Legion Parade Caps Legion Convention With Colorful Display
At St Louis the American Legion staged a 10 hour downtown parade featuring uniforms drums and bands through the convention center area. Vice President Nixon joined veterans from World War I II and Korea as delegates from 48 states and foreign territories marched past, while topics including Air Force budget cuts and United Nations policy divided delegates for later debate.
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Legion
ST. Louis
American Legion
Richard M. Nixon
Legion Auxiliary
Sons of the Legion
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
National Guard
Drum
Canada
Mexico
France
Italy
Puerto Rico
Canal Zone
Hawaii
Philippine Islands
United Nations
U. S
Ohio
Donald R. Wilson
Clarksburg
W. Va
U. N
Nixon
Prisoner of War Marine Stumpges Shown After Korea Release
Frederick J. Stumpges of Sheboygan Wisconsin a former Bataan death march survivor is photographed at Panmunjom following his release by Communist forces in Korea He has spent nearly seven of his fourteen years in the Marine Corps as a prisoner of war.
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Frederick J. Stumpges
Sheboygan
Wisc
Bataan
Panmunjom
Korea
Marine Corps
Tokyo
SCS Irrigation Demonstration Near Dexter
Under L. J. Korn the Soil Conservation Service hosts an irrigation training week near Roswell ending Sept. 4 with about 3 personnel. Technicians come from Santa Fe Taos Chama Raton Clovis Portales Capitan Lovington Carlsbad Artesia and Chaves County. Demonstrations at Pat O Neill farm east of Dexter and four farms near Hagerman and Dexter. Final day to summarize results with Dale Shockley Charles Diebold and Harrison Maker assisting.
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L. J. Korn
Albuquerque
Soil Conservation Service
Roswell
Santa Fe
Taos
Chama
Raton
Clovis
Portales
Capitan
Lovington
Carlsbad
Artesia
Chaves County
Chamber of Commerce
Pat O’neill
Dexter
Hagerman
Korn
Dale Shockley
Charles Diebold
Harrison Maker
Labor Day Traffic Deaths Seen At About 400
The National Safety Council projects about 400 people will die in U S traffic accidents over the Labor Day weekend as an estimated 40 million vehicles use highways from 6 p m Friday to midnight Monday September 7.
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Chicago
The
National Safety Council
United States
Weather Summary from United States Weather Bureau Readings
Reading at 3 hour intervals shows high 91 and low 67 with 24 hour precipitation trace. Normal high 88 and low 62 for this date. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms today tonight and tomorrow. cooler today with a high near 82 and low around 65. Sunrise 5 32 Sunset 6 23 Length of day 12 95 hours.
Low Bidder Named for 20-Bed Alcoholism Center
Denton & Griggs of Clovis were the apparent low bidders at $54 731 for the construction of a 20 bed alcoholism rehabilitation center in New Mexico. Six bids were submitted with Valley Building and Lemke Clough and King among the higher offers. The project on a 10 acre East Tilden site is to begin within 10 days of contract signing and finish by January 1 1954. The building will include a ward for 10 men, multiple rooms for men and women, dining day rooms kitchens and nurse and examination facilities.
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Vorhees, Standhardt and Swatek
Second St
New Mexico Commission On Alcoholism
Ae Fe
Roswell
E. E. Anderson
Valley Building
Clovis, Denton & Griggs
L. W. Cottle
Foster Construction
Santa Fe
Lemke
Clough and King
Albuquerque
Two Airmen Wounded in Gun Affray Roswell Chase Results in Police Shootings
Two Walker Air Force Base airmen were wounded in a gun affray at 104 E Alameda St. at 8 15 pm. A police chase after three speeding motorcyclists ended with one rider ramming a fence and injuring himself. Police subdue another rider and arrest airman Arnold Avery after a pursuit that damaged a police car and a taxicab.
