Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 6

Page 6 AlAMSGOPDO (N.M.) OAtLY Sunday, Nevambar 19, 19.17 Son Of Stale Solon Falls To Death In Photo Skydive ALBUQUERQUE descent, officers said, and the ard ffawkins. 30. son of State film was taken to the State Po- Sen Ernest Hawkins of Moriar- lice photograph lab for process- ty. fell to his death west of ing. buquerque Saturday when hisi Officers said Hawkins, who parachute failed to open on a lived at Moriarty, jumped photography skydive.

from a plane flying at about Witnesses said that when 10,500 feet. The accident Hawkins was about 2,000 feet curred in Sandoval County just above the ground, his parachute across the Bernalillo County still was not open. His body line. weaved for several seconds and William Kush, president of he continued falling straight the Falling Angels Parachute down, witnesses said. I Club, said he knew of no rea- An examination of the para son why the former University chute by State Police indicated of New Mexico student could Hawkins apparently never not attemnt to open either of reached for, or could not reach, his two parachutes the rip cord which would open was no indication of the parachute.

A camera was equipment failure said Rush tl bfllnuit Ua coiH ho yhpfkfd HawkmS mounted on helmet. He said he checked Hawkins The reserve parachute was equipment personally before partially out of its pack. Hawk- the jump, ins took four pictures on his1 MiiswiiitiinimniMftiimititiwtwmimiiiniuuaiaiiiwaiiiinw Johnson Chooses Henrietta Wyeth Work For Ladybird WASHINGTON (fl Lady the gift was Inscribed, has given me 33 years of devotion and President inscription was on a painting depicting a wide-eyed boy. He gave it to his wife, at an evening party Friday to mark their 33rd wedding anniversary. I Tne painting is by Henrietta Wyeth, sister of artist Andrew Wyeth and wife of Peter Hurd, whose portrait of Johnson was rejected by the President last year as ugliest thing I ever imimowmnmmttiiinitiHiiiiiuHiiittWHumBWTfmmwiHttiwi Cloudcroft Nominee Hobbs Woman Is State's 'Teacher Of The Year' Pair Slain In Budville Holdup Try tram One ed after an apparent fight about 8 p.m.

Officers at Albuquerque. Que- msdo. Gallup, Los Lunas. Grants and Belen were alerted Roadblocks were established. Jim Barber, publisher of The Grants Beacon, rushed to the scene and pieced together from police and witnesses this account of what happened: When the man, driving a compact car believed tan or brown, was buying the gas he went inside the station to buy cigarettes.

Mrs. Brown, a retired schoolteacher who worked at the truck stop and lived with Mr. and Mrs. Rice, waited on the man when he came inside the station. The man complained Mrs Brown had not given him the right change.

Rice came in and Mrs. Brown showed him the money that Changed hands. The man pulled out a pistol and told Rice he was going to kill him. go ahead," Rice plied. The man shot Rice three times He then turned and shot Mrs.

Brown once. Mrs. Rice was in the bathroom and came out when she heard the shots. The gunman then took her back to the bathroom and tied her, taping her mouth, A woman housekeeper also was in the residence at the time and reportedly witnessed portions of the incident. The man then fled.

Barber said Rice was a former justice of the peace and constable and was an active civil leader His wrecker equipment was described as among the finest in New Mexico. Rice also was among leaders in lighting to avoid bypass of Budville by Interstate 40. The bypass was opened in August. Two Rifles Stolen From Parked Truck A Remington with a Weaver K-6 scope and custom stock and a Savage bolt action rifle with blue paint on it are being sought by police following their theft from a vehicle parked outside a local bar late Thursday night. Owner Monty Hoover told the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety of the theft.

Of fleer Richard Lewis heads the investigation. jumped with two other persons, Peter A. Betz, 32, ana Susan Hansen, 23, both of Albuquerque. Betz said they opened their parachutes at about 3,000 feet. Hawkins was the last to jump from the plane.

Rush watched from the seemed to be under control with no problems to that point (3,000 Rush said. head was slightly down, but he was not tumbling. Then he brought his hands in and it looked as if he had some Rush said Hawkins held the U. S. Parachute Club Class license, the highest awarded.

Justice of the Peace Mike DeSanto impaneled a jury which ruled the death was due to injuries received in the fail. In addition to father, survivors included his British Slosh Pounds' Value trm t) six European Common Market rope: West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and meet with their central bank governors Sunday in Paris to weigh the consequences of the British action. Informants said the ministers and bank governments will ex amine what international aid can be given to the British currency. The Labor government said special measures will be taken to relieve any hardship caused to the poor by devaluation and the sweeping credit restrictions. Devaluation will make British exports more competitive on world markets but at the same time it will send the nation's imports of food and raw materials up by the same 14.3 per cent.

At SANTA FE (AP)-Selection of Lucy Belle Roberts of Hobbs as the New Mexico Teacher of the Year was announced Saturday by State Department of Education officials in Santa Fe. A fifth-grade teacher, she has spent nearly 40 years in classrooms. She will represent the state in competition for the 1968 National Teacher of the Year award. The annual competition is sponsored jointly by Look Magi azlne, the Council of Chief State 1 School Officers and the U.S. Office of Education.

