Neighbors Report Fatal Shootings At Union Street Home
Police said Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Woodard died from gunshot wounds in a Saturday incident at 914 North Union. Witnesses heard arguing prior to shots. Woodard reportedly shot himself on the front porch while Mrs. Woodard died in the dining room amid multiple gunshot injuries.
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N. Union
Hamilton Woodard
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Woodard
Lloyd Otero
Ham Woodard
Wyatt
Pecos Man Charged In Fatal Roswell Road Crash
A one car crash 14 miles south of Roswell killed 20 year old David Orona Villalon of Pecos and injured two companions. Domingo Carrasco Mata 21 of Pecos faces involuntary manslaughter charges after a pursuit by a Hobbs area marshal. Bond set at 2000 dollars. Villalon died at the scene. passengers Roque Ybarra Jr. and Jimmy Gomez were hospitalized with injuries.
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Pecos
Tex
Roswell
Domingo Carrasco Mata
Pat Hanagan
David Orona Villalon
Mata
Hagerman
Roque M. Ybarra Jr
Saint Mary’s Hospital
Jimmy Gomez
Walker Air Force Base Hospital
City abandons plan for three exploratory wells
Roswell drops the three well project after the first test well near the Little League field showed highly saline water at 1120 parts per million total salinity and 540 ppm chloride in the upper zone. Existing wells at the museum airport and South Park Cemetery average 540 ppm chloride. Geologist Kay Havener said chances of improvement are small and focus shifts to west Roswell test wells.
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Little League Ballfield
Virginia
North Main
Roswell Museum
Airport
South Park Cemetery
Kay Havener
Havenor
Roswell
New Vietnamese Regime Remains Question Mark
Saigon reports a new government is being organized to replace the fallen civilian regime with a possible military leadership led by Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky. Premier Quat and Phan Khac Suu will stay in caretaker roles as fighting continues north of Dong Xoai. U.S. air and ground actions span North and South Vietnam with casualties and missing personnel.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Phan Huy Quat
Phan Khac Suu
Dong Xoai
Washington Accepts Saigon Change and Warns of Future Action
Washington accepted Saigon's government shakeup and warned of forthcoming military actions in Vietnam. In Grants New Mexico a three year old girl, Lucie Hudson, died after a fall of over fifty feet at Blue Water Lake State Park while visiting with her Cambridge, England based doctor parents on vacation.
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Washington
Saigon
Grants
Cambridge
England
Grants Hospital
Bluewater Lake State Park
Lucie Hudson
L. Hudson
United States
Roswell Teen Chosen for Boys Nation Trip
Roswell youth Greg Franchini, senior at St. Peter High School, was selected Friday night as one of two New Mexico Boys Staters to attend Boys Nation in Washington, D C this summer. He won city and state offices at Boys State and will be joined by Joe Jacobs of Hobbs for the national event.
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Boys Nation
Greg Franchini
Roswell
Joe Jacobs
Hobbs
New Mexico
Washington, D.C
Franchini
R. J. Franchini
S. Adams Ave
Wyatt
Washington, D. C
St. Peter High School
Boys State
Trujillo
The
American Legion
Jacobs
David Walter
Pearson
New Mexico Military Institute
al Ortiz
Santa Fe
C. L. Kay
Kay
Texas Institution
Ortiz
LCC
Reed Mulkey
Boys State Board of Directors
Murder charge filed in Richardson shooting near Ruidoso Downs
Phil R. Richardson, operator of a local plumbing firm, is charged with murder over the Friday shooting of Frank Carrillo Gonzales, a 32 year old water department employee. Richardson surrendered and led officers to a .22 rifle. coroner notes two or more gunshot wounds. Gonzales died beside his pickup near Biscuit Hill, three miles east of Ruidoso Downs.
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Lincoln County
Ruidoso Downs
Phil R. Richardson
R. L. Sherrill
Carrizozo
Richardson
Ruidoso City
Frank Carrillo Gonzales
Ruidoso Water Department
Biscuit Hill
Richardson's
Miller
Leandro Vega
Gonzales
Sheriff Vega
Clyde Atwood
Ruidoso
Richard Parsons
Alton R. Gray
Chapel of Roses Funeral Home
Tularosa
Sanderson Flood Toll Rises to Fifteen as Rescue Proceeds
Texas Rangers led search teams recovered three more bodies in Sanderson bringing the death toll to 15 from Friday’s flash flood. About 20 missing remained as crews scoured Sanderson Canyon east of town. The disaster caused $2 million in property losses, with 54 homes destroyed and 18 businesses washed away or damaged.
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U.S
North Viet Nam
Muong Sen
Hanoi
Mike Cochran Sanderson
Tex
Texas Rangers
Texas
John Woods
Sanderson
Sanderson Canyon
Rio Grande
Red Cross
Southern Pacific
Texas-Mexico
Fort Stockton
Longfellow
Here
Canyon
John Wesley Johnson
San Antonio
el Paso
Construction Accident Kills Hagerman Youth
Steve Eugene Mason 19 of Hagerman dies after a cement drain pipe rolls onto him while unloading from a truck seven miles west of Hagerman. He worked for Jones Construction and was a Hagerman High School 1964 graduate who had one year at New Mexico State University Las Cruces.
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Steve Eugene Mason
Hagerman
Hagerman High School
Mason
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces
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Mobile
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Selma
Ariz
Lynda Bird Johnson
Arizona
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Draper L. Kauffman
U.S. Naval Academy
By Don Riggenbach
Lubbock (Tex
Christian College
Richard C. White
Dtex
Ballard
J. P. Williams
Frank C. Gonzales
Glenn Bradley
Bob Miller
Sunday Reading Guide
Lea Junior College
RHS
California
McDivitt
de Gaulle
Pretty Kean
Mike Goodart
Legion
Lubbock
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