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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1961
Page
8
Fair with little change in temperatures through Saturday. Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms in the eastern third of the state. Highs 85 to 100, lows 50 to 65. Record highs 106 at in Presidio and a low of 33 at Bryce Canyon Utah. Sunrise 4 48, sunset 7 07, day length 14 3 hours.
Berlin July rally planned by the Evangelical Church faces Communist efforts to disrupt travel and unity. The Kirchentag gathers hundreds of thousands as East and West church members seek a unified body spanning the iron curtain, while the regime opposes a single leadership.
NBC Lawless Years leads a busy slate as a four part crime arc airs. ABC Wide World of Sports features golf and the Moore Rinaldi boxing match. NBC Meet the Press Toynbee Dinah Shore guests, and TV Guide awards airs with 15 minutes of ceremony.
AP report notes China rejects Vienna cease-fire spirit and portrays Kennedy as untrustworthy. Maoist rhetoric denounces Western involvement in Laos while warning against US imperialism. Beijing media call Khrushchev’s approach too lenient and insist on China’s autarkic Asia focus.
The Roswell YMCA Tap Dance Class under Mrs. Loretta Doucet recently performed a graduation style program on TV. Doucet announced that YMCA Tap Dancing Classes will resume in the fall and urged those interested to pre register by calling the YMCA at MA 3-3010.
Santa Fe New Mexico The Park Commission asks the State Board of Finance to provide 14000 dollars needed to begin operating and maintaining a recreation area on the El Vado Reservoir peninsula. Federal funds 240000 hinge on state support and construction by the Bureau of Reclamation would start this summer and finish by December 31, 1963.
Washington AP reports a $2 million Nike-Zeus facility at White Sands Missile Range was removed from a military construction authorization bill by Senate and House conferees. The agreement also trims Walker Air Force Base runway lighting to $100,000 while keeping $546,000 for an Army reserve center in Santa Fe.
Three reserve recovery squadrons will be established in New Mexico under an Air Force program to create reserve units in 47 states to aid regular air units after enemy attack. The New Mexico units will be at County Airport Santa Fe Las Cruces Municipal Airport and the reserve recovery group at Albuquerque.
The State Health Department will assume administrative duties from the New Mexico Heart Association for a rheumatic fever control program to provide penicillin at reduced costs. Since 1959 more than 600 patients have participated, with state physicians and pharmacists coordinating, while the Heart Association handled records, dispensing blanks, and case registration.
E J Floersheim, business manager at the Los Lunas Hospital and Training Center, was fired at a secret meeting of the new board of directors held at the home of board chair Mrs Lars Halama. Dr Sheldon P Bliss and Salomon Maestas were also present as the action ignored a 1959 open meetings law.
Henry M. Stanley found David Livingstone on November 10 1871 under a mango tree at Ujiji on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Tanganyika.
Thirty six Japanese students from Keio Junior High School in Tokyo visited Honolulu for a firsthand look at prewar America. The group tours Hawaii and California during spring vacation and will observe American teaching methods in California schools.
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