Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 1

Tli1 rather ALBUQUERQUE Slight chance of light snow tonight High today, mid -40s Low tonight in teens. (Details on FH Good Morning And The French ould Like To Troubled Ener gy Waters Guess One Question Is: Who's Oil? WE 3r.l Ye ar o. 318 1 18 Paes iii 12 Section Sunday Morning, December 15, 1974 Price: Daily 10c; Sunday 23c Town of Bernalillo Rich In Memories and History Compromise With France Held Likely FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique (UPI) President Ford met French President Valery Giscard D'Estaing Saturday on this lush green Caribbean island amid strong indications their three-day summit talks will resolve a Franco-American dispute over international oil policy. rr MK ity into a mini-metropolis with big-city problems and urban sprawl. Lucero also witnessed the transition from the horse and buggy to the automobile and still recalls, with child like excitement, the first time he saw an airplane.

Onasadder note, he remembers friends and neighbors leaving their native state to fight two World Wars, one police action and an undeclared war. Some never returned and lie buried in foreign soil. And many who returned began abandoning their culture and simple way of life for the life style of an aggressive dominant society with all its material and technological advantages. LUCERO RECALLS the dangerous decline of two rich cultures, Spanish and Indian, which were spared obliteration by ancient traditions not everyone was willing to abandon. By TOMAS 0.

MARTINEZ There is an old saying: "A land without ruins is a land without memories a land without memories is a land without history." Bernalillo has both. Located about 18 miles north of Albuquerque on the west bank of the Rio Grande, Bernalillo has ancient Indian and Spanish ruins, and its elderly residents are full of memorjes. Filomeno Lucero, 82, is one of Bernalillo's oldtimers. LUCERO HAS LIVED in the Bernalillo area all his life and has held every public office in the town and county except sheriff and county commissioner. He is is the current probate judge.

Lucero said his family has lived in the area more than 300 years. In his lifetime he has seen history made. He witnessed Bernalillo's transformation from a small farming commun s--y a) a t-- President Ford and French President Giscard Heads of State Exchange Greetings at Martinique Boxhig Greats hi Town Horizon Land Owners Pay for 'Improvements' Today, Bernalillo retains both cultures hich have joined others to form a community where ancient traditions and modern technology live side by side. Bernalillo's ruins, Corona do State Monument and Las Cocinitas a collection of old adobe buildings along with its modern main thoroughfare, Camino del Pueblo, attest to the town's antiquity and progress. Bernalillo's history dates back untold centuries.

Its first inhabitants were Indian. When Coronado visited the area in the early 1540s he found two abandoned pueblos belonging to the Province of Tiguex. Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church stands on the site of one of these pueblos. The other is located at Coronado State Monument and is where the Coronado expedition spent its first New Mexico winter. Sandoval County Commissioner Dick Montoya recalls exploring the Coronado ruins as a child.

"We used to call it 'el Pueblito' (little pueblo), and I remember we used to find arrowheads and pieces of turquoise. It was just a mound of dirt to play on until the university dug out the ruins." HISTORIANS SAY evidence shows Spanish colonists lived in the area before the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, but apparently fled south to El Paso during the revolt. Consequently, the exact date of Bernalillo's founding by the Spaniards is in doubt. One historian, Juan Candelaria of Albuquerque, wrote in 1776 that the town was founded in February 1698, and that Bernalillo's first minister was Fray Juan de Zavaleta who built a church and convent reportedly near Las Cocinitas. Other sources indicate Bernalillo was founded earlier, in 1695, by Don Diego de Vargas two years after the reconquest of New Mexico following the Pueblo Revolt.

De Vargas died in Las Cocinitas after becoming ill while leading a campaign against Apaches in the Sandia Mountains in 1704. The origin of the town's name is also in doubt. Some historians say the town was named after the Bernal family Continued on A-12 Albuquerque is the boxing capital i I of the country at least for the week-V end. Muhammad Ali, the world's (LP1 Photo) to his property, under conventional methods, he is socked with a tremendously high bill." The bill is for providing those services such as utilities, police protection, street lighting, recreation and all the costs involved with a "new city." HCIA is based on a module developed by the Urban Land Institute in Washington, and approved by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) according to Davey. "What it says is that by the year 2000, maybe we'll have a city of Continued on A-2 I neavyweigm cnampion, arrived in me city Saturday to lead a delegation of boxing greats who will honor Albuquerque's Bobby Foster at a testimonial dinner tonight.

