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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1961
Page
6
A weather summary reports fair conditions across Southern New Mexico with temperatures ranging from a high near 96 to a low around 63. The 24 hour precipitation total is none, and the month to date and year to date rainfall are 62 and 2.60 respectively. Sunrise is 4 51 and sunset 7 12 with a 14 3 hour day length.
Washington AP report says the National Trade Association of Brokers claims to police 4,600 firms and 93,000 stock salesmen with a staff of 30 investigators. William H. Claflin III of Boston testified to a House Commerce subcommittee chaired by Rep. Peter Mack Jr. that the group checks brokers for ethical standards.
Subcommittee weighs legislation to authorize a $750,000 federal inquiry into investor protection by the NASD and U S stock exchanges. The study would be conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission amid about 1000 ongoing market wrongdoing cases. The NASD covers 4600 of 5400 broker dealers and seeks exams for all customers’ agents, while Claflin notes issues with test question security and supports a National Clearing Corporation to oversee OTC transfers and volume reporting.
The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that possession of liquor alone cannot convict a man of selling it, reversing Earle Eastwood of Portales’s Roosevelt County conviction. Sheriff deputies found a pint and 11 fifths of whiskey at his home on March 17, 1960, in dry Portales.
New Mexico and Texas nurserymen and their spouses closed a three day Albuquerque session. Jim Vandersys of Santa Fe was named president Vic Poppe won the vice presidency Jack Stroman secretary treasurer and Horace Woodburn chair of the board. Directors include George McColm Hersal Richardson and Ben Slaughter. Scholarships were awarded to John C York of Las Cruces and Walter Nelson of Lovington financed by the Nurserymen Memorial Fund.
U S Dist Judge Whitfield Davidson warned that Dallas will integrate not by consent but by force. He signed an order for September start with a stair step plan beginning in first grade, noting the decree could take effect through the U S Marshal or soldiers bayonets. The 5th Circuit had previously overturned his rulings. He ordered one grade per year and cautioned Negroes not to crow over reverses.
A Las Cruces firm partly owned by State Democratic Chairman Sea born Collins received a 210000 participating loan from the Small Business Administration. The Mesilla Valley Construction Co. Inc. owns Martin Redi-Mix Concrete Co. Inc., run by James W. Collins, brother to the chairman. Other New Mexico firms on the SBA list include Stryker's Inc. in Las Cruces, Skillman Motors in Silver City, The Cotton Warehouse in Lovington, and several Artesia firms with varying direct and participating loan amounts.
Florence Stark of Brighton New York reported breaking an egg to find four yolks inside. She noted she has long kept chickens and has seen double yolks and even triple yolks before, but never a four yolk egg.
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