The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) articles from October 1999, page 4

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

More passenger traffic at Sunport in September.(Business)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL The Albuquerque International Sunport saw a 4 percent increase in passenger traffic in September compared with the same month last year. A total of 505,893 passengers traveled...

Workshop's goal to enhance communication.
October 21, 1999... Byline: Jan Jonas JJONAS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3627 Terry and Kate Dwyer had both been divorced once when they met and married. Neither wanted to fail in marriage again, but they didn't know how to go about making sure they would communicate...

The CHILDREN'S ADVOCATES.(Insight and Opinion)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Profiles by Kate Nelson Last year, 229 Bernalillo County children were placed in the custody of the state's Children, Youth and Families Department due to concerns of abuse and neglect at the hands of those who should be their...

EDITORIALS.(Opinion)
October 21, 1999... Newspaper totally off base in critique of Los Alamos Robert Oppenheimer was no foolwhen he picked Los Alamos as the site to develop the atom bomb, for better or for worse, at the beginning of World War II. He found it remote, isolated and...

Court edict could void over 7,000 indictments.
October 21, 1999... Byline: Leslie Hoffman lhoffman@abqtrib.com / 823-3610 Bernalillo County prosecutors have not been instructing grand jurors properly, the state appeals court ruled. The Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office is violating state...

Wackenhut's fed-inmate bid worries legislator.
October 21, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 A decision announced by Wackenhut Corrections Corp. to look for federal inmates to fill its Hobbs lockup could create another private-prison problem for the state of New Mexico. And...

Los Alamos Lab gets $1.9 million grant to map moon.
October 21, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ALAMOS Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are getting a $1.9 million grant to create the most detailed map of the moon ever made. Using data collected by NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft,...

Santa Fe man garners his 21st DWI charge.(Local News)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF SANTA FE The man who has been called the most famous drunken driver in the capital city was arrested Tuesday, again on suspicion of drunken driving. Joe Leonard Rael of Santa Fe has been...

'99 State Fair attendance was down, but revenues were up.(Local News)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 1999 STATE FAIR State Fair Commission Chairman Tom Tinnin said iffy weather and another off year for Tingley Coliseum concerts are the main reasons for a slight decline in...

Legislative chiefs worry about new nuke agency.
October 21, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE Two top New Mexico legislators are concerned that the creation of a semiautonomous nuclear agency within the U.S. Department of Energy could hurt New Mexico. State Senate President Manny Aragon...

Road is sweet for MWC teams this season.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Aaron J. Lopez THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blame it on parity. Blame it on bad luck. Blame it on bad weather. Whatever the reason, there's no place like the road in the Mountain West Conference. Visiting teams are 8-1 in...

GOOD NEWS!(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Former Albuquerque resident and 1968 Sandia High School graduate Jon Sharp, who turns 49 today, is the owner and pilot of Nemesis, a single-engine racing airplane that holds 17 world speed records in its weight class. Sharp, who has...

The Litigious One summons up plan to ease pain and suffering.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: The Linz THE GREAT ONE The lindsey line The Title IX'd One is still chuckling over the college girls from back East who are suing their former university for $40 million because of the harsh treatment they received as...

Begay shoots 70; is 4 back of Tiger.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Former Stanford teammates Tiger Woods and Notah Begay III were reunited this morning on the golf course at the Disney Classic in Orlando, Fla. It was Woods, the reigning PGA champion and...

CROSSFIRE.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: John O'Rourke, Sean McAfee Who's going to win the World Series? John O'Rourke says the Yankees: Who's the team of the 1990s? Depends on how you want to remember the 1990s. As a decade when you always came up short?...

Practice becomes proving ground for rich-with-talent Lobo women.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Michael J. Garcia mgarcia@abqtrib.com / 823-3660 Pick up the pace. That's the method the depth-rich University of New Mexico women's basketball team plans to use to wear down opponents this season. It also could serve...

