Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 1

TNI Oaiihfw WttHN' WILLIE Laugh Lines Our Neighbor Down the Street says prepared to go along with the switch to smaller cars, but so far he found one small enough to fit the payments prepared to make. Wedding Told We learned via a telephone call from Albuquerque late in the week of the recent wedding in the Duke City of Vi Phillips, i used to be the chief cook and bottle washer down at Zia School, and recently went up to Albuquerque on another job. Seems the lucky fellow is one Al Murray, who is head of the Department of Employe Information for the N.M. Pub- TIP DIAL 437-2333 lie Service in which he handles internal communications for the company's 1,200 employes. They're living at 6916 Belrose Ave.

NE there in Albuquerque, with his two teenage daughters and Vi's youngster Debbie sharing the happiness. Vi, incidentally, is continuing with her job as consultant to Dr. Scaletti, head of the Department of Allied Health Sciences of the UNM Medical School. Week Off This is just to let you know that if you have business with the United Fund office, better put it off a week, or if absolutely urgent, get in touch with the chief, Bill Bayes, over at the telephone office, 437-3220. The reason is that Mrs.

Helen Kirk, the head honcho and Girl Friday down there, is taking off a week for a well- deserved and from June 10 until June 14 the office won't be staffed. Have a good time, Helen! Summer Break Also taking a break for the summer are members of the Zia School board of directors, who be holding their regular meetings during June and July. be a short break, however, for be meeting again in regular session in August, on the usual second Thursday, to get things started up for school again this fall. Time and place for the August meeting will be announced later, but all board members are urged to note that the June and July sessions will not be held. Cat Family Anyone missing a gray cat with white forehead and white forepaws? If so, contact Jim Burling at Car Parks 212 Eleventh St.

Seems that Friday, this well-cared-for female cat wandered into the store, and then disappeared. They tried to find her Friday evening when they closed up. but couldn't so they thought she might have gone on out. Well Saturday morning, as employes were attempting to throw away some old packing boxes, they found the cat, and also three kittens. Now then, if you own this cat, you are now the proud owner of three kittens as well, and Jim would be glad for you to come and claim them please, he says.

Book Call Don't forget, if you have books or magazines you would like to donate toward a good cause, a box has been placed at Grant City for the collection of these items, which will distributed to veterans at the VA hospital in Albuquerque by members of VFW Post No. 7686 and the Military Order of the Cootie, Post 20. If you wish to make a cash donation instead, simply mail it to P.O. Box 141, Alamogordo, in care of the MOC. Meets Set There will be a meeting of the Women Consciousness Group at 7 p.m.

Monday, June 11. at 918 of Pocket Mobile Village. The group, which welcomes new members, deals with problems, talents and ideas ot women. The Planning and Zoning Commission of the city of Alamogordo will hold a regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, June 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the conference room of the city municipal building.

Itsa Boy! Mr. and Mrs. George Gandara, Ir are the proud of a boy their first child, bom June 6 at Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital, ami weighing in at live nine ounces. The name. George, 111, what Alamognrbn iailg Nrrna SOUTHWEST MICROFILM PHY EL PASO, TEX-79901 Rip Oklahoma, Kansas By The Associated Press Tornadoes slashed across Oklahoma and Kansas on Saturday, killing 17 persons and injuring more than 200.

Six persons were killed and about 100 injured when twisters whipped through Emporia, population 21,000. The tornadoes struck first at Oklahoma City, and in the next six hours hopscotched eastward to Tulsa, 100 miles away. Five persons were killed and more than 100 injured in Drumright, a community of 3,000 persons 43 miles west of Tulsa. Three persons were killed in Tulsa, three drowned in flooding caused by the storm in eastern Oklahoma, and 16 were injured in Oklahoma City. In Emporia, 160 miles north of Tulsa, the funnel clouds hit a mobile home park, an industrial park and a shopping center.

