The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Aug. 17, 1917: Actual results tell more than a lot of argument and boasting. Down in the Estancia Valley they show you the results; they show you the man, give him [a] middle name and offer to step in and make out affidavits.

One man, they say, cleaned up $10,000 last year.

At Venus, over west, the farmers manage eight acres each. They averaged 1,000 pounds to the acre last year.

Aug. 17, 1967: Federal aid to New Mexico skills has increased more than 700 percent in 10 years, from less than $4 million before Sputnik to almost $30 million last year.

State School Superintendent Leonard De Layo said in a statement prepared for hearings opened this morning in Albuquerque by the Senate Subcommittee on Economic Development.

Sen. Joseph Montoya, acting chairman of the Subcommittee (of the Senate Public Works Committee), was scheduled to hear reports today from state education officials. …

There is no doubt, De Layo said, that New Mexico — basically a poor state — will need continuation of the current federal programs with increased funding and increased discretion by the state in the distribution of those funds to provide the greatest benefit for the greatest number of students.

Aug. 17, 1992: New Mexico’s child support enforcement operations brings in about $22 million a year, but that s just a fraction of what deadbeat parents — mostly fathers — should be paying to support their offspring.

Of 60,000 child support enforcement cases in New Mexico, only one in three — about 20,000 — result in regular payment of child support.