Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 1

THE lAJuiiina Watt By WEEPIN' WILLIE Heavy Load Red feels having his share of troubles. With the accident in which his young son Harold was involved necessitating out-of-town hospitalization Red felt he had his share of the trouble load then. But he was making a trip down to see the little feller one evening this week when suddenly the family station wagon flipped lid. The critter had been in the garage for several days getting a door all fixed up, and finally delivery came just a short time before the trip to El Paso was necessary. Down the road he was going when the hood catch evidently came loose, the hood flow back and did a right neat job of creasing the roof of the car.

Red was pretty well disgusted, but in his Neste to get to the hospital lest the remainder of the family get to worrying about him, he hurriedly tied the hood of the auto beck into place the best be could with the materiel at hand for this job turned out to be his snow chains. Upon driving into El Paso the police took a good long look am decided better stop him to find out about the wreck. They questioned, and after requiring that be get a filling station oper a tor make an inspection to see that the hood was securely tied down, they permitted him to drive on to the hospital. Any other time not be a cop within miles But they slowed him down some more. He made it to the hospital and felt rather fortunate he was visiting his little son rather than taking a room for himself.

Little Harold, incidently, will be hospitalized for several weeks. We understand that ha'll have to lie in the hospital bed with his leg a swing for a few weeks, then they'll fix him up with a cast. Other than that his principal injuries are quite painful but he'll make it all right. Alanumoriio Satin NrtUH Vol. 86 Alamogordo, New Mexico, Sunday, May 1, 1955 of Dependability The Weather NEW MEXICO: Considerable cloudiness Sunday.

Gusty winds and scattered thundershowers. Cooler daytime. Price 10c Forces In Viet Nam Saddle P-TA Picks Gallup As Site Of State Convention In '56 Prepare Kids For Air Age, Session Told Alamo Crows Construction of the new locker plant out north adds another to needed business ventures. wondered about frozen food lockers in the past, but didn't know the entire score. Someone will supply the needs, it usually turns out.

With that beginning Monday, and Sacramento Motor building going great guns close by, the north end of the city is building up along with all the rest. In the line of commercial construction a new building going up in the 1000 block Tenth Street, appearing to be about a 50-foot commercial building Gossip has it a beauty shop will occupy one half of Once more we mention that Harry new electric shop building is going to be a nice one and is taking the shape of near-finish, be long before making the for mal announcement. The Tastee Freeze store, in the next block east of Wilcox, is continuing to take shape, out they've missed their project opening date of April 30... Bethel Baptist Church takes on the starting chore of their new church building Monday They expect to get down to work then out in the East Tenth street neighborhood The building for Uptown Rentals is being delaved by not having the zoning of his area taken care of yet. Seems a legal notice must be published for hearing on the anticipated change before he can get to work Dale new building out on East Tenth street, to house a beauty shop and a bakery, we hear, has the foundation all ready and wall should begin to rise before long.

ASSUME NEW OFFICES New Mexico responding secretary, and Miss Ona Schupp, Congress of Parents and Teachers during its Albuquerque, historian. The new officials 32nd annual state convention here Fridoy were formally installed during a banquet night installed three new officers who were which was attended by 365. Miss elected during the foregathering. They are, Adorns of Silver City, not pictured, was left to right, Miss Recene Ashton, Silver City, stalling officer. (Staff Photo), president; Mrs Kenneth Clark, Santa Fe, cor- Sled Facts Apply To Autos, Too Stapp Eyes Safe Rides Campbell Kay Bid Low On Big Project At Base firm of Campbell dc Kay was low bidder of four competing companies last week for the job of constructing industrial and technical facilities at Holloman Air Development Center.

Campbell Kay bid $2,006,834.50 on the job. About a year will be allowed to do the work after the contract is let officially, and no target date for completion has been set. The firm already has received a contract for a new fire station at the base at an approximate cost of $215,000. By STEVE LOWELL ALBUQUERQUE Lt. Col.

John Stapp, the Air Force quick stop expert, says the things learned from experiments with rocket sleds can be applied to save lives in auto accidents. Stapp is the man who rode rocket sled 632 miles an hour at Holloman Air Development Center last December. From that the fastest any man has ever ridden an earth-bound was brought to a stop in one second. It was rough treatment. Wind blast and blood rushing to the front of his eyes during the stop gave him two awful But he shrugs that off.

20 the normal time for a black they were back to he says. was really no worse than most men have sustained for some young No Worse Than Two Fights Stapp, chief of the Aero-Medical laboratory at Holloman, has had 29 such rides since his first in 1947. but he says thorough psychia trie tests to check for brain damage and physical tests to check the rest of his body shown no deterioration. undergone less punishment than the average boxer in two fights. For one thing, never been knocked Because of his he is a physician and the 44-year-old researcher was assigned this of determining the effects of mechanical force on the human His principal chore is to develop safeguards for military them a better chance of from crashes and bailing out in terrific windblast at super sonic speeds.

