Las Cruces Sun-News from Las Cruces, New Mexico • Page 13

yv bundiy. January Ciucei Sun-Newi-Pagc -Drought, Drugs, Fires, A New Hospital, Honors And Deaths smuggled into the country. Although several sustained injuries, no one was killed in the wreck. (Barry) JUNE-AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATING an airplane wreck south of Las Cruces, discovered (hat the plane was carrying narcotics which were being to locate an oil refinery here the water level. Mesilla Valley later, all wages were frozen by cerned whether paving specifi- were withdrawn because of op- farmers asserted that shutting Presidential decree.

cations were met or not position from various local fac- off the water vital in the irriga- Fort Seldon preservation, 21-Las Cruces Lions Club lion of local crops would result partial restoration and future gave a $12,000 parcel of land to 18--An $11,155,508 budget for in massive financial losses in development considered. Ihe city for tennis courts the 1971-72 school year was ap- Dona Ana County. Final irriga- Gov. Bruce King asked for a 28-Southern Rio Grande proved by the Las Cruces Board tions were managed and the new site for the Anapra Port of Area Planning Commission set huge fish kill which had been Entry. revised goals and objectives, of Education.

26-- Officers for the newly organized Regional Environmental Education Research and Information Organization were announced. Officers named were NMSU President Gerald W. Thomas, president; former governor Jack Campbell, University of New Mexico, vice president for education; B.B. Smith, Chino Mines, Kennecott Copper Corporation, vice president for research; Dr. Martin Gonzales, La Campana Experimental Ranch, Chihuahua, secretary, and John Eichelmann El Paso Natural Gas, treasurer.

29-- At a League of United Latin American Citizens 42nd Conference here, LI. Gov. Robert Mon Jragon urged members, "We must unite our efforts to solve the problems we face," predicted at low water levels 12--J. E. Wofford, 82, died, with top priority given econo- did not occur.

Wofford was owner of the con- mic development and agricul- slruclion company which bore lure, his name. 13--Sgt. Daniel Gonzales became the first Las Cruces police officer to be accepted for the FBI Academy. A strain of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis, VEE, began to appear in Texas, swept across that state, and forced a massive inoculation program in New Mexico. The disease, a variety sleeping sickness, is often fatal to the animals, and local stockmen engaged in countermeasures that limited Ihe spread of the disease to Tex- 29--Local Chicane Youth Association was formed with Eddie Barraza as acting chairman.

30--Properly owners held 14 -Telephone workers went protest meeting raising objec- on strike, joining others across tions to the lighting and signing interstate. The meetings and protests continued into August, and still as the year ends, have not been fully resolved. Funds of $450,000 are approved for the planning and site search for a proposed federal building in Las Cruces. Leasburg Slate Park opened near Las Cruces. AUGUST Aguirre Springs, Ihe area's newest recreation area, was opened in the Organ Mountains Aug.

15 by the Bureau of Land Management. Visitor traffic far surpasses the 75,000 figure predicted for the first year. 1--A break-in at Las Cruces Carpet and Tile nets burglars $10,000 in merchandise, one of the biggest robberies of 1971. 3--The city approves a $501,000 waste water treatment facility project. 5--A gas curtailment proposed by El Paso Natural Gas Company is protested to the Federal Power Commission and the matter is still of concern to local and state residents.

9--Construction for water and sewer pipe installations are suspended by City Manager A. J. Vasilakis pending investigation of the Mulberry Street cave-in. Faulty trench impactment work was reported in a subsequent investigation. 12--Sierra County officials halt court action which would close Elephant Butte I.ake because of the low water level as they had done briefly earlier.

They had also sought irrigation cutoff. They expressed concern, however, over the water level which they claimed would result in a "massive fish kill." 17-Gabriel W. Garcia, 20, died of a gunshot wound in the leg after a chase by police after an alleged burglary which ended up in Apodaca Park. Later, a march was staged. The the country.

of Jack Rabbit interchange on I- Metro Squad headquarters 10. This marked the beginning 2fr-Federal are broken into at gunpoint and of a continuing controversy in Grand Jury ruled the shooting lines in this month, this time with Ihe strangulation of a Holloman Air Force girl, Michelle Bebey, 14, whose body was found on a rural road north of here. As the year closed, no suspect had been named. 11-- It was announced by Recreational Director Sam Graft that the city has acquired 850 acres of land on the mesa west of here from the Bureau of Land Management for development of a park. It was reported that petitions were being circulated to call a Grand Jury because, "This has become necessary because of irregularities in the city administration are not being corrected." 17-- A drive to get appropriate lighting and directional signs to motels and related services in Ihe city from Interstate-10 south Highway Commission approves a $7,000 request for city traffic pattern study.

