Socorro Rewind

May 30, 1974

THE FAIR STORE

Rodeo Sale

$23.99 and up Ladies Boots

$7.98 and up Child Boots

Western Shirts $6.98-$12.98

Western Suits $69.98

Mens Western Hats $23.50

June 4, 1974

STATE POLICE OFFICER John Hutchison stopped a vehicle one mile west of Magdalena and smelled a strong odor of marijuana. Under the back seat he recovered 30 pounds of suspected marijuana in plastic bags. Arrested and arraigned were a man from Texas and a man from Michigan. Bond was set at $25,000 each by Magistrate Judge Paul Marshall. One is still in jail, and the other came up with $5,000 in cash and was immediately released.

AMY ANDERSON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Anderson has recently received word of her acceptance into the Baylor College of Medicine at Houston, Texas. Miss Anderson has been attending Rice University at Houston and has received the highest award in Chemistry-Phi Kappa Phi. Amy will enroll at Baylor College of Medicine June 28 and will resume classes shortly thereafter.

June 2, 1999

FIVE SOCORRO HIGH SCHOOL graduates received a little help for their higher education from Aerojet Corp. in the form of $400 scholarship. Laura Olson, Anna Norman, Aimee Jaramillo, Fatima Gutierrez, and Rebecca Claussen each received the scholarship for their outstanding work in science and in large part for their work in the science Olympiad. Three of the five winners were available to sit down for a conversation about their interests and goals and all three are looking to the sciences for their future. Norman will be attending the College of Saint Benedict at St. Cloud, Minn. And is considering biology or chemistry. Claussen will be attending Eastern New Mexico University and will be studying biology. Olson will be in Houston at Rice University and will also be studying biology.

June 5, 1999

AN 11-YEAR-OLD Socorro boy made a big find in a rock quarry near his home last month. Brian Cain unearthed a baseball-sized “rock” that looked a little bit like a piece of petrified white lasagna or tiramisu. Of course, it was neither.

What Cain discovered was a fossil of a mammoth tooth and his find will soon have a place at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History in Albuquerque.

When museum curator Gary Morgan heard about the find he asked that the artifact be donated to the museum and gave Cain a behind-the-scenes tour of the lab where prehistorical artifacts are studied before going on display.

The tour may have changed Cain’s dreams a little. The young man is now thinking that he might want to be an archeologist rather than an astronaut. Or maybe both, he said. There must be plenty of things to study on the moon. The age of the fossil will be determined once it gets to the museum.

June 5, 2014

STUDENTS AT Sarracino Middle School took an end-of-school year poll and voted sixth grade science teacher Teresa Apodaca and sixth-grade social studies teacher Matthew O’Toole as the female and male Teachers of the Year. Apodaca is finishing up her ninth year at Sarracino, after teaching eight years at Zimmerly Elementary. O’Toole has been with Sarracino for three years. They credit their being singled out to their enthusiasm, sense of humor and classroom activities.