Roswell Daily Record (Newspaper) - August 25, 2006, Roswell, New Mexico PROTEST AT CONFERENCE 301 DAILY SUNDAY 204 VALLEY CHRISTIAN BEATS LOVING VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY RAMSES STATUE ON MOVE AUGUST 2Q Bail ROSWELL NEW MEXICO 88201 FDA OKs Plan 6 WASHINGTON AP Women can buy the morning after pill without a the government declared a major step that nevertheless failed to quell the politically charged debate over access to emergency contra The ers and other advocates said they will press the government to let minors purchase the pills over the The Food and Drug Adminis tration said women 18 and older and men purchasing for their partners may buy the Plan B pills without a doc tors but only from phar Girls 17 and younger still will need a prescription to buy the the FDA told manu facturer Barr Pharmaceuticals in ruling on an applica tion filed in The compromise decision is a partial victory for womens advocacy and medical which say easier access could halve the nations 3 million annual unplanned While we are glad to know the FDA finally ended its foot dragging on this Planned Parenthood is troubled by the scientifically baseless tion imposed on The has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the Western world anything that makes it harder for teenagers to avoid unintended pregnancy See Page A3 Las Cruces water deal signed LAS CRUCES AP Las Cruces has signed a deal to lease 140 acres of state land for a storm water retention pond that will lessen the chances of flooding in the southern New Mexico The pond will intercept storm runoff from the nearby Organ Mountains before the water flows into lowlying Grass will be planted so the land also can be used for practice fields for youth softball and football during dry peri Im Weve been Working with the city to try to do something with that pond five said Leo who lives in one of the Its a blessing for Its going to help a lot of The facility will cost the city an estimated million to It is to be completed in five to seven The signed is for an indefinite period as long as the city uses the land for storm waters or for recreation when no water is stored state Land Com missioner Patrick Lyons INSIDE Bingaman visits Elks ASHLEY MEEKS RECORD STAFF WRITER While he says the country as a whole is headed in the wrong tion at home and Jeff Bingaman DNM spent Thursday checking up on a lew new directions for At Three Amigos Dairy in Bingaman walked the grounds with coowner Charlie DeGroot runs the dairy with father Pete and fellow coowner Mike Bingaman is working to secure for the Pecos Valley Bio mass Cooperative The Project aims to use wet manure as a renew able source of energy by extracting the methane produced in its fermen tation process to make It would reduce the greenhouse gas emission said Binga as well as the potential for ground water a component of natural is also a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon While Bingaman stressed the proj which might someday provide power to Leprino Foods plant where most of Three Amigos milk was just in its planning ho offered that con struction of some sort might begin as early as next After his visit o the Binga man attended a luncheon at the Elks which was organized bythe Chaves County Democratic We Democrats need all the bolster ing we can believe said luncheon attendee Steve director of Dally Record Andrew Poertner Jeff visits with Three Amigos Dairy manager Charlie DeGroot during a tour of the dairy near Roswell on Bingaman met with local dairy producers and received a report on the Pecos Valley Biomass Coopera tive Project which would create fuel from dairy Bingaman is working to secure for the dence Its like what I said to congressional candidate Al Kissling Just come to You dont have to say just show Bingaman began his talk by prais ing bipartisan efforts in But there was still work to be he The bottom line from my tive is thai theres a lot wrong in Were pursuing the wrong things and headed in the wrong On the war in his statement that our involvement from the start was a mistake drew applause from the I was over there in I met with Army George whos in charge of all the troops on the The expectation then was that we would be able to reduce troop strengths over the Binga man Events since he have made the opposite It reflects a certain arrogance of this he More has been added to the nation al deficit under the current adminis tration than under every other presi dent combined since the founding of See Page A2 Astronomers widow shook up over Pluto decision LAS The 93yearold widow of astronomer Clyde Tombaugh said Thursday she wasj frustrated about the decision 10 strip Pluto of its tus as a Im not Im just Patricia Tombaugh But Tombaugh also said who discovered Pluto in probably would have endorsed the action by the International Astronomi cal He was a He would understand they had a real problem when they start finding several of these things flying around the Tombaugh The IAU determined a plane must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round as well as clear the its Plutos oblong orbit overlaps which led the IAU to downsize the solar system to eight planets from the traditional Clyde who died in knew in the years before his death that scientific advances were undermining Plutos claim as a his wife Some the time had based on I the Hubble Space that was part of a comet belt on the edge of the who was 24 when he discovered Pluto while working at Lowell Observatory in called those claims a bunch of nonsense at the Somebody wants to cash in on a little I to improve their he Its just a small Most people wont agree with I think it will just fade like it did in 1950 and 1987 when others tried to undermine the Not this Tombaugh said he was resigned to the He knew it was on the she Before he they were going around and Of he was After 75 years of seeing it one who wouldnt be At New Mexico State where Tombaugh worked from 195573 and founded the research astronomy the news about Pluto was received somewhat To come up with a new classification shows sci ence is not Its good to show that to the said Jim an associate professor and department I suppose our reaction is more I dont want anyone to think anything less of the discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in legacy is visible across Las Theres an observatory and a street on the New Mexi co State campus bearing his as well as Tombaugh Elementary School across Murphy said discovery was ahead of its time because it took 60 years for stronger tele scopes to locate another object with an unusual orbit like and 73 years before scientists dis covered a bigger object in the He said the declaration wont change Plutos importance to Pluto didnt cease to Murphy It did nt lose or gain any Its physical tics havent changed a bit because of It already was perceived to be a member of a larger group of Related Rige A3 Garcia excited about running for state auditors job MIKE BUSH RECORD MANAGING EDITOR Lorenzo Garcia said his 28 years of professional experi ence in auditing and investi gating whitecollar crime and government corruption make him to serve as state a is run ning against Democrat Jeff Armijo to replace Domingo who cannot run again because of term limita I am a I have been an auditor and investigator my whole Garcia Garcias 28 years of profes experience include stints as a bank examiner for the Federal Deposit Insurance criminal financial inves Garcia for tin state Attorney General senior performance auditor for the Legislative Finance Com head of the Fraud Unit of the State Auditors state cash manager for the Slate Treasurers Office and chief financial officer for the Public Regulation The reason I wanted to run is because I really have liked the he 1 am an auditor and is my I have been in slate 1 understand state govern ITU ni I thought I could do the I think I am very well qualified to do Its an excit ing job and I wanted to do But when Garcia first expressed his interest to the state Republican Party in December and early he was told Dan Alvarez had already declared his Rather than run against Garcia decided to sup port Then Alvarez with drew for personal reasons and the party turned to He was appointed to the ticket June This isnt Garcias first run for state In Michael Montoya unexpectedly won the Democratic primary for state treasurer and licans had no opponent for him in the general who had heard allegations of fraud against didnt want him to be Garcia discovered he was too late to get on the ballot as a he ran the Green Party which had ethics in government as one of its Many Republicans supported he including state party officials and Colin who was running for Garcia said he received 34 percent of the which at that time was a national record for a minority In he ran unsuccess fully against Montoya as a Montoya later pleaded guilty one count of extortion in connection with kickback schemes started while he was In contrast to his Armijo has no Garcia Hes never been an auditor or he Garcia also charged Armijo went to former state Treasurer Robert who is facing money laundering and racketeering for mentoring and is tied to Vigil and his Demo cratic leaders have encouraged Armijo to drop out of the Garcia If Armijo the party would have until 12 to select another Garcia If Armijo with the most likely replace ment is Tom who lost See Page A2 COM SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICOS LARGEST NEWSPAPER Dow JONES NASDAQ WEATHER
