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Articles from the May 17, 2005 edition


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  • Major crimes force to be created

    It’s been an idea years in the making. Bring together the best law enforcment officials in the area to form a unit to tackle major crimes. Homicides, armed robberies, child abductions and aggravated sexual assaults could all be investigated by a major crime unit comprised of eight law enforcement officers from multiple agencies in Curry County, officials said. “It’s extremely important to the public that law enforcement officers within our district work together to solve today’s crimes,” said District Attorney...

  • First beer and wine license sought

    Tony Parra

    The first beer and wine license for the City of Portales needs only approval from the New Mexico Alcohol and Gaming Commission to be granted. Mayor Orlando Ortega and city councilors held a public hearing in regards to the beer and wine license during Tuesday night’s city meeting. There was no opposition from community members to Pizza Hut’s request. In a related move at Tuesday’s city council meeting, councilors also approved the transfer of ownership of a liquor license from Pizza Hut to the Allsup’s Convenience...

  • Ashbrook, Lita F.

    Lita Faye Marlow Ashbrook Services: Have been held. Mrs. Lita Faye Marlow Ashbrook, 76, of Portales, died Saturday, May 14, 2005, at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nev. She was born on Dec. 18, 1928, in Portales to Alma (Traylor) and J. D. Marlow. She graduated from Portales High School in 1945. She attended classes at Eastern New Mexico University and married Billy Joe George on June 14, 1946. She was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church and belonged to the Portales Chapter of the Order of the...

  • Shop steps back celebration

    The owner of Joe’s Boot Shop said after 24 years the western wear store is hanging its hat on the entertainment side of its annual July Fourth festivities. Joe Rhodes said the Mabry Street business will continue with its tent and warehouse sale, but there will not be the usual entertainment lineup patrons are used to — the work that went into setting it all up was just too much for Rhodes and his wife, Darla. “My health just won’t allow it,” said Rhodes, who has suffered from the effects West Nile disease for about... Full story

  • Rams, Tigers bow out at state

    Eric Butler

    PNT Correspondent ALBUQUERQUE — Elida may well come down this road again. And so might the Tigers’ opponent on Tuesday, in the semifinal round of the Class 1A baseball team. Two very young squads faced off at St. Pius high school in Albuquerque for the right to play for the 1A state championship. And it was the slightly younger team of Gateway Christian that knocked off Elida 15-5 to earn that right. After the loss, Elida coach Jimmy Dale Ward was hardly rueful over the state tournament experience — which included a...

  • May 18 Obituaries

    Lita Faye Marlow Ashbrook, 76 Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Wheeler Mortuary Chapel in Portales. Mrs. Lita Faye Marlow Ashbrook, 76, of Portales, died Saturday, May 14, 2005, at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nev. She was born on Dec. 18, 1928, in Portales to Alma (Traylor) and J. D. Marlow. She graduated from Portales High School in 1945. She attended classes at Eastern New Mexico University and married Billy Joe George on June 14, 1946. She was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church and belonged...

  • May 18 South County News

    The moisture on Saturday night and Sunday morning was really a blessing to all. There was about half an inch over the area, some a little over and no complaints about that. Farming There is some cotton up in the Garrison area on Hershell and Weldon’s places and it is all planted and ready to be up also. I know there are others, because they were all just waiting for the soil to warm up. Birthday The family gave a birthday party in honor of Dusty Cathey’s birthday on Saturday. His brother Bill, sister Julie and other...

  • May 18 Floyd News

    Transitions Birthdays: Shelly Buzard Upcoming events • Seniors will meet Thursday for games and fellowship. Pot Luck is at 6 p.m. and games begin at 7. • Last day of school is Friday. School will dismiss at noon. Heritage Days The Roosevelt County Heritage Days Festival is coming up in June. An added feature this year will be a fiddle contest on June 18. There will be several different age divisions: 10 and under; 11-16, 17-21, 22-55, and 55 and over. There will also be a junior all-around champion and senior all-around...

