Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 26

wfltiMiroiiMiiiiimnnn Board Denies West Las Vegas Busing Request SATURDAY Jan. 6, 1973 rage B-12 1 AROUND Flores. the Santa Rosa suoerintendant. gave the board a brief EW MEXICO 1 fiiintiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiftiniiiii'iiiiiw Pollution Controls To Be Aired From the Journal' Santa Fe Bureau SANTA FE Changes which must be made in New Mexico's water pollution control regulations and procedures as a result of enactment of the new federal water pollution control act amendments will he discussed by the state's Water Quality Control Commission Monday. The meeting will be at 9 a.m., in room 502 of the PERA building in the capitol complex Iiere.

Changes indicated under the new federal amendments Include requiring of permits before wastes can be dumped into New Mexico streams, compilation of a state plan for water pollution controls during the next two years and making of an over-all state program plan. The commission also will review proposed legislation which would require certification of water and waste-water treatment plant operators, review of federal sanitary landfill guidelines as they may affect water quality in New Mexico and consideration of commission action in relation to need for an environmental impact statement and findings of facts and conclusions. Bicentennial Congress to Meet route from Anton Chico to West Las Vegas. Transportation Director Bill Lemon denied the request on the grounds it violated state board policy. Lemon told the board Friday it is policy that school bus routes not cross district lines.

Exceptions can be made to this policy under certain circumstances, such as excessive distance to the parent school, or road conditions, or safety factors. None of these circumstances exist in the case of Aiiton Chico, Lemon said. The Santa Rosa school system operates three buses from the Anton Chico area into Santa Rosa over routes established by the transportation division. Supt. Flores told the state board Friday these bases carry an average of 97 children daily.

The hearing was in essence an appeal by the West Las Vegas schools from the decision by Lemon denying the request to establish another bus route into Las Vegas. West Las Vegas Supt. Ray Leger presented the appeal. Leger stressed that his school district had not sought or encouraged the transfer of the Anton Chico children from the Santa Rosa district to the west Las Vegas district. He said the parents came to the West Las Vegas board and asked that their children be accepted in the West Las Vegas schools.

Leger told the board the parents had attempted to establish their own transportation system to bring the children to West Las Vegas. But this effort failed. West Las Vegas schools now are operating two buses from Anton Chico to Las Vegas, and are paying the cost from operating funds. Lemon estimated the total cost for the 1972-73 school year to West Las Vegas will be about $9,000. Ieger told the state board his request covered state transportation funding only for the current school year.

Asked about ensuing scrool years, he said: "I don't know if the parents will want to send them again. I don't know if the board will accept them again." By BILL FEATHER SANTA FE iFi The State Board of Education denied a request Friday from the West Las Vegas school system that it be granted state transportation funds to carry cJMren from the Anton Chico area in the Santa Rosa School District to Las Vegas. Before making its decision, the board heard a full recapitulation of the continuing problem involving the West Las Vegas and Santa Rosa districts and the residents of Anton Crico and other nearby communities located north of Santa Rosa on the Guadalupe-San Miguel County lines. Santa Rosa School Supt. Louis Flores told the state board it is his opinion that problem results from the decision made a few years ago by the Santa Rosa board to close the junior high school at Anton Chico and to transport the seventh and eighth graders from the area into Santa Rosa.

Spokesmen for the Anton Chico parents agreed that the decision to close the junior high school was the basis of their discontent with the Santa Rosa school system The pertinent issue facing the state board P'riday was the existence of a parallel school bus system operating out of the Anton Chico area, one carrying children to Santa Rosa and the other carrying children to West Las Vegas. Many of the parents in the Anton Chico area transferred their children to West Las Vegas last fall as an expression of dissatisfaction with the Santa Rosa schools. On Sept. 6, 1972, the West Las Vegas Schools asked the State School Transportation Division to establish a bus State Teachers Retiring Earlier Than in '68 Plan outline of the problem which has developed between the Santa Rosa Schools and the Anton Chico parents. "The situation in Anton Chico developed basically out of the fact several parents in Anton Chico were objecting to the consolidation of the junior high program in Anton Chico into the Santa Rosa Middle School," Flores said.

