The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) articles from June 1999, page 9

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) archives from June 1999

First Security, Zions banks unite in $5.9 billion merger.(Business)
June 7, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL First Security Bank has merged with Zions Bancorporation of Salt Lake City in a $5.9 billion deal that will create the 20th largest bank in the country. The combined bank will be...

Special team deployed after shot fired at officer.(Local News)
June 7, 1999... Byline: The Associated Press IN BRIEF A domestic-violence call in Rio Rancho at 7 this morning ended peacefully after a shot was fired at one of the responding officers. "We got there and the woman and her daughter had left the...

Taos Pueblo members protest hotel purchase.(Local News)
June 7, 1999... Byline: The Associated Press IN BRIEF TAOS PUEBLO About 100 members of Taos Pueblo have signed a petition protesting the purchase of a landmark hotel and relocation of the tribe's casino. But tribal leaders are ready to close a...

Jicarilla head asks court to block impeachment.(Local News)
June 7, 1999... Byline: The Associated Press IN BRIEF DULCE Jicarilla Apache President Arnold Cassador has petitioned the Tribal Court to try to block an effort by the Tribal Council to impeach him. Cassador's attorneys argue in court documents...

Under new rule, another Plaman violation will be costly.(Sports)
June 7, 1999... Byline: Rick A. Maese TRIBUNE REPORTER The WPHL increases penalties for salary-cap violations, putting Shreveport and the Scorps in danger of $100,000 fines. Michael Plaman, the owner of two Western Professional Hockey League teams,...

Risky business.
June 5, 1999... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos TRIBUNE REPORTER A Downtown entertainment district forges an unlikely marriage between entrepreneurs and bureaucrats, who must balance profits with the public's expectations Planning a Downtown entertainment...

American Indian trust-fund case returns to judge.
June 5, 1999... Byline: Rachel Smolkin SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON A landmark lawsuit affecting hundreds of thousands of American Indians will go to trial Thursday before a federal judge who held two Cabinet secretaries in contempt of court...

Firefighters facing blazes this weekend.
June 5, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs TRIBUNE REPORTER GRANTS Firefighting crews will continue to battle two fires in the Mount Taylor Ranger District near Grants throughout the weekend, forest service officials say. Mary Zabinski, fire information...

National TV show here for triple teen homicide.
June 5, 1999... Byline: Gutierrez Krueger TRIBUNE REPORTER Bernalillo County sheriff's investigators continue to search for the killers who gunned down three teens in the East Mountains May 29, but they may be getting help from a most wanted source. ...

Second drowning in week at Elephant Butte.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES Wind gusting up to 55 mph kept divers from trying to find the body of an El Paso man who apparently drowned at Elephant Butte Lake. Police had not released the name...

Thrift store works to restock after fire.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Gutierrez Krueger TRIBUNE REPORTER Even before the last flames that devastated the St. Vincent de Paul Thrifty Store were doused, efforts were under way to replenish the scorched goods that would have gone to help the needy. ...

Warehouse damage: $1 million.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs TRIBUNE REPORTER Officials estimate the damage to a Southeast Albuquerque plumbing-supply warehouse to be in excess of $1 million. Lt. Gil Santistevan, public-information officer for the Albuquerque Fire...

Council to consider how much to tighten the water-use belt.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos TRIBUNE REPORTER A proposal to ban the use of lawn sprinklers during the day isn't likely to pass muster with Mayor Jim Baca, even if the City Council buys into the idea. Councilor Sam Bregman wants to...

N.M. schools get reform advice from Chicago at town-hall meeting.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TAOS New Mexico's public education system may need a lot of changes, but probably not as drastic as the measures taken by the city of Chicago, a prominent education reformer said. Gery Chico, who has...

Summer-school motivations: credit, catching up, moving on.
June 5, 1999... Byline: Susie Gran TRIBUNE REPORTER Rebecca Lucero ran away from home and school, then got suspended from ninth grade because she was truant. Now, the 15-year-old must attend summer school to get the two credits she needs to be a...

Judge called 'evenhanded' despite his criticisms of feds.
June 5, 1999... Byline: Jessica Wehrman TRIBUNE REPORTER WASHINGTON The judge who will oversee a class-action lawsuit on behalf of American Indians against the Department of the Interior has criticized the Clinton administration before. Judge Royce...

