19 May 1973
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Newspaper
Silver City Daily Press
Location
Silver City, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1973
Page
1
New Mexico Public Service Co may seek a rate increase within a year as it files for permission to build the San Juan generating station unit two. The $10 million plant aims for December 1976 completion with pollution controls. The utility faces steep future costs and talks with large users.
The 19th annual Licensed Practical Nurses state convention May 4 and 5 at the Holiday Inn Silver City saw 38 members eight students and one instructor plus four non members. New officers include Winfred Conwey Carlsbad president Rosa Dell Reed Albuquerque first vice president Maude Tate Smith Ubbs second vice president Lucille Rudy Ruswell third vice president Davis Carlssbad treasurer. Directing directors are Ernestine Perez Judy Gillam Las Cruces Flora Russell Portales Dorothy O Black Artesia Antonia Quintana Las Vegas Mae Crouse Roswell Slea Laguer Arenas Valley Nelda Jackson Carlsbad Lois Beans Kirkland. Delegates to the national Denver convention in September include Natalia Chavez Silver City Adeline Gonzales Las Vegas Connie Chavez Las Vegas Winfred Conway Carlsbad and Sista Tafoya Las Vegas.
Cactus Rebekah Lodge No 34 met Tuesday night with twenty two members in attendance led by Betty Harrison. Jeanette Sherman joined the lodge by initiation and will join a 4-H Club group touring Washington DC in late June. Edith Cummings was elected Grand Lodge Assembly representative for October with Mary Rockenbach as alternate.
Daily data lists a 7:00 p.m. gathering for NAME Grant County AARP Potluck and SC Council Meeting, plus involvement of Club 153, Grant County Humane Society SC Chapter No. 8 and CBS Cub Scout Organization, signaling community group schedules for Monday.
Readable fragments show sites including a Community Church Hall, Hurley Public Safety Building and Optimist Club Building. The note implies locations tied to local civic or safety uses, with no events or actions specified.
Funeral services for Tohn E. Foster, longtime Silver City resident and owner of Foster Barber Shop, will be held at Curtis Bright Funeral Chapel at 2:30 p.m. Monday with Al Botts officiating. interment in Memory Lane Cemetery. Survived by wife Dorothy and four children. Also, Mrs. Maria Soliz, a Vanadium resident for 41 years, died Friday evening. she leaves four daughters and a son. Funeral arrangements by Curtis-Bright Funeral Home. The issue also notes a Santa Fe murder sentencing for Simon Trujillo to 10-50 years for the death of former police officer Martin Guillen, and lists staff contacts and newspaper information.
In Las Vegas W C Pug Pearson captured a surprise victory in the $130 000 winner take all poker championship at a downtown casino After eliminations Moss 67 year old former winner Champ Moss held 891 000 Pearson had 3900 remaining as play resumed Pearson defeated Moss in a rapid succession of hands The field began with 13 entrants paying 10000 each to start Wednesday Defending champion Amatrius Slim Preston exited in the first session Shucks this one ain t the only poker game in the world.
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