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Rio Grande Sun from Espanola, New Mexico • 1

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Rio Grande Suni
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Espanola, New Mexico
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i 1 Cofttract $83,000 Transfer Let T6 Construct Petitions Postponed School Ghimay i county board of education let Until at Later. Date the. contract September 27. 1 At'' present, students from Bids have been opened and let for twofounty school totalling including a new $83,000, Chimayo school, J. Pladdcr Garcia, county sup-perintancent of 1 an Chimayo are attending various other schools to the with The Greater Rio Arriba Citizen's Committee voted last week to drop for the many of them- coming to present its attempt to build a new courthouse in Espanola and transfer the county panola.

nounced, pu, week. tn edition to th new Chi- seat from Tierra Amanlla. Members explained that with the general election only a Others contractors and their Vy. i.lwJtttre to replace the i 1 in nx luuun jew bids were Sproul Construction of Albuquerque.j the firm few weeks off. they did not feel there was time now to complete the huge task of getting the necessary petitions signed and presented to the board of county commissioners.

The total signatures, obtained to date was still shy of the necessary number to plare the question, on the ballot 1 1. ..1. a 11 which 1 is bulldjnff the Dulce ejks is to be Bperit in adding four rooms to he i San Juan Public School it k' i school, Albert Liver- do orougnp tne question on ine. more, Santa Cruz, $92,672.65 and tiT Diqaer on Doin joos wag ballot the ballot This Is slightly more aginary line across the county 1 tha Juouern uonswucwon oi Larry Ward, Espanola, $81,900. iBhmael Trujillo, Santa Crui, Commissioners held their reg nta, Fe.

L.v.: a. than 60 per cent of the votes cast in Rio Arriba county in east and west in the region of Ablquiu. ular October meeting last Monday in Tierra Amarilla without withdrew his bid. 1954. The Santa Fe firm got the Aimayo job on a bid $74,100 "Jul the San tfuan contract with The San Juan work will add having the courthouse' issue If the petitions are passed four classrooms, a covered come before them.

I bidilBoth project will The committee agreed to for- signatures for the 1958 general election, It will be ae porch and sanitary equipment to, the present building and was let for a bid of $39,375. 4t more wijpo equipment and Valtect feel kre added, Garcia ry to obtain mora than avoid a special election on the issue because of the cost to the county, estimated at about $20, 000, but said the petitions would be brought ap at a later Garcia explained that the fed 59 per cent of the total votes cast to the election. With eral government ha earmarked Committee had asserted lkt tue saajority ef th ceuu- ty's population lived to th extreme aoutheni portion of th eeuMty aao was eencea tratei in th Ea'paaola area and than the people eoukl I 1j served best by a county seat to Espanola. It cited a shortage of space delays to obtaining and Cling records and a general rundown condition of th present court 165.000 in aid for the school, dfplauieaV 4 I' jJS 7Vwlth and feea, tee Chimayi luildinf will coat 4 win larger -tnan tlMlil'1 ientroyfd by Are, this being a presidential year, date. equal to $1,000 for each Indian the vote should be heavier student attending, and will pay Earlier in the week at Tierra than the off-year balloting in; for vie entire project with no I860.

Garcia ll- Qf cost to the county. Amarilla, Arthur Madrid, president of the Committee for Retention of the County Seat In Mwill Ieome Th Tierra Amarilla commit The money will be spent for Irk il fLne swer from in ranee on tee opposing the change had reasoned that the present loca Tierra Amarilla, expressed the belief the necessary signatures the four new classrooms, equipment and the drilling of a new Well for the school. This also house to Tierra Amarilla to ex-' tion is more centrally located and that it served. the county's had not been obtained by the building, $15,600 in and the remainder funds. Garcia Ian ctiunty It federal plaining th need for a new is to.

be finished In Committee and- fhe the issue one. January. growing ou and gas industry in the western portion of the would go before the voters to CLINT MADE THE PENNY STAND Machinist Clint Force of Dencer, who has worked the past month assembling the press which printed today's copy; of THE SUN, teats his workmanship with a penny to win a bet from Mrs. William Birkett, SUN office manager. Vibration from the operating press on its test ran did not disturb the penny in the least, and it's one bet Mrs Birkett was happy to lose, SUNFOTO Land or a new courthouse iff Of! Stu- Other bidders, on the job ana aid la available beo November.

county better than an Espanola would have been donated to Es their bids were Albert Lucero, aol whose denta attending the "But we've got to keep alert location would. $45340; Xarry Ward, EspanolaJ panola and businessmen had offered to contribute an estimat for the thing to come up Opponents also had declared j.atixw ketsLOO fathers are employ Alamos, -The couny again," Madrid declared, add $4450; Trujillo, Ace Construction Albuquerque, that the, bulk of the county's ed $50,000 toward the coat of th building. for each anch student ing that the opposition group valuation was north of an im $40,697: Lawrence T. Abrahams, ntaii 1 a tkto The building will principal's office in at the county. seat would maintain standing fight any attempt to move the $45300 and Reliable Sales and Construction ofl.Albuqa Kef aiivcr Slaps Ike's Atom 1956 Valley Apple Output nuei 110.747.

