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Carlsbad Current-Argus .5 Friday, April 1.1S34 Famer ban Baca Is $40,000 I Nearly $24,000 received from out-of-state sources collected $101 700; and John Dcndahl of Santa Fe raised $74300. Here are summaries of campaign finance for other candidates who filed reports Thursday: LL Governor Ben Altamira-no, a Democratic state senator from Silver Gty. raised $26,900, including a $25,000 loan from the candidate. The campaign also collected SIJOOO from Pojoaque Gaming. His campaign spent $11,079, including $6,250 for radio and television advertising.

Three other Democrats are seeking the nomination for Leu tenant governor, and they filed campaign finance reports earlier this month. The biggest fund-raiser at the time was Diane Denish of Albuquerque who collected $30,000 and spent $11,400. SANTA FE (AP) Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Jim Baca has collected $40,000 to finance his pn-Jmary election campaign, but slightly more than half the money came from out-of-state contributors. According to a campaign finance report filed Thursday with the of state, Baca has raised and spent $18,864 since entering the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. 0 5 HIS CAMPAIGN committee re- ported cash balances of $2 1 ,265.

Baca is running against Demo- critic Gov. Bruce King and U. Gov. Casey Luna. Thursday was the campaign finance deadline for statewide candidates who skipped their party nominating conventions.

Hum Among Baca's contributors were three Colorado residents, described as friends of the candidate, who each contributed S5J0OO. The League of Conservation Voters in Washington, D.C., contributed 52,500. Environmentalists were among those who encouraged Baca to enter the governor's race. Out-of-state contributors gave nearly 24 ,000 to Baca's campaign. His report listed more contributors from New Mexico but they mostly gave $200 or less.

AMONG. THE GOP gubernatorial candidates who filed financial reports earlier this month, Gary Johnson of Albuquerque raised S212.70Q, of which nearly $188,000 were personal loans to the campaign; Dick Cheney of Farming ton Making the trek finest at it NM highway gives traveler closeup view of rural history KBB hopes Francia hopes charred body is not his son ALBUQUERQUE (AP) The father of a missing 16-year-old boy says he still hopes the charred body found in the trunk of his wife's burned-out car in Arizona was not that of bis son, despite FBI state-mcnts to the contrary. The FBI told Larry Francia on Wednesday that genetic tests to identify the body were inconclusive because the body was so badly burned. But the agency said its field investigation "clearly indicated" the body was that of Jonathan "1 really nope and pray that it's not Jon," Francia said Wednesday. "I told the FBI they're really going to have to prove it to me that it's not Jon.

"WE CANT let our faith fall." The state Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque will decide if any further testing is feasible, FBI agent Doug Beldon said. Jonathan Francia vanished Jan. 12 in his mother's car outside an Albuquerque restaurant where he had been waiting for a friend. The torched car, with a body in the trunk, was found the next day on the Navajo reservation 15 miles north of Winslow, Ariz. Paul Daniel Richardson, 27, of disappearance and was arrested Feb.

2 south of Winslow. Richardson was found hanging Feb. 4 from a bedsheet in his Coconino County Jail cell in Flagstaff, Ariz. He died five days later. LARRY FRANCIA said the FBI was still searching for another man, known only as Jason, who may have been involved in the case.

Beldon would not say specifically why the FBI believes the burned body is Jonathan Francia. But Larry Francia said he was told by the agency that it has evi dence found at the sue where the body was burned that indicates it is Jonathan. Larry Francia said the FBI apparently has identified a button from Jonathan's pants. Larry Francia said he would look at the evidence. "If I find something in there that makes me feel that it is Jon, then we'll go from there," he said.

YOUR CREDIT, INC. 115 S.Canyon 887-3885 CH For Your Pint Approval NO CREDIT? Bankrupt? No Problem. Loans $50 Licensed By The Sute ft. $500 ixr BACA The other Democratic candidates are star? Sea Fernando Marias of Mesilla and Patricia Madrid of Albuquerque. Attorney General GOP candidate Donald Bruckner Jr.

of Albuquerque raised $2,905 and spent $2,496. The state Republican Party contributed $1,824 to cover the. costs of gathering nominating petition signatures for Bruckner. He is unopposed in the primary. 31 'I Ataoctaud Pmi photo Dr.