Lobo center seeks spot as New Zealand Olympian.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Michael J. Garcia mgarcia@abqtrib.com / 823-3660 University of New Mexico center Susan Bocock spent a busy summer playing basketball for the New Zealand National Team, with an eye toward representing her homeland in the 2000...

NFL knows we're for real, AHS grad-turned-Ram says.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: John O'Rourke jorourke@abqtrib.com / 823-3665 Catching up with... Billy jenkins He's a member of the team that is the NFL's biggest surprise, but Albuquerque's Billy Jenkins is more than just along for the ride. As...

Football flip-flop.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 The Lobos abandoned offensive coordinatorJim Fenwick's West Coast-style offense in favor ofthe option, but with Sean Stein at quarterback they've shifted back toward the spread-it-out...

Fire Department investigates explosion.(Local News)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF An explosion at 2:30 this morning destroyed a house in the 1400 block of Candelaria Road Northeast. "There was an explosion reported and the house was fully involved with the fire by the...

Former district judge arrested on DWI charge.(Local News)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF GRANTS State police arrested a former state district judge on suspicion of drunken driving. Martin Pearl of Grants was stopped Wednesday afternoon after a State Police officer noticed him...

Jockeys, commission reach agreement.(Local News)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF FARMINGTON The New Mexico Racing Commission and jockeys have reached a compromise that averted a possible strike and continued the operation of racetrack casinos across the state. The...

PRC staff endorses power company purchase.(Business)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission staff has recommended that the PRC approve an investor group's acquisition of Texas-New Mexico Power Co. subject to certain conditions. ...

Health-care alliance signs deal for new software.(Business)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL Rio Grande Behavioral Health has signed a contract with Centromine Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., a producer of Web-based behavioral health-care software. Rio Grande is a nonprofit...

TV exposure nets no leads in search for Bell.(Local News)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF A television segment of "America's Most Wanted" on the escape of child killer Kyle Bell has generated few leads relating to New Mexico, the FBI said. "The educated guess," FBI spokesman...

AT A GLANCE.(Sports)
October 21, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports Lobo soccer: Tara Alarid scored the game-winning goal for the University of New Mexico women's soccer team in a 3-2 victory over Nevada-Las Vegas on Wednesday. UNM's other goals were scored by Lana...

Refurbished fairgrounds.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. OREED@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 This week's National Arabian Horse Show highlights some of the shortcomings dingy, deteriorating stalls and barns but theState Fair Commission is working on permanent improvements ...

Hobbs prison might switch to fed inmates.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Wackenhut Corrections Corp. is considering housing federal inmates at its Hobbs prison, and the move could leave the state of New Mexico looking for a new place to incarcerate its own...

EPC takes another run at parole-office plan.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 A proposed Southeast Heights parole center is scheduled to get another hearing before the city's Environmental Planning Commission on Thursday. But the arguments both for and against are...

Big-I timetable doable, some say; others not sure.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Several national contractors whose companies are considering bidding for the state's biggest highway project say there is no way the Big-I reconstruction can be completed in two years. ...

Judge bars death penalty in child's killing.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger jglenn@abqtrib.com / 823-3603 The rape and slaying of a 4-year-old-girl was so heinous and so disturbing that the Metro Court judge who presided at the suspect's arraignment had to leave the room to...

Judge refuses to reduce sentence in fatal DWI.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Leslie Hoffman lhoffman@abqtrib.com / 823-3610 Although Brian Wagner is an "intelligent, stable, likable young man," he still must serve his entire prison sentence for his role in an August 1998 crash that killed a Bernalillo...

Governor agrees to debate drug policy with district attorney.
October 20, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE Gov. Gary Johnson says he's ready for a public debate with the district attorney for the most populous judicial district in the state on the issue of legalizing drugs. Jeff Romero, district...

Man fends off cougar on trail near Santa Fe.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF SANTA FE A screaming runner spent 20 minutes fending off a cougar on a heavily used hiking trail near Santa Fe last weekend, the Department of Game and Fish reported. "An encounter like...

