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Headline
News From
Nov. 1 & 8, 2002 Issues
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Derry
man tries to choke girlfriend to death
Monday in
magistrate court accuses a man of attempting to strangle his girlfriend to
death last Saturday, Oct. 26, in the southern Sierra County agricultural
community of Derry.
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City
plans to scrap agreement with county’s dispatch authority
Truth or
Consequences City Commissioners on Monday directed City Manager Richard
Ramsey to notify the Sierra County Regional Dispatch Authority (SCRDA)
that the city will terminate its agreement with the county’s 911
emergency service provider in one year.
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Electric
rate increase proposed for residents
Truth or
Consequences City Commissioners on Monday approved for publication an
amendment to the city’s electrical rates ordinance that will provide for
what Utilities Advisory Board member Alvin Siffring described as “a
nearly neutral situation for businesses and a slight increase for
residential users."
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Online attracts visitors worldwide
The Desert
Journal's website has attracted 73,119
visitors from more than 80 countries around the globe during the last
year.
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Draft
of El Camino Real Plan
released, open houses planned
The National
Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management have published a draft
management plan for El Camino Real National Historic Trail and have
scheduled series of meetings to hear public comment about it.
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HSHS
wins trophy
in Tourney of Bands
The Hot
Springs High School Marching Band under the direction of Gary Shaver ended
the season by winning a third place trophy in their division at the 25th
annual New Mexico Tournament of the Bands hosted by New Mexico State
University.
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Students
monitor 1,500 miles of the Rio Grande
More than
1,800 students from the United States and Mexico on Wednesday, Oct. 30,
positioned themselves on over 50 sites from Albuquerque, NM, to
Brownsville, TX, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to monitor the water
quality of the Rio Grande.
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closed next week
The
Desert Journal will not publish next Friday, Nov. 8, due to a death in the
family.
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OBITUARIES
Notices
for
Ada Lois Magness, Jane
Garrison Stone, Dorothy Ellen Dean & Edna Mae Roberts.
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…Eyeballs,
anyone?
“Scrumpdelilicious”
describes the taste of these eyeballs, served at Halloweird’s Haunted
House. Click on photo for more Halloween spook shots from the haunted
house.
DJ
photo by Bill Johnson
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…Halloweird’s
Haunted House a real scary thriller
One
might consider a psychiatric examination to determine one’s sanity after
visiting Halloweird Production’s Haunted House this week at the old fire
hall in downtown T or C. The images prove aliens are hungry for humans,
especially tender young infants, and that they usually have no leftovers
for their poorly fed caged pets. See photos of the haunted house
throughout this page by scrolling down.
DJ
photos by Bill Johnson
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Derry
man tries to choke girlfriend to death
Desert
Journal Staff Report
A criminal
complaint filed Monday in magistrate court accuses a man of attempting to
strangle his girlfriend to death last Saturday, Oct. 26, in the southern
Sierra County agricultural community of Derry.
According to the statement of probable
cause filed by sheriff’s deputy James Coulter, a witness said he saw
through his window two people running by his residence. He then went
outside and saw the suspect chase and catch a female.
The man, identified in the complaint as
Ramon Tapia Lugo, 21, of Derry, then walked the woman toward the road when
he wrapped a belt around the female’s neck, choking her, the deputy’s
statement said.
The witness told police he went outside
to observe and saw the man holding the woman in a way that she was
dangling from the belt while it was around her throat. “She appeared to
be unconscious at this time,” the witness told police.
Police would later learn that the woman
Lugo allegedly tried to kill was his live-in girlfriend, Olga Mireles. The
incident happened in the late afternoon at about 5 p.m.
Lugo, according to the deputy’s
statement, ran away when he realized he was being observed by the witness,
who then attempted to attend to the woman’s needs as she was beginning
to regain consciousness. The witness was joined by a friend who also
provided a similar account of the incident to police.
The witness said Lugo returned to the
scene while the witness was tending to the victim. According to the second
witness, Lugo allegedly said he and Mireles had been fighting since they
arrived in the area about three months ago and that he was afraid that the
next time they fought he would kill her.
Coulter, who was dispatched to the old
Derry Post Office, said he saw the suspect’s vehicle pulling out of
Baquera’s chile plant. “While I was turning around to intercept the
vehicle, it started backing up, back towards the chile plant,” Coulter
said in the statement.
