Santa Rosa News (Newspaper) - September 2, 1965, Santa Rosa, New Mexico NEW MEXICO'S BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER ON U.S HIGHWAYS 66 84 54 R osa SANTA ROSA NEW MEXICO DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF THIS CITY COUNTY AND STATE VOLUME SANTA HOSA COUNTY NEW MEXICO Thursday September 2 1965 Np Coop Recount Still Names Coleman Robert Coleman owner of the Ranch House C afe is still the trustee from the Vaughn district on the board of the Central New ico Electric sort oS a snort darrel freeman The students of Santa Rosa High School are proud of their new school All responsible citizens should age them in that pride Student pride in their facilities can mean a lot in up keep prevent and produce a more wholesome sphere in which to get an education As for the tion of the new building Sunday where tion to the bond issue was mentioned in hushed voices we thought L A U T E CERO was very very wrong when he stated there had been tion to the progress of education The opposition was NOT to the progress of education Very few if any questioned the need of a new school The opposition arose over the board of which LUCERO was dent and the failure to perly proposed bond issue to the public That was the tion the inability of the board and the administration There was no opposition to the progress of education for our youth We received a call this week asking if GERALD RIVERA was still drawing his pay for being County er while working for a construction com- pany The deputy in the treasurer's office said Rivera was on vacation LORENZO MARQUEZ told the same story k We doubt that the average citizen has little sympathy for JUDGE MATIAS MOHA as he tells the sad plight of justice in this district and pegs the lack of finances as one of the reasons why over cases are pending in his judicial area It makes little sense to pay a man a salary of over annually to administer justice with funds of only They are either overpaying JUDGE MORA or greatly under budgeting the court funds Maybe if they took the two funds his salary Continued on Page 13 saying take tive Inc according to the decision after a re-count of ballots Following the ing of the coop board last Thursday W D Hays the defeated was quoted as that he would the decision to In a recent in- however he stated that the court costs and attorney fees were too and he felt the money could be put to better use in his the Cactus Cafe in Vaughn than in ing for a position on the coop board a job with no remuneration It has been reported that a letter is being prepared by some bers of the coop to the board asking that the election be void be- cause of and that a special meeting be called for the purpose of calling for another election The coop board met for the regular board meeting last Thursday and a recount of the cast 101 votes for man and 87 for Hays of the August 4 election to elect four trustees to the seven man board was ordered for this meeting A spokesman for the coop in Mountainair had stated earlier that the board felt the only ballots in question was the race between man and Hays The outcome of the re-count gave Hays 110 votes and Coleman 112 votes a total of 222 ballots seven of which were in question Six of the questioned votes were for Coleman and one for Hays A discussion con- the acceptance of the seven ballots re- that the reason for questioning was the manner in which the ballots had been marked The seven were marked with a check mark instead of an x as per instructions printed on the ballots The decision to accept the perly marked ballots gave the election to Coleman by a 2 vote margin Had the board decided to the seven votes Hays would have been the victor by a margin of three votes In accepting im- properly marked lots the board stated that the decision was made because they felt the persons marking the ballots in- tended to vote for the man whose name they made a cheek m a r k beside Other trustees elected to the board at the last election for the Mori a r t y- Edgewood Sandia dis- Mayor Ray E Continue on Page 8 School Settled For With Insurance Company District Attorney F ine Suspended District Court re- cords in Las Vegas New Mexico revealed that the presiding Judge well S Neal of Carlsbad suspended the fine he imposed on District At- torney Donald A tinez because of promptness and good conduct during the remainder of the Judge Neal manded Martinez for being to court and being unprepared t o proceed during the District Court session in July and fined him for contempt of court Chairman Says Money To Rebuild PDL School Faculty Announced Pete Bustamante principal of the local high school released the following names of the faculty members for the school year Mrs Loyola Cain business Warren Col- vin science Walter junior English Frank Smith band and vocal music Larry Marrujo basketball coach and boys physical education ita Madrid high school and junior high home ec- Mrs Page business Joe R Sanchez dis- education Grover Smith matics John R ler English Mrs Edith Greve English and brary Mrs Mary Beth Mortimer girls cal education Juan F Lopez arts and crafts Jerry D Isaacs mathematics and lish Fred Ordonez high school and junior high industrial arts Chris J Sanchez drivers ing and assistant coach James Schneider ball coach and social studies and Candido Tafoya high school Spanish and junior high science Albert Sanchez cipal of the local grade school and junior high school announced the following faculty bers for the school year Mrs Lydia Ordonez head teacher and first grade Mrs Betty Cor- dova first grade Miss Corrine Duran first grade Miss Lucille Tipton second grade Mrs Mildred Walpole third grade Mrs Lera Garcia second and third grades Mrs Cleo Arnold Continue on Page 13 FIRST STUDENTS to enter the new senior high school building for registrations Monday were Trinnie Sisneros and Max Sisneros brother and sister Both of the pupils are from Colonias Miss Sisneros is a junior and her brother is a sophomore in high school Serrano Boy Swallows Lye Injury Unknown Robert Serrano Jr son of Sheriff and Mrs Robert Serrano is in a hospital in Albuquerque recuperating