Transfer station to occupy old hotel site.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs jgibbs@abqtrib.com / 823-3625 If groundbreaking ceremonies are any indication of the final product, the Alvarado Transportation Center in Downtown will be full of fond memories and forward thinking. City transit...

Making a flag.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... CAPTION(S): PHOTO CAPTION PHOTO: b/w PHOTO BY: Steven G. Smith/Tribune Randee Garcia, a MacArthur Elementary School second-grader, gets help from first-grade teacher Cheryl McElheney putting together hand-cut pieces of...

Winrock MVD to triple in size by December.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs jgibbs@abqtrib.com / 823-3625 Albuquerque motorists may feel driven to give thanks when the end of November rolls around at least, when they renew vehicle registration. The state Motor Vehicle Department is...

APS uses grant to add reading, math teachers in 37 schools.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 Some Albuquerque elementary schools will be getting extra troops to fight the war against poor reading and math scores. Forty-five newly hired teachers will soon be fanning out...

Retrial considered in infant's 1998 death.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Leslie Hoffman lhoffman@abqtrib.com / 823-3610 Prosecutors are considering whether to retry Louie Barraza after a jury deadlocked on a verdict on child abuse charges against him for the death of an infant in his care. The...

Construction competitors might team up on Big-I.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash The large scale of the Big-I project might have would-be competitors working together. Construction officials from across the country have said they would consider teaming up to get the job done. "One day...

Santa Fe administrators' raises to be taken away.
October 20, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE Unauthorized raises given to about a dozen Santa Fe school administrators will now be taken back, Superintendent Veronica Garcia said. An investigation was launched this summer into whether...

GAO to study New Mexico land-grant claims from 1848 postwar treaty.
October 20, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Congress' investigative arm will analyze land grant claims stemming from the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo that followed the U.S.-Mexico war and led to the creation of the New Mexico Territory. The...

Many say wolves will suffer from loss of recovery-program director.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Chris Roberts THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The man who created the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has lost his job, and environmentalists say that's bad news for the wolves. David...

Wins open door to lucrative opportunities for Begay.(Sports)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Sean McAfee smcafee@abqtrib.com / 823-3662 New horizons are opening up for Albuquerque's Notah Begay III on and off the golf course. Now a two-time winner on the PGA Tour, Begay is in a position to capitalize on a variety of...

Magazines link Lobos' hoop dreams to Walker.(Sports)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Edgar Thompson ethompson@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 University of New Mexico senior Damion Walker is many things to many college basketball experts. As far as preseason magazines are concerned, Walker could be a dud, a stud or...

McClain makes return to the ring.(Sports)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE Former International Boxing Council cruiserweight champion Sean McClain will return to the ring Saturday at the Iceoplex Arena in his hometown of Rio Rancho. McClain (21-6-1, 20 KOs) will face...

Iacenda may move to tailback to help anemic running attack.(Sports)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 WOLFTRACKS The Lobos did more retreating than rushing during their 31-7 loss to Brigham Young on Saturday, stumbling backward for negative-10 yards in the running game. That has...

Online prep sports scene improving.(Sports)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK From the fields and courts to the Super VGA monitors, high school sports has made a leap. This year, access to a computer is often like a press pass for...

Fiery Fran will use Pit's energy like Stormin' Norman.(Sports)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Richard Stevens The cobwebs of caution and conservatism will be dusted from The Pit. We think. The sunken lair of Lobos, considered one of the more dynamic home-court advantages in college basketball with an 81-plus...

Cumbres & Toltec operator ousted.(Business)
October 20, 1999... Byline: The Associated Press The commission that oversees the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad has voted unanimously to end its contract with the railroad's operator. George Bartholomew, who heads the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic...

EDITORIALS.(Insight and Opinion)
October 20, 1999... Governor presses drug issue while others focus on schools At least some people can read the writing on the chalkboard. Sadly, Gary Johnson isn't among them. The Republican governor still gives high marks to his ill-fated...

