Republicans Clash Over Unity In 1966 GOP Outlook
AP notes a fragmented GOP facing 1966 races with 15 of 17 governorships and many Senate seats at stake. Key figures Bliss Hall Laird Dirksen Ford clash over Viet Nam policy and party unity as Goldwater's Free Society Association shapes the debate.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Ray C. Bliss
Ohio
National Committee
Dean Burch
Barry Goldwater
Burch
Republican Party
Leonard Hall
GOP
Bliss
Melvin R. Laird
Wisconsin
Johnson
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
House Republicans
Goldwater
Free Society Association
Ford
William Cody Kelly
Frank J. Kovac
Kelly
Kovac
High Command
American Conservative Union
Denison Kitchell
FSA
Romney
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Hagerman Delegates Entertained At Local Dinner
Hagerman High School Boys and Girls State delegates Cindy Heitman Mary Langenegger Bobby Parker Freddy Boggs were honored at a joint American Legion Auxiliary and Lions Club dinner. Family guests and community leaders attended about 75 people. Lions Club president Tom Evins and junior past president Robbie Knoy oversaw arrangements with helpers Ede Harshey Lloyd Danforth and Horace Freeman.
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Hagerman High School
American Legion Auxiliary
Lions Club of
Hagerman
Cindy Heitman
Mary Langenegger
Bobby Parker
Freddy Boggs
Fred Heitman
Lila
Freddie
Jack Langenegger
Dacus Parker
Harry Boggs
Judy
T. T. E. King
Church of Christ
Lions Club
Tom Evins
Jeanne Marie Langenegger
Bill Knoy
Joe Adair
Auxiliary
Robbie Knoy
Ede Harshey
Lloyd Danforth
Horace Freeman
Range conditions improve Gradually state wide
A joint report from the U S Weather Bureau and Agriculture Department says New Mexico live stock and range conditions are gradually improving with warmer than normal temperatures and scattered showers aiding crops. Cotton is in lay by, sorghum progresses, alfalfa has fourth cuttings, lettuce thinning in Dona Ana County, and Portales sweet potato digging underway. Driving privileges were suspended for 58 drivers in the week ending Aug 20 including Franklin Rankin and Carlos Quiroz. Controversy over GOP splinter groups and campaign headquarters in Washington noted.
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Albuquerque
U.S. Weather Bureau
Agriculture Department
New Mexico
Dona Ana
Portales
Cotton Field Laborers Fast Being Replaced
In four years mechanized cotton-pickers have replaced 250000 seasonal laborers in the ten major cotton states. Seasonal workers on these farms dropped from 500000 in 1961 to about half, as mechanization rises in nine states. California already leads in mechanization. California this year will employ about 20000 seasonal laborers.
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Little Rock, Ark
California
Harvest in Cotton States Shows Mechanization Rise
The passage notes 3 ers from 742000 acres of cotton land and compares top cotton states machinery use with California’s level four years earlier. It cites Texas employing 182000 seasonal laborers in 1961, dropping to 53000 last year, and Arkansas declining from 88000 to 42000.
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California
Texas
Arkansas
Seasonal cotton harvest labor shifts across states
Alabama Georgia and other states show reduced seasonal labor needs as about 230000 workers will harvest nearly 13 million acres of cotton across 10 states. Agencies say 250000 seasonal workers from four years ago moved to low-skill industries and few young people enter this work, signaling the end of the itinerant field hand era.
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Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Tennessee
Mississippi
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Robert L. Chisholm
Richland, Wash
Albuquerque Public Schools
Charles Spain
UPI
Associated Press News
Party Unity
George Raft
U.S. Marshal’s Office
Los Angeles
Motor Vehicle Department
Franklin Ray Rankin
W. Deming
Carlos Quiroz
Dexter
Clyde Rogers
Sera A At
EL Pare
Aiea
Firestone Speedway
aScodes
Ipestone
Philco Color T.V
Bill Simmons
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