Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 1

THE Watt By WEEPIN' WILLIE Vol. 2 Sailg Nnua The Weather Drizzle Helps Snow, rain and drizzling fog brought broad smiles to Alamogordo Sunday and Monday. While we didn't get an abundance of the moisture we hear that outlying areas had good snows and that rains fell, adding to the scarce moisture supply. Some of the local people joked that they knew what it was falling, that seen rain before. Every ounce of the wet stuff is important to us and whether or not it adds depth to our reservoirs it does prevent necessity of watering the lawn for a day or two.

Pia Alamogordo, New Mexico, Tuesday, January 4, 1955 ALAMOGORDO: Cloudy today with occasional showers this afternoon or evening. Partly cloudy and Wednesday. Slightly cooler, Low tonight 38, high Wednesday 1 50. Byline of Dependability Price 5c ne Carries Pair To Fiery Death New County Officers Take Posts Monday Our Flowers Wc received many beautiful floral decorations for our open house, and we appreciate them very much. If only we could express our appreciation lor all the nice things received and the words of encouragement we received by people coming through our plant, consider ourselves a well-versed writer.

Nevertheless, we are grateful and hope that we can continue to justify your support in our daily efforts. New county officers took over their positions in the courthouse Monday, with swearing-in ceremonies conducted by Mrs. Lucille Alexander, retiring county clerk, at 1 p. m. Most of the new county officials had begun routine duties of their respective offices with the opening of business following the New wT morning' but in the downstairs hall for the ceremony, witnessed by a small gathering, of courthouse at- laches and members of the public.

aside irom shift in office heads, 3 Gage was named new chairman of the board of county commissioners, and Mrs 7 7 the commissioner, to fill the place W8S app0mted by Helen Shields, who resigned Falling Down A fellow has come up with a balance sheet on the population and just how many people there are to do the work of our nation. It starts out by giving the popula tion of the U. S. at 160,000,000, minus 49,000.000 who are 65 years old and over, leaving 111,000,000 people, irom this deduct the number of people 21 years or younger, 56,000.000, leaving a total of 55,000,000 to do the work. Subtract be number of people working for the government.

29 000,000 and that leaves 26,000,000 to do the work. Subtract the number of people in the armed sen ices, 11,000,000, and that leaves 15,000,000 peo- Officers fo Mrs. Form Youth Study Group Law enforcement officers of the Otero county area were in agreement today to join together in a semi-official organization dedicated to study of the area's youth si tuation in an attempt to adopt a program designed to alleviate whatever problems now exist. Action of the law enforcement aa result of ro that figure su in bos- 800,000 and that leaves 2.200,000 to do the work. Then take the number of bums and others who work at all.

2.OUO.flO0. and that leaves a Lalance of only ioO.OOO people to do the work. From tract the number piials and asylums, 126,000 and that leaves 74.000 people to do the work. From that subtract the number of people in jail, 73,998 and that leaves two people to do the work of our nation. Those two must be you and me Pretty fetching, and judging from the way our desk is stacked with work, believe you are falling down on our part oi the job public meeting called at the courthouse Monday night by District Judge W.

T. Scoggin for investiga- situation with a view to Problems now existing. The meeting witnessed pledges of co-operation on the part of all law enforcement agencies operating in the area, and pleas for an increased program of public inter est in the youth situation, and es pecially for the provision of suit able recreational facilities design New Business Shields resignation, pre sen ted to the board of com- niissioners meeting for organization Monday morning, was accepted regret." The names of Mrs. Sanchez and Marion Bell were presented as applicants for the vacant post, and Mrs. Sanchez was elected.

Named Deputy Clark Mrs. Alexander was named as a deputy in the office by Mrs. Sanchez, and thus will continue service in the office she has headed for the past two terms. Mr. Gage succeeds L.

A. Hendrix as chairman of the board. Mr Hendrix reverting to the status of min- ivity member as Gage and James Vnderson, both Democrats, assumed their new offices. Other new officials taking office included Aubrey Lee Dunn, assessor; Herbert Hathcock, treasurer, Mrs. Frances Godley, superintendent of schools and Carl Hansen, sheriff.

