The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) articles from September 1997, page 4

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) archives from September 1997

Symphonies struggle to stay afloat.
September 19, 1997... Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez TRIBUNE REPORTER After turbulent times marked by shrinking NEA grants, smaller audiences and folding orchestras, symphonies, including NMSO, are learning to survive by changing their tunes When the...

Voodoo Glow Skulls does magic with Spanish in its own American way.(The Arts & Entertainment)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Paul Maldonado Jr. TRIBUNE REPORTER Even though the Voodoo Glow Skulls have recorded an album in Spanish ("Firme"), and the new record "Baile De Los Locos" includes three tunes in Spanish, Frank Casillas, the band's singer,...

Ghoulish ambience doesn't work at Werewolf.(The Arts & Entertainment)
September 19, 1997... Byline: J.Gutierrez Krueger CHOW MONDO You've got to admit that a restaurant shows guts when it uses words such as "entrails" and "hell-broth" on its menu. But even Wolfgang Puck might find it hard to conjure up cuisine to...

Casual cruelty chills in 'Company of Men'.(The Arts & Entertainment)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Lisa Bornstein TRIBUNE A&E EDITOR REVIEW They're the faceless masses, multitudinous, almost indistinguishable. No, not the teeming poor of Calcutta, but the white-collar, pink-skinned businessmen of America, personified in...

De Colores founder pleased with growth of Hispanic celebration.
September 19, 1997... Byline: Lisa Bornstein TRIBUNE A&E EDITOR Five years after its founding, De Colores has expanded far beyond the Hispanic Culture Festival that first took place in the course of a single evening. "The rapid growth has been very...

NMSO offers its sounds on CD.
September 19, 1997... Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez For years, the recording industry has created a little fiscal buffer for many orchestras. And after 65 years of toil, turmoil and music, beautiful, classical music, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, led...

Natural history museum's fund-raising drive a success.
September 19, 1997... Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez TRIBUNE REPORTER Six months into a $4.2 million fund-raising drive by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History to create three new exhibits and a 12,000-square-foot Dynamax Theater, about a third of the money...

Lobo tailback Ch Johnson could start against Utags.(Sports)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Michael J. Garcia TRIBUNE REPORTER Lobo coach Dennis Franchione probably could not have predicted that Che Johnson would be his starting tailback four games into the season. But with injuries to UNM's top three tailbacks,...

Powerhouse with no punch.(Sports)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Edgar Thompson TRIBUNE REPORTER The Eldorado Eagles were ranked third in the states preseason poll. But after an 0-2 start, cracks,particularly in the offensive line, are beginning to show. When it comes to building an...

UPDATE.(Sports)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Bold Spirit today's Fair favorite A female duo could come out on top today at the $37,601 New Mexico Breeders Thoroughbred Derby at the State Fair Track over a mile and one sixteenth. Post time for the...

Ex-Lobo Winslow Oliver moves to back seat in Panther lineup.(Sports)
September 19, 1997... Byline: WIRE REPORTS HANDICAPPING THE NFL The emergence of a new punt returner has put ex-Lobo Winslow Oliver in street clothes, and maybe jeopardized his stay with the Carolina Panthers. Ever since Tyrone Poole returned a punt...

UNM soccer sets higher goal for itself.(Sports)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Rick Ingebritson TRIBUNE REPORTER LOBO SCENE It's time to step up. In its five years of existence, the University of New Mexico women's soccer program has made definite strides. The latest proof of that is a 4-1 record...

Win could earn Sandia high national rank.(Sports)
September 19, 1997... Byline: STAFF REPORTS HIGH SCHOOL SCENE La Cueva's girls are ahead of Sandia's in the USA Today soccer rankings, but the Sandia boys have a good chance at returning the favor when the first boys rankings come out next week. The...

BIZ BRIEFS.(Business)
September 19, 1997... Intel, Compaq to develop networking technology Intel Corp. and Compaq Corp. have united to develop technology linking business computers, posing a fresh threat to rival makers of networking equipment. Intel, the No. 1 maker of...

Buyer to fix up run-down Downtown hotel.(Business)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Macario Juarez Jr. TRIBUNE REPORTER A Downtown hotel long considered an eyesore has been bought by a group of investors and will be turned into a national franchise by next spring. Executive Inn, also called Friendship Inn,...

Animal-rights group applauds 3 police officers.
September 19, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports A New Mexico animal-rights group today planned to honor three Albuquerque police officers who discovered 11 circus animals, including a dead elephant, in a King Royal Circus trailer in August. ...

