The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: March 13, 1918: Why is the meatless day suspended? State Food Administrator Ely explains it clearly in the following statement.

The modifications of the meatless-day rule, announced during the past week, have led a good many people to ask the reasons for the same.

March 13, 1968: Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s showing in the New Hampshire primary was “a real upset victory in a conservative Republican hawk state,” said McCarthy’s major New Mexico supporter Tuesday at The University of New Mexico.

State Sen. Sterling F. Black, D-Los Alamos, who is chairman of the New Mexico Democrats for McCarthy, told a rally of Students for McCarthy that McCarthy’s winning more than 40 per cent of the New Hampshire Democratic vote “will help a lot in New Mexico and will contribute more to a good organization we’ve got going.”

March 13, 1993: Gov. Bruce King on Friday said he could support or reject the proposal to extend protections of the state Human Rights Act to homosexuals, but in the end, will try to keep the public happy.

He said at a news conference that he gets as many as 2,000 phone calls daily on controversial Senate Bill 91. He also showed a stack of letters about eight inches high, which he said represents the amount of daily written communications received by his office on the issue.

Opinions in the phone calls and letters run about 75 percent against the bill, he said.