Socorro Rewind

SEPTEMBER 14, 1965

JERRY BROWN OF Monte Vista Trailer Courts receives $54.32 from Mrs. Don Carter, of the Socorro Office of the Belen Savings and Loan Association, for making the closest guess on the value of the coins displayed in a container in the association’s booth at the Socorro County Fair. He guessed $54.50.

TWO OFFICERS OF THE Board of Education of the Socorro Consolidated Schools are signing $425,000 in general obligation bonds which will be used toward construction of the first phase of the new high school. Each $5000 bond was signed by Jimmie T. Chavez, board secretary and Eliazim Baca, president. The signing took place in the First State Bank. John F. Fox of Denver, the board’s fiscal agent, was here for the signing. Low bidder on the issue was the U.S. National Bank and Coughlin and Co. of Denver.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1965

A COUNTY CURFEW for the areas outside the municipalities of Socorro and Magdalena was discussed briefly at a special meeting of the County Commission on Monday night. A curfew is slated for further discussion at a future meeting. County Clerk Ignacio Garcia said District Judge Garnett R. Burks had mentioned a curfew to Santiago Gallegos, road superintendent, and Gallegos passed it on to the commission. The purpose of a curfew, if it could be put into effect, apparently would be to give the sheriff’s office authority over teenagers in unincorporated communities and those who wander a municipality into these communities.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1965

PUT IN SERVICE this week was the city’s new end-packer garbage truck, which was driven from Milwaukee, Wis. to Socorro by City Clerk Raymond L. Senn in three days. The weather was cloudy and wet during the trip, and Senn was half day out of El Reno, Okla., when a tornado hit that city. Senn said the city had decided to keep the old cage truck, remove the top and use it for hauling grass, tree limbs and other forms of trash not usually loaded on garbage trucks. The city now has a fleet of four trucks.

LEE J. BARKER, United States Navy, finished Hospital Corpsman School at Great Lakes, Ill., eighth in his company with a grade average of 90.01. This week he will leave for Portsmouth, Va., for 30 weeks of pharmacy school. Barker was presented with a gold medallion with his name engraved on it in recognition of his academic achievement. He has been in Socorro on a week’s leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Barker Jr.

JOE LOPEZ, of Socorro, defending champion, won his fourth straight Lefthanded Golfers Association state title on the University Course in Albuquerque. He shot a final round 76 for a 36-hole total of 153. Lopez also took medalist honors with his final round score. Rick Killoren of Los Alamos, who took the first flight title in the national tournament earlier this year, was second with six strokes back of Lopez. Killoren’s final round was 77.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1965

CAROLE HILL, Socorro County Fair and Rodeo Queen, was named first runner-up to the State Fair Queen, Abbie Caplin, 19, of Albuquerque, at ceremonies before the State Fair rodeo in Tingley Coliseum. The 18-year-old, blond, green eyed Miss Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hill of Socorro, was chosen first runner-up among 21 other county contestants. Miss Hill is a student at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.