THE PAST 100 YEARS

From the Santa Fe New Mexican: April 11, 1919: Roswell and Santa Fe Both Working for Through Highway

State Commission and Chaves County Officials Confer on Important Trunk Line Which Will Bring Great Southeast Section Close to Capitol; Pankey Strong Booster for Road

Highway connection between the Ancient City of Santa Fe and the vigorous new portion of New Mexico to her far southeast is becoming more and more a likelihood as a result of the definite effort which is being made by Santa Feans and the citizens of Roswell since the adjournment of the fourth state legislature.

April 11, 1969: If New Mexico drops the Medicaid program, it will probably mean an increase in hospital room rates at area hospitals to administrators.

Gov. David F. Cargo said Wednesday the program will be dropped, probably May 1, because the Legislature failed to appropriate enough money to keep the program going.

April 11, 1994: Lydia Sneesby, the nurse at Capital High School, told a small gathering of students last week that she started smoking when she was 14 years old.

“Ten years later, I quit,” she said. “I was 24 and my husband asked me to quit. I figured if he cared for me enough to ask me that, I should too. And that’s what I’m asking of you — to care for yourself.”

Perhaps not hanging on her every word, but still enjoying a lively chat with Sneesby, some five Capital High teen-agers talked during a stopsmoking clinic about why they smoke cigarettes.