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The commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation told members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee Thursday the Bush administration does not support authorization legislation for the Ute Water Project as it is written. And in a press release Thursday, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said he also would not support the bill as introduced. “I am concerned that funding to make the pipeline a reality is not available in this budgetary environment. I want to review how we are going to find that money. I am not willing to pass an a...
A Muleshoe man said he felt he was part of history when he traveled to Washington, D.C., to see the casket of former President Ronald Reagan as it lay in state in the nation’s capital. Gil Rennels, a fifth-generation Texas Republican and co-owner of Gil Lamb Advertising/Channel 6 in Muleshoe, said he was visiting friends in Dallas when he heard of Reagan’s death. Ironically, they had just visited the Dealey Plaza Museum there, with its pictures of former President Kennedy’s state funeral, he said. “When I heard about the cer...
Curry County officials have filed two motions asking the court to dismiss the Clovis News Journal’s lawsuit against the county. The motions claim procedural errors were made when the newspaper asked for information about county employees’ wages and benefits. News Journal attorney Max Best said the issues covered in the county’s motions are procedural and don’t go to the heart of the case against the county. “We (still) believe the county violated the Public Records Act,” Best said. A notice that the lawsuit has been reassi...
Seventeen Clovis youngsters are signed up to race in this year’s Clovis Soap Box Derby, sponsored by the Clovis Rotary Club. The winner of Clovis’ “Gravity Grande Prix” will join more than 400 other young racers for the 67th running of the American Soap Box Derby at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio, on July 31, said Larry Erwin, head of the Rotary Club Committee that oversees the local derby. Clovis’ racers will compete starting at 10 a.m. Saturday on Sycamore Street between Yucca Junior High School and 14th Street, Erwin sai...
Federal, state and city offices will be closed Friday to observe a day of remembrance for the life of President Ronald Reagan. A funeral service for Reagan will be held Friday at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Reagan’s body will then be flown to California, where it will be laid to rest at his presidential library that evening. In an executive order, President George Bush has directed that all federal agencies should be closed Friday. The U.S. Post Office will be closed Friday and no mail will be delivered, C...
The family of a Clovis woman who died July 4 in a vehicle pursuit involving police has filed suit against the city and a Clovis police officer. A civil complaint, filed last month in 9th Judicial District Court by the estate of Bobbie Lynn Sandoval, charges the city and Police Officer Rodney Wallace were negligent in failing to adequately warn by-standers, including Sandoval, of impending danger during the chase, leading to her death. The family seeks compensatory damages for pain, suffering and lost earnings and up to 10...
Curry County maintenance supervisor Lee Delk demonstrates how to open the food slot on an isolation cell. The county will receive 27 cells to be installed at the new jail annex. CNJ photo by Eric Klut The 27 steel isolation cells intended for use at the county’s new adult detention facility annex will provide spartan living conditions for prisoners officials decide must be separated from others, Detention Center Administrator Don Burdine said Friday. Twenty of the white, steel boxes sit in a parking lot at the corner of E...
Jack King: CNJ STAFF WRITER S&S Supermarket in Hilltop Plaza has been sold, but the new owner — Clovis resident Kyle Brewer — said he plans no major changes. The business will change hands Wednesday, Brewer said. He said he plans a grand opening in about a month or two, but will concentrate on making a smooth transition into the new ownership. “There are no major plans to change anything. The people that work there will stay,” he said. Long-time owner and manager Glen Spell said the grocery store has been at its site since 1...
Incumbent County Commissioner Pete Hulder will hold on to his District 2 seat, winning the Republican primary against two opponents with about 59 percent percent of the vote Tuesday. With no Democratic challenger, Tuesday’s vote decided the race. Hulder received 585 votes to challenger Carol Nichols’ 241 and challenger Ray Montoya’s 158. Hulder called winning the primary “sort of emotional.” “I’m very happy the voters of Curry County had enough faith in me to return me to a second term,” he said. “I made a promise the first...
Services: Have been held. Mr. Jack E. King, 81, of Portales, died Saturday, May 29, 2004, at Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales. He was born on April 20, 1923, in Clovis, to Gracie Dell and Luther Eber King. His family moved from their home north of Clovis to Cedarvale by covered wagon in 1929. He attended school in Cedarvale, near Corona. In 1942, he joined the US Navy, as a communications officer. He retired in 1961 as a Chief Petty Officer. He married Lucille Laquinta on Aug. 18, 1954, in Wahiawa, Hawaii. After his...
Federal authorization legislation for the Ute Water Project will be submitted to the U.S. Senate in June, a spokeswoman for Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said Thursday. Officials have said authorization legislation is required before the project can be eligible for federal funds. Jude McCartin, Bingaman’s Washington press representative, said authorization legislation will not appropriate funding for the project. Instead, it will state Congress has approved the project for funding by the federal government and has approved t...
Curry County Commissioner Ed Perales has demanded in writing that County Manager Geneva Cooper stop publicly endorsing the re-election of District 2 Commissioner Pete Hulder. Cooper refused Perales’ request, also in writing. Both sides called the other’s letter “threatening.” The exchange of letters was prompted by paid advertisements in the Clovis News Journal in which endorsements for Hulder were listed, including endorsements from commissioners Kathrynn Tate, Albin Smith and “Geneva Cooper, County Manager.” Some county...
