Rio Grande Sun from Espanola, New Mexico • 2

RIO GRANDE SUN. October 1080 Inside eapitf 7e RfofautdeSm AN INDEPENDENT HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER Published Each Thursday in Espanola, N.M. by The SUN COMPANY, INC Robert Trapp Editor and Publisher, Second Class Postage paid at Espanola, New Mexico 87532 I fcwiwez ill Wk roan McCAFft SANTA FE That re the Attorney General1! I conditions leading to the penitentiary could down to two -If you take away Jt-motivation for cooperate will cease to cootvi! SubscriptioiiRateit In State of Hew Mexico per yeer, $5 for fix mitm -Out of State $10 per year $7.50 for 6 month you will come to be som I -You can't I management, ai a ft anywhere else, without people 10 aci as manage xseiuier oi inose i should startle anyone, will wonder why $100,000 for the two General's reports to let them. -o- -o. vvnu a cusa Meanwr Legislature's Criminal I Study Committee, meet! after the AG's reported continues 10 push the ment of Corrections fori speed in correcting confc the main penitentiary.

Some people feel thJ mittee, well-meaning til obviously Is, goes much tot uio uevauou uii ecuun Corrections still coWl find a lev i lAuiuiiuicc iiiemoers of the legislative bi government after all, mlnlstrators. Even If the administration is not Job correctly', they should Interesting Work County commissioners apparently were satisfied that a two-month search for a carpenter's level by a county employee was on the level the board approved $82.17 In travel vouchers, some of which Included mlleag? and travelled and time spent last summer in search of said level. The saga started In June and continued through July as work on a county building in Hernandez was underway. As chronicled In the county vouchers for that period, and approved by the commissioners, the episode is fun to read but somewhat bewildering. In June, a county employee was paid $36 mileage, which according to his records, Included the following trips: "June 19, to Gil's to rent and return level; June 25, to Santa Fe to look around for a level; July 2, to Gil's to rent and return level; July 7, to Santa Fe to try to buy a level at Ward's." In July, the story continued to unfold as a $46.17 voucher to the same employee for travel read; "July 15, )b office, to Gil's rental for level, to Cook's and back to office; July 16, to Gil's for level and to Cook's; July 17, to Gil's and to office; July 21, to office for purchase order and to Gil's for level; July 23, to Santa Fe to buy level but couldn't get one July 24, to Gil's for level." Now according to our calculations, that was seven trips to Gil's to rent a level (there is no indication of what the total rental bill was, but levels rSht for $5 a day) and three unsuccessful trips to Santa Fe to buy a level.

A telephone call was all it took to learn a local hardware store sells wooden levels for $8.69 and aluminum ones for $13. While the county commission must feel the Great Level Adventure is on the level, we have to wonder If it wouldn't have been cheaper to go downtown and buy one to start with. It IIS A Rare Treat to supplant the admlnlstnl Morale at already low, for plenh reasons. The Legislate helped it much by fly-ii Cbitu Dvvruu-guoouic uitb that goes on there. -O- -0- NOSECOUNTERS: census ngures we arei about In court keep expT and contracting.

Even as the state's i being heard by a federal! the Census Bureau camet in with revised counts onl areas, as though to molM Trouble Is their effort! little transparent. he In the case of Gallup, stance, they showed an miraculous growth In then of homes In a trailer i the last decade, the center Is expected to be In the St. Louis, Missouri area. -0- -0- A political candidate has proposed if he is elected to establish a nationwide system of laugh parlors. Watching the candidates on TV turns every living room in America Into a potential laugh or cry parlor.

-0- -O- Corrupt politicians and bureaucrats are the major offenders of white collar crime according to a current FBI release. 0- -0- The Bill of Rights Is the document that generates our freedom of speech, and our other freedoms. They were given to us by our forefathers. We are the only country In history to have had them. A bill of rights is hard to come by.

