Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 1

Vol. 065 Satlg Nema Alamogordo. Now Moxlco, Wodnosday, March 17,1976 Grants area booming, more in sight Energy session will eye uranium expansion By JETER BRYAN A two-day meeting of the New Mexico Legislative Energy Committee is scheduled April 1 and 2 in Grants, uranium center of New Mexico and perhaps destined to be one of the major energy development centers of the United States. Rep. John Mershon, D-Lincoln-Otero, described the Grants meeting one of major significance.

Three uranium mills are in operation in that area at present Anaconda, Kerr- McGee and United Nuclear- Homestake Partners. Plans for 17 additional ore mills are in the WaUiiUL U)aiL wnmr wnui Laugh linos It is true that women live longer than men especially widows. Prom plans Work is going forward on the part of ASHS students, informed, for the annual Junior-Senior Prom which is scheduled for April 24 at the Holloman Club, from 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m., with music by the band. The Prom is private for juniors and seniors and admission will be by special invitation only. AHS Principal Bill said school wishes TIP.

im 437-2333 to announce that die post- Prom breakfast and post- Prom movie are not school sponsored activities and are left to the discretion of die parents of the juniors and seniors as to whether they have these activities or Information concerning post-Prom activities is available from Ron Wainwright, president of the junior class, whose home telephone number is 479-2808, advised. The high school Photography Club has been designated to be in charge of pictures for the event. wall 18-coming up been asked to take note of several events coming up in the next few days, including: Otero County Arthritis Foundation meeting tonight at 7:30 at Grace United Methodist Church. NARFE meeting on Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Older American Center.

joint meeting of the Alamogordo and El Paso Good Sam organizations this weekend at the Fairgrounds, for which some 35 units are expected, according to local spokesmen. Hie event starts Friday and will feature a luncheon on Saturday. Road blocks No road blocks are scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday, according to a White Sands Missile Range spokesman. Rates set for Betty Dare Home Rates for residents of the Betty Dare-Good Samaritan Home have been set, Betty Sadler has announced. Rates will be effective on the opening date of the home.

Three rates have been established for those requiring intermediate care. Based on two residents per room, minimum care residents will pay $18 per day; moderate care, $20 per day; and maximum care, $22 per day. Sheltered care residents (two per room) rates have been set at $11 per day; single room, $20 per day. No skilled nursing care will be available. Intermediate care wings have showers and tubs, with help always available for bathing.

There will be 70 beds available in the intermediate care unit. Rooms have their own heaters and air conditioners with thermostatic controls. Each room has its own lavatory and stool facilities. Sheltered care units number 20 beds. All rooms are designed for two residents but a private room may be arranged at additional costs of $9 per day, totaling $20 per day.

Residents will be charged for rooms held while resident is in a hospital or any other place. Full price medicaid is available in intermediate care only. Visiting hours will be any reasonable time. Family and friends are welcome to visit the beverage counter in the dining room with the residents whenever they wish. Guest meals will be $1 for breakfast and supper and $1.25 for dinner.

Mrs. Sadler said she wishes to express her appreciation for all the employment applications filed but she has received ample applications for all positions except those of the professional nursing staff. She hopes to move into her office at the nursing home by the middle of next week. but experts expect construction of eight to 10 will be completed. Two additional mills are under construction now.

Sohio-Reserve has a plant under construction on the Laguna Indian reservation, 30 miles east of Grants, and just east of Mt Taylor. That firm, Sohio Oil Co. and Reserve Mining, hopes to get first production from its mine on Labor Day of this year. United Nuclear has a new plant under construction 20 miles east of Gallup in the Churchrock area of the uranium field. Gulf Mineral Resources has a major installation planned at San Mateo north of Grants, and near Mt.

Taylor. Construction people are on the site, getting the mine work done before start of construction of the plant, The Daily News learned today. Additional work is planned in the Crownpoint area, where Phillips Petroleum and Continental Oil Co. (Conoco) have made major finds. Plants for that area are in the talking stage.

Up to this point, uranium ore brought out of die ground is milled, resulting in That yellowcake then is sent to refineries in other states by Anaconda, Kerr-McGee and United Nuclear-Homestake. Refining of yellowcake to be produced by the mills now under construction will be done out of state in the near future, but it is hoped to develop a full-scale, complete nuclear energy program in New Mexico, from mining ore to producing energy in one or more nuclear reactor plants. This involves four steps, mining and development of yellowcake; refining of lowcake an enrichment process sudi as would be involved in the proposed enrichment plant talked for New Mexico, and finally the nuclear reactor. Mershon said it is conceivable, and hoped, that all four steps could be performed in New Mexico during the coming years, which would put this state in a key role in 'Soil moisture remains LAS CRUCES (AP) Hie moisture report this week from the New Mexico Crop and Livestock Reporting Service was much the same as the past several weeks: moisture remained short in all areas of the Doughty's appeal is dismissed District Attorney Robert Doughty this morning said he has dismissed his Supreme Court appeal of Judge George L. ruling preventing him from assisting the Otero grand jury in the event of an investigation of his office.

