Las Vegas Optic (Newspaper) - October 19, 1970, Las Vegas, New Mexico T P Elk Tibly F too late for anything but a sparse bulletin in the Optic the dream will come true Amid the joy of knowing that San Miguel County is now assured of a bright new era of tourism comes both gratitude and an impa that construction cant begin today The gratitude belongs to countless people to New Mexicos Congressional delegation and to Governor David F Cargo to the county com missioners Moises Solano James C and Antonio Vigil and to Leo Murphy execu tive director of the North Central New Mexico Economic Development District and its mem bers and to Roberto Armijo Las Vegas mem ber of the State Highway Commission who rammed through state highway debentures af ter legislative approval where our own state representatives Carol Tinker and Chief Gonza les and State Senator Junio Lopez played a ma jor role along with Rep David Salman of Mora Fifteen hundred Las Vegans signed a tele gram to the EDA more than a year ago The first announcement of the approval came from our own Congressman Manuel Lujan Jr fol lowed quickly by an announcement from US Sen Joseph office Sen Clinton P Anderson too strongly supported the project It looks as if it will be more than a year quite possibly longer before construction can begin But meanwhile the money is there from the federal EDA and 194800 in state highway debentures That isnt just money thats more than 700 jobs Within a fiveyear period after construction begins new businesses new people and new HOPE for Northern New Mexico City Council meets tonight at One of the items on the agenda is a report from three representatives of Las Vegas who attended the statewide land use planning symposium hi Al last week City Manager Tom Spiller Jr Councilman Alfonso E Ortiz Jr and Mrs Angle Encinias assistant city manager will report to the coun the symposium which dealt with urban planning and zoning Established 1879 No 205 Las Vegas New October 19 1970 Home Owned Home re Candidates faced New Mexico press By LOIS BECK Candidates for the states top posts in the approaching elec tion faced New Mexico news men at a series of press confer ences Friday during the New Mexico Press Associations an meeting press that he had no ax to Both major party candidates grind no commitments to any disagreed with the concept in appointments no commitments traduced in platform to laying anyone He all the states crime problem universities under one board of economic development and They displayed caution lution control r too on proceeding further with Sedillo said that the only is the socalled cabinet form of sue is the Treaty of Guadalupe government which Governor Partisan byplay and which he called the David Cargo began with the De times sharp differences iaw of the land He of Hospitals and In loped between the various dont see many brown stations and the for governor US sen faces here My friends are out Department of Corrections in mountains of Northern National issues occupied the and Congressional spots The conferences began with a noon luncheon attended by the New Mexico and the barrios Congressional candidates with Domenici touched on his four gubernatorial candidates and D0int Dian for New Mexico whi pian lor wew mexico wni emerging It was at this confer ence that US Rep Manuel Lu ended at 5 pm with the sen pledged to implement He hopefuls fielding action on economic tions development law Appearing at noon were those and order and to bring people seeking to New Mexicos and the government more close next governor Bruce King Dely together He said his attitude Wilfredo Sedillo much the same as the pies Constitutional Party Pete president of Mexico in that one Domenici Republican and John part of New Mexico Salazar New Mexico at the expense of dent Party r ers At the Congres Accused other conference were erf overlooking one is McGovern New Mexico of statesmanship He men pendent Party Harold Runnels said New Mexico is divided and Democrat Manuel Lujan Jr fragmented and has a lack of jan Jr announced the approv al of Economic Development Administration funds that now assure building of Elk Mountain road in San Miguel County Chavez McGovern and Run nels all said emphatically that they favor the admission of Red Nations Groups set up in Washington WASHINGTON AP funneled large chunks dreds of thousands of dollars in money to their candidates campaign money have been giv en US senators through hidden fundraising groups set up in Washington where a loophole lets the lawmakers keep the contributions secret through these groups Sen Winston L Prouty RVt locked in a tough battle this has at least four DC commit tees set up to get money from the GOP His Democratic foe Senate Majority Leader Mike former Gov Philip H has At press gathering Mr and Mrs Lincoln O Brien were among 200 members and guests oi New Mexico Press Association who gath ered at Hilton Hotel Fri day and Saturday for the annual conven tion OBrien publisher owner of the Farmington Daily Times once owned the Optic Candidates m the forthcoming election with newsmen at the meeting Optic Photo by Tim Lindeborg Republican Fabian Chavez De unity of purpose He expressed two Republicans stood squarely behind the Nixon administration indicating that r and Re a desire to rally the citizenry they l tn unt on in Canada publican Lujan incumbent US Representative from the North ern District 1 which includes Las Vegas is opposed by Chavez and McGovern Fore in common Domenici and King exhibited some common ground and dis agreed on one Domenici said that Albuquerque needs man faces Runnels in his bid for less and less help in economic is improving with the others expressing doubt Lujan said Nixon had cut the war in half and that Viet is He out Mansfield of Montana and his GOP counterpart Sen Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania head the listof candidates using the hid den committees to help bankroll their reelection races this year Labor groups are making large donations to another Washington committee set up for Harrison A Williams who i3 in line to become chairman of the Senate Labor Committee if he wins In political circles the hidden