The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: June 5, 1917: Marked by the most imposing patriotic demonstration and pageant ever staged in the city, Registration Day in Santa Fe at noon today was an assured success.

The young men began arriving at the registration places early in the day and continued to arrive in a continuous stream, with more and more of the badges of honor — the khaki arm bands — appearing hourly as they were placed on the young men by the women stationed at the registration place. There were no signs of disorder, no apparent attempts to prevent registration or evade it, and it was believed that by the time the “polls” closed, the local registration would be full and complete. June 5, 1967: “Do you think there’s any place we can sit down?” Abel Montoya and his son Louis laugh, and drop into one of many couches in their furniture showroom. In the rear three employees are cranking floor linoleum onto large rollers for display. From a central glassed, cashier’s corral, a radio produces mariachi music.

“We want to say,” says Abel Montoya, “that we don’t want to sell at all, at any price. We’re willing to rehabilitate to standards, but we want to stay.”

June 5, 1992: A wildlife researcher has accused the U.S. Forest Service of suppressing scientific research after agency officials kicked him and a team of students studying the Mexican spotted owl out of the Gila National Forest last week.

Peter Stacey, a professor of wildlife at the University of Nevada at Reno, said the action was an attempt to stifle the only current study of the Southwestern bird not funded by the Forest Service.