New Mexico Landscape Turns Green After Rainy Months
Rain in the past two months brought the greenest look to New Mexico in years. Ranchers report tall grass and fat cattle across northeast ranges as July and August yielded strong rainfall. Localities like Ruidoso saw their wettest summer in 12 years and the Rio Grande continued flowing into fall, defying recent drought patterns.
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New Mexico
G. F. von Eschen
U.S. Weather Bureau
Ruidoso
Deming
West Texas
Mayhill
Artsia
Rio Grande
Belen
Elephant Battle Lake
Pick Won't Debate With Santa Fe and Says Is Useless
Ingram Pickett announced he will not engage Fabian Chavez in a debate on party conventions versus primary elections. He recalled a February 1956 dispute where Chavez chose the moderator and allegedly failed to stay on topic, calling Chavez ignorant and a waste of time.
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Pick
Santa Fe
Ingram Pickett
Fabian Chavez
D-Santa Fe
Pickett
Chavez
Interstate Commerce Commission
State Corporation Commissioner
Fabian
Mechem Airs Critique of Faubus Court and Primary System
New Mexico Governor Mechem criticized Arkansas Governor Faubus and the U.S. Supreme Court over school integration. He backed a party convention approach to nominate candidates, favored by a Democrat state senator, and urged focusing GOP efforts on independents. He also urged Santa Fe District Attorney Walter Kegel to lead any adjutant general probe, while noting the small party vote difference with Democrats.
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Alamogordo
Edwin L. Mechem
Mechem
Arkansas
Orval Faubus
U. S. Supreme Court
Fabian Chavez
D-Sa
Arkansas University
Razorback
FBI
Gov
Faubus
Adjutant General's Office
Santa Fe Dist
Walter Kegel
Fred Standley
Satare
Dist
James M. Scarborough
GOP
New Mexico
Generous City Owens Heart for Teresa
Roswell residents and groups have raised over $800 to help Teresa Aldinger, a five year old blind girl, seek eye treatment at Johns Hopkins. Teresa and her mother will travel September 26 for examination and possible surgery, with aid including air fare and a private plane offer for a one way or round trip.
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Roswell
Teresa Aldinger
Teresa
Leon Aldinger
Aspen Ave
Johns Hopkins University
Lions Club
Lewis C. Cox
Light Conservation Fund
Baltimore
Aldingers
C. M. MacClean
Odessa
Tex
Eisenhower Signs Immigration Bill Amid Disappointment
President Eisenhower signed a hardship case immigration bill at his Newport headquarters. He called it a disappointment as it fails to meet his demands and still leaves many inequities. The measure allows about 76 000 aliens currently barred from entering the United States.
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Newport
R. I.P
Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Warns Turkey Over Military Moves In Syria
Beirut Lebanon reports a sharp Soviet warning from Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. He accuses Turkey of massing troops along the Syrian frontier serving U S interests and warns against moves that would plunge Turkey over the precipice, citing Syria’s reliable friends.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Turkey
West
Middle East
Andrei Gromyko
Syria
United States
German rocket expert warns of Soviet ICBM challenge
In Stuttgart Germany Dr Eugen Saenger a leading rocket specialist warned that Soviet development of an intercontinental ballistic missile is a serious challenge to the United States. He noted there is no reason to believe the Russians are bluffing and recalled his wartime research with his wife Dr Irene Saenger Bredt whose secret blueprints were captured by Russians.
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Stuttgart
Germany
United States
Eugen Saenger
Saenger
Irene Saenger-Bredt
Soviet Delegate Defends Hungary Role At UN Assembly
Soviet delegate Arkady Sobolev argued against listing Hungary as a question for UN action. He claimed Soviet troops stay in Hungary to fulfill international duties under the Warsaw Pact, asserting no rush to withdraw.
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United Nations
Soviet Union
Hungary
Arkady A. Sobolev
Death claims elderly Chaves County couple in separate wounds
Mrs. Annie Josephine Kuykendall aged 81 died early today after a heart attack a week earlier. Her husband William M. Kuykendall aged 84 went outside and shot himself in the head, apparently a self inflicted fatality. Ballard Funeral Home to handle arrangements.
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Chaves County
Annie Josephine Kuykendall
William M. Kuykendall
Sheriff's Department
Ballard Funeral Home
East 19Th
J. C. Jones
Conn
Williams receives Sertoma Club leadership citation
Harlon Williams was awarded the Sertoma International Citation for Superior Club Leadership for his 1956-57 presidency of the Roswell Sertoma Club. International President Elton G. Vann announced the honor in Kansas City, with the ceremony held September 6.
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Harlon Williams
Sertoma International
Roswell
Sertoma Club
Kansas City
Sertoma
Elton G. Vann
International
Vann
United States
Canada
Mexico
Arkansas Governor Faubus Faces Federal Court Action
The United States serves a summons to Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas for obstructing integration. In Nashville a ban on segregation demonstrations is issued as tensions rise. John Kasper is arrested in Nashville with 27 others, following a Birmingham bomb threat and school dynamiting.