When they were proposed In Canada recently they were turned down by the parliament. -0- -O- A turbotraln of your very own Is something you've always wanted. Amtrack has 8 of them for sale. They would be ideal to be used as rapid transit between Galllna, Coyote, and Espanola. They formerly ran from Boston to New York.

This is Rio Arriba's chance to get a government grant to build a rapid transit between these places. -0- -0- Have a good one. Have you tried cream of frog's legs for a rare treat? -O- -O- A burglar who was shot recently while pulling a job is demanding hospitalization and unemployment benflts for the time he is unable to work. 0- -O- My neighbor said that he wished that his mother would face up to the fact that he's a grown man. He realizes that to a mother a man will always be her little boy, but It's embarasslng for a father of grown children to have his mother go Itchy kltchy koo! -O- -0- Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only times we got.

Art Buchwald. -O- -0- The Ku Klux Man In Arizona Is listed as an equal opportunity employer. They pay $4 an hour for people to wear their sheety costumes. -0- -0- A political candidate will go to any lengths for publicity. During the last presidential election Jimmy Carter cited a UFO and won the UFO vote, becoming the first president to see one.

-0- -0- The Seminole Indians, taking advantage of Indian sovereignty on Indian reservations have been starting bingo parlors in Florida. The authorities there are shook up. They visualize a potential Las Vegas on every Indian reservation. -0- -0- Indlan militants in the east are questioning the white man's right to call them Indians. -O- -O- The bean sprout greenles, the quiche eating health freaks and the loggers all say they hold the keys to a better life but did you ever see one of them smiling? -0- -O- In the good ol days when Roosevelt was president he could say anything he wanted to with impunity, without fear of reprisal because there was no radio or TV present.

None of It was for the record. Nothing was printed without his prior approval, and he couldn't be quoted directly. These rules applied to Truman also, except what he said went on the record. Elsenhower was the first president to stand before a TV camera during his press conferences, and could be quoted directly. -O- -O- A fool and your money Is probably running for reelection.

Mark Russell. -O- -0- The bets are on about where the center of the U. S. population Is. In 1970 it was Mlscoutah, Minnesota.

Because of migrating population, the center was near Centralla, Illinois in 1960. The 'new 1980 center won't; be announced until sometime in the spring of 1981. Because of migration toward the sunbelt in they would have some eni adjust the number of resli that part Of town upi trailer park had not in facr by a single unit. a Makes you wonder if trc figures are more ote imaginary. fni -0- -0-1 pa SURPRISE, SURPt Many of us gogglyrln amazement when the left, Tax Study Committee ct with its conclusion! Ipi Duel in the SUN Nuclear Hysteria studying four carefully bills to change the property tax system.

What the esteemed decided to do Instead October Quotes By Myrtle White Romero by le Sio power to pull our plows, cultivate our land and manufacture our goods. Because the environmentalists cannot allow themselves to realize that hatred is the basis of their feelings they must repress these thoughts. If they should admit their hatred of their own lives they would not survive but dje at once. Ayn Rand has said that unless this country undergoes a radical moral revolution, Western Civilization Is done If this country attempts to return to a hunting or fishing economy it Is our own end. Our only hope, and it is a small hope, Is to urge the rapid multiplication of fission nuclear power plants.

But fission plants are only a twenty to thirty year stopgap. Our greatest and best hope Is push research and development of fusion energy as a source of power. Fusion has no radiation. Sincerely yours, Merle E. Yordy, M.D.

Dear Editor: One of President Carter's first acts as President was to halt any further licensing of new nuclear energy producing plants. This act and subsequent nuclear hysteria has virtually stopped any further development of nuclear power as an energy source in this country. The history of Western Civilization Is the use of less and less human muscle as a source of power and the increasing use of other energy sources. First was the development of coal as an energy source in developing steam power. In the past one and a quarter centuries It has been the Increasing use of petrochemicals as a source of energy.

