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Roswell Daily Record THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY

Vol. 121, No. 183 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday

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Electricity grids fail across half of India

Two goats are better than one. While that’s not exactly a popular phrase, the statement certainly rang true for 18-year-old Jessica Burson, who took home the grand champion and reserve grand champion titles in the meat goat competition at the Chaves County 4-H & FFA Fair, Tuesday. The Roswell resident is the daughter of ... - PAGE A2

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NEW DELHI (AP) — New Delhi’s Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three Indian electric grids collapsed in a cascade Tuesday, cutting power to 620 million people in the world’s biggest blackout.

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A traffic jam follows a power outage and rains at the DelhiGurgaon road on the outskirts of New Delhi, Tuesday.

While Indians were furious and embarrassed, many took the crisis in stride, inured by the constant — though far less widespread — outages triggered by the huge electricity deficit stymieing the development of this would-

that drew more than their allotment of power. At 1:05 p.m. Tuesday, the northern grid collapsed again, energy officials said. This time, it took the eastern grid and the northeastern grid with it. In all, 20 of India’s 28 states — with double the population of the United States — were hit in a region stretching from the border with Myanmar in the northeast to the Pakistani border about 1,870 miles away. Hundreds of trains

be Asian power.

Hospitals, factories and the airports switched automatically to their diesel generators during the hours-long cut across half of India. Many homes relied on backup systems powered by truck batteries. And hundreds of millions of India’s poorest had no electricity to lose.

The crisis was the second record-breaking outage in two days. India’s northern grid failed Monday, leaving 370 million people powerless for much of the day, in a collapse blamed on states

See INDIA, Page A3

NOAH VERNAU RECORD STAFF WRITER

Intelligent traf fic systems? Next-generation wireless networks? Selfflushing toilets? Those are just a few examples of new technologies that might be tested in the Roswell area if the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation, a $1 billion research facility, settles in Chaves County. The private technology company Pegasus Global Holdings announced in May its intention to construct the uninhabited, 15square-mile smart city in Lea County near Hobbs, where researchers would test a range of innovative technologies, particularly in renewable energy. But the company, which had considered more than a dozen New Mexico communities, pulled out of the arrangement in early July due to land acquisition problems, and has reopened its recruitment process. Roswell-Chaves County Economic Development

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Damron visits GOP’s Volunteer Center Team Romney New Mexico chairman J.R. Damron visted the Volunteer Center, Monday evening.

JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER

Team Romney New Mexico chair man J.R. Damron visited the

Roswell GOP headquarters Monday evening to energize supporters and to introduce himself, although many, he said, already knew him. Dam-

ron previously ran for governor and lieutenant governor in New Mexico.

“It comes down to volunteers. It really comes down to getting out the

vote, making sure people are registered. Whether its Republicans or Democrats, it’s get out the vote. That’s where it is,” DamSee GOP, Page A3

Sheriff arrests suspect Memory Lawn rehab progresses in Odessa murder See CITE, Page A3

JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER

JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER

The Chaves County Sheriff’s Office apprehended a murder suspect who was wanted for a homicide committed in Odessa, Texas, on July 14. According to Odessa police reports, the Odessa Police, and Fire See MURDER, Page A3

Kristopher Lacy

“It’s moving and things are happening a little faster now than they have been for the past almost year. But they’re a long ways from lightning speed,” said Robert Cor n, of the progress to Memory Lawn Memorial Park. “I feel a lot better than I did several weeks ago. At least things are progressing. I’ve got a plan in my mind.” Cor n is the districtappointed receiver of Mem-

Fed jury gets gun-smuggling case

LAS CRUCES (AP) — A family that owns a Demingarea gun store ignored their responsibilities by selling weapons and ammunition to a man who told them the arms were bound for Mexican drug cartels, prosecutors said Tuesday in closing trial arguments. A 12-member federal jury got the case later in the day and is scheduled to resume deliberations today. Carrying a 30-pound, 29inch Barrett .50-caliber rifle through the courtroom, Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Jordan told jurors the federal gunsmuggling trial of the Reese family boils down to rights and responsibilities. “The defendants have the right to make money selling

guns ... but they have no right to arm cartels,” Jordan said. Defense attorney Robert Gorence, however, contended the family was set up by a self-proclaimed cartel member who made a deal with federal prosecutors after being arrested on marijuana distribution charges. Gorence, who represents Rick Reese, said Jose Roman’s turn to informant was not leading to raids on stash houses or cartel members. “Instead, this Justice Department is targeting an American family,” he said. “They want to go after an American family that’s paying their taxes and raising their sons the best they can.”

Jordan argued the family’s responsibility was to refuse to sell to Roman, but the evidence shows they knowingly ignored it. “They sold guns to straw purchasers and to a man who told them again and again he would take the guns to Mexico,” Jordan said. Gorence said prosecutors failed to prove the family had any knowledge the guns were going to Mexico. During the trial, prosecutors played tapes of Roman talking in the store. In one of the recordings, he says, “This ammo is going to Mexico, and it’s not coming back. And if it comes back it’s going to be on some guy’s body.” See GUN, Page A3

ory Lawn. A district judge ordered the rehabilitation of the estimated five-acre cemetery situated on the more than 35-acre property. Now in possession of the necessary documents and funding for the project, Corn must select an irrigation system for the site. “You can’t do anything in this country without being able to supply water,“ he said. Corn told the Daily Record in March that lack of funding has resulted in the cemetery not having been watered in two and a half years, leaving much of

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the grass and surrounding trees to die.

Currently two area irrigation companies are working on water system proposals for the property. Corn said the process will take time, as parts need to be ordered and much work still needs to be done. “There’s as many water systems out there as there are makes of automobiles. You’ve got to figure out one that will work with the supply of water that you have, one See MEMORY, Page A3

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Keep Roswell Beautiful members present Eastern New Mexico Medical Center staff with a KRB Beautification Award for outstanding landscaping and maintenance, Tuesday. From left, Brooke Linthicum, ENMMC marketing director; Joan Blodgett, KRB president; Paul Luehrs, ENMMC chief operating officer; Renee Roach, KRB coordinator; Mark Rowland, KRB director; Jimmy Hestand, ENMMC plant operations director; and Rita Kane-Doerhoefer, KRB director.


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