Eagle-Monarch game is reunion of ex-'mates, champs.(Sports)
September 19, 1997... Byline: Richard Stevens EYE ON SPORTS They are friends, maybe for life; enemies for only a night. Call it the reunion of the undefeated, Young America Football League-champion Monarchs of 1993, but give the reunion just a small...

IN BRIEF.(Local News)
September 19, 1997... Police seek suspects in three bank holdups Police and the FBI are seeking male suspects in three bank robberies that occurred this week in Albuquerque. Police reported that the Western Bank at 6001 Academy N.E. was robbed Thursday at...

IN BRIEF.(Local News)
September 19, 1997... AT A GLANCE Death investigated: Albuquerque police are investigating a suspicious death overnight that appeared to be a homicide. Police were called to 2800 Vail St. S.E. at 12:40 a.m. today, the dispatcher reported. A male body was...

CORRECTIONS.(Local News)
September 19, 1997... * A story Thursday about the City Council District 9 race should have said that candidate Michael Brasher would not consider setting an urban growth boundary until a growth-management study is completed. * A story Saturday about the...

Architect says he'd use same plans for center.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Shonda Novak TRIBUNE REPORTER One of the new architects being considered to take over the proposed Hispanic Cultural Center project said he would follow the design plans of Antoine Predock, the renowned Albuquerque architect who...

Board votes to use CPR in all cases.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos TRIBUNE REPORTER The APS school board voted to keep the policy of not honoring Do Not Resuscitate orders, but there's some question whether the vote was legal. Trained staff members in Albuquerque schools...

Activist laments pace of progress for Hispanics.
September 18, 1997... Byline: David Snyder TRIBUNE REPORTER When Vicente Ximenes of Albuquerque wrote the federal proclamation that initiated Hispanic Heritage Week 30 years ago, there were few Hispanics in Congress and even fewer on the benches of federal...

Amrep close to selling Rio Rancho country club.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Macario Juarez Jr. TRIBUNE REPORTER A national golf-course management company in Nevada is buying the Rio Rancho Golf and Country Club from Amrep Southwest, Amrep officials say. "It looks like the sale will probably close...

EDITORIALS.(Opinion)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Jack Ehn Can't see star light, star bright tonight There's a certain virtue in hiding your candle under a bushel basket, to invert a parable from the New Testament. And two Bernalillo County neighborhoods have discovered...

Mayoral candidates outline visions for Duke City's future.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Patricia Guthrie TRIBUNE REPORTER No crystal ball glinted from the table when Albuquerque's seven mayoral candidates debated live on television and radio -- but that didn't stop the future from taking center stage. How to...

City ethics board to review complaints against candidates.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Ed Asher TRIBUNE REPORTER Ethics complaints filed against mayoral candidates Sam Bregman and David Kirk Anderson have been referred to the city's ethics board for formal hearings Oct. 3 -- four days before the election. A...

President Bush, Barbara to salute Domenici at Albuquerque event.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Kate Nelson TRIBUNE REPORTER Former President Bush and Barbara Bush will make a rare fund-raising appearance in Albuquerque to aid the New Mexico Republican Party. Party Chairman John Dendahl said the former first couple...

Council candidates say city finances are No. 1 concern.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Ed Asher TRIBUNE REPORTER Three City Council candidates today warned that Albuquerque could find itself in dire financial shape unless city government beefs up its cash reserves. At a news conference this morning, candidates...

IN BRIEF.(Local News)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Traffic is slowed by fuel-spill cleanup VELARDE -- Motorists are being urged to detour around an eight-mile stretch of N.M. 68 north of Velarde in Northern New Mexico so environmental crews can clean up...

Tobacco-deal snub is lauded in New Mexico.(Local News)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Kate Nelson TRIBUNE REPORTER Clinton rejected the deal because he said it should be tougher, and New Mexico anti-smoking activists called that "good news for public health." Anti-smoking activists in New Mexico applauded...

A long bike ride for the many who can't.(Local News)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Patricia Guthrie TRIBUNE REPORTER Christopher Huybrechts is spending his vacation spinning his wheels down Route 66, not for kicks but pain. Huybrechts, of Geneva, Switzerland, is bicycling the 1,200 miles of the remnants of...

City bus drivers win one, lose one in judge's ruling on lawsuit.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Ed Asher TRIBUNE REPORTER A federal judge has good news and bad news for bus drivers in their lawsuit seeking extra pay from the city. U.S. District Judge C. LeRoy Hansen on Wednesday ruled that the city of Albuquerque does...

