Desert Search for Landmark Taos Development Area
A Taos writer recounts a failed weekend expedition toward an alleged vast tract near Tres Piedras tied to the Rio Grande Development Company. After a 30 mile drive along Rio Hondo and past the old John Dunn Bridge, the search yielded no evidence of the rumored project and the author heads home for lunch.
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Taosens
Tres Piedras
Taos
Rio Grande Development Company
Taost
Searc
Here
Rio Hondo
John Dunn
Unfinished Promised Development in New Mexico Mystery
A wandering reporter追探ures a rumored five acre tract near Tres Piedras tied to the Chicago Real Estate Development Corporation. He finds a lone white building marked by a cryptic sign oP AA VORTAC and no clear evidence of graded roads or active construction, amid sparse desert and wooded ridges near the Sangre de Cristo Range.
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Tres Piedras
Frank Lloyd Wright
New Mexico
Local Land Promoters Raise Ire of Santa Fe Realtors
Mike James writes in the Santa Fe New Mexican that thousands of acres in New Mexico are sold in tiny lots to eager buyers. Real estate experts deem land values questionable yet profits for operators seem enormous. The ad driven sales target East and Midwest audiences while local operators witness New Mexicans paying high prices for questionable land. A 160 acre tract bought by John A. Heard of Albuquerque is cited, linked to Estancia Valley Land and Cattle Co. and Rio Grande Development Co. with Heard named as president of both ventures.
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Mike James
Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe
James
New Mexico
John A. Heard
Albuquerque
Heard
Estancia Valley Land and Cattle Co
Rio Grande Development Company
Tres Piedras
Taos
Friendly Taosena Encounters Nurse Then Encounters Embezzlement
In Albuquerque a Taosena met a matron posing as a dietitian who spoke of starting a private nursing home. Soon after, the Taosena found an $87 check charged to her account, signed in another handwriting and mis spelled, cashed in So Corro the day after their meeting, revealed as embezzlement.
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Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Taos
Socorro
Taosena
Bluebirds Poem Attributed To Four-Year-Old Taos Poet
The piece is a short verse reportedly dictated by Donna Faye Sako aged four and a half, proclaimed Taos’s youngest poet. It describes blue birds at a green trees, blooming flowers, running streams and declares spring is here.
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Donna Faye Sako
Taos
John. Sako
Taos News Horsefly Story From the May 11 Manuscript
Editor's note explains a charming manuscript from the High School journalism class, saved from the tainted May 11 edition. The piece, prepared for the Horsefly section, is now printed to preserve the historical moment and student effort.
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Taos News
Orville the woodpecker and the water tank tale
A household recalls a woodpecker that tapped on their water tank for years inspiring waking rituals and a clocklike routine. The bird, named Orville, became a beloved alarm and schedule enforcer until a spring shooting ended its visits, leaving the family to endure a lonely, colorless year.
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Orville
Run out the fire hoses Harvard riots satire
The Boston Herald excerpt mocks Harvard diploma riots sparked by printing degrees in English. It parodies a documentary concept titled Operation Abortion with sensational scenes, Lamphouse style narration, and un-American language claims. It targets student protests, police, and Latin professors with provocative, satirical language.
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Dhresed
Boston Herald
David K. Gardner
Cambridge Police
Harvard
Buried Alive in a Cement Wall Mystery
A district office, a curio store, and a shop are sealed by a contractor named Glenn Hurst from Questa who encases east windows with a cement wall. The Howells plan to extend the property line, creating a bomb shelter like addition near the laundry to expand their business while preserving a covered drive to the parking area. Residents imagine grim fates as the wall blocks light and air.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Boris Karloff
Alfred Hitchcock
Questa
Glenn Hurst
District Attorney's Office
Gressett Curio Store
The
Howells
Pear
Denver students push foreign language study petition
Taos student Susan Dicus and Denver resident Jim Cloos circulated a four page petition at Sewell Campus urging all students to take a foreign language and to emphasize Latin American studies more. The petitions drew editorials from The Denver Post Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Clarion.
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Taos
University of Denver
Albquerque
University of New Mexico
Denver
Denver Post
Rocky Mounta
Denver Clarion
Sewell
PC Stud
Susan Dicus
Gra Jim Cloos
The
Rocky Mountain News
Miss Dicus
Jim Cloos
Denver University
Alter
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