Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 1

WIIHM' WHtll Laugh Lines He who thinks by' the foot, by the yard, He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. 9 ssion Big Year We get lots of news releases in the mail, and most of them look quite Insignificant. Some of them we use, and manv of them do not have a local in terest tied in with them, so we simply discard them. We noted one today, also with the insignificant look, but think it is quite significant, soj just relate it to you "Safeway for Mto last four of I960 wore the largest of any four week period In the history and 9.1 per cent great- er than the final four week period of 1959. The food com- pany for the week ended this pest Christmas eve reached $40,110,000 largest sales week in 35 years.

renorts indicate Snfe way's consolidated sales for the year i were 5.5 per cent greater than for the compani hie 52 weeks of 1959 and 3 per cent greater than for the 53-week fiscal year of 1950 the four ended Dee. 31, I960, sales amounted $199,478,652 as com- p.ired to for the ft ral four week period of 1959 I'relirninai unaudited report indicate that the food consolidated sales for ltk-o's weeks were 107 946 051 ii- compared to 1956 53 total of 488. Sofewi) operated 2,207 stores." One Reason This is a good business, and a oood increase, and we can't He to but add that Safeway is a big user of newsoaper advertising. This thought wasn't includod in the release, we firroty believe' it is one of fho important reasons for their increases in volume. Possibility that Alamogordo, until Feb.

6, may be operating under two rival governments was posed today following assumption of power by the newly elected majority of the city commission in a surprise session at the city boll Monday night. The session, which marked the first fficial Hits as of Wayne Phelps, Dick Garner and David Ortega following their victories at the polls on saw election of I loldover Stanley as mayor and as pro tern. I he office of city manager presently filled by Kolia Buck was ordered v.u atrd an of Feb. 14, the first official meeting date of commission in February, and Stedulcd bid openings on number of city projec one Sewer and Water project slated for opening at 3 p.m. wcrr ordered delayed until Feb.

14. Although the new city commission declared it veil in the duly onstituled and authorized ity government as of the meeting last night, there was a question today regarding actual effective date of the- switf hover in administrations, Previously, the change in city administrations has come on the first Monday in February, which this year would be Feb. 6. and prior announcements and tations Had been that the changeover would be effective on this date. Stanley said however, that the new v( tnmi sion is proceeding on the assumption that ti change of administrations was immediate.

and pointed out that the three new commissioners took their oaths of office directly following the election. a matter of legal interpretation as to when the new administration takes office." he explained, "and we are taking the position that as of this time the new commission is the legal government of Alamogordo." Meanwhile, the retiring administration apparently prepared to continue a policy of Hum ness as usual until the Feb. 6 date. Mayor Charles Sutton said early thC aft' noon that it had been his understanding that the old commission remained in offu until in i Monday in February, under law. and indicated his intention to proceed on this a sump on until notified to the contrary.

He that the bid opening scheduled for this afternoon would be held as scheduled at the city and City Manager Buck said he had r-reived no from the new council to the ontiary. City Attorney Frank Boyce said he had not been apprized of the difference of opinion garding the -hift and had no immediate comment. I lie surprise session of the new w. ct up Monday afternoon, with Buck ins ted to invite the three retiring of it mmis ion to meet with the new hoard in evenin'. However, all three were out of wii had previous commitments and were unable to attend, Alamonnritn Sailtj Nr ma Alom v-iordo, New Mexico, Tuesday, Janunry 17, 1961 10 Scant Roo i Weed Youth For State SANTA FI $7 7 mill but appropriatimi it Mr xu fi i eque uiual it Public Show Coming tip on Friday this week is a Kraft foods display with a story about their huge fowl processing and distributing system It will bo parked on the parking lot of the Kocket dining room and to the public, 10 a.m., until late afternoon Safe Speed City Police Officers Jsck Scott, Harry Wiseman and Jesse Campbell checked out 200 automobiles by radar yesterday at the corner of 10th and Indiana.

They averaged the speed of the automobiles to be traveling 14 miles per hour in a 15 miles per hour zone. Wanna Pup? Mrs. Russell Brown says six has eight puppies, four malts and four females, to giw away. The puppies are four weeks old and ready for a good home. The mother dog is a eollie-shepherd.

