THE PAST 100 YEARS
From The Santa Fe New Mexican:
April 17, 1924: The New Mexican is not criticizing the nature of any appropriations made by the old city council at its farewell meeting Monday night, nor any audit, contract, of anything in the two years’ record of the outgoing city government — aside from a very vigorous criticism of the astounding misappointment of a city marshal on the ground the old mayor and council feared the new mayor and council would disagree on the matter.
April 17, 1949: The pre-primary convention that is casing so much fuss has been the subject of a lot of study by politicos since it was set up by the legislature and they are finding some strange things. The law requires that anyone to be eligible as a candidate in the state primary must have a 25 percent or more of the votes in a party convention. Convention delegates are customarily alloted to the counties on the base of one for each 100 votes or major fraction that the county gave the party’s candidate for governor in the last election.
April 17, 1924: A trial aimed at resolving all the water rights on the Rio Grande’s Nambe-Pojoaque stream system is to resume tomorrow at the federal courthouse in Santa Fe.
The complicated case had its courtroom debut yesterday after eight years of dormancy. It puts the U.S. government and four northern pueblo tribes against the State of New Mexico and about 1,000 private landowners.
Basically, the issue is this: The state and private landowners claim the four pueblos — Tesuque, Nambe, Pojoaque and San Ildefonso — should have water rights based on their historical use of water.
The federal government, on the other hand, says the Indians are entitled to all the water they may need for present and future needs.
April 17, 1999: Are you smiling? Are you courteous to co-workers? Are your employees the epitome of customer service?
If you can’t answer yes to these questions, you ought to be at this year’s series of Santa Fe Smiles customer service seminars.
More than 600 Santa Feans completed the course last year. Most were from the hospitality industry — hotels, restaurants and the like where people meet and greet visitors regularly. The City of Santa Fe was an enthusiastic participant and even sent its police officers and meter maids.