county seat fo its present duties. It will be instructed 41 ciad block, the ipM fhe site. 'V Program in Talk on Hill were opened August 81 and "the contract let in Septem- Tops That of Last Year The committee has been cir Tha tES.OOO exoected to Sen, Estes Kef auver was 40 world's problems," Contractors oxbect fcU1" he Espanola Valley's' apple harv cover the costf of the addition, architect fees, the new well and "But we have not been doing figures are not an accurate minutes late for a speaking engagement at a Los Alamos project completed zhoj1 ftr culating petitions the past few months with a goal of 4,318 valid signatures the minimum necessary to place the issue on what we should with atomic en est haa topped 1955 production by 2,000 bushels to date and OurJipologieL i We assure you it is not an omen of future performance, but because of mechanical difficulities THE SUN reaches you late We only ask you to consider that to assemble and put into operation many, many tons of e-quipment requires a certain shake-down period. We now can truthfully say we have experienced a thorough shakedown. Lord wQlto' and if the machinery adjusts, it won't again.

,1 A leave about $3,000 for equip Democratic rally Tuesday, but the first of the year. I1 ergy In our foreign policy," he ment, Garcia said. tnement, uarcia wu. guag of production as they include only thos apples packed at the shed, but they are the only measure available, he said. na, tne will continue to mount as the! because of the "noliti- once he arrived it took him only a few minutes to: cal administration' of the atomic late rom apples are harvested, Fund Drive 1.

Charge the Eisenhower ad reports County Agent Paul Tru energy commission." -i Apples an being sacked only jillO, Today we are third in the September 17 pM. 1 bppipves 'ttrdiiiaiices Chief at the Velarde shed this year, Trujillo explained, as th only Thirty-one thousand nine hun ministration with permitting politics to influence the atomic energy commission. world. Other nations have out Set Tuesday stripped us," Keffuver said. 2.

Denounce the Dixon-Yates He reported Russia already A breakfast at 7 a. next other shed to the area is being used by the owner exclusively to pack his own apples. Total figures on, the latter' apple production are, not available as has a 5,000 kilowatt power pl Three new ordinance prohlb- controversy as "scandalous, corrupt and fraudulent" ant powered by atomic enerjry which prohibits prostitution, indecency, lewdi ess, indecent and selling or dis itimr a long list of imtral (of- Tuesday in Espanola will kick off the "Friends of Scouting" campaign for funds to support 8. Assert the United States which was finished in 195 4 -r a Mica Subject They now are planning a larger enses were passed by wpanoia city council September lij the ranked third in the atomic power race, i the three Boy Scout councils play of obsceie literature with-j one, he said, A light crop wss produced to serving New Mexico, Chairman Fred Abousleman announced suggestion of police Ui iu" 4. Describe A chairman In Britain, an atomic power! 1956, approximately 80,000 bush- i- plant will be constructed this Admiral Lewis Strauss as "po Of Meeting Here Oct.

16 Tuesday. in IhOiCity limits, Ordinance 116 prohibits gambling within he city limits. It also ata es jt fwfll be il els. This year's production will top that figure despite a lack In an area where 1 1,200 agricultural workers are easily available, only 15 hav been placed locally since September, report M. manager of the Espanola office of the Employment Security Commission.

However, 1,500 workers hav been referred from this area to the San Luis Valley to Colorado for th potato harvest, he said. These figures compare to 45 workers placed locally and 1,000 referred to San Luis Valley and Tucumcari to the 1955 harvest he said. "Before this the vioUtpi year which yill put them ahead litically minded and prejudiced." Place of the breakfast has thnae ordinances had to con of the United States. of rain. "Perhaps it was th not been dtermined as he said.

dry season, but apple trees were Keanver," Democratic vice presidential candidate -made a quick stop at, Loa Alamos He blamed the "lag" in the! legal; to visitJ lease or rent a rambline establishment Includ sidered before justice (Jt. the peace or state A a i Gonzales, "now can pndle A discussion of the mica in United States program on Str A one-day dawn to dusk drive covered with insects, one kind after said Trujillo. during a campaign tour ing those of a social, ciyic or dustry In northern NewMexico is planned under the leadership auss, whom he described as politically minded and prejudiced." them right here." ri It-, and we almost lost many of non-profit nattire. Penalties for with an eye toward the possibility of building a buying sta "-(, i of the following chairmen: Dolph Pringlq, prospect and rating chairman; C. A.