The twisters struck the industrial park first, hitting a Dolly Madison cake factory and a mobile home factory shortly after 6 p.m. CDT, and then moved on to the 2-year-old Flint Hills Shopping Center where 20 businesses were left in ruins. Next a tornado crashed through the Lincoln Village Trailer Court, overturning all but two of the 100 trailers. Most of the Emporia dead were in the mobile homes. Ninety-seven persons from the Emporia area were admii- tcd or treated and released at local hospitals.

of those homes were shredded like an Emporia newsman said after visiting the trailer park. The hardest hit town in homa was Drumright, a community of 3,000 persons 43 miles west of Tulsa. Gov. David office reported the five deaths in Drumright, and the Highway 1'atrol and Civil Defense said more than 100 persons were injured, many of them elderly residents of the Drumright Nursing Home. The storm hit Drumright at 5:01 p.m.

CDT, striking first at a fashionable residential area and then at the nursing home. hospitals are overloaded and we have a good many said one official in Drumright. A Creek County spokesman said the western half of the town was wiped Power was out in the town. Emergency generators, port- See Page 8, Column 1 Leave Nixon Vol. 80 No.

136 Alamogordo, New Mexico, Sunday, June 9, 1974 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Rep. Manuel Lujan, R- N.M.. said California Gov. Ronald Reagan is to be the featured speaker at a Sept.

27 $100 per couple fund-raising dinner tor Lujan. The congressman told a news conference Friday the site would be determined later. MIAMI Dialing tha telephone for the correct time, the weather or a prayer Is commonplace for Miamians, but now there's ''Dial a Beginning Monday, residents can call two Miami exchanges for pre-rocordad messages about a disease-of- the-week. WASHINGTON UB- The Senate is to vote Tuesday on a proposal by Sen. Henry M.

Jackson that the secretary of defense be authorized to ban sale to Communist countries of goods and technology that could boost their military capability. Jackson, introduced the measure FTidav as an amendment to the $21.8 billion authorization bill for military weapons procurement. WASHINGTON A tentative agreement was reached Saturday in the strike of 110,000 workers in the nation's men's and boys' clothing industry, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said Saturday night. Details of tha settlement were not disclosed. MOGADISHU, Somalia African foreign ministers accepted on Saturday an Arab offer of $200 million to offset increased oil prices, despite African complaints that it enough.

African states, notably Kenya and Ethiopia, who reluctantly backed the Arabs by breaking relations with Israel last year, said the amount would go nowhere near compensating Africa for soaring oil import costs. They demanded at least $500 million. MOSCOW A "very excited, very Valery Panov said Saturday that ha and his pregnant wife Galina have been given official permission to leave Russia for Israel after a 26-month struggle. won't stay here an hour longer than I have the former Kirov ballet star said. PARIS President Valery discard announced Saturday that the imminent series of French nuclear tests in the Pacific will be the last conducted in the atmosphere.

The French have held tests every summer since 1966 at Mur- uroa. 1.000 miles southeast of Tahiti, despite a growing storm of international protest. PHOENIX, Ariz. All national forests in Arizona will be closed for public use by Friday because of worsening fire conditions, the U.S. Forest Service announced Saturday.

WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. Sen. Joseph Montoya, is placed a report on Spanish- A meric an education in the Congressional Record. A news release from office said the report, entitled Quality Education For Spanish was compiled by the Civil Bights Cumin s.s ion at hearings held by the U.S. House Education and labor Subcommittee Education.

iiilllrtr'iHiilliltllllllllHllilllllHlhlHllt'llllli iilUllllUlltllllllll Weather Clear, windy and a little cooler today. Fair and warmer Monday. High 80, low 50. Coattails By DAVE GOLDBERG Associated Press Writer Six times in this second year of Watergate, voters have elected congressmen in normally Republican districts and five times they have elected Democrats. The Republicans who are trying again say this time stay independent of the White House.

would be no useful purpose in inviting him back says James Sparling, who invited President Nixon to campaign with him last spring in a Congressional district that Republicans normally win but which Sparling lost to Democrat Bob Traxler. Four of the five Republican losers are running again in November and so is the one winner, Rep. Robert Lagomarsino of California. None want any help from the White House and most say be happier if Watergate would just go away. But all are planning their campaigns on the assumption it would be helpful, Sparling says when asked if he would prefer Vice President Gerald R.