Gov's fight with unions goes to court.
June 5, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The hearing is on the same day that workers' coverage ends and employers no longer have to bargain with them. SANTA FE The state Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a dispute between labor unions and...

SIPI runner completes rare feat.(Sports)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE Runner Brandon Leslie has won the national junior college marathon championship, completing a sweep of key junior college distance events for the year. Leslie of Southwest Indian Polytechnic...

Dukes reliever pauses to give thanks for the Lord and locker-room showers.(Sports)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Rick A. Maese TRIBUNE REPORTER With a white towel wrapped around his waist, Johnny Ruffin strolled from the shower to his locker with a big smile on his face. Sure, he had a good game, but is the tall pitcher really flaunting...

Brazilian hopes finishing is a trend.(Sports)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Charles Googe There's an old saying in auto racing: In order to finish first, you first have to finish. Helio Castro-Neves has become very familiar with that saying this season. The second year CART driver from Sao...

EDITORIALS.(Insight and Opinion)
June 5, 1999... An appointed asssessor could end surprises The sticker shock that Bernalillo County property owners will begin suffering next week when their new valuations arrive is but one sign of a flawed system in need of reform. County Assessor...

What good is wealth if he can't give it away?(Insight and Opinion)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Kate Nelson He's an 81-year-old who, a friend jokes, "doesn't look a day over 80." He's a Jewish immigrant who built a $3,000 business into a 28-store empire. He's one of the richest men in town. And we're not talking...

Police seek missing Albuquerque woman.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF A 39 year-old Albuquerque woman has been reported missing, and the Albuquerque Police Department is asking for assistance in finding her. Diane Marie Temple is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 145 pounds...

Authorities brace for a bad year of hantavirus.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF The 15 cases of hantavirus reported in the Southwest since January are painting an ominous picture for western states,some health officials say. Their fear is that the region will see a...

CRIME STOPPERS.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Fugitive of the week: Rolando Manuel Garza, 21, is wanted in the shooting death of Robert Almazar, 18, on May 12. The younger man was shot at the Giant gas station at Coors and Arenal...

CRIME STOPPERS.(Local News)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Crime of the week: Jose Ernesto Montano was standing outside his home in the 2500 block of Isleta Boulevard Southeast when he apparently got into an argument with an unknown person who was...

AT A GLANCE.(Sports)
June 5, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE Head of racing board quits: Eddie Fowler, a member of the New Mexico Racing Commission for more than four years and its current chairman, has decided to resign, citing personal reasons. Fowler...

Baca signs budget, but with vetoes, scoldings.
June 4, 1999... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos TRIBUNE REPORTER Mayor Jim Baca said he wanted to veto more items from the city budget, but he decided against it to avoid a "hassle" with the City Council. But councilors said the mayor may still get a...

Widening of Coors gets $1.2 million from state.
June 4, 1999... Byline: STAFF REPORTS The state is giving the city of Albuquerque $1.2 million to widen Coors Road. The money, which will come from the Local Road Fund Maintenance Bureau, will help the city widen Coors from two to three lanes both...

Man beaten to death in S.E. Albuquerque.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF A fistfight turned deadly this morning, leaving one man dead and another in jail. Albuquerque police responded to a report of a fight about 4:25 a.m. today in the 1200 block of John Street...

Arizona crews called in to fight Mount Taylor fire.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS GRANTS Firefighters from Arizona are expected to arrive at the Mount Taylor fire this evening to reinforce the New Mexican crews that battled the 500-plus acre fire throughout Thursday night, said officials...

Residents protest water shut-offs.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... CAPTION(S): PHOTO CAPTION PHOTO: b/w PHOTO BY: Michael J. Gallegos/Tribune A protest at El Rey Mobile Home Park on Louisiana Boulevard Northeast ended Thursday when tenants, upset by intermittent and unexplained water...

Clues elude investigators in teen homicide case.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Gutierrez Krueger TRIBUNE REPORTER The hours are long, the pace exhausting and the results so far are fruitless in the search for who gunned down three teens in the East Mountains. Nearly a week since the youths were found...

UNM professor first woman to head American College of Psychoanalysts.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Frank Zoretich TRIBUNE REPORTER Dr. Sally K. Severino, professor of psychiatry and vice chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, has been appointed the first female president of...

