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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1978
Page
2
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance addressed the U.N General Assembly urging members to back the Camp David Middle East peace framework. He highlighted the accords as a path to regional stability and urged international backing.
Rosalynn Carter, in Cedar Rapids on a Democratic fundraising swing, cites her mother’s 1975 forced retirement from the Postal Department as evidence of elder hardship. She describes it as traumatic and notes people assume seniors cannot work.
London AP reports singer Connie Francis was robbed at the Park Lane Hilton of jewels and cash totaling about $40,000. Police investigate as theft case unfolds with investigators reviewing security footage and hotel records.
Marysville Michigan AP reports Silvio Luciani a 79 year old retired bricklayer and cousin of Pope John Paul I recalls the late pope as full of life after he died of a heart attack in Rome. Luciani attended the coronation and describes the pope as always laughing and smiling. He hopes to attend the funeral but may be unable to travel.
Billy Carter and a party of Georgians travel to Libya for a people to people visit. The trip is described by State Department spokesman Kenneth Brown as unofficial and unrelated to official U.S. policy amid Libya's strict norms and anti American sentiment.
Congress via a Senate provision exempted grocery baggers at military commissaries from a Civil Service Commission ruling. The change preserves part time bagger work for teens, retirees, and off duty servicemen, avoiding a 2 percent shopper surcharge and full time status.
The Senate authorized 2.97 billion for nuclear projects this fiscal year with a 68 to 1 vote. Sen. Proxmire opposed as premature. the bill moves to a House Senate conference to reconcile differences. The measure calls for immediate production and stockpiling of neutron elements for potential use in Lance missiles and howitzer shells.
Police say two Roswell men were stabbed Friday night during a fight at Panama Red's at 511 S Main St. Odel Stoker, 42, was wounded in the back, stomach and arm after claiming four unknown attackers. Billy Joe Richardson, 31, was stabbed while trying to intervene. Both were treated and released from St Marys Hospital.
State Sen. Aubrey Dunn urged a Roswell gathering that any tax cuts be matched with a spending lid and a state hiring moratorium. He warned that permanent tax reductions and influxes of federal funds risk future budget gaps, and favored constitutional or statutory spending limits and reform of the state personnel system. Dunn questioned proposals to exclude items from the gross receipts tax and criticized federal rules on welfare and programs like CETA.
The Lincoln County Historical Society marked the 100th anniversary of Lew Wallace becoming New Mexico governor with a tamale pie supper hosted by Mr and Mrs Robert Anderson. Attendees included Mrs Louise Coe, Mr and Mrs Peter Hurd, with Norman Cleveland and Loraine Lavender as speakers recounting Wallace and the Santa Fe Ring, and Morley’s storied role surveying the Santa Fe Railway route.
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