Commissioners Seek Angle Parking On Block of Main
Roswell city and county officials discussed a plan to modify the Main Street frontage of the courthouse to create space for angle parking while keeping county property intact. The motion calls for a seven foot sidewalk from the east boundary extending west to allow angled parking.
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Roswell
Board of County Commissioners
Louis M. Prager
Fred H. Dilley Jr
John W. Knorr
Dorothy Herring
Hinton Wilmot Jr
Truman T. Sanders Jr
Chaves County
Weather Summary From United States Weather Bureau
Reading intervals from 2 pm to 11 am show highs at 74 and lows at 39 with normal extremes 67 and 35. No precipitation in 24 hours. month trace, year to date 21. Sunrise 6 05, day length 12.1 hours. Forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with cool winds today and tomorrow, high around 62, tonight’s low near 26, winds easing then warmer tomorrow.
Stormy Weekend Ahead As New Mexico Braces For Wind
The Weather Bureau warned of a windy weekend in eastern New Mexico with gusts up to 40 mph and low visibility. A new storm from the Pacific Coast was expected to reach late Friday or Saturday, bringing more cold and dust, but little precipitation.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Weather Bureau
Clovis
District Weather Bureau
Albuquerque
Pacific Coast
State
Santa Fe
Otto
Grants
Zuni
Farmington
Gallup
Carlsbad
Roswell
Tucumcari
Abuquerque
Nitro Ends One Major Gas Well Fire in Permian Basin
One of two large gas well fires in the Permian Basin near Hobbs and Jal was put out by a nitroglycerin blast at Sinclair Barber Well No. 130 ten miles southwest of Hobbs. The second fire at Continental Oil Bell-Lake Unit No. 1 remains ablaze, with nitro planned in two to three days. The blast shook homes as 30 to 100 million cubic feet of gas burned daily last week.
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Hobbs
Permian
Jal
Sinclair Barber
Continental Oil
Bell-Lake
Sinclair
McCarthy challenges critics to name Reds exposed
Senator McCarthy demanded critics identify any Communists they have exposed, saying his anti red campaign will continue in the Midwest swing through the region. He dismissed party leaders' unease about his tactics and pledged relentless probing. He spoke in Chicago after a St Patrick’s dinner and planned stops in Milwaukee and Oklahoma City.
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Chicago
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Eisenhower
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
United States Senate
Midwest
Milwaukee
Oklahoma City
Washington fires burn over six hundred thousand acres in 1952
Interior Secretary McKay reports that 2,717 fires scorched more than 648,269 acres of federal land last year. He notes 2,701 fires burned in 1952, consuming over 297,000 acres.
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Washington
McKay
Roswell Chamber Merchants Plan Spring Opening
The Roswell Chamber of Commerce merchants committee met at Nickson Coffee Shop with B. F. Fields naming subcommittee chairs. A 2 pm today session in the Chamber offices will finalize plans for the spring opening and promote activity across Publicity, Spring Opening, Cotton Week, Goodwill Trips, and Transportation.
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Merchants Committee
The
Roswell
Chamber of Commerce
Fields
Robert H. Beck
John Barnett
Jack Rodden
Jane Clark
John Logsdon
Fred Rowell
G. C. Adams
Cliff Cate
Bob Chewning
Bob Mitchell
J. A. Pressler
Bill Purdy
Ray Laney
Carol Hunter
Norton Kessel
Jim Owens
Leslie McPherson
W. G. Slaughter
Max Sheppard
John Hall Jr
Seth Fields
Hilton Ray
Bernard Ginsberg
Wesley Foster
Hydrogen power breakthrough fuels push on weapons and power
Senator Van Zandt says scientists broke a logjam in hydrogen and atomic power accelerating weapon and civilian energy development. Reports cite a March hydrogen blast far larger than Hiroshima and stockpiling of deliverable hydrogen bombs, with officials giving an optimistic view of nonweapon uses.
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Washington
Rep
van Zandt
R-Pa
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Pacific
United States
W. Sterling Cole
R-Ny
Eisenhower
Cole
Atomic Energy
Durham
D-Nc
Price
D-Ill
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Hiroshima
Bikini-Enwetok
80 Acres Timber Fire Near Ruidoso Praised Fire crews
New Mexico reports its first forest fire of the year near Ruidoso three miles north of the city dump. About 80 acres of virgin timber burned and 300 acres of scrub were damaged before a bulldozed line contained the blaze. Red Hat Mescalero firefighters with 200 volunteers fought the flames as winds shifted, with no injuries or major property loss reported.