APS seeks input on qualifications for new schools superintendent.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos TRIBUNE REPORTER Before the Albuquerque Board of Education posts a help-wanted sign in the window for a new superintendent, it mailed out letters asking for community input. The school board asked dozens of...

APS makes truants' parents pay with hearings, threat of fines, jail.
September 18, 1997... Byline: Susie Gran TRIBUNE REPORTER At least 100 truants have been cited for skipping school since the city's public schools opened for classes on Aug. 19 -- one of them a 12-year-old found working Wednesday in a Coronado mall restaurant....

A mountains quiet, a sirens wail.(Insights)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Doug Brown TRIBUNE REPORTER sign welcomes motorists to the "village" of Four Hills on the only road in and out of the neighborhood N a rough triangle of Albuquerque south of Central Avenue and east of Tramway Boulevard. District...

Mother presses on with DWI memorial.(Insights)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Harrison Fletcher Not much there besides sand dunes, chamisa, weeds, red ants and a few arroyos. But when Dorothy Hearn stands at the five-acre site of a proposed DWI memorial, on the western edge of the city near Paseo de...

JAN AT THE FAIR.(Insights)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Jan Jonas One of the most popular can't-do-without-it booths in the Manuel Lujan Exhibit Hall is Chuck's Nuts. Melba Montoya and her family love to stop there. She has to have a caramel apple rolled in nuts. Other family...

North I-25 site to get hotel, offices, restaurant.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Macario Juarez Jr.TRIBUNE REPORTER A hotel, a bank and a lot of office, retail and restaurant space are being planned for the southeast corner of Osuna Road and Jefferson Street Northeast. One Presidential Plaza will take...

N.M. exports boom in strong world economy.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Jean Moore ASSISTANT BUSINESS EDITOR New Mexico's exports for the first half of 1997 were up 278 percent over the same period last year. The reasons for this quantum leap, according to the Trade Division of the state Economic...

Actors combine marketing, talent to be heard.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: David Snyder TRIBUNE REPORTER Cheaper by the Dozens writes, produces and voices radio ads. One co-owner says no other company does all three. Albuquerque actor/entrepreneur Cliff Gravell isn't afraid of promoting himself. ...

Reinhart 'lived by example'.(Obituary)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Carlos Salazar TRIBUNE REPORTER OBITUARY Matriarch Mary Reinhart is remembered for her commitment to her family. "Her forgiving nature and kindness set her apart," said her son, Dick. "She lived by example. She was slow...

Amrep buys home builder in California.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Amrep Southwest Inc. of Rio Rancho has bought Lexington Homes, one of the largest home builders in Sacramento, Calif. The sale Wednesday was the culmination of talks begun nearly a year ago, said James...

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Charles Moran retired from the Kirtland Federal Credit Union's board of directors after 28 years. During his tenure assets grew to more than $137 million. Joan Rusch has joined First Security Corp. as a vice president/credit officer for...

IN BRIEF.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Staff reports Acquisition: Meyners and Company, an accounting and business-consulting firm based in Albuquerque, has acquired Dealer Financial Services from J. Wilson and Associates. Dealer Financial, of Albuquerque, provides...

Attorney general, national group campaign against charity fraud.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: STAFF REPORT Attorney General Tom Udall and the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives have started the "Learn to Give Wisely" campaign to cut down on fraudulent and unethical solicitations from charities. Telephone...

Roses Southwest Papers lives up to its hiring promise.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Macario Juarez Jr. TRIBUNE REPORTER Roses Southwest Papers has surpassed the number of jobs it was required to create in return for $6.5 million in industrial revenue bonds last year, according to its inaugural annual report to...

Santa Fe considers new convention center.(Business)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Macario Juarez Jr. TRIBUNE REPORTER Wheels are turning again on plans for a new convention center in Santa Fe, officials there said. For years, the City Different has grappled with the need to replace the old Sweeney...

IN BRIEF.(Local News)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Architect needed for cultural-center redesign The architectural firm that estimated it would cost $750,000 to $800,000 to redesign a proposed Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque is now off the job....

Tapia wants Nov. 7 fight in Duke City, his wife says.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Carlos Salazar TRIBUNE REPORTER Boxer Johnny Tapia wants to fight in Albuquerque on Nov. 7 and is asking his promoter to arrange it, Tapia's wife said. Tapia wants the fight to be a defense of at least one of his junior...

YOUNG AMERICA FOOTBALL LEAGUE.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Honor Roll JUNIOR DIVISION The South Bears have won their first five games, with D.C. Curtis leading the way. Curtis has 375 yards rushing and 21 receiving, both team highs. On defense, he leads the team with 39 tackles. Curtis'...

