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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1973
Page
2
Marfa Tex judges fat lambs at the ENM State Fair Thursday. John Kearney urged junior exhibitors to learn a skill beyond winning. He noted most athletes do not pursue pro sports and praised learning discipline through showing animals as a constructive path. Fat lamb judging continued past 5 p.m.
Newsprint is tight globally with urgent cable requests to North American mills. Prices rise abroad with India at about 250 dollars per ton and Brazil near 241. Consumption climbs, strikes in Finland and U.S. demand boost supply pressures, creating a high black market in the United States.
Members of the Regional Advisory Group of the New Mexico Regional Medical Program will meet in Albuquerque on Saturday to hear Sen. Odis Echols of Clovis. Local attendees include Mrs. Loretta Cassell, Lloyd Payne, Dr. Carlton Walker of Roswell, and Roland Walsh of Artesia. Echols chairs the Legislature's Interim Committee on Health and Aging and will discuss the committee's organization and duties.
Four students were invited by Governor Bruce King to mark the class of 76 at a bicentennial ceremony. National figures say the event honors the four cultures of New Mexico, but Navajo student Frederick Martinez protests, calling for recognition of past harms and ongoing racism.
Hereford and Angus classes crown champions with Jahree Smith of Eddy County 4 H as Hereford heavyweight grand champion and Lane Kuykendall of Chaves 4 H reserve in Angus. Multiple placings list top entrants from Quay Lea Roosevelt Chaves and Dora FFA in fat calf and pen events.
Mrs. Margaret Gamble Gerling 74 of 1509 South Adams died at 8 50 a m in St Marys Hospital after a brief illness. She was born November 22 1898 in Stutter Creek California and was survived by her husband George F Gerling a sister Marion M Gamble two nieces in New York and another in Tucson. She graduate of the University of Wisconsin Library School and the University of Wyoming and served as librarian in Kenosha Wisconsin and worked at the Library of Congress when her husband was in government service. The Gerlings have lived in Roswell since 1955. Private funeral services are pending.
An explosion hit ITT Latin American operations offices on Madison Avenue in Manhattan injuring no one. A separate device was thrown at ITT Standard S.A. in Rome. a third blast occurred near a federal building in San Francisco. Police found no connections among the incidents. A warning earlier directed attention to the ITT complex nearby.
A Department of Agriculture telegram to the New York Cotton Exchange urged immediate limits on October 1973 cotton futures to liquidation only with new selling for delivery. Administrator Alex Caldwell warned of an emergency in final liquidation and called for board recall by Oct. 2 if progress stalls.
Showers and thunderstorms linger across the mid continent causing renewed flooding from Texas to Missouri. The Arkansas River at Hutchinson Kansas crested five feet above its banks while the lower Missouri River stood four feet over its banks at Waverly Missouri. Kansas faces widespread flood threats with evacuations on the Solomon Saline and Smoky Hill rivers as the Chikaskia River climbs above flood stage in Oklahoma. Over 1 000 people flee San Antonio area towns as high water threatens Seguin and New Braunfels. flood levels rival historic events.
Roswell police received a burglary report from Louise Coe at 1304 S Washington Ave. The entry was through a southwest window. A watch and ring worth over 100 dollars were missing.
New York stocks opened sharply lower with the Dow at noon down 6.85 to 946.42 but regained some ground by midday. The NYSE broad index fell to 48.48 with oil and gas issues retreating while Fannie Mae and Armco Steel rose modestly and Delta Air Lines dropped. Roswell Livestock Auction reports a fair sale with about 70 sheep and lambs and mixed cattle, prices mixed across slaughter and feeder categories.
In Guymon Oklahoma a barroom robbery netted about 600 dollars. Patrolman Eldon Landsdown was shot in the abdomen and underwent surgery in Amarillo Texas. Owner Don Cruzan and a barmaid suffered head injuries and were treated and released. Two suspects were arrested near Spearman Texas after a roadblock stop.
Motions arguing the reinstituted death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment are set for hearing Monday in District Court Judge Joseph Baca's court. Public defenders George Farrah and Jan Alan Hartke filed separate challenges to the mandatory death penalty for first degree murder enacted July 15.
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