But a by-product of this rugged study is increasing interest in safe guards for motorists. The idea, he explains, is this: If properly ar ranged safety straps can permi a man to live through a stop com parable to plowing into a stone wall with a car, why not use the same devices in autos? Application To Autos Stapp was in Albuquerque this weekend to attend a series of sci entific and engineering confer ences. spoke at a regional meet ing of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He told of his rocket sled expert ments and briefly mentioned pos sible applications of his findings to automobiles. were 35,500 deaths from automobile accidents last he said, there were 1,960,000 injuries.

We get more cripples per year from car wrecks than we do from many diseases, including In an interview later, he enlarged on the subject. He told of a near accident he escaped about three weeks ago while driving from Holloman to Las Cruces. driver of the other car forced me off on the shoulder of the he said, I was driving only about 30 miles an hour. Even at that, he scraped some paint off Ihe side of my car and bent the rear About a week ago he installed safety belts in the front seat of his car. They fastened to the might pull loose under crash to the frame, through the floor.

Set Rhode Island In NM Dust Bowl And Have Dry Land Left White Sonds Travel White Sands travel almost caught up with last year's mark last week when 4,535 persons were clocked through the gates at the national monument. The figure put April travel at 27,761, far in advance of the month's totals last year of 23,540, and made the count for the year thus far 63,167 to 63,255 at this time in 1954. By The Associated Press Winds have damaged about one million acres of New Mexico land, or an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. Another million acres are considered likely to blow by authorities who have just toured the worst areas, in eastern and central New Mexico, Furthermore, they say, blow conditions are worsening rapidly and the picture may be even blacker than is shown by those figures. R.

A. Young, state conservationist for the Soil Conservation Serv ice, said the latest blow figures which cover up to April 15 show: 434.000 acre! of cropland damaged by winds, 665,000 acres of rangeland damaged; 622.000 acres of cropland in such condition that it probably will blow; 660,000 acres of rangeland likely to blow. The rangeland figures are strictly estimates, he said. Both Young and Mark Rickman, chairman of the State Drought Committee and of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, said conditions are getting worse speedily. Soil moisture is diminishing, said, contributing to the wind erosion.

The next official survey of blowing conditions be compiled about May 5. Young said. Widespread rains soon could make a fairly decent stand of range grass start, Horace Hen ing, executive secretary of the New Mexico Cattle Growers says. Unless it rains soon, however, ranchers face the most critical drought of the last three years. A substantial percentage of the ranches in the state are heavily mortgaged, Hening says, with livestock men having been forced to feed for three years.

Young and Rickman agreed there probably will be increased interest among ranchers and farmers in reseeding when moisture conditions are favorable. I He recalled a recent accident in which a "youngster 20 miles an hour turned a corner, the door on the side flew open, and the boy tumbled out on his head. was dead in a few minutes from Stapp said, the car hit the curb so slowly the motor died and the car stopped. That death have happened had the boy had a safety belt clamped around Shoulder harness, to hold a pilot tight to the back of his seat, has been developed in experimental work of the type Stapp does. But he says that type of harness not be a good idea in a car now because the motorist might want to duck to the side if the car He also said car bodies ought to be strengthened so doors fly open on crash impact, and the tops collapse when they rolled.

Other people at Holloman are installing safety belts in their cars now, Stapp says, and a program is planned to use dummies in military vehicles and them through crash tests with various restraining devices to see if something be worked out to save the lives of Mora Ridas In Store Meanwhile, principal chore continues. Sometime in the not too distant says he say exactly take another rocket sled ride, probably at Inyokern, Naval Air Station. hope to reach a speed equivalent to 1,800 miles an hour at 40,000 feet he said. start out behind a windshield, but when he reaches top speed be jettisoned get the effect of sudden which a pilot bailing out of a jet plane faces. Stapp wants to learn how much of that tremendous buffeting a pilot can stand, for only by know ing that can protection be developed so a humAn can take the breaking, shattering, tearing force of snpersonic wind.

Gallup got the nod for the 1956 state meeting during the final session here Saturday morning of the 32nd annual State Convention of the New Mexico Congress of Parents and Teachers. The convention will be held next year during the final weekend of April The great growth of the P-TA membership in the state was noted in a number of membership awards, which were presented by Mrs. S. G. McClintock og Albuquerque.