Ford to Nixon as President. really know what may happen regarding Watergate, a lot could happen. hopeful things will be cleared up by says Harry Fox, who lost to Democrat John P. Murtha in a western Pennsylvania race to fill a vacated by Ihe death of Republican Rep. John P.

Saylor. Ford visited the district on behalf. Here is a rundown on the other four districts: 5th: Democrat Richard Vander Veen defeated Republican Robert Vander Laan in a special election to fill the seat Ford vacated when he was appointed vice president. Vander Laan has decided to run for re-election to the Michigan State Senate and the Re publican candidate this fall is expected to be Paul Goebel an insurance man and Kent County Commissioner. 1st: Willis D.

Gradison, a former Cincinnati City Councilman lost to Democrat Thomas Luken for the seat left vacant when Reo Wiliam Keating resigned to become publisher of the Cincinnati Enquier. The district that had gone Democratic previously only in years when there were national Democratic landslides. There will be a rematch in November. 13th: Lagomarsino defeated a field of seven Democrats and avoided a runoff by getting 53 per cent of the vote. But his predecessor, the late Rep.

Charles Teague car ried the district in 1972 with mora than 70 per cent of the vote, and he will be forced to run in a district that has been reapportioned to include more James Loebl, the top Democratic vote-getter. will be Lago opponent in November. Loebl has tried to characterize Lagomarsino as a Republican loyalist like former Atty. Gen. John N.

Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman. California 6th: John Burton, a Democratic State Assemblyman, was elected last Tuesday by getting a bare majority of 50 per cent over the combined vote of seven rivals.

Burton, whose brother Phillip rep- Paee Column Crash Fatal To Elfego E. Duran Funeral were pending today for Elfego E. Duran, 23 of 1504 Eighth Street, victim ot a one-vehicle crash early Saturday on Washington Avenue which sent a passenger in the Duran vehicle to the local hospital in apparently critical condition. Injured in the accident was Carol Pino, 18, of 507 Texas, who was reported in the sivi1 care unit at Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital Saturday, but no report on her condition was available. Investigating local officers said the accident occurred at 2:38 a.m.

when a 1965 Chevrolet driven by Duran went out of control as it proceeded south along Washington Ave. Officers said Duran apparently iosl control of the car. winch ran off the roadway and hit a guard railing. Duran was rushed to the hospital, where he died at 7:15 a.m. of injuries suffered in the crash.

Duran, born July 19, 1950, was a native and lifelong resident of Alamogordo. 1 uneral arrangements are See Column 1 STATIUS This group of 16 local young men are shown as they left Saturday morning for Roswell, where they will remain all this week on the NMMI campus attending the annual session of New Mexico Boys' State. Frank Simpkins, local Boys' State chairman, and William Rambo, school sponsor, panied the group. Shown are, left to right, back row, David Gutierrez, Gary Shankweiler, Ted Knisley, Russell Rodke, Raymond Bays, Albert Koval, Terry McCann; front row, Jimmy Kondo, Larry Vasquez, Vincent Lacsamana, David Sanchez, Danny Shank, Steva Fogle, Don Ashby, Curtis Hayes and Clif McDonald. Nixon Sets Traveling Plans Party Named For Mid-East Jaunt WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon named the official party for his Middle East journey Saturday as aides rushed arrangements for what they said be far more than a ceremonial or goodwill Nixon embarks Monday morning on the 10-day, 14.770- mile trip that will carry him first to Austria for a rest stop, then to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel and Jordan.

