City committee launches drive for 2.2 million bond
The Committee of 100 and Roswell school leaders launched a drive for a 2.2 million bond to fund building repairs and expanded vocational training. The plan allocates 1.1 million for repairs and 1.1 million for vocational facilities with 555 thousand at Roswell High and 600 thousand at Goddard High.
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Roswell Independent School District
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Sealed grand jury resumes probe into Maryland corruption
The special Maryland grand jury probing political corruption resumed under unprecedented secrecy with U S marshals sealing court corridors and restricting access. The probe, led by George Beall, targets kickbacks in engineering contracts and may involve Vice President Spiro Agnew. Baltimore County official N Dale Anderson is charged. Partly sunny in Roswell today through Friday with highs near 90 to 92 degrees.
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Associated Press
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United States
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Beall
N. Dale Anderson
Baltimore County
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Anderson
Roswell
Roswell and Pinto Paint Honored at New Mexico State Fair
Roswell Day and Pinto-Paint Day highlight the 36th annual New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque. 33,442 attended opening day. pari mutuel horse wagering totaled $422,730 as races resumed. Jim Young headlines rodeo Friday with top RCA hands. Spanish Heritage Night drew 5,700 at Tingley Coliseum. Champions include Sir Barta as champion gelding and Miss Alikchi Jo as champion mare in Pinto-Paint judging.
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Skip
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Golden, Colo
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Si Siemon
Loren Gingrich
Las Cruces
Alikchi Jo
W.O. Murry
Aluquerque
Cities face fiscal crisis as NM lawmakers balk at aid
Four key New Mexico legislators told municipal leaders the state won t provide tax relief this session. They said cities may gain power to tax themselves in 1974 but warned it will be tough to convince the legislature to share the tax base. Gov King urged local funding decisions.
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Roswell
Collin McMillan
R-Chaves- DeBaca
Phil Corbett
Roswell High School
Carlsbad
N.M
New Mexico
New Mexico Municipal League
U.S
Manual Lujan Jr
Rn.m
Pete Domenici
Albuquerque
Aubrey Dunn
D-Otero
Senate Finance Committee
C.B. Trujillo
D-Taos-Mora-San Miguel
Legislative Finance Committee
Bruce King
Dunn
Sanchez
Farmington
Boyd Scott
League
Scott
Trujillo
Lawless
Artesia
Ernest Thompson
McBride
Death of Bruce Palmer and wife in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City journalist and public relations executive Bruce Palmer and his wife Leila died of asphyxiation after their car ran in a rain storm. Police said carbon monoxide seeped through walls to an upstairs bedroom where the bodies were found. Palmer had led the Radio Television News Directors Association and recently became director of WKY Radio and TV and KWTV.
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Bruce Palmer
Oklahoma City
Okla
Leila
Palmers
National Radio Television News Directors Association
WKY Radio and TV
KWTV
Chilean junta names Ugarte leader after coup
Chile's 55 year old army general Augusto Pinochet Ugarte heads a four man military junta and swears in a largely military cabinet. The regime breaks relations with Cuba and lifts the siege briefly to allow civilians to gather food as gunbattles continue with supporters of former President Allende.
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Chile
Cuba
Salvador Allende
Allende
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
Adm
Ismael Huerta
Mario Garcia Inchaustegui
Havana
Organization of American States
Ugarte
Junta
Allende Widow Granted Asylum in Mexico City Embassy
Hortensia Bussi de Allende widow of Salvador Allende and her children have received political asylum in the Mexican Embassy in Santiago. Earlier reports of her death in the bombing of the Allende home in a Santiago district are not confirmed by this release.
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Hortensia Bussi de Allende
Salvador Allende
Chile
Santiago
Associated Press
Allende
August Uplift in Canada Sparks Inflation Debate
Ottawa records a 1.3 percent rise in living costs in August the largest in 22 years led by a 3.2 percent jump in food. The spike tests Prime Minister Trudeau amid inflation fight.
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