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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1942
Page
6
The Senate considers a military supply bill totaling 42 billion 820 million dollars. The House debates conference reports on departmental supply measures. Saturday recess and routine business noted.
Several pending suits in the District Court of Chaves County NM include cases 11230 11199 and others seeking to quiet title to properties in Roswell and Lea County. Defendants named include S B Tucker Susie Tucker Leonard Tucker and Gladys Tucker with unknown claimants. notices require appearance or default judgment. Also notices of name change petition for Thoburn Charles Amestead and multiple substitute service defendants including Oscar Watters Charlie Grossman Ethel Waggoner and others with extensive property descriptions in Chaves County NM. Defendants warned to answer by dates in August 1942.
A midsummer fashion note features Ona Munson, star of Columbia network's Big Town, wearing a navy and white striped skirt with a white jersey blouse and a lightweight red wool jacket. Her white crocheted turban is dotted with red pom poms and trimmed with navy grosgrain ribbon streamers from Nancy's of Hollywood.
Puzzle by Eugene Sheffer with horizontal and vertical clues listing many entries including grains of trivia and word play. Average solve time noted as 33 minutes and distributed by King Features Syndicate with a EIA tag.
The U.S. Potash Co Miners of Carlsbad advanced to the quarter finals of the Southwestern semi pro baseball tournament in El Paso Texas They will face the Fort Bliss reception center nine the last surviving Fort Bliss club Friday night winner advances to the semi finals Saturday Carlsbad defeated Jimmy Doolittles Biggs Field 11 to 6 in the first round Cooper threw 13 strikeouts and allowed limited hits as Carlsbad built a 11 5 victory over Biggs Field with a 200 021 320 sequence.
Ohio secretary of state John E. Sweeney announced easier voting rules for soldiers in training camps across the country. Soldiers may request ballots by mail from their election boards and return them, with absentee voting extended to those abroad. however some stationed far away may still miss ballots in time for the general election.
New York state is slated to buy 171.596 million in July, part of a national 1 billion dollar quota. Illinois follows with 84.925 million, Nevada has 1.038 million as the smallest July allotment. The campaign shifted to state quotas in May, expanding from 600 million to 800 million in June and July. State figures include Arizona 2.945 million, Colorado 6.84 million, California 61.687 million, New Mexico 1.771 million, and Texas 33.6773 million.
Santa Fe New Mexico June 29 report states Art J. Hewitt 62 of Pecos fell asleep at the wheel causing a lumber tow truck to plunge down a grade and sail 50 feet over a culvert. Hewitt escaped with minor cuts as the truck was demolished.
The county clerk issued a marriage license for James T. Jennings and Jances M. Schultz.
Lovington Leader contributor Bill Felter tells a humorous tale about onion farming with I F Collier allegedly growing 75000 pounds on 7 1/2 acres for 1125 dollars. The piece notes shipping delays and rain could yield similar crops, while acknowledging Felter’s reputation for tall tales.
Facing a more than fifty thousand dollar slump in income Mayor Clyde Tingley of Albuquerque considers across the board cuts. The water department is the only sector with continuing revenue but its funds cannot be diverted. The plan may include wholesale layoffs and discipline for remaining workers.
The Mescalero jamboree runs July 2 to 5 with marriageable girls debuting. Anglo bachelors pay a small sightseer charge, a role viewed as harmless. The piece notes the male payer tradition and that bachelors deserve getting soaked in the event.
The new one mill plastic tokens fail to gain traction as shoppers and merchants struggle to understand them. The speaker laments that not one in ten can grasp the token’s meaning in any trade and no one will use them, hoping merchants benefit yet sensing poor breaks elsewhere.
Cedarvale correspondence notes Progresso women spending last Thursday on party telephone lines. They worked hard using wire-stretchers, climbed poles, chopped cedar and pinon, tended children, and plan another day this week to fix lines so all residents can talk.
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