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SOllTHWiiST MICROFILM 1302 Yandell El Paso Candidates Jockey For Posts In Area Races A crowded field entered Ihe races for Ihe three city commission positions to be contested in Ihe Mar. 7 municipal elections. No fewer lhan 17 persons filed to- candidacy Tuesday at the Las Cruces Municipal Building. Four men also will bo running for Ihe lone municipal judge position. "The candidates will be elected in al-large voting.

The candidate from each district with the mosl votes will represent that district on the city commission. Al 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, several candidates were assembled at city hall waiting to see how the district races were shaping up. Jockeying for positions was widespread. Incumbent commissioners Albert Johnson and Ben Alexander will be candidates for re-election.

Johnson had announced previously that he would be a candidate from District 4. Also running in that spot will be two women, Mrs. Willie Maness and Mrs. Mary Lou Salas, as well as Arthur Narvaez and Carlos G. San- chez, Jr.

Sanchez is the son of a former Las Cruces city commissioner and mayor. The contest in District 5 is the largest with seven candidates filing in that district Tuesday. Alexander, the incumbent (rom District 2, filed in District 5. He will be opposed by C.H. Cadenhead, George Biel, Robert Munson, Leo Miranda, Paul Vigil and former city commissioner Juan "Johnny" Gomez.

Five candidates will vie for the District 2 spot. They arc Willie Silva, Lionel Frielzc, Irwin M. Bauerkemper, Jose L. Cordova and M.C. "Tommy" Tomson, owner of the Palms Motor Hotel.

The four candidates who will contest the municipal judge post are incumbent Kalph Wanek, Anthony Avallonc, and local attorneys Philip W. Steere and James Landun. City Manager Anthony J. Vasi- lakis announced that Feb. 11 will be the dale for withdrawing from Ihe races.

The drawing for ballot positions will take place soon after a i Races also developed for Mc- silla government posls, with a woman entering the race fur one of them. Robert L. Frielze, who is currently the District 4 trustee, and Cruz H. Alvarez filed Tuesday to run for mayor. Incumbenl Nelson Clayshulle Jr.

decided not to run for re-election. Three candidates filed for the District '2 position now held by Dan Lowry, who also chose not to run. This race is marked hv the entry of a woman. Josephine G. Emerson.

She will run against Ernest L. Camunez and Salomon R. Perez. Two men filed to compete for the Dislricl 4 position, J. Paul Taylor and Raymond L.

Cano. Town Judge Miguel G. also filed for re-elcclion and is unopposed. The terms of District 1, currently filled by Trustee Abran Gamboa, and District 3, Thomas Vietch. are not expired this year.

a i a Frietze, Taylor, Camunez and F.stnda are running under the Mesilleros Ticket. Only one contest developed in Hatch and this is for mayor of the village. Roberl Duran and Elmo Taylor, who presently is a trustee, both filed for the chairmanship position. Thomas Halsell filed for the open trustee position, and Trustee James Q. Barnes is up for reelection.

Both are unopposed. Village Judge Mike Fajardo also filed for re-election and is unopposed. Our Home Town The groundhog got a good look at his shadow today, so it looks like six weeks of bad weather--just so it isn't wind and dust. 1 as Weather MESILLA VALLEY--Turning colder tonight and much colder by morning. LAS CRUCES--Low tonight.

20; high Thursday, 48. Last 24 hours: 3745. Sunset Sunrise 9 1 No. 258 WEDNESDAY I FEBRUARY 2, 1972, LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO BUENAS TARDES Quick Look At the News THE ALMANAC By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Feb. 2, the 33rd day of 1972.

The moon is between its full phase and last quarter. The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter. The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this day are under the sign of Aquarius. Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler was born Feb.

2, 1875. On this day in history: In 1848 Mexico signed a treaty giving Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to Ihe United States for $15 million. In 1876 the National Baseball League was formed with teams from Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville and Hartford, Conn. In 1933 Adolf Hitler, the new Nazi chancellor, ordered dissolving of the Reichstag.

In 1969 two deaths in the world of arts--actor Boris KarloffatageSl and metropolitan opera star Giovanni Martinelli at 83. A thought for today: Roman poet Ovid said, "To be loved, be lovable." State And Locally LT. GOV. ROBERT MONDRAGON Tuesday sent a letter to Gov. Bruce King asking that he send a message to the Legislature asking it to consider a bill to provide student membership on the board of regents of state-supported institutions of higher learning.

He proposed that the student member "be an advisory member without voting privileges." CLIFFORD IRVING, author of a repudiated "autobiography" of Howard Hughes, denied Tuesday he even named John Meier, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico, as the liason man between himself and the billionaire recluse. The Los Angeles Times reported that Meier, 28, had received a subpoena and would appear before a New York federal grand jury Thursday. In New York, however, Irving said, "to my knowledge 1 have never met John GOV. BRUCE KING announced Tuesday that there will be no branch banking bill before the 1972 session of the Legislature.

