Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 1

ic mf 1302 Volume 50 IO Long List Of AgenattJtems Considered Council Approves Plan To Upgrade DPS Radio Net A radio communications contract to upgrade the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety system was awarded to Motorola by city commissioners in Tuesday regular meeting. at a cost of $17,742.14. Of the amount, $8,946.74 will be paid by a federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grant which already has been approved, and part of the share will he budgeted in the next fiscal year. Commissioners also awarded a contract to Otero County Concrete to supply concrete for repair of the water reservoir. at $22.50 per cubic yard, with $1.50 per yard deduction payment before the loth of the following month.

City Manager J. W. Harrison and DPS Acting Director Rex Carrell said the radio communications contract will provide the DPS and mobile units with multi frequency capabilities. The DPS will have operational control of the Alamogordo partment of Public Works and city administration radio systems; operational control of the radio system as a backup when requested; and local operational control of the statewide inter city radio system. The Alamogordo DPS control station can take with any other city in the state with the new system, whereas it has no such contact now.

The control center also will have contact itll MAST copters out of Fort Bliss, medical evacuation units. DPS mobile units will have capability cf operating on Hie new frequency assigned, and talking directly to State Police and mobile units. The new frequency was requested and approved by the Federal Communications Commission because Alamogordo and Las Cruces currently are on the same frequency and this city has a lot of interference. The new 110-watt system also will give DPS repeater communications between mobile units for an area extending as far north as Three Rivers and south to Orogrande. The new base station, one new mobile radio and control center for the dispatcher and addition of 20 feet to the centred antenna will cost $9,497.

i-l under the contract. Ten additional new multi-frequency radios will cost $8,245. Ten of the present DPS radios will be transferred to the public works department which had $1,300 left in its budget for upgrading its radio communications system. That $1,300 will be applied to the Motorola contract. The city had budgeted for this year $1,824.66 in matching funds for the LEAA grant.

Mot rola agreed that approximately $5,700 of the balance may be budgeted in the next fiscal year. In other business the commission: rezoning of Block 23, Airport Blocks, from Class (one family residential) to Cii.ss (trailer district-trailer court), for Mrs. Nancy Fam- fcro. employment of John Wallace to do the 1973-74 fiscal year audit. transfer of a liquor license from the Tex Bar to the Pizza Hut, at 17 White Sands Boulevard.

The license will remain in the same location. City Attorney John See Page 6 Column 5 BRIEFS City crews were busy this morning doing preparatory work before beginning repairs on the large concrete water reservoir located just north of the Cracks appearing in the inner cement surface led to the repair, officials said. The front loader working in the photo is removing part of the earth buttress around the huge tank. City Manager J. W.

Harrison said the repair will take the pressure tank out of service and may result in a slight dropping of water pressure in the higher parts of town. This would be most noticeable in the vicinity of Scenic Drive, he added. More Releases Expected Soon for the year just haven't gotten cif the ground yet. The turn of the calendar makes a fellow realize that getting farther behind all the til least ifs that way in oui case. Weed Fete Up at Weed big things are beng planned for March 17.

They'll have a big enchilada supper and fiddling contest. The supper is to be served from 5 to 8 p.m., and the fiddling follows. Trophies will bv awarded for the first three places in the fiddling contest, and all fiddlers will be invited Lo participate. The supper is in the Weed school cafeteria and the fiddling contest wit! be in the gyi- ifs all -ct to be a big night OI tun and visiting, so make your plans, and people from all our re invited to come up for it all. 4-Wheelers Tin public is invited to attend the meeting of the Dust Devils Four Wheel Drive Club, to be hold in Scout Hut on Oregon Av Thursday.

March at 7 JI. rn. "This club is enjoyed by all so it you have or plan to get a four wheel drive vehicle, you will enjoy the many scenic trips E. L. Sehure man.

corresponding secretary declares. 'Cat Feed The Tularosa basketball team i- going to be honored Thursday morning before leaving for the district tournament with a breakfast hosted by the Booster Club. "We're hoping that all our members will get out of the sack early enough to come have breakfast with us and maybe even ouy another for one of the members of the team!" declared Guy Warden, president ct the organization. The breakfast will be held in the dining room at the staurant In Tularosa at 7 a.rn. Cost will $1.24, so come on out, see the sun rise.