EDITORIALS.(Insight and Opinion)
October 20, 1999... Quick round of applause due for Downtown planners Can the movies save Downtown? Sounds like a stretch, but combine a 14-screen cinema with 200,000 square feet of new shops and 300 attractive housing units, and you've got a good start on...

EDITORIALS.(Insight and Opinion)
October 20, 1999... Make the good times last - get out and run around a bit Prosperity may be killing us. In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that people are likely two and a half times more likely in some cases to die earlier simply...

Turn of the Century.(Turn of the Century)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Compiled by Kelly Brewer, Randy McCoach, Bob Widdicombe, Frank Zoretich and Ollie Reed of The Tribune. Special thanks to Library Director Judy Pence. Whence We Came Ali, Coop & The bird It was the salad days for the...

Hobbs prison wants to boot state inmates.
October 20, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOBBS Wackenhut Corrections Corp., taking issue with the state Department of Corrections inmate classification system, wants to remove state inmates from its prison here to make room for low-security federal...

Beating victim dies, suspect jailed.
October 20, 1999... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger jglenn@abqtrib.com / 823-3603 Albuquerque police have another homicide on their hands. Eloy Lovato of Albuquerque was pronounced dead Friday after remaining unconscious at University Hospital since he...

Power back on in homes in Jemez Mountains.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF The Jemez Mountains Electric Co-operative has restored electricity to the last of some 8,000 customers left in the dark when a snowstorm caused power lines to snap. "Tree branches started...

State Racing Commission to hear jockeys' complaints.
October 20, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FARMINGTON A dispute between jockeys and the state Racing Commission was set aside temporarily last weekend, allowing races to go on as scheduled, but there are no promises about racing next weekend at SunRay...

Report cites engine failure in F-16 crash.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF CANNON AIR FORCE BASE The crash of an F-16C airplane near Hobbs in July was caused by an engine failure and "flameout," the Air Force reported today. The pilot, Capt. Jason Marshall of the...

Two women killed in logging truck crash.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF ESPANOLA A load of logs tumbled from a timber truck, crushing two women to death as they waited in a car at a stoplight. Annette Gonzales, 39, of Espanola and Emily Baca, 29, of Hernandez...

AT A GLANCE.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Commissioner appointed: Leo Martinez has been appointed District 3 representative on the Lincoln County Commission by Gov. Gary Johnson. Martinez, a Ruidoso businessman, succeeds Wilton Howell,...

AT A GLANCE.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports Prosecutor to run for judge: Bernalillo County prosecuting attorney Pete Decker announced he will seek election as a judge for Division XVI of Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court. Decker, a Republican, said...

AT A GLANCE.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports NM Tech enrolling more: Enrollment at New Mexico Tech is at its highest level since 1994. The Socorro school announced Tuesday that its enrollment this fall is 1,511, up 4.3 percent from last fall's 1,449.

AT A GLANCE.(Sports)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE Friganovic to Women's All-American: University of New Mexico senior tennis player Ana Friganovic will play in the ITA Riviera Women's All-American Championships, which begin Thursday in Los...

Los Alamos County play equipment outdated.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF LOS ALAMOS Decades-old playground equipment in Los Alamos County parks no longer meets national standards and needs to be removed because the faulty equipment poses a safety hazard to children....

Lab invention can see inside terrorist devices.(Local News)
October 20, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF LOS ALAMOS A Los Alamos National Laboratory device that can identify deadly chemicals used in warfare has been approved for military and civilian use. The Army has given its Safety Seal of...

Vote launches Downtown face lift.
October 19, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM Council OKs first phase, financial deal Officials will spend the next few months working with nearly 100 banks to secure financing for a plan to put a new face on Albuquerque's Downtown. That...

Vote launches Downtown face lift.
October 19, 1999... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 Wheels Museum planning gets $300,000 Bernalillo County will go ahead with a feasibility study and other initial work on the proposed $30 million Wheels Museum. Congress has...

Lawmakers tackle merit-pay system for teachers, linking results to raises.
October 19, 1999... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 Somewhere, out there, may be a compromise between Democrat and Republican legislators on major school-reform issues. One of those issues paying good teachers better than their...