Theresa Gerstner Chiropractor Palmer Graduate 885-3260 510 N. Canal to Chimayo Saturday April 2 8AM-4PM Former Gov. David Cargo, seeking the GOP nomination for governor, reported raising $16,765, including a $10,000 personal loan he made to his campaign. His campaign spent 52,127 and had a cash balance of $14,547. Four other Republicans are running for governor, including a write-in candidate.

KING AND Luna filed their campaign reports three weeks ago. King had raised about and had cash reserves of $264,120. Luna collected about $36,100 and his campaign had a $12,100 balance at the time. Baca is a former state land commissioner and be recently resigned as head of the US. Bureau of Land Management.

6 People tell me they come here because they like the way they're treated. PETE LECHUGA La Espcranza Bar owner way like a little place," says Borun-da, who remembers the days when it took all day to travel the 20 some miles to Las Cruces by horse and buggy. Further down the way at Cham-berino is La Espcranza Bar, a neighborhood watering hole that seems suspended in the 1930s. Above an antique- register, a yellowing sign reads: "I'll care for your horse, tare for your baby, crank your old Ford, but I'll be darned if I'll give you credit" Pete 74, who took over the business from his dad, has served up a foamy brew for 50 years. "There used to be a saloon up by the post office," says Lechuga, looking out through a window curtain made of old beer tabs.

"But the Anglos couldn't make it A Spanish couple came in and opened another one, but it didn't last Then daddy applied for a liquor license and somehow he made it. "PEOPLE TELL me they come here because they like the way they're treated," said Lechuga, who knows most of his customers by name. Nearly all the businesses along this stretch of highway are rooted in family. One of the most famous is dope's Restaurant, which Logina Benavidez opened out of her house in 1915 and named after her son. Another prominent family is the Stahmann clan, owners of 4,000 acres of pecan trees, the second-largest pecan orchard in the world.

the burial ground of mission-period Indians. The group delivered its message Wednesday to the city's Alamo Plaza Study Committee. Richard Garay, co-founder of the American Indian group, said a dig would violate federal law. PEPE tourism By JULIA WATSON Lm Cruce Sun-Newt MESILLA, N.M. (AP) When Ed Southworth wants to relax, he gets behind the wheel and lets his mind stream along the winding MesiHaTWlcy-artery" kno wn as N.M.28.

"There's nice open fields, pecan trees, Mesilla 64-year-old mayor says. "It's fun to drive along and 'look at the farm activity. I enjoy lit." Southworth is not alone. People from as far away as Europe travel jdown this back road to cruise through the nation's largest pecan orchard or stop for a beer at Cham-jberino's 58-year-old cantina. I "Rural tourism came to life in the 80s and picked up in the '90s," 'says Terry Bullock, who, leads Las druceV Con veridon and Visitors ji "PEOPLE HAVE done the major destinations, probably more than once or twice, and are looking for sew adventure.

This type of thing is tot for all, but a great many are interested in it." Highway culture is a recent phenomenon. Before the 1920s, there were few paved roads anywhere outside cities. People traveled only when necessary. Somehow life seems sweeter on N.M. 28.

Dreams roll along at an unhurried pace. Cows graze at its shoulders. Farmers on tractors bounce down it, backing up traffic for blocks. PILAR BORUNDA says that ev-cjry summer she can expect a steady stream of tourists stopping to photograph her 68-year-old store and maybe weigh themselves on a penny scale. I The 87-year-old shopkeeper runs the City Market in San Miguel with her husband.

The store offers everything from fresh chili to Sparkle Stickers of the Mexican flag. "Over there in the big cities they treat you right but not in a friendly I Tom Madrid, 48, carries a homemade cross the last several miles of his 100-mile pilgrimage from Rio Rancho, N.M., to the Sanctuario de Chimayo, N.M., Thursday. Madrid made the walk in hopes that an ankle he injured several years ago would heal after it began hurting several days ago. The famous church in Chimayo expects thousands of visitors during Holy Week. Dip fSfia Circle Feed Store 2907 S.

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