Flores added that the Santa Rosa Board of Education did not initiate the consolidation which led to the closing of the junior high in Anton Chico. It was the State Dept. of Education that suggested it be done, he said. The Santa Rosa system still maintains an elementary school in Anton Chico witr 154 children enrolled in kindergarten through grade 6, and with a special education program, Flores said. Flores said the Santa Rosa Middle School is completely approved and without any deficiencies in the program.

"In Santa Rosa we know we do have the programs that are approved and adequate to meet the educational needs of the children from throughout the district," Flores said. Flores told the board his school district simply does not have the funds to re-open the junior high school at Anton Chico. To provide a bare minimum junior high school program at Anton Chico would require an additional $50,000 in operating funds annually than is available from district and state funds, Flores said. Flores said there is no doubt in his mind the Anton Chico parents have every right to send their children to West Las Vegas. But he added he disagrees that the State Board of Educa-tion and the taxpayers of the Santa Rosa district should be asked to pay the costs of overlapping bus routes to trans-, port the children into Las Vegas.

The bus equipment now operated by the Santa Rosa district is adequate to handle the transportation of all children into Santa Rosa, including those which now are going to Las Vegas, he said. Flores told the board the loss of the children to the West Las Vegas schools has cost his district $42,000 in state funds this year. "We welcome the Anton Chico children in Santa Flores said. "We have the facilities for them, we have the staff for them, we have the transportation for them." Lt. Gov.

Robert Mondragon appeared before the state board to discuss the Anton Chico problem. Mondragon told the board he attended school in Anton Chico through the eighth then road the bus to Santa Rosa to attend high school. Mondragon said the number of children who have transferred to Las Vegas is a syptom that something is wrong. "I think that had the seventh and eighth graders stayed in Anton Chico, this problem would not have come up," Mondragon said. Mondragon made three suggestions to the state board: That seventh and eighth graders be allowed to remain in Anton Chico.

That the high school level children be allowed to choose where they will attend scrool, in West Las Vegas or Santa Rosa. That the Santa Rosa school board expand from five to seven members, with the two additional members to be appointed from areas not now represented on the board. Responding to Mondragon's proposal that the junior high be re-established at Anton Chico, Sup. Flores said: "It makes good conversation. But from the viewpoint of effective management and finances, there is just no way.

"We're talking about an unattainable goal under the present funding structure," Flores said. State Board member Fred Comstock of Albuquerque said it was his opinion approval of the transportation funds for West Las Vegas would create an administrative nightmare. It could set a precendent whereby the state might have to provide transportation for every student in New Mexico who migrt want to attend school outside his home district, Corn-stock said. the relationships of loco! governments to areawide planning organizations and councils of government. Gov.

Bruce King, the New Mexico Bicentennial Corn-mission, the State Planning Office, the New Mexico Municipal league and the City of Gallup is sponsoring the congress. GALLUP, The Governor's Second Bicentennial Congress will lie held Ittre Jan. 25-27 to help plan New Mexico's celebration of the United States 2X)th anniversary in 1976. The congress also will consider the federal grant-in-aid system, including general and special revenue sharing, and imt 111 3'' fi mm II' 4 if." 'i W--'-y. Student Gets Scholarship IAS CRUCF.S, N.M.-Kenneth R.

Walker Sr. of Albuquerque has received a $250 Rust Tractor Co. scholarship to continue his studies at New Mexico State University. The scholarship is awarded annually to a New Mexico resident majoring in range science. The recipient, a sophomore, junior or senior, is selected on the basis of scholarship, need and character.

The scholarship fund was established by vote of the customers of Rust Tractor in lieu of Christmas gifts from the company to them. Walker, a senior, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ellis, 1001 Grove St. NE.

Agnew Lauds Montoya Appointment benefits allowed by law for New Mexico educators. Board member Joe F. Middleton, an Albuquerque teacher, said the present disability payments are often an insult. Some are as low as a month, he illustrated. The proposed legislation would allow payment of up to one third of the average annual salary of an educator forced to end employment because of physical disability.

