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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1956
Page
2
The government says peasant resistance to collectivization prompts a new plan. Agricultural cooperatives must pay in advance for grains cotton and vegetable oil crops to ensure the state receives the produce before planting, as reported by Peiping's People's Daily.
Hal Boyle profiles Aggie Lossiah, a 76 year old Cherokee Seasons custodian living in Piney Grove, North Carolina. She walked 170 miles to settle on her hillside farm and laments modern times while clinging to simple comforts and hard work from her past. She notes oxen, iron pots, and family farming as core to happiness and recalls selling their last ox to send a son to college.
Artesia City Council opened bids for two new police cars awarded to Guy Chevrolet. Motorola Radio Corporation bid on three radios totaling 1405.40. Ward 1 councilman Lloyd Walker resigned, with Clayton Menefee filling the seat. Fire chief proposed third firefighter and a second station plus a new truck at about 14000, plus possible sale of old truck. No action on fire proposals. sale of old truck at 1500 seeks buyer.
Mrs. Sophia Wellstead, age 105, celebrated her birthday at home in Winterbourne Kingston England by drinking a tall glass of gin and port. She told a reporter it has never harmed her and it is too late to worry about it now.
Mrs. D A Lowry returned from St Marys Hospital to Dexter. Bobbie and Debby Powell of Roswell visited their grandmother Mrs Mary Marshall. Mrs Edd Bunch went to Snyder Texas for her father W B Cox who had a bad fall and is hospitalized at Sweetwater. Mr and Mrs O R McMain of Grants visited Dexter. Mrs Mary Marshall hosted a canasta party with C A Greene Mrs Harriet Weir Miss Violet Smith Mrs Maud Preston and Carl Henderson of Santa Fe. Robbie Kerr is home on leave and will head to the west coast then overseas. Stanley Willard left for camp in Puerto Rico.
Edgar M. Alexander, 77, longtime advertising manager for the Daily Mirror Sunday magazine and comic section, pioneer publisher of the Mirror, and former vice president of the New York Morning and Evening World, died in Mount Vernon, New York.
The United States produced more than 500 million pounds of frozen foods in 1955 signaling a strong growth year for the industry. The figure reflects expanding demand for preserved goods and advances in freezing technology.
Edward Bukowski, 23, pleaded guilty to a driving while intoxicated charge in justice court before R. Perry Bean. He was fined 180. Marvin Elliott, 42, pled not guilty and bond set at 750 with a jury trial scheduled tomorrow. Earlier, two men and two women were fined 16.50 each for disordersly conduct and related offenses.
The report notes that deaths from communicable diseases accounted for 36 percent of all 1900 deaths, ranking among the ten leading causes, while today those diseases comprise only about 5 percent, reflecting a major change in public health over time.
The Jennings amendment to the Soil Bank Plan would ban federal lands from domestic livestock production for surplus classes, says Ivan Watson of New Mexico A&M College. New Mexico now uses about 40 percent of its federal lands for grazing under Forest Service and BLM control, and Watson warns the economy would suffer if adopted. More than 1,500 saber-tooth tiger skulls have been recovered from the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles.
A fragment mentions a well known city described as terribly muddy, with repeated questions about its size and notoriety. The source remains vague on specifics such as events, dates, or entities connected to the remark.
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