Roswell Daily Record
Vol. 119, No. 239 50¢ Daily / $1 Sunday
INSIDE NEWS
Come to the Fair! THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
October 6, 2010
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GRAND CHAMP MARKET SWINE
Lucky, the pig, weighs 284 pounds, but he did not lumber nor clumsily trudge through the mud in the rodeo rink. Rather, he pranced with practiced ease and seemed to float like a butterfly past the judge of the Eastern New Mexico State Fair Market Swine Show. “He carried a lot of ... - PAGE A2
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Mark Wilson Photos
Above: Children greet the Rock-it Robot at the Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, Tuesday morning. Below: Children enjoy an airplane ride at the fairgrounds, Tuesday morning.
INSIDE SPORTS JOE D. MOORE RECORD STAFF WRITER
By nightfall, the lights were aglow, the shrieks of glee were audible, and carnival workers solicited passers-by to try their hand at familiar fair games.
COYOTES BLANK ROCKETS
Over the past few weeks, the Roswell girls soccer team rested most of its players to make sure they were ready to go when district play started. The question was, would the Coyotes come out a bit rusty and off their game? The answer was a resounding no. Roswell scored a goal in the 1st minute against Goddard and cruised to a 5-0 win over the Rockets on Tuesday during the inaugural Kicks Against ... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES
• Randell Burden • Felipe Garcia and Avaristo Garcia Jr. • Betty Jo Williams - PAGE A7
HIGH ...82˚ LOW ....50˚
TODAY’S FORECAST
CLASSIFIEDS..........B6 COMICS.................B4 FINANCIAL .............B3 GENERAL ..............A2 HOROSCOPES ........B6 LOTTERIES ............A2 OPINION ................A4 SPORTS ................B1 WEATHER ..............A8
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And that was just in the midway, as the carnival opened Tuesday evening, on the second day of the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Less than a few hours after the 4 p.m. gate opening, the fair was jampacked with activity, off the midway grounds, too.
A painting demonstration finished up at 4:30 p.m., in the Arts & Crafts Educational Building. Throughout the fairgrounds, Street Magic began conducting interactive tricks at 5:30 p.m. Garth Roberg, a one-man band, performed at 6:30 p.m., in the Commercial Building. At 7 o’clock, bands began battling on the Coca-Cola Stage, the Wild West Shootout kicked of f in the Rodeo Arena, and Kenny Ahern put on his own half-magic, halfacrobat show. And, again, this was all just Tuesday. The rest of the week includes highlights such as belly dancers, fiddlers, the Chisum Challenge (tickets required), and a
hypnotist. Additionally, nightly events in the rodeo arena and performers and concerts galore await fair attendees. And, of course, there’s the full slate of animal shows and art demonstrations. For those with strong enough stomachs, the carnival promises plenty of dizzying speed and swirls. Freddy Miller, the owner of Miller Spectacular Shows and the 27 rides on the midway, five more than last year, emphasizes one of the car nival’s attractions, in particular. Eclipse, he explains, is one of only three rides of its kind in the world, and the only one in the U.S. He expects it, an extremely fast, spinning contraption that tilts passengers at angles up to 60 degrees, to be the hit of the midway. Mainstays such as the giant Ferris wheel and upSee FAIR, Page A3
Wednesday, Oct. 6
Seniors Day 8 a.m..............................MARKET LAMB SHOW All 4-H & FFA Birds MUST be in place to be judged 9 a.m......................4-H & FFA BIRDS JUDGED 12 p.m. ........................................GATES OPEN 12 p.m.–Close...Roswell Fine Arts League Show & Sale 12–4:30 p.m.....................Art Show Demo - Clay 5 p.m..............................DAIRY HEIFER SHOW 4–10 p.m....................................AARP Flu Shots 7 p.m........CCRA-ROBS Cattle Co. Team Roping 5–11 p.m.....................................Carnival Open
Historical Society honors 5 King: No running mate? No problem! JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
More than 290 people reserved places at the 29th annual Heritage Award Dinner held Tuesday. The evening event honored not only the three retailers whose families helped shaped the community, but two of its own members for their outstanding service to the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico. The Arthur McQuiddy Award was given to Jean Rockhold, who has worked in the archives since 1976. She has come See DINNER, Page A3
Jessica Palmer Photo
Charles F. Smith, founder of C.F. Construction, with daughter, Judy, accepts an award at the 29th annual Heritage Dinner, Tuesday.
SANTA FE (AP) — Attorney General Gary King and Secretary of State Mary Herrera see no legal problem in having a write-in candidate for gover nor without a running mate, but decisions by state and federal courts in New Mexico suggest otherwise. King has come to the defense of Herrera, a fellow Democrat, for allowing a write-in candidate to run individually rather than jointly with a lieutenant gover nor candidate as Republican Susana Martinez and Democrat Diane Denish are doing. Herrera is under fire from several county elec-
tions of ficers, including Democrats. At issue in the dispute is whether New Mexico’s election laws are properly and consistently administered in granting access to the ballot for candidates. Two write-in gubernatorial tickets were allowed in 1990, but there’s been no individual write-in candidate for governor in a general election since voters adopted a constitutional amendment in 1962 to provide for the election of governor and lieutenant governor on a joint ticket. Given that history, some See KING, Page A3
2 men die in Watson’s dairy goat, Maddy, wins Grand Champ auto wreck J E America of Floyd in the
Two Dexter residents died following a collision that took place south of Roswell Monday night, police said. Avaristo, 30, and Felipe Garcia, 29, were killed after a pickup truck smashed into the side of their fourdoor sedan, driven by Avaristo Garcia, when the car pulled out in the path of the truck driven by Dan Stiefel, 47, police said. The Garcias were pronounced dead at the scene and Stiefel was transported to Easter n New Mexico See WRECK, Page A3
ONATHAN
NTZMINGER
RECORD STAFF WRITER
In the world of Tanessa Watson, the first time is the charm. On Monday, Watson was awarded the first Grand Champion award at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair in the Dairy Goat Show competition. “It was very exciting to go in and win the first year that I’ve ever done this,“ Watson said. Watson, 14, a Portales resident and an 8th-grade honor student at Floyd Middle School, represented Future Far mers of
Dairy Show on Sunday. Weighing in at 130 pounds, her “prissy” goat, Maddy, beat out 29 other goats in the Class 5 dairy goat division. Watson’s mother, Sam Watson, sung high praises of her daughter. “This is her first fair,” Sam said. “She’s always done rabbits in the fair and has had other animals in the fair. We were looking at the goats and I said, ‘Why don’t you enter them, you have beautiful goats.’ She has very beauSee WATSON, Page A3
Courtesy Photo
Tanessa Watson, and her Grand Champion dairy goat, Maddy, at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair, Monday.