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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1994
Page
1
A four star general toured the Roving Sands 94 exercise as part of a local page two briefing. The visit highlighted training readiness and interagency collaboration with the Army and allied units.
At Imola Italy the San Marino Grand Prix devolved into a weekend of death as Ayrton Senna dies after a high speed crash into a concrete wall at 186 mph and rookie Roland Ratzenberger is killed in Saturday’s qualifying.
Tuberculosis was a potential killer. It ate away the flesh, earning the disease the name consumption. The disease did not spare any person.
The ANC leads South Africa's first election with 55 percent early results, while de Klerk's National Party sits at 30 percent and the party eyeing a two party system. Mandela appears poised as the ANC's symbol of unity amid expectations of broad coalitions with white and Zulu groups.
Dana Davies Record Staff Writer Roswell resident Pete Main, 42, has built a life around music. He plays clarinet saxophone flute and keyboards and was named one of five New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Music Teachers of the Year on April 9 for his long term service and impact on students. Main credited early love of music and a career choice shaped by family moving to Roswell in 1957.
Balloonists prepare for a weekend rally raising funds for Roswell PD G R E R T and D A R E programs. About 40 pilots from Texas Arizona Kansas Colorado and New Mexico attend with 22 sponsors already on board. A special balloon Hot Pursuit features a policeman head with a helmet. Prospective sponsors pay 250 for two rides and party access. The event is free to the public at Delray Soccer Field with local concessions supporting community causes.
The 152nd Reconnaissance Group, known as the High Rollers, deploys 70 personnel with three RF-4C Phantom IIs and four mobile photo processing vans to Roving Sands '94. Vans offer full processing, interpretation, darkroom and admin spaces and can be operational within three hours for day and night reconnaissance tasks.
Rep Richard T Knowles Republican Osroell says he will run again for a seventh two year term in the New Mexico House of Representatives District 57. He cites experience on finance appropriations energy and interim committees and emphasizes education and youth as priorities. See Knowles Page 5
The Roswell Daily Record received five awards at the 1994 New Mexico AP Managing Editors banquet in Albuquerque. It earned first in Front Page or Section Front for Division B and staff members won multiple honors including Editorials, Headlines, Feature Writing, and Spot News Photo. Other top winners included The Albuquerque Tribune, Gallup Independent, Artesia Daily Press, and Clovis News-Journal.
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