Past 100 years, July 3

Bill Waters | The New Mexican

7/3/2008 - 7/3/08

July 3, 1908: Manuel Sanchez, well-known farmer and stock raiser at Las Trampas, Rio Arriba County, and an ex-member of the House of Representatives of the Territorial Assembly, spent the day in the city on business.

O.A. Larrazolo, of Las Vegas, Democratic candidate for delegate in Congress, had a room at the Claire Hotel yesterday and today. He came to attend to political business and hob-nob with the Democratic politicians here consulting and planning for the campaign.

Don Gaspar Avenue has been resurfaced south from Water Street to the bridge across the Santa Fe River. Gravel was used to level up this thoroughfare.

It is reported that the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. has a force of 20 men opening up the shafts and otherwise developing its recent purchase known as the Oro Quay Gold Mining & Reduction Co. property in southern Santa Fe County.



July 3, 1958: The president of the Albuquerque Camp of the Gideon Society Thursday took exception to an announcement by the Most Rev. Edwin V. Byrne, archbishop of Santa Fe, that he opposed the placing of Protestant Bibles in public schools. Lee E. Green, Roswell, state president of the society expressed surprise Thursday at the announcement by Byrne. 'We can't understand,' he said 'why anyone would want to keep the word of God out of the hands of children.'

New Mexico traffic safety authorities braced themselves today for the most crucial test to date of the state's apparently successful Driver Improvement Program. If the program is working as well as records so far seem to show, New Mexico should be able to get through the traditionally bloody Fourth of July weekend without a sharp upturn in traffic deaths.


July 3, 1983: White Rock — Two boys, ages 8 and 9, have been charged with arson, criminal damage to property and breaking and entering in connection with a fire that destroyed most of Chamisa Elementary School Thursday night. The boys, now in the Santa Fe Juvenile Detention Center, were also charged with breaking and entering the school on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.