Tremendous Flood Death Toll Feared
Rio Grande flood across the border sent 16 dead and one missing at Ozona Texas. In Piedras Negras Mexico authorities warned of hundreds of possible deaths while Eagle Pass reported the river back in its banks. Laredo and Nuevo Laredo faced a major battle against rising waters as bridges remained vital links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Tex
Piedras Negras
Mexico
Ozona
Rio Grande
Eagle Pass
Addy
Nuevo Laredo
Joe Martin Jr
Mexico City
Local US Weather Bureau Report Temperatures and Forecast
Reading from 2 pm yesterday to 11 am today shows 93 as the daily high and 65 as the low with normal highs of 93 and lows of 65. Precipitation none in 24 hours ending 11 am. month to date .09 inches. year to date 3.06 inches. Forecast calls for heavy clouds at times with possible showers and cooler temperatures with a high near 92 and a low tonight.
Record Route Boys To Change System
Roswell Daily Record carriers will adopt the Little Merchant System effective July 3 to streamline delivery and collections. About 40 boys become Young Businessmen with weekly paper purchases, Friday collections, and optional monthly accounts. Subscribers may prepay at office for three months, six months, or a year with new weekly rates of 30 cents.
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Roswell Daily Record
Daily Record
R. M. Higginbotham
Higginbotham
Roswell
County Commission Chairman is Upheld
The attorney general stated a county commission chair cannot be removed except by resignation or loss of status on the commission. Two Mora County commissioners recently removed their chair. Atty. Gen. Robinson said the chairman serves a two year term unless he resigns or ceases to be a member.
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Santa FE
Attorney General
County Commission
Mora County
Floyd Santsteven
Two Young Convicts Captured Near Ramon by Bud South
Two escaped inmates from the Los Lunas state prison farm were captured near Ramon by Bud South New Mexico Police. Dennis McCarty and Billy George Goodwin, both 21, were believed to have resisted some arrest and fled after stealing pickups and abandoning them near Cline's Corner and Vaughn amid heavy rain.
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Los Lunas
Bud South
New Mexico
Ramon
Roswell
Dennis McCarty
Socorro
Billy George Goodwin
Lea County
U. S. Highway 285
I. R. Funk
South
Cline's Corner
Longhorn Ranch
Vaughn
Burglaries Solved in Albuquerque as Five Teens Are Arrested
Albuquerque police report five teenage boys in custody for nine burglaries. Chief Paul A. Shaver says they will be questioned about possible links to other recent break ins.
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Albuquerque
Albuqueque
Paul A. Shaver
Mayor Bert Ballard Returns for First Council Breakfast
Mayor Bert Ballard is back in town and plans to attend his first weekly council breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Nickson Hotel after a weekend return from a Pacific Coast vacation.
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Bert Ballard
Nickson Hotel
Pacific Coast
Baseball Scores AN LEAGUE and National League results
AN LEAGUE printed a 4 run 9th inning comeback to win 8 to 6 over es aul. Hoeft earned the win with House closing. National League saw New York defeat Brooklyn 5 to 2.
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Zaverink
Hoeft
House
Wilson
Keegan
Martin
Lollar
National League
New York
Brooklyn
No Indochina Plan Seen in 1Power Talks
Washington reports show Eisenhower and Churchill positive about unity among English speaking nations but wary of immediate action on Indochina. Senators George and Gore offered cautious views about unified Southeast Asia strategy while U S plans for an anti-Communist alliance face delays awaiting French peace talks. Anzus Council meeting in Australia may push next steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Churchill
Indochina
Ottawa
Nn Congress
Eden
Sen. George
Georgia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
United States
Anzus Council
Australia
New Zealand
Richard G. Casey
New Mexico Enters Moisture Period With Daily Showers Likely
The Associated Press reports New Mexico heads into a July moisture period with daily showers and possible heavy rains. Tucumcari saw 1.41 inches, Raton 0.28, Las Vegas 0.93, and Storrie Lake rose eight feet from a canyon flood.
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Associate Press
New Mexico
District Weather Bureau
Tucumcari
Raton
Las Vegas
CAA
Gallinas Canyon
Storrie Lake
Weather Bureau
Albuquerque
Continental Divide
Chiefs to Work Out Guatemala Armistice
Guatemala's 12 day civil war seemed to end as anti communist forces gained control. Rebel leader Carlos Castillo Armas and Col Elfego Monzon planned armistice talks in El Salvador with possible new governing junta. Public opinion held Armas could dictate terms while Monzon's junta hunted communists.
