50th Anniversary of New Mexico Oil Discovery in San Juan
Preparations underway for a four day celebration October 6 to 9 marking the 50th anniversary of the first commercial oil and gas well near Aztec. Events include an API meeting dinner at San Juan Country Club, an oil show tours and a ceremony honoring early industry veterans.
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San Juan
New Mexico
API
San Juan Country Club
Thomas J. Joyce
Bureau of Natural Gas
Federal Power Commission
J. Gregory Merrion
Farmington
N.M
Aztec Oil Syndicate
Aztec
U.S. Push To Seat Two Chinas In UN Faces Setbacks
The United States won support for two Chinas resolutions to place Peking and Taiwan in the General Assembly with Peking to hold a Security Council seat, and to require a two thirds vote to oust Taiwan. The Steering Committee split, deferring combined debate and backing the Albanian resolution to seat the Communists. Taiwan criticized the U.S. move as a violation of the UN Charter.
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Associated Press
United Nations
N.Y
United States
China
General Assembly
Japan
Peking
Taiwan
Security Council
U.S
U.N
Foreign Ministry
George Bush
Youth awarded medal of valor
A Roswell High School student, 15 year old Mark Gerek, received the Medal of Valor from the Beaver American Legion for rescuing 13 year old Deana Fish from the bottom of a Balko Oklahoma motel pool on August 16 1971. He surfaced her then administered artificial respiration until firefighters arrived and she recovered.
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Joe Lucas
Roswell
American Legion
Mark Gerek
Frank Gerek
Roswell High
Mark
Oklahoma
American Legion For
Futura
Royal Motel
Deana Fish
Robert Fish
Balko
Okla
Balko, Oklo
Roswell High School
Lester Benson
Yale W. Sadler
Balko High School
Deana
Beaver American Legion
Tax plan approved in revised Nixon proposal
Washington AP reports the House Ways and Means Committee endorsed the tax portion of President Nixon’s economic program in a sharply revised version. The changes reduce business taxes while increasing relief for individuals.
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Washington
Nixon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Nixon denial shapes China trip plans and tax relief shift
The White House denies Nixon will fly to Peking from Alaska next week and says China trip details will be released in advance. Separately a Democratic committee's tax plan would cut business relief by about 4.9 billion over three years while increasing individual relief by about 3.4 billion, with changes to exemptions and credits and adjustments to depreciation and excise taxes.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Peking
Alaska
China
Ron Ziegler
Ziegler
House
Treasury
Condition of cities worsens in Kerner report era
The National Urban Coalition says in The State of the Cities that housing remains a national scandal while crime unemployment and disease rise. It notes worsening race relations and growing minority isolation with cities like Atlanta Detroit Los Angeles Phoenix Newark and El Paso projected as later predominantly black or brown.
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Associated Press
Washington
Kerner Commission
National Urban Coalition
Coalition
National Advisory Commission On
Otto Kerner
Ilinois
Atlanta
Detroit
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Newark
el Paso
Tex
Funds report for Greater Roswell United Fund campaign
The Greater Roswell United Fund reports progress across divisions with totals toward varied goals. Education, led by Maxwell Wyles and Husemoller, reaches 83 percent of its $12,882 target. Other divisions show smaller pledges and several no reports yet.
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Greater Roswell United Fund
Robert K. Maxwell
E.R. Wyles
Kenneth K. Husemoller
Wayne Milner
Gail Harris
Harold Olson
Bob Owen
J. Hassler Strickland
Pete Smith
Pathe Mitcham
Phil Owen
Owen
William G. Laakes
Rainfall Averages Half Inch in Roswell Area
Rainfall across Roswell and southeastern New Mexico averaged about one half inch today with rain reported nearly everywhere in the valley and mountain regions. Roswell measured .68 inches by 8 30 am, while mountain areas reported an inch or more and Ruidoso logged 1.10 inches, with an 80 percent chance of more rain today and lower chances tonight and Friday.
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Roswell
New Mexico
U.S. Weather Bureau
Ruidoso
Overnight Express Mail Service Opens Nationwide
Postmaster General Winton M Blount announces Overnight Express Mail Service across 33 large cities with a money back guarantee. Downtown post offices serve as deposit and pickup points with delivery by 10 a.m. next day for items deposited by 6 p.m. the prior day at a rate of 1 50 per letter up to eight ounces.
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Washington
Winton M. Blount
Blount
Apm
Medina acquitted in My Lai case and plans to resign
Capt. Ernest L. Medina, commander of a company at My Lai on March 16 1968, is acquitted of murder involuntary manslaughter and assault. He says he bears no bitterness toward the Army and will resign, while jurors acknowledge war crimes occurred but found Medina did not commit them. Lt. William J. Calley Jr. remains the only American convicted of atrocity.
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FT. Mcpherson, Ga
Ernest L. Medina
My Lai
Army
U.S
William J. Calley Jr
My Lal
Medina
William D. Proctor
Barbara
National Guard
Robert FE. Nelson
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David Norvell
Chaves County
Sally Burkstaller
David Lee
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Conaly Reed
Ernestine Hodge
Fil Naranjo
Weldon Wagner
Norvell
Ruth Winslow Morgan
Texas Christian University
THE
Hugo L. Black
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Supreme Court
Fred R. Harris
Harris
George S. McGovern
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Taipei
William N. Oatis
By G.C. Thelen Jr
New York
John V. Lindsay
Phottos
Roswell and Vicinity
Norman L. Stephens
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