GOOD NEWS!(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Conley Defferding of Albuquerque recorded his second hole-in-one within a year when he aced No. 8 at Tijeras Arroyo on Tuesday. Defferding aced the 160-yard hole with a six-iron. . . . A men's team from Albuquerque will be among 34...

Albuquerque tourney will showcase golf's next stars.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Rick Ingebritson TRIBUNE REPORTER To see the future of men's golf, don't bother turning on your television this weekend. Just take a drive over to the University of New Mexico Championship Course. The 43rd annual William H....

Pit, Tingley aren't available for Nov. 7 Tapia fight.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Carlos Salazar and John O'Rourke TRIBUNE REPORTERS While his co-manager and his promoter continue to exchange harsh words over contract talks, Johnny Tapia apparently has no place to stage his desired Nov. 7 return to the boxing...

IN BRIEF.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Duke City Marathon deadlines coming up Registration deadlines for the Sept. 28 Sun Healthcare Duke City Marathon are quickly approaching. Friday is the last day for entries to be taken to any Big 5...

Lobo hoopsters get eight games on national TV.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: STAFF REPORTS It's official: The Lobo men's basketball team will be on national television an unprecedented eight times this regular season. The Western Athletic Conference released its television schedule Wednesday, calling...

Utags ready to face Lobos brimming with confidence.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Michael J. Garcia TRIBUNE REPORTER Confidence is something that Utah State isn't lacking as it prepares to play the Lobos, the third of four Western Athletic Conference opponents on its schedule. Utah State (2-1) opened the...

Hey, The Red One and The Plump One: You guys asked for it.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: The Linz THE GREAT ONE THE LINDSEY LINE The Linz hears that Doughnut Smith and Mike "Homer" Powers were bad-mouthing The Great One on Powers' radio show. You know the show The Linz is talking about. The one where Powers...

Coach turns Del Norte soccer into a winner.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Edgar Thompson TRIBUNE REPORTER When Tracy Jennings arrived at Del Norte High School to coach boys soccer last season, he found a baseball diamond smack dab in the middle of his practice field. When Jennings asked the school...

Goal in one.(Sports)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Rick A. Maese TRIBUNE REPORTER Soccer ranks high in Albuquerque thousands of teens, senior citizens and everyone in between sweat, slide and score each week Soccer: a kid's sport? "Ha!" Herb Rothe says with a laugh. ...

IN BRIEF.(Local News)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Federal witness gets 39 years on drug charges An Albuquerque man whose value to prosecutors as a witness in a federal case was destroyed when he was arrested for sexually assaulting boys has been...

IN BRIEF.(Local News)
September 18, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Park gathering targets INS practices, policies The Albuquerque Border City Project plans to kick off a take-back-the-parks effort Saturday at 10 a.m. at Tom Tenorio Park at Coors Road and Arenal Road...

CORRECTIONS.(Local News)
September 18, 1997... Two recent stories should have reported the age of Cibola High School freshman quarterback Eddie Abreu as 15, according to Cibola records. See story 09-04-97 Pg. 6 Sports Extra "CIBOLA SAILS INTO SEASON WITH SKELETON CREW"

Gambling threat killed.
September 17, 1997... Byline: Karen MacPherson and Tina Griego TRIBUNE REPORTERS Wyoming senator's proposal would have invalidated tribal compacts WASHINGTON -- An effort that would have outlawed New Mexico's tribal gaming compacts had a short life span...

Montano bridge will open with ceremony on Sept. 29.
September 17, 1997... Byline: Doug Brown TRIBUNE REPORTER After decades of political and legal battles and two years of construction, the Montano bridge is about to open. On Sept. 29, motorists will be able to drive across the Rio Grande on the new...

'Hi Lo' casting call takes measure of locals.
September 17, 1997... CAPTION(S): PHOTO CAPTION PHOTO: Color PHOTO BY: Marc Piscotty/Tribune Christina Armijo, 15, of Los Lunas measures mom Ann's head during a call for movie extras for "The Hi Lo Country." The film is based on the novel by...

Gamma-ray burst leaves a trillion-mile fireball.
September 17, 1997... Byline: Lawrence Spohn TRIBUNE REPORTER Observed from New Mexico's VLA, the burst came from an unknown source more powerful than anything ever seen. Using observations from radio telescopes in New Mexico, astronomers today said that...