Prison-inquiry board dives into task.(Local News)
October 19, 1999... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Three of the five members of a board of inquiry looking into the state's prison system will start their work today in Santa Rosa. The five-member board will study the state's prison...

Students spruce up arroyo.(Local News)
October 19, 1999... CAPTION(S): PHOTO CAPTION PHOTO: b/w PHOTO BY: Michael J. Gallegos/Tribune Bosque School seventh-grader Julia Naquin, 15 of her classmates, teacher Maryann Milligan and a city graffiti-removal specialist, Georgina Pacheco,...

Shooter asked 'why' as he gets life.(Local News)
October 19, 1999... Byline: Leslie Hoffman lhoffman@abqtrib.com / 823-3610 Pamela Secatero just wants an answer. "Why, Stanley? Why did you take my parents?" she screamed in a federal courtroom this morning. The 19-year-old was just one of a dozen...

Teen involved in fatal crash is released to parents' custody.(Local News)
October 19, 1999... Byline: Tribune staff A 15-year-old Albuquerque boy involved in a car crash that killed two men is out of a juvenile facility today after a Children's Court hearing master released him to the custody of his parents. Nathan Thornton...

Beating victim dies; man to be charged with murder.
October 19, 1999... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger jglenn@abqtrib.com / 823-3603 Albuquerque police have another homicide on their hands. Eloy Lovato of Albuquerque was pronounced dead on Friday after remaining unconscious at University Hospital since...

Planners aim high for four charter schools.
October 19, 1999... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 By this time next year, organizers of four charter schools hope to be directing their own version of school reform. They're hoping smaller schools, new teaching methods and...

Johnson needs voucher support in GOP-friendly areas.
October 19, 1999... Byline: Barry Massey The Associated Press SANTA FE As Gov. Gary Johnson maps out a strategy for trying to gain approval of school vouchers, he should look to eastern New Mexico to understand the challenge ahead. Johnson won...

Wall Street Journal maligns (and misplaces) Los Alamos as resort.
October 19, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ALAMOS People whose job it is to promote Los Alamos think the Wall Street Journal, which listed their town as a runner-up for the worst vacation spot, needs a geography lesson. The New York...

Nature Center gets grant for teens.
October 19, 1999... Byline: Jason Gibbs jgibbs@abqtrib.com / 823-3625 The director of the Rio Grande Nature Center hopes to foster the next generation of environmental professionals. The Rio Grande Ecology Institute for Teens has been given a $5,600...

Santa Fe's school ski program up in air.
October 19, 1999... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE Snow is on the mountain, but the Santa Fe school district, which has approved school ski trips for years, appears reluctant to commit to the program since the fatal crash of a bus carrying students...

Three weeks to go: High school football playoff picture gets clearer.(Sports)
October 19, 1999... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 At the start of the season, the picture was blurry, and there seemed to be a big thumbprint in the way. But now, with just three weeks remaining in the regular season, the football...

The 50 finest.(Sports)
October 19, 1999... No. 16 Bobby Newcombe Sport Football, basketball, track and field at Highland High School, 1993-97; football, University of Nebraska, 1997-present. Where it started The son of a Peace Corps worker, Robert Newcombe, and...

El Paso Electric reports quarterly earnings up.(Business)
October 19, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL El Paso Electric Co. reported third-quarter net income of $24.2 million, or 44 cents a share, up from $22.3 million, or 37 cents a share, for the same period last year. Revenues were...

EDITORIALS.(Insight and Opinion)
October 19, 1999... Complacency about river could lead to state's loss Unless they stop up their ears, New Mexicans no longer can pretend they haven't been warned about the many demands they're putting on their precarious water supply. They know, for...

Man sentenced to five years in fatal stabbing.(Local News)
October 19, 1999... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF An Albuquerque man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to five years in prison just weeks after his brother pleaded no contest to the same crime. Benjamin Sandoval, 27, pleaded guilty to...