Taos Pueblo electricity revolt seen as staged protest
Last week seven Taos Pueblo families demonstrated for continued electric service. The event drew support from Kit Carson Electric Co-op and Pueblo leadership, while BIA and Pueblo Council counsel weighed governing paths. The piece argues for cooperation with established authorities and notes diverse views on tradition versus modernization.
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Taos Pueblo Reservation
Kit Carson Electric Co-operative
Pueblo
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Taos Pueblo Day School
BIA
Pueblo Council
United Pueblos Agency
Taos Pueblo
Kit Carson Co-op
Taos
New Mexico
Year of Remembrance in Taos 1965 Celebrates Early Taos History
Taos marks 350 years since European contact with a valley long inhabited by a native people. The city invites visitors and residents to study and enjoy the legacy, with a library of land lore and a slate of events dramatizing the years that shaped Taos. Aimed at guiding personal reflection to help shape the future.
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Taos
Sangre de Cristos
Rio Grande
Correction on Taos plaza lamps achievement credits
Victor F. White credits Becky James and Bill James with conceiving and implementing the Taos charming plaza lamps honoring local figures. He notes a prior public feud with Juan B. Sanchez but emphasizes Becky James’s months of hard work behind the project.
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First State Bank
Taos
Plaza
Taosenos
Becky James
Bill James
Juan B. Sanchez
Becky
Victor F. White
British Couple Calls Taos Nicest Place in New Mexico
The Peter Brays of England describe Taos as the nicest spot in New Mexico as they settled here two years ago seeking warmth and sunshine. Project engineer Bray oversaw Rio Grande Gorge Bridge work and approaches near Questa while Pamela Brays lived an international life from Essex to New Zealand and Palestine.
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England
America
Peter Brays
U.S
Taos
New Mexico
Rio Grande Gorge
Bray
Questa
New York
Pamela
Santa Fe
State Highway Department
Peter
Norfolk
Hereford
Cambridge
Cambridge University
London
Galt
Brentwood
Essex
New Zealand
Fiji Islands
Australia
Panama
Singapore
Mediterranean
Tans
Stephen A. Mitchell
Trevor
New Judge Could Lose Las Vegas Bench Before 40
Santa Fe. Judge Mat Zamora, 38, a Mora County native and Santa Fe resident, is seen as likely to face a strong challenge in the Democratic primary from District Attorney Donald Martinez of San Miguel. Martinez has solid support from San Miguel allies and Mora and Cibola groups, while Zamora’s strength rests on Mora family ties amid shifting county registration dynamics.
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Harrison
Las Venus
Zamora
Mora
Cundalupe
Demos
Martines
San Miguel
Apples Duran
Cilladilupe
Damier
Montoya
Naranjo
Joe Montoya
Rio Arerida
Emilio Naranjo
U. S
Rio Arriba
Insson
Grace Evans
New Mexico Repub
Mrs Vigil to Attend Santa Fe Housing Maintenance Clinic
Mrs Mary Vigil executive director of the Taos Housing Authority will join 18 other New Mexico Colorado and Texas housing authorities for a two day maintenance clinic starting at 9 am Monday in Santa Fe Sessions are at the Santa Fe Housing Authority Building Camino del Campo and San Francisco Street A glass roots session to study money saving maintenance ideas for low rent housing will be led by Charles W O Keefe chief maintenance engineering US Public Housing Administration here E J Bert Haling assistant to the PHA regional director Fort Worth will present Public Housing Myths at 9 15 am June 2
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Mary Vigil
Taos
PHA
Fort Worth
Random Harvest in Taos and Red River Notes
Keith Green writes a casual column from Taos New Mexico sharing tourism, housing hints, and local happenings. Carl Berghofer State Game Officer helps document flood damage while aiding communication between Cimarron Canyon and outside. Red River prepares for July 4 parade with expected up to 10000 spectators and a housing boom looms in Taos.
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Carl Berghofer
State Game Department
Taos
Sangre de Christo Range
Berghofer
Cimarron Canyon
Work Experience and Adult Education in War on Poverty
Senator Montoya outlines two War on Poverty programs Work Experience and Adult Basic Education. New Mexico plans include Bernalillo County training in clerical work nursing and food handling with 590000 allocated. statewide efforts in Grant Hidalgo Chavez Eddy Lea and northern seven-county area aim to enroll about 2000. Adults with limited education targeted for up to 111004 in New Mexico to expand facilities.
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Washington
New Mexico
Bernalillo County
Grant-Hidalgo
Chavez-Eddy-Lea
Facundo Rodriguez
State Department of Welfare
Santa Fe
Office of Economic Opportunity
United States
State Department of Education
Famous Poet and Notables Visit Taos in Historic Week
Taos hosts a slate of prominent visitors led by a famous poet and Governor Tingley era figures including Ex-Vice President Curtis UNM President Zimmerman and Under Secretary Tugwell with Judge Neblett. They head toward Eagle Nest for fishing while others attend an Indian meeting with Commissioner Collier. Local theft involvement noted as Jimmie Johnson reports a stolen briefcase containing State Game Department documents. The literary week features Pauline Lord in Mrs Wiggs at the Theatre, Greta Garbo returning soon in The Painted Veil, and Eva Fechin spending a vacation with her mother.
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Tingley
Curtis
UNM
Zimmerman
Tugwell
Neblett
Taos
V-P
Eagle Nest
Gal
Mrs. Wiggs
Pauline Lord
W.C. Fields
Zazu Pitts
Evelyn Venable
Our Gang
Greta Garbo
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Mio, Evans
Roosevelt County
Tete Corporation
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Ed Mechem
Anderson Carter
Lovington
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Bruce King
John Burroughs
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Burroughs
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mrs. Vigil
Keith Green
F. D. Valdes
Sandra Kincaid
Taos News
Taqs Publishing Co., Inc
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Alfred de Baca
Margaret Rose
Judson Crews
N. M
P.O
Red River Way
Lanced
Glen Calhoun
Active Chamber of Commerce
Galing
Red River
Farolitos
Felix Valdes
State Extension Service
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Antonio
Mable Dodge) Lujan
Santo Domingo
John Collier
Washington, D.C
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Eva Fechin
Los Angeles
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