Awards for having 100 percent memberships for the last five years were given to Sunnyside school at Gallup and the Highland Grade, Clovis. Thirteen associations received awards for having either 100 per cent or notable increase in mem bership during the last year. They are Jefferson, Junior High School, Albuquerque; the school at Grants; Walker Air Force Base school at Roswell; Centrol. Las Air field, Carlsbad; Broadmore, Hobbs; Holloman Air Force Base elementary school; the school at Lordsburg; Central elementary and Pueblo at Los Alamos; Carlos Gilbert and Acequia Mad re at Santa Fe, and Moriarty. 'Adopted Mother-Son' Program Will Highlight Mother's Day Experts Find It's Real Dry EL PASO, April 30 More than 90 of the arid land experts got some New Mexico- West Texas arid land in their ears, eyes and noses today.

A bus cavalcade of scientists from 25 nations toured the dust- whipped Estancia Valley of New Mexico, visited an Indian ruin on the rolling plains which died 250 years ago, and slid gleefully down the white gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument The trip was marked by swirling clouds of dust which piled dunes along the road. A segment of general education is being left out of the school curriculum, Art Martin of Albuquerque, aviation educationist of the Civil Air Patrol, Friday night told a capacity crowd in attendance at the featured banquet of the 32nd annual state convention New Mexico Congress of Parents and Teachers, which closed a three-day session here Saturday noon. Martin continued to say that segment was in In explaining this, he pointed out that cannot ignore the effect the airplane has had and will have on our The speaker added that the airplane has affected time and space a new geography. He prophesied that although some of the present generation students never set foot in an they will feel the influence of the all their lives. Study Suggestions Therefore suggestions made by Martin included the incorporation of aviation terms and aircraft replicas in teaching arithmetic, geo- grapry, etc.

He also is of the opinion that every student today be taught at least one other language in addition to his own, to cope this shrinking He further related that the Civil Air Patrol now is offering a short course at some colleges in a number of stales. Caton Presides The speaker was introduced by W. Barnie Caton, superintendent of the Alamogordo public school system presided as toastmaster during the occasion. Mr. Caton also introduced various P-TA dig- See PREPARE KIDS Page 6 Mrs.

L. R. Elmore, 1522 New York, a USO senior hostess and mother of a service man overseas, last week was the first of an expected large number of Alamogordo women to sign up for participation in an unusual Mothers Day program to be sopnsored here this year jointly by the USO and the Holloman Service Club. The will link and for the afternoon is expected to bring added importance this year to observance of the annual event for many Holloman serv icemen away from their mothers and also to women of the local community. Mrs.

Elmore, who headed the list of participants in the program, has a personal interest in promoting the observance. Her son, Bob, is serving with an ordnance outfit in Yokohama. An eight-year veteran of Army service, he holds the rank of sergeant. (Picture on Page 5) The women taking part in this Day event are to meet at the USO Club at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 8.

Servicemen will come from the Holloman Service Club to the USO. A short program will begin promptly at 3, during which boys will draw names of their adopted mothers. The entire group then will be taken to Holloman Air Development Center. After a short tour of the base, they will go to the service club where they will be greeted and welcomed by an official of the base, and airmen will present a special program of entertainment. Light snacks will be served.

The servicemen then will accompany the back to the USO. The USO, working through the Ministerial Alliance, is publicizing and signing up women for this event now. Women who wish to participate in this program are urged to give their names to their ministers, immediately. will be a most enjoyable occasion for the women and the servicemen who take part in this very special will be very meaningful on this special day that we honor our Bill Gaines, USO director declared. are requested to sign up immediately for this Day program at the Alamogordo USO or at the Service Club.

This is an opportunity for a serviceman away from home to show gratitude to his own Mother by being thoughtful of his adopted Mother for the Late Bulletins WASHINGTON, April 30 Cha irman Chavez (D-NM) of the Senate Public Works Committee reported today an opinion poll discloses that far Western States hungry for a big highway building program without regard to cost." SANTA FE, April 30 Gov. F. Simms today appointed Charles F. Horne, long-time way department employe, as the state purchasing agent. Horne will take over from A.

G. (Bill) Campbell, the Republican who has been bossing the purchasing office. Campbell will remain as assistant purchasing agent. SANTA FE, April 30 make-up test for students who missed earlier deferment tests is scheduled for eight centers next month. Brig.

Gen. John P. McFarland, the state director of the New Mexico selective service system, said today tests will be held May 19 at eight schools. CARLSBAD, April 30 New Mexico Teen-Age Traffic Assn. passed a resolution Saturday asking for laws to require drivers to take tests every three to five years.

LAS VEGAS superin tendent of the State Mental Hos- Holloman AFB pita 1 says the number of patients MEXICO CITY, April 30 flL-A legation of some 400 New Mexico residents visiting here made plans to start home tomorrow by train at 6 p.m. CST. Playboy Chief Booted Out By Irate Subjects SAIGON, South Viet Nam, Sunday, May 1 Utl Revolutionary Congress committee mapped out an antiracketeer, anticolonial program for South Viet Nam today after deposing the playboy chief of ex-Emperor Bao Dai. The committee, denouncing the absent Bao Dai as a dissolute French puppet, entrusted the regime to American-backed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Its three-fold program calls for: 1.

