THE PAST 100 YEARS
From The Santa Fe New Mexican:
April 28, 1924: Congressman John Morrow has succeeded in having the Canadian and Dry Cimarron rivers included in the omnibus flood control bill which was passed by the house on April 21 and sent to the senate, according to word from Washington, D.C.
The bill provides for preliminary examination of these together with several streams in other states by the war department looking to flood control and carries an appropriation of $4,700 for all the rivers named.
April 28, 1949: Welfare officials of New Mexico and Arizona began a two-day closed meeting today with representatives of the social security administration in an attempt to decide whether the federal or state governments should provide relief to Indians.
The secrecy of the meetings brought a sharp criticism from Prof. Henry Weihofen of the University of New Mexico law school. Weihofen represents the national congress of American Indians.
April 28, 1974: One of the decisive battles for the future of Rodeo Road is expected to be fought during the next several months over a controversial $16 million, 438-unit residential development.
On one side is the developer, Walton Chapman, who sees his plan as the result of extensive studies of the latest ideas in attractive, environmentally-sound residential development.
On the other is a group of residents of the area — the Save Rodeo Road Committee — who call the housing “apartments” and see the proposed development as a serious and possibly fatal threat to their “country way of living.”
April 28, 1999: A 13-year-old boy at Ortiz Middle School was suspended Tuesday for threatening to bring a gun to school and “take out some teachers.”
Two other teen-age boys confessed to calling in a bomb hoax to Capital High School on Monday.
And the Capital principal, caught in a rising level of apprehension in the wake of last week’s school slayings near Denver, said he will ask city policy officers to come to campus Friday because of rumors that there will be violence at the school.
Across the country, school officials have been reporting a string of threats and “copycat” incidents after last week’s killing of 12 students and one teacher at a high school in Littleton, Colo.