Roswell Jaycees win Geissenberg Trophy state wide
Roswell Junior Chamber of Commerce receives the Geissenberg Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding Jaycee chapter in New Mexico. Roswell's Bruin named state VP. Fuller of Clovis elected NM Jaycees president. Congress and local events cited include parades, Christmas projects, and a doubling of Roswell membership.
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Jaycees
Roswell
Ralph Fuller
Clovis
New Mexico Jaycees
Jack Gurley
Carlsbad
Erve Balcomb
Albuquerque
Joe Conaway
Hobbs
Bill Schwettmann
Las Cruces
Bruin
Bob Russian
Jaycee International
Roswell Jaycees
New Mexico
Discovery of Body Triggers Search for Chef's Wife
The decomposed body of 41 year old Joseph Werner, a former Fort Worth chef, was found on a farm near Jay Oklahoma. Authorities issued a pickup for his wife Leota Werner, 44, who sold the family home after his disappearance and claimed divorce.
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Jay, Okla
Delaware County Atty
Don Hampton
Joseph Werner
Triple X
Fort Worth
Sureau
Leota
Werner
Here
Ralph DeGarmo
Oklahoma City
Weather data and forecast for the day
Reading at 3 hour intervals shows highest 89 and lowest 43. Precipitation none in the 24 hours ending 11 am. month to date .23 and year to date .81 inches. Sunrise 4 57 sunset 6 52 length 13 9 hours. Forecast mostly clear through tomorrow with a warm afternoon and drying winds. High today 90 and low tonight 45.
Dexter Seniors Headed for Three Day Texas Senior Trip
Dexter seniors depart May 22 for a three day Texas trip. They will stay one night in San Antonio, one in Houston, and on the return trip stop for a night in Austin and another in San Angelo before arriving back in Dexter on May 28.
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Dexter
Galveston
Texas
San Antonio
Houston
Austin
San Angelo
Joan Crawford Heads on European Honeymoon
Joan Crawford and Alfred N. Steele depart by train to New York for a European honeymoon after a Las Vegas wedding. Steele, PepsiCo president, flew back to New York shortly after the ceremony. They plan to sail May 26 and spend time on the Isle of Capri before Crawford returns to Hollywood for a July 1 film start.
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Los Angeles
Joan Crawford
New York
Alfred N. Steele
Steele
Pepis- Cola Co
Las Vegas
Nev
Isle of Capri
Miss Crawford
Hollywood
Albuquerque Man Arrested in Bar Room Gun Death
Police hold Gilbert Baca without charge while investigating the death of Soilo Garcia 26 in an Albuquerque bar room brawl where bullets from a police gun struck Garcia. Baca says he drew his weapon to aid Officer Moses Sosa and did not intend to shoot.
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Albuquerque
Gilbert Baca
Baca
Soilo Garcia
Moses Sosa
Garcia
Sosa
Col Ward Granted Year-Long Leave From NM Military Institute
Clarence Hinkle announced Col Charles F Ward will take a one year leave of absence from his duties as superintendent of the New Mexico Military Institute due to ill health. The leave begins after this school year. no immediate successor is named and applications will be sought after commencement.
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Clarence Hinkle
Board of
Regents
New Mexico Military Institute
Charles F. Ward
Hinkle
Col. Ward
Institute
Austrian Chancellor Sees World Peace Path in Treaty
Vienna reports Chancellor Julius Raab said Austria’s independence treaty shows world peace can be advanced by negotiation. He called freedom for Austria crucial and said the pact indicates major powers can sit together, marking a easing of Cold War tensions despite undefined troop withdrawals.
