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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1961
Page
2
New Haven AP report on the School Mathematics Study Group revamping K-12 math. Seventy teachers at Yale begin summer work to produce revised texts and theories backed by a $4 million NSF grant. Emphasis on attractive language, real world applications, abacus use, and support for slower learners and gifted readers.
The President’s message urging federal education funding was presented at the convention by Rep. Frank P. Thompson Jr. The speech stressed teachers' salaries as essential to improving students' minds and the nation’s future.
A sequence of traffic incidents is listed with locations including 1000 block W Second St 100 block N Main St and Garden Ave at College Blvd. Names tied to drivers include Wyman Akin James Derby Edward Dodd Patricia Wayman Victor Newcomb Willard Haragan Carol Ball Harley Blackwell and Ruby Jernigan among others. A gas pump incident occurred at 1811 S E Main Street and a Safeway lot collision involved a parked car on S Main Street.
Assistant professor Wroblewski of Cornell Medical School explains that periodic blood tests can reveal subtle changes in organs before symptoms appear. He notes five isoenzymes vary by organ, and rises in isoenzymes four and five in blood may indicate a heart attack.
The funeral announcement for infant Jim Bob Cullins now includes the grandparents Mr and Mrs Tom Didlake who were previously omitted. Clayton and Mrs Cullins mourn the loss with extended family named in the updated notice.
Seven people died in a head on crash on a hump backed overpass with blind approaches. Victims include Florence Bendynek and her daughters Diane and Elaine of Depew, Leon Korchoff and Donald Hiller of Cheektowaga, Rose Marie Palewodzowsky of Depew, and Cornelius Sperduti of Lockport. Anthony Bendynek survived.
Funeral services for Mrs. Etta Essary age 66 are set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Ballard Chapel with Rev. O J Welch of Midway Baptist Church officiating. Music by Alberta Rhodes and Mary Jane Ballard. Pallbearers include Cecil Johnson Bill Lawing Loman Wiley Coleman West John Hader and Lonnie Treat.
The Alamagordo Reservoir will be searched again today for Robert L. Johnson a 31 year old Albuquerque man believed to have drowned after vanishing June 20 while boating about 50 yards from shore. Skindivers and drag lines have scoured the lake since then without result.
Population experts believe the U S population center will stabilize near St. Louis Missouri about 200 miles east of the country's geographic center. The current center sits near Centralia Illinois.
Admitted June 24 Lee Reid 415 E Fourth and others. June 25 Guy Swartz 1514 S Penn and many more. June 26 Delbert Brock 609 E Forest and Stanford Daniel Rt 2. Dismissals noted June 24 26. Births listed for June 24 29 and beyond including a girl to Guy Swartz 1514 S Penn and several other families. Memorial Osteopathic entries followed with multiple newborns.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon meet in Hershey to kick off a Pennsylvania Republican drive to regain the governorship and a Senate seat.
New York AP report shows stocks and bonds mixed with overall declines to the year’s slowest pace. Volume about 2.5 million shares, key issues down 1 to over 2 points, Du Pont and Gulf Oil lagging, Ford down about 2, U S Steel and Republic down, MGM and Anaconda slight gains, AMEX lower, cotton futures up to about 34.68 and eggs steady to firm in Chicago markets.
An avalanche near Sondrestrom Air Base Greenland killed four sightseeing servicemen and injured nine others. Maj. Gen. Dale Smith said a 200 foot glacier chunk exploded during a 35 person tour near Russell Glacier as they filmed. Some victims were struck by ice. tidal action in Watson River caused further trouble. Names of the dead were withheld.
A string of local fires includes a car owned by R T Boyce at 309 FE Deming Street catching fire at 7:21 a.m. in the 600 block of E Bland Street. At 8:37 a.m. a vehicle struck a gasoline pump at 1811 S E Main Street, with flames extinguished on arrival. A 2:10 p.m. incident involved burning trash setting a fence ablaze at 207 E Deming Street, followed by a 5:05 p.m. grass fire at the same address.
Wool market figures from E. F. Hutton & Co show 1961 July to Oct and Dec prices 113.4 117.4 119.5 and 1962 March May July Oct 121.9 121.2 122.2 123.2. The data lists quarterly to mid 1962 values for wool.
Kansas City livestock data show cattle 8,000 head with calves 150, slaughter steers 22.75 to 23.00 per cwt at high choice levels, heifers at 23.00 for top grades, feeders 21.25 to 22.75. Hogs total 5,400 with barrows and gilts 16.50 to 17.75, sows 13.75 to 15.00, and light-weight hogs 13.00 to 14.25. Sheep 2,000 with spring lambs 18.75 to 19.00, other lambs 17.50 to 18.50, ewes 2.00 to 3.50, feeder lambs 11.50 to 13.00.
The liquid oxygen plant at Walker Air Force Base is now in full operation to fuel Atlas missiles at 12 Roswell sites. Air Products runs the plant under Air Force contract, with transfer to Air Force personnel planned later. Maj. William Forsberg said the plant is the first component of the missile complex in operation and ahead of schedule.
Cesario Cer vantz Martinez of Dexter fined 75 dollars for fighting and carrying a concealed weapon. Carl Wayman Fitzgerald of WAFB fined 50 dollars for disorderly conduct.
Jehovahs Witnesses filled North Junior High School Auditorium this weekend for a state meeting. A 44 foot sign read The Twentieth Century in Bible Prophecy on the front lawn as Joe Cillis spoke on Public Declaration Made for Salvation. Clarence A. Stoermer emphasized unity among 17 congregations across Arizona New Mexico and El Paso Texas. A L Borchardt noted four-state coverage and discussed methods used to foresee the future before urging belief in Gods prophecy. Seven hundred eighty five attendees listened to the Watchtower representative.
Beverly Radland the 18 year old protege of the late Errol Flynn married Maurice de Leon a 22 year old Los Angeles draftsman and industrial designer for the Los Angeles Board of Education. De Leon earns 575 dollars a month. She said marriage is incomparable to the actor she loved Errol for Errol.
Leonard, amid a suspension on sales to contractors, said he had done nothing illegal and would follow any new rules. Democratic Commissioner John Sudderth testified in Washington and at the State Legislature that he would stop doing business with the state while his oil and gas firm would still sell to state contractors, insisting the actions were competitive and lawful.
Adolf Eichmann compared his Nazi role to Pontius Pilate and said he could wash his hands of guilt. He described feeling solace and appeasement despite helping execute the final solution, insisting the actions were done by the regime’s elite and not him. The trial enters a period of defense and cross examination as dates target mid July for closings and the judge prepares the verdict timeline.
Buford S Hudson 64 died this morning at the Medical Center Born Aug 29 1896 in Calvert Okla raised in Greenville Texas In 1940 moved to New Mexico from Greenville resident of Roswell for nine years Associated in business with brother Jan Hudson of Carlsbad Survived by brothers Jan Harney of Beaumont California and four sisters Marie Lowe Dorothy Hudson Louise Shoup and Margaret Penner all of Roswell Funeral services Wednesday in Carlsbad burial in Carlsbad Cemetery Arrangements by Ballard Funeral Home.
London and Kuwait rejected Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem’s bid to annex Kuwait. Britain pledged aid to the ruler if asked. The report also notes Western relief for Laos talks and a Taft Hartley injunction cited by union leaders as a trigger for a larger shipping walkout next fall.
The 5,000 Texaco refinery workers at Port Arthur voted to return to work Monday at 7 a.m. after a weekend closure tied to the nationwide maritime strike. National Maritime Union pickets at the gate were reportedly withdrawn.
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