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Ruidoso
Green Tree
Capitan
Roy Baker
WSBXT
Davis Beall
New Mexico
Highway 37
Red Hat
Forest Lowe
Roswell
Baker
Hondo
Hollywood
Pentagon officials to brief senators on military purge
Secretary of the Army Stevens and other top Pentagon officials face the Senate Armed Services Committee to explain actions against Communists and subversives in the armed forces. The hearing could intensify the feud between Stevens and Sen. McCarthy and Roy Cohn, with McCarthy asserting he may finish the fight.
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Washington
Pentagon
Army
Stevens
Senate Armed Services Committee
John Adams
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Roy Cohn
Santa Fe Court Barred in Brandenburg Custody Case
The New Mexico Supreme Court temporarily blocks Santa Fe County District Court from further action in the Kathryn Rae Brandenburg custody dispute. A March 29 hearing will determine if the order becomes permanent, requested by A. W. Hockenhull of Clovis, the child’s great grandfather.
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Santa FE
Supreme Court
Santa Fe County
Kathryn Rae Brandenburg
A. W. Hockenhull
Clovis
Vietminh shelling Dien Bien Phu escalates siege
Chinese supplied Vietminh guns pumpe d thousands of shells into Dien Bien Phu early today as the French fortress withstands renewed mass assaults. French air resupply and evacuation continue while Giap may commit the remaining 36 000 troops in the hills to crush resistance before Geneva talks.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Vo Nguyen Giap
Geneva
Red
Ski Enthusiasts Wed in Storm At 8 700 Feet
In a Squaw Peak snowstorm on 8,700 feet altitude, Austin Frodenberg and Jane Louise Drake wed with Kjell Rustad as best man. The bride dressed in a powder blue gown beneath ski pants and the groom in a tux over long johns. The ceremony was performed in street clothes by a minister, and the couple rode down the slope under a guests arch of ski poles.
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Tahoe City
Calif
Squaw Peak
Austin Frodenberg
Kjell Rustad
Frodenberg
Jane Louise Drake
Denver
Frode
McCarthy Attack Target Shifts to Farm Agency
Senator McCarthy pressures the Department of Agriculture as his staff hints at hearings on possible Communist ties. He plans a Senate speech urging a flexible price support system from 85 to 110 percent parity, amid anger over Benson's dairy price cut to 75 percent.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Department of Agriculture
Benson
Wisconsin
Senate
Congress
Eisenhower
Department
Army
House
Middle West
Secretary Wilson Defends Army Loyalty Amid Draft Reform Vote
Secretary of Defense Wilson told the Senate Amed Services Committee he has absolute and complete confidence in Secretary Stevens and John G. Adams. He said 51 drafted doctors and dentists were denied commissions for questionable loyalty, with 20 in the Army and none in the Navy, and urged changes to the doctors draft law to keep disloyal draftees from commissioning.
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Washington
Wilson
Army
Stevens
Senate
Amed Services Committee
John G. Adams
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Sen. McCarthy
Rwis
McCarthy
Defense
Theted Services
Air Force
Navy
Senate Armed Services Committee
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Pentagon
Senate Committee
Armed Services
Railroad Commission Raises Texas Oil Allowable for April
The Texas Railroad Commission increased the state oil allowable for April by 73 205 barrels per day, lifting it to a permissive flow of 3 104 568 barrels daily for the month.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
Oilman Pleads for Tax Holiday to Save Texas Oil Standing
A leading Texas oil executive urged a tax holiday for the industry, warning Texas risked losing its status as a top oil state amid rising levies and economic pressure.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Mechem Cancels Portales Meeting Plans
Gov Edwin Mechem cancels attendance at Portales meeting of the State Association of Student Councils due to travel conditions from weather. The weather makes travel difficult.
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Santa FE
Edwin Mechem
Portales
State Association of Student Councils
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D. A. Bryce
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R. Perry Bean
U. S
Rapp
US. District Court
San Antonio
Tex
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