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Vol. 121, No. 79 50¢ Daily / $1 Sunday
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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
April 1, 2012
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You belong here, Pat; welcome home
TRIBE BLASTS PERMIT
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming tribe that received the nation’s first federal permit allowing members to kill bald eagles for religious purposes renewed a legal challenge against the government Friday, calling the permit a “sham” because of restrictions against killing the birds on the tribe’s reservation. - PAGE B6
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Being aggressive can be either a good or bad thing. For the Goddard baseball team on Saturday, it was the former. After giving up a five-run lead to Santa Teresa in the first game of their doubleheader, the Rockets won Game 1, 7-6 in nine innings thanks to aggressive base running by Jason Butts and a missed signal. In the home half of the ninth, Butts started things off with a walk. With cleanup hitter Austin Rader at the plate, Goddard coach ... - PAGE B1
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Star Brown, fiancée of J.P. Garrett, takes a photograph of, from left, Robert Summers, Susannah Garrett and J.P. Garrett during the dedication of the Pat Garrett sculpture behind the Chaves County Courthouse, Saturday morning. Summers sculpted the statue and the Garretts are the grandchildren of the famous lawman.
NOAH VERNAU RECORD STAFF WRITER
Many years removed from the pioneering spirit and rugged frontier of the
American Old West, a towering bronze statue of lawman Pat Garrett was dedicated Saturday in a ceremony outside the Chaves County Courthouse. Rec-
ognizing the totality of the historical figure’s impact in the Southwest, several speakers and performers paid tribute to Garrett’s extensive agri-business
was staying. True, who left his dog behind at the lodge, never returned. A search began the next day. Lodge co-owner Dean Bruemmer, who helped with the search Saturday, said he last saw his friend at breakfast. He said True gave no indication of a specific route. “That’s been part of the big problem with this. He didn’t really say where he was going from here. There are a lot of trailheads up the road. We don’t know which one he took,” said Bruemmer, whose lodge is situated about four miles from the Gila Clif f Dwellings National Monu-
ment. Though daytime temperatures in southwest New Mexico have been mild of late, temperatures have dipped into the mid-20s on recent nights. T rue was last seen wearing only shorts and a T -shirt and carrying a water bottle. Fourteen search teams that were scouring the area Friday were supplemented with additional volunteer teams from across the state Saturday morning, state police spokesman Lt. Robert McDonald said. Teams were on horseback, using dogs and a helicopter
Search intensifies for missing runner Micah True THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNDATED — Search teams intensified efforts Saturday to find renowned long-distance runner Micah T rue, who mysteriously vanished four days ago after heading out from a lodge for a morning run in the rugged wilderness near New Mexico’s Gila National Forest. The 58-year -old T rue, whose extreme-distance running prowess is detailed in the book “Born to Run,” set out on what — for him — would have been a routine 12-mile run Tuesday from The Wilderness Lodge and Hot Springs, where he
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3 winners, more than 100M Mega Millions losers
TODAY’S • James Kirby • Ralph Dunlap • Ernestine Archuleta - PAGE B6
efforts in the Pecos Valley, and to his storied career as a law officer in Lincoln and Chaves counties. “In the rough and often lawless lands of the New
Mexico Territory, Pat Garrett was a model of rugged individualism,” said Mike McKee, master of ceremonies. “Like the rest of us, Pat Garrett was not a perfect man, but he did work to bring law and order to New Mexico, in an example of grit and determination. “Throughout his life in New Mexico, he carried with him a hope of what he could become — and by extension, what this state could become.” Halfway through the ceremony, the Carlsbad High School Troubadours sang, “O’ Fair New Mexico,” a performance that generated a rousing ovation upon completion. The song, selected as New Mexico’s state song in 1917, was written by Garrett’s daughter, Elizabeth. Garrett’s grandson, J.P. Garrett, who along with Susannah Garrett attended as a guest of honor, said he will not forgot the Troubadours’ performance anytime soon. “The Carlsbad Troubadours really hit it on the head when they were singing the state song,” J.P. Garrett said. “They were able to capture Elizabeth Garrett’s vision. She
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Illinois Moto Mart store manager Denise Metzger looks at an oversized check given to her by lottery officials in Red Bud, Ill., Saturday morning. They visited the store to verify that her store had sold one of the three winning Mega Millions tickets.
Loy offers FTA amnesty Municipal Court Judge Larry Loy is of fering amnesty the week of April 9 to 12, to anyone who has an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on tickets or arrests. The Roswell Police Department and Municipal Court encourage anyone who knows he has, or believes he might have, an outstanding FTA warrant to go into Municipal Court, speak to the judge and make arrangements to clear the case. RPD spokeswoman Officer Erica O’Bryon said,
“You will not be arrested on the failure to appear charge.” Anyone with any questions is asked to contact the Roswell Municipal Court at 624-6725. O’Bryon warned that the warrants will not go away without a court appearance. The RPD has been conducting multiple warrant sweeps for outstanding warrants and will continue to do so. O’Bryon urged people to take advantage of this opportunity to clear things up without being arrested.
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RED BUD, Ill. (AP) — The Mega Millions winners — at least three of them — stayed out of sight. The losers, who could number 100 million, had plenty to say Saturday about losing out on the world’s largest-ever lottery jackpot and their dashed dreams of colossal wealth. Journalists descended on convenience stores in Illinois and Maryland, and lottery officials there and in Kansas proudly proclaimed they sold winning tickets in the $640 million world record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot. The winners will ear n $213 million before taxes. Three other ticket holders became millionaires.
Lance Muzslay, Maria Walton, Micah True and Karen Pitre Seymour in Tempe, Ariz., June 25, 2010.
But on the street, online and outside the stores where the winners had purchased their tickets, Americans grumbled about hopes that were raised, and then vanished. And they mused about what they would have done with the money. As the jackpot got bigger by the hour on Thursday and Friday, Americans had snapped up tickets while dreaming of quitting jobs, paying off debts, building hospitals, buying an island. On Saturday, they took to Twitter and Facebook to bemoan their lost, razor thin chance at millions. All told, Americans spent nearly $1.5 billion for a chance to hit the jackpot, which amounts to a $462
million lump sum and around $347 million after federal tax withholding. With the jackpot odds at 1 in 176 million, it would cost $176 million to buy up every combination. Under that scenario, the strategy would win $171 million less if your state also withholds taxes.
Illinois’ winner used a quick pick to select the winning numbers at a convenience store in the small town of Red Bud, south of St. Louis, Illinois Lottery spokesman Mike Lang said. The winning numbers also were purchased at a 7Eleven in Milford Mill, Md.,
AHA offers abuse indicators JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
On Monday, Police Chief Al Solis asked for public assistance in reporting cases of abuse, both physical and sexual. Medical, teaching staff and emergency responders are required by law to report all suspected incidents. However, the public can help. The American Humane
Association lists a number of indicators of physical abuse. Physical abuse beyond playground accidents should be suspected, if the explanations do not fit the injury, or if there is a pattern of frequency. The presence of many injuries in various stages of healing indicates that the injuries did not all occur as a result of one accident. Physical indicators of abuse include bruises;
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lacerations; swollen areas; and marks on the child’s face, head, back, chest, genital area, buttocks or thighs. Wounds like human bite marks, cigarette burns, broken bones, paticularly twisting-type, puncture marks or missing hair also suggest physical abuse. Victims of physical abuse may be withdrawn or become aggressive. See ABUSE, Page A3