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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1967
Page
4
Washington humor columnist pokes fun at government process as he recounts a tangled string of meetings. The piece riffs on overlapping schedules in a fictional agency and the endless cycle of planning sessions. A satire on bureaucratic indolence and the appearance of productivity.
The article traces how teacher tenure emerged in response to early job instability and political pressure. It notes a shift from a buyer’s market to a seller’s market, with tenure providing protection after three years in many states, and observes that today most teachers do not rely on tenure or fear unjust dismissal.
Carl Moreland profiles how heroin and marijuana addiction devastate users. Descriptions cover the injection process, withdrawal, health decline, and crime driven by need, with warning against glamorizing drug use and noting risks of infection and overdose.
The New Mexico legislature approves an appropriations bill directing the secretary of state in cooperation with the State Records Center to review records for a leaner system. It sets salary ceilings, empowers the police chief hire, and conditions funds on force strength. A constitutional amendment favors Highway Department restructuring, and lawmakers debate candidate fees and direct primary reforms. Sen Harold Runnels and Rep John Mershon note legislature's power to shape agencies.
News notes from the 28th Legislature cover a proposed governor appointed five member commission for redistricting the highway district and the creation of a State highway engineer. The House repeals retirement act are stalled while a report on the retirement fund is requested.
A reader notes gymnastic programs train many youths despite claims of poor fitness, then shifts to water policy in Carlsbad and Roswell. He questions anti water rulings harming local supply, applauds Roswell Museum expansion, laments library underfunding, and thanks Chaves county freshmen legislators for work in the New Mexico Legislature.
On this day in history the Senate rejected the Versailles peace treaty in 1920. Also, in 1690 Massachusetts called for the first Congress of the American Colonies. William Jennings Bryan was born in 1860 in Salem, Illinois.
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