In addition to filling the position of county clerk, the commissioners retained Joe Perea as courthouse janitor, and added Ray to the county crew while retaining the present staff made up of Dud Potter, R. P. Joyce, Harvey Sewell and Marcus Quick. Special Meeting Jan. 28 The commissioners also a special meeting at the courthouse at 10 a.

m. Jan. 28 for the purpose of receiving bids on the new courthouse. In this regard, the commissioners also agreed to rent the old Judges To Pick New Maid Of Cotton Tonight MEMPHIS (JP) Twenty-two Cotton Belt state beauties with their best foot forward today met the judges who will pick the Maid of Cotton. Judging began before lunch.

The winner will be named late tonight. The new Maid will be the cotton industry's "good will ambassador." She will be outfitted with an elaborate wardrobe, make a six- month tour of America and Europe, and pick up a Ford convertible on her return. The judges say they won't be satisfied with "merely a beautiful girl;" the Maid must "have culture and refinement that will make her respected in any Grants Motel Operator Lost Route In Snow GALLUP light plane, lost in a snow storm, crashed in flames early today killing both men aboard. JUST INSTALLED taking thai, Coti ftansen': Rocket Sied iring county clerk, are these new county officials. Shown above, (eft to right are sheriff, and Aubrey Lee Dunn, assessor.

A new Spudnut shop will soon he open in Als.nogordo, filling what is said to be a definite need he will be located in the building just south of Rowland's recently occupied by Paulton Photography. We predict that he is only first of many new businesses which will locate here during 1955. GIVEN MORALS SENTENCE MAYVILLE, N. Y. Clarence Gordon Atwater, 33, of Jamestown, former lay minister of Albuquerque, N.

was sentenced in county court yesterday to years in Attica Prison on morals charges. Arrested four months ago, he pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree criminal assault involving a 15-year-old girl. ed to keep youths out of possible building for housing offices I using the courthouse annex the to take bids for tearing Tests May Move To California A hint that it. Col. John Paul Stapp may shift the scene of his rocket sled experiment from Holloman Air Development Center to a California base came today in an Associated Press news story from Dayton, Ohio.

A Dayton Daily News staff writer, who interviewed Col. Stapp in LI Paso by telephone today quoted the medical officer whose rocket sled rides have won him the designation of man on earth" as saying it was felt all The plane, a Piper Cub, had been the object of an intensive air and ground search since it was reported overdue on a flight from Farmington to Grants today. Gallup city police, in radio contact with a ground party of shei iffs' and state officers at scene of the crash, reoorted men's bodies were founi in the charred wreckage of the craft. Pilot, Passenger Die Those aboard were Lawrence Essig, the pilot, owner of the Grants Motel, and a passenger identified by the CAA only as John R. Parsley, head of the Cole- more Uranium at Grants.

The plane was seen to erash early today by Indians in the Coyote Canyon area who saw the craft fall in flames. They guided searchers to the scene. The plane crashed in the rugged country five miles northeast of the canyon. The Civil Air Patrol in Albuquerque said that Easing took off from Farmington to fly to Grants at 11:45 last night. At 1:16 a.

m. Essig reported to the Zuni airport that he was of his position." Indians On Rescue Trek Mrs. Willard Brimhall notified Deputy Sheriff John Greene in Gallup of the report while her husband and the Indians start- the speed possible had been obtained on Wr into the area in an ef- sled track. probably use a track the next time," Stapp was quoted as saying, referring to his fort to locate the plane. Another ground party consisting of State Police Capt.

Bob Undersheriff Kelsey plans to try for a speed of 1,000 and other state and coun- an hour before giving up uis sled-riding activities. He said no target date or site tjr officers set out in the tracks of the rancher and the Indians. -r The plane was a green and had been set for the test. He white Piper Cub numbered N1159C. added, however, that a likely site trouble Several speakers also put finger on what was termed NEW COMMISSION oown the annex, which is in a bad breakdown of parental responsibi- state of repair.

Rental for the lities as one of the prime factors i building for housing offices in whatever troubles have arisen. I tween the county and the city It was agreed by practically all with both using facilities speakers that Alamogordo does the building. not have a problem," The commissioners also moved to as such, at this time, and mea-1 obtain specifications on the type sures which were discussed were and road truck to be pur- in the nature of preventive, rather chased for the county in order to than curative, of youth problems, (advertise for bids Speakers included Judge Scoggin, who presided; W. Barnie Caton, superintendent of schools; Ken Barnhill, district probation office; C. C.

Chase, district attorney; Capt. E. A. Tafoya of the State Police; Sheriff Carl Hansen; Chief of Police Clarence Walker; Gene Hill, representing the GI Forum; George Shipley, attorney; Maj. M.

