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The Albuquerque Tribune Wednesday March 5 1980 Large vote upsets in local races Bernalillo The turnout was 507 for two council races They gave ircumhert Nck Mora 213 votes and Serafin Dominguez 211 Rurnersup were Councilor Joe Gataldon 179 frank Chavez 15 and Paul Aguilar 169 Belen The turnout was 1507 of about 3600 registered voters fo elect two councillors They elected Gilbert Garcia incumbent with 944 votes and George MacKee 796 Incumbent Tafoia who was ousted received 604 votes and Sesano Trujillo 60S Los Lunas The turnout was 474 of 1698 registered voters who re-elected Frank A Gurule with 413 votes and Reuben Sais with 369 jGhn A Wade received 88 incumbent 16S votes Sidney Hanna Jr farmer village fire chief took 159 votes to replace Mrs Spuhler as trustee Leo Bertolucci was given 74 and Alan Brody 26 votes Mrs Turner of Corraies said she was by her victory- new fsix years) in town but I did a lot of door-to-door campaigning and phone calling I exposed She is and has been involved in numerous civic activities including holding the presidency last year of the Corraies Civic Association MRS BALLANTINE whom Mrs Turner unseated said to give more time to painting silversmithirg helping her husband as a paralegal secretary and raising her three children Dominguez of Bernalillo one-time Sandoval County assessor and a muscular dystrophy prevention activist said he thinks his life-long involvement in his town and his house-to-house campaign helped him win told people not a politician I want to he and not making any promises only to do a good job" he said GABALDON whom Dominguez replaced said he thinks just one of those things People made up their minds" George MacKee of Belen said he worked closely with Gilbert Garcia to take Eloy council seat wanted some changes" MacKee a Veterans of Foreign Wars activist and 22-year Belen resident said was a mandate that the city administration should be more responsive to the council" Tafoia said he may run for Belen mayor in two years just work to continue helping people" the department store assistant manager said By JACK EHN Tribune Saff Wrhrr Unexpected large voter turnouts and some upsets struck metropolitan area villages Tuesday in municipal elections Dianna Turner unseated Rebecca Ballantine from the Corraies Village Council Serafui Dominguez wrested a Bernalillo council seat from Joe Ga-baldon and George MacKee upset 12-year Belen Councillor Lloy Tafoia IN T1JERAS more than 60 percent of the registered voters turned out to vote for incumbents who were running without opposition think it's great I guess it means that people are happy with the way things have been going and this is the way they express it" said Joann Mc-Glothlin Tijeras village clerk Election officials in Belen Bernalillo Corraies and Los Lunas also said they were surprised and pleased by voter turnouts Only two council seats were open in each community AN EXCEPTION was in Los Ranchos where the ballot included a may-oral opening and two contested village trustee seats but only 220 of 1300 eligible voters turned out Los Ranchos Mayor-elect Helen Spuhler said she was disappointed I wish more people would get THE RESULTS town by town: Corraies The turnout in Corraies was 382 about one-third of those registered to vote in two council races Taking the two positions were incumbent Clifford Pedroncelli 249 votes and Dianna Turner 207 They were trailed by Councillor Ballantine 187 and Harold Manicke 122 In all council races the top two vote-getters won council seats (Inbuilt photo by Al Cabral) Tijeras The turnout was 60 of 97 eligible voters They' re-elected Mayor Felix Garcia with 58 votes and Councillors Teresa Jaramillo with 55 and Eloisa Garcia 53 Also Also re-elected was Municipal Judge Molly Simballa with 55 votes All were unopposed Word processor Scrabble Shelley Brock an Albuquerque secretary amuses herself by playing Scrabble on a word processor being displayed at a seminar at the Hilton Inn A large amount of word processing equipment including this model made by Digital Equipment Corp was displayed Tuesday and today King signs bills Los Ranchos Voters gave Helen Spuhler a former village trustee 183 votes She replaces Warren Gray who did not seek election They gave Marvin Kaiser 179 votes to replace retiring Marshall Julian as treasurer And they re-elected municipal Judge Jane Prinz with 174 votes None of these three races were contested IN THE RACE for two village trustee seats voters gave Alfredo Garcia Natural history museum could start in 2 years Soviets used nerve gas Afghans say Second kidnap suspect MERCED Calif (UPI) -Police today held a 38-year-old janitor as the second suspect in the 1972 kidnapping of 14-year-old Steven Stayner one of two California youths allegedly lured from their homes by a drifter looking for Merced Police Lt Bill Bailey said Ervin Edward Murphy was arrested without incident late Tuesday at Yosemite Lodge in Yosemite National Park where he had lived and worked as a night janitor since 1968 MURPHY WAS