Exotic luncheon features kangaroo tail soup in New Mexico
Delegates to the New Mexico Press Association attended a luncheon hosted by the New Mexico Outdoor Writers Association at the Chaparral in Ruidoso Downs. The menu included wild duck soup, barbecued elk, bear and venison meat loaf, and kangaroo tail soup, noted as a novelty given kangaroos’ protected status in Australia. The event also showcased entertainment by Charlie Huff and Dan Storm, with praise for Pegasus the Mt. View Middle School paper and its staff.
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New Mexico Press Assn
New Mexico Outdoor Writers Assn
Ruidoso Downs
Australia
Charlie Huff
Roswell
Dan Storm
Dan
Lincoln County
Pegasus
Mt. View Middle School
Bruce Rhodes
Rhodes
Teddy White
David Achey
John McDaniel
Judy Knapp
Memorial services for Grants publisher James Barber set
Memorial services for Grants newspaper publisher James Barber are planned for 10 30 a m Tuesday with burial at 2 30 p m in the Santa Fe National Cemetery. Donations to the James Barber Scholarship through First National Bank of Grants. Offshore oil platform fire causes a two mile slick in Gulf of Mexico. burnoff viewed as light. Six killed in twin engine plane crash at Ingles Field airport in Hot Springs Virginia.
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Grants, N.M
Grants
James Barber
National Cemetery
Santa Fe
First National Bank of Grants
New Mexico State University
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Amoco Production Company
Hot Springs
Ingles Field
Blue Hidge Mountains
Albuquerque Tribune
Val Cooper
Farmington Daily Times
Darrel Freeman
Santa Rosa News
A.B. Collado
el Hispano
Albuquerque
Payton
Association
New Mexico
Grants Daily Beacon
Floyd Rigdon
Carlsbad Current—Argus
Carlsbad
Dan Burrows
Albuquerqque Tribune
H.P. Pickrell
Jackson seeks 1972 Democratic bid during Roswell visit
U S Senator Henry Jackson and his wife Helen toured Roswell with two receptions and a football game as he tests the water for a 1972 presidential run. He urged work programs, criticized Nixon economic policy, and defended a strong nuclear deterrent.
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U.S
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Helen
New Mexico
Roswell
Jackson
Washington
Goddard-Clovis
Albuquerque
NAACP regional official urges tougher action on aid programs
NAACP regional director Richard L. Dockery of Dallas blasted federal housing and economic programs as inadequate at the state convention. He urged realistic implementation, provisional employment with training, and increased black political involvement to boost minority economies and political power. Dockery warned democracy wheels turn only when delegates act.
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Richard L. Dockery
Dallas
Texas
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Association
NAACP
Dockery
Mississippi
New Mexico
Martin Luther King
Roy Wilkins
Roswell
N.M
Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, D.C
David King
State Planning Office
King
Bruce King
New NMPA president Stuart Beck addresses Ruidoso convention
Stuart Beck, publisher of the Las Vegas Optic, was elected president of the New Mexico Press Association at the annual convention in Ruidoso Downs, succeeding Paul Payton. Beck urged delegates to engage respectfully with policy debates, citing national civil rights leaders and calling for open lines of communication with the black community while stressing unity to address national and local crises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Beck
Las Vegas
Jack Sitton
New Mexico
Association
New Mexico Associated Press Publisher’s Association
Beck
Jack Litton
Santa Fe
New Mexican
Press association urges reader power and defends press
The New Mexico Press Association told its Ruidoso Downs audience that reader support gives newspapers power not the papers themselves. The group backed repealing a five year public records rule and elected Stuart Beck as president with other officers and directors named.
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Ruidoso Downs
New Mexico Press Association
Dorrance Guy
The
el Paso Times
Guy
Association
Santa Fe
George Gonzales
Santa Fe New Mexican
New Mexico prison opens for inspection
Warden Felix Rodriguez guided reporters through the state penitentiary in Santa Fe for the first time since the Oct. 7 riot. He toured maximum security blocks, noting 65 inmates, with about 18 normally housed there, and described ongoing lockup of most prisoners with limited unrest observed.
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Santa FE
N.M
Felix Rodriguez
State Penitentiary
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Fred Heckman
Wendell Chino
Mescalero
Rotary Club
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Sen
Henry M. Jackson
Associated Press
Joseph Montoya
D-N.m
West
Afl-Cio
Russia
Clovis
Hobbs
Senate
Interior and Insular Affairs
Government Operations
Armed Services Committee
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Defense Appropriations
NMPA
Bailey Anderson
Las Cruces
Albuquerque Journal
C.T. Lang
Eugene Mann
Eastern New Mexico University
Barber
John Hightower
Nixon
Peking
Moscow
Vienna
Helsinki
Hightower
State Department
University of New Mexico
Ewenes
Jim Garcia
Hobbs Victory
Brown
Deer
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