Before he departs, Nixon is expected to address a Sunday luncheon of the Committee for Fairness to the Presidency, a group supporting his effort to blunt Watergate-inspired impeachment moves. As expected, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger headed the official Middle party disclosed by White House officials. Other members are top two aides, Alexander M. Haig Jr.

and Ronald L. Ziegler; Maj. Gen. Brent Scowcroft. his deputy assistant for national security affairs: Alfred Atherton, assistant secretary of state for the Middle East; and the U.S.

envoys to the countries he will be visiting. As Nixon spent Saturday at his fog-shrouded Camp David retreat studying a set of black- bound briefing books, more details emerged on his precise itinerary and schedule. In Salzburg, Austria, the President will meet with Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky on Tuesday. He flies on Wednesday to Cairo, where he will meet for the first time with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Before leaving fcigvpt on Friday, the President and his entourage plan to visit the Mediterranean seaside resort of Alexandria, perhaps traveling from Cairo by train.

talks with King al of Saudi Arabia will be held in Jidda rather than in the capital of Hiyadh because Jidda, on the Red Sea, has a better climate, officials said. Precise location of the conference with Syrian President Hafez Assad has not been disclosed, and sources left open the possibility it may be held some place other than the capital of Damascus. In Israel, Nixon is tentatively scheduled to visit both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, sources said, while meeting with the new Prime Minister Yit- zak Rabin. See Paee 8, Column 2 Riles Slated Tuesday For Mrs. King F'uneral services are scheduled at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at Grace United Methodist Church for Mrs. Ruthena C. King, 63, who died in her sleep Friday night at the King vacation cabin at Arrowhead Lake, near Cuba. Last rites will be conducted by the Rev. Don Forsman, pastor of the church, of which Mrs.

King was a member. Friends may call at the Hamilton Funeral Home on Monday from 3 until 5 and from 7 until 9 p.m. Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to the Ruthena King Scholarship in care of Security Bank Trust. A member of a pioneer family in the area, Mrs. King was born May 11.

1911 at Penasco, in Chaves county. Surviving, besides her husband, Dan W. King, chairman of the board of Security Bank Trust and vice president of Bank Securities, are two sons, Dan R. King of Cuba and David C. King of Roswell; a granddaughter.

Denice King, of Roswell; and two sisters, Mrs. Fay Keyes of Albuquerque and Mrs. Fid Fisher of Nev. NEW COMMANDER BEGINS WORK Col. John D.

Ward new commander of the 49th Combat Support Group at Holloman, receives some tips from the retiring of Holloman," Col. Cunningham, Jr. Col. Ward arrived from Bergstrom AFB, and assumed his new position Friday. Col.

Cunningham will be retiring soon to his hometown of Waco, Tex. Radio Links Sought For Fire Units Installation of radio equipment in all Otero county rural fire districts is a goal of the county commission under the 1974-75 fiscal year budget of $2.262.629 approved by Raymon Lara, chief of the State Department of Finance and Administration. Funds were not designated for the radio communication equipment, but commissioners are programming the project and hope to transfer some of the revenue sharing money from other areas if successful. Review and approval of the general fund portion of the budget was completed by 11:30 a.m. Friday.

The general fund total estimated for the 1974-75 fiscal year is $1.001.296. That figure, plus $88,200 for the eight rural fire districts; $2.600 for the hospital; $6,400 in Emergency Employment Act money: $6,240 under a special manpower revenue sharing (not a portion of the regular revenue sharing funds) and $314.051 in the road fund, brings the total operational budget for the county to $1.509,214. Over and above the operational budget is a $649,793 construction figure lor a new county jail and remodeling of the courthouse: $32,208 interest and principal (sinking tund) for See Paee 8, Column 4 Tot's Smaller Than WEST COVINA, Calif. Babies are supposed to lje small, but at 24 ounces Shawn Rebecca Hays is smaller than most. Doctors in the infant care center at Queen of the Valley Hospital in this Angeles suburb are caring for Shawn, who was bom three months prematurely May 2.

Because Shawn seems to be a healthy baby, Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the infant care center. says chances of survival are good. Shawn is 12 inches long, and she is so small that her cry sounds like a meow. so far, so good.

This seems to be an extremely fortunate situation in terms of a healthy Montgomery said in an interview. parents are Seott and Debbie Hays of Azusa. Both are 18. such a Mrs. Hays said.

even feel like a mother yet; not until my baby comes.