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he said. to in El Monday, Paso May Times 27, 1991 Borderland Building demolition on council's agenda By Michael Scanlon El Paso Times The El Paso contractor who demolished historic buildings without a permit will ask City Council members Tuesday to overrule a lower board and give their blessing for his deed. The Historic Landmark Commission denied contractor Michael Hiett's after-the-fact permit request at its meeting last week. Hiett has said faulty communication between him, a subcontractor and the property Mera Bank, led to the illegal demolition in January of three crumbling adobe buildings known as La Quinta Santa Maria, the remnants of an old rancho in Ysleta. The property is in a designated historic district where construction and demolition work require special review.

City historic preservation officials discovered in March that the structures had been razed without a permit. City building inspectors earlier had written letters to Mera Bank demanding that the buildings be restored or demolished. The council's special investigative committee also plans to continue its of public hearings on whether Mayor Suzie Azar and other officials conspired to cover up a massive diesel spill at a bus yard. Lower Valley city Rep. Jay Armes has alleged Azar knew about leakage from underground tanks but hushed it up until after the May 4 city election.

Azar suffered a lopsided defeat in the election. As much as 850,000 gallons of fuel may have leaked from the tanks over a two-year period. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. or one hour after the regular council meeting adjourns, whichever is earlier. The City Council meeting begins at 9 a.m.

on the second floor of City Hall. Deaths in the area El Paso man Louis longtime Leroy El Cash, Pasoan Louis Leroy Cash, 65, of El was decorated Paso died Saturday (May 25, 1991). Graveside service will war veteran be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Fort Bliss National CemeRichard Michael Anez of tery with military, honors. El Paso, a decorated Vietnam Survivors include his wife, War veteran, died Thursday Toshiko; his sons, Wayne (May 23, 1991).

He was 44. Cash and Arnold Cash; and He had served two tours his daughters, Linnie Shiduring the Vietnam War, and pley and Linda Berry. He had received numerous medals lived in El Paso 33 years. including the National De- Arrangements are by Martin fense Service Medal, the Funeral Home. Vietnam Service Medal with six stars, the Vietnam Cam- Manuela Medal, the Vietnam Jacobo, paign Cross of with palm.

El Pasoan Galantry award, Army Commendation Paso Manuela died Saturday Jacobo, 90, of El Medal, Joint Service Com- (May 25, mendation Medal, 1991). Rosary will be at 8 Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of and p.m. Tuesday McDaniel in Harding Montana Merit and the Meritorious Service Medal with two oak Avenue Funeral Home. Fuleaf clusters. neral Mass will be at 9:30 Survivors include his wife, a.m.

Wednesday in St. IgnaMaria; his son, Richard M. tius Catholic Church. Burial Anez II; and his daughter, will be in Evergreen AlaShawn Marie Harris. meda Cemetery.

Survivors Visitation will be from 4 to include her daughters, Petra 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in Martin Nieto, Esperanza Rosales, Funeral Home, with rosary Concha Romero, Josefina at 7 p.m. Funeral Mass will Baca, Gloria Rios and Magbe at 12:30 Wednesday dalena Salgado; and her in St. Michael's Catholic sons, Salvador Jacobo and Church at Fort Bliss. Burial Jesus Jacobo.

She was a will be in Arlington National longtime El Paso resident. Cemetery with military honors. Wilma W. McAndrew, homemaker Artesia man Wilma Waedean McAn71, of El Paso died had owned Saturday, (May 25, 1991). service will be at floral shop crest 11:30 a.m.

Funeral Tuesday Home. in Hill- Her body will be cremated. SurviRussell W. Floore, retired Floore Floral vors include her son, Steven owner of the C. McAndrew; and her Shop in Artesia, N.M., died daughter, Scarlett Lu SalanSaturday (May 25, 1991).

He dra. She was a homemaker was 74. of and had lived in El Paso since He was an Army veteran lived 1964. World War II and had in Artesia all his life. He was preceded in death by his wife, Sue.

Francisco Tejada, Graveside service will be at laborer 10 a.m. Tuesday in Woodbine Francisco Tejada, 68, of El Cemetery. Paso died Friday (May 24, Arrangements are by Ter- 1991). Visitation will be from pening and Son Mortuary. 3 to 9 p.m.

Tuesday in San Jose Funeral Home, with Death notices are listed rosary at 7 p.m. Funeral according to location of the Mass will be at 9 a.m. mortuary. Wednesday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Survivors El Paso County include his wife, Dominga; his daughters, Maria de Jesus Witty, Guadalupe TeLuisa Elodia Avila, jada, Maria del Carmen homemaker Tovar and Maria del Rosario Luisa Elodia Avila, 42, of El Paso died Friday (May 24, 1991). Visitation will be from 4 to 6:30 p.m, today in San Jose Funeral Home, with rosary at 5 p.m. Funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Carmel Cemetery.