Coulter said he approached the
suspect’s vehicle to find he had exited it and that he then heard a loud
banging noise behind the plant. Coulter and Sheriff’s Deputy Rex Beard
then searched for the vehicle’s driver and apprehended him as he went
around the front of the plant.
Coulter said he noticed Lugo wasn’t
wearing a belt at the time of arrest. “However, [Lugo’s] father
brought out the belt from behind the residence where he threw it after
taking it from the Blazer,” the statement of probable cause said.
The father also told police Ramon Lugo
left in the Blazer, the same vehicle that Coulter encountered at the chile
plant, and also that Lugo and Ms. Mireles had been living together at the
home of Lugo’s father before the incident.
Charges leveled against Lugo include a
count each of aggravated battery against a household member, a third
degree felony; aggravated assault against a household member (with intent
to commit a felony, murder), a fourth degree felony; and fourth-degree
tampering with evidence (he threw, hid the belt).
Bond for Lugo was set at $15,000 cash
only. He was arraigned Monday, Oct. 28, in the Sierra County Magistrate
Court. Preliminary hearing was set for 1:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4, in
magistrate court.
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City
plans to scrap agreement
with
county’s dispatch authority
By
Fred Mramor
of
the Desert Journal
Truth or
Consequences City Commissioners on Monday directed City Manager Richard
Ramsey to notify the Sierra County Regional Dispatch Authority (SCRDA)
that the city will terminate its agreement with the county’s 911
emergency service provider in one year.
City commissioners are upset that SCRDA
has not become an independent entity, as it was supposed to, since its
inception in 1996 while the city still provides 47.5 percent of SCRDA’s
funding and acts as its fiscal agent.
Commissioner Nadyne Gardner said Monday
SCRDA was supposed to get its own funding shortly after it was established
and initially funded by the city, Sierra County and the Village of
Williamsburg but that it never happened.
“We’re just told that they (SCRDA)
want X amount of dollars and we (city) are locked in and have to give that
amount of money,” Commissioner Everett Banister said Monday.
Commissioners complain also that
emergency dispatch workers are SCRDA employees, according to the city and
SCRDA’s agreement, but that the city has no control over those
employees, as in hiring, firing and disciplining, and is obligated to
handle their payroll and provide them with benefits as though they were
city employees.
City officials object also to being
dragged into a lawsuit over an automobile accident involving a SCRDA
employee.
Mayor Jimmy Rainey said Tuesday city
officials do not wish to withdraw from SCRDA altogether but do want SCRDA
to be the self-sufficient entity it was meant to be and not a burden on
the city, county and village.
Mayor Rainey said he doesn’t know how
much the city will be willing to pay to help support SCRDA but wants SCRDA
to maintain a budget the city “can live with.”
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Electric
rate increase
proposed
for residents
By
Fred Mramor
of
the Desert Journal
Truth or
Consequences City Commissioners on Monday approved for publication an
amendment to the city’s electrical rates ordinance that will provide for
what Utilities Advisory Board member Alvin Siffring described as “a
nearly neutral situation for businesses and a slight increase for
residential users.”
City commissioners acted this week
after the Advisory Board completed an electrical cost of service study in
which it was discovered that “businesses were subsidizing the rest of
the rate payers,” according to Siffring.
The city’s residential customers
currently pay a monthly minimum charge of $2.66, which will be eliminated
as of Jan. 1, but their monthly customer charge will be raised from $1.60
to $8.00 for a net increase of $3.74.
Utilities Advisory Board member Charlie
Hibler on Wednesday said the $8 charge is intended to cover the cost of
reading meters and maintaining service regardless of the amount of
electricity a customer uses.
And residential customers will pay a
little more for the electricity they do use. Residential customers
currently pay 7.7 cents, plus a 1.1 cents pass-through charge, per
kilowatt/hour (KW/H) for the first 1,500 KW/Hs per month, and 8.2 cents
plus 1.1 cents pass-through per KWH above 1,500 KW/Hs per month.
Residential customers will pay a flat rate of 9 cents, including the
pass-through charge, per KW/H as of Jan. 1.
Small commercial customers currently
pay a basic electrical service charge of $6.36 a month for single or
three-phase systems but will pay a basic service charge of $10 a month for
single-phase systems and up to $12 a month for three-phase systems.
The price of one KW/H to small
commercial users will increase from 9.1 cents, including pass-through, to
9.5 cents.
