Distributing Co for 20650 dollars. Lease arrangement covers 1475 dollars per unit over nine years with delivery before the November general election to Raton Springer Cimarron and Maxwell precincts. Chairman Levi Turner indicated a consolidation plan to streamline precincts for unified machine voting.
Woman Cheated of Romance 50 Years Ago Is Married
A 172 year old Philadelphia woman Prudence Coker married John Edgecombe a 70 year old New Zealand dairy farmer in Vancouver after a long distance romance that began on a Devonshire farm. Edgecombe’s first wife died in 1932. they planned marriage after reconnecting last January and meeting again in Vancouver.
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Vancouver
Philadelphia
England
Newealand
John Edgecombe
Prudence Coker
Globe
Devonshire
Miss Coker
Edgecombe
New Ealand
El Paso Meet Draws 52 Members and Guests
Robert Forest of El Paso presided as 52 members and wives attended the meet. Wives were entertained at the home of Dr. and Mrs. G P Ruppert during the business meeting.
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Artesia
Artesia Country Club
G. P. Ruppert
Hugo Calvert
Carlsbad
Neil McKim
Wilmer Heth
el Paso
R. W. Jones
Hobbs
Ben H. Caudle Jr
Robert Forest
Cancer Detections Reported at University Center
In five years the University of Minnesota cancer detection center found 91 cancers in 5,352 people examined and identified 1,300 precancerous lesions.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Cancer Detection Center
Cash for Squirrels Turns Up Lost Billfold in Squirrel Den
In Galt Missouri a furloughed Army man Justin Holt and his brother were haying when a billfold with 28 dollars vanished. Months later the wallet was found under a squirrel den tree intact, the case suggesting a curious incident of a bushy tailed thief.
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Galt. Mo
Justin Holt
Halis
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W. Walnut
T. Or C
Tom Mason
Lu Baker
Hope
Joseph Benjamin Miller
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Miller
Artesia General Hospital
McCollum County
Texas
Earl Miller
Irvin Miller
Leland Miller
Arizona
A&m Artesia
Marion Gilbert Ashcraft
Mallamar
Charles Henry Green
Dexter
A and M
Business
Colfax Commission
Sears
Silvertone Radios
Roswell, New Mexico
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