Skylab sightings reported by local families in Roswell
Skylab I was visible to the naked eye for about five minutes around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday as it crossed from northeast to southwest. It was observed by Marion S. Dees and William R. Carpenter families at 1513 and 1515 S Lea Ave, Roswell. Lane Robinson, a 1973 Goddard High School graduate, won a music scholarship to Eastern New Mexico University Portales to study voice, announced after the GHS awards assembly.
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Marion S. Dees
William R. Carpenter
S. Lea Ave
Dees
Roswell
Lane Robinson
Goddard High School
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales
Robinson
Walter C. Robinson
Washington Ave
GHS
Drive Safely Through Park Areas Amid Busy Summer
A La Honda Happenings note from Kiwanis Club urges caution as parks and swimming pools fill with children this season. It stresses drivers watch for youngsters and chimes in on valuing today while learning from yesterday.
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la Honda
Kiwanis Club
Roswell Leaders Highlight Growth and Local Cooperation
City officials praise Eastern New Mexico University Roswell for training labor and note dean John Gillis would assist industry. They cite strong banking collaboration, rising construction and industry expansion, plus job gains as evidence Roswell is growing.
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Eastern New Mexico University
Roswell
John Gillis
Starkey
Brainerd
Weather service ends small craft flag use at Cleveland marinas
The National Weather Service says flags will no longer mark marinas this summer. Boaters are urged to rely on VHF radios or station forecasts for weather, citing past unreliability of flag signaling at local docks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
National Weather Service
Bill Kennedy
Weather Service
Chaves County Democrats to Meet at East Grand Plains
Roswell Democrat chair Pauline Mann announced a party for all Chaves County Democrats at 7 p.m. Friday at the Morgan Nelson residence in East Grand Plains. The home lies between the East Grand Plains Lions Club and the East Grand Plains School. All Democrats are invited.
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Chaves County
Democratic Party
Pauline Mann
Roswell
Morgan Nelson
East Grand Plains
Lions Club
East Grand Plains School
Manne
Irish election shocks as Childers topples O Hignis for presidency
Irish voters chose Erskine Childers a 68 year old Protestant with English roots to succeed Eamon de Valera as Ireland's president. Childers defeated Tom O'Higgins despite forecasters bets while de Valera, 91, retires to a Dublin suburb home in late June.
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Associated Press
Ireland
Erskine Childers
Eamon de Valera
Republic
Childers
Tom O'Higgins
National Coalition
de Valera
Dublin
Roswell Defendants Face Guilty Pleas and Trials in Local Court
Oran Parker, 29, of Motor Route 31, pleaded guilty to battery in magistrate court and received 90 days in Chaves County Jail before Judge Kent Shannon. In district court Parker faced aggravated battery charges for a Feb 10 stabbing at the Golden Spur Lounge. Fran Gabaldon, 19, of 1203 E. Second St., was found guilty of auto burglary and firearm larceny and to consecutive sentences of one to five years at the state penitentiary. Homer Lee Warner, 22, and Frank Alvarado, 18, face trial on separate burglary and aggravated battery charges respectively, with Warner pleading not guilty to attempted aggravated burglary and Alvarado charged in connection with a March 10 injury.
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Roswell
Oran Royce Parker
Kent Shannon
Chaves
Parker
Fifth Judicial District
Paul Snead
Dick C. Davis
Broken Arrow Road
Golden Spur
Gabaldon
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Denny Brewton
W. First St
Homer Lee Warner
Jefferson St
Frank Alvarado
EE. Hendricks
Alvarado
James Lerner
S. Lea
Navajo Tribe seeks training for 1000 teachers nationwide schools
Train Navajo teachers Aid to be asked WINDOW ROCK Ariz AP The Navajo Tribe plans to ask government agencies to train 1000 more Navajo teachers for schools on or near the reservation. Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald says the program could take five years and place teachers in public and BIA schools. The agency would be recognized as a Navajo Tribal Education Agency on par with state departments of education and influence policy affecting Navajo children.
