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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1972
Page
2
Good friends celebrate Melba Snell with a playful mobile birthday sign and luncheon. Gene Curtis recalls a class prank from East Side School. Frosty weather looms as Raton, Chama, and Ruidoso report freezing temperatures and poor watermelon vines.
Tarzan and Buck Rogers actor Buster Crabbe will present a 40 minute film and lecture in the Distinguished Lecturer series at ENMU on October 23 at 8 p.m. in the Campus Union Ballroom tracing his career and the early film industry. He calls himself the poor man's John Wayne.
Funeral services are pending for Mrs. Albertine Margarite Gray 56 of 2902 A Fruitland after an extended illness. Born in Quebec she married Olin Gray in 1937 and lived in Africa Asia and Europe with the U S Air Force. They moved to Roswell where she resided 14 years. Survivors include husband two daughters six brothers four sisters and three grandchildren. Graveside services for Raymond Edwin Elms 67 are scheduled at South Park Cemetery with burial in the Elms Roberts plot. He died in Santa Fe after a career in construction and ranching. Funeral services are set for Benny Lewis Riddle 40 at LaGrone Funeral Chapel with pallbearers named.
President Nixon vetoes a three year clean water plan calling its price staggering. Senate vote to override stands at 51 to 12 with a House vote awaited. The plan would fund sewage plants and waste treatment with strict discharge controls but does not appropriate funds.
President Nixon should remove crude oil price increase restrictions at the earliest practicable time. Tom B. Medders Jr. of the Independent Petroleum Association of America told Nixon in a report at the 43rd annual meeting that higher prices are needed to boost domestic oil and gas reserves and production. He argues the Price Commission applies unequal hearings, calls for bipartisan action to avert an energy crisis, and condemns political demagoguery harming national security.
Roswell city police arrested James B. Garner Jr., 21, of Oklahoma City, at 12 10 a m on illegal possession of marijuana less than one ounce and drunk and disorderly conduct. He is in the city jail awaiting arraignment today. A stolen car was recovered after a report by Yolanda Mendoza. The vehicle was owned by Bob Simpson of Dexter and had been left running in front of her home. Simpson’s wife said the car had been stolen Tuesday from Tesco Signs. Cash was taken from a soft drink machine at Matawan Texaco and from a Hillstop Gulf Station money box. no forced entry noted.
U.S. Rep Harold Runnels of New Mexico said in Roswell today he is gratified by broad support for his candidacy across the Second Congressional District. He noted strong Democratic backing and growing Republican support as a reception planned by Republicans for Runners is held at 7 p.m. at a Roswell residence. The article also mentions the Roswell Daily Record staff and details of local subscriptions.
Six workers died as a 100 ton concrete slab fell from a Foothill Freeway bridge in Pasadena. Rescue crews recovered the final bodies after an overnight search. 21 injured, six in critical condition. Investigators probe cause as 300-plus volunteers aided.
In Miami a 70 year old retired sales manager, Robert H. Mitchell, won a parking space by backing in front first. An ensuing argument with another driver led to a fatal heart attack after a passerby intervened. The other motorist fled the scene.
New York stock prices held higher today though off earlier peaks. The Dow Jones industrial average stood up 6.47 at 932.95 at noon after a morning gain fueled by news of Henry Kissinger's talks with Saigon officials.
Corazon Atienza, sole survivor of Richard Speck's 1966 killings, wins $1.5 million in a Circuit Court suit. Judge Berg also awards $250,000 to each of eight nurses' families. Speck, convicted and serving a life term, had sentence reversed from death by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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