Those who wish to own one of the puppies should call HF. 74704 to cais That, in a nutshell, is the clinic ing the legislature, says state finance I lartm told joint legislative coi and appropriations: You can see then for increased during I ie said the projected income starting July based on scientific calc miiuon. Anticipated revenues for "biennium are $39.6 million, compares with total general this Fiscal eat of $36.4 million an.3 I 2 million at and of the year, Hartman and two of hi onfront- F. I 1 lartrnan. on finance much room two years, the fiscal year tions is $37.5 coming io Train Bams Gas Truck, Eight Dead passoni cago A crack iled for Chi ait hour solino truck killing at and injur- 'Steve Mrs.

Hobart Howard, 501 South Florida Avenue, lias found a black and tan dog wearing a MACiNOJ.IA, Mi- train bet the li a at alxHit 80 mil rammed into a gl at a ero ki least eight person ing six The truck drivel stum the ourushmg Ol New Orleans "id tr in. not due to stop In Magin'lia. rammed into the truck Among dead re engineer, im ton ol Mt Miss and fireman, John 1. Collins of Jaekson, Miss. The truck driver, identi fied as Morris Piggott, who operates a small store near Mag noli also was killed.

Among the other dead were Bobby (1 win, a white laborer in the freight yards, and ou Negro la borers unloading grain frtuH nearby boxcars. The explosion which followed the crash sent flaming gasoline spewing over workers There was no report on bow many passengers it ate wen ho nine car train year of the said. fund expenditures surplus of 30. told the com ice that studies of the central tund, the public schoob an 1 welfare and highway departments revealed a generally bleak outlook, with much belt tightening and more stringent (outroh mu vss.irv lo keep gM-ndrt on evp Th Killed Car Crashes Into Overpass Pillar An Weed man, serving with the U. S.

Air I 13 Denver, wan killed instantly today when the ai He was driving an overpaas bridge pillar on I S. 83 a mile north ol artle Rock, Colo. John R. Buckner. son of and Mrs.

John Buckner, who! live at the Sacramento Methodist Assembly Grounds, may! have fallen asleep at the State Patrolman Robert Wheeler said The highway was dry at the time of the accident early i today. two sisters. and Jenie, attend school at Weed high school. The Highway Patrol said Buckner's car traveled 63 feet on the wrong side of the highway before hitting the bridge. Buckner, who was traveling alone at the time of the acci FIRST BcAM The first steel girder is seen above being placed into position as v.

rk moves nto full swing on Red Ball Tr irsfer Storage's new plant on the Holloman highway. American Red Ball is now located at 310 Perms' Ivania Avenue. Contractors are Gillis Doon. (Staff Photo) More File For School Board.Posts A rash of filings in Tularosa featured the county school board races todav, while activity was slow at Cloudcroft and at an absolute standstill in the Alamogordo district. Declarations of candidacy from Paul Brusttelas of dent, suffered multiple leg and Idro and Charles Vigil and Saul arm fracture'' and head injuries which caused his death.

His body was taken to Andrews Mortuary in Castle Rock. Funeral services are ponding. iom in irtan skyrocketing) ed revenue, committee is com members of the nporo tior and fmaneo committee house and the imance imitteo i i ie senate. the group i Rep Slim J. Brasher, an I'inancial Sen, Gordon of senate linnw eonunittee.

si the two fir big liscal hearing stH-kuu to determine the i mane ini status the legis latiire can appropriiite any inon for of slate gwern- ment. Bt'fore the meeting. Brasher said budget hearings ior Sec SCANT ige Drill Chewing Awoy At 4,144 Toppings Ceosc Hope Gone For Crew In Tower YORK workers reported today tl at there was further sign of life" from the sunken of a radar tower which collapsed in the sea Sunday night. Salvage rescue operations were resumed at 6:30 a.m. At 8 20 a.m.

the Coast Guard here was notified there was nothing more to indicate anyone might be alive in the underwater debris. appings resembling the work of humans had been he id from below the surface Monday, giving rise to hope that some of the 28 men aboard the tower might have survived in an airtight compartment. sea search ol the area abandoned and rescuers con eentrated on salvage and diving operations at the tower site, 70 uples southeast of New York City. Drilling at Turquoise The so-called Texas Tower Well No. 1 is at a depth of 4,144 was wrecked by high winds and tret into ion per cent diorite at stormy seas.

