Festus visits Roswell boy during ENM State Fair rainout
Festus Haggen enters Berry Bompart’s home and greets him after a rodeo show was canceled by rain. Berry, a Roswell carrier boy recently burned in an accident, meets the Gunsmoke star who hands out gifts and draws a crowd of neighborhood children while a replacement delivery effort unfolds nearby.
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AL Stubbs
Festus Haggen
Ken Curtis
Berry
Berry Bompart
Forest Dr
Festus
Roswell Daily Record
Brett Jennings
Festus Haggan Surprises New Mexico Boy at ENM Fair
Berry Bompart son of Mr and Mrs John Bompart 18 Forest Dr was surprised when Festus Haggan visited on a Wednesday afternoon. Haggan learned Berry could not attend the fair due to serious burns and brought an important part of the ENM State Fair gym to him. Golly gee.
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Berry Bompart
John Bompart
Forest Dr
New Mexico
Festus Haggan
Festus
Berry
Golly
Rainstorm Disrupts Eastern New Mexico State Fair Rodeo
A Wednesday afternoon downpour floods Roswell Main Street and forces cancellation of the evening rodeo at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Official NWS rainfall reads .% inch at the old Municipal Airport, with 1972 total at 12.77 inches. Fair officials report about three inches during the storm and note the rodeo scheduled for tonight.
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Roswell
Main Street
New Mexico
National Weather Service
Old Municipal
Weather Bureau
Ranch Radio
Carlos Pacheco 13 Captures Double Win in Lamb Show
Carlos Pacheco, 13, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Pacheco of Arabella, won both champion and reserve champion in the western whiteface lamb division at the 1972 Eastern New Mexico State Fair. He belongs to the Hondo Valley 4-H Club and also led a list of division winners from Lincoln and Roosevelt with multiple placements. The market lamb champion was Harold Green, 15, with reserve Lloyd Newman, 14, from Portales, as the native western division results continued.
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Carlos Pacheco
Arabella
New Mexico
Carlos
Paul Pacheco
Hondo Valley
Harold Green
Barney Green
Hagerman
Harold
Chaves County
Lloyd Newman
Otis Newman
Portales
Lloyd
Roosevelt 4-H
Roswell RIAC Warehouse Tops $1 Million Monthly Trade
The Army Air Force Exchange warehouse at Roswell Industrial Air Center now operates full scale feeding base exchanges at New Mexico sites and Ft. Bliss Texas. The hub handles 80 thousand square feet of goods, ships daily to Holloman White Sands Cannon and Kirtland, and to Ft. Bliss four times weekly.
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Roswell
Army Air Force Exchange
Roswell Industrial Air Center
New Mexico
Ft. Bliss
Tex
RIAC
Floyd Edwards
Davis
Gen. Campbell
Dallas
Alamo
Apex
Whitfield
ICX
Roswell Central
Exchange
Army
Bliss
Edwards
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Davis-Monthan Afb
Tucson
Area Support Center
The
Air Center
Army-Navy Exchange
el Paso
Local Man Found Dead in Roswell Residence
Roswell police report a 19 year old man Alexander Martinez of 205 Linda Circle was found dead at 7 41 am with an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Coroner Lee Wollard pronounced him dead at the scene.
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Roswell
Alexander Martinez
Linda Cirele
Chaves County
Lee Wollard
Martinez
Weather forecast for Roswell and vicinity
Variable cloudiness through Friday with morning and nighttime fog. Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Moderate winds with occasional gusts. High today 88 degrees, low tonight 60 degrees, high tomorrow 84 degrees.
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Roswell
ENM Fair Schedule Highlights Fat Lambs Rodeo and More
The ENM Fair lists Friday schedule with 8 a.m. Horse Show Western Classes and fat calves judging while beef breeding show also runs. Exhibitors must notify if not selling animals at 1 p.m. A 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. beef cutting demos precede a 7:30 p.m. rodeo. Mexican cookery demo at 8 p.m. and carnival runs 11 a.m. to midnight.
West German hunt for 15 Arabs linked to Olympic killings
West Germany hunted for 15 Palestinians suspected of complicity in the Munich Olympic massacre. Officials warned of possible bomb attacks on Jewish groups and European-Israeli associations during the Jewish new year. Arabic suspects, captured airport raid detainees Ibrahim Badran Abd El Kadir El Dnawy Samer Abdulah, faced murder charges.
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Munich
West Germany
Israel
Interior Ministry
Europe
Cairo
U.S
Germany
Egypt
Bonn
Lebanon
Ibrahim Badran
Abd el Kadir el Dnawy
Samer Mohamed Abdulah
Jordan
Syria
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Forest Drive
Lincoln
Stephen Thetford
Dora
Teresa Thetford
Roosevelt
David Sanders
Alan Simms
Chaves
Norman Watson
Brian Sisneros
Nelda Miles
Larry Widner
Floyd
Pen
Ray Sisneros
Hondo
Lloyd Salcido
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