Santa Rosa News (Newspaper) - June 17, 1965, Santa Rosa, New Mexico MRS JR IS snort darrel freeman it's rodeo time a- gain and the top young hands and from out the state are enroute to Santa Rosa as this was being Santa Rosa written and their mommas and pappas are coming too plus many hundreds of other fans so Santa Rosa will be pin this weekend We trust and numerous individuals are hoping that it will be an orderly celebration as it seems that some of our law en- forcement agencies aren't ly up to par in personnel In fact it is almost to the point to where you have to make an appointment with the sheriff to get in jail getting out is another thing only our district attorney knows how and why that is done NEW MEXICO'S BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER T0 THE PR OG RESS O F T H I S C I T Y COUNTY AND STATE i 1 I f i 1 SANTA ROSA GUADALUPE COUNTY NEW MEXICO THURSDAY JUNE 17 1965 NO 18 REIGNING Miss Betty Greene was crowned New Mexico High School Rodeo Queen in Santa Rosa last year Eighteen year old Miss Greene is the Mr and Mrs Tom D Mall of Defiling She will reign over the rodeo till she crowns the queen Saturday night Life Claimed By Cancer of par Santa Rosa's newest entertainment fac is now open JOE CAMPOS has opened the miniature golf course on the back side of LA FIESTA MARQUEZ didn't get his new furniture department ready for opening this weekend but he says real soon MRS MAE WALKER CHAPMAN is having the formal opening of her new flower and gift shop this Saturday be on which he had sat as judge Few people have any idea Angelus Chapel of Rogers Mo The case concerned the much time and hard work a m Las for death of John B Lassetter of number of our fellow Santa Ro- t fn who brother of City Attorney Jose E was fatally shot on Aug 21 sans have put in to stage this who had pj 1925 during an altercation in years New Mexico High School the Fourth District for Championship Rodeo I doubt 35 of the past 41 yearg that even HUGH COOPER the Armijo died of cancer general manager or DON night at Saint Anthony's Hospital GERS the Boosters Club in Las Vegas dent or even GENE DURIE Funeral services will be held the Boosters Club secretary have tomorrow at at an accurate accounting of of Sorrows Church in Las that so many have done to make Vegas this year's the greatest ever Judge physician said the judge had been ill at his By the PUTT WHITE home about three weeks before was elected vice-president of entering the hospital June 2 Rodeo Boosters Club at their The judge had undergone meeting last week That means gory in at the ho will become president and Clinic last October for chief of it next year condition which led to his death succeeding DON DRIGGERS the physician said Burial will be at Los Extra Copy Demand Of Rodeo Edition News of this Rodeo Edition of the Santa Ros brought the press run to over copies this week party labels may Roga Chamber of pear on the ballot for school Party May Remain On Election Ballots ion District Water Transfer Month Before Authorization End Dam Came a mediately notified and they in board elections it was stated in papers weekly in the towns steP closer to reality with the turn would recommend a con- Annual Eastern Star Barbeque Saturday The annual Eastern Star beque is for Saturday from 11 a m to 1 p m The menu will include barb cue chili beans potato fruit cobler and beverage For for adults and 75 cents for contestants and child Co ren under 12 persons are served the attorney general's opinion paper announcement Tuesday by State struction appropriation all you can eat unless a horse falls on him be- tween now and then When II L was asked when IIL Wiis to have open house for the new ice cream store lie has under construction on west highway 66 he told the members of the Cham her board of directors that it would be next Christmas and they could come out for their free ice cream cone then The Square Deal is scheduled to start moving into their ful new store After it was dis- cussed at lie directors meeting Tuesday in the ISH INN of the great tion to the progressive aire of Santa Rosa the CAMPOS THERS were giving our town area the Chamber tors decided to repaint the C of C office and have a modernist it- sign installed on their building I why he didn't use some influence on his uncle to try to get on The most delicate the most of all pleasures consists in promoting I ho pleasure o f vary Cemetery in Las Vegas Judge Armijo had his roots deep in New Mexico history He was born in Las Vegas Dec 29 1887 and his father Armijo a school teacher and bookkeeper also a Las Vegas native Judge mother rie Armijo was born in Lincoln County Joined liar in 1915 Judge Armijo was ted to the New Mexico bar in 1915 and began a and judicial career which spanned nearly half a century in 1920 It was in 1920 he was elected district attorney years later he was elected district judge and was re- elected for a six year in 1930 f In was defeated for election to a third term as the democrats the first clean sweep of offices in San Miguel county history But Armijo back in 1942 to defeat Irwin S Moise the man who had beaten him in 1936 Judge Armijo remained on bench from 1942 until his death and for many years the only Republican dis- judge in New Mexico Attended Schools Judge Armijo attended Las Vegas schools and New ico Normal University now New Mexico He graduated from Now Mexico Military Institute in 1908 and started his study of law in tho office of the late V Long of Las Vogas Judge Armijo in 1920 heard one of the most famous der trials in New Mexico history the sensational Mapee case In Inter years he called case the most interesting New School House Ready For Use Now which was read at the meeting Thursday night of the Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools Board of Education Paul S E- Reynolds that Dimes of the Senator's office of the outstanding attraction in fche Board of Carlsbad said before the Santa Rosa this week District has adopted a resolution for money could be made it The Rodeo Boosters Club ha consenting to the transfer of would probably lake about 30 Chairman Fred Chavez said an additional 1.000 conservation storage capacity for necessary paper work It would be nice not to be in the rnn from Alamogordo Reservoir to between all connected political parties on the election j Friday and Saturday the Proposed Los Reser mehts y north of ganta Roga The dam was Officials of the Bureau of Re- Town of Santa Rosa and the and state engineers Santa Rosa Chamber of have been working at full speed in the early thirties ballot but according to the law it cannot