12 Mar 1967
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1967
Page
1
Roswell Daily Record snippets reveal studio mishaps and behind the scenes notes from a fashion photographer. The piece jokes about store dummies underutilized helpers, observed child behavior during shoots, and bifocal woes while hinting at the Spring section feature. It also notes corrections about a fire ownership, plus a feature on Elizabeth Garrett Day and the state song O Fair New Mexico.
Vice President Humphrey disclosed that President Johnson will fly to Guam next weekend for a Viet Nam war conference with advisers and Saigon leaders. The talks aim to discuss the struggle against aggression and seek an honorable peace, with meetings set for the full weekend. Johnson may visit his Texas ranch after the trip.
Gov David Cargo appointed Mrs A N Spencer of Carrizozo to the Spring Industrial School Board. Mrs Spencer is active in Carrizozo civic life and wife of Dr A N Spencer. A native of Denver she moved to Carrizozo in 1947 with her husband and they have three children.
Roswell area students topped a city science fair with about 100 additional awards presented by Dr. George Fischbeck. Winners span grades four through eight from Valley View Monterrey St Peters Pueblo and El Capitan with top honors in plant biology animal biology earth and physical categories and multiple tied placements in sixth grade.
Rear Adm. Howard A. Yeager 61, who gave the signal for the WWII D Day invasion, perished in a Great Lakes Naval Center house fire. His wife Mary Jean 60 and two Waves, Laura Jean Martin 21 and Lora Mae Garrett 25, also died from smoke inhalation. Yeager was commandant of the 9th Naval District and scheduled to retire April 1 to join Zenith Radio Corp.
Governor Cargo announced Reginaldo Rogers Aston of Roswell will join the New Mexico State University Board of Regents replacing Robert O. Anderson whose term expired. Also named were Walter E. Bruce Jr. to the Public Service Commission and Dan Ely to the Springer Boys' School board following resignations and eligibility issues. Fire fatalities at Glenview NAS claimed Rear Adm. Fowler and injured his wife Mederies. investigation boards convened at Great Lakes as plans for Adm Yeager’s farewell emerged.
Robert Skarphol and Joseph Cagnacci met through the draft while attending Chabot College in Oakland. Both trained in the same unit, the 39th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, Company A, 9th Division, earning specialist fourth class. They arrived in Vietnam together and were killed in a March 8 mortar barrage in the Mekong Delta, honored earlier with the Combat Infantryman Badge on February 15.
Carrier based U S bombers attacked a SAM storage base a power plant and an ammunition depot near Hanoi and Haiphong as U S military headquarters reported on Sunday. In Cyprus riots eruped at a U N peacekeeping compound near Nicosia. Geraldine Farrar 85 died in Ridgefield Conn. Svetlana Stalin granted temporary haven in Geneva. Delta Airlines seeks CAB approval for a San Francisco to Atlanta route via Phoenix Albuquerque El Paso Dallas Memphis and Huntsville.
Gov David Cargo announced six Roswell men named to his Committee of 100 to aid economic and industrial development. Don Anderson of Anderson Co Homer Glover of Glover Packing Co C A Bud Copple president of Malco Products Inc J C Powell president of First National Bank James Clark president of Security National Bank and Robert Hoffman director of Roswell Industrial Development Corp Also named is Charles K Johnson an Artesia banker.
The New Mexico Senate advanced two Walker Air Force Base related measures. One bill, a substitute, funds Roswell base operations with 390000 and relocates Eastern New Mexico University two year college there. The second creates regional housing authorities to implement an elderly housing project using Walker base houses.
Sunday reading guide highlights a county debate over funding for home health services as service providers near a potential shutdown. Legislative moves and local voices frame the looming impact on seniors and patients awaiting care.
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