Snowbound Chama snowmobile trip reports exhausting conditions
Hop Graham recounts a holiday snowmobile expedition over Cumbres Pass with George Fisher and partners. Deep, light snow hindered maneuvers, making trails essential and demanding effort at 10 000 feet. Weather closures on I 40 affected travel home from Espanola.
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John
George
Mike
Moriarty
Albuquerque
Tijeras Canyon
Espanola
Cline's Corners
Eight die in New Year weekend traffic in New Mexico
United Press International reports eight traffic deaths over the New Year weekend in New Mexico, boosting 1972 highway fatalities to an unofficial 597. The latest victim was Gloria C. Martinez, 34, of Alamogordo, killed when her husband Louis Martinez, 38, allegedly intoxicated, struck her with a car and dragged her 49 feet.
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United Press
New Mexico
Alamogordo
Gloria C. Martinez
Louis Martinez
Martinez
Gerald Champion
Albert Lee Richardson
Artesia
Rodriguez
U.S. 285
Richardson
Domenici Set for Swearing In and Senate Plans
Senator-elect Pete Domenici prepared for his six year term with his family departing Albuquerque for Washington. He planned immediate staff appointments and house-keeping tasks while sharing a six office suite with Joseph Biden. Domenici advocated moving away from pure seniority toward committee selection by the Committee on Committees and called for a Public Works and Joint Atomic Energy committee role.
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Washington PI
Pete Domenici
Domenici
Nancy
Albuquerque
Washington
Senate
Aioe
Joseph R. Biden Jre
Hb l
Aus
Public Works Committee
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
New Mexico State University Short Course on Personal Finance
The extension service announces a nine part television course To Your Financial Health designed to demystify investing inflation estate and family planning. Mona Porter says the program offers practical investment guidance with follow up seminars in counties. Enrollment is under way with a $2 materials packet mailed to enrollees and registration forms at the Lea County Extension office and local businesses.
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New Mexico State University Extension Service
Mona B. Porter
Lea County
New Mexico State University
New Mexico
Texas
Kbim-Tv
Roswell
Lea County Extension Office
Merrily We Roll Along Piano Scene on Skyline Boulevard
On New Year’s Eve a piano rolled down Skyline Boulevard after being loaded onto a pickup by Mr and Mrs Craig Kelly from a pizza parlor the piano bounced from the truck and continued rolling along the street in a light hearted episode
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Reno, Ney
Upi
Skyline Boulevard
Craig Kelly
Kelly
Southern New Mexico Takes Brunt Of Storm
A severe winter storm battered New Mexico with southern areas hit hardest. Winds up to 50 mph caused property damage in Albuquerque as several counties reported varying snow depths. Roads were hazardous with closures on Organ Pass and I 40 Tierras Canyon.
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United Press International
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Silver City
Deming
Tucumcari
Truth Or Conseriences
Las Vegas
Roswell
Taos
Carlsbad
National Weather Service
Organ Pass
Las Cruces
Alamogordo
Tijeras Canyon
Santa Fe
Florida
U.S. 66
Frostbitten Teens Rescued After Mountain Trek
Randy Glasebrook and Mike Neste, both 17, were stranded in the Sandia Mountains after a severe snowstorm. Glasebrook was rescued in waist-deep snow and transported in fair condition with frostbitten hands. Neste used a television transmitter to summon aid.
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Albuquerque
US Warplanes Avoid Hanoi Haiphong Heartland During New Year Truce
Amid a 36 hour halt US warplanes limited bombing to the Panhandle below the 20th Parallel in North Vietnam. Officials report continued strikes against Ho Chi Minh Trail across Laos and Cambodia. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces violated a 24 hour ground truce, with casualties and missing soldiers on both sides.
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Alan Dawson
Saigon
Panhandle
North Vietnam
Hanoi- Haiphong
U.S
20Th Parallel
Hanoi
Nixon
Hanoi-Haiphong
Paris
North
South US
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Cambodia
Command
South Vietnam
Nnn Ae Weg
New Year Snow Blankets Lovington With Wet Two Inches
Lovington woke to a white mantle as temperatures fell to 24 last night and 26 by late morning. The moist two inch snow slowed travel and coated windshields while youngsters built snowmen on New Year’s Day and schools prepared to reopen.
