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RHS GIRLS FALL AT STATE

In sports, winning is often used as the only measure of accomplishment, but using that solely to judge the Roswell girls soccer team would be a mistake. Yes, the ninth-seeded Coyotes lost to the two-time defending state champion Albuquerque Academy Chargers, this year’s No. 1 seed, 7-0 on Thursday at the APS Soccer Complex. To focus on the Coyotes’ final game of the season and use that as a microcosm of their season would be an injustice. - PAGE B1

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BACHMANN WANTS POWER POST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Self-proclaimed tea party leader Michele Bachmann’s bid for a top Republican post in the House received a cool reaction Thursday from Speaker-to-be John Boehner, an early test of how GOP leaders will treat the antiestablishment movement’s winners in Tuesday’s elections. - PAGE A7

November 5, 2010

A card game?

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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Victorious at the polls, congressional Republicans asserted their newfound political strength on Thursday, vowing to seek a quick $100 billion in federal spending cuts and force repeated votes on the repeal of President Barack Obama’s prized health care overhaul. At the White House, Obama said his administration was ready to work across party lines in a fresh attempt to “focus on the economy and jobs” as well as attack waste in government. In a show of bipartisanship, he invited top lawmakers to the White House at mid-month, and the nation’s newly elected governors two weeks later.

Rep. John Boehner, ROhio, in line to become the new speaker of the House, brushed aside talk that the No. 1 GOP goal was to make sure Obama is defeated at the polls in 2012. “That’s Senator McConnell’s statement and his opinion,” he told ABC, referring to the party’s leader in the Senate and adding that his own goals included cutting spending and creating jobs. But tentative talk of compromise competed with rhetoric reminiscent of the just-completed campaign. In a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said the only way to achieve key party legislative goals such as

ending gover nment bailouts, cutting spending and repealing the health care law “is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto” them. Obama has ruled out accepting repeal of the health care measure, and Senate Democrats responded quickly to McConnell. “What Sen. McConnell is really saying is, ‘Republicans want to let insurance companies go back to denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, let them go back to charging women twice as much for the same coverage as men, and let them push millions of seniors back into the See GOP, Page A3

MATTHEW ARCO RECORD STAFF WRITER

Months of campaigning for two county commissioner hopefuls could come down to a game of Texas Hold ’Em, according to county officials. County Clerk Rhoda Coakley says state election rules call for a winner to be declared by lot if a tie ensues in any given race. Such is the case for James Duffey and Eloy Ortega, who both received 1,004 votes in the race for District 1 county commissioner. “I think it’s a little more dramatic than flipping a coin,” said Coakley, who indicated that playing a game of poker would likely be a more interesting way to conclude the race. However, county officials are waiting the possible return of two military ballots, which have until Monday to reach the clerk’s office. Both candidates received 1,002 votes until election of ficials said they later found four tallied ballots, Coakley said. See CARDS, Page A3

Mark Wilson Photo

Emma, a therapy dog in training, investigates some of the presents she received during a doggie shower at the Chaves County CASA offices, Thursday morning.

CASA showers new staffer with treats JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER

Chaves County CASA threw a dog shower for

United Way works with local agencies JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER

United Way of Chaves County, 400 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 300, has been in Roswell since 1956. Today, 14 area agencies work together during the year to bring resources to individuals in need. “The agencies meet once a month at an agency round table

meeting, and we share what’s going on among each agency,” Sherry Mumford, executive director, said. “If someone in the community comes to one particular agency to help meet a need, they know what’s going on with the other agencies. That way, all the agencies get to know each other.” Agencies provide direct

See UNITED, Page A3

Emma, the newest member of its staff, on Thursday. She is a golden retriever who was rescued by Roswell Animal Control

last year. Since then, she has trained with Assistance Dogs of the West in Santa Fe, to become a therapy dog. Her training was aimed at accompany-

ing children, who come from abusive and traumatizing situations, to facili-

Sports car or enhanced roof? See EMMA, Page A3

JOE D. MOORE RECORD STAFF WRITER

Betty Ann Heck wanted a Ford Mustang convertible. She ended up with an electric car and an enhanced roof. Surprisingly, she’s pleased. The convertible, she explains, would have lost money as soon as she drove it off the lot. Instead, the electric car gets her around. And her roof remodeling? It will pay her. Betty Ann and husband, Jerry, purchased a solar

Joe D. Moore Photo

From left, Positive Energy’s Scott Greenling, Wesley Doyeto and Scott Gurule place the first of 20 solar panels on Jerry and Betty Ann Heck's roof, Wednesday.

Is King Cotton making a comeback in Chaves County? See SOLAR, Page A3

EMILY RUSSO MILLER RECORD STAFF WRITER

Mark Wilson Photo

A field of cotton as far as the eye can see waits to be harvested at a farm south of Roswell, Tuesday.

A day before harvest, Ted Schrimsher drives his white Chevrolet pickup down the perimeter of his six plots of cotton growing across 1,000 acres of land near the old Dexter highway. The cotton stalks are per fectly planted three inches apart and are buried about three-quarters of an inch deep in the soil. The cotton seeds were planted in early spring, but now in

late fall, the stalks stand about three feet tall and sway in the wind. He examines the lint that has sprung from the cotton bolls, or the green seedpod the size of a walnut that protects 30 cottonseeds inside, and marvels at the lovely sight of white blossoms as far as the eye can see. The 83-year-old Oklahoma-native, who has been farming in Roswell alongside his identical twin brother, Fred, for the past

45 years, is the last remaining cotton grower in the Great Plains area. And he has a prediction. “Cotton is back,” he declared. Long before the arrival of chile, cotton was Roswell’s golden cash crop. The soft, downy fiber was typically grown in southern states from Virginia to Louisiana where the war m climate accommodated strong germination and growth. But as irrigation facilities See COTTON, Page A2


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