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Wednesday, the Office of the State Engineer formally received the Carlsbad Irrigation District’s demand for a priority call on the Pecos River. Since the district’s decision to pursue a priority call locally, some have expressed skepticism regarding how the district
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CID measures water ‘quite well’
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measures its water. CID manager Dudley Jones explained Thursday it is a surface water district and diverts water from the Pecos River into a main irrigation canal. That water is then delivered to a farmer’s lateral by diversion, and a chart is used to measure how much water is flowing and for how long, to ensure that they receive only the allot-
A spokesman for the Office of the State Engineer said 100 percent of the CID is metered and water masters read the meters quarterly.
ted amount.
In 2011, surface water and water from augmentation wells yielded the district 1.4 acre-feet of water per acre of land. In 2012,
the district received .9 acre-feet and has received .3 acre-feet per acre this year to ration among users.
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Construction workers are getting nearer to completing the new Allsup’s on South Main near the corner of Offut Street, Thursday. Lonnie and Barbara Allsup opened their first-ever store on Second Street in Roswell in 1956. It was called Lonnie’s Drive-in.
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Those who participate in this year’s UFO Festival July 5-7 in downtown Roswell will get the chance to hear about the latest research and investigations from leading experts in the field. A list of researchers, scientists and authors was released by the museum this week. “We’ve got a pretty good group coming in,” said Mark Briscoe, the International UFO Museum and Research Center’s operations manager. “We bring all the credible people in who have stuff published, who have books out, who are world renowned for their research in this area.” One special guest lecturer this year will be Patty Greer, an award-winning UFO and crop circle researcher. Greer reportedly had a personal experience in 2007 when visiting a crop circle in the United Kingdom. From that day, she was able to begin pro-
ducing documentaries on the subject. Greer has made five full-feature films about crop circles and UFOs. “I am one of the only film makers sharing clear untouched photos of the Orange Balls of Light witnessed in and around the English Crop Circles. I took these photos myself along with my friend Monique from Holland, so I know they are authentic,” Greer states on her web site. Along with Greer, the UFO Museum will host researchers Stanton Friedman, Donald Schmitt, Tom Carey, Travis Walton, Derrel Sims, Kathleen Marden, Yvonne Smith, Frank Kimbler, Tom Reed and Ken Hudnall. Attendees will “get their questions answered and get the latest as to what these people are doing,” Briscoe said. Some discussions will include abduction experiences, he said. Friedman is a leading UFO researcher on the See UFO, Page A3
Accident with injuries
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Emergency personnel tend to a two-vehicle accident with injuries at McGaffey and Wyoming, Thursday morning shortly before noon.
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Unlike groundwater districts, the measurements
OK, who out there remembers Lonnie’s Drive-in?
are done manually, Jones said, as cubic feet per second. The CID also assigns every farmer a serial number, which is tracked daily by water master to see how much water is used. “In our system, we know where the water is going so that no one gets more water than they’re entitled to,” Jones said. See WATER, Page A3
SANTA FE (AP) — New Mexico will lower taxes on corporations under an economic development measure signed by Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday, but the new law could lead to higher taxes on goods and services in larger cities and counties. The package of tax changes signed by the governor also will offer fatter tax incentives to television shows filmed in New Mexico — a provision aimed at bringing more longrunning TV series such as “Breaking Bad” to the state. The governor said the corporate reductions will help in recruiting new businesses or encouraging existing companies to expand their operations. “Republicans and Democrats came together and passed a game-changing jobs package that will level the playing field with our surrounding states and help New Mexico compete See TAX, Page A3
Totally Roswell: ET on a tortilla ILISSA GILMORE RECORD STAFF WRITER
The mysteries of Roswell don’t just happen in the night skies — they can happen in the kitchen as well. Last spring, Charlene Her nandez made flour tortillas for family members. As usual, she mixed by hand the standard ingredients — flour, lard and baking powder — rolled out disks of dough and cooked them on a cast iron griddle. However, some of this batch turned out different. Once toasted, shapes appeared that to her resemble strange things. In one, she sees the shape of an alien and in another, she sees possibly a dancer with an outIlissa Gilmore Photo stretched arm and a turtle. Charlene Hernandez holds part of a tortilla she made more For more than a year, than a year ago that she says has the shape of an alien on Hernandez has kept the it. tortillas on a paper plate, in the open air, on a shelf the tortillas are now more nandez, none have grown over the sink in her tiny, like crackers, hard, crummoldy. but well-stocked kitchen. bly and dry. But Though mostly intact, strangest of all to Her-
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New laws, old fears; ammo flies off shelves
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and alarmed by rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel, making it hard for stores nationwide to keep shelves stocked and even putting a pinch on some local law enforcement departments.
At a 24-hour Walmart in suburban Albany, the ammunition cabinet was three-fourths empty this week; sales clerks said customers must arrive before 9 the morning after a delivery
to get what they want. A few miles away, Dick’s Sporting Goods puts up a red rope after ammunition deliveries so buyers can line up early to get a number, averting races up the escalator to the gun counter. Both stores are limiting ammunition purchases to three boxes a day.
The run started in November with President Barack Obama’s re-election, followed by the mass shooting in December of children in Newtown, Conn., which led the president to launch an effort to
strengthen federal gun controls and several states to tighten their laws. Connecticut on Thursday became the latest to crack down as the gover nor signed a measure — effective immediately — that adds more than 100 firear ms to the state’s assault weapons ban, creates a dangerous weapon offender registry and institutes eligibility rules for ammunition purchases. Hours before the law took ef fect, hundreds of See AMMO, Page A3