campaign groups are known as DC committees Tlie District of contrast to the home states of most ho law re quiring public disclosure of money raised and spent for can As a result dozens of senators arid congressmen have committees setup here to raise campaign funds larly from lobbies the hidden commit earned pf 0 of donations that other political groups as for labor organizations or industry lobbies must Congress Tlie records show groups ren resenting restaurants coal ca ble TV steelworkers Team at least two committees also Among others using the de vice Sens Joseph M Montoya D NM Frank E Moss William Proxmire DWis Ralph T Smith RIU Ted SeV vens and former Vice President Hubert H Hum running for the Senate from Minnesota Many of the DC committees have raised as much as 550000 or more But few are willing tei tell However interviews and port of various political groups traced at as being into various Senate candidates DC committees Tlie true tota may be many times that amount Because of the lack of reporting require ments some DC committees could stay hidden aide said lias a reelection in District 2 The senatorial conference was sparked by sharp differences development and outlined a plan for what he called comm unity resource teams from the him and Chavez The Congress said get excited ister Pierre Laporte among William Higgs of the smaller areas to get personal Peoples Constitutional Party help from the governors office incumbent Democratic Senator King placed more emphasis on Joseph M Montoya and Albuquerque area said there son Carter Republican hopeful Candidates for governor spoke when I hear the word Com Theyre dedicated to overthrowing us and we should keep them from doing it In a discussion over inflation MONTREAL AP Thou in the cam and was no explanation why sands of police and soldiers atmosphere of Canadian they were charged with boh combed Quebec Province today Courts since communiques with warrants for a taxi driver Quebec police issued an all from the Quebec Liberation and a schoolteacher wanted for points bulletin late Sunday say Front have indicated that sep shipping and savings as the kidnaping of British Marc Carbonneau 37 the arate factions carried are among the contri butors fo DC committees Eyen the Republican and Demo cratic national campaign chests Commissioner James Cross and cab driver and Paul Rose 27 out murdered provincial Labor charged participation Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau predicted more terror ist violence from the Quebec Liberation Front or But he said These vicious men in both abductions The slaying of Laporte whose body was found in the trunk of an auto Saturday night was not men in the warrant are 8700 persons there still un the Republicans blamed be found and will be dealt as Frenchspeaking Canadians employed He indicated that Al briefly before the barrage of still has problems questions began King told the like the outlying areas Democratic administrations over an inherited situation Continued on page 2 V Martinez comments on Lilians rally Man killed on Corazon Hill Corazon Hill claimed another report Valdez was traveling By early today police had rounded up 319 persons in a manhunt launched after the fed eral government invoked the War Measures Act Friday and outlawed the More than 180 were picked up in Montreal the rest in Quebec City Sher brooke Hull and five other Que bec towns Rose was involved in a 1968 controversy at Perec on the victim Sunday when east when he missed the curve Gaspe Peninsula when 25 young the Highlands campus the driver of a loaded heavy vehicle plunged 200 people occupied a building Ab Police Chief Andy A deck cattle truck and trailer feet down a cliff The trailer ner Biard Perce mayor said had r speaks to honor group John Wagner dence with the Las Vegas schools was guest speaker ai the meeting of the J D Vas quez Chapter National Junior Honor Society Wednesday morning in the East Las Vegas Junior High School Patio Wagner showed a number of sides of work that was pub in the May June 1970 issue of the New ment is sponsoring an FBI Po Mexico Magazine and lice Training School beginning tomorrow at University Hall on Police sponsor training school The Las Vegas Police Depart Vigil asked the FBI to conduct failed to negotiate ther fatal whipped around and sheared off bothered tourists and the school for local law enforce curve on State Road 104 the cab when he and others protested 34 miles east of Las Vegas Fifteen cattle were killed in he was threatened by six or sev Dead was Valthe crash and an estimated 15 en organizations among them dez 39 of Hereford to 20 others were so severely ins the Police still investigating the jured they had to be des S been tost or destroyed in what of tne accident said Val Owner of the cattle was Laporte 49 was abducted as football with his chil District Attorney Donald A council work with the U Martinez long a Democratic Coast and Geodetic Survey he called the failure of the dez Company of Here ear Martinez in a lengthy J J leader in this area Martinez in a lengthy S Congress to leveled a blast today against pared statement to the Optic its responsibilities incumbent Republican Con called Lujans proposal vague takeover of the area by Gen Manuel Lujan Jr and astounding Stephen Kearny and adoption arose over Lu obviously based on total the Treaty of Guadalupe jans proposal more ance of what the problem is all Hidalgo V than a week ago at ia about r Martinez concluded to establish The district attorney of Mora It is only fair to ask Romero responded to a council of governments in an San Counties gressman Lujan if he is live up to and internal injuries ford after the They reported a possibility of Valdez body is expected to defective brakes to Hereford today by A passing motorist who did Rogers Mortuary for funeral riot witness the accident report services in the Texas town ed shortly before 4 pm Sun Within the past year several day State Police and Sheriff the others have lost their lives at spot where State Road lier James Richard Cross ateo 49 the British trade commis in Montreal was taken from his home The made seven ransom demands among them release and safe