THE PAST 100 YEARS

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: July 25, 1918: T.Z. Winter, chairman of the local draft board, was notified by telegram this morning of the death of his brother, William Winter, of Rockfield, Ill.

July 25, 1968: Because of the Congressional mandate to cut back federal employment, including 83,238 from the postal service nationally and many in this area, mail service limitations will start in Santa Fe Saturday, Postmaster E.J. Martinez said today.

Martinez has been advised by Postmaster General W. Marvin Watson to comply with the cutback required by Congress by reducing some services and curtailing hiring.

Effective July 27, all regular Saturday and Sunday window service will be discontinued.

Effective July 27, Saturday collection of mail from street deposit boxes will be adjusted, to conform to the generally lessfrequent Sunday collection schedules.

July 25, 1993: The 21-year-old woman had never before seen the man who followed her along Don Gaspar Avenue one afternoon last spring.

“He approached me from behind and put his arm around me,” she said recently. “He tried to kiss me and then tried to assault me. He made it perfectly clear that he intended to rape me.” She successfully fought him off. Six days later, a different man walked into her downtown home in the middle of the night and stared at her. “I screamed and he left,” the woman said. Men assaulting women. It happens everywhere in Santa Fe, at all times of day and night.

The hundreds of incidents reported to the local rape crisis center in the last year ranged from men who slipped into women’s houses in the night and masturbated as they watched their victims to rapes that took place in broad daylight.