One has since rate ut 10 minutes per foot Ix-en recovered and another name tag "Steve I injured The nine car train one of the lllinoi Central top pas appreciate the telephon ing her at HE 7-4835. Blaze Sweeps Pier At Naval Base, 6 Missing CHARLESTON. 8. spectacular fire, intensified a strong breeze and two explo swept a pier at the naval base here Monday. The Navy re ported six men missing and four injured.

The missing men reportedly were working near a building on the pier that was demolished. The two explosions leveled the buiMiiig. The fire occurred at a facility known as a degaussing station where ships are demagnetized. This process is necessary to prevent them from selling off mag netic mines. The Navy it would investigate the cause of the blaze.

No estimate of the damage was available. See TRAIN RAMS Page a The was oli iwo and fourths d( 4 144 feet. Weight Of tin bit Is siili 36,060 mui sighted but lost. Rescue operations had been dramatically spurred Monday See HOPE GONE 4 Foam Is Plastic Life Cocoon Jacket 'Fats' Takes Poke At Ed DALI alarm Ils Tex. clang When abandon and mixer drip, rocket package.

and a retro- MOD Coffee Get your March of coffee Wednesday at the Mountain View Ion. the space traveller of future may wrap If in a foam and plastic cocoon for an ency return to earth. This do-it-yourself space jacket was described by John H. Quiliman and Harold Bloom of the General F.lectric Company's Space Sciences Lab oratory. The is called Moose- man out ol space -t.

Mod ds with a doll figure have been tested in a small vacuum chain her. When 11m- ast ionaut bail out of his space ship he wears a Space suit enea I in a plastic -nvelnpc Built into envelope are oxygen supply, location and recovery aids and survival gear Attached the outside are foam up1, methane plastic As he floats in space the astro- 1 naut orients himself with the measures tin' altitude and direction of his flight bj an optical sight mounted on the! rocket. He then aims and tire- the rocket to get himself out of i or hit and on the correct trajectory angle for re-entry into the atmosphere. Quillinan '-aid an error of much as 10 per cent ill alignment old not have any ser- iou-' effects. Once out ol orl the astro naut activate- the foaming plartc iv cuitrolled to form a thin layer ol dense plastic im i I re-entry i licat shield layer of less dense plastic encases the man and forms tiie rest ol the jacket, Straps hold astronaut in proper position.

Just befoic rc-eutry tho Uitro- naut fires a high intensity flare tin! starts lus radio beacon. When the worst of the re-entry heat is over, he ejects radar chaff and fires another flare to help ground stations locate him. A switch automatically releases a parachute at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The opening parachute pulls cutting wires through the inner plastic foam and frees the arms and hands. After landing the astronaut puds other cutting wires release himself from his co- coo til The life jacket is buoyant and landings in the ocean can be used a a raft It principles usod in the Moose Quillinan said, can I usod building prefabricated space life rafts and lilo boats which would I fastened to space sluiand entered through scaled hatches.

ALBUQUERQUE Democratic Highway Commissioner H. E. said today Republican Gov, Ed Mechem continues to carry out the role of a frustrated, vindictive polittcian. remarks in a statement issued in Albuquerque were in reply to comments yesterday Mechem that a clique of "Bur roughs Democrats" were working to block nomination of Wayne Colhns of Santa Fe to the highway commission. I am among those men tinned in this I feel forced to said Leonard.

Leonard1 ustxi somewhat the same language used by a fellow Democratic commissioner, John Sudderth of Hobbs, in asking Mechem in effect to put up or shut up in the allegations about the management of tihe Highway Department during the Sea "FATS" 4 Rey Rites Held Today Funeral services conduct tlus morning at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church for Mrs. Lucia Rey, 34, vho i Sunday at Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital. In charge of the 10 a m. rites was Fr. Edward Hyatt.

