Roswell Cleans Up After Severe Thunderstorm
Roswell residents cleanup after a Monday thunderstorm packing 89 mph winds and hail. The storm caused power outages, damaged phones, and scattered tree limbs across the city while rainfall reached 28 inches at the Roswell Industrial Air Center. Local officials reported multiple traffic light outages and several accidents on wet roads as damage was assessed.
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Mumdrane
Douglas Tranchina
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Tranchina
O'Dowd
Bob Binns
Hervey Drive
Clarence Dunsmore
E. Forest St
Hunt Oil plans geothermal exploration near Las Cruces
Hunt Oil Co plans geothermal exploration on federal land about 30 miles southwest of Las Cruces. Jim Jordan says the project will start with temperature gradient tests to locate hot spots and assess economic feasibility before any plant development. The lease covers at least 7,680 acres across 12 sections held by Hunt members.
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H. L. Hunt
Las Cruces
Jim Jordan
Western Region
The
Texas Company
Roswell
Jordan
Hunt
BLM
KGRA
Texas Oil Company
Anadarco Production, Inc
Houston
Kilbourne Hole
Geological Survey
Anadarco
New Mexico Justice Martinez Faces Removal Bid
The New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission urged the state Supreme Court to remove Joe L. Martinez from the bench. MEXICAN collision killed 17 in one family and left seven injured near Matamoros across the Rio Grande. Ford notes nonpartisan foreign policy stance per Kissinger amid energy and land lease discussions in New Mexico and geothermal bids by Hunt Oil and Anadarco Production. Severe hail damaged homes and gardens as storms eased with forecasts predicting more showers later.
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New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission
State Supreme Court
Joe L. Martinez
Supreme Court
Matamoros
Mexico
Rio Grande
Brownsville
Texas
All is forgiven as stolen carvings returned in Midland
In Midland, a guilty conscience led a thief to return a small ivory horse and carved elephant to Ching's Imports with a note about having found Jesus. The items worth about 25 dollars were left in a paper sack at the shop door. The horse is in a locked display case and the elephant was sold to a woman who heard the story.
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Midland
Tex
Ching Carr
Ching
Chaves County approves animal damage control pact with NMSU
The Chaves County Commission approved an agreement with New Mexico State University to fund an animal damage control program using 18,000 from farm and range management funds for 1975 76. The panel also OKd budget transfers as the 1974 75 year ends June 30 including 15,000 for road department equipment maintenance and operation costs from the general fund.
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New Mexico State University
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NMSA
U.S. Department of Interior
Ned Tandy
Earl S. Allman and Co
Roswell
Torrance
Calif
Tandy
Berrendo
Sierra
Duncan
Roswell approves remodeling bid for six elementary schools
Roswell board accepts Ballard and Sons 368000 bid for remodeling Sierra Sunset Missouri Avenue Monterey El Capitan and Del Norte elementary schools. Holloway Construction placed second low at 374900. Project to start in two weeks and finish in four months as part of a bond funded package.
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Roswell
Ballard and Sons
Holloway Construction
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Frances Cauhape
Kentucky Ave
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Judy Johnston
Atlanta, Ga
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Henry A. Kissinger
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Roswell Record
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New Mexico
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John B. Roundtree
Deming
Forest Thorton
W. Tilden St
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Howell Construction Co
Lovington
W. R. Bauske
Clovis
W. A. Jourdan
Hobbs
W. M. Carroll and Co
Albuquerque
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