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U.S
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
Nashville
Tenn
Birmingham
Ala
John Kasper
Little Rock
Ark
Faubus
National Guard
Central High School
Walker Air Base paving projects resume after four day pause
The Robert E. McKee paving work at Walker Air Force Base and a second project by George Rutherford, contractor, restarted after a four day interruption caused by picket lines at the F. M. Reeves plant. L. L. Porterfield of the National Labor Relations Board continues inquiries into charges of a secondary boycott and Reeves alleged failure to bargain with unions. Reeves attorney contests unions as sole bargaining agents.
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Robert E. McKee
Walker Air Force Base
Walker
George Rutherford
F. M. Reeves & Son
Reeves
L. L. Porterfield
el Paso
National Labor Relations Board
New Mexico
Associated General Contractors
Teamsters
Porterfield
Preliminary hearing set in Mickey shooting in Alamogordo
A preliminary hearing is set for Sept 18 for Bill Scruggs Alamogordo cafe owner charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Larry Mickey 19 of Salisbury NC. At arraignment Monday Scruggs pleaded innocent before Justice of the Peace Howard Beacham. Bond set at $2000.
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Alamogordo
Bill Scruggs
Larry Mickey
Salisbury
N. C
Scruggs
Justice of the Peace
Howard Beacham
Beacham
First Bale From Roswell Area Ginned at Farmers Inc Gin No 1
Ira L. Garner, a cotton producer from EGP, produced the first Roswell area bale. The bale weighed 519 pounds from 1,370 pounds of seed cotton graded 1517 Acala strict middling with one and one eighth inch staple.
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Ira L. Garner
Egp
Roswell
Garner
Farmers Inc
South Atkinson
Baseball scores show Pirates defeat Brewers
Pittsburgh 27 runs in nine innings beats Milwaukee 16. Kline and Foiles pitched for Pittsburgh with Spahn and Rice for Milwaukee. Home runs were hit by Foiles for Pittsburgh and Pafko for Milwaukee.
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Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
Kline
Foiles
Spahn and Rice
Pafko
No Phone Strike Is Viewed Here
Telephone company union officials here do not anticipate a walkout as of this morning. Western Electric installers at Farmington Clovis Las Vegas and Albuquerque have struck due to breakdowns in New York talks. Service speed is slower in some cities with supervisory and non union workers keeping emergency and much of normal service. Two Western Electric men remain in Roswell one in the main building and one installing in John Barnett's KSWS building.
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Western Electric
Farmington
Clovis
Las Vegas
Albuquerque
New York
Roswell
John Barnett
Ksws Radio-Tv
Telephone Company
City to investigate dump complaints over smoke and odor
Mayor Tucker named a sanitation committee to probe the city dump nuisance after a petition with 150 signatures. Aldermen Gene White Albert Romero and Max Shepherd will lead the review as residents cited smoke unsanitary conditions and odor affecting about 1 500 people in a 35 000 population area. A 12 acre new dump site off the airbase road was purchased eight months ago to replace gravel at the old site. authorities expect relief by next March but some officials fear displacing the problem.
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Brownie Emerson
Ernest C. Tucker
Gene White
Albert Romero
Max Shepherd
N. Heights Ave
Tucker
Counterfeit Detective Has Long Look at Bogus Cash
Bar owner Ernest A. Rose faced a man claiming to be detective Wright who sought his paper money. Rose bundled $418 and followed a taxi with the man, only to see the taxi depart with the money and later learn the real detective was Robert Wright.
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Los Angeles
Wright
Ernest A. Rose
Rose
University Station
Robert Wright
Teenager Injured In Car And Scooter Intersection Crash
C B Waide age 14 of 1204 W College Blvd was taken to the medical center after a collision with a 1953 Nash driven by Ronda Mulroy age 15 at Union and 1th. The mishap is part of five accidents from Monday through today with other injuries reported at St. Marys Hospital and no injuries in the remaining incidents.
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C. B. Waide
W. College Blvd
Union
Lth
Allstate
Nash
Ronda Mulroy
Delaware Ave
John F. Burns
S. Munroe Ave
Buena Vista
South Munroe
Burns
St. Mary's Hospital
Block West
S. Main St
Two Die In Headon Crash Near Farmington New Mexico
A gas worker and a young mother died in a headon collision southeast of Farmington on State Road 17. Myrtle Harrison 23 Bloomfield and David Salazar 29 El Paso Natural Gas employee from Grants died instantly when a tire blew out driving her car into his. One year old Calvin Dale Harrison was seriously injured. his brother Marvin 3 escaped serious injury.
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Farmington
Here
New Mexico
Myrtle Harrison
Bloomfield
David Salazar
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Grants
Floyd Miles
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