The Deming Headlight from Deming, New Mexico (2024)

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12,1980 DEMING HEADLIGHT PAGE 3 NEW YORK (AP) The stock market held fairly steady today following four sessions of strong gains. Blue chip issues slipped from their highest level in three vears but other sectors advanced slightly. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks declined .60 to 963.48 as of midday. But gaining issues outnumbered losers by a slight 6-5 margin on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones industrial average had traded at is highest levels since March 1977 in the past two sessions.

The blue chip index has climbed about 200 points since April. Some analysts had predicted a pullback in today's trading following four consecutive advances including Monday's 9-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average. But the pullback this morning was mild. Big Board volume continued fairly active. Trading came to 22.53 million shares against 17.60 million in the Obituary Paul Thomson Paul B.

Thomson, 58, formerly of Deming and now a resident of Lordsburg, died Aug. 8, at Hillcrest General Hospital in Silver City. He was born Jan. 3, 1922 in Mountainaire, NM and married Flora Jean Burns on June 1, 1959. He served tours of duty in both the Air Force and the Army and was a veteran of World War II.

At the time of his death, he was employed by Time D.C. of El Paso where he had been a truck driver for 15 years. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday Aug. 13 at the Wheeler Mortuary Chapel with Rev.

Leon Carroll of Bethel Baptist church officiating with interment to follow at Mt. View Cemetery. Thomson is survived by his wife; Flora Jean Thomson; four daughters, Starla, Carrie, Diane and Katrina, and one son, John, all of Lordsburg. Two grandchildren also survive; four brothers, Floyd of San Antonio, Texas, John, Hemet, Jimmy, Kettle Falls, and David, Reseda, five sisters, Dorothy Poe of Lordsburg, Catherine Gamble, La Mirada, lone Thompson, Kettle Falls, Florence Porter, Eureka, and Rose Johnston of Northridge, Calif. He was preceded in death by a daughter Kathryn Johnell in July 1969 and a brother Frank in 1979.

The Wheeler Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. City Council acts on zoning changes By MIKE COOK In addition to Paving District 10, the City Council considered a number of other issues at last night's meeting. The Council voted to approve a rezoning request for lots two through seven of the Whittenburg Addition. The vote changed the zoning there from A to B-1, trailer use, with the stipulation that streets and alleys in the area would be dedicated. After the vote, Councilman Voiers, moved for a six-month moritorium on rezoning for trailer use in the City.

The motion passed unanimously. Also, the Council approved Solar Acres as a subdivision. It is located about two miles south of Deming, just west of Country Club Road and falls into a City planning and platting area, even though it is out of the City limits, and therefore requires Council approval. The Council also agreed to look further into the possibility of annexing 10 acres of land just south of Deming to the City. By a split vote, with Mayor Lloyd Pratz casting the deciding vote, the Council approved a request from the Deming Lions for the City to maintain the park next to the cemetery after the Lions had added tables, benches, trash cans, etc.

The Council also approved a request from the cemetery to raise the cost of grave care in the Memorial Section from $325 to $400. That will cover the cost of opening and closing of a grave, perpetual care and a granite marker. The request had been made because of the increasing cost of the headstones. The Council also voted to raise the assessment for care of a grave in the old part of the cemetery from $25 to $50. Next the Council heard a request from and Pet Center, 305 E.

Spruce to change City law to allow pet shopts to house more than a certain number of animals of one type 1 in the City limits. The City currently has laws which limit to four the number of dogs and many other animals which one person can own in the City. City Attorney John Schaber said the ordinance was designed with private citizens i in mind and not businesses. He said he could draw up an amendment to the City code which would exclude pet shops from this rule. The Council approved the action.

Also, the Council accepted a bid of $5,350 from Kuester Construction Co. of Las Cruces for the construction of shuffleboard courts in Central Park. Kuester, which has done previous work for the City in Central Park, was the only bidder for the project. They also turned in an alternate bid of $1,100 for benches for the shuffleboard court. The Council was also informed that the City has received Bureau of Outdoor Recreation (BOR) grants which will cover the cost of lighting the Central Park Tennis Court, paving the parking area around the courts and ball parks there, and installing underground sprinkler systems in the four ball parks there.