Suppression of the rebellion of the racketeer army of Binh Xuyen. 2. Creation of a new elected assembly. 3. Quick riddance of the remnants.

Diem, who had defied Bao Dai in the midst of a two-day Binh Xuyen rebellion, thus emerged stronger than ever. The rebellion seemed to have cost Bao Dai his role of chief of state. But the French still recognized Bao Dai, who lives on the French Riviera, as chief of state. The possibility of trouble here between the Vietnamese and French loomed when the French erected barricades around their Europeanized zone in Saigon to prevent Vietnamese from entering. civil war, in which 500 soldiers and civilians have been killed and 1,500 wounded, was temporarily at a standstill.

Binh Xuyen, driven from all points in Saigon except in the French-garrisoned zone, licked his wounds in the Chinese suburb of Cho Lon. Diem claimed his national army had won stunning victory. Water Hearings May Last Several Days Hearings are expected to continue for two or three days at Car rizozo in the scheduled hearing by the state office of protests to the transfer of Bonito waters from the Southern Pacific railroad to municipalities on the west side of the mountains, including is declining for the first time in the history. Dr. C.

G. Stillinger said that the average number of patients dropped frojn 1,124 in 1953 to only 1,105 in 1954 He this is despite a general trend in state institutions to increase about four or five per cent yearly. Crash At Overpass Damages Two Cars A collision between two cars at the overpass south of the city Saturday evening at 6 brought damage to both cars, but only one man received minor injury, according to a report by State Policeman James SyJing, who investigated. John W. Hoffman, of El Paso, driver of one of the cars received a slight cut on the forehead.

The other driver, Joseph R. Skeen of Picacho, was unhurt. Damaged were 1946 Pontiac and the 1948 Chrysler sedan driven by Skeen. The Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District is opposing the move and several Carrizozo residents also are attempting to be included in the protests. The hearing opens Tuesday.

Citizens' Group Meeting Tuesday All citizens interested in the welfare of the community are invited to join in an open meeting of the Community Improvement Association to be held at the junior high school auditorium Tuesday evening at 7:30 A committee report on aims and objectives of the group is expected to be a highlight of the business session. NO WORD ON TRACK The Alamogordo High track squad was in Las Cruces Saturday to participate in the District 3-A meet, but as The News went to press there was no word from the event. SCIENTISTS frolick and play like children over the White Sands Saturday as four bus: loads of dry land experts attending the arid lands conference currently in progress in the state toured the national monument. Shoes and socks were doffed the better to scale the dunes, and such adjectives as "amazing" and "magnificent" were common as the scientists climbed down from their ivory towers for a hour or so of just plain fun in the sand oozing between their toes. At left, Herbert Green, soils expert for the Rothampstead Experimental Station, Harpenden, England, enjoys his ice cream, while at right Robert G.

Snider of the Conservation Foundation, New York City, chats with Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer, cloud seeding research expert, also of New York. (A Photos) Wilcox Named To Full Term As J-C Prexy Harry Wilcox was endorsed for a full term as president of the Alamogordo Jaycees at the regular meeting and election of officers of the organization Friday night at the Legion Hall. Wilcox was named Charter president of the club at the time of its organization early this year, to serve until the regqlar time for election of officers, and Friday night receive the backing for a full term.

Other officers named included: Bill Stevens, Bob Blount and Byron Hall, vice-president; Ted Roessler, re-elected treasurer; Steve Yanick, corresponding secretary; Earl Kidd, recording secretary; John Lawless and George Worley, two-year directors; Terry Clarke and S. C. Snow, one-year directors. The Alamogordo club endorsed the candidacy of Wilkie McFarland as state vice-president; voted to undertake sponsorship of a Boy Scout troop and Cub Scout pack; and scheduled a dinner dance for club members at the Cloudcroft Lodge June 4. Pinon Girl Winner In Essay Contest Polly Jernigan, 13-year-old Pi non schoolgirl, has been adjudged winner for the second consecutive year of the annual soil conservation essay contest sponsored by the National Grange and the American Plant Food Council and supported locally by the Otero County Soil Conservation District.

Title of the prize-winning essay was Ground With Second in the Otero county contest was Edna Emry, of High Rolls- Mt. Park, and third was William Peter Olson, of Mescalero. The first prize winner received $25 and the second place essayist was awarded $15. There was no cash award for third place, bu? all three county winners will have their papers forwarded to the state competition, where prizes of $50 and $25 will be awarded, with the first place winner also to receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the National Grange convention in November. State winners will compete in the national contest, where prizes talling $1,250 are offered to the first six placing essays..