Survivors include her husband, Felipe; her daughters, Lupe Avila, Maria Avila and Martha Anchondo; and her sons, Juan Avila and Felipe Avila Jr. She was a homemaker and a longtime El Paso resident. Pedro C. Barraza, machinist Pedro C. Barraza, 39, of Canutillo died Saturday (May 25, 1991).

Services will be in Delicias, Chihuahua. Survivors include his wife, Graciela; and his daughters, Rubia Adzeona Barraza, Claudia Liliana Barraza and Graciela Barraza. He was a machinist for Caster Machine Shop and had lived in -Canutillo 19 years. El Paso arrangements are by Sunset Wine festival taste test JUnco Victor Calzada El Paso Times People lined up in Mesilla this weekend to sample Alamosa wine, one of more than a dozen New Mexico wines available at the Mesilla Wine Festival. Thousands of people attended the two-day festival that ended Sunday.

More tourists Associated Press While many of the country's national parks swarming with visitors, are, Mexico's parks and remain relatively uncrowded, managers said. But the state's parks are popular and have seen significant increases in visitors in the past couple of decades. Annual visits to parks and monuments in New Mexico rose to 2.2 million in 1990 from million in 1972, National Park Service spokeswoman Tanna Chattin said in Santa Fe. New Mexico's busiest parks are Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands National Monument and Bandelier National Monument, which together draw more than 1.5 million people a year. Visitor numbers at Carlsbad and White Sands have been stable over the past two but have increased steadily at Bandelier, with visit NM 100,000 more people a year visiting now than in the early 1970s.

People generally aren't turned away at the state's parks and monuments, even at the height of the tourist season. But visitors might be told they'll have a better time if they come back later. During busy times at Lower Frijoles Canyon in Bandelier, visitors might have to wait at the monument entrance until volunteer traffic controllers give the OK to proceed down to the canyon. At Carlsbad Caverns, tourists sometimes must wait to buy tickets to assure cave trails aren't overcrowded. The record numbers of people visiting many of the nation's parks are becoming a threat to the areas' cultural and natural resources, officials said.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park near Farmington has become more popular over the years. Visitors increased to 72,000 in 1990 from nearly 33,000 in the early 1970s. The larger number of tourists hasn't hurt the park's Anasazi ruins, Superintendent Larry Belli said. But he said it has changed the experience visitors can expect "just because there are more people." He said I restrictions, such as only allowing people on the ruins in guided tours, might be needed if visitor numbers continue to rise. "When you look at preserving the ruins as opposed to preserving the visiting experience, you always have to opt in favor of preserving the resource," Belli said.

Vandalism and resource damage occur at the parks and monuments but aren't big problems, park officials said. Visitors are warned at Carlsbad Caverns that simply touching the cave formations can cause damage because fingerprints carry oils that stain. The United States slapped a an at the time believed that small Villa embargo on all arms sales to battle on United States soil Memorial Day events wind down Ceremony, festival fill 3-day weekend wood, N.M., 65 miles north of Silver City on U.S Highway 180. White Square Signal dancing 49ers of thyrothe. N.M., will be from 4 to 6 p.m.

at the Glenwood Community Park. Barbecue chicken dinners will be served from 6 to 7 p.m. at a suggested donation of $5 per dinner. Proceeds will benefit the Glenwood Library. A formal service today at Fort Bliss National Cemetery marks the Memorial Day holiday.

The service begins at 11:45 a.m. at the cemetery. The event will be conducted by Fort Bliss and the United American Veterans Organization of El Paso. There are plenty of other activities in far West Texas and southern New Mexico to wrap up the long weekend. El Paso Balloon Festival The three-day El Paso Balloon Festival wraps up today at Mountain Shadow Lakes east of El Paso.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds perform at 1 p.m. The Friendship Flight will begin at 6:30 a.m. and cross the border from Juarez's Bermudez Polo Field to El Paso. Weather will determine the flight's direction. The festival's second annual Great Duck Race is at 10:30 a.m.

today. Proceeds benefit the Children's Miracle Network. The gates at Mountain Shadow Lake open at 5 a.m. and close in the early evening. Advance tickets are $5 at Peter Piper Pizza locations.

Tickets are $8 at the gate. Glenwood square dancing Wrap up your Memorial Day weekend today with eating and square dancing in Glen- parks Bill of Rights artwork is on display at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park visitor's center off U.S. Highway 62-180 near Pine Springs, Texas. The turnoff is 110 miles east of El Paso and 55 miles southwest of Carlsbad. The 10 original works of art, titled "Celebrating America's Great Rights the Artists' Perspective," will be on display through June 14.

Visitor center hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily for the summer months. Guadalupe artwork But nothing really came of it, he said. The United States Tejada; and his son, Juan Tejada.

He was a laborer with El Paso Sand Products and a longtime El Paso resident. Ruidoso Mickey J. McMillan, horse trainer Mickey J. McMillan, 64, of El Paso died Friday (May 24, 1991). Memorial service will be at 1 p.m.

