Sidelights On The News Highlights Roswell Deficits
Will Lawrence and Rev. Tom Brabham spotlighted outdoor and indoor athletic facilities and public library needs in Roswell. J. D. Shinkle and Col. D. C. Pearson urge school gym use and expanded library holdings, while defense needs prompt draft-like measures for striking workers. The piece also notes disputes in the legislature over oil, mining taxes and calls for civic and housing improvements, plus readiness of livestock, oil, and mining for national defense.
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Rotary
Will Lawrence
Tom Brabham
Roswell
J. D. Shinkle
Col
D. C. Pearson
The
Military Institute
Mr. Shinkle
Col. Pearson
The Wraith of White Sands Legend in New Mexico
The article recalls Pavlo Blanco the White Wraith a Spanish legend at White Sands National Monument New Mexico describing a specter in wedding gown seen after sundown over gypsum dunes. It notes wind erases tracks and outlines the albino desert and mentions gypsum composition and dune heights. It also discusses oil industry tax rhetoric referencing gasoline tax revenue and population growth from 1930 to 1940 with federal and state tax shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Pavlo Blancho
White Sands National Monument
Pavlo Blanco
Sahara
Tularesa
U. S. Travel Bureau
The
American Petroleum Institute
Institute
Hope Mars Its Dam To Aid Water Need
A small dam on the Penasco river above Hope is praised as overdue and expanded by federal funds. The piece notes local $10,000 matched by $50,000 federal aid, calls for broader flood control, and mentions racial tensions in apportionment voting, weather impacts on spring grazing, Italian military setbacks, and protests over draft wage inequities.
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Penasco
Town of Hope
Texas
New Mexico
Hope
Hondo
Roswell
Europe
Africa
Bills In Legislature Summary From March 26
Legislation moves include HB6 and HB275 from corporations to judiciary, HB226 to highways, and SB9 SB31 SB45 SB46 amended by Senate. Several bills renamed or referred to committees, with HJR motions and appropriations actions noted. Multiple items killed or laid over, including driver license transfer proposal HB186 and various tax, public lands, and education measures.
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Associated Press
House
Corporations
Judiciary
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Appropriations
State
Naturopathy Board
Morgan
Rutherford
Miles
American Foundation For the Blind
House of Representatives
Elephant Butte Lake
State Finance Board
State Game Commission
Lincoln County
House Adopts Local Hearings on Liquor Licenses Bill
New Mexico House passed a bill 36 to 5 to allow localities to protest liquor license actions by the state liquor control chief. The measure would let communities call hearings and permit license derfy if warranted, regardless of past applicant records. The governor must sign, as the bill moves forward in Santa Fe.
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Santa FE
N. M
Alfonso B. Baca
Townsend O. K
House
H. Verle Payne
Elias Gonzales
Townsend
Payne
Gonzales
Gilbert Lopez
J. O. Richardson
D- Bernalillo
Richardson
Don McCormick
D-Sea
New Mexico
Miles
Senate
Strikes and political scenes ripple across major plants
Strikes roll across the Midwest and Great Lakes with clashes at International Harvester and a CIO picket line at Carnegie-Illinois Steel in Gary Indiana. Police and emergency orders frame tense labor action as thousands of CIO members at Bethlehem Lackawanna threaten action over unfulfilled agreements.
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G. H. Helscher
International Harvester Company
CIO
Gary
Ind
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
John Knotts
Lake County
Allis-Chalmers
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Knox
Knudsen
Philip Murray
Congress
Hope Area Highway 83 Progress and Local Notices
Hope News reports progress on Highway 83 including widening plans from Hope to Artesia, planned bridge work on Eagle Draw, and Black topping extending beyond Y-O Crossing. The Hope Retard Dam is finished with new street lights, and maintenance crews are reshaping roadbeds west of Hope.
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Highway 83 Association
Alamogordo
Hope
Lovington
Y-O
Penasco
Artesia
Carlsbad
Eagle Draw
Reported to Senate Without Recommendation Calendar Item
Legislation SB23 through SB55 was reported to the Senate without recommendation and placed on the calendar. The move flags the measure for potential session action and possible floor debate as lawmakers consider advancing or amending the package.
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Senate
Conscientious Objectors In New Mexico Draft
About 25,000 men classified in New Mexico draft, only nineteen seek conscientious objector deferments. Those fit for service will be placed in civilian projects similar to the CCC. Attitudes toward objection markedly broader than in the last war.