  • May 18 Dora News

    The Dora and Rogers areas were thankful for the half inch or so of moisture over the weekend. It sure was a blessing instead of dust and breezy weather. I don’t know if our dry land farmers will have enough to plant some on or they will need to wait. The wheat in this area should be ready for harvest soon, usually in the early part of June. Presentation The Dora Baptist Church presented white bibles to our members who will be graduating from high school this year. Three are from Dora — Marilyn Prewett, Jana Bilberry and D...

  • May 18 Letters to the Editor

    We should have braced ourselves for BRAC Everyone on the Committee of Fifty and on the local commissions just didn’t believe Cannon Air Force Base would be on the closure list. Yet here it is — Cannon is the only base in New Mexico to make the closure list. Kirtland will gain personnel and both Holloman and White Sands will lose just a handful of personnel under realignment. I tried to tell the Curry County Commission that we should already be in the planning stage just in case this happened, but no one listened or took... Full story

  • Non-existent words can be confusing

    Kevin Wilson

    The question was pretty simple: What’s your favorite word that isn’t in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster recently posed that question, and was pretty surprised to receive more than 3,000 answers. I’d be surprised too, since they were really asking for something that isn’t supposed to exist. Apparently, the responses indicated there were a lot of vocabularians (people who make up new words), and not so many lingweenies (those incapable of making up new words). The top word suggested is “ginormous,” which basically... Full story

  • Gateway Christian ends Elida's tourney run

    Eric Butler

    Elida may well come down this road again. And so might the Tigers’ opponent Tuesday in the semifinal round of the Class 1A tournament. Two very young squads faced off at St. Pius high school in Albuquerque for the right to play for the 1A state championship. And it was the slightly younger team of Gateway Christian that knocked off Elida 15-5 to earn that right. After the loss, Elida coach Jimmy Dale Ward was hardly rueful over the state tournament experience — which included a 15-9 quarterfinal victory over Gallup...

  • Texico one win away from championship

    Eric Butler

    ALBUQUERQUE — Most Class 1A teams in the state tournament came in with natural concern over what kind of effective pitching they could drum up after day one. If Texico had worries, it wasn’t very evident in the performance of sophomore Theo Marez. Backed by another impressive hitting display, Marez and the Wolverines rolled over Magdalena 18-3 in a state semifinal at St. Pius High School. Texico (17-2) will play Gateway Christian (19-4) at 9 a.m. today at Isotopes Park for the Class 1A championship. “Theo hadn’t throw... Full story

  • Texas lawmakers learning to be open with public

    Freedom Newspapers

    While the Texas Legislature is taking its lumps for wasting time with legislation to police cheerleading, we have to give lawmakers credit for doing something right for a change. And no, the thorny problem of what to do about school finance hasn’t gone away. Still, we applaud a bill that has passed both the state House and Senate that would require each elected or appointed government official in the state to complete a training course on open records and open meetings laws. Senate Bill 286, authored by Sen. Jeff...

  • 5/17 Letters to the editor

    Cannon, Clovis had impact on family The news that Cannon Air Force Base was on the Base Realignment and Closure list came just as I was leaving my civil service job at Tinker Air Force Base to attend my son’s graduation at Eastern New Mexico University last weekend. I was numb as I made the drive from Oklahoma City to Clovis. I spent seven years stationed at Cannon on active duty and have many friends in the area. My youngest son Jeremy was born at Plains Regional Medical Center and in many ways Clovis is home to our...

  • Iraq U.N. Oil for Food program corrupt

    Good morning, and welcome to today’s edition of “What’s News?” A Senate committee has released a report alleging that two prominent European opponents of the Iraq War were paid off by Saddam Hussein as part of the U.N. Oil for Food program. I’ll reveal their names in a moment. You will search in vain for this story on the print or Web versions of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, or the Chicago Tribune. I found it in The Washington Times and The New York Sun. The point here is not to...