The Council also accepted a notice from Cluett which owns Spring City Knitting Building, saying they intend to sell the building. Their contract with the City would allow for this. The notice said they would set up a trust fund from the sale of the building to pay off their City bonds by 1982. The City also voted to enter into a cooperative agreement with the State Highway Department for the purchase of right-of-ways on Poplar Street. The City's share of these acquisitions, as approved, will be $7,500.

The Council also voted to pay $1,800, as done in the past, to the Southwest Council of Governments for yearly services to the City of Deming. The figure approved is based on population. The Council also voted to approve the change of ownership of a liquor license. The one in question, for a local restaurant, will be changed from Pizza Hut of Santa Fe to Pizza Hut of America, Inc. Approval of the request means the change now goes to a protest hearing.

Also going before a hearing will be a request for a transfer of a liquor license from Jim's Western Restaurant to the Dower House. The City also voted to continue with a number of agreements with Luna County, as budgeted by the City and County in the same amounts as last year. The agreements concern the NCIC, Solid Waste, the Library, Civil Defense, the Fire Department and Ambulance Service and the new ambulance, the Commission on Aging and the feeding of prisoners. The Council also agreed to look into possible renovation of the hangar at the Deming Municipal Airport. Councilman Harrelson said she has received a number of complaints about the structure due to leaks in the roof.

The Council said it would consider possible remedies, including the possibility of tearing down the old hangar and constructing a new. smaller one. Ruling won't slow return of inmates Ribbon cutting More than 200 people from New Mexico and Mexico were on hand for the inauguration of the state's geothermal exploration program on the Mexican border near Columbus. Participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for one of the project's 32 test wells were from left: Victor Armando Gonzales, regional coordinator of customs for northern Mexico: Gerald Thomas, president, New Mexico State University: Mannie Najera, district director, U.S. Customs; Punkie Edwards, administrative assistant to U.S.

Sen. Harrison Schimitt; David King, secretary of the N.M. Department of Finance and Administration; Sergio Haren Chavez, president, Chamber of Industries, Juarez, Jorge Lona Valenzuela, director of Mexican Customs for the Chihuahua-New Mexico border; and Edward Kretek, Luna County Commissioner, New Mexico State geophysicists will drill the test wells. Project sponsors believe that if a good geothermal source is found in the area, it could supply energy to both sides of the border. More showers possible Today's forecast calls for cloudy skies and occasional light rain until about 3 p.m.

After 3, a chance of thunderstorms and light thundershowers with associated gusts of winds up to 35 mph are expected until 10. Yesterday's high was 93, while last night's overnight low was 61. Officials, at the Deming Flight Station reported that .18 inches of rain had fallen as of 9:30 this morning. By The Associated Press The threat of heavy showers is expected to decrease across southern New Mexico Wednesday, but there still will be a goo, I chance for showers and thundershowers across the state. Remnants of Hurricane Allen brought a risk of flash flooding to portions of southern New Mexico.

Light to moderate rain fell during the night in southeastern and south-central New Mexico as the remnants of what was once Hurricane Allen drifted across Mexico. southwestern Texas and southern sections of New Mexico. Temperatures around New Mexico Monday ranged from a high of 66 at Cloudcroft to 98 at Farmington. Market holds steady previous session. Sony Corp.

jumped 11, to 113, as the most actively traded NYSE issue. Trading included several blocks of 100.000 shares or more. The NYSE composite index rose .08 to 71.53. On the American Stock Exchange. the market value index gained .10 to 322.35.

SANTA FE (AP) Despite a federal court ruling, the state will continue to seek return of inmates held in out-ofstate prisons since the bloody riot at the state penitentiary, says the acting corrections secretary. U.S. District Judge Edwin L. Mechem on Friday granted 25 inmates a preliminary injunction, blocking their return to New Mexico's maximum-security facility. The inmates, held at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, asked that they not be returned to New Mexico until conditions at the prison improve.