charged only with kidnapping but may face other charges including child stealing Bailey sail The second arrest in the bizarre double-kidnap case came hours after convicted sex offender Kenneth Eugene Parnell 48 pleaded innocent to the Day abduction of 5-year-old Timmy White in Ukiah and was remanded to jail under $20000 bond Earlier Tuesday Parnell was formally charged with kidnapping OFFICERS SAID Murphy and Parnell were both working at the lodge Parnell as an auditor at the time Steven then 7 was kidnapped Shortly after the abduction Parnell and the boy left and went to the Santa Rosa area "From all indications Stayner hasn't seen Murphy since that Bailey said 'Couldn't believe it' FARMINGTON (AP) A Farmington relative of a California teen-ager who returned home seven years after he disappeared believe Dennon Ellison said the family of 14-year-old Steven Stayner moved from the Farmington area in 1951 The father Delbert his grandfather Jess Stayner and his grandmother Lullea Stayner had lived on a bean farm near Aztec Mrs Ellison said She is the niece of the grandfather Mrs Ellison said father had told of looking for his missing son in crowds and of taking expeditions into the mountains near Merced Calif in search of the boy for more than a year after his disappearance Womens purses snatched Two city women at shopping centers had their purses snatched in separate attacks as they were walking to their cars police said A 24-year-old woman told police she had left Pay Less Drug Store 9(20 Snowheights NE about 8 pm Tuesday when a man attacked her as she was approaching her car She said the man pushed her against the car and she hit her head The suspect ran takipg her purse with personal belongings including credit cards A 51-year-old woman told police she was on her way to her car parked near The Broadway at Coronado Shopping Center about 2 pm when she was attacked A man ran up to her and pushed her to the ground He yanked the purse from her and fled It contained four credit cards and personal papers Conservation seminar set An energy conservation seminar will be given Thursday from 9 am to 6 pm at the Hilton International Ballroom Slide presentations and brochures will be available for the public Participants in the program include the US Department of Energy Public Service Co of New Mexico the New Mexico Energy Institute Energy Consumers of New Mexico and others the Hizbi Islami (Islamic Front) the largest of the rebel groups said Tuesday in Peshawar The Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan a coalition of rebel groups said today some 7000 Afghan families are making the dangerous trek across the mountains into Pakistan where thousands of refugees are now living THE REBEL coalition conceded that the combined Soviet-Afghan force captured the main Kunar towns of Asmara and Shegal in three days of bitter fighting The Hizbi Islami spokesman said guerrillas had retreated to the mountains where they were being pinned down by tank fire and continuous heavy bombardment by helicopter gunships and MiG fighters Villages in the plains of the provinces were destroyed by Soviet napalm attacks the rebels said There are an estimated 75000 Soviet troops in Afghanistaa THE REBEL groups claimed that of Soviet soldiers and more than 2000 Afghan troops" were killed in the fighting in Kunar They said insurgent and civilian losses were A spokesman for the Alliance appealed today for arms and aid from Moslem countries and the United ISLAMABAD Pakistan (UPI) -Afghan refugees say Soviet fighter planes dropped lethal nerve gas bombs during a combined Russian-Afghan military thrust against Moslem guerrillas in the eastern Afghanistan province of Kunar Western diplomats said today Many of the refugees most of them primitive tribespeople described cannisters falling from planes and spewing out blue-green-gray smoke on hitting the ground" one diplomat said backward people then described how villagers acted like madmen became paralyzed and died" he said "These people may have been coached into what to say but there are so many allegations that something must be behind the THE REFUGEE claims followed previous reports that Soviet forces have engaged in chemical warfare since they invaded Afghanistan Dec 27 The United States has said it was looking into the reports The diplomats said there was concrete evidence that the massive sweep backed by tanks helicopter gunships and fighter planes had allowed the Soviets to gain control of major towns and roads in the valleys of Kunar on the border with Pakistaa One diplomat said the thrust which has pushed Moslem rebels into the mountains well foretell a general spring offensive which is MEANWHILE IN Washington West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Carter are meeting at the White House in an attempt to resolve differences over conflicting approaches to the Afghanistan situation Diplomats said Schmidt planned to offer forceful assurances of West German loyalty to NATO today even though he has been reluctant to embrace the measures taken by Carter in