Navy 'Big Brother' directive is ditched by Defense
The Defense Department has canceled a Navy issued directive advising civilian employees to seek "wise and mature counsel" before associating with political or civic groups. A Senate subcommittee had questioned the guidance, and the Pentagon said action was taken to cancel the directive effective immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Hoffman Ashington
Defense Department
Senate
Navy
Pentagon
Department of Defense
Western Great Race gains support at chamber luncheon
Stan Gerson outlined the Western Great Race planned for April 40 on Western New Mexico University campus. He said officials and contestants have broad community backing, with reporters from three national magazines already covering the event. About $1800 has been invested, and a banquet, dance, and time trials are set before the Sunday race. John Reynolds, winner of the local Optimist Club Oratorical Contest, delivered a speech for tonight’s zone contest in Deming titled Patriotic Citizenship Needs Optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stan Gerson
Western New Mexico University
Silver City-Grant County
Gerson
John Reynolds
Tzq
Clup
Deming
Reynold
Castro Says Green Berets Heading South
Fidel Castro charged that the United States has sent 1000 Green Beret troops into Bolivia via Panama disguised as tourists. He warned that for every Green Beret the imperialists send, revolutions will answer with Red Berets. He called the Punta del Este summit a failure and decried plans for a Latin American Common Market as a U.S. plot for cheaper raw materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Fidel Castro
Bolivia
Guatemala
Colombia
Venezuela
U.S
Panama
Vietnam
Latin America
Castro
Punta del Este
Report Says Red Launch Imminent
MOSCOW AP Unconfirmed reports circulated that three major Soviet space launches were imminent with officials warned to expect a spectacular and significant space venture this weekend or next week. Debates over manned or unmanned status persisted as the absence of official advance notice contrasted with the two year gap since Alexei Leonov’s 1965 spacewalk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Alexei A. Leonov
Adenauer Guided West Germany To Prosperity
Kon rad Adenauer led West Germany from 1949 to 1963 shaping a prosperous democratic state. He built relations with the West, fostered a Christian Democratic Union mass party, and aimed for German reunification and Western integration amid postwar turmoil. He died at 91 after four years of retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adenauer
West Germany
Christian Democratic Union
CDU
Bonn
Europe
Germany
United States
Senate set for reapportionment clash says Dirksen
Washington AP Senate Republican Leader Dirksen forecast a near term showdown over legislative reapportionment as two more states threaten petitions for a constitutional convention. He urged a convention once two more petitions arrive, while Tydings warned Congress to wait for five more states. Also House action advances a districting bill affecting about 297 districts in 22 states. The Senate debated the administration draft and a McGovern livestock import cut while extending draft life and noting Johnson plans to curb student evasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Egarett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Newsmen
Supreme Court
Joseph D. Tydings
D-Md
Congress
House
House Rules Committee
George McGovern
Senate Armed Services Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Johnson
Cassius Clay Refuses Army Uniform Induction
Louisville report says heavyweight champion Cassius Clay declares he will not wear an Army uniform under any circumstances. He cites his Muslim religion and opposes assisting actions he calls murder and oppression. Induction was set for April 24 in Houston Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Cassius Clay
Clay
Houston
Tex
Sentence for missile range soldier in college student death
AP dispatch reports District Court Judge Edward Triviz scheduled a sentence Friday for a missile range soldier connected to the shooting death of a Formosan graduate student at New Mexico State University. Diane Fitch, 22, was sentenced to life in prison on a murder charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller Las
Oil Figure Lower in May for per unit allowable
HOBBS AP The New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission met in Hobbs and cut the May per unit oil allowable for southeast New Mexico fields to 47 barrels from 48 in April. Northwest fields remain at 70 barrels. May production is estimated at 308 223 barrels in the southeast and 20 8 in the northwest. The commission also studied an order to ban disposal of brines in surface pits used in secondary oil recovery to protect shallow fresh water supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOBBS
New Mexico
New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission
OCC
A. I
Pete) Porter Jr
WAC Commissioner In Denver Hospital
Western Athletic Conference Commissioner Paul Brechter is in the intensive care unit at St. Luke's Hospital in Denver after admission last Saturday for a possible heart attack. A hospital spokesman said his condition is good and that he is doing quite well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAC
Denver
Colo
Paul Brechter
Western Athletic Conference
St. Luke's Hospital
Brechler
New Mexico Highlands University Wins $97323 Pool Grant
The U S Office of Education approves a 97323 grant for a new swimming pool area as part of the physical education facilities at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas. The state's congressional delegation announced Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Office of Education
New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas