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Window Rock
Ariz
Peter MacDonald
Bureau of Indian Affairs
MacDonald
U.S. Office of Education
State Departments of Education
State Departments
State Boards of Education
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Mission
BIA
Utah
Teenagers riot in Atlantic City merchants festival
About 2,000 teens roamed the main business district hurling rocks and bottles. Policeman Mike Friel was stabbed and treated at Atlantic City Hospital, which released him. Ten pedestrians and a taxi driver were treated and released. About 20 youths and an adult were arrested on riot related charges as calm returned by 1 a.m.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Mike Friel
Atlantic City Hospital
Two Roswell Juveniles Arrested In Allied Radio Shack Burglary
Roswell police arrested two youths Wednesday night in connection with the Tuesday burglary of Allied Radio Shack at Second and Main. Police found several hundred dollars of merchandise from the store in the youths' possession. A missing 1961 Cadillac owned by George H. Bennett was stolen near Green Lantern Bar and recovered later. A window at Pecos Elementary School was found broken with a Sony 17 inch portable TV valued over $100 missing.
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Roswell
Allied Radio Shack
Joe Alvarez
Flamingo Bar
George H. Bennett
E. Fouth St
Green Lantern Bar
N. Main
Pecos
E. Hobbs
Dora O'Neill services set here Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Lee O Neill 85 of 304 S Washington Ave will be at 4 p m Friday Ballard Funeral Home Chapel with Dr Austin H Dillon officiating Burial will be in South Park Cemetery Special music by Mrs Geraldine Barbee She died Tuesday after a brief illness Born March 4 1888 in Waldo Ark she moved to Roswell in 1924 with the late Sam Patterson Pat ONeill Survivors include one son James Pat ONeill four grandchildren and one great grandchild Burial details and memorials favor the American Heart Assn through the Chaves County Heart Fund Toledo
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Dora Lee O’neill
S. Washington Ave
Ballard Funeral Home
Austin H. Dillon
First United Methodist Church
South Park Cemetery
Geraldine Barbee
O'Neill
Waldo
Ark
Roswell
Sam Patterson
Pat’’ O'Neill
U.S
O’neill
James Pat O'Neill
Santa Monica
Calif
Howell Pat Russ
Sandra Lee Russ
Albuquerque
Kathy O'Neill
Santa Barbara
Walter Szazepanek
Los Angeles
Carroll Brent Taylor
Gran Vista Drive
San Antonio
Tex
Brent
Maj
Richard I
Curtistine Fulcher Taylor
Ft. Sam Houston Hospital
Odell Farr
West Alameda
American Heart Assn
Chaves County Heart Fund
P.O. Box
New Mexico
Market slides dampened by rates and economy worries
Stocks remained broadly lower in New York trading as the Dow fell about 6 points to 902.84 at midday amid a two day loss of 22. Declines outpaced advances on the NYSE by more than 3 to 1 as analysts cited rising rates dollar pressure and an possible slow down after weaker April orders and economic indicators. H R Block led volume on the NYSE at 57 and a half after a large block sale. On the AMEX the price change index stood at 22.58 and the Big Board index at 59.53. Domenici pleaded for 1.6 million for Cochiti Lake recreation facilities and 385 thousand for Animas La Plata irrigation, noting the 1974 budget had provided none.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
U.S
H&r Block
American Stock Exchange
Washington
Pete Domenici
Public Works
Senate Appropriations Committee
New Mexico
New Communities program hampered by local delays and funding
HUD Secretary James T. Lynn testified that state and local obstacles slow the 1970 New Communities program. Fifteen projects totaling about 900,000 people have $293 million in guaranteed loans. New York leads by using the program to create a land development agency. He noted environmental opposition and rural job shortages as ongoing issues.
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Washington
Housing and Urban Development
James T. Lynn
House
Lynn
New York
Flower Mound
Dallas
Park Forest South
Chicago
Shennandoah
Georgia
HUD
Gold price jumps to record in London market
Gold opened 1 dollar higher at 115 an ounce in London as Ascension Day kept trading limited to five dealers. By midmorning the price eased 50 cents amid moderate turnover while the dollar weakened against the pound. In Hong Kong gold rose near 4 dollars to 115.31 as Asian markets tracked European moves. The pound floated around 2.5650 to 2.5680 per dollar with Tokyo dollar/yen dipping slightly.
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London
U.S
Hong Kong
Europe
Zurich
Tokyo
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