retaliatioirfor the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan Rebel spokesmen in Pakistan have said the fierce fighting in Kunar has touched off an exodus of refugees which has proved fatal to many women and children THE DIPLOMATS said the guerrillas be overstating their losses" to back appeals for arms and ammunition The Foreign Ministry of the puppet Kabul regime charged that Pakistani military planes were violating Afghan airspace in Kunar Soviet and Cuban news reports said "Many civilians especially women and children drowned in the Kunar River when trying to flee from the advancing Soviets" a spokesman for powers will end July 1 1981 King also approved a measure that provides S900000 for capital outlay projects at the new Los Alamos branch of the University of New Mexico and $1394 million to the Northern New Mexico Community College for construction and equipping of vocational education building at the Espanola campus OTHER BILLS signed by the governor will: Provide $1058 million for capital outlay projects at various penal facilities and at Ft Stanton Hospital Extend the time allowed in which to spend $200000 provided for a desalination demonstrationproject in the Tularosa Basin Authorize spending $14400 for oxygen equipment on National Guard helicopters Provide $100000 for tourism promotion Make a $700000 appropriation from the general fund for land and water conservation projects and another $15 million for water supply construction projects Provide $480000 for school improvements in energy-impacted areas Appropriate $522000 to expand the neo-natal care unit at Bernalillo County Medical Center Authorize spending $44000 for National Guard equipment Appropriate $500000 for medical equipment at BCMC SANTA FE (UPI) Construction of a state natural history museum to be located in Albuquerque could begin within two years under a measure approved by the chief executive Gov Bruce King signed Tuesday a bill providing $8 million to finance the new facility which would house and display artifacts and objects from New prehistoric past The natural history museum measure was sponsored by Sea John Irick R-Bernalillo UNDER THE measure $230000 will be provided immediately from the state general fund to begin plans and designs for the new facility to be located on a 48-acre plot in Old Town at 19th St and Mountain Road Title to the land must be turned over to the state The $8 million in severance tax bonds set aside for the project would be issued in two segments with the first $500000 worth to be sold before Feb 1 1981 to pay for bid preparation and architectural plans THE BALANCE of the bonds will be sold when the state Property Control Division certifies after Feb 1 1982 that the money is needed to begin construction Albuquerque city officials would have to come up with $2 million toward the ultimate cost of the museum before any of the bonds in the second phase could be sold The new museum which Irick had said could be in operation by 1983 would be used to display prehistoric artifacts from New past During the legislative session that ended last month the Museum of New Mexico maintained a display of some of those ancient objects in the rotunda area of the Capitol IN OTHER action the governor signed into law a bill that provides $1 million to help low income families cope with escalating utility bills Under the measure persons whose incomes does not exceed 125 percent of the federal poverty guidelines will qualify Payments of up to $400 per year will be made either directly to the qualifying families or the utility involved KING ALSO put his signature on a measure giving him broad powers in the event of an energy emergency An emergency is defined as existing or imminent domestic regional or national shortage of energy which could result in the curtailment of essential services or the disruption of the economy The governor would have the power to impose restrictions on energy use considered wasteful order changes in the operating hours of businesses and regulate travel on the highways Those emergency Officials clear detention home satisfied they "And weren't Bernalillo County officials today said they are satisfied that Juvenile Detention Home guards acted properly in a Feb 21 incident in which a 16-year-old boy was injured The Albuquerque XAACP had requested an investigation of the youth facility aft-erRichard Mays was injured XAACP officials claim the youth's treatment was and unjust" Mayes was hospitalized with a broken neck and other injuries XAACP spokesmen said County Attorney Joe Diaz said he met with Mike Hartman director of the juvenile home and County Manager Alex Abeyta the day after the incident "We wanted to be assured that no one was doing anything Diaz said conclusion is that there was not any unreasonableness on the part of the staff" Diaz said that because of possible legal action against the county specific details of the incident could not be released Abeyta said a confiden- tial report was given to county commissioners conclusion of it was that there was no negligence