enjoy a good break! and support fie team before they leave tor the tournament in Gadsden! Law Seminars The Otero County Self Help program will be conducting informal seminars on the la-v on Thursday evenings starting March 8 at 7 p.m. at 401 Texas Ave. I hose seminars ill concern themselves with basic concepts of the law and the relationship bd wan the law and poverty. Al- See Column WASHINGTON (AP) The White House said today it now has that Han i will release more than 120 additional prisoners of war sometime this week. However.

press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Secretary of State William P. Rogers 'Cyclist Hurt In Plunge Over Cliff A motorcyclist was injured seriously Tuesday evening en the Cloudcroft highway near the sprng when hi bike left the road, climbed ii hill, and topped over an 11-foot cliff, plunging cycle and rider back onto the highway surface, State Police said Carry L. Monroe, S3, of 1113 Vermont Avenue. was headed west on a 1971 Honda and had inst passed the spring on ll S.

A2 when the mishap occurred. The driver of a passing telephone repair truck witnessed the accident and alerted authorities. Monroe was taken to medical aal by a Department of Public Safety ambulance. Officials at Picture on Page 6 (Ii ald Champion Memorial Hospital listed the youth in tion this morning. Oft ice Ron Shriver said the accident occurred when Monroe apparently came around a curve too fast, losing control and sliding oft the right side of the pavement and up the steep embank- nu ut.

Shriver said the youth suffered apparent internal injuries, a broken right arm, abrasions and lacerations in the 5:15 m. accident. Citations in the mishap are nbing. Shriver added. would continue to hold up proceedings at the multination conference in Paris on Vietnam until all arrangements release of the next group of prisoners have been completed.

Ziegler said Nixon spent much of the morning conferring with Henry A. Kissinger, his chief Vietnam peace negotiator, and that the two men bari been in frequent contact with Rogers who met in Paris with North foreign minister, Nguyen Duy Trinh. It is the sit ion that more thun 120 Americans should have been set free by Hanoi earlier this week under terms of peace agreement protocols covering prisoners and cease-fire arrangements. Ziegler said the1 next step in tao drama that has sidetracked the Pans conference would be a meeting Thursday morning i Saigon time I of the Joint Military Commission headquartered in Hie uth Vietnamese capital. This body will be responsible for approving detailed arrangements fur the next prisoner release, including an advance I -ts of names of those involved precise timetable for the transfer into American hands.

TWI OJmlinq, MalL WCIPIN 1 Winn Laugh Lines Tir' Internal Revenue Service looks upon a citizen as one who has what, it takes. Short Month Another month of the year has just about exhausted itself, and while it is the shortest month of the year, it's still used up. We've taken a look and the things we had planned illllllllllllllttllllllllillllllllltltllltllllllllllllllltltllllllllHlllllltllllfllilllt TIPD1At 437-2333 New Ordinonce Adopted LONG LINE Otero county motorists were queued up early this morning to purchase 1973 vehicle registrations as the midnight Friday deadline approached. A spokesman for the Motor Vehicle License Bureau said the office in the east wing of the city hall will close at 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday evenings unless the commissioner in Fe extends the closing hours to take care of the last-minute rush.

Search Starts For New City commissioners last night slashed the occupation tax rate in half and lowered tho minimum fee to $5 in an effort lo resolve the controversial issue which has plagued officials for rn re than two years and two lawsuits in the past 18 months. Commissioners adopted Ordinance No. 490. which amends the existing ordinance (1971) Insetting the occupation tax rate at 50 cents per year for eat Ii 81.0(H) of gross receipts. The 1971 ordinance provided for $1 per year for each $1,000 gr ss.

with a sliding scale. The ut ordinance is identical except for the rate change. Gene Brock of Sutton-Brock told the four commissioners present lie still is opposed to the occupation tax. calling it an unfair tax as it is geared to gross sales and not profits. Ile told the commission he did appreciate the time they have spent and their efforts to resolve thf matter.

M. Anderson also sp.oke in opposition to tho occupation tax. He reiterated his request that the city institute a licensing system for business finns in lieu of the cccupation tax. Mayor Pro Tem John Lawless said the occupation tax is an equitable one in that it place, the burden on the business firms proportionately as to ability to pay instead of on those with lower inc mal, Lawless jaunted out that the commission had discussed earlier during last meeting hefty increases in water and sewage rates to meet bonding obligations, which would cost the rich and poor alike, and that the occupation See Page Column 8 Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A tremor shook eastern Pennsylvania and areas in Delaware no Maryland for several seconds early today, No injuries or major damage were reported. DUBLIN The Irish Republic voted today in a national election to decide its government for the next five years, and the race was completely open.

