Roswell Daily Record
Vol. 121, No. 241 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
October 7, 2012
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STYLISH CLOTHING AT LOCAL STORE
Located at 402 W. Second St. Tucker Brown offers stylish women’s clothing at an affordable price. The store originally started in Lubbock and came to Roswell when owner and store manager Tracy Brown relocated. He saw both a challenge and an opportunity in opening ... - PAGE C3
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For The Past 24 Hours
Above: Joseph Martinez creates a portrait of reggae music legend Bob Marley during the Chalk Art Festival at the Roswell Museum & Art Center, Saturday. The sixth annual competition’s theme this year was 100 years of statehood for New Mexico, and featured prizes for both adults and students. Left: A very happy Ainsley Huitron, 3, proudly receives her new balloon creation during the Art Block Party & Chalk Art Festival, Saturday.
• Hugh Hambric teaches competitive ... • VCA students make a difference • NMMI Lyceum series hosts geoscientist ... • Rockets ride momentum for win • Coyotes howl past ...
INSIDE SPORTS
VERLANDER, TIGERS TAKE GAME ONE
DETROIT (AP) — Justin Verlander allowed a home run to the first batter of the game — and quickly shrugged it off. This hard-throwing ace doesn’t usually hit his stride until a bit later. Verlander shut down Oakland after that early slip, and Alex Avila homered in the ... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES
• Charles Rogers • Jaiden Mendoza • Charles Bergener • Don Bish • Harry Fields Jr. • Aurora Contreras • Carron Trujillo • Jerry W. Jaquess • Anita Parham • Marianne Stevens - PAGE B5
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TODAY’S FORECAST
Iran ‘confidence’ bid shifts enriched uranium to fuel stock TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In a bid to ease international concerns over its nuclear program, Iran has converted more than a third of Tehran’s most highly enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research reactor that is difficult to reprocess for weapons production, experts and U.N. monitors say. The work — noted in a technical report by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency in late August — suggests Iran is trying to
display enough goodwill to restart nuclear talks with world powers, while aiming to soften demands by the U.S. and others to halt Tehran’s top-level uranium enrichment. An influential Iranian parliament member, Hossein Naqavi, said the country was taking a “serious and concrete confidencebuilding measure” by converting some of the 20 percent enriched stockpile into U3O8, or uranium oxide, in the form of powder. The move also appears to
Junior Livestock Show concludes ENMSF As the Easter n New Mexico State Fair came to a close Saturday, so did the Junior Livestock Show. The animals were auctioned off to the highest bidder. John Yates of Artesia was the owner of the highest-priced animal. The 17-year -old’s firstplace class 2 steer sold for $9,960 to Cattle Feeds and Valley Bank of Commerce. Yates is the son of John and Nancy
Yates and a member of the Eddy/Artesia FFA.
The next highest-selling animals were Jessica Burson’s Reserve Grand Champion Lamb, which sold to Ray Willis for $7,800 and Courteney Walker’s second-place class 2 steer, which sold to Willis and Larry Harris for $7,500,
The auction as a whole made $326,994.50 with $25,975 in add-ons for a grand total $352,969.50.
be part of a wider strategy to seek relief from tightening Western sanctions in exchange for step-by-step plans to scale back uranium enrichment, which Washington and its allies fear could lead to weaponsgrade material. Iran insists it only has peaceful nuclear ambitions. But it has offered no substantial concessions to cut into Iran’s stockpile of 20 See IRAN, Page A3
The sidewalk outside the Roswell Museum & Art Center was heavily decorated Saturday as a result of the annual Chalk Art Festival. 2012 was the sixth year for the competition, and the museum’s assistant director Caroline Brooks said every year they have a theme that participants have the option of including into their drawing. In honor of New Mexico’s Centennial celebration, this year’s theme was 100 years of statehood. The competition featured prizes for both adults and students 17 and younger. Brooks said despite the weather, the competition had its largest turnout in years with 96 artists and 70 drawings. Categories included best use of medium, best centennial-themed design, and this year featured the first 3-D category. Brooks said 3D chalk art has been quite popular around the country over the past decade, and it made sense to include that category into the competition. The event attracted recreational artists such as 14-year -old Autumn Burrows, and those who are serious about art such as 14year-old Joseph Martinez. Martinez’s detailed drawing of Bob Marley won best reproduction. Though he usually draws with pen and paper, he comes yearly to participate in the chalk contest. This year the two hours he put into the Marley drawing paid off. He was able to do a new theme, and took home $75 in cash despite slight complications.
See CHALK, Page A3
Is that a roller eclipse?
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Fair-goers ride the Eclipse at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair, Wednesday evening.
NM residents vow to fight forest plan
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — It was supposed to take the U.S. Forest Service four years to decide which roads and trails throughout the nation’s vast network of forests should be designated for travel by motorcycles, four -wheelers and other backcountry vehicles.
Seven years have passed, and forests from Oregon south to Arizona and New Mexico are still struggling to balance the demands of environmentalists, off-roaders and ranchers.
The battle has come to a head on one mesa in northern New Mexico where Hispanics have been ranching
and collecting firewood and pinon for centuries.
A state senator and residents of Glorieta Mesa are vowing to take their case to Congress and to federal court after regional forest officials this week denied their appeal of the Santa Fe National Forest’s travel management plan. They had complained the plan was racially biased and that an influx of off-roaders would threaten their culture and traditions.
“They have awoken a sleeping giant. This is not over. It’s not over by a long shot,” Democratic Sen. Phil Griego of San Jose told The
Romney promises change; Obama raises big money
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Supporters cheer as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann campaign in Apopka, Fla., Saturday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening the campaign’s last month, Mitt Romney ticked off indicators of economic misery Saturday night to suggest that a drop in unemployment hasn’t reversed what ails the nation. President Barack Obama’s campaign and Democrats posted an impressive fundraising haul, easing the party’s concerns that he would face a significant money disadvantage in the crucial closing days. Romney rallied in battle-
ground Florida the day after the government reported an unemployment rate of 7.8 percent in September, breaking a 43-month streak of joblessness of 8 percent or higher. The report also risked breaking Romney’s stride, gained in a strong debate performance days earlier. Persistently high unemployment, long after the recession’s official end, has See ROMNEY, Page A3
Associated Press in a telephone interview. Across the country, similar disputes are playing out as the Forest Service tries to implement a 2005 mandate aimed at curbing unrestricted travel on all 155 forests and 20 national grasslands. Recreationists have sued over travel management plans on the Clearwater National Forest in Idaho and on forest lands in the Sierra Nevada range. On the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon, officials withdrew their initial plans following public See FOREST, Page A3
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