Fugitive Franco Face Murder Case In Roswell Area
Police and federal agents pursue Franco in a high profile case linked to the rape and stabbing death of 5 year old Sandra Jo Lucero near Roswell. An inquest found the child died from screwdriver wounds and investigators noted tire piles and sand tracks at Oasis Ranch.
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Brexico
Tommy Thompson
el Paso
J. C. Jones
Franco
Juarez
Sandra Jo Lucero
Clement Lucero
E. Tilden St
Oasis Ranch
Roswell
Sandra Joe
Irenio Ortega
Ortega
Sandra Jo
Oasis
A. S. Blauw
Lucero
Carl Nicholas
Dexter
Johnny Flores
Flores
San Patricio
Missile Chief Says Period Is Critical
In Beaumont Maj. Gen. Bernard Schriever warned the Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile program faces the most critical period in its history. He urged a highly professional defense and lamented resignations of top officers as modern arms threaten rapid strike potential.
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A&m
Paul Bryant
Aggie
Navy Plans Second Ballon Flight To Image Sun Surface
Princeton astronomer Dr. Martin Schwarzschild announced a second Navy balloon flight to photograph the sun from 80,000 feet aiming from Huron South Dakota around October 20. The project, involving ONR General Mills Princeton Colorado and Perkins Elmer, seeks images of eddies and depth to study brightness and temperature variation from center to edge.
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Minneapolis
Navy
Princeton
Martin Schwarzschild
Schwarzschild
Huron
S. D
South Dakota
Navy Project
Office of Naval Research
General Mills, Inc
Princeton University
University of Colorado
Perkins-Elmer iCorp
Norwalk
Conn
Turley Pitches Four-Hitter to Square Series
The Yankees tie the World Series at 3-3 by defeating the Milwaukee Braves 3-2 in a home run battle. Bob Turley held Milwaukee to four hits, extended the series to a decisive seventh game in New York, with Yogi Berra and Hank Bauer delivering the only Yankee homers.
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New York
New York Yankees
Milwaukee Braves
Milwaukee
Buhl
Johnson
McMahon
Rice
Turley
Berra
L Johnson
Torre
Aaron
Bauer
Yanks
Bob Turley
Yogi Berra
Hank Bauer
Hank Aaron
Frank Torre
Yankee
Bob Buhl
Braves
Ernie Johnson
Don McMahon
Gil McDougald
Wes Covington
Lumpe
Ed Mathews
Felix Mantilla
Mathews
Covington
McDougald
Jerry Lumpe
Coleman
Don Larsen
Yankees
Warren Spahn
Lew Burdette
Spahn
Aaron Cf
Basie
Eastern New Mexico Fair Opens With Gala Parade
The Eastern New Mexico State Fair opened with a gala parade led by Senator Dennis Chavez and Governor Edwin L. Mechem. Dignitaries from the Fair Board, including Homer Glover and Robert H. Beck, joined royalty Sandra Harper the 1957 Fair Queen and Glynell Hubbard Miss New Mexico 1957 in a colorful procession from Tenth Street to the Sears building.
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Dennis Chavez
Edwin L. Mechem
Fair Board
Eastern New Mexico
Tenth Street
Sears
Mechem
Fair Grounds
Sandra Harper
Roswell High School
Atlantic City
Roswell
Ernes
Tines Telles
Nancy Manley
Barbara Watkins
Carol Morrison
Homer Glover
Robert H. Beck
Presient
Ernest C. Tucker
Burl Best
Archie Campbell
Eugene Hobson
Clarence Wheeler
W. C. Taylor
Roy F. Davis
Walker
William C. Kingsbury
47Th Air Division
James V
Khrushchev Pushes U S Soviet Leader Talks
New York report cites Nikita Khrushchev advocating a top level U S Soviet conference to avert conflict. Soviet leaders seek meeting with Eisenhower or Zhukov as disarmament talks and high level discussions appear likely after the U N Assembly.
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New York
Nikita S. Khrushchev
U.S
New York Times
Khrushchev
Georgi K. Zhukov
Reston
Middle East
Germany
Marshal Zhukov
Moscow
U.N
Zhukov
State Finance Board Seeks Salaries and Classifications Review
The New Mexico State Finance Board told the Personnel Board to show all general classification schedules and salary changes before approval. It also discussed a proposed new state pay scale, debated, but took no action. The board also approved highway debenture funding to cover three months, with federal matching funds, plus several lease and sale actions in Albuquerque.
