Roswell Daily Record
Vol. 121, No. 229 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
INSIDE NEWS
A WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S
What would you never want to forget? The day you first met your spouse? When you held your child in your arms for the first time? What if you forgot the names of your loved ones, as well as basic motor skills such as how to breathe, swallow, - PAGE C1
THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
September 23, 2012
Obama seeks votes; Romney, money
MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Barack Obama worked to squash GOP hopes for a resurgence in pivotal Wisconsin on Saturday, pushing back against his GOP rival’s complaints about an overly intrusive government and attracting his biggest crowd of the campaign. Mitt Romney took precious time away from campaigning in the battleground states to troll for cash in California and kept up his criticism of the president for fostering a culture of dependency. The president faulted
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Romney for advancing a top-down economic approach that “never works.” “The country doesn’t succeed when only the folks at the very top are doing well,” he said. “We succeed when the middle class is doing well.” Obama, speaking to an energized throng of 18,000 people in an at-times-rainy outdoor amphitheater, made a point of renewing his pledge to create a million manufacturing jobs as he campaigned in a state whose manufacturing
industry has been hard hit in recent years.
With just six weekends left before Election Day, both candidates were devoting considerable time to raising cash to continue bankrolling the deluge of ads already saturating hotly contested states.
Romney, who is expected to launch a more aggressive campaign schedule in the coming week, hunted for West Coast cash, if not votes, at a private fundrais-
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President Barack Obama at a campaign event in Milwaukee, Saturday.
Corps shows off school, itself to parents See OBAMA, Page A3
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NMMI students showed off some of their training for Fall Family Weekend, Saturday.
Parents received a small taste of NMMI life Saturday as the school hosted its annual Fall Family Weekend. Students had the chance to show of f their barracks and some of the training they’ve received in the month that they’ve been there. The day began with the parade. Family members filled the bleachers at Stapp Field as cadets marched in to the sound of the school’s marching band. The ceremony was also in remembrance of Constitution Day, the day set aside to recognize the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and all of those who have became U.S. citizens. Col. George Brick, vice dean of academics and principal of the high
Demonstrators hold Russell, Huff, Holguin-Meza Global Frackdown take top spots at ENMU-R show
HARTON WINS LSC AWARD
Goddard alumna Halie Harton became the third Roswell native to win a collegiate conference volleyball award last week. Harton, a junior at West Texas A&M, won the Lone Star Conference Offensive Player of the Week award after helping the sixth-ranked Buffs extend their win streak to 10 matches. She recorded 53 kills (5.89 per set) and had an attack percentage ... - PAGE B1
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say threatens public health and the environment. Participants in the “Global Frackdown” campaign posted photos on social media websites showing mostly small groups. But organizer Mark Schlosberg said Saturday afternoon he thought the protests were going well and he pointed to photos showing larger demonstrations in South Africa and France as well as higher turnouts in cities in California, Colorado and New York. “I think it’s really the communities all over the world coming together to say, ‘We want to protect our water, we want to protect our air, and we want to safeguard our climate
In Ohio, an injection well used to hold wastewater from the fracking process has been tied to a series of earthquakes in the Youngstown area.
future by getting off dirty fossil fuels and saying no to fracking. We need to invest in a renewable energy future,”’ said Schlosberg, who is national organizing director for Food & Water Watch, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that developed the GlobalFrackdown website and campaign. The immense volumes of natural gas found by fracturing underground shale rock around the country has spurred a boom in natural gas production that has been credited with cre-
See NMMI, Page A3
CHAUNTE’L POWELL RECORD STAFF WRITER
Easter n New Mexico University-Roswell students had the chance to show off their talents Saturday at the school’s Celebrity Competition talent show. At stake were scholarships for the top three contestants, as well as a chance to become a member of the University Celebrity Dream Team. The Dream Team, according to the competition’s website, is the top 12 perfor mers in each state, who will be given opportunities to gain “exposure Chaunte’l Powell Photo within the entertainment ENMU-R student Sammy Russell accepts his first-place industry through tours certificate from Ms. ENMU-R Gabby Baker, Saturday. and promotion.” The competition was ners D-Black and Bin singing. held in the ENMU-R’s Logic performed for the Samuel Russell took performing arts building crowd before the actual first place performing an and began with some competition began. The original song on his humor from host Joser. show featured rapping, Olivia Ortiz and last poetry, dance and year’s competition winSee ENMU-R, Page A3
Phinizy accepts post with 5th District DA’s office See FRACKING, Page A3
JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
In his career as an attorney, John A. Phinizy II has taken on high-ranking government officials and participated in the Joint Terrorism Task Force post 9/11. Phinizy is one of Roswell’s native sons who came back home to serve his community, and he is the newest addition to the Chaves County 5th District Attorney’s office. Phinizy grew up on a far m and ranch east of town, where the family raised cattle, cotton and alfalfa. His father traded the land when the water table began to drop and the salinity of the water increased. The 1964 Roswell High School grad attended New Mexico Military Institute junior college, and holds a degree
in psychology from Texas Tech. He planned a military career and needed a degree to become an officer. He chose psychology because he didn’t want to do a lot of math.
Psychology served him well when he was assigned to Army military intelligence. He served in Vietnam, and was stationed in Texas, Arizona, Alaska and California, specifically Berkeley during one of the most contentious times in U.S. history. “I was assigned as a security officer at the Induction Center. I also did mental testing of potential recruits.” Phinizy saw firsthand the divisions that occurred. “We had demonstrations ... and we had Joan Baez come by sometimes.” Phinizy was featured in the underground newspaper The Berkeley Barb. “They had a three- or
four-page interview with me when I never even talked to them.” Phinizy left military intelligence when they began to concentrate on satellite imagery and electronic medium. “I did human intelligence.” He believes that reliance on electronics leaves gaps in data. He cited the example of Britain in World War II fooling Ger man intelligence with wooden tanks and creative troop movements to give the impression of military strength. “A person on the ground can tell the dif ference between a wooden tank and a real one, a satellite cannot,” he said. Phinizy applied to the FBI and to law school at Baylor. “I was accepted by both. ... I opted for the law degree. See PHINIZY, Page A3
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