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Established Friday August 26, 1977 Home Owned--Home Operated--Price; 15c Per Copy LVTI satellite school to open Sept. 1 BYLEAHLEACH Optic Reporter Luna Vocational Technical School will open classes at the Northeastern New Mexico Vocational Springer Sept. Ray Leger announced during a special meeting of the board Thursday afternoon. Local schools have offered classroom space for evening classes until worh is completed on the LVTI Springer facility. Springer Superintendent Fred Pompeo told the board the schools would help in any way they could.

The Springer facility will be housed in an adobe building, built in the I930's and once a school now owned by the city of Springer, said LVTI architect James N. Rowland. Rowland was given approval to ash Back to school for bids on improvements. The building may not be ready until after the first or second trimester, said Leger. Six evening courses and basic adult education courses will be offered.

President Sam Vigil said course offerings include clerk stenography, accounting, autmotive mechanics, welding, building trades and graphic arts. LVTI is accepting applications for employment with the Springer Satellite i i today and through next Wednesday and again Sept. 1-6 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Forrester Building in Springer.

Positions are open in the following areas: instructors in clerk stenography, accounting, Registration to begin Monday School buses roll again Monday to gather children from both local school districts back to class. Classes begin in most schools at 8:30 a.m. in both City Schools District and West Las Vegas. Registration will occupy Monday and Tuesday at Robertson High School, with classes beginning at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday.

RHS ninth graders will register between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. Monday and 12th graders between 12:20 and 3 p.m. that day. Tuesday, nth graders register between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m., and tenth graders, p.m. West Las Vegas Junior High student registration will be held on Monday morning from 8 to 12 for all eighth graders: Ninth graders will register on Monday from 1 to 4 p.m.

New students and seventh graders who did not pre-register last May will also register Monday from 8 to 12. Questions concerning registration will be answered by calling Key Villa, principal, or Ray Collins, assistant, at 425-9301 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Registration will be held at the West Las Vegas Junior High gym. Bus schedules are essentially the same as last year in each school district.

Immunization records of all students must be up to date. San Miguel County Health Center offers free innoculations each Monday and Thursday afternoon between 1 and 4 p.m. Further information can be obtained by telephoning the office of either superintendent, Arturo Tenorio in West Las Vegas, and Silas Lopez in the City Schools system. automotive mechanics, welding, building trades and graphic arts, as well as secretaries and custodians. Approved was the hiring of Diane Valdez for the Springer office; Audrey Gene Salazar, adult basic education instructor, and Diane Harmon, part-time nursing instructor.

In other action, the board accepted the low bid for a security fence around the Las Vegas facility. The Valfey Fence Co. offered a bid of $59,643. The board accepted the resignation of Albert Maes, electronics instructor, who is accepting a position with Highlands University as an assistant professor. Tommy Baca was approved as an instructor for evening electronics classes.

accepted was the resignation of Babette Manzanares, enrollment secretary, effective Sept. IS. Mrs. Manzanares will be moving to A No replacement was recommended. The balance of payment on a building trades mobile unit has been received.

Vigil announced. The $9,450 realized from that building trades project will go toward another project. The next regular meeting of the LVTI board is scheduled for Sept. 15. Present at this meeting were board members Robert Cordova, John T.

Romero, Rudy Roybal and Charles Sanchez. Pictured at the March of Dimes Awards Banquet is Linda Sparks, (right); associate director of the Tierra Encantada Chapter, presenting an award of appreciation to Jerry Korte and his wife, Frances, for their role in the recent Walk-a-thon held here. Korte served as Appreciation Award chairman of the drive, and he and his wife, with the help of many community people organized a successful walk within a short time. A total of $5,100 was contributed by area residents to the foundation during the drive. (Optic Photo by Eileen Hardgrave) Fire scare prompts LASL program LOS ALAMOS (AP) Improved fire protection is the program that was prompted by a recent forest fire that threatened facilities at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories.

program, which "will be financed by the lab and the Energy Research and Development Administration, is to begin Monday, 2mi iiion Tesuque development stopped, risk of potential problems the reason Highlands University's Office of Planning and Development has announced that the university has received for the ensuing academic year external funding amounting to approximately $2 million. Dr. Willie Sanchez, HU Assistant to the President for Planning and Development, explained that the outstanding grants implemented for this academic year will be for (1) HU Basic Institutional Development Grant under Title III; (2) Title II Grant for Special Services (i.e. student special services and the Upward Bound Program); (3) the Cooperative Education Program; (4) Title VII Bilingual Education Program; (5) The NMHU Community and Continuing Education Program and (6) the National Institute of Mental Health Grant (NIMH) for faculty research in the natural sciences and psychology. "All of our proposals and grant monies have been geared toward getting programs that have a special orientation for the students and not for the institution," Sanchez said.

