Lawmakers and judge urge open juvenile records at Playas meeting
Crawford and District Judge Ray Hughes spoke to about 70 people at the Playas Community Center about this year's legislature and court systems. Crawford previewed bills, including longer visitor car licenses and emergency funds for Lordsburg schools, and urged removing juvenile secrecy rules.
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Hidalgo-Luna County
von Rue Crawford
Ray Hughes
Playas
Phelps Dodge Employees Committee For
Crawford
New Mexico
Lordsburg
Deming
Hidalgo
Luna County
Representa
Deming Council Reconsiders Police Car Bid Withdrawal by Mayor
Deming officials revisit Pratt Pontiac-Buick bid for a new police department vehicle after Mayor Pratt withdrew to avoid a conflict of interest. The move followed a formal letter to the city council.
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Deming
Police Department
Pratt Pontiac-Buick
Pratt
Case Load Explained By Judge
The Lordsburg Municipal Court docket shows 622 cases in 1976 with only one petty larceny filed. Judge Jesus J. Estrada notes lack of felony jurisdiction limits caseload, as the court handles municipal ordinance violations within limits. Seventy-eight other cases include 60 Disorderly Conduct 15 Resisting or Interfering with a police officer 10 Fighting and 5 Assault, plus 102 juveniles cited for traffic violations and one case each for permitting a dog to run loose and carrying a concealed weapon.
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Lordsburg
Jesus J. Estrada
Christmas Gift From Mountain Bell Delays Taxes
Hidalgo County telephone customers receive a Christmas gift as federal excise tax on local and long distance service drops from six to five percent. The change, effective New Year’s Day, saves New Mexico customers about $1.2 million in 1977. A Western Auto sale runs this week with a 12 page Liberal insert featuring hundreds of items from recliners to bicycles.
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Hidalgo County Telephone
Mountain Bell
Boyd Harper
New Mexico
Western Auto
Liberal
Operation ID to Begin Soon in Lordsburg
Lordsburg Police Chief Rudy Gonzales announced upcoming participation in the statewide Operation ID crime prevention program. The plan includes marking tools, a Neighborhood Watch, crime prevention booklets, and film training packs from the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy to aid both department and civic groups.
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Lordsburg
Rudy Gonzales
Gonzales
New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy
LEAA
Funeral Services Held For Bethel Fuller
Funeral services were held January 8 for Mrs Bethel Vernon Fuller of Lordsburg at Heather Chapel with Rev. Gerald White officiating. She was buried at Mountain View Cemetery with the Pythian Sisters assisting. Mrs Fuller, born August 21 1888 in Rockport Texas, moved with her family to Eddy now Carlsbad then Alamogordo. She later settled in Lordsburg 1912 as a theater pianist and married Claude C Fuller in 1913. She was active in civic life, leading the Lordsburg Library and Cemetery associations, and held many offices in the Pythian Sisters and American Legion Auxiliary. She died December 31 1976 in Mountain View California and is survived by two sons Basil and Warren two sisters Mrs William Perry and Mrs Donia Holland and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Bethel Vernon Fuller
Lordsburg
Heather Chapel
Gerald White
Milton
Alma Phillips
Eddy
N.M
Pecos River
Carlsbad
Eddy County
Fuller
Alamogordo
Phillips
Sacramento Mountains
Woman’s Club
Cemetery Association
Lordsburg- Hidalgo
Lordsburg-Hidalgo
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International Association of Firefighters
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Bethel Fuller
Western Auto Sale
Victor Diaz
Diaz
American Legion Auxiliary
Chamber of Commerce
Mountain View
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