Artesia Wins Grant for Jaycees Park Development
New Mexico congressional delegation announced a $49,558 Bureau of Outdoor Recreation grant for Artesia to develop Jaycees Municipal Park. Local officials said the money will fund park improvements and recreational facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artesia
Washington
New Mexico
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Jaycee Municipal Park
Unfair Labor Practices Filed Against Drilling Firms
The Ol, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union filed unfair labor practices charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Signal Drilling, Loffland Drilling, Pico Drilling, Arapahoeng, Brinkerhoff Drilling, Circle A Drilling, M&H Trucking in Farmington for allegedly refusing to hire workers due to union activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sup Uquaenque
Ol, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
National Labor Relations Board
M&h Trucking Go
Farmington
Union Acuyies
Signal Drilling
Loffland Drilling
Man ©Ng
Pico Drilling
Arapahoeng
Brinkerhoff Drilling
Circle A Dri
Chaparral Club Women Form Library Committee
Chaparral BPW Club creates a Library Committee to establish a Chaparral Library in Bayard serving residents of the surrounding mining area. The plan aligns with National Library Week April 16 22 and involves school libraries in the Cobre District with support from local mayors and community members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Froclaiming National Library Week
Chaparral Business and Professional Women's Club
Cabre Consolidated School Libraries
Cabre
Holiday Inn
Ramon Carrillo
Central
Harold Trapp
Hurley
Silvestre Macias
Bayard
Peggy Roark
Chaparral Bpw
Betty Starliper
Snell Junior High School
Pat Hardin
Norma Rogers
Chaparral Bpw Club
Chaparral Library
National Library Week
Cobre
H. Trapp
S. Macias
R. Carrillo
Cobre Consolidated School Libraries
Persy Roark
Joyce Bradberry
Neva Werner
Southwest Regional Library
Peggy Smith
Chaparral
BPW
Snell Junior High
Counties Share 928250 From Grassland Revenue Across Three States
Nineteen counties in New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas receive Treasury checks totaling 28250 02 as their share of 1966 revenue from the Panhandle National Grasslands and Land Utilization Projects managed by the Forest Service Southwest Regional Forester William D Hurst says counties receive 25 percent of income from grazing permits surface uses and royalties from oil gas and minerals Payments earmarked for roads and schools The Panhandle Grasslands cover 390000 acres across West Texas eastern New Mexico and Oklahoma Grasslands Supervisor David Z Stevens based in Amarillo notes the land aided drought damaged soils drought and wind loss from the Dust Bowl era began rehabilitation in 1938 by the Soil Conservation Service and 1953 by the Forest Service Grassland land now supports grazing and recreation wildlife rebounded in the area and the aim remains to show lands unsuitable for cultivation can be converted to perpetual grass The only Land Utilization Projects in the Southwestern Region are small tracts in Sandoval and Santa Fe counties managed by Santa Fe National Forest The same 25 percent of revenue from National Forest lands goes to counties in Arizona and New Mexico mainly from timber sales but that distribution is by fiscal year not calendar year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Treasury
Te Panhandle National Grasslands
United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Southwestern
William D. Hurst
Hurst
Panhandle
West
David Z. Stevens
Amarillo
Tex
Soil Conservation Service
Sandoval
Santa Fe
Santa Fe National Forest
Arizona
New Group Takes Over In Peking
A 97 member revolutionary committee formed by Mao Tse-tung took temporary control in Peking replacing Liu Shao-chi. The group, announced before 100000 cheering workers, names Wu Teh as chairman with Fu Chung-pi and Cheng Weisan as vice chairmen and a fourth name not deciphered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Mao
Liu Shao-chi
Peking Radio
Peking Communist Party
Itsa
Wu Teh
Fu Chung-pi
Cheng Weisan
Suit Filed Over Quarry Stone Franchise in Albuquerque
A $600,000 breach of contract suit was filed in U S District Court in Albuquerque by Copper Hill Mining Co Inc of Houston against Embuco quarry operators R M Rutherford J B Hill A E Neill and Janie Abel. The Houston firm alleges Copper Hill branch terms of a franchise give rights to distribute and sell decorative building stone from Copper Hill's quarry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
Cartus Canyon Quarries Inc
Houston
Tebay
U. S&s. District Court
Embuco
Copper Hill Mining Co. Inc
High Omnes
R. M. Rutherford
J. B. Hill
A. E. Neill
Janie Abel
Copper Hill
Man Arrested For Failure To Clean Up Lot
A Silver City man was arrested and jailed Wednesday on charges of failing to comply with a duty ordinance and clean his lot. He had been warned repeatedly and refused to act after a written notice with a deadline. After the deadline passed with no action, a warrant was issued and he was arrested. His trial was set for 3 p.m. Friday in City Magistrate’s Court in Silver City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Clu
Richard Cunningham
Silver City
Las Cruces voters to vote on school bond issue
AP reports Las Cruces residents will vote May 2 on a proposed 2.3 million dollar school bond to fund general construction projects across the local school system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Cruces
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chamber
Green Berets
James Marlow
Rad Adenauer
Sir Winston Churchill
Britain
Churchill
Alves
Hitler
Starian
Cologne
Firebird
Arantree Grant County
Andy Murphy
Chaparral Club
Associated Press
Dale
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!