"We feel that the grants awarded to us should provide the basic support for student learning and progress." SANTA FE (AP) The Interior Department stopped the development of a subdivision on Tesuque Pueblo land north of Santa Fe because it "poses too great a risk of social, economic and political upheaval." At least, that was the reason Interior Undersecretary James A. Joseph gave in a letter to the tribal council. He also told the council 16,000 expected residents of the subdivision might cause "insurmountable jurisdictional problems for the 300; member tribe." The pueblo signed a lease with Sangre de Cristo Development Co. in 1970 for development of a commercial, residential and recreational complex. The lease required government approval before development could begin, an Interior spokesman said.

The decision not to approve the lease stops the proposed development, he added. The Colonias de Santa Fe sub- Earthquake hits Indonesia again JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) A major earthquake struck eastern Indonesia today not far from the scene of a powerful quake that killed more, than 100 persons a week ago, the Indonesian Meteorological Department reported. Guard returns from camp Las Vegas' 720th Transportation Company of the New Mexico National Guard has returned from its annual two-week summer encampment. It was announced by Capt. Kenneth Trujillo that as a result of the company's outstanding performance at Fort Bliss, the unit has been nominated to participate in Operation 'Brave Shield' to be held at Fort Irwin, next April.

"Having been in existence only two years, the company has made great strides in order to be able to participate in the desert exercise which will include active army and reserve component units from all over the United Capt. of luncheon Reservations tor tne quarterly luncheon of the Las Vegas-San Miguel Chamber of Commerce must be made with the chamber at 4258631 by Monday. The luncheon is scheduled at 12 noon Thursday at the Plaza Supper Club. Dr. Kenneth Osgood will discuss the local medical community.

Trujillo said. Capt. Trujillo said, "Having been in existence only two years, the company has made great strides in order to be able to participate in the desert exercise which will include active army and reserve component units from all over the United States." Supervisory personnel singled out by Capt. Trujillo for their exception work while at Fort Bliss were CW4 Raymundo Angel, SFC Gilbert Perea, SSG Phillip Bustos, SSG Peter Lovato, SFC Timoteo Valerio, SFC Jose Montoya, SSG Antonio Garcia, 2LT William Ortiz and 2Lt Violet Lloyd. Named the company's outstanding heavy vehicle operator was SP5 Roman Padilla.

I By The Associated Press Partly cloudy tonight; increasing cloudiness and cooler Saturday with widely scattered showers and thundershowers; winds diminishing tonight. Las Vegas low 50s and mid 70s. A department spokesman said today's quake registered 6.4 on the Richter scale. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The spokesman said the epicenter of the quake was about 200 miles southeast of this capital city.

That would place it either in the center of densely populated Java Island or just offshore from central Java. The area is about midway between Jakarta and Sumbawa Island, which was hit. hardest by last Friday's quake. That quake registered between 7.7 and 8.7 on the Richter scale and was described as one of the strongest recorded in recent history. Officials said Thursday night that last week's quake and resulting tidal waves killed 116 persons on Suobawa and Lombok islands and on the popular tourist island of Bali.

About 70 persons were injured and another 70 were reported missing. The open-ended Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Therefore, a quake which measures 6.5 is 10 times stronger than one measuring 5.5. An earthquake registering 6 can cause severe damage.

A 7 reading is a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage, and an 8 is a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. division has been inactive for four years. Houses were never built, and the lone structure on the leased Indian land, a sales office, has been boarded up. At the height of promotional activities seven years ago, salesmen talked of a community of plush, well- spaced homes surrounding a championship golf course. A double- deck London bus transported prospective buyers to the land.