Deleted from the electrical rates
ordinance will be: the monthly minimum charge per month for each meter
(for small commercial users) under this schedule shall be $10 for
single-phase service; $20 for three-phase service; or $30 for a
combination of single-phase service and three-phase service.
Large commercial users’ demand
charges (for extra capacity in the power lines) currently are $6.36 per
kilowatt, $7.47 per kilowatt and $7.98 per kilowatt, depending on the
number of kilowatts a customer demands – will be replaced by a single
charge of $8 per kilowatt per month.
Deleted from the electrical rates
ordinance will be: The monthly minimum charge per month for each meter
(for large commercial users) under this schedule shall be $10.61 for
single-phase service; $21.31 for three-phase service.
The preceding charges will be replaced
by a customer charge of $23.25 per month for single-phase systems and
$25.50 per month for three-phase systems.
The rate increases are expected to
raise revenues by a half million dollars in the first year, according to
Charlie Hibler.
Hibler said that attached to the rate
recommendations is a five-year work plan stipulating that the new revenues
are to be spent on electrical maintenance, repair and upgrades and should
not be used to augment the city’s general fund.
Hibler said that only about three
percent of electricity revenues are spent on maintenance and upgrades and
that consequently the city’s electrical system has fallen into
disrepair.
Hibler added that the new rates will
fall somewhere in the middle of rates paid by electricity users in other
New Mexico cities.
City utilities customers can expect
also to pay more for water and wastewater services. The Utilities Advisory
Board has completed a water and wastewater cost of service study and on
Monday was directed by the city commission to conduct a rate study.
Hibler said there is a good chance that
water and wastewater rates will be increased because the city’s water
system is in no better condition than its electrical system.
Hibler said the city’s revenues from
water services have been about even with costs and that little has been
set aside for repairs and improvements. Hibler said grant funds may be
available but that they are usually too little too late.
City commissioners in July 2000 raised
all utilities rates five percent and another one percent the following
year. City officials point out that these were the first increases in 14
years.
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Online attracts visitors worldwide
The Desert
Journal's website, www.desertjournalonline.com, has attracted 73,119
visitors from more than 80 countries around the globe during the last
year.
An average of 200.87 visitors a day, or
1,406.09 visitors per week, have logged onto DesertJournalOnline during
the one-year period from Oct. 30, 2001, to Oct. 30, 2002.
The website's statistical keeper,
Urchin®3.3, has compiled data on the website since the end of October
last year. The website was established several months before then in May
2001 and is a product of the Desert Journal, a small weekly general
circulation newspaper established Sept. 15, 1995, and published since in
Truth or Consequences, NM.
According to Urchin’s summary for the
12-month period, the counter shows total pageviews at 93,963, total hits
at 658,510 and total bytes transferred at 8.422GBs.
The DJOnline website received a daily
average of 258.14 pageviews, 1,809.09 hits and 23.69MBs of bytes
transferred (per day) during the last year, according to Urchin's Summary
Report.
Average pageviews per visitor were at
1.28; average hits per visitor were at 9; average bytes per visitor were
at 120.8KBs and the average length of visit (H:M:S) was 8 minutes 23
seconds.
Urchin's Top Countries listing for the
12-month period show commercial (com) users as the No. 1 group of visitors
to DesertJournalOnline at 44,249 visitors; network (net) users were No. 2
at 20,572; and educational (edu) users were No. 3 at 1,356.
Continuing in the top 10 were: United
States, 540; Canada, 486; U.S. military, 432; U.S. Government, 322;
non-profit organizations, 272; Israel, 141; and Australia, 133.
The Urchin report also lists all of the
other users by country and they were counted as follows: United Kingdom,
103; Netherlands, 93; Old Style Arpanet, 87; Germany, 85; Japan, 59;
France, 46; Mexico, 39; Belgium and Brazil, 37 each; Italy and Spain, 36
each;
Singapore, 33; Poland, 26; Belize, 25;
Bermuda and Sweden, 24 each; Thailand and Switzeraland, 23 each; Austria,
22; Costa Rica, 21; Hong Kong, Portugal and United Arab Emirates, 20 each;
New Zealand, 18; Saudi Arabia, 17; Denmark, 15;
Finland and Peru, 13 each; Iceland,
Malaysia, Norway, 12 each; Argentina, Taiwan, Russia Federation and
Croatia, 11 each; Chile, Trinidad & Tobago, Dominican Republic, Greece
and China, 10 each; Hungary and Slovak Republic, 9 each; India, Romania
and Indonesia, 8 each;
Philippines, Colombia, Lithuania, Czech
Republic and International, 6 each; Virgin Islands (USA) and South Africa,
5 each; Ireland, Turkey, Cyprus and South Korea, 4 each; Latvia, Saint
Lucia, Samoa and Bolivia, 3 each; Estonia, Guatemala, Aruba and French
Polynesia, 2 each;
And the countries of Georgia,
Macedonia, Panama, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bahrain, Tuvalu, Iran, Cocos
(Keeling) Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Nepal, Nigeria, Nicaragua,
Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Kuwait, Seychelles and Malta were counted at 1 each.