There had been considerable pressure on the governor to send a message to the Legislature asking consideration of a branch banking bill. In The Nation PRESIDENT NIXON gave a tongue lashing to Congress today for failure to act on his emergency legislation to halt the 166 day West Coast dock strike. At the same time he resubmitted his two year old proposal which he said would head off crippling strikes in the future in transportation. SENATOR EDMUND MUSKIE accused President Nixon today of proposing solutions that have failed for six years to end the Vietnam War, and urged that he set a definite dale for U.S. withdrawal contingent only on release of American POWs.

The Maine Senator said, "We are trying to win at the conference table what we havenot won and cannot win on the battlefield." THE OKLAHOMA HOUSE voted 39-18 in favor of an amendment to prohibit beer-drinking for any person under 40. The amendment was attached to a bill lhat still faces final vote. The intent of the main bill was to give 18-year-olds in Oklahoma the same legal rights as adults. Around The World THOUSANDS OF Irish Roman Catholics converged on a rainswept Londonderry hilltop to mourn 13 civilians killed Sunday in a clash with British troops. Packed Calholic churches across Northern Ireland's six counties ran hourly masses nonstop from early morning onward.

British and Northern Ireland police, keeping well to the background, cleared abandoned barricades out of the way of the mourners. THE ISRAELI government announced today that it has accepted a U.S. proposal lo take part in indirect talks with Egypt on reopening the Suez Canal. There was no word from Cairo however. A final Egyptian decision may rest on results of Egyptian President Sadat's slralegy lalks in Moscow Ihis week.

Fast Report Plan Sought For Police An IBM plan to speed up police administration will be pro posed for city commission approval at the next regular commission meeting Monday night. Under the plan, the city would Boy Suffers Accidental Rifle Injury A Las Cruces boy is in an El Paso hospital after an accidental shooting Tuesday afternoon involving another local youth. Lionel Arrieta, 8, of 1224 Lees Drive, was sent to Southwestern General Hospital in El Paso for further treatment and possible plastic surgery after being shot in the nose at approximately 3 p.m. Tuesday. The Arrieta boy was watching television at the home of a companion, also 8.

According-to police reports the boys began to talk about hunting. Police said that the companion went into the bedroom and returned to the living room with a 30-30 rifle. The rifle went off, shooting young Arrieta in the nose. Arrieta was taken to Memorial General Hospital for treatment but was then referred to Southwestern Hospital in El Paso. save an estimated S154.630 in five years.

The plan would call for a dic- taphone recorder take reports from patrolmen and de- teclives. The police officers would be able to call in their reports from the field and not bother to come in to the police station and file their reports. In a letter to Police Chief Ben Silva, I representative Frank J. Callanen estimated that officers now spend a minimum of 20 per cent of their lime writing (heir reports in longhand. This means an average of one and a half hours per day away from investigative and patrol duties.

Callanen said that Ihe present system involves greal duplication, inefficiency and decreased production. The tBM system would cost $28,076 for the first year in equipment and additional personnel. Under the present system, the annual cost was estimated by Callanen at $43,102. The new system, the Secre- larial Support Center, calls for Ihe reports to be dictated directly via telephone in the police station. Portable dictation i would also be available to take down witness statements.

The report writing burden would be taken from the detectives and officers and be given to the typists. To reduce the number of typists necessary, Callanen has proposed the use of the high-speed IBM magnetic card ant! "Seleclric" typewriter. The speed with which the new system can take reports is the chief factor in its favor, according to Callanen. In (he IBM proposal letter, he said that the report output would from 10 words a i (as written in longhand) to 60 words per minute under the IBM system. To i i i a the program, training sessions in dictation equipment and transcription would be given (o all the clerical personnel who would be using the IBM equipment.

The police department would have lo hire a full time secretary for the five day week and two part-time secretaries for the weekend hours. Both City Manager Anthony Vasilakis and Silva said they would be recommending the proposal for approval by the city commission. Silva said in a recent interview thFit he would recommend that the system be used on a al basis for a year but that in general "the system looks real good." CAREFULLY WELDING and scaling each joint of a line before it is installed i.s an i a part of (he installation process. This gas line will sonn be laid on the block of Hadlcy, adjoining Main Street. (Mur- pht-y) Beret Deaths Termed 'Like Killing A Dog' Education Evaluation Survey Planned Here Residents in Dona Ana County will be asked to participate in an educational evaluation survey now being conducted across the nation.

Dona Ana County was selected at random by the Research i a Institute of Carolina, which is conducting the survey for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The local representative, Mrs. Barbara Gilmore, of Las Cruces. will be contacting families from now until June. The families will also be chosen at random.

Mrs. Gilmore will be taking confidential interviews and educational evaluation surveys to determine the kinds of information people have acquired. In this way, the study hopes to evaluate the educational sys tern. This year the surveys will be covering areas of music and social studies. Four age levels will be lested.

The nine and thirteen year olds will be interviewed through participation of the local schools. Mrs. Gilmore will interview with 17-year-olds who are not now attending school. She will also interview adults between the ages of 26 and 35. All individuals who participate in the a i a assessment project will remain anonymous.