Burial tollowed in Catholic cemetery, with arrangements by the lins-Hamilton Funeral Home. Mrs, Roy was born Sept. 25, 1926 at Three Rivers, the daughter of Apolinar and Frances Estorga Paz, and had lived in Otero county all her life. Her residence in Alamogordo had been at 516 Maryland. Survivors include the husband.

Luis Rey, four sons. Ernest Benjamin, Joe Luis and Marcus, and a daughter, Beatrice, ail of the home; her parents, of Corona, five Fred, Ismel, Joe. Manuel and Raul Paz, all of Corona; and three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Moncada of Ala mogoido, Mrs. David Montoya of Chino, Calif, and Katie Paz, of Corona.

SANTA FE 'f A bill a joint resolution, bo1h calling for the setting up of a five-man ap pointive commission to take tho exception of those of the place of the elective State Cor- Cordero of Tularosa today were added to the already fiied declaration of Frank Thompson for the one place open in that district in the Feb. 7 elutions. In Cloudcroft, meanwhile, Harley Burgett, one of throe incumbents in in the election, has for reelection, and T. Bizzoll also has for of three s. ire maintained its status quo as no have been reputed as yet poration Commission and the Public Service Commission, were introduced in the Senate today.

SANTA FE Ed Mechem is going to be able to attend the Saturday night banquet session of the New Mexico Press Association's convention. Mechem earlier had sent his regrets, saying he would be unable to attend because he planned to attend the inaugural of Presidont Kennedy in Washington. SIOUX CITY, Iowa S. Dist. Atty.

F. E. Van Alstine said today that Burniee Iver son Geiger, 58, had admitted embezzling $2,126,850.10 from the Sheldon National Bank of which she was assistant cashier and director. Plans Pushed For Ruidoso Ski Area pBAR ALMA: No tax cut this year. FF Construction may begin next spring on a $1.3 million ski development on Sierra Blanca west of Ruidoso, state officials were told yesterday.

At a luncheon in Santa Fe, Kingsbury Pitcher, president of the Sierra Blanca outlined proposed plans for a resort that include ultimate installation of gondola type "closed cabin lifts, which attract the sightseeing trade, a day lodge-restaurant and such facilities as sewer lines and power. Pl ans include the use, when accessary, ol artificial new development in growing ski business. Pitcher said the resort would depend mainly on population within a mile radius but would look lor some ol its trade from midwest cities. He counts on a four-month winter season and a like period for seers during the summer. The State Highway Depart menl has engineered the route for a road to the proposed ski area.

It will be built under a triangular agreement involving the U. S. Forest Service, the Highway Department and the ski corporation. The Forest Service has indicated it would like to see the Sierra Blanca area opened for all types of winter sports, mak ing it an integrated recreation- 1 al area. I Pitcher said T-bar lifts may be installed the year Plans also call for the bulge rest an rant, and sewage facili ties to he Installed in 1961.

I Hie schedule, he said, called for the gondola lifts to I put I in the 1062 season opens. He said they would be the first lifts of thal type in the West. He added they are now found onlv in Vermont and New York, i Sea SKI AREA-Paga 4 two incumbents in the expiring terms. Mrs. Jane Harrington and Quentin Aside from the filings.

Cloud board witnessed a major evening of transactions on Monday night at regular meeting of the ooard, which was highlighted by approval of a resolution to transfer the former MayhiU school building and grounds to the Mayhill community for use as a community center. The action had been heralded by negotiations between the school board and community spokesmen, with the transaction brought to a conclusion Monday evening. Also, bids were opened and reviewed on the prospective sale of the MayhiU a Doyle Scott of MayhiU was declared the high and successful bidder for the building, which he indicated he will use as a residence. Recognition was accorded by the board to six Cloudcroft system bus drisers who have received three-year safe driving awards through the National Safety Council. "The magnitude of this action is understood only when it is recognized that each of these men has from eight to 17 years of safe driving Supt.

Robert Russ told the board members. only reason that they are receiving three-year MORE 4 Eisenhower Speaks Tonight WASHINGTON i D. Eisenhower makes a final re-, port to the people tonight on his two terms as president. The sooech from his White House office at 8:30 p.m. EST will be carried by all major television and radio networks.

WEATHER Fair and little dhaiHje in temperature today, tonight and Wednesday. tonight 28, high Wednesday 60. iMttil.