Halloween Parade Opens City Festivities This Weekend
Local youths and adults join Halloween events Saturday and Sunday across the city. A 5 p.m. parade of witches goblins and ghosts kicks off the All-Schools Festival at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair grounds followed by 50 booths inside the Commercial Building until 11 p.m. Police say extra patrols will ensure safety as trick or treating is expected, with groups from Roswell Elks Walker Air Force Base and PTA groups participating.
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PTA
Roswell
Hallowe’en
Elks Club
Walker Air Force Base
Hallow‘en
Hallowe'en
Navy Crusader Lost Over North Vietnam Pilot Missing
An F8E Crusader was blown up 60 miles southwest of Hanoi likely by a mobile surface to air missile. pilot missing after an aerial search ends at dusk. Five U.S. planes previously downed by similar missiles.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Defense Department
Washington
Changes Revised In Trailer Law By DON RIGGENBACH
The city planning and zoning commission voted 3-1 to recommend an amended trailer ordinance allowing hardship permits for house trailers in residential zones and existing trailers to remain with registration and code checks. They struck front yard parking for travel trailers and warned of potential lawsuits, as the mayor studies the full recommendation before council action.
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Don Riggenbach
An Planning and Zoning Commission
Gail Harris
Jim Snell
Owen Stewart
Stewart
Council
Policy Groups Seek Support Of U S Viet Nam Policy Fight
AFL-CIO leadership urged workingmen and students to back the U S Viet Nam policy as a tide turn in the war was claimed by labor. Georgetown student leaders launched a bipartisan group for negotiated peace with Dr. Spock planning a Nov 27 Washington march. Dean Rusk received a Fairfield University petition backing U S policy while St Louis pickets protested outside Washington University.
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Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Georgetown University
Viet Nam
Tom Pauken
Dallas
Tex
College Young Republicans
Benjamin Spock
Washington
Dean Rusk
Fairfield University
Fairfield
Arizonan Slain near Gallup identified as Ralph M Littleton
Ralph M Littleton 45 of Prescott was identified by sister Lucille Littleton of Grants as the man found dead with 19 stab wounds near old U S 66 about 14 miles east of Gallup. His car was found wrecked off New Mexico 400 near Fort Wingate.
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Gallup
Ralph M. Littleton
Prescott
Ariz
Lucille Littleton
Grants
Miss Littleton
Iron King Mining Co
Pres
Sheriff's Office
Littleton
New Mexico 400
Fort Wingate
Hobbs United Fund Debate Over Steak Challenge
A challenge over the United Fund drive in Roswell pits Jim Clark chairman of the United Fund against Leon Harmon Hobbs director. Clark warned Chaves County will exceed its 100 percent goal or Harmon must buy a Hobbs steak dinner. Harmon accepted saying Hobbs is generous. Make my steak rare.
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Jim Clark
Roswell
United Fund
Clark
Leon Harmon
Hobbs United Fund
Hobbs
Chaves County
Harmon
UF Final Report Meeting Delayed
The United Fund Committee postpones its final report meeting to Tuesday. Chairman Jim Clark reports $91,500 pledged, 58 percent of the goal, with about half the pledge cards still with volunteers. The final report breakfast is set for 7:30 Tuesday at Roswell Inn.
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United Fund Committee
Roswell Inn
So Far This Year 383 Last Year at This Date 313
A brief tally shows the year to date figure 383 compared with 313 for the same date last year. The data indicates a year over year increase in the measured metric.
South Union Bar Protest Plans By Roy Carbine
About 75 North Plains Park residents met at Trinity Methodist Church to oppose a bar liquor store at 1200 S Union Ave. Richard M. Tigner plans to transfer his license to a cafe bar and liquor package store at the location. They prepared two actions: mass turnout at a Roswell City Council meeting and a direct appeal to state liquor director Howard E. Babcock in Santa Fe. The meeting voted against further steps.
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Roy Carbine
Record City
S. Union Ave
North Plains Park
Trinity Methodist Church
Richard M. Tigner
Norton Bar
South Union
Roswell
Howard E. Babcock
Santa Fe
Carr
Fran Schmidt
Forest Dr
Plains Park
Tigner
Hondo
McGaffey
Forest Drive
Bill Poirer
Wildy Drive
Evelyn Thacker
S. Union
Thacker
Daily Record
J.C. Baker
South Plains Park Drive
Baker
Ridjell Lee
Wishard Lemons
Babcock
North winds bring snow and cold to six states
Emergency weather spreads from New England to New York and Baltimore while New Hampshire reports six inches of snow in the White Mountains. No snow falls in New York City or Baltimore as record cold grips the region. Meanwhile political and local notices surface in Santa Fe Johnson City Minneapolis Key West Roswell and other locales.
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Associated Press
New York
Baltimore
White Mountains
New Hampshire
New England
New York City
Hard Look at Ute Project Urged in Texas New Mexico
Leon Hill of the Bureau of Reclamation urged a hard look at the Ute Dam plan in southeastern New Mexico. He noted 17 eastern towns considering a water pipeline from Tucumcari to Hobbs with extensions to Portales Roswell and the Pecos Valley. Hill said a cost study will determine feasibility for Eastern New Mexico.
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Panhandle
Texas
Amarillo
Lubbock
Pecos Valley
Aguamantes
Ute Dam
New Mexico
Leon Hill
Bureau of Reclamation
Tucumcari
Hobbs
Portales
Roswell
Pecos
Hill
Oscura
Lloyd A. Calhoun
Eastern
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101St Airborne Division
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Qui Nhon
Song Am Valley
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Bill Derby
Jack Pritchard
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Robert F. Wagner
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el Mirador State Nursing Home
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Abel Diaz
Johnson City
Abraham D. Beame
John V. Lindsay
Minneapolis, Minn
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Phillip Kitzer Sr
Chicago and Sons
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Joseph F. Kitzer
American Allied Insurance Co
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Office of Saline Water
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