In addition, Urchin counted 85
"other" and 3,216 "unresolved" in the Top Country
listings for DesertJournalOnline during the last year.
“We’re proud that we are able to
contribute to the international acclaim of Truth or Consequences, Sierra
County and New Mexico through our website,” said Desert Journal
publisher Bill Johnson, also the webmaster of DesertJournalOnline.
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Draft
of El Camino Real Plan
released,
open houses planned
Hearing
set Dec.
5 for T or C
SANTA FE - The National Park Service
and the Bureau of Land Management have published a draft management plan
for El Camino Real National Historic Trail and have scheduled series of
meetings to hear public comment about it.
The document, called
"El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail
Draft Comprehensive Management Plan/Draft Environmental Impact
Statement” was prepared during the last 18 months following an earlier
series of public hearings to discuss environmental issues, historical
development and recreational access along the 404-mile U.S. portion of the
trail from El Paso, TX, to San Juan Pueblo, NM.
The draft plan lists alternatives for
managing historic properties on BLM-administered and other federal,
tribal, state, local or private lands.
It is available in print and on compact disc by contacting plan
coordinators
Harry Myers, National Park Service,
505-988-6717, or Sarah Schlanger, BLM, 505-438-7454.
A series of "open houses" are
scheduled from El Paso to Santa Fe. The meetings will begin at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the BLM office in Albuquerque, 534 Montano Road NE,
and Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Holiday Inn Convention Center, 1100
California NE in Socorro.
The meetings continue at 5 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 8, at the St. Francis Auditorium, Fine Arts Museum, 107 W. Palace
Ave., Santa Fe, and at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the New Mexico Farm
and Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road in Las Cruces.
Discussions will begin at 6 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 22, at the Chamizal National Memorial, 800 S. San Marcial St.
in El Paso, Dec. 3 at the Onate Center, Highway 68 at Alcalde, and Dec. 5
at the T or C Civic Center, 400 E. 4th St. in Truth or
Consequences.
Open house participants may meet with
plan drafters, ask questions and provide comments.
Comments about the plan also may be
mailed to Myers or Schlanger at: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National
Historic Trail, P.O. Box 728, Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728; or hand-delivered
to the National Park Service Long Distance Trails Office, 2968 Rodeo Park
Drive West, Santa Fe.
All comments, including names and home
addresses of respondents, will be available for public review during
regular business hours at the Park Service Office and the BLM State
Office, 1474 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe. Although anonymous comments will not be
accepted, individuals may request that their identify or home address be
excluded from the record.
Spanish explorers created the
1,200-mile El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior)
in the 16th Century as a link between the colonial capital of
Mexico City and the provincial capitals of the "interior lands"
in the present-day Santa Fe area.
Congress granted national historic
status to the trail in October 2000. This is the first time that a
national trail has been assigned to two agencies for joint administration.
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HSHS
wins trophy in
Tourney of Bands
By
BJ Amin
The Hot Springs
High School Marching Band under the direction of Gary Shaver ended the
season by winning a third place trophy in their division at the 25th
annual New Mexico Tournament of the Bands hosted by New Mexico State
University.
High school marching bands from New
Mexico, Texas, Arizona and Colorado performed their field shows in Aggie
Memorial Stadium before a team of judges.
The 21-member HSHS band earned points
in numerous categories for quality, balance, uniformity, dynamics,
marching maneuvers, style and creativity. The daylong event highlighted a
performance by the NMSU Pride Band just before the presentation of awards.
HSHS Drum Major David Amin had the
honor of leading the entire group of drum majors representing 35 schools
onto the field for the ceremony in a packed stadium with roars of cheers
for “the little band that could,” HSHS having been the smallest band
in attendance, as the third place trophy was announced and presented.
