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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1941
Page
8
In Dallas a man asking if staff could sew led Homer Summers to sew a suspender bottom on for him at the emergency hospital. In Snow Hill Maryland a buzzing honey bee swarm damaged a rural phone line by chewing through the lead-in wire at Alex Bradford’s farmhouse.
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Sixteen oil firms submitted quotations to the New Mexico State Highway Department for about 400 carloads of road oil. The department will buy from the lowest cost bidder for each region, considering freight differences, and may use multiple companies. Also included is an entertainment note about The People Vs Dr Kildare at the Yucca and a Texas NM water dispute statement regarding Alamogordo reservoir discussions and a $300,000 federal share funding.
A survey of the Pecos river watershed to adjust rival Texas and New Mexico water rights claims will be published about July 1. New Mexico streams attorney A. T. Hannett announced after a state representative meeting.
New York May 15 Wen dell L Willkie said that the struggle will be won only through the work of labor. He spoke during the subscription book purchase for the American labor committee aiding British labor and urged American labor to respond to the call for help across national lines.
Gov Miles telegraphed President Roosevelt urging raising an existing WPA emergency flood project from 10 000 to 35 000 for New Mexico Rio Grande flood drive. He cites exhaustive studies by federal and state agencies and says current 19 000 allocation for project 65 1 85 54 is exhausted and an additional 25 000 is urgently needed.
A New Mexico state auditor reports shortages totaling 9569.77 dollars in Roosevelt County treasurer operations from 1933 to 1940. Bonding companies were asked to reimburse the county after actions by Attorney General E. P. Chase and District Attorney E. T. Hensely Jr. The audit cites shortages during Mrs Nonnie Mae Jones and Homer Barnett terms, including a suspense fund deficit and unaccounted tax receipts.
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