New Corrales post office made with straw bales.
June 4, 1999... Byline: Susan Montoya The Associated Press The new post office in Corrales, a rural community hidden in the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande not only will have a hitching post out front, it will be partially made of straw bales. The...

Vouchers still on Johnson's agenda.
June 4, 1999... Byline: Dan Mayfield TRIBUNE REPORTER Gov. Gary Johnson may have lost his quest for educational vouchers, but not his zest. Johnson made vouchers his main theme in a speech to the New Mexico Bankers Association's Past Presidents...

Pit's ranking stirs up good, bad moments.(Sports)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Richard Stevens All Pit memories suddenly have become more special. The good ones. The bad ones. We thank Sports Illustrated for this thanks to that magazine's list of the top 20 sports venues of this century, which...

Leslie runs to record books.(Sports)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Sean McAfee TRIBUNE REPORTER Sophomore's fifth national title leads Albuquerque school to victory in team marathon event. Brandon Leslie completed what is believed to be the first single-season sweep of junior college...

NMSU narrows AD search to four.(Sports)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE LAS CRUCES New Mexico State's search for an athletics director is down to four finalists, with interviews for the four scheduled to begin later this month. The AD's job at NMSU opened up...

After Dodgers shortstop punches wall, dazed Duke gets call.(Sports)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Rick A. Maese TRIBUNE REPORTER Nearly one-half hour had passed since the game ended and just a few players remained in the Albuquerque Dukes' clubhouse. Infielder Chance Sanford was the last to shower and now, in a corner of...

Frost merges with Illinois mortgage company.(Business)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL Frost Mortgage Banking Group has merged with First Home Mortgage, an Illinois company. "The philosophies of our two companies are similar," said John Manglardi, First Home...

N.M. labs will survive scandal, Domenici says.(Business)
June 4, 1999... Byline: OTHER BUSINESS NEWS By Alexis Kerschner TRIBUNE REPORTER He also told bankers he was optimistic about the prospects for oil industry. In a far-ranging speech that touched on everything from the Los Alamos National Laboratory...

Hobbs oil workers see a glimmer of hope.
June 4, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Improvements inch along as business picks up, companies rehire and trucks roll out. HOBBS There are signs better economic times are ahead for the oil patch of southeast New Mexico. With oil prices...

Outside the box.(The Arts & Entertainment)
June 4, 1999... Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez TRIBUNE REPORTER Bart Prince's houses go around the bend to break ground in architecture You know the place. It's the giant Habitrail of steel and tile and glass, the matrix of people-sized tubes posing...

Jude spews brutal wit on beauty, L.A., music biz.(The Arts & Entertainment)
June 4, 1999... Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez TRIBUNE REPORTER Don't even go there. Jude has heard that whole thing before. The Los Angeles-based alt-pop singer has seen the headlines on interviews he's done. It's pretty sad, he says, when they can't...

Green-chile cheeseburgers: a slice of heaven, a touch of hell just short of bliss.(The Arts & Entertainment)
June 4, 1999... Byline: EATERS DIGEST By Lisa Bornstein TRIBUNE A & E EDITOR It had been such a cold spring, we were dying for something hot. Really hot. We looked where New Mexico and Texas meet in a culinary detente: the green-chile cheeseburger....

Musician soars far above her plastic toy piano roots.(The Arts & Entertainment)
June 4, 1999... Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez TRIBUNE REPORTER Classically trained, pianist Lynne Arriale now enjoys the challenge and control that jazz improvisation brings to the standards or her own compositions. For jazz pianist Lynne Arriale,...

Unser gets attention from U.S. Supreme Court.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Wire reports IN BRIEF The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to file a response to a petition filed last month by three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser. The U.S. Forest Service fined Unser $75...

AT A GLANCE.(Business)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL Happy trails: A new campground opened last week in the Jemez Mountains. The Trails End RV Park is on N.M. 126, 1.5 miles north of the town of La Cueva. The facility has full hookups in...

Purple Heart presented a half-century late.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF An Albuquerque veteran who was wounded during the Korean War has received a belated Purple Heart. David A. Griego received the medal almost 50 years after the fact from U.S. Sen. Pete...