  • United Airlines should face up to its mistakes

    Freedom Newspapers

    One of the core foundations of the free market system is the idea that businesses should be able to fail. If a company makes poor choices, poor investments or offers poor services or products, it will not make money and will, ultimately, shut its doors. Like almost all airlines, United Airlines was hurt in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But United Airlines also has made a succession of poor business decisions, including agreeing to provide an unsustainable level of pensions to retired employees, as... Full story

  • Be glad you don’t have horse like Coaly

    Bob Huber

    I once had a rude experience with a horse named Coaly. He was a plow plug, a big, black Percheron with the combined disposition of a medieval executioner and Jack the Ripper. They don’t make animals like him anymore, and we’re lucky that way. To be more specific, he was large as a Sherman tank, and he had the head of an elephant, the teeth of a crocodile, the hooves of a brontosaurus, and the personality of a diamondback rattler. In short, he was a Texas chainsaw with a full tank of gas. Coaly was owned by the father of...

  • Flaws discovered in disability benefits

    A commission conducting the first major review of veterans’ disability benefits in 50 years was warned at its inaugural meeting that perhaps too many veterans have been deemed “unemployable,” which raises their compensation to the level of 100-percent disabled veterans. Renee L. Szybala, director for operations of VA’s Compensation and Pension Service, told the Veterans’ Disability Benefits Commission last week that the number of vets designated “IU,” for Individual Unemployability, has doubled in the last six... Full story

  • Governor leads rally

    CNJ Staff

    James Kratzer of Portales shows his support for Cannon Air Force Base on Monday at the town hall meeting at the Clovis-Carver Library. Kratzer, 49, has been the civilian meteoroligist at Cannon for more than a year. (CNJ staff photo: John Eisel) Rounds of applause rippled through the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library Monday as Gov. Bill Richardson encouraged residents to be vocal in their support of Cannon Air Force Base. A Clovis-area staple for more than 50 years, Cannon is one of two Air Force bases in the...

  • Clovis shows support

    CNJ Staff

    Gary Reid of Clovis and Jim Dendy of Portales show their support of Cannon Air Force base Monday morning across the street from the town hall meeting at Clovis-Carver Public Library. (CNJ staff photo: John Eisel) They showed up by the hundreds. Some carried hand-made signs. Others just offered their moral support. But they all were for one reason — to show Department of Defense officials they were wrong for including Cannon Air Force Base on a base closure list. So many supporters packed the North Annex of the...

  • Businesses remain resolute in face of closure

    CNJ Staff

    Benny Pacheco has worked as a sales agent at Associate Real Estate for about a year, but has worked in Clovis as a car salesman and in real estate for 30 years. (CNJ staff photo: John Eisel) Real estate agent Benny Pacheco said he already had a woman call to cancel her house purchase — even before the official announcement Cannon Air Force Base is targeted for closure. “A few other customers called and said, ‘I’m gonna wait,’” said Pacheco, who works at Associates Real Estate on Commerce Way. “They are probably... Full story

  • Kirtland fought its way off list

    Albuquerque officials had to scurry 10 years ago when Kirtland Air Force Base landed on the Department of Defense’s list of bases proposed for realignment. A committee was quickly formed in response to the threat of realignment, with six businessmen calling themselves the Kirtland Retention Task Force at its core. Located on the southern edge of Albuquerque, Kirtland is one of the largest installations in the Air Force. But that didn’t stop the base from being targeted by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission....

  • Officer involved in wreck

    CNJ staff

    A Clovis patrol car driven by officer Bart Phillips was involved in a two-vehicle accident Monday afternoon on Seventh Street. Phillips was traveling westbound on Seventh Street shortly before 5 p.m. when his vehicle was struck in the front passenger side by a woman driving a 1994 GMC pickup, according to Clovis Sgt. Douglas Ford. The pickup, which was traveling south on Merriwether, went over top of the police cruiser and landed on its side, he said. There is a stop sign at the corner of Merriwether and Seventh. The driver... Full story

  • Peanuts, gluten-free flours new topics

    Sheryl Borden

    Information on harvesting, peanuts, and using gluten-free flours for baking will be the featured topics on "Creative Living" on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday 2 p.m. (All times are Mountain)."Creative Living" airs on public broadcasting station, KENW-TV, from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. Gayle Stephenson will discuss harvesting, storing, and cooking with peanuts. She is a certified home economist and spokesperson for the Texas Peanut Producers Board located in L... Full story

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