Wednesday in LaGrone Funeral Home. Survivors include his wife, Marjorie; his sons, Neil McMillan and Clay McMillan; and his daughter, Cody Moore. He was a horse trainer and horse owner at Ruidoso Downs Race Track, and had been in that business 45 years. Other funerals today Mosley, Luther Rudy, 3, p.m., Graham's Mortuary, W. Ama555 dor, Las Cruces.

Carranza after Villa's attack on would have world repercus- declared war on Germany April Columbus March 9, 1916. That sion," Katz said. 6, 1917, a little more than a Continued from 1B allowed both Villa and Emi- Pershing's failure to capture year after Villa's invasion of ernment. liano Zapata, who had re- Villa convinced Germany, al- Columbus. He was not aware that Can- volted against Carranza, to ready embroiled in World War I Despite his invasion of the ova's proposal, which Villa had continue fighting, Katz said.

with England, France and Rus- tiny border town, Villa admired rejected outright, was not made But in retaliation for the sia, that the United States was the United States and its peoon behalf of President Woodrow invasion, Wilson sent Gen. John not strong enough ple, Katz said. Up until his to help its Wilson or the U.S. government. Pershing after Villa to bring European friends and not death, he denied crossing the would Canova's proposal was made on him back dead or alive.

join the war, Katz said. border himself into Columbus. behalf of U.S. oil companies Pershing never found Villa. "Hoping to capitalize on that He only sent his troops across, then operating in Mexico, Katz And he continued to fight in perceived weakness, Mexico Germany in- he contended.

said, to get control of the northern Mexico, mainly in the conspired to get country's oil. state of Chihuahua, while Za- volved in a war with the United "Villa thought that by stayNeither his battles in the States," Katz said. "Several top ing behind he could renew his Wilson nor Carranza pata waged was aware of Canova's conspir- southern part of Mexico. German officials were sent to relationship with the United acy with the oil companies, the "But or any Katz said. neither Villa of southern Mexico to set up a States government at a later historian said.

the major government officials communications system." time," want to take what I learn in Weed High. The five teachers never in Cloudcroft. I'd go to School school and see if I can't help affected by the closure have Artesia before I said. would go to these folks around been offered jobs in Alamo- Cloudcroft," Ward The other final graduates gordo. Clifton's stepfather, Larry Continued from 1B were Deann Beech, Grante Townspeople say the school King, who owns the Weed Grill, Weed was "a change for the Myers, Cliffton Pert, Stephanie has turned out graduates who said the students in Cloudcroft Thomas and Daniel Waldon.

can compete with anyone. "live in the mountains, but here, it's like a big There is an air of dismay at "We don't have drugs, we they're not mountain kids. They family," she said. "There is no the school and in the town. don't have gangs, we don't have wear these big baggy pants and pressure.

You just fit in no For more than a century, problems other shirts that look like a blouse. matter who or what you are." generations of students and said postmaster Shirley Stone, a They come from wealthy famiClifton plans to attend East- their families have survived Weed graduate who now has a lies, and they're just not the New Mexico University, recurrent talk of school closure, grandchildren in the elemen- same kind of kids. ern where she will major in primary economic slumps and a forest tary school. "People get a good Junior Trey Lewis plans to education. fire that burned down half the education here.

They have gone attend Artesia High next year. Marco Mejia said he'll take a town and most of the school. on and become doctors, lawyers, "Clouderoft is all preppy," he job in Roswell, where About 50 students, kinder- veterinarians, teachers some said. the rest of his family lives. He garten through 12th grade, of them run their own busi- Clouderoft ranching Superintendent stayed in Weed his senior year were enrolled this year in Weed.

nesses." Vernon Asbill said he expects to graduate with his friends. Of those, 25 were in the seventh Some Weed students say they 15 students from Weed in the "It wasn't a big surprise through 12th grades the are apprehensive about going to fall. when I heard they were going to grades that will be moved next Cloudcroft, which has more "I hope they're not apprehenclose the school, but it got to me fall. than 600 residents and caters to sive about coming over here," little bit," he said. "You The Alamogordo school dis- the tourist trade and summer he said.

"It could be that it's the see, my sister graduated from here, trict said the cost of keeping the resort crowd. adults who have a so did my brother and just about high school open was not worth "The people up here are Charles Stockton, superinI know. it. Operating expenses for se- cowboys," Weed senior Waldon tendent of the Alamogordo Ward said he'll attend An- venth through 12th grades in said. "The people in Cloud- schools, said he's aware of the everyone gelo State University at San Weed in the year just ending croft are preppies." consequences of closing the study agricultural chemistry.

amounted to $147,000. them, and they "Any time you close a Angelo, Texas. He wants to were $247,000 while revenue Ward is more blunt;" "We hate school. "I do want to leave here, but The Alamogordo school board "If I had it to do over again, school," he said, "it's going to I'm back," "I voted 4-0 April 15 close I'd go to school Weed but ruin a community." coming.