THE PAST 100 YEARS

From the Santa Fe New Mexican:

July 8, 1918: Translators of Spanish are in demand. Women who translate Spanish accurately and quickly should communicate with the postal censorship board, post office department, Washington, D.C., for assignment to the postal censorship in New York and other port cities.

July 8, 1968: Hard-riding cowboys and cowgirls will compete for $3,700 plus entry fees in six events at the 19th annual Rodeo de Santa Fe.

Competition will start Thursday night, following crowning of Rodeo Queen Gay DeLange at 7:45 p.m.

July 8, 1993: Not long ago, a man held up a Cerrillos Road supermarket at knifepoint.

He got as far as the parking lot before an employee caught up with him.

The robber turned his knife on the young man.

Luckily, there was a good sized two-by-four lying around. The employee used it to knock the man down and keep him on the ground until police arrived.

Last week, Santa Fe police got a domestic-trouble call — the most dangerous kind, owing to the unpredictability of the people they’re apt to encounter.

They arrived to find Pancho Ortega brandishing a steak knife and drunk out of his mind. After one lunge, one lurch too many, two officers shot him. Ortega was buried yesterday.