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New Mexico
CCC
Elida Faces Water Shortage As May First Deadline Looms
Elida grapples with a severe water deficit as private residential users must source water after May 1. Editor H C McCowen urges homeowners to build cisterns to cope, warning the town is dissolving toward becoming a ghost town after boom times with ample water.
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Elida
H. C. McCowen
Kibbe a Phone Magnate and Odd Fellows sigadier
Kibbe Dr C T, a phone magnate and sigadier of the Odd Fellows, has run the exchange at Kilda for several years and now …
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Kibbe
C. T. Kibbe
Sigadier Brindle
The
Odd Fellows
Exchange
Kilda
Paving at Tucumcari May Edge Forward Despite Costs
The Tucumcari paving campaign faces delays as only 40 percent of the initial stretches may be completed. Despite lower projected costs, the project strains budget expectations and prompts mixed views on sacrifices to finish the work.
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Tucumcari
Rapid Pace State Legislature In Disposing Of Bills
Santa Fe reports the Fifteenth Legislature works hard as week ended March 22 shows 49 senate and 25 house bills passed while 15 senate and 22 house measures were killed. New 9 am sessions boost attendance. Rep H Vearle Payne named coordinator to speed hearings. Sen Burton Roach pushes early starts to finish work.
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Santa FE
Senate
House
H. Vearle Payne
Hidalgo County
Frank McCarthy
Burton Roach
Sierra County
Sadale
U. S. To Use Big Stick On Strikes
Washington reports that a broad new government power bill to curb defense production stoppages is under consideration by congressional leaders. The measure would give President Roosevelt a big stick via a national defense mediation board to intervene when manufacturers fail to carry out defense contracts, expanding the Selective Service Act authority to take over noncooperative plants.
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United States
Congress
CIO
Washington
Preside
Roosevelt
National Defense Mediation Board
Local residents host weekend social notes
Louise Goddard was a dinner guest of Lewis and Aline Scogginast Sunday. Miss Alice Brady of Clovis spent the weekend with Miss Lois Beck. Miss Martha Kletke visited her sister Miss Hilda Kletke of tesia over the weekend. Mrs R L Cole attended the post matron in Artesia last Monday. Mr and Mrs M E Wathen visited their daughter Mrs M L Worley of Roswell Tuesday.
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Maurice Teel
Newt Teel
el Paso
Baptist Convention
Artesia
George Knievin
J. C. Bumgardener
Mary Alice Bumgardener
Marie Wathen
Connie Harrison
Willie Pearl
Mary Ethel Wood
Dorothy Fore
Horton Bumgardener
Raymond Jones
Hobbs
Rosebud
N. M
Corpus Christi
San Antonio
Texas
Billy Coates
Cecil Coates
Hillary White
Roswell
L. A. Zumwalt
R. J. Murray
June
R. C. Horner
John Ward
Hal Hamill
White
Stinett
Frank Crockett
E. C. Hawkins
Las Vegas
Hawkins
Hope
Monument
Lora Mae Teel
James Robertson
Mary
Louise Goddard
Lewis and
Aline
Alice Brady
Clovis
Lois Beck
Martha Kletke
Hilda Kletke
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Will Robinson
America
Cleve Hallenbeck
Montoya
Unemployment Compensation Commission
American Foundation For Blind
Pension
Miners’ Hospital
Reformatory
Sheep Sanitary Board
C. C. Clark
Conservancy
Henry Arrey
State Department of Minerals
Sumners
D-Tex
Judiciary Committee
Mediation Board
Perkins
Bethlehem
Lackawanna
Buffalo
N. Y
Walworth Manufacuring Company
South
Boston
Pressed Steel Car Company
Pittsburgh
Federal Court
Neblett
DeVargas
John Wesley Hall
Harvey
Tom
Joe Cunningham
Cap Rock
Cunningham
Lea
Clarence Hinkle
J. O. Seth
W. E. Whitmore
KGFL
W. C. Holland
Chaves
McNally-Hall
Edward L. Manson
State Planning Board
Rockwall County
Amarillo
W. O. McCollum
Blythe
Virgil
Chunky
Manuel Moseley
Hamburger King
Gov. Miles
Cr. C. Cagle
Ford
Raymond Smith
Moseley
Bill Carroll
Las Cruces
Walter McDonald
Eddy County
Sra. Collier
Pueblo
Cliff Arnold
Tafoya
Barbers Trust
Margaret Neal
Lea County
Marie Tom
Ross Malone Jr
Hope News
Tatum
U. S
Geo. Harkness, Mgr
Carrizozo
Roswell - Carrizozo Truck Line
RoSwell— Mon
Roswell PH
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