Cimino, "Take the atomic energy com Ordinance 124 provfa.V. for penalties for obscene jusive violation are a fine exceed $300 or impris; entfnot through the southwest. After Lost Alamos, he continued to Albuquerque is scheduled visit the state fair tion to this area will be held atl "We hav a potential of half an open" Chamber of Commerce moiesung fiaren, mission out of the political morass into which Strauss plunged it with President Eisenhower's special gifts chairman Charles Corlett, general colicitation mg, meeting here. October 18. ana winuuw i a million bushels in the valley," Trujillo explained hav 95,000 apple trees of all ages, upa- ging in an uiegaa The atomic energy commis chairman; Rudy Valdez, audit dred i seven bushels of apples He gave all state Democratic he asked.

alse fraudulent schemes, sion and the state economic de candidates a pat on the back chairman; and Haynes i Moore, Saturday Final The Tennessean said, private reports to police, misrepr.nta- have been packed at th fruit sheds at Velarde, during the past mdnth, says Trujillo. These and described John Simms, who is to charge of publicity ana we nave or those producing.1. Considering 10 bushv els per which is a light tion of age lor uiegai ct Commission have asked for the meeting to obtain additional information on mines Democrat seeking to retain his and arrangements. Day to Kegister enterprise was not interested in constructing atomic plants when there vti.no sure return on Btfrom false alarm or lire, esce seat as governor, ae "one of the crop, we have an easy half -mil prison, and fortune' telli finest governors I gnow of, in and production in this area, For '56 Elections their money, tie asked that the Gore bill which ha said would Friendly and Friendless out proper pernusstun. according to Hunter, the entire Country." Simms introduced Kef auver at the rally.

Chamber president "at least let the government ex Violation of any 1 secOns of the ordinandi Rep. John Dempsey addressed periment" be adopted and that 19, or The meeting will be at 7:80 jon. in the junior high school Tffinasium. the government and private en fined not more than imprisoned not more the group of about 850 persons briefly, as did Rep. Tony Fernandez.

terprise work together in th lion-bushel potential." Production figures; which Tru-jillo submits to the New Mexico state agricultural school each Friday during harvest, read as follows: i Week ending Aug. 81, 4,444 bushels red delicious. Week ending Sept. 8: 6,081 bushels red delicious. Week ending Sept 15: 788 bushels red delicious.

2.044 bush days. Hunter explained a a development of atomic energy, Kefauver stuck to the atomic un vixoniaiee, n.eauveri for 125 present 'the1 nearest government buying station is at Custer. S. I). power theme throughout his Road and strongly a th exterminator dosed the cage.

On Hill' policeman related he counted 15 ef th pests one night on Diamond Drive catching beetles under the lamp posts. 1 and here' the veterinarian's beat tip of the week: If your dog feels, it's necessary to chase skunk a A Penalties are the sa violations of ordinant SAN JUAN CEKEMON said it was aimed at "cutting up, dividing and destroying LOS ALAMOS Skunks snd. tomato juicr, don't mix -but that's "backing Into our Btory. 1 The police department and the Zia parks dept. hav been receiving call daily from residents complaining of skunks under thVjr houses or to their yard One stinker trawled right into-' the duct work 1 of heating system In a North This Sstbrday, October is the last day, dtisens can register to vote to the com tog electloni V( Requirements for, resist'-" tion are U.

IS. citizenship, age of 21, one tear's residence to tthe state, days to the city, 'and 80 dayk to the Registrant i should' Uke their social security aumber with hem. AH 4lgible voters are urged to! register before tt Saturday deadline at one ef the following places i i CounKy i Merk's offlee" at' ru. AmkrinB- bnalnesa Jof- he Tennessee Valley Authority talk. charge of permitting politics to enter the he said political activity has caused a "lack of direction" When Sen.

Dennis Chavez was in Espanola last week, he reported to answer to a question that UKITT3 COUPLE BECL TLY snd "reeks ana stings thsn Teapot els Jonathans. ITaria: Onofre Chavezlkad Juei Julian; Dominguez II fe In winding up his' talk, Ke it was "possible" that a station in the -atomic 'pirer program could be placed here and add6. Topping the U4 States b- fauver urged a' better attitude tw i. to i marriage 'Sop! Week nding Sept 22: 8,000 bushels red delicious. 900 bushels II i tUat it shouldn't be in the world scramble for toward federal employes.

get caught wash him (the dog) In tomato juke atfer th i S3 it the Juan.Ch Zia park exterminator and 8 jonathana. ii atomic weapons and power. They deserve the confidence to send mica ail tne way Juan Pucllo, The Ee Week endina- Sent 28: 4.400 South Dakota for processing. of the ad.T.:;istrtJon," be said, tha cr damage has beea don. The tomato juice will remove most bushels red delicious, 900 bush-' "Security rroams are all right 1.:.

no Ml Community house. Both -1 Zia parks exterminator, and the Zia sheetmetal section bad to be calls 1 to remedy th out of a i 'a pip on Rim of th odor and your dog will cls Jon; Jjins, 500 bushels gold 9 "Atomic enerfy ahould'ee used for the wel.are ef every one instead of destruction," he deedared. 'jaic energy to the arwer any "of the Representatives of the state. EDC will be present October 16, including Bill Nellfs, area1 rep- but not en they" drive thou be El C.iiq- ad flees ef either Horace De- llL.4 tr.14.. sands of loyal' employes, away 'tl JSfom lone joj no longer reel rejected jy.

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