Turner hopes to transfer water rights to trout lakes.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF SANTA FE Media magnate Ted Turner is seeking to protect the trout on one of his New Mexico spreads by transferring 125-year-old water rights to six lakes. His 578,000-acre Vermejo Ranch in...

House defense team ready to file petition.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF After three trials and three years of appeals, the vehicular-homicide case of Gordon House is about to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Attorneys for House said they will file the Supreme...

10 N.M. players get called in draft.(Sports)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE Three University of New Mexico players, a record four New Mexico State Aggies and three New Mexico high school athletes were selected by the time the 50-round amateur baseball draft ended...

BYU, UNLV in the hunt at NCAAs.(Sports)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE CHASKA, Minn. Clemson leads an NCAA men's golf tournament in which none of the 30 teams has been able to break par through two rounds. The Tigers' 14-over-par total over unyielding Hazeltine...

AT A GLANCE.(Business)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL Venture capitalists to speak: Three venture capitalists will speak at the Wednesday dinner meeting of the New Mexico Entrepreneurs Association. Tarby Bryant of CVM Equity Funds V,...

AT A GLANCE.(Business)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL Restaurant opens: Margarita Grille and Sports Bar at 1119 Candelaria Road N.W. will have its grand opening this weekend. The restaurant opened two weeks ago in the old Leonardo's in the...

Yancy waives hearing in TorC slaying case.(Local News)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Wire reports IN BRIEF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES Dennis Roy Yancy, accused of murder in a sex-torture case, has waived his preliminary hearing in Magistrate Court. Yancy, 27, is accused of killing Marie Parker, who was 22 in...

AT A GLANCE.(Business)
June 4, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports Newspaper closes: The Albuquerque Business Times closed with today's issue, blaming a lack of advertising revenue. The free-circulation tabloid newspaper was started in 1994 by Aanti communications Inc. and...

Study: City's tax base lags behind value.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos TRIBUNE REPORTER Bernalillo County's tax base has not benefited much from the soaring prices people have paid over the past decade for properties, according to a study by the University of New Mexico. That...

New Mexican welcomes the opportunity to help refugees.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. TRIBUNE REPORTER Carl Berghofer has worked in the wake of hurricanes and responded to more forest fires than he can remember. As part of the New Mexico Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Berghofer is no stranger...

Allison's gentler agenda gets school budget passed.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Andy Lenderman TRIBUNE REPORTER For almost a year, the superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools has talked big about reforming schools. On Wednesday night the Albuquerque Board of Education passed Superintendent Brad...

Apartment fire causes evacuation; no one hurt.(Local News)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Seventy-five residents of the Bel-Air neighborhood in Northeast Albuquerque were evacuated from their apartments after a fire early this morning. No one was hurt. Lt. Gil Santistevan,...

Questioned drivers knew teen victims.(Local News)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Gutierrez Krueger TRIBUNE REPORTER Five days after three Albuquerque area teens were gunned down on a Sandia Knolls road, detectives say they have yet to crack the case despite putting in long hours, adding extra personnel and...

Gang trio's pleas bring closure to once-embattled neighborhood.(Local News)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash TRIBUNE REPORTER Five years ago, in the Trumbull-La Mesa neighborhood of Southeast Albuquerque, murders and assaults occurred weekly. Gang turf wars kept residents inside. Today, residents say, children come out to...

Water shut-offs wring N.E. residents' patience.(Local News)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash TRIBUNE REPORTER Some mornings, when AnnaLou Sharar turns on the shower faucet at her home in the Del Rey Mobile Home Park, she doesn't get a drip. Other members of the 418 families who live in the 60-acre Northeast...

Highway Department will study bypass route around Jemez Pueblo.
June 3, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JEMEZ PUEBLO Jemez Pueblo leaders like visitors and tourists but have grown tired of the traffic hazards they create as they make their way to and from the neighboring and very popular Jemez Mountains. So...

Gymnastics coach brings Summer Games to her Special Olympians.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs TRIBUNE REPORTER Linda Charzuk knows her team of gymnasts will make a clean sweep at the New Mexico Special Olympics Summer Games this weekend. Math and maybe, home-mat advantage is on Charzuk's side. After...

