Socorro Rewind

AUGUST 17, 1965

HEINZ LESSAU, grounds keeper at the New Mexico Tech Gulf Course, demonstrates the proper method of cultivating plants to Abelino Gonzales, a participant a training program designed to teach him skills which will enable him to obtain employment. The program is supported by the New Mexico Department of Public Welfare in cooperation with New Mexico Tech.

NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO. called City Policeman Lonnie Zamora about 1 a.m. last Wednesday to interview him on his sighting of the Unidentified Flying Object here on April 24, 1964. Zamora said NBC made tape recording by telephone of his observations.

BEN FRANKLIN STORE

Notebook Filler Paper $.99

Loose-Leaf Binders from $.87 to $1.49

Alarm Clock $1.99

Deluxe School Bags $2.47

Metal Lunch Box $.88

Crayola Crayons $.17

Pencil Tablets $.17

Canvas Sneakers $1.77

Boys’ Socks 3 pairs for $1.00

Denim Jeans $1.88

AUGUST 24, 1965

A MINIMUM WAGE of $1.25 an hour under the Fair Labor Standards Act will go into effect on Sept. 3 for those employees who were made subject to the act by the 1961 amendments. This reminder was issued by Willie G. Thurman, field office supervisor of the Albuquerque office of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions, U.S. which administers this federal law. Thurman also said that these workers would be entitled to 1 ½ times their regular rate of pay after 40 hours a week. Their maximum work week for overtime purposes was 42 hours.

AUGUST 26, 1965

REINER HABUBOLD, New Mexico Tech graduate student, checks the temperature of Socorro Springs at the base of a concrete shaft where the spring water flows from a 100-foot tunnel in Socorro Mountain. In addition to being the city’s main water supply, spring is of particular importance because of its constant temperature and flow. Haubold, who collects and records the data taken at the spring, is a graduate student from Socorro working on his PH.D. in groundwater hydrology.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1965

ART WOODS, who have had about 16 years’ experience in electronics, will open Art’s Electronic Service on September 13. Woods said he will service two-way radio communications, television and radios, appliances, industrial and other electronics equipment. He graduated from electronics schools during four years of service in the Air Force, and was also graduated from the Central Technical Institute in Kansas City, Mo. Other experience in electronics includes 4 1/2 years with the Radio Corp of America in military and industrial computer work, and 14 months at New Mexico Tech as an electronics technician in atmospheric research under Dr. Marx Brook.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1965

BURGLARS BROKE into the San Antonio Post Office and stole about $155 in change, state police and the sheriff’s office reported. The burglary was discovered when Postmaster Ventura I. Baca went to the post office. A postal inspector began an investigation of the burglary. State Policeman Don Novak, who investigated the burglary with Undersheriff James Luckie, said the burglars forced the door into the foyer of the post office and then broke through the door into the mailroom. They took approximately $155 from a drawer in which the key was but missed two rolls of change at the back of the drawer. They also overlooked a cigar box on a table, which contained more change.