The HSHS band also participated in the
Aspenfest in Ruidoso earlier in the season and brought home a third place
trophy and a $100 cash prize for their parade performance. They also
placed fourth in the Aspenfest field competition.
The HSHS Band provided enthusiasm,
support and music for the home Tiger football games and one away game in
Socorro. They also play the National Anthem for the ROTC students when
they present colors at special events.
The HSHS band played the National
Anthem, Lord of the Rings and The Patriot for the opening ceremonies of
the local community’s Relay for Life fund raiser to fight cancer.
For the last field show of the season,
the student musicians will perform in costumes to entertain local
elementary school students.
The HSHS band consists of dedicated
students who attend class at 7 a.m. every school day to practice their
performances on the football field.
The marching season has ended but
marching band class will continue through the semester with musicians
practicing and auditioning for All State and a Christmas concert.
Gary Shaver has given many hours of
dedication to his students in and out of school.
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Students
monitor 1,500 miles of the Rio Grande
More than 1,800
students from the United States and Mexico on Wednesday, Oct. 30,
positioned themselves on over 50 sites from Albuquerque, NM, to
Brownsville, TX, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to monitor the water
quality of the Rio Grande.
These students are part of Project del
Rio, a bi-national educational program dedicated to empowering youth to
learn about and protect their communities in the Rio Grande watershed.
In preparation for this day, teachers
and selected students attended an 18-hour workshop to discuss the current
issues of the river in each region.
Students also received training on
quality water testing methods that help them analyze the health of the
river such as the amount of dissolved oxygen, fecal coliform, nutrients,
organic material, pH salts and sediments.
Looking at land use practices and other
potential sources of contaminants, students collected data to identify
where potential problem areas are before developing strategies to help
improve these problems.
Participating schools in the New Mexico
area include Las Cruces High, San Andres High, Hot Springs High and Bosque
High.
Under the direction of Mark Hedge, HSHS
students in the Truth or Consequences area will collect and test water
samples from the Rio Grande at the Third Street Bridge a mile south of
Elephant Butte Dam and at Las Palomas five miles south of T or C.
Results will be shared among the
schools and with monitoring agencies such as the International Boundary
and Water Commission, Comisión Nacional de Limites y Agua, Natural
Resource Conservation Service, New Mexico Environment Department, Texas
Commission of the Environment, and others.
In the spring, students will continue
their work by developing action taking projects that look at the social,
political and economic factors related to these issues and present them in
a bi-national, bilingual Student Congress.
Project del Rio is now in its 13th
year and is sponsored by the Natural Resource Conservation Service, the
Hispanic Professionals of the NRCS, EPA sponsored Environmental Education
and Training Partnership, Environmental Protection Agency, Toshiba America
Foundation, McCune Foundation and Turner Foundation as well as many local
sponsors in the area.
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DJ
closed next week
No paper Nov. 8 due to family death
The
Desert Journal will not publish next Friday, Nov. 8, due to a death in the
family.
The
office may, or may not, be open depending on the availability of staff and
their schedules to meet obligations outside of the office.
Canceling
next Friday’s paper will allow the publishers to travel and attend
services in the middle of the week in Colorado.
For
more details on the death, see the Obituary column for Lois Magness.
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OBITUARIES
Ada Lois Magness,
90, a resident of Truth or Consequences the last 11 years, died Wednesday,
Oct. 30, 2002, at Sierra Vista Hospital.
She
was born June 27, 1912, in Tuscola, TX, to Rebecca Jane and Obe Staggs. At
age 16 she married Morgan “Muggs” Magness and they had five children.
The homemaker lived in Texas until 1947 and then moved her family to
Colorado. She was the dietician at the hospital in Cortez, CO, for many
years. She moved to New Mexico in 1989 and lived in T or C since 1991.
Survivors include her two daughters, Marcella Loyd and
husband Gene of T or C, and Virginia Culver and husband Leonard of
Dolores, CO; her son, Eddie “Buck” Magness and wife Mardi of Los Lunas;
her sister, Velma Magness of Farwell, TX; 19 grandchildren; 24
great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and
nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband
in 1968; two sons, Jerry Lloyd Magness and Obie Wayne Magness; her infant
grandson, Morgan Magness; her four brothers, Henry Flower and John, Obie
and Frank Staggs; three sisters, Ida Mills, Jane Alswood and Pearl
Humphrey.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 6, at the Church of Christ in Cortez, CO, with Pastor Hunt Zumwalt
officiating. Burial will be in the Summit Ridge Cemetery in Dolores, CO,
next to her husband’s resting place. Arrangements are by Ertel Funeral
Home in Cortez, CO, with local arrangements being handled by Sierra
Funeral Home, 507 W. McAdoo St. in T or C. In lieu of flowers, the family
requests memorial donations be made to the T or C Service Center’s Home
Health Program, 360 W. 4th St., T or C, NM 87901.