Two Reappointed As NMSU Regents SANTA FE (UPI) The two Republican members of the New Mexico State University Board of Regents were reappointed Friday by Gov. Bruce King. The terms of Bill Humphries of Lindrith and Avelino Gutierrez of Albuquerque on the board had expired Jan. 1. The reappointments, subject to confirmation by the State Senate, run until Jan.

1, 1979. The other three monitors of the board are Democrats. Humphries, 26, is a 1970 NMSU graduate and a Lindrith rancher. He also teaches at Largo Canyon Elementary School. Gutierrez, 50, an Albuquerque lawyer, was appointed in 1970 to fill an unexpired term, lie also was an NMSU student SANTA FE, N.M.

The Slate Educational Retirement Board Friday learned that New Mexico teachers are retiring earlier and living longer than predicted in the 18 actuarial plan. Expectations for the period ending June 1, 1972, was 929 retirements and 310 deaths of participants in the retirement program for New Mexico teachers and other seliool employes. The actual figures were 1,420 reUred and 27B dead. The report came from a California actuarial firm. Harry Church of the Coates Crawford firm said the earlier retirement rate is a national trend due to increased work pressures and improved social security benefits.

The report lusted 28,112 active members in the educational retirement program and 3,561 now drawing retirement benefits. "We believe that the existing statutory contributions equal to 4 per cent by members and 6.5 per cent by employers will ultimately provide for the benefits payable under the system, and we are not recommending changes in either of the contribution rates or the funding method at this time," the report said. The board voted to ask the next session of the legislature to strengthen disability Into new areas of research such as bio-medicine, goothermal energy and environmental studies," Agnew said. Montoya was named Thursday to the seat previously held by former U.S. Son.

Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico. LOS ALAMOS (UPI) a Alamos Scientific Lalxratry Director Dr. Harold Agnew Friday snid he was pleaded with the appointment of U.S. Sen.

Joseph M. Montoya, D-NM, to the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Commission "We are looking to Son. Montoya's lcadTship to get us ATTENDS NEW PROGRAM: Dr. Jerome Levy, psychiatry professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, is one of the first seven doctors in the nation to receive a federal Career-Teacher award to improve medical school training in the areas of drug and alcohol abuse. The grant totals lie is attending the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston under a new program sponsored by the Dept.

of Health, Education and Wel-f a re. I OOOOOO0tttdtQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Valencia Reappraisal Policy Is Reversed Hospital Gets Oxygen System DEMING (Special) Installation of the new oxygen piping system at Miruhres Memorial Hospital has begun, C. B. Bass) Preston, hospital administrator, announced. Sehultz Plumbing ami Heating of Deming, owned by Carl Sehultz, submitted the low bid of $12,933 and was awarded the contract.

Preston said he expects completion of the project sometime in March as there is a 90-day clause in the contract. The Hospital Auxiliary under the presidency of Mrs. lxis Moody raised for the oxygen piping system lat year. Mrs. Kathleen Wrench, current president, said this will be the auxiliary's main project again this year.

Proceeds from the Annual Tasting Lunclieon scheduled for Feb. 10 will go th the oxygen piping fund. Other events which are planned to raise money for this project include a concert by the Voz Vaqueros of Las Cruces in April and the third Annual Tour of Homes May 19. Mrs. King to Visit 'Artrain' SI said site will need at least three fie'd men, two draftsmen and two clerks.

John Herman Sanchez of Adeline is the chairman of the new commission which reversed prior policy. Sanchez, elected TiKciay, succeeded Gillie Jaramillo of Baton. Sanchez's fellow commissioners are Wilfred Chavei of Cehollita arid Paul G-atoldon cM HIT m. mm lei Journal Special LOS LUNAS The new Valencia County Commission has voted to allow the new tax asiscior to conduct ad valorem property reappraisal work in Valencia Cotin'y during 197,1, a reversal of tiho policy of the preceeding administration. At the same time, newly inaugurated Assessor Lucy Keys Brubakcc announced ship is asking Uxi district court to grant a IKVtiay extension to county taxpayers fee the rendition of 1973 property because schedules are not ready.

