The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Oct. 22, 1917: This morning’s meeting of the state tax commission was enlivened by a discourse by John Vincent Conway, assistant superintendent of public instruction, in behalf of an increased levy for schools in Santa Fe county. Mr. Conway appeared with Mrs. Adelina Otero-Warren, his successor as county school superintendent, and former Senator T. B. Catron, to ask the commission to authorize a 7-mill school maintenance levy instead of the 5 3/4 mill levy made by the county commissioners, and he proceeded to tell the commission, at considerable length, that it couldn’t afford to cut school levies. Nine months’ school terms were his hobby, he declared, and especially in Santa Fe county where he had worked for years as school superintendent, and where he revolutionized school conditions, he didn’t propose that there should be any backward step taken.

Oct. 22, 1967: Santa Fe area French-speakers who are organizing a local chapter of the Alliance Francaise, met recently to hear Dr. Truett Book, professor French at the University of New Mexico and author of text books in French.

Substituting for Jacques Dessoudres, French cultural attache in Houston, Dr. Book discussed his recent visit to Paris and the changes he saw there in the economic situation, politics and arts.

Oct. 22, 1992: Los Alamos National Laboratory misrepresented results from contamination tests conducted on San Ildefonso Pueblo lands adjoining the lab, pueblo leaders charged Wednesday.

As a result, pueblo officials asked the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday for money to begin additional independent monitoring for soil, air and water contamination on pueblo land around the lab, Lt. Gov. Gilbert Sanchez said at a press conference Wednesday.

LANL officials Wednesday denied that they misrepresented test results. They criticized San Ildefonso officials for taking their concerns to the media rather than directly to lab officials.