She was an “I can do it!” type of mother, grandma,
great-grandma and great-great-grandma.
Jane
Garrison Stone, 89, widow of the late Milburn Stone (Doc on
“Sunsmoke”), died Oct. 20, 2002, at her home in Rancho Santa Fe, CA.
She was born Nov. 21, 1912, in Hutchinson, KS. She moved to California to
study at the Pasadena Playhouse and worked for Selznick Studios where she
met Boris Karloff and his wife, Edie. This led to her employment with
Ralph Edwards Productions where she was office manager, Ralph’s
secretary, and stand-in for the principle subjects during rehearsals for
Edwards’ production, “This Is Your Life.” In fact, she was the
stand-in for her mother-in-law, Laura Stone Marr, who was the subject for
the first “This Is Your Life” television show.
She
married Milburn Stone who appeared in more than 47 movies, including
“Young Mr. Lincoln” before turning to television on “Gunsmoke,”
which ran 18 years and is still in syndication.
Mrs.
Stone worked with Ralph Edwards until her retirement in 1961 when she and
Milburn moved to Rancho Santa Fe. Stone died in 1982. She attended 11
Truth or Consequences Fiestas with her husband and Ralph Edwards and also
rode in two Fiesta Parades in T or C.
Survivors include her daughter, Shirley
Gleason of Costa Mesa, CA; her sister, Rowena Liddicote of Long Beach, CA;
her brother-in-law, Joe Stone of San Diego, CA; four grandchildren, Ellen
Gleason Cook and husband Keith, Jim Gleason and wife Eva, K.C. Gleason and
wife Laura and Kelley Gleason Smith and husband Scott; and seven
great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Sunday, Nov. 3,
at Sorrento Valley Chapel, El Camino Memorial Park, 5600 Carroll Canyon
Road in San Diego, CA. She will be interred next to her husband. The
family asks that donations be made to the Alzheimers Foundation.
Dorothy Ellen
Dean, 81, of Truth or Consequences, died Monday, Oct. 14, 2002,
at the New Mexico Veterans Home. She was born Aug. 6, 1921, in Ester Park,
CO. She was schooled in Colorado where her father was a chemistry teacher.
After graduating from high school she joined the U.S. Army in 1944 and
received an honorable discharge in 1945. She married George Sullivan and
they lived in Durham, NY, through the summers. Their winters were spent in
their RV touring the Southwest. Eventually they sold their home in New
York to settle south of Williamsburg, NM.
Her husband preceded her in death in
1992. Survivors include her step-daughter, Betty Worter and husband Jerry
of Tacoma, WA; two step-grandchildren; and many friends.
Cremation arrangements were by Desert
Lawn Crematorium in Deming, NM, with her ashes to be scattered later.
Edna Mae
Roberts, 81, a resident of Sierra
County since 1986, died Monday, Oct. 21, 2002, at the Sierra Health Care
Center in Truth or Consequences. She was born April 29, 1921, in Freeport,
PA, to James and Mary (Lawton) Anderson. She married Clarence E. Roberts
on May 20, 1939, in Wellsburg, WV. She was a dental and medical clerk and
also a homemaker. She enjoyed sewing and ceramics.
Survivors
include her husband of 63 years, Clarence E. Roberts of T or C; her son,
James T. Roberts of La Palma, CA, her daughter, Barbara (Roberts) Lomen of
La Crescenta, CA; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one
great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her parents and her
two brothers, William and Albert Anderson.
Private
family services were held Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Fort Bayard National
Cemetery in Fort Bayard, NM. Arrangements were by Sierra Funeral Home, 507
W. McAdoo St. in T or C.
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Clarification
Dianne Hamilton, candidate for state
representative for District 38 that includes Sierra County, said a
statement in a front-page story, “District 38 race heats up,” in last
week’s paper deserves clarification, since her stance wasn’t made
clear on some unfinished legislative work.
She said she wanted to assure DJ
readers that she does not, nor has she ever, supported either drug
decriminalization or cock fighting. She said she’s flat out against both
of these activities.
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