New Mexico’s Varied Beauty From Plains to Peaks
A narrative tour of New Mexico’s landscapes and vistas from Wildcat stadium to Wheeler Peak and Sandia Peak. The piece lauds elevated views, desert plains, Carlsbad Caverns, and flowered regions like Tulare and Alamogordo, ending with a brief weather note for the east-central plains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Dallas
Lovington
Wildcat Stadium
Maljaar Hill
Guadau
Capitan Peak
Sierra Blanca
Wheeler Peak
Sandia Peak
Rio Grande Valley
Albuquerque
Carlsbad
Netherlands
Tularosa
Alamogordo
Santa Fe Millionaires
Mesilla Valley
Santa Fe
Peter Hurd
Ours
Refunds Hoped By Tesuque Developers After Lease Cancel
A group led by Sangre de Cristo Development Corp faces potential refunds of about 2 million dollars to 200 lot owners and 100 creditors after the Interior Department canceled a 99 year lease on 5400 acres near Tesuque Pueblo. Attorney Dick Blenden says owners will sue if refunds are not paid and argues the government must back all parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Calloway
Associated Press
Santa FE (Ap
Secretary of the Interior
Tesuque Pueblo
Owers
Dick Blenden
Carlsbad
Sangre de Cristo Development Corp
Interior Department
Blenden
Washington, D.C
R.E. Dugger
White’s City
Carlsbad Caverns
Sangre de Cristo
Santa Fe
Dugger
Morton
Interk Department
Carter pushes urban program to aid struggling cities
President Carter ramps up a Cabinet task force on urban and regional development to finish a comprehensive strategy by January. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and Stuart Eizenstat lead efforts with lawmakers and city leaders to spur private investment through tax incentives and a proposed development bank. Congress weighs a $400 million urban action grants program as Kreps backs stepped up funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Wolman
Washington (Ap
Carter
New York City
Stuart Eizenstat
Patricia Harris
Housing and Urban Development
Fizenstat
National League of Cities
HUD
State of the Union
Vernon Jordan
Urban League
Benjamin Hooks
NAACP
Afl-Cio
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Treasury Department
Congress
Commerce
Junita Kreps
Ranchers Fear End Plan Cuts Grazing in Rio Puerco Valley
In Albuquerque a federal land plan under the 1974 EP act proposes dropping cattle grazing on Rio Puerco Valley federal lands from 5386 to 4261 head while leaving sheep goats and horses quotas intact. About 40 ranchers urged the Interior panel that the plan could ruin profits and threaten their livelihoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
Rio Puerco
Bureau of Land Management
BLM
Rio Puerco Valley
Department of the Interior
William
Bud’’ Eppers
Southeastern New Mexico Grazing Association
Eppers
Sandoval County
F.L. Marquez
H. Louise Mese
Cuba
Soto Funeral Thursday Morning in Lovington
Catarino G. Soto 60 died after extended illness at a Hobbs hospital. Born February 13, 1917 in Santa Rita New Mexico he served as a Catholic and was married to Juana Carrasco. Survived by wife four daughters four sons two brothers two sisters. Rosary tonight at 7 30 in Smith Rogers Chapel. Funeral Mass Thursday at 9 in St Thomas Church. Burial in Lovington Cemetery.
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Catarino G. Soto
West Tyler
Hobbs
Mr. Soto
Santa Rita
New Mexico
Aonee
Juana Carrasco
Soto
St. Thomas Catholic Church
Juana
Ninfa Quiroz
Rosa Aranda
Elida Valencia
Smith-Rogers
Alcuin Hunter
Lovington Cemetery
Smith-Rogers Funeral Home
Government Workers To Get Raises
President Carter announced plans to raise pay for 3.4 million federal employees excluding top earners with a likely 7.05 percent across the board. A second recommendation from the Federal Employees Pay Council urged 8.8 percent, with cost estimates of 3.4 billion and 850 million more respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard EF
MEYER
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Carter
White House
Federal
Boy Hospitalized With Eye Injury Near Tatum
Eight year old Justin Johnson, son of Carl and Cari Johnson, rests at St Marys Hospital Roswell after an eye injury from a gun incident. He can see but will be immobilized with both eyes bandaged for five days. Grandmother Cari Lane Johnson notes they live 12 miles west and 4 miles north of Tatum.
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Justin Johnson
Carl Lane Johnson
St. Mary’s Hospital
Roswell
Cari Johnson O Levin
Justin
Mrs. Johnson
Cari Lane Johnsons
Tatum
Carter seeks voluntary wage and price standards to curb inflation
The Carter administration moves to craft voluntary wage and price standards to curb inflation, aiming to cut the rate toward 1981 targets. Work could start within a month with industry variations. success hinges on Labor Management Group cooperation and broader labor and business support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Gregory Nokes
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Carter
Anton
Labor-Movement Group
Lab
Labor-Magement
Sir Carter
Lovington Football Contest Returns With Prizes
The Lovington Leader-Merchants contest returns for a 17th season featuring weekly high school college and pro games. Points determine weekly merchandise prizes of 5 3 and 2 with a grand prize of two Cotton Bowl tickets and 100 expense money awarded to the season leader. Ken Robinson won last year as twenty Lovington merchants sponsor the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovington Leader-Merchants
Lovington
Ken Robinson
Turbyfill sentence reinstated by Neal in Levin
District judge Fincher Neal yesterday in Levin reinstated a 15 year sentence for James Medford Turbyfill, an ex Lovington oilfield worker convicted of stealing firearms from Gibson's in January 1975. Neal credited time served. Turbyfill had prior probation lapses and unstable employment. Patricia Gilberth pled guilty to more than 1500 in bad checks. sentencing set for Sept 13. Johnny Zinn changed plea to guilty with a conviction range of 2 to 10 years. sentencing set for Sept 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fincher Neal
Levin
James Medford Turbyfill
Lovington
Gibson
Turbyfill
Oklahoma
John Gordon
West Harrison
Neal
Hobbs
Patricia Gilberth
First National Bank of Odessa
Lavon’s TV
Western Auto
First National Bank of
Bootsie
Western
White’s
First National Bank of Learee A
Claus
Art of Doing Nothing adult education class in MARIEMONT
Glen Miller promotes an eight week course in relaxation titled The Art Doing Nothing in MARIEMONT Ohio. Classes begin Sept 26 at $15 with no textbooks or supplies needed. The anonymous instructor is described as semi retired and an expert on doing nothing. Funeral services for Mrs. N Burns were held in Odessa Texas.
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Mariemont
Ohio
Glen Miller
America
Cleveland
Mil
Miller
Odessa revives Bunny Ropers at County Fair
In 1932 Grace Hendricks set a world rabbit roping record in Odessa. The Be travailler County Fair plans to revive the bunny rodeo amid past disputes with Colorado authorities and county officials who once tried to stop the event. Public letters and court orders marked the saga of lassoing jackrabbits as sport.
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Odessa
Tex
Grace Hendricks
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Hop
Graham
Sec
Portales
Tesuque
Interior
Rogers C.B. Morton
Colonias de Santa Fe
Bureau of Indian Affairs
SHADE
Allsup's
Allsup’s
Main
Avenue D
Carol McCullough
Weu
Alan Campbell
Civil Service Commission
Commission
Office of Management and Budget
Labor Department
New Carter Project
N Burns
Texas
Bunny Ropers
Colorado
Colorado State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection
Ector County
Reeder Webb
W.C. Wiggins
Henry Webb
Bill Hicks
Ector County Fair Chain
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