Roswell Approves City Water and Sewer Rate Increase
Roswell City Council unanimously approves a new rate ordinance to raise water and sewer charges, lowering minimums and boosting per thousand rates to generate about 957000 yearly for a planned new water source near Walker AFB. The plan contemplates a 6.3 million bond and includes rights acquisitions on Kerr Ranch.
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Roswell
Council
Harold L. Hensley Jr
Boettcher & Co
L.D Kerr Ranch
Walker Air Force Base
Star Engineer
Carlsbad Irrigation District
CID
Albuquerque
James B. Stapp
Tom Mann
E.F. Hutton & Co
Space craft aims to soft land on moon for photos
Cape Kennedy reports America's Surveyor 2 rocketed toward the moon with apparent bullseye accuracy. The mission targets a Thursday soft landing to photograph a cratered plain where U.S. astronauts may walk within three years. Chicago notes George Lincoln Rockwell, 46, pleaded guilty to anti internationalist activities and paid a $400 fine.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
U.S
Chicago
George Lincoln Rockwell
Fair Parade Entry List Reaches 85
About 85 entries have registered for the Eastern New Mexico State Fair parade set to begin the 1966 fair on September 28. Entries include 18 bands 25 floats 8 sheriffs passes 13 antique cars and 50 horsemen. The Walker Air Force Base color guard and the 950 member New Mexico Military Institute cadet corps will march. Jim Slade JC parade chairman calls the event shorter than last year while expecting higher quality entries. Twenty four trophies will be awarded. Deadline for entries is midnight Saturday.
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New Mexico
Walker Air Force Base Color Guard
New Mexico Military Institute Cadet Corps
Jim Slade
Jaycee Parade
R Anderson Named Citizen of the Year by New Mexico Realtors
Robert O. Anderson of Roswell, petroleum executive and rancher, was chosen Citizen of the Year by the Realtor Association of New Mexico at its 17th annual convention in Albuquerque. The award recognized his extensive business ventures and extensive civic and cultural involvement across multiple states.
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Albuquerque
Robert O. Anderson
Roswell
Realtor’s Association of New Mexico
Sheraton
Anderson
J. Keesing
Lincoln County Livestock Company
Philadelphia
Aspen
Colo
Picacho
Hondo Valley
Chicago
Sweden
First National Bank of Chicago
Barbara Herrick Phelps
University of Chicago
Atlantic Refining Company
The
Atlantic Richfield Company
Aspen Institute For Humanistic Studies
Anderson Foundation of
New Mexico
Board of
Regents of
New Mexico State University
Social Science Foundation
University of Denver
the Lovelace Foundation
National Council of Boy Scouts of America
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Washington, D.C
UN General Assembly Opens 21st Session Laments Viet Nam War
The United Nations opened its 21st session with outgoing president Amintore Fanfani urging nations to seek peace in Viet Nam. The mood was somber as East West tensions persisted. Indonesia announced restoration of UN membership and U Thant hinted at a possible end of his term this year.
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Max Harrelson
United Nations
N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Amintor? Fanfani
Italy
Viet Nam
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Fanfani
Assembly
Indonesia
U. N
U Thant
Afghanistan
Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
Czechoslovakia
U.N
Forei
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Soviet Union
Thant
Washington
Moscow
Soviet Bloc
Funnel Dips From Clouds Over Roswell Heavy Rain Reported
A trough brought heavy rain and a funnel cloud near Bitter Lakes and east of Roswell this morning. The Roswell airport logged .51 inch in 34 minutes and Bitter Lakes .63 inch by 9 am amid scattered showers and increasing clouds.
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Roswell
Bitter Lake
Bitter Lakes
Fighter Bombers Hit Buffer Strip
U S Air Force and Marine forces conducted day and night raids in the buffer zone near South Vietnam. Marines reported 53 North Vietnamese killed in a fortified village assault with 10 more dead nearby while defending positions near The Rockpile.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Leathernecks
Rockpile
Air Force
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
China
Boys Club plans new building and fundraising drive
The Boys Club of Roswell plans a 10,000-square-foot building behind the city fire station at Garden and McGaffey. A $50,000 finance campaign begins Oct. 3 with $20,000 for the building and $30,000 for operating costs, capped by a Telethon Oct. 15–16 from 9:30 p.m. to noon.
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Boys Club of
Roswell
Garden and McGaffey
Anise Bellamah
Bucks For Boys
Charles Head
Dan Blocker
Warren Spahn
Ksws-Tv
E. Bland St
Springer
Honeywell error leads to check for boy selling rabbits
In Minneapolis a nine year old boy named Mark Dearden was paid 22 605 dollars by Honeywell Inc for five rabbits raised for research. He planned to buy a bicycle for his sister and made airplanes when told to return the misissued check.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Honeywell, Inc
Mark Dearden
Honeywell
Mark
Valerie Percy Death Probed By Wide Police Effort
Investigators widen inquiry into Valerie Percy's stabbing in Kenilworth Illinois with 44 people questioned and 32 leads. Authorities examine interior house familiarity as a possible entry point while FBI agents join local and state police in the probe.
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Kenilworth, Ill
Valerie Percy
Percy
Robert M. Daley
Valerie
State’s Attorney
Kenilworth
Sheriff’s Police
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chicago
FBI
Lake Michigan North Shore
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WAFB
Hutton and Boettcher
Monday Night
Rosweil
Harold E. Kious
Stern Bros. and Co
Fair Parade
R. C. Anderson
R. Anderson
Realtors
Mau Pggisimo Esbia
Richard Bean
Chaves County
Democratic
E. Fifth
Larry Goodell
Huff
Maj
Neil Eddins
Las Vegas
Nev
Eddins
Thunderchief
Thanh Hoa
North
Panhandle
Boys Club
Travis Townsend
Sertoma Club
Boys Club of Roswell
Annse Bellamah
Burll Murchison
Joe L. Carroll
Barnett
Daley
Percys
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