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Ol’ Man
Lovington
Lea County Electric Plant
Martinez Announces Committee Appointments for 1973 Session
Santa Fe UPI reports House Speaker Walter Martinez will name chairs and vice chairs for the 1973 legislature. Leadership changes are limited with new top posts on judiciary and education, including Ray Sanchez replacing George Fettinger as judiciary chair and Len Ton Malry succeeding Fred Chavez Jr. as education chair.
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Santa FE
UPI
Walter Martinez
McKinley
Martinez
Nereworthy
Judiciary
Education
George Fettinger
Dotero
Ray Sanchez
Bernalillo
Tom Foy
D-Grant
George Pennington
San Juan
Fred Chavez Jr
D-Bernalillo
Lenton Malry
William Warren
Marry
BEF Reports Cost Of Making Colleges Handicap Accessible
The Board of Educational Finance releases a cost study estimating about 3 million needed to modify six state-supported four year institutions to meet handicap access standards. An alternative plan proposes 350 000 by the 1973 Legislature to modify select buildings housing unique programs, granting access to at least one campus for all public programs.
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Santa FE
Board of Educational Finance EF
BEF
Weather advisory and snow warnings across regions
East Central and Northeast Plains see intermittent snow with blowing and drifting. Snow diminishes tonight. Wednesday turns partly cloudy, breezy, slightly warmer. Tucumcari 33-25 Clovis 33-25. Southeastern Plains faces heavy snow today with 4 inches or more, clearing tonight. Lovington 34-26-42. Central Mountains heavy snow today with 4 inches plus, diminishing tonight. Santa Fe 30-12. Central and Southwestern valleys heavy snow today with 4 inches or more, ending tonight. Las Cruces 38-26.
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United Press International
East Central and
Northeast Plains
Tucumcari
Clovis
Plains
Lovington
Central Mountains
Central Highlands
Santa Fe
Las Cruces
NMJC Opens Spring 1973 Classes After Holiday Break
New Mexico Junior College offices close January 1 and 2 for New Year. Pre-enrollment resumes January 3. Spring 1973 semester begins January 10 with classes at 7:35 a.m.
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New Mexico Junior College
Gandy Named Lea County Chair As Faris Becomes Manager
The Lea County commissioners elected M. C. Mac Gandy as chair and hired Leon Faris as county manager by the new commission. The leadership changes mark a shift in county governance.
Faris Named County Manager By New Commission
Leon Faris, former Lea County assessor and county purchasing agent, was named county manager by the new commission. He will earn 12 500 annually and lives with his wife Emma at 906 West Avenue G. The commission also chose M C Mac Gandy as chairman and Robert Madera as vice chairman. A contract for contractor property insurance was awarded to McNutt Worrell Agency of Lovington, with Maryland Casualty as the carrier, selected by lot.
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Leon Faris
Lea County
Gailen Hooper
Faris
Hooper
Santa Fe
Emma
West Avenue G
M. C
Mac"’ Gandy
Tatum
Gandy
Robert Madera
Jal
Bob Bensing
Hobbs
McNutt- Worrell Agency
Lovington
Maryland Casualty
Jack Daniels Insurance
Blanche Calley
Lot
Paul S. Brown
Home Insurance Company
Massey Insurance of
Joe Price
Nelda Jacoby Wallace
Price
U. S. District Court
CLA
John Humphries
Fresh round of Vietnam peace talks opens at technical level
The United States resumes negotiations with North Vietnam, opening technical talks on a military and political settlement ahead of the Paris talks set for Jan. 8. Kissinger meets Nixon as Thieu faces pressure over a possible ceasefire amid behind the scenes talks and shifting conditions.
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George Libera Par
Mane Haiphong
Nguyen van Thieu
Nixon
South
Hanoi
White House
Saigon
Nguyen Co Thach
Choisy le-Roi
le Monde
Paris
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