Conservationists work to preserve N.M. lands.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs TRIBUNE REPORTER As the Gila's 75th anniversary is being celebrated in southwestern New Mexico, a new generation of conservationists is rising to the challenge of protecting the nation's wild lands. They are...

Leopold home may be put on historic register.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs TRIBUNE REPORTER A simple bungalow sits on 14th Street, just south of Los Alamos Avenue near Downtown. The city wants to put it on the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties, because it's the house that Aldo...

UNM finance committee boosts budget 10.1%.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Frank Zoretich TRIBUNE REPORTER For the first time, the University of New Mexico's total annual budget will be over a billion dollars. The finance and facilities committee of the UNM Board of Regents has approved and sent on...

Microsoft ads worth free bread at one store here.(Business)
June 3, 1999... Byline: RETAIL CORNER By Leanne Potts Seen the latest ads for Microsoft? The print and TV spots for the uber-maker of computers feature owners of Great Harvest Bread Co. bakeries talking about the Microsoft computer network that connects...

Business grades the Legislature.(Business)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Sherry Robinson TRIBUNE BUSINESS EDITOR Association of Commerce and Industry scores how legislators vote on business issues State legislators are improving their business grades, according to the Association of Commerce and...

Proposal modifies state's slow air-quality permit process.(Business)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Sherry Robinson TRIBUNE BUSINESS EDITOR Contractors and economic developers have long complained that the state's air-quality permitting is prohibitively slow. So Pete Maggiore, secretary of the state Environment Department,...

People, PROMOTIONS, POSITIONS.(Business)
June 3, 1999... ACCOUNTING The New Mexico Society of CPAs has named Roger Nagel its public- and external-relations director. He will be responsible for communicating the association's position on critical issues, and he will also develop...

AT A GLANCE.(Business)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports AT A GLANCE Newspaper closes: The Albuquerque Business Times closed with today's issue, blaming a lack of advertising revenue. The free-circulation tabloid newspaper was started in 1994 by Aanti...

Visitors bureau opens first Rio Rancho information center.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Leanne Potts ASSISTANT BUSINESS EDITOR Up on the second level of Cottonwood Mall, at the booth decorated with chile ristras, you can find out anything you want to know about Albuquerque and Rio Rancho. How much it costs to...

Deming retirement community is lone N.M. site on top-100 list.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Leanne Potts ASSISTANT BUSINESS EDITOR A housing development in Deming has been named one of the top-100 master-planned communities in the country by a quarterly retirement magazine. Country Club Estates, an 80-acre golf...

Mora native proposes to recruit call centers to northern N.M.
June 3, 1999... Byline: The Associated Press MORA A New Mexico native wants to tap telecommunications to create jobs in the northern part of the state. Joe Martinez, CEO of a computer- technology provider based in Englewood, Colo., is working to...

Weather cut into chile production in 1998.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Staff reports New Mexico chile production decreased by 4 percent in 1998, led by a 20 percent drop in red-chile production over 1997, according to the New Mexico Department of Agriculture. Green-chile production rose by 6...

Unions ask court to affirm state labor contract.
June 3, 1999... Byline: Deborah Baker The Associated Press SANTA FE Labor unions have asked the state Supreme Court to order Gov. Gary Johnson to abide by a six-year renewal of an agreement that covers about 10,000 state workers. The Legislature...

EDITORIALS.(Insight and Opinion)
June 3, 1999... Gila Wilderness towers as a monument to vision Famed conservationist Aldo Leopold "must have been thought strange" on June 3, 1924, when he helped found the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico, the first official wilderness in the...

Three on police force are getting promotions.(Local News)
June 3, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Three members of the Albuquerque Police Department have earned their stripes and will be promoted during a ceremony Friday. Chief Gerald Galvin announced that Officer Christopher A. Padilla...

Sena plans to operate buses as charters.(Local News)
June 3, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE Former Shuttlejack bus-company owner Ray Sena is hiring buses as charters to keep his El Conejo interstate bus line operating from El Paso to Denver and Los Angeles. A May 11 agreement with the...

Gang trio's guilty pleas end 4-year case.
June 3, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three suspected gang members accused of racketeering and other charges relating to drug trafficking and to some killings have pleaded guilty and avoided possible death sentences. U.S. Attorney General...