Incumbent District 4 County Commissioner Albin Smith, a Republican, is unopposed in the primary. Challenger Gloria Wicker, a Democrat, also has no opponent in the primary. They will face off in November. Qualifications Smith: I’ve lived in the district for seven and a half years. I’ve lived in the area since 1976. I own SAS and Red Roof dairies and have been a dairy farmer for 30 years. I was appointed to this seat in 2002 by Gov. Gary Johnson on the death of J.W. Wallin. If I were to describe myself, I’d say I’m a Christi...
Some county residents and some candidates in county elections claim Curry County Manager Geneva Cooper violated county personnel policies by endorsing District 2 commission candidate Pete Hulder in a newspaper advertisement. The ad, which ran in Wednesday’s Clovis News Journal, lists a number of local residents, commissioners Kathrynn Tate and Albin Smith, Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, and “Geneva Cooper, County Manager” as supporting Hulder’s re-election. Hulder is the district’s incumbent. Martha Matlock, who said she...
Studies of the financial capacities of members of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority to pay for the project remain incomplete, consultants said Wednesday, at the authority’s meeting in Clovis. The incomplete reports drew a sharp expression of impatience from at least one board member. Jason Bass, an economic consultant from Dornbusch Associates of Tucson, Ariz., was hired by the authority in October to do an ability and willingness to pay study and a water rate study. He missed the latest in a series of monthly m...
Studies of the financial capacities of members of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority to pay for the project remain incomplete, consultants said Wednesday, at the authority’s meeting in Clovis. The incomplete reports drew a sharp expression of impatience from at least one board member. Jason Bass, an economic consultant from Dornbusch Associates of Tucson, Ariz., was hired by the authority in October to do an ability and willingness to pay study and a water rate study. He missed the latest in a series of monthly m...
John Randal acted as one of the moderators during the Candidates forum on KTQM/KWKA. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. Candidates for county, state and district attorney positions fielded listeners’ questions on KTQM/KWKA’s radio political forum Tuesday night, but the sharpest exchanges occurred between Brett Carter and Matthew Chandler, Republican opponents in the race for 9th Judicial District Attorney. Asked by a caller what he could do to actually prevent crime, Chandler said he would launch bold new proactive programs lik...
District 5 County Commissioner Tim Ashley, a Republican, has no opponent in the June 1 primary. Democrat Paul D. Barnes, who is challenging Ashley this fall, also is unopposed in the primary. Both candidates recently talked with the Clovis News Journal on issues surrounding county government. If elected in the primary, Barnes and Ashley would face off in the general election this fall. Qualifications • Ashley: I’ve been a county commissioner for four years. I was commission chairman last year. Some of the things I’ve worke...
Candidates for the 9th Judicial District Attorney’s office traded sharp words on Tuesday, highlighting a political forum hosted by KTQM/KWKA's radio station. Asked by a caller what he could do to actually prevent crime, candidate Matthew Chandler said he would launch bold new proactive programs like Abolish Chronic Truancy (ACT), aimed at keeping truant students off the street, and the Repeat Offender Prevention Program (ROPP), aimed at speeding up the prosecution of repeat offenders. “Our courthouse has turned into a rev...
District 2 Commissioner Pete Hulder, a Republican, is running for re-election. He has two opponents in the June 1 Republican primary — Carol S. Nichols and Ray Montoya. Since he has no Democratic challengers, the race will be decided in the primary. Last week, the three candidates spoke with the Clovis News Journal on a variety of issues surrounding county government. • Qualifications Hulder: I have been on the commission for 3 1/2 years. I know what the county’s problems are. Those who haven’t been serving can only specula...
A conference for business owners on how to obtain government contracts will be held Thursday in Clovis Community College’s Town Hall. Titled “How to Get Through the Government Contracting Door,” the conference will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Topics will include the state of New Mexico’s procurement assistance program, Small Business Administration Programs, and marketing and the federal supply services for the General Services Administration. “This is a conference for people who want to do business with, or to increase...
CLOVIS — A newly equipped, $5.1 million cancer center at Plains Regional Medical Center will offer area cancer victims a chance to get up-to-date treatment close to home. Hospital officials plan a reception at the center from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, during which doctors and staff will be available to answer questions, center director Sheryll Plyler said. The cancer center has been providing chemotherapy treatment since January, only recently has received radiation equipment and will begin offering radiation services in m...
The $5.1 million cancer center at Plains Regional Medical Center has a vault linear accelerator that delivers the radiation therapy using pencil-thin beams of radiation that strike the tumor from all angles. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. A newly equipped, $5.1 million cancer center at Plains Regional Medical Center will offer area cancer victims a chance to get up-to-date treatment close to home. Hospital officials plan a reception at the center from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, during which doctors and staff will be available...
A 9th Judicial District Attorney’s race between two Republicans may be responsible for giving Curry County a majority of registered Republican voters for the first time in its history, according to officials with the Curry County Clerk’s office. Deputy County Clerk Coni Jo Lyman said, as of Tuesday, there were 636 more registered Republicans than Democrats in the county. County Clerk Mario Trujillo said this is the first time the county has had a Republican majority. Lyman said Republican registrations began to pull ahe...
Resolution is third among counties in state banning issuance of same-sex licenses. The Curry County Commission unanimously approved a resolution banning the issuance of same sex marriage licenses Tuesday, making it one of at least three commissions statewide to take the step. The Roosevelt County Commission passed a similar resolution Tuesday and the Catron County Commission passed one April 21. The resolution was sponsored by District 5 Commissioner Tim Ashley, who said he is still interested in pushing for an ordinance...