Mechem said he granted the prisoners' request because he did not Backers for separate maximum security prison taking closer look SANTA FE (AP) A group of topranking state officials have indicated they believe further study is needed on the design plans for a new state penitentiary, the acting state corrections secretary said. The group, members of the state's corrections masterplan review committee, met informally 'on a private ranch this past weekend. Although the group did not reach a final decision on the issue, acting Corrections Secretary Bill Giron said Monday participants in the weekend retreat generally agreed to hold off on awarding the design contract. The group will consider a detailed study that will "point the way toward the particular option of improving the present facility" at a formal meeting later this month, Giron said. But at least one state official said he still is not convinced that the state should rule out building a new penitentiary.

David King, secretary of finance and administration, said he is concerned "with what seems to be the clear tive intent for a maximum security facility." State legislators in mid-February, acting with haste in the wake of the State cars reported violating 55 mph law SANTA FE (AP) A state Energy and Minerals Department official says drivers have reported between 100 and 110 state vehicles exceeding the 55 mph speed limit on New Mexico roads since June 1. "It's been fairly Debbie Brown, an information specialist at the department said Monday. "I haven't gotten any feedback at all from the state employees themselves," she said earlier. "We all hope they're taking it very seriously Nobody's called and yelled at Gov. Bruce King started a program in June designed to slow down speeding Youth dies from lightning SILVER CITY (AP) A Silver City youth has died in an El Paso, Texas, hospital after being struck by lightning while playing in a school yard, authorities say.

The 11-year-old boy, identified by police as Rudy Maldonado, was struck Sunday at 2:10 p.m. Maldonado was playing with two other boys on the baseball field behind LaPlata Junior High in Silver City. All the boys were knocked down by the lightning, which struck Maldonado. The boy was moved to the family residence by his parents, and when officers from the Silver City Police Department arrived, CPR was administered and then continued by the Rescue Squad. The boy was transported to Hillcrest General Hospital in Silver City, and later taken to the El Paso hospital.

He was pronounced dead at 4 a.m. Monday in El Paso, said hospital officials. destructive riot Feb. 2-3 at the prison in which 33 inmates died, appropriated $2 million to design a new maximum security facility. In addition to providing money for design work, the 1980 Legislature also reserved $50 million of the state's severance tax bonding capacity for construction of the new prison.

King voiced his concern last Friday at a meeting of the state Board of Finance after Giron outlined a proposal to convert the north wing of the existing penitentiary into a separate maximum security unit. King, who did not attend the weekend retreat, said Monday he sent an aide, Richard Bowman, to the meeting because "I wanted to be on record as being in favor of a separate maximum security facility." Where maximum security prisoners will be housed in the coming years was one of many issues discussed during the weekend retreat, which Giron said was "an outstanding success." Giron said participants at the seminar, including heads of groups involved in criminal justice planning. also agreed that construction of a 192- bed unit at the Los Lunas medium security prison "was a must to start immediately." Also discussed at the seminar were personnel to decrease the caseload: among probation and parole workers, expansion of prison industries, the state's determinate sentencing law and alternatives to incarceration, Giron said. Police blotter The Deming Police Department has recovered three bicycles in the last few days because the bikes had proper identification numbers. The bikes have been returned to their owners.

The Police wish to remind everyone again that proper licensing of bicycles can help prevent theft and can aid in recovery. Bikes can be registered at the Deming City Office for a small charge. A total of $425 damage was reported to a 1980 truck and camper shell at Greeman Motors, 326 E. Spruce after an attempt was made to pry the shell from the pickup. Ray Fawcett of 323 S.

Nickel reported that someone broke the window on the driver's side of his truck sometime Music Program planned The final night of the Library Music Program will be Aug. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Deming Public Library. The final performance will be the Woodwind "5" and the Woodwind "3" playing music composed by Bach and Mozart. Also scheduled is an introduction to modern music featuring a performance by the Deming High School Bombo.

The Library Music Program is sponsored by several high school band members and the Deming Public Library. The program is designed to acquaint the residents of Deming with the many facets of music. Address changed The Headlight reported in Tuesday's edition that defendant Terry Quincy of Deming, charged with receiving stolen property in Magistrate Court, allegedly took two stolen tires into his home at 1200 S. Mallory St. The Headlight has been informed that the address to which the property was alleged to have been taken was, in fact, 500 E.

