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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1961
Page
4
A local opinion argues that shoplifting in Roswell New Mexico mainly involves students from grade school through high school. The piece condemns theft as illegal and notes peer pressure and dares as motives while urging parental and religious guidance to instill moral standards and deter youth crime.
The New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers has launched an effort to educate the public on engineering ethics. Washington hearings reveal some highway department inspectors took private payments from road builders, challenging ethics enforcement. The society stresses individual accountability and urges censure for those flagrantly violating professional ethics.
The New Mexico delegation presses toward final approval of the 221 million San Juan Chama and Navajo Irrigation project amid lingering hurdles and optimism for passage by summer or next January. Key actors include Senator Clint, Rep. Morris, Sen. Chavez, Rep. Montoya, and Rep. Rogers from Amarillo, with support shaping a major New Mexico economic revival through irrigation and water structures. Standley and Culbertson are named for federal posts, while Spike Keller addresses the Blatnik committee on the Lordsburg road project and Jack Adams defends his contract amid heart issues.
Public letter from Joseph W. P. Calhoon recalling Roswell’s Lover’s Lanes created by poplar trees near South Springs and lamenting missing street signs and changed streets since 1913. He notes fond memories of a poem recited at Orchard Park School and contrasts Roswell’s old mud streets with Santa Barbara’s paving progress.
The Agriculture Department sets the 1960 wool crop payment at 47.60 per 100 dollars of shorn wool sold, up from 43.20 for 1959, with payments starting around July 1. Mohair gains no payment as prices exceed the incentive rate, while a separate 80 cent per 100 pounds lamb payment is issued for wool on marketed lambs in 1960.
The Rev. John Vander Tuin, aged 41, left engineering to become a minister in Rochester New York. He was ordained at First Reformed Church where he first felt the call. Previously he worked six years for Eastman Kodak Co. and then organized a consulting engineering firm of which he was president for four years.
Hungarian born Ivan Tors testified before the Senate juvenile delinquency committee, detailing NBC and CBS pressure to inject sex and violence into programs to boost ratings. He recalled network executives, including David Levy, demanding sensational content for The Man and the Challenge and The Aquanauts, while he pursued science education themes for youth.
About 250 women attended the opening session in the Roswell Womens Club basement at 2 15 pm for a three-day cooking school. London celebrated King Edwards 42nd birthday with cheers and flower sprays. Governor Clyde Tingley of New Mexico praised Senator Barkley’s keynote as a fighting reply to New Deal critics. A mixed rifle club team will shoot in a tri-way match with Alamogordo and El Paso next Sunday.
A brief health note urges insistence on bright lighting of streets and highways to reduce accidents and improve safety for pedestrians and drivers. Authorities emphasize public awareness and infrastructure improvements as key measures.
A London columnist coinage adds morass of beatniks to the lexicon alongside herd of elephants and school of fish, enriching how groups are described with a vivid, worldly flavor.
New Mexico 4-H teams placed high in the first National 4-H Wool Judging Contest held in Sonora Texas. Guadalupe County placed fourth and Lea County sixth as extended Wool judging aims to teach youth proper wool preparation grading fineness and market classing.며
From the Nora News in Chama. A one night stay in an eastern Oregon motel noted the new in-room sprinkler system for fire protection and a door sign warning guests not to smoke in bed lest they drown themselves.
Don Archer, first vice president of the State Training Union Convention, appears with other newly elected officers in the latest Baptist New Mexican.
A Roswell group of merchants notes that the Federal government may cut or kill the Mexican National labor program. They warn that a loss could push the U.S. to fund foreign aid to Mexico to offset income lost from Bracero. They argue for giving people work to earn dollars over handouts.
Rain amounts measured in Ruidoso 1.63 inches Hobbs 2.42 Roswell 0.42 Carrizoto scored 51 points surpassing Alamo Gordo and others with zero. Weather and scoring details reflect isolated totals and performances in the period.
The state had 1,424 service stations serving 385,505 motor vehicles at the end of 1958, implying about one station per 271 vehicles. Despite the appearance of plenty, the statistic shows a substantial network for the period.
Roswell sent a four person roster to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission mid year meeting in Houston in early June. John A. Anderson Howard Bratton Hiram M. Dow and Clarence E. Hinkle represented Roswell alongside Governor Mechem who also attended.
Pedestrians, including dignified onlookers, pause at Fifth and Main to peek into openings overseeing the Security National Bank building project.
A health column discusses how adult and juvenile obesity differ in mindset and response to weight loss. It notes teens face ridicule and suggests parents may focus on football potential for hard to reduce youths. The piece also answers a reader about pesticide residues in vegetables and advises thorough washing.
University of Pennsylvania physicians compare 11 obese juvenile males with 14 adults in Annals of Internal Medicine. Juveniles show self loathing and social withdrawal, especially around women, while adults express overconfidence and openness about relationships.
Mrs. S T notes that a doctor agrees proper foods can supply vitamins if no intestinal absorption problem exists and whisky intake is not sufficient to raise vitamin B needs. The remark playfully links diet to vitamin necessity and alcohol in a light, tongue in cheek tone.
The column discusses high fever episodes up to 105 degrees lasting days with no guaranteed brain injury depending on cause. It also features reader anxiety about planes falling on homes and jokes about possible psychiatric help, inviting readers to name the phobia.
An item in the Roswell Daily Record lists a business contact line with a number and monetary figures. The entry includes amounts such as 13.00 and 18.60 along with a small 1.58 and 9.00 and 18.00, suggesting a pricing or accounting snippet.
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