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The Sage Foundation for Dogs Who Serve will hold a fundraising dinner and bachelor auction on Jan. 26 at the Elks Club, 1720 N. Montana Ave. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and includes some pretty tasty treats both on the menu and off. Tickets cost $25, half of which will go to fund the Safe Foundation that provides ... - PAGE A2
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Espinoza introduces enforcement ban bill
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — New Mexico is among states where Republican legislators want to ban enforcement of federal gun laws, a backlash against new proposals for gun control in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting. Legislation introduced by Republican Rep. Nora Espinoza of Roswell would make it a felony for a government official, federal agent or firearms dealer to enforce federal gun laws in New Mexico, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The bill, co-sponsored by
10 other lawmakers, also says any federal effort “to ban or restrict ownership of a semiautomatic firearm or a magazine of a firearm: or (to) require a firearm, magazine or other firear m accessory to be registered in any manner” would be unenforceable in New Mexico. The Journal said it was unable to reach Espinoza on Thursday for comment on her bill, and the lawmaker did not immediately respond to a query Friday by The Associated Press. Other states where
Republican legislators have introduced similar legislation include Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming. A Democrat who heads the New Mexico House Judiciary Committee said Espinoza’s proposal would raise significant legal questions.
“I don’t know how a state says you can’t enforce a federal law,” said Rep. Gail Chasey of Albuquerque. “I think secession would have to precede that, but I guess we’ll see.”
SHERIFF SUPPORTS SECOND AMENDMENT ILISSA GILMORE RECORD STAFF WRITER
As the national government debates possible federal gun restrictions, 29 members of the New Mexico Sheriffs Association, including Chaves County Sheriff Rob Coon, met at the state Capitol Thursday to declare their support of the Second Amendment. Coon said his office has been bombarded with letters, emails, phone calls
and faxes from residents asking if he would follow orders from the federal government to take guns from owners, if such legislation should pass. On the issue of gun control, Coon said he and other members of the association will honor their oath of office to “support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution See SHERIFF, Page A2
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DEXTER WINS AGAIN
DEXTER — If a team has just one or two players who are a threat on offense, it would be easy for an opponent to devise a scheme to shut them down. Dexter isn’t one of those teams. In the Demons’ first game against Hagerman this year, Kevin Bonner provided the offensive spark for Dexter. In the second meeting, it was David Lopez who delivered the big shots for Dexter. At the 46th annual John Reid Invitational on Friday, Kevin Paez made Dexter’s offense purr as the Demons completed a season sweep of the Bobcats with a 50-42 win. - PAGE B1
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GOP leader: House to vote on debt limit increase
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders Friday offered President Barack Obama a threemonth reprieve to a looming, market-rattling debt crisis, backing off demands that any immediate extension of the government’s borrowing authority be accompanied by stif f
spending cuts. The retreat came with a caveat aimed at prodding Senate Democrats to pass a budget after almost four years of failing to do so: a threat to cut off the pay of lawmakers in either House or Senate if their chamber fails to pass a budget this year. House Republicans
have passed budgets for two consecutive years. The idea got a frosty reception from House Democrats but a more measured response from the White House and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Republicans hadn’t set-
tled on full details, but the measure would give the gover nment about three more months of borrowing authority beyond a deadline expected to hit as early as mid-February, No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia said Friday. The legislation wouldn’t
require immediate spending cuts as earlier promised by GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. Instead, it’s aimed at forcing the Democratic-controlled Senate to join the House in debating the fed-
Pearl Harbor survivor Roy Daly recalls Japanese attack
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Roy Daly
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When Roy Daly enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman in 1936, the 18-year -old Neches, Texas, native had decided he “just wanted to see what it was all about.” Daly, now 95, says that while he doesn’t remember as much about his years in the military as he used to, there is one particular day in America’s history he hasn’t forgotten. On Dec. 7, 1941, Daly was stationed on USS Maryland during the attack on Pearl Harbor, a date that has lived in the thoughts of Ameri-
cans ever since. “Well, about 8 o’clock Sunday morning, I think it was, the Japanese planes come over and bombed us,” Daly said. “I was on a ship tied up to a dock, there was a training ship tied up beside of us. “The Japanese had a torpedo that they rode on the water and guided it. ... That ship to the side of us took the torpedo; it sunk, one to the bottom.”
Daly said he mostly kept to himself during his days in the military, and while many lives were lost during the attack, he does not remember losing any close friends. According to the U.S. Navy website, the capsized ship next to Daly’s was USS Oklahoma, which suffered nine torpedo hits that resultSee SPOTLIGHT, Page A2