In the last 25 years we have had the hope and promise of nuclear power as a source of energy. But that hope Is proving to be a false one. The environmentalists, the clean earth people and the hysterical fear of radiation have combined to stop any further nuclear development. We must soon return to human muscle troducing any of the was to go back to the teitsfc session's House Bill 49. one the Governor vetoed had been pushed throufin House and.

Senate, becwr said It was good for 9jn i landowners and not for tbs ur guy. tu; Do you think it has anjfc chance of getting by hi: i year? The committee evU thinks it does, the size state's surplus general taxes now having grown i an extent that it's dc' embarasslng. 0- -0- YA GOTTA HAVEt HORSES: One reasotj columnist can't get too i -over the prospect of our whole new set of liquor -coming year, as son predicting, Is that he reme the 1979 session. A neatly tailored little allow local option on the cr of beer-and-wlne being voted on by the 70-n House. It died drastically! only 17 members voted fort Don't look for next yeni? 0 suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson On fields o'er which the reaper's hand has passed, Lit by the harvest moon and autumn sun, My thoughts like stubble And of such fineness as October airs, There after harvest could I glean my life A richer harvest reaping without toll And weaving gorgeous fancies at my will, In subtler webs than finest summer haze. Henry David Thoreau uoaung in the wind much different. Duel Pll2Iifr.AN0 THIS VOUNeVoFCOURSE'. VOU'REAN 14 NAMED BLu- VERY ATTRACTIVE WOMANl 1 ElTnP AU II WAS BEEN COMING A BUT AFTER 12 WEARS OP pTjjJ tW UM. CRIMeYl na Fv A' PREVENTION Wfc'ftE nSf-iX 1 Comm.

sex Going Tb (jn A -V ORGANIZED IBE OFFERED iV Oh, the beauty of an autumn day! It breaks my heart with quiet waiting, "Oh, give us Just a little stay! The late bright flowers now are praying. The tree leaves still in summer's hue Now feel their life sap's slow receding No longer can they whisper low, Their rattling turns to urgent pleading. Like children sent too soon to bed They ask to stay a little longer But Mother Nature shakes her head And lets the wind blow cold and stronger. Myrtle White Romero October is the year at rich maturity, a happy woman arrayed In festival dress and ready for a dance wiiii a giant come down from the hills attired In a red, red shirt, buckskin pants and moccasins beaded with frost. October is a brisk wind In the a whisper among crisp leaves, a breath of apple cider, a gleam from a jack-o'-lantern, and the echo of laughter under a full moon.

October Is bright as a bittersweet berry. October the night call of the owl and the bark of a restless fox. Geese honk high, In October, and ducks take off from the river In a shower of diamond drops, southward bound. The lawn mower's put away for the season, the garden's sere with frost, and firelight leaps on the hearth at The grape begins to find a heady reason for ripening. The pumpkin's in the pie, in October.

The corn's In the crib or the freezer. Plckling's done and thoughts turn to mincemeat. October is plenty and savor and the hearty meal and time to relax. October Is the year come to harvest, In the barn, in the mow, in the root cellar, the Jam closet, the cold pantry. October Is the long evening and the book beside the Are.

it is the blanket-covered night. It is deer eating windfalls In the or-chard. la the power and the glory to touch, to taste, to hear and to see. October la the splendor and the magnificence. Excerpts from "Sundial of the Seasons" by Hal Borland tiieSm Letters to the it Editor are welcome.

Tips on $JL your letter pnMWJ would Include i l. Keep It brief ft) the point. Otherwise. complain If It is edited ft available space. t.

Offer somelW constructive of I emotionalism and calling. 1. Don't bother mimeographed letter 4.. Sign i yoor address and teleF, CAN'T lTN Jllll Long have I known a glory In it aU, But never knew I this: Here such a passion is As stretcheth me Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year; My soul is all but out of let tall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. number and WP8'' name to be verlflw published.

Edna St. Vincent Millay.