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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1939
Page
5
The piece notes 5 billion pennies drain gutters and streets as youngsters hoard lost coins. It laments vast penny production, 2,871 per minute, while an average citizen carries only three. It questions coin circulation and jokes that Uncle Sam gains nine cents profit on every cent of copper used.
Msgr. Richard J. Cushing has been appointed auxiliary bishop of Boston by Pope Pius XII to fill the post left vacant after Archbishop Francis J. Spellman advanced to head the New York archdiocese.
Thomas E. Donovan of Brookline Massachusetts invested his life savings of 5900 to buy a hill in North Conway New Hampshire. The site now hosts a major beryllium deposit, one of the largest in the United States, its value rising due to wartime demand for the element in the um group.
New Mexico borrowers have repaid about one fifth of HOLC loans since the program began. State manager E C Robertson said HOLC has loaned 5 134 546 in New Mexico with 1 341 510 repaid. In El Paso funeral services were held for Fred W Mister 81 pioneer Hillsboro resident who died after a short illness.
Congress moves the House approved monetary legislation toward Senate action as debates split supporters into factions over keeping the bill intact, boosting silver prices, or limiting the President's control over the dollar. Secretary Hull seeks an arms embargo repeal, while eight peace groups urge defeat of the administration plan. Treasury experts discuss new large scale lending powers amid threats of adjournment, and a tornado devastates Anoka and Cedar areas with significant damage and casualties.
A fragmentary note describes a tornado-related death involving a man named Killshim, who was swept several hundred feet and dashed against a bridge near the Lutheran Mission church. Details are incomplete in the preserved OCR.
The piece notes that state policy aims to base field costs on deeper southeastern wells while shallow San Juan county strata may use as small as ten acres for an economic unit. It describes a new method for calculating allowable production using bottom hole pressure. Portales Daily News wins second in a national editorial contest for its milk ordinance coverage. Dr Bruce P Connor to be on vacation until July 10.
Livingston said allowable limits depend on a well’s probable drainage area and its bottom hole pressure. Some producers protest the pressure method as unreliable, and the commission has called a hearing to review its advisability.
Senate weighs bill to extend the administration emergency monetary powers at 11 noon EST. Labor committee continues Wagner amendments hearing at 10 a m. House debates a revision of corporation taxes at noon. Judiciary panel holds a hearing on a railroad reorganization court bill at 10 a m.
New York June 19 report on Sydney Wooderson the 126 pound Briton world outdoor mile record holder finishing last in the Princeton invitation mile behind Chuck Fenske Blaine Rideout and Glenn Cunningham. The race sparked debate with London headline makers calling it a foul while American writers saw little effect. Wooderson planned a London meet in August and declined Lincoln Nationals before hoping to join an American team abroad for a return engagement.
New Mexico State College biology students will make their annual field trip this year near Cloudcroft starting July 3. The announcement was made today. Record Want Ads show wet results.
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