Taos Peace Corps Center Move Triggers Editorial Debate
Editorial questions UNM plans to move Peace Corps Field Training Center from Taos to Albuquerque arguing it would dilute the program’s Local flavor and harm Taos Community Development work. It urges expanding a university CD department and coordinating Taos recreation funding amid other local issues.
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University of New Mexico
Peace Corps
Taos
Albuquerque
Peace Corps CD
University
South America
Poston
New Mexico
Taos County
Pick Of The Press Business Insight and Commentary
A collage of business and economic reflections on Kennedy’s assassination. Retailers fear a short Christmas pause but expect normal buying to resume. Analysts cite historical resilience, noting few presidencies altered business cycles. Additional editorials discuss profits, highway safety gains, health insurance growth, and a quip on hackneyed expressions.
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Kennedy
Santa
Mr. Kennedy
Carlsbad
Argus
Taos Welcomes Veterinary Pioneer Grauman Wiksten
Know Your Neighbor profiles Grauman Wiksten, the second resident veterinarian in Taos history, who arrived in February 1962 to head the Taos Animal Shelter after a prior Taos vet departed. He built indoor pens, roofing, and runs, improved feeding and sanitation, bought a stainless operating table and x ray machine, and lives in shelter quarters for rapid emergency response. Born in Topeka Kansas, Wiksten's career spanned Rapid City and Springfield before federal meat inspection duties, with a family rooted in medicine. he is married to Donna Loraine, a Carnegie Tech graduate who painted Taos murals for the clinic. He keeps diverse animal residents and hobbies including mountain hiking and river boating.
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Martha E. Howe
Grauman Wiksten
Taos
Yingling
Wiksten
Charles Reynolds, Sr
Taos Animal Shelter, Inc
Reynolds
Heene Wurlitzer
Santa Fe
Topeka
Kansas
Ukraine
Germany
Springfield
Health Department
St. Louis
el Paso
Rats de Rio
Donna Loraine
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Tech
Taos Animal Clinic
Animal Kingdom
The Taos News Editorial Policy Statement
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Welfare Chief Seeks Local Jobs To Curb Taos Exodus
Facunda Valdez, new Taos County Welfare Director, cites unemployment and urban migration as key issues. Taos has 2,919 people on welfare rolls, with 863 cases. He urges training plus local job creation to stop dependence and brain drain while outlining welfare categories and recent employment history.
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Taos County
Facunda Valdez
Taos
Valdez
Nine Years Ago Taos Parish Under Construction For Christmas
Look back at a San Geronimo de Taos Pueblo Church project begun in July with over 8000 spent and funds still needed to finish the chapel before Christmas. A Bert Phillips valued painting donated for the Catholic School fund and community helpers secured fence materials for Kit Carson Park.
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San Geronimo de Taos Pueblo
San Geronimo
Bert Phillips
Catholic School Fund
John McCarthy
Robert Gribbrook
Whitman Publishing Company
Sid Johnson
H. H. Woodward
Johnny Himes
First State Bank
Forest Service
Kit Carson Park
County Consolidation Clash in 1928 Court Ruling
Inside The Capitol reports a 1928 State Supreme Court ruling holding the Legislature cannot abolish or consolidate counties. Discussion centers on small counties with fractional House members and proposed consolidations involving Union Guadalupe Lincoln Luna Hidalgo Torrance Harding Catron Sierra Socorro De Baca Mora.
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Supreme Court
David Cargo
Albuquerque
Catron County
Cargo
Catron
Rio Grande County
Socorro
Rio Grande
Bob Dow
Warren Graham
House of Representatives
Union
Guadalupe
Lincoln
Luna
Hidalgo
Torrance
Harding
Sierra
de Baca
Mora
San Miguel
Jefferson
Quay
Washington
Guadalupe County
Leonard Wood
Goldwater
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Hun
From the Editor's Window Big City Shysters Having Field Day
Taos County column notes adverse ad practices after a ski edition, warns against unscrupulous solicitations and bills. Commentary laments shoddy estate lots and zoning ideas from Kirby of Kirby Cattle Co. Includes terse political chatter on local Republicans and Democrats and a pile of Kennedy eulogies received.
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Alttomey Kirby
Kirby Cattle Co
Kirby
California
Taos County
Califoria
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Denver University
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Will Harrison
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