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Santa FE
State Finance Board
Blanche Quintana
Finance Board
Personnel Board
Ben Chavez
Chavez
Highway Commission
John McIntosh
Highway Department
McIntosh
Fred Comstock
Albuquerque
Robert de la Rue
Soviet to Send Live Animals on Larger Space Satellites
Pravda reports the Soviet Union will launch larger satellites with live animals to study interplanetary travel. The satellites transmit temperature and space condition data by coded radio messages decipherable by Soviet observers.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Pravda
Eisenhower downplays satellite scare after Soviet launch
President Eisenhower told the nation he sees no further threat to national security from Russia's successful earth satellite. He said the US could have launched a satellite first but would have compromised scientific goals and military progress.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
United States
Convictions Eradicate Major Heroin Sources In New Mexico
Federal officers say 11 narcotics violators, all Albuquerque residents, have eliminated the state’s main heroin sources. An Albuquerque attorney reports addicts struggling to obtain heroin and seven or eight seek hospital treatment. The group includes a former justice of the peace, a barber, the minister’s son, and a Marine Corps Reserve drill sergeant.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Soble and two co-conspirators sentenced in spy case
Jack Soble, a Lithuanian refugee who led a Soviet spy ring in the United States, was sentenced to seven years. His wife Myra and Jacob Albam received four and five years respectively after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges.
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New York
Jack Soble
America
Soble
Richard H. Levet
Myra
Jacob Albam
Senate probes await Teamsters records on missing items
Senate rackets investigators expected subpoenas for Teamsters Union election files to assess what is missing. Robert F Kennedy said union officials in Washington confirmed some records are missing but not many were lost in a hotel incinerator.
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Washington
Senate
Teamsters Union
Robert F. Kennedy
Senate Rackets Committee
Union
Calvit Promoted to General News Editor at Herald-Press
Palestine Tex Joe Calvit longtime city editor is promoted to general news editor. Walter Murray is appointed city editor.
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Palestine
Tex.p
Joe Calvit
Herald-Press
Walter Murray
Air Force Academy finds no funds for road work
Colorado Springs report says no money is available to pave roads or sidewalks for a local project. Rep. Scrivner notes funds for roads were cut in the Senate’s 22 million dollar reduction this year.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Air Force Academy
Scrivner
R-Kan
Senate
Chavez Says U S Not Worried About Russian Satellite
Senator Dennis Chavez told Roswell Chamber members that the United States has full knowledge of missile work and will develop satellites as needed. He asserted SAC forces can destroy aggressors and that exposing details serves no purpose. The talk capped a Roswell visit with Walker AFB inspection and civic meetings.
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Sen
Dennis Chavez
Ben Ginsberg
Roswell
U.S. Senate
United States
Russia
Chavez
SAC
Cha‘vez
Frank ‘Kaufmann
Charles Davis
Walker Air Force Base
Winners Named For Top Floats In Fair Parade
Judges awarded the Sweep stakes prize for floats in the first day parade of the 35th Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Rotary Club won first in the organizational float and Lance Studio took first for best commercial entry. WAFB Fire Department earned top for the most humorous entry, Frank Kindel of Carlsbad placed second with his big wheel bike, and the 1930 Model A Tasty Freeze car owned by Larry Ruffin won oldest car honors.
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New Mexico
Lance Studio
Rotary Club
Lance Studios
Wafb Fire Department
Frank Kindel
Carlsbad
Larry Ruffin
E. Pear
Reward fund urged to help find rape suspect Joe Franco
Readers invited to donate to a Roswell Daily Record reward fund for the principal suspect in the Sandra Jo Lucere rape slaying. Contributions will go to local authorities and then to El Paso to aid tracking of Joe Franco. Sheriff J. C. Jones and Police Chief Tommy Thompson say a substantial reward may help locate Franco.
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Sandra Jo Lucere
Roswell
World powers prepare disarmament plans at UN talks
The United States and Russia plan to unveil rival disarmament ideas at the United Nations in New York as a 82 nation committee prioritizes arms reductions. Secretary Dulles expresses willingness to discuss space missile control within UN framework and hopes Russia accepts a study of peaceful space use.
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N.Y
United States
Russia
India
U.N
Dulles
Washington
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
London
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