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Attorney general resists releasing liquor records Case law cites "U.S. vs. President Nixon" tends that "the names of possible targets of the investigation are mentioned in the file. The disclosure of their identities would cause them undue embar-; rassment, annoyance and especially since no charges were brought against them." Martindale said investigation results 'are essential to his case. I But in the motion filed Jan.

29. 1385. the attorney general's office is claiming "executive privilege" in its efforts to prevent release of findings to Martin-dale and his lawyer. Jim Klipstine of Carlsbad. The state backs its motion by citing a 1974 case of the United States vs.

Nixon in its contention that the investigation results should be withheld. Martindale expressed bitterness over what he said was the state's refusal to assist him both when he was fired and after he filed suit Martindale said he never received any warnings before the suspension. The former police officer said superior officers advised him on several occasions to avoid reporting violations at certain liquor establishments. He said his concern prompted him to contact Alcohol Beverage Control investigators, who in turn contacted the attorney general's office. Martindale said that when state agency officials contacted him he agreed to participate in what investigator Ernie Valarde termed a "sting operation." which included his wearing recording devices in the presence of superior officers.

Martindale said the police department recently had changed its procedure, and was requiring officers to report liquor establishment violations to Please see Liquor, 4B "I think the United States versus Nixon fits this quite well," Martindale said Friday. "It's so similar to a Watergate matter, it's incredible." Attorney general's office officials have answered press inquiries by refusing either to confirm or deny that an investigation took place. Carlsbad Police Chief Charles Galloway, also named in the suit, has responded cautiously to inquiries since he said the incident involves a personnel matter. But he has said Martindale was terminated for "wrongful acts." not in retaliation for participating in the investigation. Martindale said word leaked out that he was cooperating in the investigation that terminated in about mid-April 1984.

He said he received a notice on about April 18 that he was suspended without pay. He never was rehired. By Marilyn HaddriU Times staff writer CARLSBAD Claiming "executive privilege" similar to former President Nixon's efforts to withhold Watergate tapes, the New Mexico Attorney General's Office is asking a 5th District Court to help block release of results of an investigation into the Carlsbad Police Department's alleged cover-up of violations by area liquor establish ments. Former Carlsbad police officer Richard Hartindale filed suit against city officials (or firing him for what he claims was his cooperation with the attorney general's office. He said the investigation targeted possible political pressures exerted to prevent liquor law violations by certain establishments from being reported to the New Mexico Alcohol Beverage Control Department In its motion, the state agency con Section Saturday.

February 23. 1985 Page 1-B Superintendent shot to death in office pects in the case. "I'm satisfied that we have the suspect." he said. Fero was being held in the Gallup jail. "Right now we're holding him on open murder," Gonzales said.

"The district attorney will go through the evidence and decide what he will be charged with." The Gallup Independent reported that the suspect walked calmly out of Hanson's office after the shots were fired and said quietly, "Call the police. I've shot him." The newspaper said the man ap- Sarently had fired four or five shots, icluding one into Hanson's face from close range. mington High School before going to Tohatchi. Hanson, 49, was named superintendent on March 12, 1984, after three years as assistant to the superintendent He joined the Gallup schools in 1961, Carey said, and had worked in the district since, except for a period of about six years when he was an assistant superintendent in Yukon, Okla. A native of Ada.

he graduated from East Central University in Ada and held a master's degree in education from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz. Hanson was married and the father of two. board of education conference room, but no one else was hurt, he said. Classes in the school district were dismissed after the incident. The New Mexico House of Representatives observed a moment of silence in honor of Hanson Friday afternoon.

The observance was requested by Rep. Albert Shirley, D-McKinley-Cibola. School board President Cal Foutz said the assistant to the superintendent, Roland Carey, was temporarily handling the superintendent's duties. Tohatchi, about 35 miles north of Gallup, is in the Gallup-McKinley County School District. Fero had been a track coach and later vice principal at Far- GALLUP (AP) Police arrested a high school principal Friday on an open charge of murder after Gallup-McKin-ley County School Superintendent Paul Hanson was shot to death in his office, authorities said.

