Per diem hike prompts New Mexico Municipal League chief protest
Bill Fulginetti voices opposition at a Department of Finance and Administration hearing to a $32 per diem for in state travel, up from $24. He says the higher rate strains city budgets and tax dollars, urging a reduction and stressing municipal accountability to taxpayers.
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Bill Fulginetti
State Department of Finance and Administration
Fulginetti
New Mexico Municipal League
New Mexico
Maxine Gerhart
Municipal League
California Proposition 13 reshapes tax and finance outlook
Residents review a major tax cut as Proposition 13 shifts about 7 billion in revenue away from state government to private and business property. Analysts forecast growth in investment and jobs as utility savings and lower rates reach consumers, with state surplus easing public service fears.
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California
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Southern California Edison Co
Pacific Gas and Electric Co
Edmund Brown
Roswell Community Receives Bench Gift From Higgins
Public notice thanks Sara and Claude Higgins for presenting a beautiful bench to Memorial Recreation Center. The gesture is praised as thoughtful and enhancing community spirit in Roswell. Signed by Richard H. Corn of 707 N. Kansas Ave.
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Sara
Claude Higgins
Memorial Recreation Center
Vaya Con Dios
Richard H. Corn
Kansas Ave
Roswell Programs Post Strong First Week Participation
Roswell community recreation ends its first week with a record 2814 participants. A new Historical Society cattle industry exhibit opens at the museum this month to accompany the Tom Lea paintings. Pecos Valley Players and Walker Air Force Base Theatre present a Sunday radio drama on KBIM at 6 15 PM. The state educational finance board approves budgets for ten colleges with NMMI allocated 1 296 182 for operations and a new addition to the J Ross Thomas Memorial Building.
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Roswell
Margaret Ford
Historical Society
Tom Lea
Pecos Valley
The
Institute
J. Ross Thomas
Scientists changing genetics in the DNA era
Washington reporters recount how DNA transfer across species reshapes biology from bacteria to potential cures and vaccines. Researchers like Stanley Cohen spark hope for disease insight while prompting fears of engineered pathogens and calls for NIH oversight and safety guidelines from 1975 onward.
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Cohen
Nature
Kurtz
Cohens
Asilomar
Calif
National Institutes of Health
Aging hearing set in Roswell on July 6
The Aging Services Bureau of the state Human Services Department will hold a public hearing in Roswell on July 6 to discuss the 1979 Plan on Aging. A tentative proposal will be sent to the Policy Advisory Committee for review before public input and final submission to Gov. Apodaca.
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Santa FE
State Human Service Departments
Aging Services Bureau
Roswell
Gray Power’ Group
Aging Bureau
Jerry Apodaca
Human Services Department
Portrait of the Palestinians and their cause in the Middle East
Henry J. Taylor outlines who the Palestinians are, their population spread, and the evolution of their struggle from the Balfour Declaration to the present. He discusses Israel’s growth, Jerusalem’s status, refugee camps, the PLO structure, and Yasir Arafat’s leadership and divisions within Palestinian groups.
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Palestine
Israel
United Nations
Syria
Golan Heights
Jordan
West Bank
Egypt
East Sinai Peninsula
East Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
Ura Salem
Bayt al-Muquaddas
El-Kuds
David
Solomon Cyrus
Jesus
Hadrian
Muhammad
Jordan Rivers
Gaza Strip
Lebanon
Persian Gulf
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Ahmed Shukairy
Yasir Arafat
Arafat
Abu Ammar
Amman
Palestine National Council
George Habash
Red China
Peking
Yugoslavia
Anwar el- Sadat
Libya
Cyprus
Middle East
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Ine State Board of Educational Finance
NMMI
Sonetines
Tonorlow
Small Society
Jack Anderson
Washington
Cadmus
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Howie Kurtz
Stanford
Stanley Cohen
Cuban
Pere Qnty
Ernie Mills
Gov. Apodaca
Apodaca
Legislative Finance Committee
Dona McCord
LFC
State Highway Department
Dona
Tom Romero
Dave Harris
Road Agency
Johnny Taylor
Department of Finance and Administration
Paul Minogue
Department of Health and Environment
Henry J. Taylor
Bulgaria
China
Somalia
RASD
Cleo A Noel Jr
Sudan
Khartoum
Farid al Boubly
Black September
Munazeer Salaman Khalifah
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