After 15 years in power. Prime Minister Jack Lynch's Fianna Fail party, the Soldiers of Destiny, has been thrown on the defensive by a 14-point program of social reform produced by a coalition of Fine Gael the Irish Parly and the smaller Labor The counting of votes starts Thursday and may take 48 hours. SANTA FE. NM. (AP) -The New Mexico House today parsed 38-2 a bill expanding the right of newsmen to retain confidentiality of news sources.

Since the House made no amendments to the measure, it now goes to the govern for his consideration and signature. WASHINGTON The House Internal Security Committee has voted to probe whether issue exploiting revolutionaries are trying to spark turmoil in America's prisons. WASHINGTON i The House and Senate today pa-sui and sent to the White House a resolution extending temporary financing until June 30 for foreign aid and two government depart ments. The date for extension of foreign aid funding beyond midnight tonight is a compromi of a two-month stop gap continuation voted by the Senate. Rose Festival Royalty Sophomores Eligible For 13 Conks! TD LA ROS A A search is underway in tho City of Roses for young women to comjxde in the 1973 Rose Festival Queen contest.

The coronation committee, under the stipendsion of Mrs. Julie Mid aud, past president of tile Tularosa Chamber of Commerce and owner of Tularosa Dry Goods, met Tuesday night at the ham ber offices to work til preliminary plans for the slated for May 4 at the high school gymnasium. Die contest I held in eoniunc- tion with the Rose Festival which annually held the first weekend in May Events include the kick-off banquet, the contest, a parade, a tour of borne? and gardens in tile community, an art, flower and hobby show, a rodeo, cai nival, chuet wagon supper. Western dance and old dinner. 'Ihe winner et the contest reigns over the weekend arid represents the Ml'age at social functions throughout the following year.

Among definite actions taken at tile Tuesday meeting were opening contest to sophomore girls attending Tularosa High School and adding a ilG entry fee for caci. slant in the past, the compt titian has been open to junior and senior girls only. The entry fee will help (over expenses of the contest, it was noted. A meeting with all interested young women will be scheduled in the near future as well as a clinic for contestants which will include workshops un makeup, hair, poise and modeling. Contestant! will model, vie ti talent competition and appear a formal Affing the eve nt.

hi rving on the coronation committee are Mrs. Joe Phillips, Mr Gerald Rhodes, Mrs. Bill Ramsey, Hon Geisheimor and Chuck Vigil. Indictment' Was Listed In Error In a recent story listing grand jury indictments, Gerald Duran was listed erroneously as having been indicted, along with Charles Wilson, for unlawful sale of Itcroin and unlawful of heroin This i.s ii th fact. In indictments precented recently by the grand jury, Duran was indicted with WU-oh for unlawful sale of marijuana, a fourth degree felony Char'd Ii Wilson also was indicted along tor unlawful sale of heroin and unlawful possession of in.

FIRE AID Col. Cunningham, base commander at Holloman, signs a 'mutual fire assistance agreement between the communities of Alamogordo, Holloman and Cloudcroft. The pact is designed, officials said, to provide mutual help in the event of a major disaster. Looking on are Alamogordo City Manager J. W.

Harrison, left, and Cloudcroft Fire Chief Bill Farmer. Tip Ready To Pay Another Reward TIP. the program named for Turn In A Pusher, is ready to pay reward for information turned in oil Ed Peterson and his connection i illicit drugs Tile purpose of TIP i to reward who will use their special telephone line report drug ae livitv, with reporters ol sin Ii information remaining anonymous. Rewards are paid upon oonva ii the information proved benefit tai TTP officials said that per as win turned in name are advised I til Ii 437-2333, and report their cod" numb and arrange ments can be made ta claim the reward Cooksey To Take School Board Seat 11 LAROSA Ronald St y. newly elected member of tm Tularosa board of education, will be sworn info office Thursday during a special meeting of the txiard.

was winner of the Fob election which saw a total cl six persons in tile Tularosa school district vie for the six vt ar posh arati Jig the scat is Don Onley, a four-year member of the nrd wlio has held Hie vice president's posit) most of his term Another feature of the meeting reorganization ol the Present1 holding board of I are Rub it Sea mon, president; Onley, vice president: Guy Warden, secretary, other n.embers Emil Martinelli aud Alfonso Aguilar meeting is slated for 6 rn in -'inference room of flu administration building un First Street Weather Mi St iv cloudy today and tonight with Widely scattered spewers beginning late todav; mob rate to strong gusty winds ms afternoon; partly cloudy ur day; cooling trend Lav 40, hipn 60..