District Attorney Robert Aragon and Police Chief Frank Gonzales identified the man as Osmond Charles "Chick" Fero, principal at Tohatchi High School since 1983. Assistant Superintendent Larry Bink-ley said the man had gone into the superintendent's office for an employment evaluation. Aragon said he still was questioning witnesses, but there were no other sus Gonzales said the incident occurred at 10:05 a.m., and officers arrived at the scene about a minute later and found Hanson dead. Hanson's office is in the administration building, across a driveway from Gallup High School and about one-half mile south of the city police station. Gonzales said it hadn't been determined whether there had been a struggle in Hanson's office because "too many people entered the room after the shot was fired." The crime scene, he said, "was just like a normal death with no sign of a disturbance." A bullet from a .38 snub-nosed revolver went into an adjoining Home on the range State official urges further gas controls SANTA FE AP) Price controls on natural gas should be continued to avoid "disastrous increases" in prices that would cost consumers millions of dollars, the state Energy and Minerals secretary said Friday.

Paul Biderman addressed the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee at the start of a hearing on House Bill 378, a measure sponsored by Rep. Raymond Sanchez, D-Bernalillo, to extend New Mexico's current gas price controls until 1987. Biderman was the main speaker at the hearing on the bill, which is expected to take several committee sessions. HB378 would extend the price controls on wellhead prices of natural gas produced and sold within New Mexico, maintaining the prices close to those set by the federal government on interstate sales. The current controls, enacted by the Legislature last year, are set to expire this summer.

Sanchez and Biderman said last year's law has saved New Mexico consumers $8.8 million during the second half of 1984 alone. They said if the Legislature does not enact HB378, the state would be left without any price controls, which could cost consumers as much as $109 million during the next fiscal year, beginning this summer. Representatives from the gas industry, who will address the committee when the hearing resumes, opposed last '85 Legislature Senate OKs seat-belt law 4B year's law and are against HB378, saying that controls reduce revenues to producers and discourage exploration and drilling in the state. But Biderman said the producers' argument does not account for the substantial benefits to the state's economy that result from savings to consumers and businesses using natural gas. Biderman also said HB378 was necessary to help Public Service Co.

of New Mexico which recently purchased Gas Co. of New Mexico, the state's largest gas utility. Biderman said New Mexico is unusual in that producers selling gas in the state have price-escalator clauses in their contracts that cause their prices to rise even during periods when overall demand for gas is low. "These prices rise," he said. "They do not go down.

The producers are thus shielded from the actual functioning of the free market." Biderman said he knew legislators would be reluctant to impose controls on prices between businesses, and said he was reluctant to propose them. But he said because the major purchaser of gas is PNM, a regulated public utility, the lawmakers have a right to step in and scrutinize the transaction. Timet photo by Steve Brown Right to work clears Senate Management Division, said a total of 90 oryx have been brought to the missile range since then, and the herd now numbers about 600. This full-grown oryx was spotted Wednesday just north of U.S. 70 about 10 miles west of the headquarters for White Sands National Monument.

An oryx trots through desert scrub brush on White Sands Missile Range. The African antelope, one of several "exotic" game animals transplanted to New Mexico by the state Game and Fish Department, has multiplied since first being introduced to the region in October 1969. Rick Sutcliffe, chief of the Game said he had mixed feelincs on richt-to- By Doug HcClellan Plan projects 25,000 on LCs east mesa work. But he said he voted against it because a right-to-work organization, headed by former state Sen. Mickey Barnett, ran a negative campaign against him in the general election.

Southern New Mexico senators voting for right-to-work were Sens. Harold Foreman, R-Dona Ana; Budd Hebert, R-Chaves-Eddy; Cress Ingle, R-Curry-Roosevelt-Chaves; Timothy Jennings, D-Chaves; James Martin, R-Socorro-Lincoln-Otero; Ike Sm alley, D-Sierra-Luna-Hidalgo; Ellen Steele, R-Dona Ana; and William Vandergriff, R-Otero. Voting against right-to-work were Sens. Ben Altamirano, D-Catron-Grant-Socorro; Macias; and Marvin Watts, Times staff writer SANTA FE A right-to-work bill passed the Senate Thursday by a 10-vote margin and now goes to the House. The bill would give workers in union shops the choice whether or not to join that union.

