04 Apr 1996
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Newspaper
Taos News
Location
Taos, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1996
Page
1
Elmer D. Parham of Fairview leaped from the southeast railing around 12:30 p.m. after driving a white Bonneville to the bridge parking area. A witness urged him to stop, then He crawled back and jumped. State Police and investigators reported no further details.
About 200 people returned to Arroyo Seco’s 162 year old Church of La Santisima Trinidad for a blessing of the palms, marking the first religious ceremony there in nearly 35 years as memories of baptisms, weddings, and funerals echo in its historic walls.
Stagg wins 67 percent to become first mayor of TSV Taos Ski Valley’s 100th municipality in New Mexico with 90 of 110 votes cast. Council seats go to Wittman Austing McClure and a tie between Kleiner Wooldridge will be resolved by impartial lot after canvass. Stagg takes office July 1 with a high voter turnout of 82 percent.
The article recounts Tyra the dog losing both front legs after a leg hold trap and Chata’s back leg amputation after capture in Dixon. It cites residents in New Mexico and discusses trap types legal status, noting tooth jawed traps are illegal but smooth-jawed traps prevail. Calls for abolition run through testimonies of pain and death from traps.
Taos police report a vandalism and arson wave beginning Friday night. The Taos Tractor Trailer office on Paseo del Pueblo Sur burned, other shops and a church were damaged on Esters Road and Gusdorf Road. One suspect fled and was to be arraigned April 3. authorities link the incidents to several armed robberies across jurisdictions.
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