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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 2001
Page
4
The flag code, created in 1923 and amended by Congress in 1942, guides displays but is not always followed. Since Sept 11 many Americans show love for the country through flags in varied, often moving ways, reflecting patriotism, unity, and respect rather than disrespect.
A letter thanks volunteers and sponsors from the Rio Hondo Chapter for September fundraisers including a golf tournament and Rally Round the Flag. Donations support the Sept 11 relief effort across Chaves Lincoln and Otero counties with prints from Virgil Stephens sold for 85 dollars to Liberty Fund.
The 1976 contest for District 31 in northern Chaves and Roosevelt counties features incumbent Democrat Bobby Wood of Portales facing rancher Sam Moorhead from north of Roswell. District 31 covers the two counties and nearby areas. Daughters of the American Revolution contest winners were announced: Julie Groseclose, Karolyn King, Susan Lied, and Sheryl Shaner, from local elementary and middle schools, with essay topic What It Means To Be An American. Franklin Schlatter of Roswell was named executive secretary of the New Mexico Council of Teachers of English.
State health hearings shape a nonprofit foundation to disperse $20 million from Blue Cross Blue Shield sale. Insurance superintendent Eric Serna leads, aiming for a politically neutral, innovative fund to expand care, address uninsured residents, and attract further donations while awaiting more hearings in Espanola, Gallup, Las Cruces, and Albuquerque.
The Gilbert Stuart full length of George Washington, commissioned by William Bingham and gifted to the Lansdowne estate, is rescued from sale by a $20 million donation from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The piece, once owned by British collectors, now anchors a link between early American power and modern resilience. The National Portrait Gallery notes the work symbolizes strength and calm determinations in a still evolving democracy.
The piece argues bin Laden’s death would not end his movement and urges targeting Saddam Hussein as the true central threat. It notes U.S. cooperation with Russia and Uzbekistan, warns of Muslim extremist dangers, and questions regional responses while considering future searches for the real matrix of threat.
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