Runners-up in the New Mexico competition included Josephine Koogler of Aztec and Geneva McCarty Eddy of well. Other local nominees were Mary Joe Clendenin of Cloudcroft; Julia J. Martinez of Es panola; Louis Max Middleton and Shirley Bishop of Santa Fe; Eugene E. Carl of Albuquerque; Donna Clements Kuhnley of Moriarty; and Bertha Lavin of Las Cruces. Mrs.

Roberts. 60, began teaching at Garland, in noted that her first memories as a child are of running away from home to sneak into the small school at Dickeas. Tex before she was old enough to attend, She has taught a Sunday School class for 25 years at the First Baptist Church in Hobbs and has contributed more than 600 hours to the Lea County General Hospital as a member of the auxiliary. Fines By Mail Approved By Study Group SANTA FE Judicial System Study Committee, continuing Saturday its writing of a bill draft to create a magistrate court system, wrote increases in minor traffic fines into the proposal. The committee is working on the penalty assessment provisions of the new system.

constitu- mother and a sister, Dorothy first it should help the nation Peterson of Roswell, a relative get out of the red. but eventual said. The father is a Republican who represents Catron, Socorro ami Torrance counties in the State Senate. GALLUP (41 Raul Rom ero, 14, a Gallup Independent newspaper delivery hoy, was shot to death accidentally Saturday while playing with friends, police said. A 22-caliber bullet struck the youth in the chest, officers said.

Trucker Sued For Driving Through Roof Of Residence ltENO, Nev. lAPi Pietro Lombardo lias been sued for $180,000 grounds he drove bis pickup truck through the roof of a house. William and Ora January of Reno complained Thursday that the truck woke them up when it careened off an Interstate 80 ramp and plunged through their roof HOBBS (fl Rep. Thomas G. Morris, N.M., praised Saturday night amendments to the Social Security Act, saying they will welfare recipients into taxpayers rather than tax In an address to the Hobbs Junior Chamber of Commerce, Morris said the amendments would result in not welfare savings to the federal government of $173 million by lf72 NEWTON, Ala.

(41 The threat of deadly chlorine gas which might be released from burning derailed freight train, forced evacuation of small southwest Alabama town Saturday night. The Alabama Highway patrol ordered the 2,000 residents of Newton to leave after officials said a tank car carrying chlorine gas explode near the town. DETROIT UPt United Auto Union Saturday sot back its strike deadline on bargaining for 8,000 salaried mombars at Chrysler Corp. The deadline waa changed from 10 a.m. Tuesday to p.m.

Nev. 24. ly the effects should balance out because of rising domestic prices. The credit restrictions and devaluation are almost certain to raise a political storm against Prime Minister Harold Wilson in Britain. His government has put the nation through more than a year of economic austerity to save the pound.

Now this appears to have been in vain. Conservative opposition leader Edward Heath said: utterly condemn the government for devaluing the pound." Wilson announced that he will broadcast to the nation Sunday night to explain his action to save the economy. Devaluation went into effect at 9:30 p.m. p.m E.S.T—Drastic restrictions on credit buying went into effect at midnight p.m. E.S.T.

The measures to save the economy include: A cut next year in the two-billion-pound billion at the new spending by 100 million pounds $240 million at the new rate. A raising of the Bank of lending rate from 6Vfe to 8. This is the highest level since before World War II. Seven per cent had been regarded as crisis level previously. new restrictions on installment buying, increasing the minimum down payment from 25 to 33 per cent and shortr ening repayment time.

Banks were directed to limit all lending to priority borrowers. especially those in the export business. Voters approved a tional amendment in 1966 that 1928." Slfe has of arts! degree from Southern Method- 1st University and a masters de- ff Varied magistrate ree from Texas Technological a salaned h. 1 The proposal from the com- teach until the fast day of my said Mrs Roberts. pay a fine by mail.

The committee would increase the speeding fine from $10 to $15 and increase a series of $5 fines for minor offenses up to $10, making that amount the minimum PONTIANAK, Indonesia (AP) I A fine could be mailed for all Dyak tribesmen in this jun-i minor offenses, but not for ma- gled Island are continuing mas- jor offenses such as drunk dnv- Dyak Tribes Killing, Eating Red Chinese sive attacks on Chinese killing scores and reverting to canna balism. Horror-stricken missionaries coming from the interior reported that eight men in one village were hacked to pieces. At least 15 villages, populated predominantly by Chinese in the interior, have been demolished. Several have been burned to the ground. Chinese, who control the economy here, are pouring out of the inland areas by the thousands.