Doughty said he reached an agreement with Judge Zimmerman over the matter and that a special prosecutor would be appointed to assist the grand jury during such investigations. Zimmerman had made the ruling after a hearing concerning a petition filed by a local advocacy group, Citizens for Better Government, which requested the court convene a special (Coodnaed am Page I) At Tularosa Routine items before board JEANETTE PHILLIPS TULAROSA Business conducted by the Tularosa Board of Education was routine last night with a number of items receiving board approval. Following approval of the minutes for the February meeting, the board went through several budget approvals, transfers and expenditures, all of a routine nature. rwumneri Occasional high cloudiness and warmer today and Thursday; breezy this afternoon; increasing windiness Thursday afternoon. Low tonight upper 30s and high Thursday near 80.

Supt. William Slade reported the Tularosa system had received full accreditation following a recent review from state officials. He said the Bent-Mescalero school media class and the high school media and building trades program received high marks in die survey. Slade discussed the retirement program for bus contractors who drive a route themselves, and broight to the attention that retirement benefits for contractor Art Blazer have not been paid for the last 15 years and that the school system would have to make up the $5,556.88 retirement fund, while share would be $3,419.66. On recom- (Continued on Page the energy field for years to come.

Interest among residents of the Chants area is running high concerning the forthcoming April 1-2 meeting. Twenty-five persons, ing representatives of existing uranium mining firms, will be on the program. The first day, April 1, will be taken up with tours of mines and mills and presentations by Grants area residents. Hie second day will be devoted almost entirely to nuclear energy and related problems. Dr.

Grace Olivarez, state planning officer, will make a presentation on the second day. She is expected to in some detail what the impact of nuclear development will be. Dr. Olivarez has noted that by a certain cutoff date in the future, the amount of capital (Continued on Page 6) Area residents and passersby render first aid, before the arrival of an ambulance, to one of two women hurt in an early morning crash at the corner of Eighteenth and College. Three young children riding in one of the cars escaped serious injury in the mishap, police said.

Transport, committees are clrasa Ken Garland, chairman of the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee, Tuesday appointed a number of subcommittees and welcomed Lowell Stough as co-chairman of the committee. Following general discussion of the needs and priorities in the area, including improved air transportation facilities and hopefully more extensive use of the Alamogordo-White Sands Regional Airport, Garland named a committee to attend State Highway Commission meetings, including Rolla Buck, chairman; Glenn Talley, Ed Hinderks and Jeter Bryan. Marvin Rohovec was appointed to head a committee to work with city officials on street matters, including signs. Qif McDonald, Chamber president, will work with him. Col.

Ed Busick, Stan Lowe, Dr. William A. Boehm and Ed will serve on a committee to pursue the U. S. Highway 70 interchange at the entrance to Holloman Air Force Base.

Dr. Boehm will work on the study of the Cloudcroft (Highway 82) safety program. Sixteen persons attended the noon committee meeting at the Holiday Inn. Smashes leave motorists hurt City police investigated an accident with injuries Tuesday evening, and another early this morning, in which two women were injured and five cars damaged. Shortly before eight this morning, Mary N.

Vaughn, 33, of 209B Avenida Amigos, received a possible broken jaw and lacerations and Mimi B. Attleson, 27, of Lot 19, Evergreen Trailer court, suffered a head laceration in a wreck at the corner of Eighteenth St. and College Ave. Officers said Mrs. Vaughn was driving north on College when she entered the intersection at Eighteenth, striking a car driven by Lynette M.

Edgar, 18, of 1740 Van Court, before slamming into Miss late-model Ford. Following the collisions, reports said, the Vaughn car skidded across a lawn, grazed a tree, ami struck a partied sports car belonging to Roger Woodle in the driveway at 1805 College Ave. Mrs. Vaughn was cited for careless driving. At 8:22 last evening, a 1974 Chevrolet driven by Melba F.