For a complete story on that event and all other sports activities see pages F-l-12. They are the New Classics of the public schools the minority-oriented textbooks. A controversy is growing about their use and for a special report on the debate see Page G-4, Action Line D-13 Around New Mexico G-l Arts C-l-9 Books C-8 Classified G12H-16 Crossword Puzzle E-2 Editorials A-6 Entertainment C-4-9 Farm and Ranch G-3 Family Lawyer E-4 Financial G-2 Home Living E-l-S Horoscope E-S In the Capital A-6 Fern Sawyer Will Lose Position on Fair Board A senior U.S. official aboard Air Force one during Ford's four-hour flight from Washington held open the possibility the two leaders would work out a compromise policy, paving the way for a meeting of major oil producing and consuming nations next summer. IF SUCH AN oil conference were held, the official said, it would look at long-term petroleum pricing policies, explore the development of new energy recources and consider ways of recycling petrodollars.

Giscard indicated during a dinner for Ford that France is moving toward acceptance of a U.S. plan for dealing with the Arab oil nations. He said France does not rule out the meeting of major oil consuming nations that wants. The French have insisted on three-way negotiations involving industrial consumer nations, oil exporters and the underdeveloped countries. They have opposed Ford's desire for the consumers the United States, western Europe and Japan to unite first and present a common front.

Ford received a warm welcome from Giscard on his arrival Saturday afternoon. He took a quick dip in the pool of the plush Meridien Hotel where he is staying before traveling by boat across a wide lagoon to a dinner of Caribbean seafood, chicken and fruit-stuffed sponge cake given in his honor by Giscard. IN A TOAST at the dinner, the French President said a "menacing Continued on A-2 Soirees said Apodaca has been contacted by numerous persons seeking to have Mrs. Sawyer re-appointed to the commission. But Apodaca, according to reports, has been adamant in his opposition to re-appointing her to another term.

It also was reported from sources that Fern Sawyer quietly supported Republican gubernatorial candidate Joe Skeen during the general election. Skeen lost to Apodaca by less than 4000 votes in the November election. "The governor-elect doesn't want to appoint people to boards and commissions who did not back his candidacy or who do not support his philosophies," the reliable source told the Journal. MRS. SAWYER has been active in the State Fair rodeo and the horse shows since her appointment to the commission.

Mrs. Sawyer and her mother reportedly attempted to meet with Apodaca in Kansas City during the Democratic Mid-term Convention last week to talk about the Fair board position. However, Apodaca reportedly was too busy with numerous caucuses and hearings and did not meet with them. thick jungle recalled the story almost three years ago of a young German girl, Juliane Koepcke, the only survivor in the crash of a commercial plane in the same area on Christmas Eve. Miss Koepcke, daughter of biologists, struggled through the jungle for two weeks after all the other occupants of the plane were killed in the fiery crash near Pucallpa.

The survivors of this crash were in a small plane which left San Ramon Dec. 7 for Iscosacin, a half hour away by air. The nine children were related and children of German-born farmers in the jungle area. Gifts Needed for Retarded By ART BOL'FFARD More than 57,000 individual land parcel owners of Horizon Corp. land south of Belen will pay in excess of $1.25 million this year into an "improvement association fund." The money is paid despite the fact the property owners may not realize benefits from the fund for decades.

"I've got what they call commercial property out there that won't be developed for maybe 20 or 30 years maybe never and I got a bill for $78 in improvement taxes?" questioned Mrs. Pauline Morris, the owner of four parcels of Horizon land. "It keeps going up every year." Mrs. Morris complained recently that the "improvement taxes" levied by the Horizon Community Improvement Assn. of New Mexico (HCIA) exceeded the amount of state and county taxes she pa idfor 1973 by three to one.