on our part" Abeyta said were trying to set the XAACP at ease that we were looking into he said The Rev Eugene Winn president of the Albuquerque XAACP chapter said he talked with the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department in Washington DC and requested an investigation of the detention home Winn said he was told to submit a formal request Pay raises for majority of NM 's elected officials La Placita liquor license issue thrown to council very strong factor in the economy of Old Town and it would be too bad if they had to close down" he said who are now paid $35317 will receive an annual salary of $42000 a 19 percent increase The chief justice and the chief judge of the court of appeals will draw $500 more a year Those pay raises will be effective in June The Legislature rejected a proposal to increase the judicial pay levels over a two-year period which would have provided high court members with a $49500 annual salary in the 1981-1982 fiscal year and would have given appeals court judges and district judges similar increases Magistrates will get a uni-form 14 percent pay hike beginning in June under another measure endorsed by the governor The sheriffs in Luna and Hidalgo counties will receive a 23 percent pay hike as a result of a provision that provides the higher pay to sheriffs in second-class counties border on foreign All 13 district attorneys in the state who are now paid $31900 annually will see an increase to $37000 beginning July 1 The governor approved three measures that will raise the pay levels of the judicial branch of state government UNDER THE bill justices of the supreme court will get a 15 percent pay hike to $44000 annually judges of the appeals court will get an 18 percent boost to $43000 a year and district judges time Old Town merchant who owns the Basket Shop said he supports the idea of the restaurant having a liquor license percent" a matter of economics in Old he said restaurants with good food have liquor and if La Placita has liquor it will bring more business heretoOldTowa" Elliotts have been a SANTA FE (UPI) The majority of elected officials in tiie state from the governor to county sheriffs will get pay raises during the next several months as a result of legislation approved by Gov Bruce King King put his signature on bills boosting pay levels for executive branch officers all classes of judges district attorneys and county officials THE increases approved range between 5 percent and 23 percent The governor will go from a current salary of $40000 to $50000 on July 1 while the secretary of state state treasurer state auditor members of the corporation commission and the lieutenant governor who now get $30000 annually will be increased to $35000 King had not sought a pay increase The attorney general and commissioner of public lands will get a boost to $40000 from their current salaries of $35 000 Those executive pay hikes go into effect July KING ALSO signed a bill that will give county officials a raise effective Jaa 1 1981 Allofficials except sheriffs will see a IS percent increase in their gross pay Sheriffs except those in two counties will get a 20 percent increase The state liquor director said today he hopes proponents and opponents of a liquor license for La Placita Dining Rooms will discuss the issue thoroughly before any action is taken Jim Baca the director said: "I think if they work together they can come up with something nice I hope the matter will be discussed thoroughly before they shut them dowa" He referred to the Elliott family's decision to close the restaurant it has operated for three generations if it cant get a liquor license THE ELLIOTTS have asked the City Council to waive a state law banning the sale of liquor within 300 feet of a church or school La Placita in the historic Casa de Armijo is within 300 feet of San Felipe de Neri Catholic Church Baca said a local governing body such as the City Council can grant a waiver STAN KULTBERG long Presents Financial Security through Real Estate INSTITUTE for pa INVESTMENT (3DUCATION Liquor license hopes are doused by Baca Our real estate experts will show you: how to buy with little or no money down how to shelter your Income from taxation how to build your personal road map to Financial Security crease since the 1970 census Even so Baca said don't think you'll see many new licenses being He released a report to show why The report shows that many areas already are well above the number of licenses allowed under the quota system especially Albuquerque with 179 licenses 57 more than permitted SANTA FE (UPI) -Wfiul4-frc liquor licensees sfiould not be encouraged in the hope that new licenses will be available as a result of the 1980 census least of all those in Albuquerque Liquor Control Director Jim Baca says The state's liquor license quota system is based on population which is expected to show a dramatjc in FREE LECTURE Hiiton Hotel March61980 7:30 pm 9 JO pm 293-0209 a subsidiary company of ROCARDl associates! 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