Amendments Outlined for November Special Election
Artelia state Rep T E Brown Jr and traffic Orville Chambers outlined seven proposed constitutional amendments to be voted on in the November 6 special election during a Downtown Lions Club noon meeting at Town House Cafeteria. Proposals include expanding veterans exemptions to include women, recall of school board members, lowering age of maturity to 18, five member county commissions by district for Bernalillo County, certain property tax exemptions, and removing age and term limits for elected officials.
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T. E. Brown Jr
Daddy Chaves
Orville Chambers
Lions Club
Town House
Bernalillo County
Tools and Toolboxes Stolen in Artesia Thefts
Artesia police report multiple thefts of tools and toolboxes in recent days. A tool chest owned by F W Calderon at 905 N Fifth St was saved from his pickup but others were taken. Value of missing items ranges from 75 to 2500 dollars. Kenneth Malone reported tools valued at 150 dollars removed from a 1963 van at his residence. Bob McCaw reported tools and box worth 75 dollars taken from a 1966 automobile behind 322 W Main St in downtown Artesia.
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Artesia
F.W
Kenneth Malone
Clayton Ave
Bob McCaw
Richardson Ave
Main St
Artesia considers revised Jaycee Park plan and bonds
Artesia City Council approved a revised Jaycee Park plat after recreation commission input. Engineering review and cost estimates were requested to gauge 70 percent matching funds from BOA, with 30 percent city share. Proposed work includes moving baseball facilities, finishing the golf course, and possibly a pool.
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Artesia
Jaycee Park
Recreation Commission
Gayle Richardson
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Floyd Economides
Jack Verhines
Hichardson
Warren Nell
Nell
Race track rule delayed for appeal
A federal court delays enforcement of a rule blocking Santa Fe Downs stock purchase by Ohio investors until Sept. 5. Judge Bratton granted the delay to allow appeals after denying a preliminary injunction against Leonard Fruchtman’s group bidding $3 a share for 100,000 shares. Santa Fe Downs, Walter Goodwin Jr. and Stewart Harvey are involved.
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Albuquerque, N.M
Ohio
Santa Fe Downs
U.S. District Court
Howard C. Bratton
Santa Fe Downs, Inc
Leonard Fruchtman
Toledo
Bratton
Eugene Gallegos
Santa Fe
Walter Goodwin Jr
Stewart Harvey
Fruchtman Group
Fruchtman
William Snead
Albuquerque
Windows of Artesia High School Smashed
Extensive glass damage to Artesia High School occurred around midnight. Two suspects, Paul Mitchell 28 and a 16 year old youth, were arrested after off duty officer Fred Biggs heard breaking glass. A beer bottle and rocks were used. cost to replace is hundreds. The youth faced multiple charges. Mitchell faced destruction of public property and party to a crime.
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Artesia
Artesia High School
Paul Mitchell
Fred Biggs
Mitchell
Environment talk planned in Artesia by NMSU professor
Harry Folster associate professor of chemical engineering at New Mexico State University speaks at Town House Cafeteria Tuesday evening at 7 about Achieving and Maintaining a Suitable Environment. Folster hails from Maine and has held roles at University of Maine Chemetron Corp Mobay Chemical.
Indians urge political imagination for change in New Mexico hearings
Sen. James Abourezk says change requires Washington action and realistic views of legislation after two days of Indian affairs hearings at Isleta Pueblo and Albuquerque Indian School. Indian critics fault the BIA as non-Indian led and ineffective, with calls to move it from Interior and end agency credibility gaps noted since first contact.
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Albuquerque
N.M
New Mexico
Senate
James Abourezk
D-S.d
Washington
Abourezk
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Isleta Pueblo
Fiesta de Santa Fe begins with pageantry and flames
A 261 year old tradition opens the Fiesta de Santa Fe in New Mexico with religious processions and street dancing. Faustino Chavez portrays Don Diego de Vargas in the Sunday pageant as Fiesta Queen Karmella Pach Eco, 19, leads ceremonies amid a dawn Mass and a park fireworks finale.
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Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
Don Diego de Vargas
Mexico
de Vargas
Faustino Chevez
Karmella Maria Pacheco
la Conquistadora
St. Francis Cathedral
James Peter Davis
Joseph Valdes
Rosario Chapel
Ft. Marcy Park
Washington Avenue
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State Farm
Jack Boyette
Ete Cotter
Dick Powell
Squire Barber Shop
Artesia Chamber of Commerce
Frank Kaufman
Bill Gray
Chamber of Commerce
West Main Street
Ruidoso
Carlsbad, N.M
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Donald Dayton
Dennis Peterson
Margaret Short
Forrest Lee
Lakewood
Orval Gray
Riverside
Artesia Public
P.N. Atkins
UPI Telephoto
Cornfield
Thomas F. Eagleton
Marshall
Missouri Farmers Association
Korky's
S.E. Main
Ezra Brooks
Heaven Hill
Stillbrook
W. L Weller Seagram
Jim Beam
Lord Calvert
Cutty Sark
Seagram
Gilbey’s Gin
RON Carocarum Mackintosh Scotch
Ballantine
Calvert
RUSSE
Crawfords Scots Lion II
Tvarscki
Calvert Gin Smirnoff
DON Q Rum
Franzia Gallo
Mogen
David
Boone’s Farm
Cherry Swinger
Annie Green Springs
HAMMS
Buckhorn Schlitz
Budweiser
Wilkinson
Interior Department
Interior
Department of Interior
Joe Herrera
New Mexico Commission On Indian Affairs
C. Reading Plumbing & Heating
E. McGaffey
British Columbia
Foygate
Tj. Main St
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