A check of Mrs. Morris' situation resulted in Horizon officials noting that numerous complaints have been filed concerning the assessments. The assessments were first levied on property in certain Horizon Corp. subdivisions in 1972 and have been levied since. Failure to pay the assessment constitutes a lien against the property and funds paid into the association are non-refundable Horizon is quick to note that it will about $400,000 to the nonprofit improvement fund as the single-largest property owner in its development.

But opponents of the association add that Horizon Corp. officials hold four of the five board of directors seats in the association. Mrs. Morris' complaints are that she paid the tax in 1972 and 1973 but thought it was a state and county levy. "I don't recall ever signing anything agreeing to the tax," she said, "and who determines how it is issued? They can't even tell me where my property is except it's out there." "Of course, we understand that the property owners are having a difficult time comprehending the concept maybe it is our fault.

But once they start seeing something tangible, I think they will be pleased," said Robert L. Towery, of Houston, HCIA director. The concept of having an improvement association assessing "improvement taxes" is unique in New Mexico, according to Robert Davey, a Horizon spokesman. Both Horizon and property owners are assessed under the same percentage basis regardless of whether their lands lie adjoining a paved street or are located far on the mesa distant from utilities and paved streets. "It is a commitment to development on the part of Horizon," explained Davey.

"when a tract it sold, it is usually unimproved land. When the buyer is ready to make improvements ByEDMAHR Mrs. Fern Sawyerof Nogal.vice chairman of the State Fair Commission and the member with the most seniority, will not be re-appointed to the board when her term expires Jan. 1, the Journal has learned. Mrs.

Sawyer, a prominent New Mexico Democrat who has served on the fair commission since 1963, will not be re-appointed by Jerry Apo-daca because of her failure to support Apodaca in the recent election, a source close to the governor-elect said. Apodaca, who was in Albuquerque Saturday, refused to comment on the touchy political situation. Mrs. Sawyer is in a Lubbock, hospital recovering from injuries received in an auto accident and unavailable for comment. MRS.

SAWYER and her mother, Democratic national committeewoman Dessie Sawyer of Crossroads, have been prominent in state Democratic circles for decades. But their failure to support Apodaca in the primary and general elections will cost Fern Sawyer her seat on the fair board. Obituaries F-14 People's Column A-7 Phoenix Nest A-7 Quality in Living E-1S School Menus E-2 Sports F-l-12 TerHorst A-6 Today's Calendar A-1S TV Log, Previews A-1S Wieck in Washington A-7 Woman's World B-1-? Plus Parade and Two Comic Sections Charlie Raises Flag at Resident Is Active in if vr (J Journal Special LOS LUNAS Charlie, 17, can be easily spotted at Los Lunas Hospital and Training School he is the one with the polished shoes carrying a shoeshine box. Charlie is one of the 418 retarded residents of the hospital, who range in age from infants to 65 years old. At least two thirds of those patients never have any contact with their families and will be spending Christmas at the hospital.

The annual State Hospitals Christmas Fund and Gift Drive, sponsored by the Journal, aims at giving these adults and children a gift for Christmas. As one of the more advanced residents at the facility, Charlie has set up his own shoeshine business. He saves some of the money he makes in a personal account in the hospital's business office. Through his business contacts, the hospital staff reported, he has made many friends. He currently spends summer and long holidays with his parents and is scheduled to leave the hospital this spring to join his father's janitorial business.

Charlie would like something for Christmas to aid his business a new shoeshine box big enough to hold his electric polisher. He would also like a new wallet; his money keeps falling out of his old one. Like Charlie, several of the residents are too big for toys and would like items such as wallets, belts, lotions, perfumes and clothing. Most residents at the hospital are severely retarded, said Rosemary Duffield, recreation director. They Continued on A-2 7 Survive Crash, Jungle Km- 3 Los Lunas Hospital Hospital Activities few- LIMA (UPI) A y6ung pilot and six teenagers and children walked away from a light plane crash and survived a week in Peru's Amazonian Jungle to reach safety Saturday night, official reports said.

Three others died from injuries in the crash, the survivors said. THE PILOT and the six passengers, aged 7 through 16, arrived at the jungle town of iscosacin, 150 miles east of Lima. Their plane had been missing a week. The story of the pilot and children who survived after seven days in the.