Outstanding youths semifinalists named in National Merit program
Six Roswell area students plus Debra Hanagan Candance King Hunt Guitar Joe Mims Bradford Pretti and William Kerr are semifinalists in the 1971 72 National Merit Scholarship Program among 15000 semifinalists competing for about 3000 scholarships to be awarded in 1972.
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Jerry McCormack
America
Debra A. Hanagan
Candance A. King
Goddard High School
Hunt
Joe A. Mims
Bradford Pretti
Roswell High School
William S. Kerr
Ardmore
Oklo
New Mexico Military Institute
Roswell
Oklahoma
Goddard
Goddard High
Robert G. Hanagan
Candace A. King
Roy King
Hunt Guitar
Dorothy Guitar Romo
S. Wyoming
Joe Mims
S. Washington
U.S
NMSC
Mao rumors fade as Peking reports calm amid foreign speculation
Tokyo dispatches say Mao remains unclear but Chinese officials deny death or illness while French papers push the idea of major events in Communist China. In Washington, Rep. Harold Runnels proposes repealing excise tax on pickups and cars and draftees with low numbers face inductions after deferments end. Nixon to meet Gromyko next week. Roswell area predicts variable clouds with showers and cooler highs around 66.
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Tokyo
Peking
Mao Tse-tung
Communist
China
Washington
Harold Runnels
D-N.m
Nursing homes warn of Medicaid bed cuts over reclassification
New Mexico nursing home leaders vow to drop Medicaid programs if 1122 patients are reclassified from skilled to intermediate care. Harold Watson of Sunset Villa says beds could fall by 90 percent, transferring residents to state facilities unless alternative arrangements are found.
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Harold Watson
Roswell
Sunset Villa
New Mexico
Watson
Foti
HSS
Local Roswell Goddard and NMMI students among 1971 72 National Merit semifinalists
Six semifinalists from Roswell Goddard and New Mexico Military Institute join 15 000 students nationwide named as semifinalists in the 1971 72 National Merit Scholarships competition. They will compete for about 3 000 scholarships in spring 1972.
Import surtax to remain in effect until balance of payments improves
Secretary Connally told a closed Ways and Means session the 10 percent import tax surcharge will stay in place until the balance of payments deficit shows substantial improvement. He said Phase Two proposals may be unveiled in mid October if developments justify it.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Nixon
Connally
House
Ways and Means Committee
Guards officers win verdict in UNM campus bayoneting suit
A federal court jury in Albuquerque ruled in favor of five National Guard officers in a $260,000 suit brought by six plaintiffs who alleged bayoneting by guardsmen at the University of New Mexico in May 1970. The eight day trial heard 45 witnesses. officers named include Gen. Don Doane, Col. Tom Taylor, and Capt. Felix Torres.
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Albuquerque
National Guard
Guard
University Mall
John Jolly
Jolly
Polson
Don Doane
11Th Artillery Brigade
Tom Taylor
Felix Torres
Modern Jesse James hits Greyhound bus
A modern-day robber boarded a Greyhound bus in Fort Wayne Indiana and at Chicago's South Side robbed 17 passengers with a .38 pistol and fled on foot after forcing the driver to unload luggage. No injuries were reported and police said there were no shooting threats.
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Chicago
Jesse James
Greyhound
Fort Wayne
Ind
South Side
Walter Triboloet
Lima
Ohio
Triboloet
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AL Stubbs
Joe Bauman
Record Society
Frances Kyte
Wyoming
TV Guide
Joe
Sertoma Club
Jimmy Lee
Jay Spearman
Arkansas
William F. Barrow
Southern State College
Magnolia
Ark
Barrow
Abilene High School
W. F. Barrow
S. Lea St
THE
Associated Press
Selective Service
Andrei Gromyko
White House
Roswell and Vicinity
State Health and Social Services Department
Sam Foti
HSS Medical Assistance Dept
HCFA
United States
Edward C. Smith
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
Fromm
Debra Hanagan
Sen
Edmund Muskie
Chattanooga
Tenn
W.S. Kerr
Candace King
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