Socorro Rewind

July 4, 1967

MISS LYNNE MITCHELL, who had her seventh birthday was honored with a party by her parents, Dr. and Mrs. David Mitchell. The young guests arrived early in the afternoon to enjoy games and the traditional birthday cake, cherry flavored with pink frosting and Eskimo pies on clever plates in the shape of little girl faces with matching napkins. Favors were plastic monkeys, jack straws and pink baskets of mints. The guest of honor was presented with many birthday presents.

SAFEWAY

Sliced Bacon: $.68 a pound

Sirloin Tip: $1.08 a pound

Evaporated Milk: 6 cans for $.88

Campbells Soup: 6 cans for $1.00

Ice cream: $.68 half gallon

Potatoes: $.54 a 10-pound bag

Tomatoes: $.38 a pound

Yellow Onions: $.07 a pound

July 6, 1967

A GROUP OF SOCORRO restaurateurs agreed at a meeting June 30 to raise the price of a cup of coffee to 15 cents as of July 1, Dave Jones Sr. of Shirley’s Café acting as spokesman, made the announcement. Jones said the meeting was the second the group had held, and they plan to meet often to determine various ways of giving better service and food to their patrons. Attending the meeting were Jones and Jones Jr. of Shirley’s Café, Mrs. De Gerard of El Rio Restaurant, Steve Torres and Nick Smallridge of El Camino Restaurant and Jin Jue of the Vagabond restaurant. Jones said the raise was agreed upon after much discussion on the new minimum wage law and the new state health law. Other parts of the state had previously raised the price of a cup of coffee.

EVEN BACK AT THE AGE of five, Holm Bursum Jr. took time to listen to people’s troubles. In this photo he is consoling shy little Marie Chambon, his next-door neighbor, when the Chambon and Bursum Sr. families lived side by side on Church Street. Marie is now Mrs. Charles R. Garrett. She and her husband still occupy the family homestead and are grandparents. Holm Jr. is a grandfather, too, and is celebrating this week the 20th anniversary of First State Bank of which he is president.

July 25, 1967

RADIO STATION KSRC is now mostly in ashes. It was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. Captain Ernest Trujillo of Socorro Hose Co. 1 said the alarm was received at 4:24 a.m. and both trucks and 19 men answered the call. The whole building was involved in fire when they arrived, said Trujillo. The owner of the station said the 1000-watt transmitter, automatic playbacks, tape recorders and all electrical equipment used to operate the station were lost. The entire furnishings went- also thousands of records and albums in the record library and a rare collection of records and albums that were collector items. Office records were also lost-nothing was saved. The owner said every effort is being made to put KSRC back on the air as soon as possible. The owner said he was very appreciative of the kindness extended by the Socorro people since the lost-and other radio stations had also offered help and equipment to speed KSRC’s return to the air. Insurance will cover a major portion of the loss and Shrode hope to have service back to Socorro in two or three weeks.