Tins would moan that tlie owners' miditon of property for assessment would run from Feb. 1 to March 31 instead of the customary time of Jam. 1 through Feb. 28. The anility commission asked Mrs.

lVi-uhaker to prepare a budget of her needs to maintain reappraisal work. SANTA FE (UPI) New Mexico's First. Lady, Mrs. Rruce King, will head a list of dignitaries and educators from New Mexico and other regional states at opening ceremonies Tuesday in Las Vegas of an eight-month regional tour of "Artrain." Artrain is a six-car railroad traveling art gallery and stu dio to travel 1,500 miles through the rocky mountain region this year. will also stop in Belen and Clovis on tlie tour.

Tin train was develop) hy the Michigan Arts Council and is in the Rocky Mountain area as a result of efforts by the Federation Rocky Mountain States. fc? AA k3 of Beton. The previous commission ami outgoing assessor, Clovis O. Horrcna, iwd been engaged in a two-year-long controversy over the property maintenance work. The county sought to award the contract to an outside firm while Heirrera did r5 agree with such.

A delay in havidg tax schedules completed at the legiiirving of 1973 could lie Warned on controversy. The first set of notices, about 19,000, were mailed in to 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 i mm Pistol Found in Tesuque Pond SANTA FE (UPI) The State Police diving team Friday recovered a .38 caliber pistol believed to have been used in the slaying of a former Santa Fe police narcotics agent. The weapon was recovred in Tesque pond just north of Santa Fe. lt was located in about 10 feet of water. The pistol was believed to have been used to kill Martin Guillen last Friday.

Mule Deer Film in Silver City Study of Legislature New Highland Course STEREOS TV t. COLOR TV i RADIOS "The objective of the class is to familiarize students with legislative procedures as they affect education," Johnson said. "Students will study the SILVER CITY (Special) A definitive motion picture study of the mule deer will be featured by Audubon Lecturer Lyle K. "Buzz" Mass as the second of three Wildlife Films presented in Silver City tins season. "Mule Deer Country," to be shown free at WNMU's Fine Arts Auditorium, 8 p.m.

today will trace the natural history of this western deer, from sprirg fawn through winter yearling. The South western "New Mexico Audubon Society, with support of Western New Mexico University's Dept. of Biological Sciences, raises the money for these free Audubon Wildlife Films by redemption of aluminum, sale of bird feeders, greeting cards and other items, as well as generous donations by individuals and organizations. ALL STOCK MODELS I I mw Journal Special LAS VEGAS, N.M. Ongoing interest in the legislative process as its affects education has resulted in a special course being offered during the winter quarter by Highlands University.

The graduate level, three-credit course will involve a critical study of the state legislature and its action pertinent to education, said Dr. John S. Johnson, professor for the class The course will be offered in Santa Fe so that participants will be able to attend selected state legislative committee hearings as well as attending regular class sessions. The class will meet regularly in the Santa Fe Senior High School Library Building Thursday at 7 p.m. The first class meeting is set for Jan.

11. The course will last 11 weeks. steps in identifying and understanding proposed legislation which concerns education, and they'll analyze the influences which move legislative bills along." Johnson indicated that several resource people would be invited from time to time to explain steps in the legislative process. "We want to acquaint students with the hard facts of politics and interaction with the legislative system," he said. Persons wishing to enroll for the course should do so at the first class meeting, Jan.

11. Further information may be obtained from Johnson's office, Mortimer Hall, Highlands University. Worker Escapes Death in Trench LAS CRUCES (ffi A construction worker narrowly escaped death Thursday when he was buried in a trench. Officials said Sabas Avilla Ramos, 42, of La Union, was hospitalized for minor injuries, including a fractured wrist. Las Cruces Fire Department spokesman Lt.

Jerry Flores said Ramos, a Burn Construction Co. employe, was working in a ditch 10-14 feet deep when it caved in. Ramos was completely buried for a few minutes, but his fellow workmen had partially uncovered him by the time emergency crews arrived. Flores said it took more than 30 minutes to dig the man out completely. NEW ffll 0419 5AN MATEO NE Ph.

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