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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1978
Page
2
Lisa Volkert, Vermont's contestant in the Miss America pageant, states she would rather tell the truth than win the title. She also endorses premarital sex and says homosexuals are equal to everyone else in her view of society.
Burton William Jenner weighed 8 pounds 7 ounces at birth in Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Bruce Jenner, 1976 Olympic decathlon champion and NBC host, is the father. no athletic plans announced yet. Chrystie Jenner and baby are reported to be doing well.
In New York the longtime friends and business partners Joseph Papp of the New York Shakespeare Festival and his top aide Gersten separated after a 30 year friendship and 19 year working relationship. Papp cited a disagreement as the reason for parting ways.
Antoinette Slovik, widow of Pvt Eddie Slovik executed in France in 1945, plans a Washington push to obtain $70,000 plus interest from Congress. Robert DeFinis says support is growing as a bill is introduced, while Bernard Gersten and Papp comment on festival sponsorship and non profit concerns.
Albany AP report says Henry Kissinger, born in Germany, believes the Constitution bars naturalized citizens from the presidency but not from serving as emperor. He hints at possible 1980 Senate bid while noting no obstacle to foreign-born leaders ruling as emperor.
Governor Meldrim Thomson orders National Guard troops to staff Manchester fire stations as long as firefighters join a sickout. The move aims to ensure city safety during the work stoppage and keeps authorities prepared amid the protest action.
US businessman Francis J. Crawford was convicted of buying rubles on the black market and received a five year suspended sentence as prosecutors requested. The U S Embassy said he may leave the Soviet Union and apply for an exit visa.
Farmington giant Giants Industries will get a 14.5 million loan guarantee to expand its oil refinery doubling capacity and jobs. Roswell based Glover Packing Co gets 10 million for refrigeration and plant upgrades as part of a 15 million program.
Washington The General Services Administration begins a search for a new special investigator to head the probe into government purchasing scandals as Vin cent R. Alto plans to resign by mid November. Alto says he will stay until a replacement arrives and will not leave the desk vacant.
The post Labor Day rally paused amid Camp David Mideast talks and incoming economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2.95 to 898.74 at midday after gains in prior sessions, with advances leading declines on the NYSE. Pan American World Airways led active lists with notable trading, a large block changing hands at 9.
Scotty's Pit Bar-B-Que at 1509 W Second St received an improvement upgrade from C to A by the Environmental Improvement Division after a downgrade last week due to temperature and sanitation problems.
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