The development corporation was selling 99-year subleases of the Indian land. Many lots were reportedly sold, although none have been developed. The company has changed hands several times, and has been in financial trouble. The development was the target of a series of lawsuits by environmentalists, saying the lease itself didn't meet terms of the National Environmental Policy Act and the subdivision was not complying with other state and federal laws. said ERDA.

improve fire protection for the outermost technical areas endangered during the recent La Mesa forest fire, said an ERDA spokesman. Existing fire breaks will be extended and widened, and the number of trees in the technical areas will be thinned, said the spokesman. The spokesman said Zia Co. crews will handle these operations, and later, a 20-man U.S. Forest Service crew may be retained to trim tree growth along the West Jemez Road.

ERDA's fire department recommended the protective improvements in a report compiled because of the La Mesa fire, which broke out in June, scarring more than 15,000 acres of government controlled land south of Los Alamos. The blaze extended across Forest Service, National Park Service and ERDA properties. Zia crews will launch the tree- thinning operation along New Mexico 4 Monday, said an ERDA spokesman. They'll start near the back gate intersection of New Mexico 4 and West Jemez and move easterly. The trees cut down during the thinning may be picked up by the public under guidelines established by ERDA: The Zia Co.

felling crews will work on weekdays, said the spokesman. The public may begin hauling away firewood from designated area free of charge beginning Sept. 3 on weekends and holidays between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Zia personnel will be on site to assist the public and enforce regulations such as no loads larger than one cord may be removed in a single trip and only chain saws approved and labeled by the U.S.

Forest Service will be permitted at cutting sites. Man recap lured in A rizona for Albuquerque kidnapping ALBUQUERQUE (AP) A man who failed to appear in court last month in connection with the alleged kidnaping of an Albuquerque woman was recaptured in Arizona, said the FBI in Albuquerque. FBI spokesman Charles Mosher said John Mygatt, 22, was picked up WWIMI tTAjrgail, t.t. wcta The developers challenged state Thursday by Yuma County juris-diction because the lease was sheriff's officers. Mosher said on Indian land.

Most crimes down in San Miguel, Mora Aggravated assault and burglaries increased in San Miguel county in 1976, according to the State Police uniform crime report released this week. Figures show aggravated assault numbered 144 in 1976 compared to 101 in 1975, burglaries were also up from 708 to 749. The report indicates a drop in the number of murders, forcible rape, robbery, larceny and motor vehicle theft in the county. In Mora County, crime in all the above categories except larceny showed a decrease. Larceny increased to 37 compared to 30 in 1975 in the county.

Figures for these two counties were collected from city and state police, the sheriff's department and HU police, in the case of San Miguel. Statewide crime increased 8.4 per cent in 1976 over 1975 in all categories except murder and burglary. Mygatt was being held without bond on federal charges of kidnaping and unlawful to avoid prosection. Mygatt and a woman, 23-year-old Sue Garner, were arrested in San Diego, four days after an Albuquerque woman, Ann King, was abducted from her home April 12 and taken to an isolated cabin in the Manzano Mountains east of Albuquerque Police said Mrs. King, wife of an Albuquerque cardiologist, managed to free herself about the same time as her husband was leaving a $5,000 ransom in a paper bag at an apartment house.

Mygatt and the Garner woman waived extradition from California and were returned to Albuquerque May 10. Both entered innocent pleas to charges of conspiracy to kidnap and extortion. In a plea bargain, Miss Garner later pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to kidnap. She was sentenced to 1-5 years in prison. District Court Judge William Riordan set bond at $20,000 for Mygatt, and his family helped him post bond.

-He was to appear in court in Albuquerque on July 21, but he never showed. After he failed to appear, Bernalillo County Chief Public Defender Alice Hector accused Dist. Atty. Ira Robinson of reneging on a plea bargain agreement. Robinson said a plea bargain was discussed with him by assistants, but he refused to approve it.

Los Vegas gets money for parks Las Vegas has been awarded a $20,852 grant for a park improvement program, U.S. Senator Pete Domenici's office announced Thursday. The money is earmarked for improvements in the city park at 2nd bt. and Mills said Joe Guillen, deputy director of the Recreation Division of the State Planning Office. This office will administer the federal funds to Las Vegas The State Planning Office has had the funds on hand since last October, said Guillen, but had not received a complete application from the City of Las Vegas until a month ago.

The recently released funds will provide two additional tennis courts at the 1 racketl courts and a basketball court, he said. The funds were awarded Las Vegas from the Land and Water Conservation Fund of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation of the Department of the Interior.