be denied as to how one wants to run on the ballot The ruling was requested by The new Santa Rosa High the local board after a petition School building is virtually com Was presented by Tom Nichols it was reported by job requesting the board to rule a- superintendent Wyatt gainst political party wood at the meeting Thursday peering on the school board night of the Santa Rosa School tion ballot Board of Education Architect Nichols appeared before the A George Wright reported that board Thursday night and stated cross US 66 early to be used that Judge Luis Armijo had ruled or ten small a school board election flf IIA f A VI jacknifed a- m since early May analyzing Numerous citizens have worked cos River hydrological reports to bring Los lo in an effort to obtain approval reality Recently mailer has of Los Dam before its Deen Up David B authorization expires July 19 Medley and Senator Joseph M Montoya Senator Page has been at work to get the dead Braziel head of the line extended Receiving the LoS Reservoir studies which were being comp Project Committee undertook Judge Armijo a Las Vegas hotel lobby be- tween the late Judge David J Leahy and Carl C Magee former editor of the New Mexico Stale Tribune in Trial Testimony Witnesses testified at the trial that Lassetter was shot as Magee fired from a tion on the floor Magee had been knocked down witnesses said and was being attacked by Leahy when Lassetter went lo Magee's aid Magee was charged with first degree murder but the charge was reduced to slaughter when lie went on trial in June After ing testimony Judge Armijo ruled there was insufficient evidence and a jury found Magee innocent Judge Armijo was in the center of an international con- in when he refused to abide by a pronouncement of the lale Pope Pius XII Pope Pronouncement Pope Pius was reported by news services on Nov 6 as saying a Catholic judge cannot except for grave reasons pronounce a decree of civil divorce in a marriage which is valid before God and church In commenting on the Judge Armijo I may be a Catholic bul I am a of the United Stales first The statement was carried nationally and it he was the only judge in the country who took public exception to the Pope's pronouncement Judge Armijo was married Continued on M of Santa into a car and m no L L John Hubbard 47 of Memphis by a government computed many discussions on the project items needed further work and m Vaughn that the school board Tennessee as reported by local months work such fls lasl year when he mel said mat the balancing ot the prohibit the use of party state Hubbard was a toward the proposed Los Estero in Santa Fe with stale heating system will have to be labels if it so desired senger in the car driven by his Dam eight miles north of San eerS and with lht h Nichols stated that he planned wife Opal 38 who is reported ta Ralph Charles bureau District lo revise the to be in critical condition in an r A A1 -t i planning engineer said project of Los At that Albuquerque hospital u r j t i State Police investigating the Reynolds informed State Sen Ume reach accident said the Navajo truck ator Page Tuesday ed an agreement driven by DeForest Cory 51 ol Carlsbad's approval of the trans The agreement unable to be The Guadalupe County which was fer of part of its irrigation wa- reached by either department can Convention which was set incr east jackknifed just as the ter storage to the dam done when there is cold weather Superintendent Joe T to investigate the issue further noted that and material was guaranteed for Republican one year and the roof was anteed for 15 years The building which will be used for tenth eleventh and twelT for last Sunday has been th grades will be entirely com- indefinitely according to 40 into two-lane US this year an announcement by Republican of Santa Rosa County Chairman Vidal Chavez 66 was dreaded by the citizens of The office of United States Santa Rosa Senator Page and Senator Joseph M Montoya Reynolds had been working yesterday advised the Santa together for a long time to reach Rosa News that the next mainan with the Carlsbad concern now would be the word irrigation District on the of participation from the Slate project If they had not lis office reported that as soon reach the as word from the State is received ment before next month Santa Corp Engineers would be im if 4 It's rodeo time top young cowhands and the rodeo grounds with music by the Aggie Ramblers of Las Cruces The coronation of the at The the highway go east to fifth hen south to the welfare office gals from all over the where it will break up now enroute to Santa Rosa lo Cash prizes will be given U Rodeo Queen will take place compete for the coveted titles the best float posse and the dance in the New Mexico High School Gd bicycle Prizes will also be A worship service is planner Championship Rodeo which will to the best-dressed cowboy is M in Las Vegas at Saint get underway for a three day and cowgirl Sunday morning stand starting evening There will be no official The final performance of the The highly anticipated first round tration of entries but rodeo will be held that afternoon in the state-wide championship arc requested to notify a Jay at This will be followed show is staged for tomorrow cee member of thei to by the presentation of night in the rodeo arena featur have something in the parade an awards ing lop performances The Order of Eastern Star will Admission prices for rodeo Registration of the contestants have its annual barbecue at Park are for adults and 50 will be held tomorrow morning Lake served from a m children at the gate of the through at the rodeo off to p m Admission for adults rodeo grounds southwest of Santa at the rodeo grounds is and contestants and Rosa on Highway 54 Advance At Saturday morning ren under 12 will be 75 cents kets may be purchased from Ro- there will be a big parade in The second rodeo performance Booster Club members for Downtown Santa Rosa sponsored will be that afternoon at which will be good for four bv the Junior Chamber of by the third show at performances or may be merce The parade will form at p m for four persons for one of Mr Mrs Sr He enjoys baseball Park Lake eomo down La Pra- At Saturday night The advance tickets will until it reaches fourth strer ing the last performance a big be on sale until 5 p m turn north on fourth street to western dance will be held at morrow NEWSBOY Marvin RaUiff Jr in the eighth Junior High School Ratliff who is 13 is the and and is a of Boy Scout Troop 610 He has been Santa Rosa News for two and is saving money lo spend on his vacation
