Cadet Corps Grows As NMMI Begins Training
About 360 new cadets arrived at the New Mexico Military Institute for basic training and orientation as 610 returning cadets join them, bringing enrollment to 970. Cadet Lt Col Robert Armstrong leads a 47-man cadre. orientation runs through Tuesday with registration on Tuesday and classes starting Thursday. The school draws from 28 New Mexico counties, 38 states, and 13 foreign countries and marks its 75th anniversary. NMMI traces roots to 1891 as Goss Military Institute and offers instruction from high school to early college.
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Jayv Graham
New Mexico Military Institute
NMME
Graham
Muskogee
Okla
NMMI
Hutt
Robert G. Armstrong
Roswell
Gram
Nmmi Corps of Cadets
New Mexico
Goss Military Institute
Wallace Gets New Weapon In desegregation stand
The Alabama House approved a measure by Governor Wallace to block federal school integration guidelines. It bars city and county boards from agreeing to comply to receive state or federal funds and moves to final passage in a six week session focused on school funding.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama House
George C. Wallace
House
Senate
Alabama
South
Phelps Dodge to Invest $100 Million in Tyrone Project
Phelps Dodge Corp announced in New York plans to invest about $100 million over several years to develop an open pit copper mine at Tyrone New Mexico. The project aims to employ about 1,100 people at full build, with initial production around 55,000 tons annually and ore shipped to Douglas Arizona for treatment and El Paso Texas for refining.
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Tyrone
New Mexico
Phelps Dodge Corp
Phelps
Robert G. Page
New York
Page
Phelps Dodge
Western Pacific Land Co
Lucien File
Californian Killed When His Car Rolls West of Artesia
Teddy Alan Henderson, 21, of Downey California a theological student at Lubbock Christian College, was killed in a one car crash west of Artesia on U S 82. The car rolled twice and he died of multiple head injuries about 9 30 p m An inquest was set for 10 am today in Roswell New Mexico State Police said his parents died in a similar accident two months ago in Downey and a brother reported the details from the scene.
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Artesia
Lubbock Christian College
Here
Teddy Alan Henderson
Downey
Calif
U.S. 82
Les Dudley
New Mexico
Roswell
Chaves
Henderson
France and Cambodia call for evacuations in joint decree
In Phnom Penh France and Cambodia signed a joint declaration during Charles de Gaulle’s visit urging foreign troops to quit Vietnam. The document, read at the royal palace by De Gaulle and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, seeks strict observance of the 1954 Geneva accords and a timetable for foreign troop withdrawal. Premier Pham Van Dong in Hanoi rejected peace talks until US troops withdraw and the Viet Cong front is recognized.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
France
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Norodom Sihanouk
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam
United States
United
Pham van Dong
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
South Viet Nam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Donnell visits Roswell to enroll son at NM Military Institute
John D. Donnell, Republican candidate for New Mexico attorney general, spends the morning in Roswell to enroll his son in the New Mexico Military Institute. Other briefs note U.S. appellate ruling on Navajo counsel, a wage bill compromise, and a Yugoslav airliner crash with 95 fatalities.
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Associated Press and Record
John D. Donnell
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Roswell
Donnell
Elephant aid shuttle incident sparks Tinnie circus
In Tinnie a Good Samaritan trucker freed a stuck mail bus with an elephant, then a trailer fire sidelined the circus plan. McNeese and his two elephants travel to Abilene as schoolchildren await a 3 PM circus in Lincoln County.
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AL Stubbs
Tinnie
Good Samaritan
E. J. Frequez
Elmo D. Stell
Roswell
Stell
Socorro
McNeese
Washington
Oregon
Abilene
Burman
Incubator Aims to Hatch Ostrich Eggs at City Zoo
Mr and Mrs Ostrich have ten eggs in the couple's pen as Parks Superintendent A B Gwinn vows to devise a method to hatch them. Five eggs appeared in the last week and Gwinn is determined to solve the ostrich egg challenge.
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Roswell Zoo
Gwinn
Albuquerque Zoo
Ostrich
Albuquerque
Roswell
Faith Heads Away From Coastline
Hurricane Faith moved east northeast over the open Atlantic away from the U S coastline with winds near 110 mph and gales extending up to 300 miles. A tropical low near Antigua drew weather forecasters’ attention as Faith tracked steady for the next 24 hours. No land areas are in danger.
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Washington
Faith
Bermuda
Atlantic
U.S
Antigua
Leeward Islands
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Weather Bureau
Cape Cod
Savannah
U S Destroyers Reach Port Said
Two destroyers from the U S 6th Fleet arrived in Port Said marking the first 6th Fleet call at a port of the United Arab Republic. The Jonas Ingram and the Stribling, with midshipmen, received a 31 gun salute and will exchange visits with Egyptian hosts during a three day stay.
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Port Said
Egypt
U.S
6Th Fleet
United Arab Republic
Jonas Ingram
Naval Academy
Cairo
Obstacles Not Insurmountable Says Mansfield on Viet Nam Peace
Senator Mike Mansfield asserts De Gaulle’s call for foreign troop evacuation from Viet Nam poses no insurmountable obstacles to peace talks. He again urges a Johnson De Gaulle meeting, though neither leader shows current interest in a conference.
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Washington
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Charles de Gaulle
Viet Nam
Mansfield
Senate
Johnson
de Gaulle
Alabama Man Arraigned in Tucumcari on Kidnapping Warrant
James R. Durham, 31, was arraigned in Tucumcari on a federal kidnapping warrant for the abduction of 10 year old Karen Dye from Canute Oklahoma. Bond set at 75000. Durham held in Tucumcari jail. Further steps await his decision on a preliminary hearing. The girl was later taken to an Amarillo hospital for examination and was reported in good spirits with no alleged molestation.
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U. S
Robert Rowley
James R. Durham
Tucumcari
Rowley
Eugene Brockman
Durham
FBI
Leonard Blaylock
Albuquerque
Oklahoma City
James Gullett
Karen
Oklahoma
Vega
Tex
Amarillo
Canute
Gerald Kupka
Kupka
Dayton Quiet After West Side Riots Clains One Dead
Ohio National Guardsmen and police maintained calm in Dayton's West Side after a shooting killed one man and left more than 20 injured. Traffic flowed to workplaces as police checked private cars and street crews cleaned debris from Thursday's disturbances. Fourteen dozen arrests were reported for disorderly conduct drunkenness and inciting to riot.
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Dayton
Ohio
Ohio National
West Side
C.W. Martz
Violent clashes hit Dayton as mobs loot and riot
After strife swept the West Side and downtown Dayton, windows were smashed and stores looted. Police detained two whites for questioning as National Guard troops were deployed. a man was fatally shot, and the violence closed many businesses.
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Dayton
Donald Cook
Lawrence Caylor
Johnson
Midwest
White House
Dave Hall
Lester Mitchell
Hall
James A. Rhodes
National Guard
West Side
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Yugoslavia
Carrizoto
Darrel Clevinger
Frank (Powder) Knoblock
Carrizozo
Knoblock
L. R. McNeese
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