Snow Interruption Delays Roads and Hunts Amid Thanksgiving Talk
Snow and ice closed the Cloudcroft Alamogordo road while Ruidoso reported six inches on the ground and more falling. Deer hunters faced stranded conditions during the season, with 35 degrees at Ruidoso Airport and slushy streets in town. A separate note discusses license prefix changes and a rare 1873-S Seated Liberty silver dollar found by collectors with an estimated value over 85 000 dollars.
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Cloudcroft-Alamogordo
Ruidoso
Sierra Blanca
Frank Potter
Terry du Pont, II
Fallon
Neb
Test case hearing on property assessments opens in court
A district court hearing marks a test case over whether Southwest Public Service Co. electric plant should be taxed as real estate in Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District and other districts. SWPSC and Mountain States Telephone argue the plant is personal property and not taxed as real estate. The company alleges due process violations and discrimination due to lack of notice and seeks removal from the special district rolls with a ruling expected soon.
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Southwest Public Service Co
Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy
Rio Hondo
Rio Felix
Eddy County
Mountain States Telephone Company
Nature
Chaves County
David Kurkendall
SWPSC
Kuykendall
Bureau
New Mexico
New Mexico State University
NMSU
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
United States
U.S
Charles Goza
First Baptist Church
Elvis Fleming
Eastern New Mexico University
Nixon proposes penalties and court for anti inflation drive
President Nixon sent to Congress a one year extension of the Economic Stabilization Act and new civil and criminal penalties to enforce wage price controls. The plan includes authority to regulate interest and dividends if needed and a temporary emergency court of appeals to handle wage price cases.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Court of Appeals
Treasury
Charles Walker
Farm bureau backs Amendment 6 in pending legislation talk
Chaves County Farm and Ranch Bureau discussed pending state and federal legislation at East Grand Plains. Robert Storey urged support for Amendment 6 to shift property taxes toward production value. Elected board members include Rhodes, Freeland, Lang, Hatch, and others. thirteen resolutions on welfare and government programs were approved.
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Chaves
Max Coll
Roswell
Chaves County
Story
Coll
Storey
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service
John Werner
Santa Fe
Washington
New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau Board
Bud Wagner
Linda Rhodes
Congress Eyes Health Care Plan in Federal Hearings
Nixon administration pushes a two part national health insurance scheme to cover about 15 million people via employer plans with government subsidies for the poor. House Ways and Means hears rival proposals while New Mexico farm bureau actions and a Roswell forecast are noted.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Elliot L. Richardson
House
Ways and Means
Kosygin opens Ottawa visit amid protests and security
In Ottawa Kosygin met tighter security as Jewish demonstrators press for views. At Parliament Hill he faced shouting rabbis and a horn salute while he appeared relaxed after a prior attack incident. In Washington House leaders blocked a direct vote on the Indochina deadline amid other war bill provisions. In Maryland a retired Army major testified in the Henderson trial with ties to the My Lai helicopter unit.
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Ottawa
Alexei Kosygin
Parliament Hill
Kosygin
Washington
House
Senate
FT. Mead
Alamogordo
N. M
Oran K. Henderson
Clyde Wilson
My Lai
New Mexico counties drop prefixes on license plates
The state will remove county prefixes from plates next year under a directive from Motor Vehicle Commissioner David Arieste. Plates will become three letters and three numbers with the Zia sun symbol, making it hard to identify specific counties like Chaves or Union and Eddy.
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New Mexico
Chaves County
David Arieste
Union County
Eddy County
Wet Snow Falls Across Ruidoso Area with Ground Accumulation
Snow blankets the Ruidoso region with five to six inches on ground at the airport and heavy flurries across Lincoln County. Drivers report slick, snow packed roads while schools run on schedule and ski runs prepare for a new base as moisture soaks soil.
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Goopee
AL Stubbs
San Francisco Mint
du Pont
Canada
Meir Kahane
John F. Kennedy International Airport
New York City
Kahane
Alexei N. Kosygin
Farm Bureau
Robert Storey
THE
Associated Press
Lincoln County
Carrizozo and
Capitan
Hay Heid
Bob McNally
the Capitans
Bob Naylor
Pat Joyce
Southeast Plains
Portales
West Central
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