Chaves County Plans Amphitheatre and Public Works Complex
The Chaves County Commission unveiled plans to build an amphitheatre a public health center and a county maintenance building using federal funds totaling 892000 The amphitheatre could sit on New Mexico Military Institute Foundation land near Pearson Auditorium and would require the foundation to deed the land if funds are approved A 40 acre county land purchase at Atkinson Avenue and Brasher Road for the Road Department supports the project and the public health center would also be located there If the foundation refuses to deed the needed acres the plan may falter.
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Chaves County
Commission
Richard W. “Dick
Arthur F. ‘Art
Aiello
New Mexico Military Institute Foundation
Pearson Auditorium
Institute
Board of Regents
Foundation
Atkinson Avenue
Brasher Road
County Road Department
Pete Cannon
Roswell
Atkinson-Brasher
Corn
Nmmi Foundation
Southwestern Economic Development District Administration
Austin
Tex
Carter
Public Works Projects
Timothy Z
Tim”’ Jennings
County Commission
County Health Department
District Health Department
Home Health Department
Chaves
PSC and Union Oil plan $50 million geothermal plant
Public Service Co. of New Mexico and Union Oil Co. of California propose a $50 million geothermal powered plant to be located at Boca Grande Ranch near Valle Grande west of Los Alamos. They seek federal financing for the pilot project.
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Albuquerque
Public Service Co. of
New Mexico
Union Oil Co
California
Boca Grande Ranch
Valle Grande Area
Los Alamos
Geothermal project talks advance with federal funding sought
Representatives of two companies will meet Gov. Apodaca and state officials next Tuesday to brief them on a geothermal venture. ERDA would finance about 50 percent of the $25 million cost, with each firm contributing $12.5 million. The plan, linked to Union Oil and PNM, envisions the first hot water geothermal plant of its kind in the US.
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Jerry Apodaca
PSC
ERDA
PNM
Union
Jerry Luboviski
Union Oil
New Zealand
Iceland
Mexico
New
Valle Grande
New Mexico
Redondo Canyon
Eddy County
Energy Research and Development Administration
Albuquerque
del Davis
Carlsbad
Santa Barbara brush fire destroys homes and disrupts city
A blaze driven by gusty winds from the Santa Ynez Mountains destroyed up to 200 homes and injured at least 17 in Santa Barbara. The fire began Tuesday evening in the Los Padres National Forest, fueled by chaparral and eucalyptus, and forced evacuations as responders fought narrow winding streets and looting reports amid a power outage.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Roger Gillott
Associated Press
Santa Ynez
Pacific Ocean
U.S. Forest Service
Ken R. Bishop
Dennis Orbus
Los Padres National Forest
Orbus
Carter focuses on Communist influence in Italy
President Carter, finishing talks with Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, weighs the impact of a growing Communist presence in Rome. Officials note the arrangement allowing Communist input on domestic policy while power remains with the Christian Democrats.
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Washington
Carter
Giulio Andreotti
Communist Party
Rome
U.S
Andreotti
Italy
Italian Communist Party
Christian Democrats
Intelligent life likely exists beyond Earth, says Hans Mark
At Los Alamos Dr. Hans Mark argued as many as 10 million hospitable planets may lie within 1000 light years. He noted Viking's Mars results aside, practical contact would rely on powerful beacons and long range cyclops rays, beyond current Goldstone antenna reach.
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Los Alamos
Earth
Air Force
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Hans Mark
Washington, D.C
Mark
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Research Center
California
Viking
Mars
Goldstone
Calif
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