THE PAST 100 YEARS

From the Santa Fe New Mexican:

May 19, 1919: Beginning tomorrow, the general public is admitted to swimming privileges in the irrigation pool at the U.S. Indian School, as follows:

Men and boys, Monday and Thursday afternoons; women and girls, Tuesday and Friday afternoons. The school cannot guarantee at any time water of sufficient depth for swimming. Swimmers and others must stay on west and north sides of pool. No trampling upon grounds to south and east of pool.

May 19, 1969: CORRALITOS, N.M. (AP) — Apollo 10 looked like “a faint star moving slowly across the sky” as it passed over the southwest United States Sunday night, the director of the Corralitos Observatory said.

J.R. Dunlap said Apollo 10 was tracked through a 24-inch aperture telescope from 9:05 to 10:30 p.m. MST. The observatory, affiliated with Northwestern University, is on a ranch 25 miles northwest of Las Cruces.

Dunlap said the space vehicle was “about as bright as a 12th to 13th magnitude star.” He said human beings, without instruments, cannot see stars dimmer than the sixth magnitude.

May 19, 1994: Relatives of the late Santa Fe Postmaster E.J. Martinez have pledged to donate about $350,000 for affordable housing in Santa Fe. That amounts to 3 percent of the expected gross sales at their proposed Los Cerros Colorados development.

The promised donation, which hinges on Development Review Committee approval of the development, would be the largest ever made by a developer in the city, Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo said.

Jaramillo said earlier this week that she had asked the development’s planner, Stephen Flance, if the Martinez family would voluntarily contribute to affordable housing.