ALBUQUF.RQUK I -Joe Cordova, 29, here from Cheyenne. for the funeral of one of his seven brothers Tuesday, looked up from a newspaper bearing news of the death. "Just like killing a dog," he said. Threeother brothers, a also attended one of two funeral services scheduled for James Antonio Cordova. 29, nodded in agreement.

The news account they read quoted a coroner's report that Jamos or Tony, as he was known in New Mexico was shot nine times and a companion, Rito G. Canales, also 29, died with six bullet svounds. Police said they caught the two, aclivist members of the Black Berets organization, trying lo break into a dynamite shed at a construction site ear- IvSaturday and outgunned them in a shoolout wounded. No officer was THE NEW portion of highway through Mcsilla Park and under the Uniye'r- sity 1-10 Interchange has been opened to traffic, with old highvyay run-'" i alongside it closed for improveincnl. (Murphcy) Authorities said Cordova -who left college to join the Chicano movement--was wielding an automatic carbine and Canales had a pistol The carbine was recovered but police said Canales must have pitched the pistol in the darkness and they couldn't find it.

"James couldn't even operate a gun i that sore right arm" one of the brothers said "And be didn't know a i aboul firearms. He never hunted. He didn't even fish. His only exposure lo weapons of a sort was in basic training." The brother who spoke was Charles, 35, who lives in Clearfield. Utah, and is a student at Weber Slate University.

He said he knew James had injured i Last Christmas Kve James had lold his mother ahoul it in a telephone call lo the Salt Lake City home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cordova. The dead man's fellow Berets present in Ihe interview wilh United Press Internationa! said Cordova did daily exercises ing to reslorc the strength in Transportation Official Plans UR Discussion John Ilirlen. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.

will arrive in Las Cruces at 15 p.m. today prior to meeting i officials concerning the city's urban renewal project. According to a release from the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce. Hirten i discuss Ihe urban renewal program with city, urban renewal and chamber officials at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Cruces Municipal Building.

Ilirlen. a New Mexico Stale i i a a a worked previously with urban renewal projects in San Francisco, San Diego and other cilics. liis arm. but he was still unable "to drive a stick-shift car" "And what did he want with a i a i anolher brother. "Hiswhole life had been building to that television appearance lhat day iifter he died.

The explosion from that would have had a much greater impacl than all of Ihe dynamite in Albuquer- quu." 20 Pages In 2 Sections- IQc Officials Give Tax Opinions Three city officials left Tuesday nighl for Santa Fe to offer testimony on two proposals facing the Mew Mexico Stale Legislature. City Manager Anthony J. Vasilakis, i i i Director Henry Gaines and Finance Director Richard Ralcliff are due back in Las Cruces Thursday after spending all day today in Santa Fe. Vasilakis said that he and Halcliff will be (here to support a municipal league proposal on the distribution of properly taxes to local revenue funds and the public school equalization fund. Gaines is there lo offer advice on Senate Bill 41, which would establish a rate making process for Ihe municipal ulilities departments.

When questioned on the' Goines said, "It's a good thing but in. its present form incomplete." He said lhat he wants to make sure thai the bill doesn't preempt elected city officials from a voice in Ihe rate- making process. In Ihe present form, the bill enables any governing body lo levy a charge reasonably consistent with charges received by private enterprise in the operation of similar services. Vasilakis and Ratcliff may offer leslimony before (he Slate Legislative School Study Com- miltee and the Finance Committee on Senate Bill 50. Vasilakis said a he was in favor of the bill, which would authorize the slale properly ap praisal department to levy taxes on all property al a rale of S3.65 per $1,000 assessed valuation to be deposited in the municipal revenue fund and J4.15 pur $1,000 for the public school equalization fund.

jGroundhog Gives I His Viewpoint i Today, Feb. 2. is recognized throughout the United as Groundhog Day. and in honor of Ihe occasion. theSun-Newsdispalched one of its reporters this morning lo interview a local groundhog about his day.

"i We talked to the head of the groundhog union, local 34725, aboul (he tradition of Groundhog Day. Sun-News--Why is it that each year you groundhogs persist in perpetuating this legend about a groundhog and his shadow. Isn'l lhat really just an old wive's tale? i GH -Well, it may be, but you have to remember lhat some of those old wives were pretty sharp. jj SN--Oh come now, you can't really believe lhat simply by seeing or not seeing your shadow you can tell whether there will be an early spring, or six more weeks of winter, can you? GH--Well, actually you are right. The whole thing started some years ago when we were looking for something lo sort of break up Ihe monotony of being a groundhog.

SN--Well how does Groundhog Day tie in with the discontentment of your race? GH--We jusl decided lhat if we could distinguish ourselves from all the other furry little creatures by doing something special once a year, we might be able to improve things. SN -So all Ihe groundhogs got together and made this whole Ihing up? GH--Well, not all of us. There were some of the older groundhogs who were established and thought we should keep in our place and not stir up anything. But actually, the whole Ihing worked out very well. It's really caught on.

SN--Well I think that's terrible. You actually started Ihis whole Ihing, a deliberate fraud, and fooled millions of people jusl for your own benefit. You'd never find other groups such as newspaper reporters, doing something like that. GH--Yes, but then newspaper reporters don't have their own national holiday either. I never thought of thai..