The vote in the Senate was 25-15. Sen. Thomas Benavidez, D-Bernalillo, said it was a waste of time to consider the bill since Gov. Toney Anaya already has said he will veto it if it reaches his desk. The Senate voted down an amendment offered by Sen.

Manny Aragon, D-Bernalillo, which would have offered rights of due process to anyone fired from his or her job. Sen. Fernando Macias, D-Dona Ana, The city optioned the land to Alameda Land and Development Co. for development but plans to participate in the proposed project in a partnership with the firm. Susan Benjamin, who handles the company's public relations, said Thursday that plans call for residential and commercial areas, which would be built around natural landscaped spaces.

She said the commercial areas would consist of a shopping center and open plazas rather than strip shopping centers. The plans also call for a resort building, which could be constructed in conjunction with a major hotel. The Alameda Land and Development Co. was formed by developer Jack Pick-el. The proposal is go before the city Planning and Zoning Commission on March 26.

LAS CRUCES (AP) An Albuquerque company is to present a master plan for a new community on Las Cruces' east mesa to the City Commission at a work session at 7 p.m. Monday. The community, to be called Las Ala-medas, would use some of the 3,500 acres of land obtained by the city of Albuquerque in the Elena Gallegos land swap two years ago. Proletarian samples doughy underside of rich upper crust fie sales clerks find her unbearable It took the latest issue of an more Spray and Wipe, and she A true bons would never enter a off the cuff by Marilyn Haddrttl Times New Memto StoM and treat her accordingly. In the dressing room, the bons informs whoever will listen that she easily could afford a $100 dress but she would never spend $100 for a dress because the money could be so well applied in other areas like buying groceries and paying the water bill.

The sales clerk mumbles something about quality, then desperately brings in several items from the $5 sale rack. The bons becomes deeply wounded. She takes her $12.65 purchase and departs in a huff. And, true to bonsdom, the next words she utters are: "What a bunch of snobs." happened to pass by. Et cetera.

By now, the clerks direct her to the $15 sales rack, steering her carefully away from the fur coats and three-piece woolen outfits in back. Of course, the bons then becomes offended. Sure, she might look like she tean't afford those items stashed in the back of the store. She might look like she came in just because there was a sale, but maybe just maybe she intended to buy one of those $3,679 coats they're so intent on protecting. Okay, so maybe you can import a bay leaf from Mars, too.

But that's beside the point. By now, the bons is so hostile that high-priced dress store in the first place. But one of the weaker genre can be lured by huge, tastefully decorated signs promising a "Sale" not a wimpy sale, but a really good one, like maybe 95 percent off the regular price. But once inside, bons blood prevails. A bons secretly is proud of the dirty sneakers in which she treads across sacred and expensive carpet.

And if the sales clerks haven't noticed her dirty sneakers, she directs their attention to them by explaining that she never had time to change after doing this morning's housework. She made a quick trip to town to bug some epicurean magazine and a visit to an elite dress shop finally to convince me that I am a bons. If you want to know what that is, just spell it backwards. And everything that a snob is, I'm the opposite to the point of applying snootiness in reverse. It takes genuine fanaticism to be a real bons.

For example, a bons never drops the subscription to a hotsy-totsy wine and food magazine simply because she never has heard of 90 percent of the ingredients. Instead, she delights in snickering at passages like: "To enhance the flavor of this succulent A parrot wings flambe, you simply must use an imported bay leaf." A real bons instead prefers to cook up Japanese food to the tune of "If you knew Sushi like I knew Sushi," while wearing an apron with the emblem of a grizzled cook holding a scrawny chicken by the neck. Ah, that's bonsdom..