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Vienna
Austria
Julius Raab
Raab
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Antoine Pinay
Harold Macmillan
U.S
State Dulles
V. M. Molotov
Dulles
George C. Marshall
Dean Acheson
Rainstorms Tease East Side of New Mexico
The east side of New Mexico saw only tease rainfall with Clayton recording 2.3 inches. Western areas cooled after strong winds. Farmington dropped to 29 degrees. Frost was unlikely outside the northwest, as readings ranged from 27 at Grants to 36 at Santa Fe. Carlsbad topped the state at 91 degrees.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Clayton
Farmington
Grants
Zuni
Santa Fe
Weather Bureau
Carlsbad
Dexter Students Elected to Council President and Officers
In the recent Student Council election Dexter students were elected for the 1955 56 school year Neal Markham named president Gloria Lowery vice president and Virginia Kimbrell secretary.
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Dexter
Neal Markham
Gloria Lowery
Virginia Kimbrell
Best One-Armed Dog Driver and Wife Honeymoon
Kenneth E. Bruce 36 and his bride Jane E. Eagle 30, both blind, honeymoon in South Pasadena after marrying yesterday at Oneonta Congregational Church. They met on a bus six weeks earlier and Bruce proposed while walking their guide dogs on Ocean Park pier. Bruce’s German shepherd Andy and Eagle’s collie Winnie waited outside the ceremony and later joined at the reception.
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Kenneth E. Bruce
Jane E. Eagle
Oneonta Congregational Church
Baby Survives River Ordeal After Wreck
An 18 month old San Juan Pueblo boy floated 106 feet downstream and was revived after being found face down in water. Four survivors were among a weekend Colorado crash that killed two local men Joe Louis Cata and Joe Julius Archuleta. In New Mexico a 17 year old Odessa girl Susan Fulcher died on a gravel road near Ruidoso adding to the year’s highway toll. The wreck on the Mescalero Apache reservation occurred when a car driven by Georgia Hubbard 18 lost control on loose gravel tumbling down a 10 foot embankment.
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Associated Press
San Juan Pueblo
N. M
Colorado
New Mexico
Odessa, Tex
Susan Fulcher
Ruidoso
Pagosa Springs
Joe Louis Cata
Joe Julius Archuleta
Colorado State Patrol
Cata
Archuleta
Stella Vigil
Francis Kay
Georgia Hubbard
Odessa
Aid to states proposed for polio vaccine distribution
The Eisenhower administration proposed a 28 million dollar federal aid program for polio vaccine distribution to low income children and a 2 million dollar boost for Public Health Service inspectors. The plan favors voluntary state distribution to reach the most needy quickly and safely while safety checks continue. Mrs. Hobby urged nationwide immunization through age 19 and faced congress on distribution criticism.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Hobby
White House
Eisenhowe
National Foundation For
Public Health Service
Congress
U. S. Public Health Service
Eli Lilly & Co
Indianapolis
Underwater A-Blast Expected Off California Coast
The 14-test atomic series concluded in three months and U S nuclear weaponeers anticipate an imminent underwater detonation off California. The Pacific test, led by the Navy, will occur far offshore with no AEC scientist present for the first time.
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Las Vegas
Nev
U. S
California
Pacific
Navy
Atomic Energy Commission
Gift Presentation To Jernick Tops Elks Convention
Roswell Lodge 969 presented a turquoise belt buckle to William J. Jernick of Nutley New Jersey grand exalted ruler at the New Mexico Elks convention grand ball. Attendance was 500 at the banquet and 750 registered for the convention.
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Roswell Lodge
William J. Jernick
Nutley
N. J
The
New Mexico Elks Assn
Roswell
Dallas
New Jersey
Austria Celebrates Dawn of Free Nation After Treaty
Jubilant Austrians welcomed the Big Four signed pact restoring sovereignty after 17 years under Nazi rule. Bells rang, crowds cheered at Belvedere Palace as Molotov Macmillan Dulles Pinay signed the treaty in Vienna. Revelers filled streets while concerns over future economy and Russia payments lingered.
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Vienna
Austria
Hitler
Nazi Germany
United States
Russia
Britain
France
U.S
V. M. Molotov
Harold Macmillan
Dulles
Antoine Pinay
Leopold Fig
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Yucca Flat
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