from in- juries suffered when he swallowed some lye day at his home Little Serrano was taken to the Guadalupe General pital immediately and was transferred to for further treatment His father reported that his tongue and throat were burned but reported not being tain as to the complete extent of the injury Education Dedicated The dedication of the new high school was held Sunday in the of the newly con- building Many beautiful floral arrangements courtesy of local businesses and school organizations were placed throughout the school and a tour was conducted by the National Honor Society City Meets Tuesday The City Council will hold their regular ing Tuesday at p.m in the City Hall Vaughn Woman Asking For In Suit Mrs nado widow of Jose Christian Maldonado filed suit on July 27 of this year in the County Clerk's Office against the Southern Pacific Company asking ment of and court costs The suit claims Jose C Maldonado was ing on the railroad tracks of the defendant corporation thirteen miles northeast of Vaughn on February 15 196 5 tamping ties under the instruction and super- vision of foreman Frank Clenard and as a di- rect result of the gence of the railroad company and its fore- man Clenard was struck by a freight train resulting in his im- mediate death The suit was filed in behalf of Maldonado's widow and minor grand- children living with him at the time of his death Maldonado 61 a re- sident of Vaughn and brother of Mrs Sylvia Flores of Santa Rosa had been an employee of the Southern Pacific Railway Company for over 24 years Seferino Jiminez of Tucumcari was killed in the same accident and Clenard suffered a broken arm and slightly fractured hip HAS BEEN SAID The aim of tion should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think Institute Sunday and Student Council members The program opened with the invocation by the Reverend Father Raymond Aragon lowed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by the National Honor Society Mayor Sotero J chez Jr gave the come followed by the introduction of the Joe T Gonzalez and School Board members fredo Chavez ing chairman Dr John Galvin secretary Laute Lucero and Ar- senio Sanchez Lucero presented a history of the school be- ginning with the passing of the School bond for the construction of the structure Jim Stewart dent of the New Mexico Education Association extended tions to the people of Santa Rosa and the ad- ministration of the school for the fine new education facility Stewart spoke in the ab- sence of Jim Green assistant executive cretary of the tion who is in the pital Judge Matias mora District Judge of the Fourth Judicial Dis- remarked on the asset of a fine school home in helping deter juvenile delinquency Chavez presented the new school and Robert Esparza director of condary education gave the dedication address The ceremonies closed with a tion by Reverend ert Brooks The Gain Dealers tual Insurance Com- pany settled Tuesday with the Santa Rosa Con- School system on the loss of the Puerto de Luna school in the amount of Acting Chairman of the Board Alfredo vez stated that this money would be applied to rebuilding of the school The Puerto de Luna School burned May 8 of this year There has been con- discussion at the last few board ings concerning the insurance coverage of the building The school system carried ance with the Gain Dealers Mutual ance Company sented by the late Gregorio Aragon and also with the A Irwin Insurance Company The board contended at one time that both companies were since there seemed to be a greement between the companies as to who was to cover the rural schools both claimed their policies covered the buildings in Santa Rosa only At the August ing of the school board a letter was read from the Gain Dealers Mutual Insurance Com- pany stating that at one time the board had violated the policy by not sending a history of the school building in Puerto de Luna such as when the school was built and improvements made on the building and in order to give an estimate that these facts were necessary The letter further stated that according to mation they had at that time the estimated worth of the building was Last week Joe T zalez superintendent of the Santa Rosa dated Schools reported work was being done on the Community ter in Puerto de Luna to make it ready for use as a school Classes were started Monday for grades first through six Gonzalez reported approximately 30 children are ing the Puerto de Luna school The teachers for this school year are Benny Flores and Mrs Guadalupe M Padilla The Center was offered to the school system with the under- standing that the school get the building in shape and maintain it daring the time it is in use and no rent would be charged Zamora's Request Denied Napoleon P Zamora 46 convicted recently of making false entries and embezzling from the First National Bank in Santa Rosa failed Friday in at- tempts to have the ty verdict reversed United States D i s- Judge Howard C Bratton who presided at Zamora's trial de- nied the former er's motions Zamora through his attorney Arthur man of Santa Fe ar- gued that a confession of the alleged crime should not have been allowed to be introduced by the government and there was insufficient evidence to support the guilty verdict Zamora also asked for a dict of acquittal Zamora was ed August 13 of an in- charging eight counts of false entries and three counts of em- a total of 000 from the bank be- tween September 1964 and February 1965 Judge Bratton statements Zamora gave to the Federal reau o f Investigation last April 8 could be introduced as on the third day of the four day trial Ono statement read to the jury by FBI agent Carl ton stated that mora said he was ly responsible for a shortage bank over the last 12 years Zamora also cording to the ment admitted being responsible for a false entry on April 5 ing Zamora is scheduler to be sentenced row To Close Mondo The local bank two major grocery stores and the clothing stores in Santa Rosa will close Monday in observance of Labor Day The city offices will be closed also with the exception of the police department office