Each carries only a little cash and a cooking pot. The Dyak terror campaign, which began the last week of October, followed a declaration of war by the tribesmen on Chinese Communist guerrillas operating here. But thousands of innocent Chinese have been dragged into the killings. Firm estimates place the aead at about 70. ing.

reckless driving and in traffic offenses where a fatality occUrs. To Smithsonian WASHINGTON (AP) The Kennedy family has formally turned over to the Smithsonian Institution the airplane used by the late John F. Kennedy in his 1960 drive for the presidency. Hobbsan Beaten To Death Known To Carry Large Sums HOBBS (AP) An elderly Hobbs man who was found dead after what police termed a se vere beating often carried large sums of money in his wallet, friends disclosed. Police records also show Phillip Vener, about 70, was beaten and robbed four years ago in his clothing store.

Authorities pressed an investigation into the death, apparently sometime after 9 p.m. Thursday. The body with feet and hands tied and mouth taped, was found in his home Friday. Vener lived alone. An autopsy report was to determine if Vener drowned in a bathtub that was found partially filled with water.

Cloths on the body were damp. Survivors include two sons, Louis, an Albuquerque lawyer, and Alvin, a Corpus ChrisU, real estate operator. Bronx School Plans to Offer Swahili Course NEW YORK (AP) A Bronx high school plans to offer a course in by 100 million its principal says it will give Negro youths a of pride" in their heritage. This first for the city school system came as the result of discussions a few days ago between C. Edwin Linville, the principal of William Howard Taft High School, and Leonard De Champs, a 17-year-old senior.

De Champs is active in the Harlem chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. About half of the schools 4,800 students are Negro. The two said Friday the fully accredited elective course would be given beginning in January if enough students sign up for it. which students can Identify with and feel deeply involved in is a good thing," Linville asserted. Jets Cut Deep Into North from 1) upset plans for a major Communist offensive.

Capture of two key heights Friday in the Dak To sector, fronting on the Laotian frontier 270 miles north of Saigon, freed combat units for pressure at other points the Communists had laboriously entrenched and supplied over a period of weeks. were well prepared for this said Col. Richard Johnson, we have preempted them in the first round by forcing them to fight where we wanted to and not where they had planned to Johnson commands the U.S. 4th Infantry 1st Brigade, one of the major units in an allied force totaling about 10.000 men that is pitted against perhaps 8,000 North in that area of the central faigH- lands. A battalion of the U.S.

1st Air Cavalry Division battled North Vietnamese troops the flank of a mountain nine miles west of Dak To. A spokesman said the contact was heavy. Government rangers and paratroopers fought for high ground nine miles northeast of Dak To. The U.S. Command in Saigon said 764 North Vietnamese troops had been killed and 12 captured through Friday in the operations that flared Nov.

3. American losses were put at 136 dead and 600 wounded. A fight Friday night in the Mekong Delta 60 miles south west of Saigon demonstrated again an enemy aggressiveness manifest since the outset of the dry season late last month Gunners leveled 105mm howitzers and fired at point-blank range to chop up a strong Viet Cong force that attacked an artillery base of the UJS. ftth Infantry Division. The guerrillas swarmed to within 25 yards of the perimeter before being thrown back.

The UJS. Command in Saigon said 102 Viet Cong were killed while American casualties were five men killed and 38 wounded. Later reports from the 9th Division down-graded the enemy losses. A field officer said the Viet Cong were seen by the light of parachute flares to be dragging away bodies and only five were found on the field. He said listing 78 probably Incurable 6 Months Ago, Now Plans To Wed Nurse TORONTO (AP) Bernard, and of his hopes to marry some Proulx, a quadriplegic thought! day.

six months ago to be incurable, 1 Nicole Jacob last visited him hopes to marry the nurse who attended him in 1964 when he was first brought to a private hospital in Quebec City, with spine fractures. Proulx, 24, a truck driver from St. Jean de Cherbourg, this week stood before an amazed audience, after Dr. Gordon Murray, 73-year-old Toronto surgeon, had operated to regenerate his spinal cords six months ago. Proulx talked Saturday of the nurse who is waiting for him Ruidoso Votes Dec.

4 On Track Purchase in August and said they are and discussed marriage. She added in a telephone interview she be able to see him again until next year because the trip is too long for a weekend. She keeps in touch by letter. He had been paralyzed front the shoulders down after breaking his neck and severing his spinal cord in a car accident four years ago. His condition was described as incurable until Dr.

Murray operated. Now, he can hoist himself out of bed. sit up, lift one foot and then the other. He has made a wooden tray and now has started work on a painting. RUJDOSO Village of Ruidoso is going ahead with plans for a Dec.

4 election seeking authority for village officers to negotiate for the purchase of the Ruidoso Downs race track, despite an adverse opinion from the attorney general. Village Clerk Jim Hein said the proposal is to purchase the entire assets of the race track and not just stock as specified in the attorney ruling. Hein said the track would be operated as a utility. He added that the community of Ruidoso Downs also is to determine if the track should be sold to its sister village. Asst.

Atty. Gen. James Noble said in his opinion that a race track is not a recreational facility within the meaning of New Mexico law; thus prohibiting purchase of stock by a community into such a corporation. Dooley Foundation Honored By Laos SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The Thomas A. Dooley Foundation has won the highest decoration of the King of Order of the White Parasol and One Million Elephants.

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