Snow Falls on Roswell Area As Hobbs Band Delivers
Frigid Friday night crowds filled Wool Bowl Stadium as Roswell hosts Hobbs with 10,000 in attendance. Rodney Price misses game due to family health issues while Hobbs band overcomes a breakdown en route and delivers a strong halftime performance. Breakfast Sertoma Club seeks used hearing aids for the elderly and will collect them via volunteers.
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Wool Bowl Stadium
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Coyotes
Doug
Mary
Rodney
Hobbs Eagles
Roswell
Hobbs
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Red
Sertoma Club
Darvin Stevens
John Hoffman
Gulf platform tank rupture kills one. 13 burned
A tank rupture on a Gulf of Mexico oil platform near Grand Isle Louisiana leaves one dead and 13 injured with two in critical condition. Humble Oil confirmed the Friday night accident occurred about 27 miles offshore.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Grand Isle
Roswell Woman Survives Havana Hijack Flight 257
Mrs. L Manire of 1504 S Missouri Ave Roswell survived an Eastern Air Lines DC9 hijack over South Carolina en route to Havana from Raleigh. The hijacker Gilbert Jones, aided by two soldiers, took the plane to Cuba. passengers were detained briefly, later returned to Miami.
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S. Missouri Ave
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Morris Ward
W. Frazier St
Jim West
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Manire
Eastern Air Lines
South Carolina
Richmond
Dallas
Tex
Raleigh
Chapel Hill
N.o
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Jacksonville
Fla
Sky
Roswell
Gilbert Jones
Miami
Downtown Roswell Parade Promises Cash Prizes for Floats
The Downtown Roswell Association sponsors a December 5 parade at 10 a.m. with prizes of 50, 25 and 15 dollars for top floats and 30 dollars for the first 10 nonprofit entries. Floats enter at Main and Alameda, ending at the Chaves County Courthouse where Santa will greet children. Choral groups from Roswell and Goddard High Schools perform downtown 3 to 4 p.m. on dates to be announced.
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Alameda
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Roswell
California Blaze Drives Out 2,000
A 20 mile long brush and timber fire in the San Bernardino National Forest forced 2000 residents from their homes. Winds up to 60 mph pushed the triangular blaze across 50000 acres and destroyed 36 houses. Firefighters focused on Running Springs while many evacuees began to return.
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Ronald Reagan
San Bernardino County
Smiley Park
Big Bear Lake
California
Cucamonga
Marshall University Football Plane Crashes Near Kenova
A Southern Airways DC9 carrying Marshall University's football team and supporters crashed near Kenova West Virginia killing all 70 passengers and five crew. Witnesses described a giant ball of fire as the jet hit a hill in light fog.
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Steve Shipp
Associated Press
Kenova
W.va
Southern Airways
Marshall University
Federal Aviation Agency
Atlanta
Marshall
Wichita
State University
Colorado
John Young
Young
Albert Rich
Rich
Kenova Fire Department
West Virginia
Huntington
Ohio River
Kentucky
Ohio
Tri-State
Levis Plant Drives Roswell Job Growth
Levi Strauss & Co. operates the citys largest employer with two plants, one on U S 285 and another at Roswell Industrial Air Center. The firm plans to add 100 jobs next year, bringing total employment to 420.
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Levi Strauss & Co
U.S. 285
Levi
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Roswell
Local GM Pacts Remain Unresolved Amid Broad UAW Talks
DETROIT (RP) GM labor negotiators stayed ready as 65 local plant agreements remained unsettled while the UAW pressed to conclude a tentative national contract by Friday with 394,000 striking workers. Voting on the pact was expected to ratify, potentially restoring most GM production by December 1.
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General Motors
United Auto Workers
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
United States
Chrysler
Ford
Ken Bannon
Ford Department
Chysler
Malaysia Halts Sales of Time Magazine
Kuala Lumpur AP says the government ordered Time distributors to remove a four color spread on Communist China from the current issue before sale. Home Affairs Secretary Sheikh Abdullah cited misleading public elements and said the issue itself is not banned and experts advised removing the pictures of China’s anniversary celebrations in Peking.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Time Magazine
China
Home Affairs
Sheikh Abdullah
Peking
Six New Mexico Projects To Be Submitted
Six New Mexico projects totaling 216055 dollars will be submitted to the Four Corners Regional Commission at its next meeting. They include airport work at Silver City Grants and Carrizozo and irrigation projects at Cubero Springer and Waterflow. Governor Cargo endorsed the grants on Friday.
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New Mexico
Four Corners
Carrizozo
Cubero
Farmers Mutual Ditch Co
Springer Ditch Co
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