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DIMING HEADLIGHT PAGE 9 N.M. briefs TUESDAY, MAY 27, I486 238,000 take part in New Mexico 3 drown over holiday (AP) Police said three New Mexico men drowned in three Memorial Day holiday incidents in the state, and a Las Cruces teenager was killed while climbing in the Dona Ana Mountains. The drowning victims were identified as Daryl Pinto, 21, Albuquerque; James Hignight, 38, Las Cruces, and Larry Luna 21, Hager-man. The climber was identified as Tracy MacLaughlin, 17. The coordinator of Dona Ana County Search and Rescue, Henry Diaz, said the teen-ager died Sunday when he slipped and fell while climbing the east side of the mountains north of Las Cruces.

Diaz said McLaughlin fell about 70 feet while climbing with three friends. Police said Pinto drowned Sunday afternoon while swimming across a pond south of the McGaffey Recreation Area east of Gallup. Divers on Saturday recovered the body of Hignight, who drowned while on a fishing boat outing at Caballo Lake. Authorities said Lunas companions told them he dived off a bridge into a shallow section of the Rio Grande and disappeared. His body was found Saturday morning.

Deming delegation Youths and sponsors from First United Methodist Church of Deming line up on Interstate 40 west of Albuquerque to do their part Sunday in the nationwide Hands Across America. See article on Page 1. Photo by Chris Mosier 9 die on highways (AP) State police said at least nine people died in traffic accidents on New Mexico roads during the three-day Memorial Day weekend. The names of two victims were being withheld until their families could be notified. The other victims were identified as Juan D.

Mora, 80, of Cimarron; Martin Lucero, 19, of Taos; Victor M. Cobos, 23, of Anthony, N.M.; Juan Pena 39, of Alamogordo; Porter Lewis, 24, of Aztec; Javier Bustamante, 18, of Carlsbad; and Reynaldo Hernandez, 35, of Shallow Lake, Texas. Officers said Mora died after an accident on U.S. 64 Monday, six miles west of Cimarron. The cause of death was listed as apparent heart attack as the result of the accident.

Taos Police Chief Jose Lucero said Martin Lucero fell out of the back of a pickup truck at a Taos intersection about 7 p.m. Friday and struck his head. He died about 7 p.m. Sunday at an Albuquerque hospital. Police said Cobos died early Monday in a traffic accident on New Mexico 549, 12 miles east of Deming.

Police said Cobos was killed when the vehicle in which he was a passenger went out of control and overturned several times. Police said Cobos was thrown from the vehicle. Police said Pena was killed Sunday night when the vehicle he was driving collided with a train in Alamogordo. Lewis was killed in a two-vehicle head-on accident on New Mexico 371 near Farmington about 8 a.m. Sunday, police said.

Bustamante was killed in a one-vehicle accident on Eddy County Road 748 about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. His pickup truck struck a utility pole. One of the unidentified victims was killed about 12:20 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 40 in Albuquerque.

Police said the car in which the victim was riding was struck head-on by a vehicle traveling east in the westbound lane. State police said Hernandez died Friday when he lost control of the motorcyle he was driving west on New Mexico 39 near Tucumcari. The other unidentified victim, a Socorro man, was killed in the collision of his bicycle and car. The holiday period began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Monday.

Consultants dropped SANTA FE (AP) The consulting firm hired to evaluate the companies that invest the state retirement associations nearly $1 billion in assets receives money from the companies it was hired to evaluate, an official says. As a result, the Public Employees Retirement Association is looking fix a new consultant. We felt there could be a problem and so we decided to re-bid the contract, said Judy Alderson, director of the investment division at PERA. The state hired SEI of Wayne, in November to assess the companies PERA uses. SEI was to make sure the firms invest the money wisely.

Ms. Alderson said SEI receives about $150,000 in consulting fees from five companies and was to have received $91,000 a year from its contract with PERA. She said that means SEI, theoretically, had a bigger stake in its dealings with the investment companies than it did with PERA. ty of Massachusetts and had heard that New Mexico needed people. They drove an old green Nova with about 80,000 miles on it to New Mexico and camped at the Red Rock campground.

This is the Fust time weve ever been West, Ms. Lynch said. And we love it. It was worth every minute, every cent. Organizers and police reported few traffic problems and several traffic accidents, but state police said the injuries were minor.

Two of the accidents involved police officers. Cibola County Sheriff R.W. Bill Driggers was involved in an accident on 1-40 just prior to the hands link up. An Albuquerque motorcycle officer was-injured in an accident on 1-40 Albuquerque. MOVIE STARS, television personalities, singers and musicians were sprinkled throughout the route.

And there was a party atmosphere along the line as many brought picnic lunches or bought food and souvenirs at make-shift stands. High school bands and cheerleaders performed. A symphony orchestra played in Albuquerque. Politicians also turned out in force, shaking hands as well as linking hands. Political banners were apparent in many areas as candidates tried to reach voters with the states primary election only nine days away.