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Walker Air Force Base
Roswell
New Mexico
Tommy Thompson
Joseph B. Towns
James N. Jennings
E. Alameda St
Donald Smith
Smith
Jennings
Walker
Main
Dexter Road
Air Police
Bud South
Don Shultz
Shultz
WAFB
Arnold B. Avery
Avery
1300
South Virginia
Starlite
Robert C. Hudson
St.Mary’s Hospital
East Bland
Catarino Parraz
E. Bland St
Bland
Joe B. Shamas
Mulberry
Dexter Hot Lunch Facilities Graded
County sanitarian Larry B Summers inspected Dexter Hot Lunch facilities and found two three compartment sinks and a sneeze board installed. He gave Dexter a Grade A rating for compliance with county and state health recommendations and will inspect remaining hot lunch facilities in the next two weeks.
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Larry B. Summers
Sanitarian
Dexter
Summers
Co-ops Built On Democracy, Says Roy Bender
Roy Bender secretary of the Farmers Co-operative Grain Dealers End Okla told over 60 guests at the Wichita Bank for Co-operatives dinner that co operatives embody democracy. He argued co-ops thrive under private enterprise and should arise from need with service standards. Roswell and Artesia strands were represented by several co op members and officials from New Mexico and nearby states.
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Wichita Bank For Co - Operatives
New Mexico
Roy Bender
Farmers Co-operative Grain Dealers
End
Okla
Bender
Nickson Hotel
WBC
Roswell
J. E. Moore
R. C. Carmack
Roy Ward
Charles F. Ward
New Mexico Military Institute
al W. Woodburn
Chaves County
T. H. Roswell
The
Farmers, Inc
E. W. Whitney
W. A. Sterrett
Lacy Shortridge
O. F. Crawford
John Jones Jr
Artesia Alfalfa Growers Association
Artie McAnally
L. J. Lorang
Britton Call
Grant
Wichita Bank For Cooperatives
Carl F. Clardy
Whitney
Dean R. A. Nichols
New Mexico A&m College
Alameda Population Check Sparks Town Status Bid
In Alameda on Albuquerque's northern edge residents pursue town status after a population check required by law. State rules demand at least 1,500 residents, but Sheriff Harold Hubbell's recent count shows 1,321.
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Recheck
Albuquerque
Alameda
Harold Hubbell
Yugoslavia Charges Italy Over Frontier Incidents
Yugoslavia formally accuses Italy of border provocations and warns it may disavow responsibility for consequences. Belgrade notes Italy’s protests and potential appeal to international forums over Trieste tensions. Italy denies the charges as tensions ease in Rome.
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Yugoslavia
Italy
London
Marshal Tito
Rome
Belgrade
Trieste
Foreign Ministry
Bor
United Nations
Tito
Nova Gorica
Giuppe Pella
Britain
France
Bled
Yugovia
Try
Pella
Roswell Beef Competition part of Eastern New Mexico Fair
In its second year the economy beef production contest, sponsored by the Roswell Chamber of Commerce, will highlight 4-H and FFA exhibits at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair October 6 to 10. Ten to five feeder calf projects display 45 calves under feed lot conditions, not fitted to show. Prizes total 300 dollars. The calves were purchased late, wintered, and fed to sell at the fair stock sale, aiming for high profits. last year 4-H participants averaged 50 dollars profit per calf. Other junior displays include about 200 fat lambs and several beef calves from Lincoln, Lea, and Roosevelt counties.
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Roswell
Chamber of Commerce
FFA
Lincoln County
Lea County
Roosevelt County
Col E N Murray Named Acting Commandant At NMMI
Col Ellsworth N Murray, a retired Marine Corps officer who taught mathematics last year, was named acting commandant of cadets at New Mexico Military Institute. He succeeds Lt Col Thomas B Stapp, who resigned to enter private business in Roswell.
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Col
Ellsworth N. Murray
Marine Corps
New ‘Mexico Military Institute
Col. Murray
Thomas B. Stapp
Roswell
United States Naval Academy
University of California
Murray
Third Marine Division
First Field Service Command
Fleet Marine Force
Pacific
Cameron Bradley
United States Army
Baseball Scores National League Action and Records Set
Chicago defeated New York 9 to 10 in a high scoring game as Church and Pollet combined for Chicago on the mound and Westrum provided offense. St Louis carved out a 9 to 5 win over Brooklyn with Presko and Campanella contributing for the Dodgers.
