Cherapee Drive Is Supported By Mayor Cain
A formal proclamation by Silver City Mayor Lowell Cain appears in the Daily Press declaring July 11 to 17 as Chamber of Commerce Week. The note urges support for the chamber and highlights its nonpolitical, nonsectarian role fostering civic, commercial, agricultural and industrial progress for the community and free enterprise.
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Silver City
Lowell Cain
Daily Press
Cain
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Merriman Service Held At Curtis Mortuary Chapel
J D Merriman Jr longtime Silver City resident died June 30 at home. Funeral conducted 3:30 p m Monday by Rev James G Wayne of First Methodist Church. Cremation in Albuquerque. Survivors include widow Helen Le nore, son James D Merriman III, three grandchildren, four sisters, two brothers. Longtime editor and founder of Silver City Credit Bureau active in March of Dimes Boy Scouts and Golden Gloves programs.
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Merriman
Curtis Mortuar
J. D Merriman, Jr
Silver City
Curtis Mortuary
James G. Wayne
First Methodist Church
Albuquerque
Cedar Hill
Tex
Wheeler
Clarendon Junior College
Wheeler and Panhandle
Mountainair
Helen Lenore Dial
Childress
James D. Merriman
New York City
Credit Buureau
Lions Club
John Merriman
Amarillo
Wayland Merriman
Pampa
Weather Summary for Today and Thursday
Generally fair mornings with variable cloudiness in the afternoons and evenings today and Thursday. Isolated afternoon or evening thundershowers likely, mostly over mountains. Ten percent chance of showers at any spot. Little temperature change. High today 5, low tonight 4, high Thursday H. 24 near report at 7 a.m. High 95, low 4. Airport high 9, low Ti.
C of C Member Drive To Open Here July 11th
The Silver City Grant County Chamber of Commerce begins a week-long membership drive on July 18 starting with a board breakfast and report at noon. The goal is 200 new members added to about 200 already. A direct mail and personal contact campaign will seek support and dues to fund community aims. The group notes progress on the July 4 celebration and thanks Hugh Hawkins for his work. The chamber remains neutral on a site for a new firehouse, offering mediation for citizen desire to relocate from Gough Park. A property swap list near Gough Park is being considered.
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Silver City-Grant County
Chamber
Hugh Hawkins
Fire Department
Gough Park
Teamsters Back President’s Legal Fees With Funds
A Miami Beach bulletin reports that the Teamsters Union approved using union funds for nearly 1 million dollars in pending legal bills for their twice-convicted president James E. B. Hotla and authorized treasury payments for any future and past legal expenses.
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Neil Gilbride
Miami Beach
Fiz
Teamsters
James EB. Hotla
Treasury
Army family mourns loss in Viet Nam death
Alamogordo New Mexico AP report outlines Army family tragedy as Sgt Gerald L Smith brings home his son Danny L Smith 22 killed in Viet Nam Details show the brothers Danny and Darrell Smith both connected to Fort Bliss Texas and Holloman AFB near Alamogordo Burial planned at Fort Bliss cemetery Services pending at Holloman AFB chapel Family declined to speak to reporters as details remained limited
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Alamogordo
N.M
Army Spee
Gerald L.smith
Viet Nam
Smith
Army Pie
Danny L. Smith
Danny
Ina
Holloman Air Force Base
Ft. Bliss
Council weighs per foot charge for new water sewer lines
Dr. Edgar Kugler of Western New Mexico University and Clark Lynch investor voice concern as 2000 to 3000 feet of pine is to be laid to connect Holiday Inn area water and sewer lines east of Silver City. They fear lines become city property with non payer access. Mayor Cain notes past policy of city paying per home hookup while council studies per foot assessments for abutting property owners. See COUNCIL On Page 2.
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Edgar Kugler
Western New Mexico University
Clark Lynch
Silver City
Kugler
Council
U S Warplanes Face Large North Viet Nam SAM Assault
U S warplanes dodged 27 to 29 Soviet made missiles over North Viet Nam in one of the heaviest raiding days of the war. The missiles were fired from Red River Valley silos 50 to 115 miles north and northwest of Hanoi. Air Force pilots reported wrecking four missile sites and two fuel depots within 33 miles of Hanoi.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Red River Valley
Hanoi
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Cherapee
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Low
C of
By Robert Tockman
Panhandle
Hed Hiver Valley
Woodward Well
Manual Acosta
Roy Snowden
Richard Childress
Calixto Munoz
Pummpman
al Bosworth
Associated Press
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