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Guatemala
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Carlos Castillo Armas
Elfego Monzon
el Salvador
Castillo Armas
Monzon
Arbenz
Vatican
Msgr
Gennaro Verolino
Acapa
Chiquimala
Puerto Barrios
Caribbean
Castillo
U.S
John Peurifoy
Guillermo Toriello
Charnaud MacDonald
Jose Manuel Fortuny
Victor Manuel Gutierrez
Julio Estrade
Carlos Enrique Diaz
Jose Angel Sanchez
Stunt Man Feeds Shark Subculture in Santa Monica
Santa Monica stunt man Frank Donahue spent a week catching more than 60 sharks off Santa Monica Bay as part of a movie stunt. The sharks proved too small and he was bitten on the right elbow while climbing back aboard after one grab. He received hospital treatment.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Frank Donahue
Santa Monica Bay
Donahue
ASC Office Reforms Reshape County ASC Committee
Secretary Benson directs sweeping changes to county and community agricultural stabilization and conservation committee elections. All current Chaves County ASC Committee members are ineligible for re election per new rules issued mid June and forwarded to the local office. Chairman O F Crawford welcomes the shifts arguing broader farmer participation and better program administration. The directive shifts policy forming to the county committee and policy executing to a full time staff member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ASC
Ezra
Taft Benson
Chaves County
Benson
O. F. Crawford
Committee to Recommend Belen High Struck From Accrediting List
An investigating committee for North Central Asia says it will recommend Belen High School be stricken from the association list of accredited schools. The move follows eight alleged violations of the school code.
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BELEN
North Central Asia
Belen High School
Association
Mrs. Aubrey Gregg Named to Run for County Treasurer
Mrs. Aubrey Gregg, widow of the late Aubrey Gregg, was chosen by the Chaves County Republican Committee as the candidate for county treasurer. Born February 5 1895 in Worcester Massachusetts she later moved to El Paso and married the Roswell Map and Blue Print Co founder. She has held church and state posts and now serves as state treasurer of United Christian Women of New Mexico. Her son Francis is 16.
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Aubrey Gregg
Chaves
el Paso
Tex
West
Austin Park Christian Church
Roswell Map and Blue Print Co
Gregg
United Christian Women of New Mexico
Francis
Mountain States Clears July 7 Rate Hike Path
Mountain States Telephone Co. may raise rates in New Mexico starting July 7 if it posts an adequate bond as required by the State Corporation Commission. The SCC suspended new increases for three months pending a hearing to determine a fair rate. The company filed June 7 for 47 communities seeking about 80 percent of a rejected 1953 increase.
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Santa FE
Mountain States Telephone Co
State Corporation Commission
SCC
New Mexico
State Supreme Court
Harry L. Bigbee
Commission
Traffic Fatalities in Chaves County Count
Traffic fatalities in Chaves County reach six this year, but only five count toward the state tally as one death occurred in a city park and not on a state or national road.
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Chaves County
New Mexico Fertilizer Use Record Set in 1953
Agronomist Gordon Hoff of New Mexico A&M College said New Mexico farmers set a record for total fertilizer use in 1953 with an average of 39 pounds per harvested crop acre, totaling 24,829 tons.
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Las Cruces
Gordon Hoff
New Mexico A&m College
New Mexico
Eisenhower Says East And West Must Live Together
President Eisenhower urged peaceful coexistence with the Communists but rejected any pact that would enslave a nation. He warned against appeasement and called for nations to live together without subordination to outside powers amid questions on Vietnam. He defended Nixon and urged media help to cut Fourth of July highway deaths.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Churchill
United States
Vietnam
Nixon
Dean Acheson
China
Korea
Indochina
Guatemala
All's Quiet on Police Front Here
Police Chief Tommy Thompson reported a quiet morning with no calls to the department. He was in Raton yesterday for a regional conference where he serves as president of the New Mexico Sheriff and Police Association.
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Tommy Thompson
Raton
New Mexico
Skeet shooter Clayton Ditto found dead in Fort Worth
Clayton Ditto a 51 year old skeet shooting enthusiast was found dead at his Fort Worth home. Justice Whit Boyd ruled the death a self inflicted act and Mrs Ditto said she heard a shot and found her husband with a pistol in his hand seated in a chair.
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Fort Worth
Clayton Ditto
Whit Boyd
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United States Weather Bureau
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Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
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Ruth Likely
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