Communities like San Jon, Tucumcari and Moriarty held festivals in conjunction with event. Santa Rosa incorporated Hands Across America into its annual Santa Rosa Days and street fairs were organized in spirited. This town wont forget it. King, who lives at nearby Stanley, joined about 150 members of the King clan and friends. I thought it was wonderful, he said afterwards.

Its great to be a part of this great crowd. This is the most people we ever saw in Moriarty, bar none. Many who showed up in Moriarty came from northern New Mexico. Police Chief John Davis said that at one point traffic on New Mexico 41 coming into the town was backed up about 20 miles. This is like Woodstock, said officer Stan Keithley.

You wont see it again for a long time. THE LARGE Albuquerque turnout was expected because of the citys population. Still, many people in the line were not local residents. I wanted the family to be involved, said David Buus of Moor-croft, Wyo. So we placed our order and made our pledge and came down.

He brought his two sons Baend, 9, and Yuri, 7. I wanted the boys to know that we all have a responsibility to people, he said. I think its a good lesson. Richard Van Trump, a 23-year-old Albuquerque man, showed up because he wanted to lend a helping hand. Ive been hungry, he said.

I know what its about. Now Ive got myself on my feet where I can do something to help. Hot air balloons provided a colorful backdrop in Albuquerque. Whole families were in the line, small children linked hands with the old, friends joined hands and strangers were brought together. People were waving flags.

There were smiles, and even some tears. ABOUT 9,000 people linked hands through Grants and Milan, with no breaks in the chain through the two communities. However, gaps did occur to the east and west of the two west-central New Mexico towns. Pro basketball star Alex English of the Denver Nuggets and his family stood in line with Grants High School students, including the 1986 Class AAA boys state basketball champion squad. Local residents were joined by people from Colorado, Texas, Illinois and Washington state, including a group of about 1,000 who came in a caravan from Pueblo, Colo.

Theres a lot of love out here, said Dennis Stephenson of Durango, who came to Milan to link hands. GALLUP, IN FAR western New Mexico near the Arizona border, had some gaps in the city as the line formed along old Route 66, and there were gaps on the interstate, both east and west of Gallup. But at one spot in the area, in front of Red Rock State Park, there was a continuous line of a couple thousand people, who joined hands and sang. Some of the Indians in the chain were in traditional dress. Imogene Arquero, a South Dakota Sioux who now lives in Santa Fe, was in the line.

She wore a buckskin dress with a beaded front. As the people sang America The Beautiful, she choked up and bowed her head, then laughed and wiped the tears from her eyes. Two women from Boston. Deborah Lynch, 24, and Christine Hatch, 23, also were in the line, wearing Hands Across America T-shirts, shorts and sneakers. Ms.

Lynch said she and Ms. Hatch had just graduated from the Universi (AP) Thousands of New Mexicans extended a hand to each other Sunday and a helping hand to the nations hungry and homeless. Dennis Walto, operations director in New Mexico for Hands Across America, said organizers estimated about 238,000 people participated, about 17 percent of the states 1.4 million population. The turnout surpassed the 200,000 to 210.000 people that organizers had expected on the 373-mile route along Interstate 40 from Texas to Arizona, he said. I feel the New Mexico effort was a tremendous success, Walto said.

New Mexico was the hardest state in the country to sell and responded by having the highest percentage of state population turnout. HE SAID ROPES and all kinds of creative alternatives were used to fill the gaps where there were no people to link hands as part of the 16-state, effort to raise money for the hungry and homeless. We had bed sheets with peoples names, he said. There were banners with handprints and signatures. He said paper doll cutouts were used in some areas, while balloons and tractor-trailer rigs were linked in other spots to bridge the gaps.

The longest continuous chain was through Albuquerque, the states largest city, with a line that stretched 45 miles. The largest gap was between Tucumcari and Newkirk because few people live in the area and there are no access roads to the interstate, Walto said. But he said with mile captains stationed along every mile of the route, there never was more than a mile in the state without a person. At 1,320 people per mile, it would have taken 492,360 people, or about a third of the states population, to fill the chain from one side of the state to the another without any gaps. THE 15-MINUTE link-up began at 1 p.m.

People were asked to contribute $10, but Walto said he did not have an estimate of how much money was raised because the donations were being sent directly to the national headquarters. Warm weather with sunny to partly cloudy skies greeted the hand-holders along the route, but showers hit in the easten part of the state as the event ended, scattering people. SINGER KENNY Rogers, a celebrity co-chairman for Hands Across America, was at the New Mexico-Texas border, with one foot in each state. He and country-western singer Lee Greenwood were a big draw as 3,500 to 5,000 people showed up in that area. You are part of something very special, Rogers told the crowd.