EDITORIAL.(Opinion)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Dale McFeatters Scripps Howard News Service Good times still roll - a little slower Economically, 1998 is not shaping up to be quite the year 1997 is, but that's still pretty good news. After all, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan,...

4-year-old victim of beating, rape dies.
September 17, 1997... Byline: Doug Brown TRIBUNE REPORTER A 4-year-old girl who was raped and beaten into a coma has died, and the man charged in the assault may now face homicide charges, authorities said today. The child, who had been dubbed Baby Girl...

IN BRIEF.(Local News)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Bone fragments found in Nine Mile Hill area University of New Mexico anthropologists excavated an area of Nine Mile Hill west of Albuquerque where state workers found fragments of human bones, officials...

Deadbeat parents offered amnesty.(Local News)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Susie Gran TRIBUNE REPORTER The 19,000 New Mexico deadbeat parents who have failed to pay court-ordered child support will be given one more chance to do the right thing. That chance has a name -- Project Amnesty. It starts...

Neighborhoods seek ban to protect star-filled nights.(Local News)
September 17, 1997... Byline: John Hill TRIBUNE REPORTER Starry night skies over two Albuquerque neighborhoods would be protected from the glare of outdoor lights under a proposal being considered by the Bernalillo County Commission. The commission...

Jury is seated in 2nd cabin-killings case.(Local News)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Jessie Milligan TRIBUNE REPORTER SOCORRO -- After more than two weeks of interviewing potential jurors, eight men and four women have been chosen to consider the death-penalty case against Shaun Wilkins, 20, one of four defendants...

CAMPAIGN ROUNDUP.(Local News)
September 17, 1997... ENDORSEMENT: Mayoral candidate Jim Baca has been endorsed by Albuquerque-New Mexico Progressive Action, a statewide group that bills itself as dedicated to building a progressive future for New Mexico through the education and election of...

Domenici: Tribes won't have to reveal income or forfeit legal sovereignty.
September 17, 1997... Byline: Karen MacPherson TRIBUNE REPORTER WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate has accepted a proposal to defuse the controversy over efforts to force American Indian tribes to disclose their income and give up their legal sovereign immunity....

Mediator: Power deregulation can work.
September 17, 1997... Byline: Dennis Domrzalski TRIBUNE REPORTER SANTA FE -- There is still a chance that collaborative talks aimed at developing consensus legislation to deregulate New Mexico's electric industry could still be successful, the state's Public...

UNM president to sing at homecoming football game.
September 17, 1997... Byline: Shonda Novak TRIBUNE REPORTER Richard Peck will sing the national anthem with three UNM alumni. He has written plays, acted in community theater, sung in a barbershop quartet and performed in musicals. Now, University of...

Academics, not night life, is what interests recruit.(Sports)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Edgar Thompson TRIBUNE REPORTER Recruit Ruben Douglas appears to be the kind of combo guard that Lobo men's basketball coaches like. Not only can the 6-foot-5, 187-pound Douglas play point guard or shooting guard, but he also...

Lobos can breathe easier now: The tough part of the schedule is done.(Sports)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Richard Stevens EYE ON SPORTS In a way, the difficult part of the Lobos' football season is finished because the cream puffs are all gone. In a way, it's easier now that things get tougher for the University of New...

Injuries leave receivers working out at tailback.(Sports)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Michael J. Garcia TRIBUNE REPORTER WOLF TRACKS Versatile Che Johnson might play tailback at times Saturday at Utah State because of injuries to the Lobos' top three running backs. Receiver Jamie Oliver and starting...

N.M. business leaders define concerns.(Business)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Macario Juarez Jr. TRIBUNE REPORTER Todays Top Story Increasing and improving the state's work force and creating better wages are among the priorities of some of New Mexico's business leaders. About 100 people...

LOCAL & REGIONAL.(Business)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Staff and wire reports Tech-transfer company gets started at Sandia A company will officially be born Thursday at Sandia National Laboratories. Peak Sensor Systems will sign a technology-licensing agreement that day and...

Lake Powell group fights club's plan to pull its plug.(Backcountry)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Patricia Guthrie BACKCOUNTRY EDITOR Draining Lake Powell may sound like an environmentalist's latest loony tune, especially to those who depend on the huge reservoir for their play and pay. But they are the very people...

Where 25 mph means faster.(Insights)
September 17, 1997... Byline: Doug Brown TRIBUNE REPORTER City elections 97 District 7 Traffic, not crime, is cited as the No. 1 problem in this district. Residents say they want speed bumps to slow cars that use their streets as shortcuts to the...