Community Groups Hold Meetings and Installations in Roswell Area
On October 6 1952 the Mountain View Extension Club elected new officers at Mrs A H Daniels Route 11 home. Peggy Holloway was installed as Rainbow Girls worthy advisor in Lovington. A concert by Ann Hitchcock Parkhurst was planned at the museum with Mrs Floyd Childress. Various local clubs held dinners reviews and club activities at Village Inn South Spring Acres and Roswell area homes.
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Mountain View Extension Club
A.H. Daniel
Route 11
Harry Patterson
Curtis Allman
R.F. O'Neil
A.L. Meadows
Charles Wilcoxson
Peggy Holloway
Marie White
Lovington
Roswell
Paul Thoma
Order of Rainbow Girls
Ann Hitchcock Parkhurst
E.W. Hitchcock
Floyd Childress
Mary
First Baptist Church
Weaver Hedgcoxe
Village Inn
W.N. Worthington
South Spring Acres
J.P. Williams
George Slaughter
Roswell Voters Face Villa Solano Prison Question
Roswell area residents weigh a plan to convert Villa Solano State School 25 miles south into a minimum security prison to relieve statewide overcrowding. Corrections Secretary Ed Mahr and Gov. Apodaca planned a Monday briefing with area lawmakers to gauge community opinion and federal approval.
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Roswell
Villa Solano State School
Villa Solano
State Corrections Commission
New Mexico
Corrections
Ed Mahr
Mahr
Jerry Apodaca
Lions Club Thanks Local Businesses For Fair Charity
The Roswell Downtown Lions Club publicly thanks Pecos Valley Coca-Cola Bottling Co and Clardy’s Dairy Products for donating beverages and ice cream to special education children at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. The event, aided by school buses from the Fair Board, provided 451 hamburgers 128 hot dogs and 504 ice cream sandwiches for Villa Solano Program Ft Stanton Hospital and Roswell special education classes.
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Roswell
Lions Club
New Mexico
Richard Sweatt
Villa Solano
Ft. Stanton
Special
Lions
Clardy’s Dairy Products
Pecos Valley
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Walt Whitmore
Roswell Downtown
P.O
This Day in History October 6 1977 Highlights
Today marks October 6 1977 with historic events across centuries including German settlers arriving in Philadelphia in 1683, Austria-Hungary war in 1848, Jazz Singer debut in 1927, and Thailand’s 1975 coup aftermath. Notable birthdays include Maria Jeritza turning 80.
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Associated Press
America
Philadelphia
Austria
Hungary
Salt Lake City
Utah
Tripoli
al Jolson
League of Nations
China
Saltillo
Mexico
Thailand
Maria Jeritza
Aldous Huxley
Phone it probe hits big wall
Gossip notes barbed by political chatter and budgets while reporting large state long distance charges by Sen. Eddie Barboa. The piece hints at possible probes, cabinet reshuffles, and insider bets on Lt. Governor hopefuls amid ongoing questions about state phone use and an insurance sales intrusion at the Employment Security Commission.
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Eddie Barboa
Bernalillo County
Big Eddie
GOP
Legislative Council
Barboa
Employment Security Commission
ESC
Anxious Army Produces High Fragmentation Shell Risks
Army officials rushed the M-549 155 mm shell into production despite tests at Frankford Arsenal showing potential premature rupture. The brittle warhead casing could blast apart on launch, risking withering fragmentation of the field, with no guaranteed safe inspections. Some 35,000 shells released. Army reports no injuries.
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Army
Frankford
Philadelphia
Army Ammunition Plant
Burlington
Iowa
Weighty executives face fat penalties in Korda survey
The Michael Korda book Success cites a survey of 15,000 top executives showing fat officers are paid less and rise slower. J.B. of Consolidated laments the weight rules as vice presidents total 5,557 pounds, averaging over 150, with plans to hire 300-pound women or force 30-pound gains to dodge federal scrutiny.
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IRS
N.Y
J.B
Consolidated
Smarmsworth
Washington
Justice Department
Smarm
Sworth
Fu Manchu
London
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P.S
Fair Board
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Boris Dotsenko
Canada
Ernie Mills
Senate Committee On Committees
Balboa
Big Duke City
Ben Hernandez
House of Representatives
Hernandez
Fernando C. de Baca
George Goldstein
Bill Anderson
C. de Baca
Human Services Department
Health and Environment
Dr. Goldstein
Anderson
Labor and Employment Services
Tonen
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Congress
New York
IBM
David Boies
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Cravath
WHO
Bert Lance
Lance
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
White House
Berry Goldberg
Frank Johnson
Carter
FBI
Eric Zausner
Nixon
Federal Energy Administration
Booz Allen
Hamilton
Zausner
William Gouse
Gouse
Russell Baker
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