This has never been done before, obviously. And it never will be done again, I assure you. Rogers and Greenwood led in the singing of We Are The World and Hands Across America. People were holding hands but were milling around in several lines during the singing of We Are The World. But when the singing of Hands Across America began, a woman in the crowd shouted: Lets join hands, thats what we came out here for.

And the single line of hand-holders formed along the highway. There were Boy Scouts and two Clovis police officers in uniform, a man wearing a Dallas Fire Department hat, a man with two broken legs sitting in a wheel chair, truckers, the elderly, babies in strollers and three people on horseback. They came from Ohio, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Indiana, Arizona and Florida as well as from New Mexico and Texas. MORIARTY, a town of about 1,800 people, also was bustling as about 30.000 people poured into the area, including Gov. Toney Anaya and former Gov.

Bruce King. Anaya, returning to his hometown' to be with family and friends, said, There has never been anything this exciting in this town, but they are publicly involved here and publicly PV reactor reactivates 68 percent on honor roll cessful, they planned to bring the second reactor up to 30 percent of capacity. The reactor begins producing electricity when it reaches about 13 percent. Andrews also said that the Unit 1 reactor was operating at 80 percent of power. That reactor was brought on line Friday after about two months of routine maintenance, and operators hope to keep it running at capacity throughout the summer peak season.

ANPP operates Palo Verde for the seven Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas utilities that own the plant located approximately 50 miles west of Phoenix. Gov, lawmakers get Ds LAS CRUCES (AP) Gov. Toney Anaya, the state Legislature and the education reform bill the Legislature passed in January received Ds on a report card filled out by people attending a conference on education. The report card was done last week by participants in the sixth Quality Education Conference at New Mexico State University. The conferees included public and private school officials and representatives from colleges, boards of education and unions.

Anaya was given a 1.52 on a four-point scale where four points was an A. The grades reflected the conferees opinions on general performance on education reform." Grades also were given to the state House of Representatives, which received a 1.33, and the Senate, which scored 1.14. The ratings were a response to the reform bill, which includes a $2,200 across-the-board raise for the states teachers, minimum graduation requirements and minimum class times for certain subjects. Rep. Max Coll, D-Santa Fe, who opposed the reform bill, said Monday the conferees felt the Legislature should have left reform measures to local school boards and the state Board of Education.

Coll and Sen. Marvin Watts, R-Eddy, a proponent of the bill, said the Legislature probably would have scored higher if participants had not been educators. Its not a good sampling of public opinion in New Mexico by a long shot, Coll said. People see a need for reform. I do too, (but) I dont think the Legislature should mandate the reform by law.

But Watts says educators should give the law a try before putting it down. Anaya had no comment on the report card. Sixty-eight percent of the students at Good Shepherd Christian School were on the schools fourth quarter honor roll. On the A honor roll were Charles Alvarez, Luke Cupp, Joe Jimenez, Wesley King, Gabriel Tarango, Alberto Wood, Jennifer Cupp, A. J.

Posey and Amber King. On the honor roll were Jacob Barrio, Autumn Cupp, Duane Currell, Hope McCauley, Bobbie Pierce, Danny Salas, Tanya Smith, Jeffrey Trammel and Michelle McCarty. WINTERSBURG, Ariz. (AP) -The second reactor at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station was brought on line Monday after it shut itself off in response to its operators mistake, a plant spokesman said. The reactor shut down Sunday when workers put too much steam into the second reactors turbine as they prepared to perform a test.

That caused the reactor to shut itself down automatically, said Arizona Nuclear Power Project spokesman Don Andrews. The incident was classified as an unusual event, the terminology under U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules for the lowest of three emergency classifications. Andrews said the plant operated exactly as it was designed and that the shutdown was declared an unusual event because the plants safety systems were activated. Andrews said operators would try to perform their experiment again when the reactor reached 10 percent of capacity.

If the test were suc FRGM TUESDAY, WAY 27 THRU SUKDAY, JUKE 2... ill mm CE3EQQV mm mu SPRITES Inmates oppose layoffs SANTA FE (AP) A plan by the state to lay off 88 employees of the Corrections Department would cause havoc within the penal system, contends a court motion filed by inmates at the state penitentiary. Attorneys for the inmates filed the motion this week in U.S. District Court. The state Personnel Board said last month that 88 Corrections Department employees would be laid off Jftly I to comply with the budget cuts mandated by the 1986 Legislature.

Gov. Toney Anaya also asked state agencies voluntarily to cut budgets by 2 percent as a safeguard against declining state revenues. The inmates motion asks Judge Juan Burciaga to block the layoffs and the budget cuts, saying the reductions will cause havoc in the prison and unnecessarily (create) dangerous living WITH EACH $10.09 PURCHASE 1 .39 WITHOUT $10.09 PURCHASE 70 LEAH EDAODCIIQGEQ cc HEETIHG L.U.L.A.C. Council 205 Vi? 2. IT LB.

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