Princess Margaret and Earl View New York From Empire State
Britain's Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon toured the Empire State Building viewing New York from the 102nd floor with a 20 mile sightline. Police report the security level rivaled Castro era crowds as 1 500 spectators gathered and 55 officers searched the building after a hoax bomb call.
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New York
Britain
Margaret
Earl of Snowdon
America
Empire State Building
4-H Awards Night Honors County Members and Leaders
Almost 300 Chaves County 4-H members earned completion certificates for 1964 1965 projects and about 50 received special awards at the Dexter High School auditorium. Distinction went to Mr and Mrs Olen Featherstone of Roswell. Silver Clover Leaders awards honored five years of service to Howard Hendricks R B West and Oscar Kunkel. Gold Clover Leaders pin to Morgan Nelson. Awards also recognized garden, leadership, home economics, conservation, beef swine poultry agriculture clothing and other project categories with multiple individuals named. Fifty nine leaders received certificates and pins. several clubs and 4-H groups were cited for earning certificates and pins.
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Featherstones
Andrs. Olen Featherstone
Roswell
Chaves County
4-H
Cherri Michelet
4-H Council
Wyatt
4- H
Olen Featherstone
Howard Hendricks
R.B. West
Oscar Kunkel
Morgan Nelson
Walker
Calico
Stitch and Stir
Spoon
Sunset Sunflowers
Travel to Outer Mongolia becomes cautionary tale
A travel agent recounts a trip for U S travelers to Mongolia including a women-only group. They sample a Mongolian picnic with a blackened animal carcass turned into a rare soup and drink fermented mare’s milk. Mongolia is remote, nomadic, and not yet ready for tourism despite a luxury hotel and English speakers. The travelers pivot to Tahiti.
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AL Stubbs
Outer Mongolia
Mongolia
New York City
Paul Zink
Roswell
Roswell Rotarians
New York
United States
Moscow
Zink
U.S.A
Cam
Veteran writer Will Harrison dies after heart attack in Colorado
Will Harrison, a renowned political columnist based in Santa Fe, died in Durango after his second heart attack in three weeks. The 58 year old battled Dist Court Judge Paul Tackett over a contempt ruling tied to his Morris of Artesia editorial series and won a Supreme Court reversal. Harrison began at the Gallup Independent at 27 and became a widely read New Mexico journalist with his Inside the Capital column.
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Durango
Colo
Will Harrison
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Mercy Hospital
Cortez
Mancos
Harrison
Texas
Paul Tackett
Albuquerque
Asst
Dist
Atto. C
Morris
Tackett
New Mexico Supreme Court
Madisonville
Tenn
Gallup Independent
Vietnamese Paratroopers Engage Heavy Fire Near Pleiku Front
Vietnamese government paratroopers linked with U S air Cavalry in Ia Drang faced stiff resistance near the Cambodian frontier. The night battle left light U S casualties and 21 NVA killed or captured, as B 52s bombed positions and forces massed to reinforce the cavalrymen.
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Peter Arnett Pleiku
U.S
Ia Drang
1St Cavalry
Guam
Pleiku
Cambodian
Roads to Nation Emphasis Highlighted at New Mexico Seminar
Rep. Tom Morris urged nationwide road building as essential for progress at the Southern New Mexico Highway Informational Seminar in Roswell. He traced federal involvement from 1775 post roads to 1916 matching funds, warned of past neglect, and called for emphasis on secondary roads and planning.
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Tom Morris
New Mexico
Morris
Sudderth
U. S
Tucumcari
Roswell Inn
Bill Armstrong
Roswell
Armstrong and Armstrong Construction
John Sudderth
Wyatt
Corona Rancher's Slayer Denied Another Parole
SANTA FE AP Luis Campos paroled in 1964 for murder and returned as a parole violator, denied parole again by the Board of Probation and Parole. Five other murderers were denied parole, including Roswell man Flotus Ray Cecil, and a Roswell woman Alberta Towns Harper granted parole for voluntary manslaughter in a Walker AFB death.
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Santa FE
Luis Campos
Board of Probation and Parole
Roswell
Walker Air Force Base
Campos
Pierre
Pete) Nalda
Lewis-Sanders
Corona
Alberta
Man 101 Weds 77 Year Old In Senior Home
Seattle AP report: William Payson Holt who turns 102 next week and Karen Monrad 77, residents of a home for the elderly, married. Holt sought companionship and found his “baby bride.” Monrad, formerly of ae, says she loves him. It is Holt’s fourth marriage.
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Seattle
William Payson Holt
Karen Monrad
Holt
Mrs. Monrad
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Dexter
Princess
Fidel Castro
Building Observatory
Dexter High School
Robert Kunkel
Ronnie Harral
Fermin Montoya Jr
Danny Stein
Sear’s Garden
Jerry Hobson
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Linda Roach
Cecil Michelet
Bud Kunkel
Andrew Tisler
Charlene Ridgill
Terry Harshey
Roberta West
Ford Motor Co
Montgomery Ward
Sheila Hendricks
Anita Matta
Martha Vandeveer
Robbie Robinson
John Deere
E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co
Dennis Ray Jones
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co
Ray Miles
Don Miles
Charlene Schmidt
Carrol Schmidt
Heisdorf & Nelson Farms, Inc
Danny R. Burden
Billy J. Curtis
International Harvester Co
Bobby Kunkel
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Bill Perkins
Simplicity Pattern Co
Vicki Watson
Cay Botwinis
Sallie Roberts
Shirley Boydston
Vonda Allman
Cathy Buchanan
Jeanie Shuey
Coats & Clark Inc
Carolyn Tisler
Rebecca Truelove
Pure Oil Co
Pat Dement
General Foods Corp
Standard Brands Inc
Linda Lewis Thompson
Eastman Kodak Co
Jane Henderson
Lake Arthur
Dexteers
Hagerman
East Grand Plains
Berrendo
Los Caballeros
Pigeon
Conejo
Boaz
Roadrunner Electric
Parkview Electric
4-Leaf Clover
Gobi Desert
Tahiti
R. W. de la Rue
Highway Department
Highway Commission
Corona Rancher
Flotus Ray Cecil
Johnny Salazar
Joe Lucero
Cornelius Cruz
Travel Reservations, Inc
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