F. Biddle of Holloman; several members of the school system, and others. Hunters Plan To Air Gripes Annual meeting of the Otero County Wildlife Association, affi taking their later named chairman, and A Hendrix Luf in former chairman and lone holdover of werf of the group. The commissioners met for an tiers of the county commission, left to right James Anderson; Willipm F. (Billy) Gage, would be Inyokem, Calif.

Naval Air Station Stapp indicated that his recent 632-mile-per-hour ride had provided all the decelration data needed, and that the projected 1, 000-miie-an-hour ride would be to collect wind blast information. New Potash Action Seen In Lea County organization session Monday. After Five Years, Letter Patient NM Wife Hears Reds May Release Captive Hubby Sheppard Loses Firsf Round Of New Trial Fight SANTA FE State Land Office said today a request for a land exchange has disclosed plans for a possible multi-million dollar potash development by Freeport Sulphur Co. in Lea County. CLEVELAND Dr.

Samuel I Land Commissioner E. S. H. Sheppard, under a life prison' request. TAIPEH, Formosa A New Mexico resident of Formosa received today the first letter from her husband, a former airlines i a i official, since he was iailed wUJ 66 Ithe Chinese Reds nearly five years by Bill Anderson Believes In Orderly Development For City public Service and ift ordtr that voters the city may know $ome of The News a series tor city commtssioner.

The only race ift this Jan. 10 election ts being waged in District 3 and each of the five can- didafes wifi be presentad in brief. An arricie Mrt. Barbara Hiftchinson was printed the day she filed for the office.) W. A.

Anderson. 45, is seeking the post of city commissioner from District 3 of the city of Alamogordo. He moved to Mexico in 1916, to Corona, and in 1930 moved to Roswell, where he lived until he moved to Alamogordo in 1939. He has been a resident of the city since that time. Anderson is married, owns his Lome and other property in the city.

He is a charier member of the Lions club and has served in various civic activities since he moved I here. He is a member of the volunteer fire department, having joined the force in 1946. He is an employe of Frank P. Llewellyn Inc. During the period from to 1953 he was a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and has been active held Thursday evening, Jan.

6, at 7:30 p. m. at the Otero County Fair building. The meeting has been called for the election of officers and for the transaction of other business pertaining to administration of game and game laws. Some members of the organiza- tkm immediately hailed the session as an opportunity for sportsmen to off their chest" grioes concerning operation of the game department or activities of certain of its employes.

also were understood to be underway to obtain passage of a resolution condemning the practice of allowing out-of-state residents fo cut Christmas trees in New Mexico. Joseph Dowd, well -known sportsman and GPA member, will preside over the open session. All GPA members are urged to attend and the public is invited to present opinions relative to administration of the game department, officials said. ago. Lawrence Robert Buol, 34, wrote to his wife, Sue, that he has hopes of being freed this year The letter was sent by the Chinese Communist Red Cross to his fa- warded to Taipeh.

ther in Stockton, and for- No details were given, presumably because of censorship. His letter, bearing no date or return Bulletins ALBUQUERQUE U. S. Dist. Judge Waldo Rogers today sentenced Hobbs rancher Martin Hughes to two years in prison and fined him a total of $5,000 on two counts of income tax evasion.

ENROLLMENT INCREASES SILVER CITY 10 per cent increase in winter term enrollment this year over last has been at New Mexico Western College. There are 510 students registered. in various civic affairs, lie stated to The News that he is able to devote the necessary time to the somewhat improved George Goodson, who has been seriously ill in Gerald Champion CHEYENNE, Wyo. (A Gov. ernors of three Western states meet today to develop what Wyoming Gov.

Mil ward Simpson termed a front" on upper Colorado River development. He said John Simms of New Mexico would be unable to I attend, but would send representa- lives to meet with Colorado elect Ed Johnson, Utah Gov. J. Bracken Lee and Simpson. address, expressed thanks for receipt of four packages.

Expected Earlier Release He wrote that he had expected to be released last June, but explain wny ne Buol, then chief of flying operations for Civil Air Transport-op- rated by retired Maj. Gen. Claire L. on a business trip to Mengtsz in Yunnan Province Jan. 15, 1950 when the Reds captured the city.

