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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1956
Page
11
Joe Evans of Ruidoso El Paso announces the Nogal Cowboy Camp Meeting will run four days starting July 18. He will tour camps from July 2 to 5 near Colorado Springs, July 12 near Clayton, and July 25 in Magdalena. There are 12 meetings in seven western states.
Seven of eight men charged with gambling received stiff fines after a disturbance at a Ruidoso cabin led to arrests by city and state police. Some faced additional counts of fighting and disorderly conduct while one involved man fled town before capture. Officially named fined: Bob Arnett, John Crosco, Dell Moyer, Don King, Tommy Chavez, Bob Gibbons, Willie Smith, and another not identified.
About thirty people attended the Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Ruidoso city building. Directors agreed to study applications for a full time manager while President W. A. Hart reported on potential outside investment for developing White Mountain Park ski area. Cy Leland Jr. reported on Cree Meadows Golf Course improvements.
The Ruidoso area advances a Wal-Lee Hotel court with eight units begun on a four acre tract facing U S Highway 70. Builders Mr and Mrs R W Boggs of Hobbs plan a U shaped complex with eight units per side and additional units on the slope, plus a central drive and ample parking.
The DeBord case was postponed to Tuesday in Police Judge Herbert Smith's court at the municipal building in Ruidoso. A complaint filed last weekend cites Village Ordinance No 50 requiring a permit fee of one dollar per foot for houses moved into or through the village.
Roswell recreation director Miss Margaret Ford announced an adult ceramics class for adults at the Chaves County Memorial Youth Center. The first meeting will be Wednesday at 7 pm in the Craft Shop led by Mrs. George Heese, with Teen Town funding a kiln for the program.
DeBord was served a warrant of arrest by two village officers last Friday and pleaded not guilty before Judge Smith the same day. His attorney Bert Newland of Deming secured a postponement of the trial until July 9. A Ruidoso official said DeBord owed permit fees on about 33 houses moved into and through the village limits.
Marion Embrey of Capitan and Fred Swetnam of Ruidoso lead Boy Scouts at the CYO camp, teaching forestry in the mornings and soil erosion control in the afternoons, with each boy receiving instruction in both subjects on alternating groups each Tuesday.
Mrs Mary Clo Jackson announces proceeds from foods sold at Thompson's Cafe and Service Station Hollywood on Saturday June 30 will benefit the Ruidoso High School Senior Class of 1957. Parents urged to help prepare foods and seniors to serve. mothers invited to bake pies and cakes for sale to boost the class fund. The daylong event runs to support the fund.
Wilbur Coe of Glencoe and Frontier Theaters Inc gift two historic Lincoln County wagons to the Lincoln County Historical Society. The Prairie Schooner and Mountain Hack, once owned by the Coe family since the 1870s, will be preserved as museum exhibits after being used in parades and Western promotions.
Gene Robins of the Albuquerque VA office told the state American Legion convention that the New Mexico congressional delegation has been asked to press to extend Public Laws 346 and 16 providing veteran education benefits for the disabled. The benefits expire July 25. Portales’ Dr. D H Reed, alternate national Legion committee man, criticized pension cutoff recommendations in Washington.
Eleven year old Geo Shabatura wandered near a musk rat and sank into soft mud. Rescue teams from the fire department and park board pulled him free while the incident caused him to miss his favorite program on television.
Iowa reports an average corn yield of 85.7 bushels per acre across harvested plots, five bushels above the 16 year hybrid test ing average. Four of Iowa's 12 districts exceed 100 bushels per acre, as the tests compare different hybrids grown in the state.
Seaborn Collins of Las Cruces former national Legion commander was to speak today on National Security as part of a veterans event discussing pension roll removals for widows and children of veterans. The address highlighted postwar security concerns and veterans welfare.
AMSTERDAM Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard will attend an Olympic Day festival with daughters Irene and Margriet marking their first public appearance since the Greet Hofmans affair. Beatrix is in Rome and Marijke stays home.
St Paul Minnesota report highlights a proposal to equip the state highway patrol with cameras to photograph traffic accidents. Officials say the move would aid investigations and accident analysis, with equipment and procedures to be funded by the highway department.
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