conduct to Cuba or ment officers Sessions will be held from am to 12 noon and from 1 to 5 pm Tuesday and Wednesday Invitations have been extend ed to every law enforcement of ficer in northeastern New Mex ico The list includes city and State Police as well as sheriffs liquor control agents and Game and Fish Department cm ployees FBI Special Agents Robert J Wirth John M Feeney and Jo seph F Wickman will discuss 104 near Trujillo curves sharp Algeria for 23 persons convicted various of law enforce attempt to deal with land title said cooperative action is not fully interested in the problem According to the State Police ly at the edge of a steep canyon or accused of terrorist crimes difficulties Lujan suggested pn the answer that each county why hasnt he looked into it in Mora that a council has its own peculiar problems before and why hasnt he faced to iron out land title and prop and the land owner in each up to his responsibilities as our erty ownership problems be county must face up to these representative to the U S Con composed of representatives different realities gress before from Mora San Miguel Taos The deeper problem accord He charged Lujan with play Rk Arriba and Santa Fe couning to Martinez relates to the ing on the needs and frustra WASHINGTON AP circuit for five weeks Nixon said That is the way to dog campaigner for the Senate ties and perhaps from Indian source of titles In most of the tions of his constituents in a dent Nixons hunt for votes sent drumming at the assertion that answer Nixon hits campaign road pueblos He proposed that the old land grants records have cruel play for votes ent committee meets him today to the region he calls Republican victories will help the heartland wooing the silent counter lawlessness and tur majority and offering a on the campus and on the key version of the streets is the principal beneficiary of Nixons first Midwestern stop Nixons Kansas City campaign n Ohio is designed to boost Rep appearance Dan forth is chal Sen Stuart Symington rated the favorite as he seeks a By Chairman of Governors Subcommittee on Public Relations for Governors Student Advisory Committee campaign theme hammered by Vice President Spiro T Urging Americans to speak Nixon speaking in generally Robert Taft Jr who seeks a Senate now Democratic Taft wasnt interested in hav fourth term at softer tones than the explicit ing appear in Ohio say Campaigner Nixon also is im and hardline approach of his ing while it would help in some his policy in South is composed of students president of graduate from all New Mexico colleges student body and chairman of and universities and its purpose the governors committee de Nixons set an opening four states this getting the President day itinerary of Ohio Grand Forks Columbus year declaring in 1 think one dollar from is to bridge better on the grounds that the bnc every student on on New Mcx tions between group wanted to investigate the An campaign ico college campuses should be the public and college matter further but promised a states collected to saturate students decision shortly ers and radio with ads against The state Attorney Generals Al Ortega HU senior said City Tenn in high placers during their the ten percent tuition hike re recent ruling the potency of the committee NC and Ft Wayne Ind years in the White House the In Grand Forks Nixons pres tige is being injected into what vote is 100 ob is considered a closely contested Senate race between In Lancaster Pa he accused Rep Thomas Kleppe and Sen administration economic poli cies blaming on what he called reckless by Democrats The economic issue came up at the White House Sunday The in Democrats of permissiveness Quentin N Burdick the Nixon met for nearly two proposed by the Board any student who participates m may well be determined by day before returning to of Educational Finance said campus protests is liable to ex action the committee takes those who shout obscenities and intensive Ken Johnson Highlands by the Board of on the Attorney Generals rul It is the second installment of in vio has stressed all sor of Political Science was an area of concern a campaign to lence kill and injure policemen around support for the Johnsons remark was made sed by several HU Adding to the groups com cover 18 to 20 states before elec at the of the Ihv committee was on the need for a better Student t niv r J 1 y Advisory to make a mtlion Continued on page 6 cratic incumbent hours with six representatives Farm legislation is the issue of the Business Council an or In Burlington Vt he spoke of here But in general of top executives Ronald L the White House press secretary said Tlie impression I not was that Lot the majority of they urged the administration to cans speak up speak up on Nov John C Danforth Missouris continue with the policies we has been oil the speak up with your votes attorney and an been the techniques used He also showed illustrations for Cherokee Chief a book which is being used in third and fourth grades throughout the United States His work reflects the Indian culture which he has studied intensely since his coming to New Mexico from Philadelphia Pa He concluded the program with illustrations of done by Mrs Wagner President of the chapter Sa brina Faulkner called a bust ness meeting for Wednesday Oct 21 at am Police report state fatals By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS State Police report that Alice Yazzie 41 died Sunday of in juries received Friday night in a accident on US 666 five miles south of Police said a vehicle driven by the victims husband Harry Yazzie 49 skidded onto the and rolled Two Saturday deaths were re ported in Albuquerque Police said the body o WiU liim Henry Fulliam 45 was found Sunday morning in the wreckage of a in the Albuquerque city lim iis on a frontage road alongside Interstate 25 Police reported that Richard Stamper 21 Albuquerque died Saturday from injuries received when he was struck by a car Friday night as he walked in the roadway of the South Broad way extension Weather Increasing high cloudiness and warmer today partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday Las Vegas low 36 Tuesday tti