Sue, who was born in Minneapolis and also calls Albuquerque, home, works in Taipeh as secretary to Chennault. She said that at Geneva last year the Reds said they were holding her husband prisoner because he worked for CAT, an airline which, they charged, belonged to the Chinese Nationalists. Lust Heard In 1950 Sue had last heard of him, indirectly, in 1950, when the British consulate at Kunming informed ier that he was alive and well. She hopes the coming anniversary of her fifth- tive. -will be his last as a cap- His letter, which was probably written some weeks ago, said the then-coming Christmas would be the fifth since he was separated from her.

If Buol is freed, it likely would be at the Hong Kong border. let them announce that Bob is coming out," Sue said, I'll on my way to Kong." sentence in the killing of his wife signed a that the Marilyn, has lost the first round Land Manage- of his fight for a new trial t0 the state 360 acres Late yesterday Judge Edward'? J68 County lands as Blythin ruled there was to thf staUl in. Ueu in any of 41 complaints I condemned by error in the 10-week trial which the ended Dec. 21 with a jury convict ing the 31-year-old osetopath of second-degree murder. Another round in the fight for a new trial--in which Sheppard would again risk death in the electric scheduled for Saturday.

Then lawyers get a hearing on their motion based discovered Until it is held by Judge Blythin, an appeal to higher courts must wait. Funeral Mass Tomorrow For Mrs. Granados, 91, Pioneer Airman Escapes Injury In Forced Landing position of city commissioner and Hospital, today is report- believes in progressive, orderly Ic. improved. Prior to development of the city.

He is a member of the Church of Christ. his illness, Mr. Goodson was night watchman at the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped. He is still hospitalized. SAGINAW, Mich.

enraged father kicked ever an heater during a family quarrel last night, touching off a flash fire that killed five children- three of them his critically burned his wife. An Air Force pilot escaped injury Monday afternoon when he made an emergency landing with his F-80 jet about five miles south of Alamogordo. First Lieut. Charles C. Nunnery, 23, of the 3225th Drone Squadron was preparing to land at Holloman after practicing radio flying techniques when mechanical trouble forced him to land in the desert.

Cause of the emergency is being investigated by a boarcj of qualified officers. Amount of damage to the plane was not known immediately. Death at her home, 219 Maryland, Monday ended the long residence in Alamogordo of. Mrs. Juanita Chavez Granados, 91, who had lived in the Otero county area most of her life and in Alamogordo virtually since its beginnings as a town.

Mrs. Granados leaves a total of ng descendents to mourn her passing. Rosary will be held tonight at 7 at the Mullins-Hamilton Funeral Home ehapel, with funeral mass to be conducted at 8 a. m. Wednesday at Immaculate Com ception church with Fr.

Hay officiating. Pallbearers will include two of Mrs, sons, Salvador and Andres Granados, and Fuentes, Seledonio Fuentes, Ernesto Granados and Salvador Montes, grandsons. Survivors include five sons, Carlos, Salvador, Antonio and Andres, all of Alamogordo, and Porfirio, of Gardenia, four daughters, Mrs. Esther Aguilar of El Paso, Mrs. Pete Sira of Pueblo, Mrs.

Placedo Fuentes and is land on which Freport already holds the potash leases. The Salt Lake City law firm of Senior and Senior, which submitted the request, told Walker the company wants outright ownership of the lands in connection with a potential multimillion dollar potash development. Walker said he understood Freeport has spent $200,000 in core drilling operations in Lea County in the last two years. The company now has 1,941 acres of potash leases in Lea and Eddy counties. keeps talking about getting new industry for New Mexico," Walker said.

is the kind of new industry we can go for. We re equipped for this." 66 New Pupils On School Rolls Mrs. Granados with one of her grandsons, Benny Granados, in a recent photograph. Mrs. Secondino Aguillion, both of Alamogordo; 45 grandchildren; 68 great-grandchildren and one great- great-grandchild.

Sixty-six new pupils were enrolled in the city school svstem with the resumption of classes fol- owing the holiday vacation, City Schools Superintendent W. Barbie Caton revealed Monday. is three new classrooms of students, and we have the Supt Caton commented ruefully. Thirty of the new students were enrolled at Central elementary school alone. The addition of the new students makes a total enrollment in the city schools at the present time indications that the school population this year will swell far beyond the estimated 400 students predicted at the oren- ing of the term.

Road conditions have delayed the transport of several barracks- type buildings which will be used to provide additional classroom space for the schools this year Mr. Caton added. Their arrival expected within a few days..