Meredith Pulls Out As Powell Opponent
A brief from the Roswell Daily Record notes Meredith pulls out as Powell opponent. The item references local names and events including S. Sgt. Steven R. Allison stationed in Vietnam with Red Horse civil engineering, community dedications at Fort Sumner, a disaster exercise at Goddard High, and local credit association elections. It also mentions a deferral of a Channel 8 film on National Golden Gloves highlights.
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J. W. Allison
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Pleiku Afb
Vietnam
Red Horse
Meredith quits Harlem bid against Powell in GOP race
Meredith withdraws from the Republican challenge to Powell in Harlem amid civil rights opposition and questions over Negro unity. King criticizes the timing, while GOP officials say they will field another candidate against Powell as Meredith returns to Columbia Law School.
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Powell
Harlem
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Hartford
Conn
House
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New York County
Republican Party
Night sessions eyed as New Mexico Legislature nears end
In Santa Fe AP report, the 1967 New Mexico Legislature heads into a final week with 65 House bills on the calendar including a compromise school funding tax and an $186.6 million general appropriation. Rep Bobby Mayfield pushes a $1.4 million boost to aid public schools and higher base per student from 268 to 272, while a 2.3 mill local property tax transfer and a 20 percent income surtax are proposed to finance the shift.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
House
Appropriations Committee
Bobby Mayfield
D-Dona Ann
Mayfield
Supreme Court to hear challenge on wiretap evidence in federal trials
The Supreme Court agreed to review use of evidence obtained from tapping public telephones in federal cases. Charles Katz, convicted in 1965 in Los Angeles under the wire communication law, is a key figure in the case.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Charles Katz
Los Angeles
Four Die In Plane Crash Near Ruidoso New Mexico
Federal aviation officials opened a crash investigation after a single engine Bonanza went down near Alto three miles east of the Eagle Lakes in Lincoln County. Four people from Kermit Texas, Mr and Mrs E J Wallace and Mr and Mrs Joe C Potter, died at the scene. Two teenage boys helping battle a forest fire found the wreckage which burned about two acres. The time of the crash was put at 1 30 pm by a local resident who saw smoke.
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Ruidoso
E.J. Wallace
Joe C. Potter
Kermit, Tex
Lincoln County Bureau
Federal Aviation
Alto
Eagle Lakes
R.G. Scribner
Scribner
Ruidoso Municipal Airport
Don Boone
Jerry Halladay
Melvin West
State Police
Leandro Vega Jr
CAP Head Quits In Eddy County
Eddy County CAP leader Ernest Fierro resigns as board considers his fourth departure in a string of resignations. Executive Director Jack Black and assistant director Luis Juarez have also left or plan to quit. Mario Salinas had already quit amid disillusionment.
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Carlsbad
Ernest Fierro
Eddy County Community Action Corp
Fierro
CAP
Jack Black
Luis Juarez
Artesia
Mario Salinas
Roswell Weather Sets And Ties Records In Seven Days
The Roswell weather bureau reports seven days of temperature records with two low-temperature records broken and two tied, including a March 8 low of 12 degrees surpassing the 14-degree mark from 1920 and a March 11 high of 82 degrees tying a date record from 1907. A 88-degree high on March 11 tied the March 12, 1900 record, and the March 9 low of 16 degrees set a new date record.
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Roswell
Weather Bureau
Capitol Eye in Santa Fe Merits Yet No Real Chance
Santa Fe The House Corporations and Banks Committee will hear Rep. Carl Engwall’s unicameral legislature bill, proposing to abolish the Senate to save money. Experts note Nebraska is the only unicameral state and has population decline, while the plan faces strong political and procedural obstacles.
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Vietnam
House Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Bob Huber
Santa Fe
House Corporations and Banks Committee
Carl Engwall
R-Chaves
New Mexico
Engvall
Nebraska
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