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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1966
Page
1
The Sierra Blanca Ski Club float themed Come Up and Ski With Us Sometime led the Aspencade Parade, winning first among adult organizations and Sweepstakes honors. Goddard High School Bank of Roswell topped Student Clubs, with the Roswell troop placing scouts first in Boy Scout entries.
Cochran County Texas boasts the best sheriff posse with New Mexico Mounted Patrol second and Chaves County third. Gary Sanchez won best decorated bicycle. Ricky Morgan second, Ricky Tate third, Shirley Waltrip fourth, Danny Estes fifth. Aspencade weekend opened with an art show teenage dance football game and crowning of queen Karen Petty plus Vicente Romero Flamenco Dance Troupe show.
Erratic Hurricane Inez veered west toward Mexico with 135 mph winds. The storm threatened Texas shores if it shifts northward, prompting evacuations and beach warnings as 150 dead in its Caribbean and Gulf path were noted.
North Hollywood police say a 24 year old woman Joan Kreig stabbed her 3 year old daughter to death with a paring knife and drowned her two young sons in a bathtub on Saturday. She is booked on suspicion of murder.
Road toll figures show 317 fatalities or incidents so far this year, compared with 359 on the same date last year, indicating a decline. Data reflects ongoing traffic safety statistics and may influence transport policy discussions.
Sunday reading guide lists clashes as jets and MIGs fight near Hanoi. Johnson clears way for Solons. Ford rejects Soviet request. US seeks second nuclear test site. Mini mission at Walker six districts show voting. Orioles win third in a row. Broncos tumble 20 to 7. Notre Dame trounces Army. Hobbs downs Roswell Coyotes. Gap on Supreme Court widens. 1st Cavalry takes lion's share.
New Mexico police report seven fatalities from two incidents. In Albuquerque a fiery crash killed five teens Vera Rael Ricky Arias Bonifacio Espinosa Mario Jaramillo and Daniel on a median crash into a flatbed truck. Two others died separately Jack Amon in Winslow and Jimmy Bessera in San Rafael after vehicle collisions and pedestrian accident.
Dorothy Peterson of Roswell won the grand prize in the Lincoln County Art Assn show during Aspencade. Her prize painting also earned first place in the oil division. Other awards went to Virdie Denton Tampa and Eula Lee Fritz Ruidoso in watercolor.
Walker Air Force Base units returned from the 1966 bombing and navigation contest at Fairchild AFB Washington with the 15th Air Force award for overall excellence in appearance. Powder blue uniforms a gleaming aircraft Pride of Roswell and spotless equipment highlighted the appearance victory. The bomb competition team earned the Outstanding Professional Appearance award and placed 28th among 40 bases in bombing and navigation.
The Navy will keep older officers who were passed over for promotion in active duty through June 1968 to address a shortage of experienced leaders. Reserve officers are unaffected, while in Saigon some advisory and staff officers may serve up to two more years.
In New York the Soviet Union rejected Britain's bid to reconvene a Geneva Conference to negotiate peace for Viet Nam. Foreign Secretary George Brown pressed Andrei Gromyko for renewed talks, but Moscow stood by its position that now is not the time. Brown plans to seek U.S. reaction in talks with Arthur Goldberg and Dean Rusk as he pushes a six point peace plan.
Police hunted a man after a Saturday night shooting in the Golden Nuggett bar parking lot injuring Jimmy Carpenter about 21. Carpenter was treated at Ruidoso Hondo Valley General Hospital in satisfactory condition. Two suspects were questioned after being picked up at Carrizozo in a car matching the fleeing assailant’s vehicle.
In Austin, Janice Rose Teague, born August 30 three months premature, weighed 16 1/4 ounces at her lowest and received a blood transfusion after respiratory distress. She later weighed 20 ounces and showed signs of improvement while remaining in critical condition. Her parents Floyd Teague and wife are residents of the area.
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