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Belle Cox, 85 Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday at Wheeler Mortuary Chapel in Portales. Mrs. Belle McCall Cox, 85, of Portales, died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004, at her home. She was born on Sept. 6, 1919, in Portales, to Lena Carroll and Hiran Alexander McCall. She grew up in Portales and graduated from Portales High School. She married Weldon J. “Coxy” Cox on Jan. 2, 1941, in Portales. In 1960, she began working for Eastern New Mexico University, retiring in 1985. She had spent most of her life in the Portales area. Family mem...
One reason Sen. John Kerry isn’t gaining traction in his presidential bid is that he keeps contradicting himself. Speaking in Cincinnati last week, he attacked President Bush’s Iraq policy. He’s running a TV ad voicing the same theme. “George W. Bush’s wrong choices have led America in the wrong direction on Iraq and left America without the resources we need here at home,” he said in Cincy. “I call this course a catastrophic choice that has cost us $200 billion because we went it alone, and we’ve paid an even more unbea... Full story
Jobs have become a big issue in this election year — which means it is optimistic to expect a rational discussion. Nothing is discussed more irrationally than “outsourcing.” It is obviously completely misleading to discuss how many jobs American companies are sending to other countries without even mentioning how many jobs foreign countries are outsourcing to Americans. Yet those who are making the most noise about outsourcing seldom say a word about the in-sourcing of jobs from other countries. But it is the net balan...
If it’s an election year, it must be time for my quadrennial column urging Jews to vote Republican. Though I feel a bit like Sisyphus, I’ll try not to be a sourpuss. Here are some of the questions I usually get on this subject: Everyone knows that Republicans tend to be rich, snobbish and anti-Semitic. This may have been true 25 or 35 years ago, but no part of that cliche is true today. In the first place, as Karl Zinsmeister has recently noted in The Wall Street Journal, most rich people are now Democrats, not Republicans. (...
Eastern New Mexico University is participating with Sichuan University of China in a 1-2-1 dual degree program, unlike any other program in which ENMU has ever participated. The 1-2-1 program will allow 13 undergraduate Chinese students to complete their first year of college at a Chinese university before coming to ENMU for two years, according to international student advisor Fred Chilson. The students will then return to China for their final year of studies. After four years, the students will earn a degree from Sichuan... Full story
The presidential election is just two months away and New Mexico is considered a key state by both Democrats and Republicans. Here’s what a few Portales residents are thinking about the race and who they plan to vote for between George W. Bush and John Kerry: • Marcia Brooks, 66, retired: “Bush. I feel that he would be a stronger president in terms of war and defense, so I’m going to vote for him.” • Brett Trembly, 23, Eastern New Mexico University student body president: “Bush. I think our economy is on the upswing, and...
Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball coach Dan Buzard is in the middle of radiation and chemotherapy treatments in Albuquerque after he was found to have a cancerous brain tumor in late July, but he knows it’ll probably be a while before he’s able to return to the sideline. With that in mind, his team plans to visit him this weekend at his in-laws’ home in Albuquerque. Assistant coach Dustin Klafka, the acting head coach in Buzard’s absence, said it was the players’ idea. “(It was) our kids’ decision withou...
The Portales Lady Rams and Roswell Goddard are getting pretty familiar with each other. The teams were matched up in Pool A of the 16-team Zia Classic in Roswell over the weekend, co-hosted by Goddard and Roswell High, and they met Saturday evening in the fifth-place match with the Lady Rockets pulling out a 24-26, 25-12, 25-20, 22-25, 15-13 victory. They turn around and play again tonight in a non-district match at PHS, scheduled to start around 7 p.m. A freshman match is scheduled for 4 p.m., with a junior varsity match at...
Screams of freedom and fireworks will highlight the Mexican Independence Day celebration on Thursday by the fountain in the middle of the Eastern New Mexico University campus. The Mexican Independence Day celebration kicks off Hispanic Heritage month, which runs from Wednesday to Oct. 15. Nancy Varelas, who works at the office of Hispanic Affairs for ENMU, said the reason for Hispanic Heritage Days being from Wednesday to Oct. 15 is because many Hispanic countries celebrate their independence days within the timeframe. Costa... Full story
Ashlee Stallings spent Sept. 5 in bed in a battle with strep throat. There was no way she could compete for the state fair queen crown, she thought. If that was not bad enough, it was her 20th birthday. The Curry County fair queen representative fought the illness and made it to Albuquerque for the four-day competition. Had she been forced to give her speech Wednesday she couldn’t do it — she said couldn’t talk. Her voice bounced back Thursday and she delivered what she described a “fun” speech about her home state to a thre... Full story
A national grassroots group has infiltrated two area colleges in an effort to get young voters to the polls for the November presidential election. A local organizer for the New Voters Project said she’d like to see at least 600 students at Clovis Community College and 900 at Eastern New Mexico University register. “We are approaching 600 registrations now,” Ivy Stoner said. “The New Voters Project recognizes that politicians are talking about Social Security, Medicare, prescription drugs. Those are all important issues, (but... Full story