29--A record 16,000 students register in the Las Cruces Public School system. SEPTEMBER A legal question held up urban renewal construction thai would last through the month of September, while police sought and an alleged first degr.ee murderer. Meanwhile, Las Cruces teachers were told they would be exempted from President Nixon's wage-price freeze, only to learn the opposite would prove true. 2--As Ihe result of a ruling handed down by the Federal Office of Emergency Preparedness, it appeared Las Cruces Public School teachers would be entitled to raises during a Presidential wage-price freeze. It was indicated, however, teachers under nine months contracts at NMSU would not be entitled to any pay increase.

3--The city commission unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the city of Las Cruces lo enter into a law suit against Mountain States Telephone Co. and El Paso Electric as and a small part of Louisi- files are stolen. The next day, volving the new highway and its Co -The resolution contested the ana. suspects were apprehended in projected effect upon the busi- ei 'y's responsibility of paying Finally, in a project that be- El Paso and extradition was nesses in the city. Chief among or relocation of utility lines in JULY--QUESTIONS AS to the quality of work being done in a city paving project were raised after this truck which was working on Mulberry Street, sank three feet into the street.

Faulty compaction of the street before paving was the apparent cause. (Barry) was carried by a group of busi- 8 an before the year did, Mem- sought for the alleged burglars, those concerned are motel own- tne Urban Renewal area. Work nessmen and Chamber of Como i a General Hospital was merce officials to Santa Fe opened in its new location on July 22. 19--A sports highlight in June was the victory of little Pam Richmond for the 1971 National Women's Collegiate Singles Tennis Championship over Arizona State University teammate Peggy Michael, 6-1, 6-2. She also teamed with Miss Michael to take the national doubles championship, over the Rollins College, team of Margie Cooper and Mona Schallau.

26--Las Cruces' first Mobile Clinic, providing physical examinations and tuberculosis tests to low-income families was conducted: JULY July saw the end of a searing drought in the Las Cruces area, but orjly the beginning of the troubles and disputes over the low water level in Elephant Butte Lake. It was an off-again- on-again situation for a good part of two months. But probably the top story of the month was the signing of a agreement between the state of New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua on a site for the purposed Anapra Port of Entry. Sierra County officials contended that use of the lake as a recreation area would be curtailed by extreme lowering of 1--Death, after a long illness, came to Louis E. Freundenthal, 76, of 539 W.

Las Cruces. He was a prominent figure in Mesilla Valley agriculture arid public service. 2--After a severe drought, rain fell in Las Cruces, the first in months. It brought total rainfall for the first six months of 1971 to .28 inches. A later shower added .66 inches.

3--Garnelt Burks Jr. was sworn in as judge of the Third District. Administering the oath of office was his father, also a district judge. In sports, Mike Ortiz became Ihe first Las Crucen to win the junior National AAU boxing title. 7--A special recreation permit was given by the city commission for development of a lake in Ihe area.

11--Employes at While Sands Missile Range received a six per cent pay hike. They were, of course, unaware of just how fortunate they were. One month County unemployment hits a ers along Picacho, who feel that nas bcen halted on Ihe UR pro- record 8.5 per cent. their businesses may not be get- ecl pending the outcome. 16--City officials protest min- ling the benefit of Ihe new vol- 7--NMSU President Dr.

Ger- imum wage rate issued by the ume of business almost certain ald nas announced Ihe Stale Labor and Industrial lo arrive upon completion of the University airstrip would be Commission as loo high, saying that road construction worker's pay was not included in the figures, a factor which would have lowered the rate considerably. After a hearing before the commission in Santa Fe the disputed rates were scrapped. 18--New Memorial General Hospital was dedicated and on July 22, the doors to the old hospital were closed behind the last patient. Las Cruces finally got its brand new health facility. 20--A city paving probe was ordered by the City Commission following a cave-in on Mulberry Street.

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(Barry) closed. The announcement left price freeze. There were to be H--Dona Ana County Tax As- Las Cruces with one airstrip, TO raises after all. sessor Robert Isaacks reported Las Cruces Municipal Airport. 1.1--David Steinborn, a local that work received from the 8--Federal ruling reversed an realtor, was elected president of cobs Company Reappraisal earlier ruling that had exempt- the Realtor's Association of Firm was not adequate He said ed teachers from the wage- New Mexico.

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