Matherly, 40, of 710 White Sands Boulevard, apparently attempted a left turn off of White Sands at First St. and (Continued on Page 6) I County accepts free furniture The county administration has received some $1,800 worth of office equipment free of charge to be used in the district attorney's new offices on the third floor of the courthouse. County Administrative Assistant Ginger Yearley said the equipment desks, tables, chairs, a bookshelf, etc. was among items offered to local government agencies and schools by the state Bureau of Revenue which has moved into a new building with new furnishings. Mrs.

Yearley said the county spent $150 on per diem for county employes who helped choose the items needed and return them to Alamogordo. County Commissioner G. L. Tucker said he used his own stock trailer rig to haul the furnishings since the road equipment currently is involved with other projects. Mrs.

Yearley said this is the first time the county has participated in such surplus equipment giveaway programs conducted by state agencies. Mi Holder of hostages moves operations to big town NEW YORK (AP)-A man charged with holding a New York official hostage while demanding jobs for blacks said he belonged to an organization in Albuquerque, and carried news clippings oi a similar incident there. James Andrew Johnson, 31, who is black, also identified himself as Goeundi Wusuya. He was arrested Tuesday after an unsuccessful attempt to get an audience with Gov. Hugh Carey.

He held a special assistant to the state industrial commissioner hostage for 90 minutes in a World Trade Center building office. Police who broke into the office said the man was unarmed. Police said Wusuya was demanding 100,000 jobs for young blacks and other minorities. He was charged with unlawful imprisonment, obstructing governmental administration, and harassment. Conviction on the charges could result in a two- year prison term.

He gave police a New York City address. In Albuquerque a man identified as James Andrew Johnson who called himself Gosundi was arrested last October after he and another man allegedly barricaded Employment Security Commission official H.C. Wright in his office 45 minutes, jobs for blacks. Wright was released after Gosundi talked on the telephone with Gov. Jerry Apodaca.

Gosundi wss acquitted of a false imprisonment charge last December in connection with the Albuquerque in- cident. On Dec. 11, the same man occupied the office of Harry Kinney for 90 minutes to dramatize a demand for jobs for Albuquerque blacks. New York City police said the man identifying himself Tuesday as Johnson or Gosundi Wusuya, was arrested after downs of police officers, many weariig bulletproof vests and carrying shotguns, went to the building. Three floors of the UOotory twin-towered building were evacuated.

Wusuya surrendered peacefully about noon when officers burst into the 73rd- Tbe subject this story Is one ef twe men who last yew held a New Mexico state official la his office while demands for employment. Gov. Jerry Apedacp, who ww in Alamogordo at the time, spent approximately aa how so the telephone negotiating with the pair to effect the release. The men later were freed sa legal technicalities. flow office where the incident occurred.

Police said Wusuya had demanded a conference call between himself, Gov. Carey and Basil Patterson, a black who is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. want the governor his captive, Norman Silverberg, quoted the man as having said. have something to talk over with No call was placed to the Patterson said Wusuya was a former employe of the Off-Track Betting Corp. While in the office, he had placed a telephone call to radio station WWRL saying, are demanding 100,000 jobs for young black and oppressed people in this city.

We are demanding amnesty for our In the Albuquerque incident, Johnson claimed Gov. Apodaca had offered them amnesty, jobs and a personal meeting if they gave up peacefully. He and the other man were not armed. Apodaca later met with the two men. News BRIEFS LAS CRUCES N.

M. AP) Albert N. Johnson is the new mayor of Las Cruces. Johnson, 40, the first black of the city, was chosep Monday on a 3-2 vote of the city commission for a two- year term. WASHINGTON (AP) -The FBI says investigators know whether a reported scheme to assassinate President Ford and challenger Ronald Reagan at the Republican National Convention is a fake.

As with many tips about impending terrorist activities, an FBI spokesman said Tuesday, dealing in this The matter is still being investigated, the spokesman said. WASHINGTON (AP) Northrop Corp. says an Italian subsidiary apparently made improper payments totaling $861,000 in five countries over a seven-year period and that some of the payments violated a court order barring such practices. WASHINGTON (AP) President decision to limit imports of specialty steel could increase prices of some products to consumers because the imports are 26-31 per cent below domestic prices. SILVER CITY (AP) Eighteen Silver School custodial staff workers were on strike today, with a picket line in front of the school administrative office.

Hie walkout was prompted by Monday school board refusal to recognize Local 890 United Steel Workers of America as bargaining agent for the custodians. LONDON (AP) Princess Margaret, strong-willed of Queen Elisabeth and her globe-trotting husband Lord Snowdon are taking steps toward separation divorce, London newspapers reported today. Buckingham Palace refused to coounent on reports thal the qpeen has approved the breakup..