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Chicago
New York
Church
Pollet
Klippstein
McCullough
Maglie
Wilhelm
Koslo
Westrum
Boston Beats Cleveland in Slow, Lopsided Contest
In a game marked by pitching and fielding miscues, Boston defeated Cleveland 13 to 3 after a rough start by Nixon and Brown. Sullivan, Delock, and White supplied key runs behind strong relief from Brissie.
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Boston
Cleveland
Nixon
Brown
Sullivan
Delock
White
Wyrth
Brissie
Hegan
Cattlemen Meet Hobbs Opens NM Cattle Growers Meet
Four hundred persons are expected to attend the quarterly meeting of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association opening here today.
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Hobbs
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
Martial law remains in place in South Korea
President Syngman Rhee refused to lift martial law saying the time is not ripe. He noted the cabinet urged removal but security conditions require continuation of the emergency measure.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Rhee
East German man drives steamroller at border crossing
Franz Neicer, an East German, operated a steamroller on a bridge at a border crossing near HOF Germany yesterday. He received Soviet zone permission to cross the bridge and turn the machine around on the West German side. Instead of returning he requested political asylum from West German border guards as Soviet guards watched.
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Hof
Germany
Franz Neicer
Ernest E. West Named New Minister of Church of Christ
Ernest E. West former minister at Brownfield Texas becomes minister at the Church of Christ 900 S Main St succeeding Robert E Gulley who moved to Casper Wyoming West and his wife Sybil Allen and their son Larry 8 live at 306 S Michigan Ave West born April 21 1921 in Snyder Texas calls Tatum his hometown and held pulpits in Tahoka Odessa Levelland Brownfield and Lovington He is a Freed Hardeman Abilene Christian and Eastern New Mexico alumnus and was active in TaHoka Rotary and Brownfield Toastmasters.
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Ernest E. West
Brownfield
Tex
Church of Christ
S. Main St
Robert E. Gulley
Casper
Wyo
Tatum
West
Freed- Hardiman
Henderson
Odessa
Levelland
Lone Star State
Lovington
Tahoka
Government Moves to Prevent Impending Railroad Walkout
Washington officials press mediation to avert a planned Sept. 10 strike by the 35 000 member Conductors Union over graduated pay scales tied to locomotive power. Rail unions seek raises while moratorium on new claims nears expiration October 1 as talks continue.
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Washington
National Mediation Board
Union
Communists Planned to Smash Polls Across West Germany
West Germany said it uncovered a Communist plot to wreck next Sundays national election by attacking voting stations and destroying ballot boxes. Four thousand five hundred agents were arrested at the interzonal frontier, with hundreds more potentially slipping in. The plan called for groups of twenty to target polling places while authorities seized funds and materials used for the operation.
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BOMN
Federal
Red
Germany
East Germany
West
West Germany
Lower Saxony
Interior Ministry
Ruhr
Konrad Adenauer
Boy Locked in Oil Drum Rescued by Firefighters
Six year old Ronnie Perry crawled into an empty oil drum to hide from playmates in Pasadena California. Firemen needed an hour and metal cutters to free him from the drum.
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Pasadena
Calif
Ronnie Perry
Lubbock Detective Killed in Station Burglary Arrest
Detectives Ralph White and George Hall confronted burglars at a service station in Lubbock. White was shot and killed during the melee as Hall arrested the driver. another suspect was wounded in the foot, and a third surrendered in the Negro district after a wife driven by loudspeaker urged him to quit.
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Lubbock
Ralph White
George Hall
White
Hall
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Ois
SCS
United States Weather Bureau
Alcoholism Center
Denton & Griggs of
Wichita Bank
Oklahoma
Pat
Col. E. N. Murray
NMMI
Brooklyn
Presko
Erautz
Schmidt
Chambers
Ae and Campanella
Waler
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Frank
R. D. Melvin
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