Spruce St. consider the situation at the penitentiary to be stable. But acting Corrections Secretary Bill Giron said Monday he believes the injunction only applies to the 25 inmates involved in the federal suit. "We have more than 350 inmates out of state yet and we don't need to be particular about which ones we bring back." Giron said. He also said it is his understanding that Mechem's decision only prevents the state from returning the 25 inmates to the penitentiary near Santa Fe.

If any of the 25 inmates were classified as medium security prisoners, Giron said. "we would consider bringing them back to Los Lunas." The recently completed medium security prison at Los Lunas is to begin accepting prisoners Aug. 18, Los Lunas Warden Joe Gutierrez said last week. The suit by the 25 inmates, survivors of the Feb. 2-3 riot at the penitentiary in which 33 inmates were killed, contends that prison officials failed to safeguard the lives of the inmates.

The inmates also contend their rights were violated by overcrowding and substandard medical, dental "and psychiatric services at the penitentiary. Edward Beatty, a spokesman for the prisoners, told Mechem Friday that conditions at the New Mexico penitentiary have not changed since the riot. Beatty testified that he could "see and feel fear on the inmates' faces" when he returned to the maximum security prison last week to await the court hearing. "The first thing I heard was there is going to be another riot," he saide. And New Mexico corrections officials "haven't learned anything" from the riot, Beatty said.

"The state of New Mexico shouldn't have any prisoners," he said. "They don't know how to treat Sunday night, causing $50 damage. 8: Si 1A XXX A two-vehicle accident was reported Monday at the intersection of Pine Street and Copper Avenue. The accident took place when a 1976 Chevrolet driven by Andres Porras of Deming failed to yield after stopping at a stop sign on north Copper Avenue and struck a 1976 Chrysler driven by Verne B. Braghetta of Deming.

Damage to both vehicles was estimated to be in excess of $100. Adelina L. Sandoval of Hanover, N.M., was cited Monday evening after failing to yield at the intersection of Ash and San Miguel Streets. His 1962 Chevrolet then struck a 1980 Chevrolet truck driven by Rigoberto F. Duran of 1000 E.

Birch St. Damage to each vehicle was estimated to be in excess of $100. No SWIG employee government employees. Bumper stickers affixed to state government vehicles give the public a tollfree number to report anyone speeding in those cars. Since then, energy hotline workers have received about 45 calls a month, Ms.

Brown said. State employees reported for speeding are called in for conferences with their supervisors. On the second report, they receive written comments from their supervisors. And after that "We're hoping it won't go that far," Ms. Brown said.

However, employees reported more than twice might be forbidden to drive state cars, she said. No employees have been stopped more than once so far, Ms. Brown said. "The intent is not for people to lose their jobs," she said. The stickers were to have been placed on 1,800 stateowned vehicles.

Larry Kehoe, state energy secretary, said the federal government requires that at least 40 percent of the drivers comply with the 55 mph limit during 1980. States failing to reach the 40 percent level of compliance could face loss of federal highway money, he said. Kehoe said most violations of the 55 mph limit take place on Interstate 25 between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Scheduled events The Women of the Moose will hold used jewelry sale on Aug. 22 from 4 p.m.

until 8 p.m. and Aug. 23 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The public is invited.

The Luna County Ranchette Owners Assoc. will be holding its "Family Fun Night" (bingo) at the Hospitality House, Wednesday, Aug. 13 starting promptly at 6:50 p.m. The public is invited. Carlos Sapien, a witness who testified Monday in the jury trial of SWIG vs.

PNM was incorrectly identified in the Aug. 11 edition of the Headlight as a former SWIG employee. Sapien was and is a member of the Deming Fire Department. DEMING SELF-HELP HOUSING, INC. Build Your Own! You May Qualify CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR RONALD PANNELL FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Black 109 E.

Pine 546-6544 8 AM- 5 PM Incorporacion Ayuda Para Si Mismo de Deming Puede Construir Su Hojar Usted Mismo Usted Puede Calificar SUPERINTENDENTE DE CONSTRUCCION: RONALD PANNELL PARA MAS INFORMACION PUEDE COMUNICAR CON: Bill Black 109 E. Pine 546-6544 8 AM-5 PM.

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