The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

July 11, 1917: The persuasive oratory of Col. Ralph E. Twitchell is to be utilized by the state in making a drive for 50 additional recruits for Battery A, New Mexico’s crack artillery force.

A commission as colonel in the National Guard, on the unassigned list, was issued to Colonel Twitchell by Governor Lindsey this afternoon, and [he] will leave here tomorrow of next day to start the drive in Lincoln county.

July 11, 1967: New Mexico has great need for a new State Police Headquarters and a police training academy — and the need is for both to be located in Santa Fe.

The State Police Headquarters has been woefully inadequate for years.

The administrative function of State Police work has expanded tremendously in the past decade in the development of a modern department.

The department is to be commended for doing as well as it does without the proper space in which to operate.

July 11, 1992: TAOS — The Taos town manager said he is angry that local rescuers might be sued by a prominent Oklahoma attorney who survived an airplane crash that killed his wife.

“I am outraged that the parties in this case would choose to file a claim against the very people who saved their lives,” Gus Cordova said Thursday.