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SANTA FE (AP) — Republican Gov.-elect Susana Martinez has selected a former congressional budget official, Richard May, to serve as secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration. Martinez announced Friday that she’s nominating May to run the state’s budget agency and help guide the new administration through a thicket of financial problems. She takes office Jan. 1, and faces tough decisions on dealing with a budget shortfall that’s projected to be as much as $450 million next year — the equivalent of about 8 percent of state spending. May, 56, has been manager of government relations at Sandia National
HAGERMAN — We’re not done yet. Those four words can be found at the end of the Hagerman football teams’ shirts and for one more week the saying rings true. The Bobcats throttled the visiting Mesilla Valley Christian Sonblazers via the mercy rule, 53-2 on Friday to advance to their second consecutive 1A state championship game. - PAGE B1
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Pecos Valley Potters Guild is holding its 29th annual Arts Sale thru Sunday at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, 912 N. Main St. The sale, whose theme this year is A Fall Festival, features handmade ceramic or naments by more than 50 artists, according to Sarah Kelly, program coordinator. “We have a really great group of artists this year. Some are local, and we also have artists from all around New Mexico and Mark Wilson Photo Texas,” she said. A silent auction begun Delia Ventura of De la Tierra Pottery puts the finishing touches on her booth just in time for Friday will continue the opening of the 29th annual Pecos Valley Potters Guild Art Fair, Friday afternoon. through 5 p.m., today. at the Roswell Museum variety of work in the are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. “All of the work has and Arts Center and sup- silent auction,” Kelly today, and 11 a.m to 4 been donated by our p.m., Sunday. artists. The proceeds go porting clay-art educa- said. j.entzminger@roswelltoward getting a new kiln tion. We have a great The Art Sale’s hours record.com
Roswell Refuge for Battled Adults, a United Way agency, has been in Roswell for about 30 years. “We were started to provide shelter to women and children. That was the primary goal in early years,” Douglas Southern, the refuge’s director of clinical services, said. “In ’91 we began our Offender’s Treatment Program.” RRBA provides a shel-
ter for adults and families
who are subject to physical and mental har m stemming from abuse, exploitation and neglect. In 2003, the refuge doubled its capacity from five rooms to 10, including 36 beds. Residents can stay at the shelter for a total of 90 days. “The goal is to figure out what we can do to interrupt or stop domestic
violence,” Southern said. “We’ve seen the need from the community growing; we’ve tried to act as quickly and as fast as we can.” Shelter residents at 1306 W. College Blvd., are provided with resources like clothing, counseling, food, information on jobs and legal help. If shelter service weren’t there, many of the clients would be homeless, Southern said. See REFUGE, Page A3
a global attraction
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Attracted by a 2003 law, people from all over the world are traveling to New Mexico to obtain driver’s licenses because the state doesn’t require proof of citizenship or legal residency. According to a copyright story Friday in the Albuquerque Journal, authorities have arrested a growing number of suspected undocumented immigrants who have traveled from as far away as China to fraudulently obtain New Mexico
licenses. The Associated Press reported last summer that three states — Washington, New Mexico and Utah — were seeing surges in the number of immigrants seeking IDs, a trend experts attributed to crackdowns on illegal immigration in Arizona and elsewhere. Shu Sheng Lui told a state police officer Wednesday she had flown to Albu-
currency and with the cooperation of the 2008 financial crisis now a distant memory. The U.S. couldn’t persuade other countries to pressure China to stop manipulating its currency or limit their own trade surpluses and deficits, and the Americans faced charges of doing some currency manipulation of their own by pumping $600 billion into their economy. The stalemate in Seoul
means that trade disputes could intensify, war ns Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University. He’s worried that there “may be more open conflicts on currency matters. This has the potential to feed into more explicit for ms of protectionism, which could set back the global recovery.” The summit was a diplo-
G-20 summit fallout: Trade barriers, tensions could rise
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“He was, in fact, arrested for an allegation of assault on the assistant district attorney down there,” said Eric Garcia, a public infor-
JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
TODAY’S • Felipa De La Cruz Figueroa • Lois S. Jenkins Arnold • Arturo Aguirre Mariscal • David M. Stevenson • Julio Ibarra - PAGE A8
Center around 4:30 p.m., Thursday. He was released about an hour later, after posting a $300 surety bond.
mation officer for the New Mexico State Police. According to the report, the incident occurred just after noon on Thursday in the 2000 block of South Sunset Avenue. The report listed Sanchez as the victim, but RPD of ficials remained tight-lipped on details of the case. “I am aware that there
A safe home for adults, families NM licenses become See MAY, Page A3
JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
BOBCATS CRUISE INTO TITLE GAME
A New Mexico State Police Officer was arrested by Roswell Police after he allegedly assaulted 5th Judicial Assistant District Attorney Michael Sanchez, Thursday afternoon. Officer Joe Daniel Green was charged with assault and booked into the Chaves County Adult Detention
The officer’s wife, former Deputy District Attorney Anna Marie Green, was listed as a witness. Anna Marie Green filed for divorce in 12th District Court in Carrizozo on Oct. 4, and resigned from her post shortly thereafter.
May gets Potters Guild Art Sale on thru Sunday DFA nod Officer Joe Daniel Green
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients’ health: She’ll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors’ pay to go through. The scheduled cuts — the result of a failed system set up years ago ... - PAGE A8
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President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during the G-20 summit in Seoul, South Korea, Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s most important economies are going home to look after themselves — leaving their summit without any meaningful agreement, finding it ever harder to cooperate and more likely to erect trade barriers to protect their own interests. The Group of 20 meeting of leading rich and developing economies ended Friday in South Korea without any solutions to longstanding tensions over trade and
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Jim Goss recalls his World War II European Theatre experiences MATTHEW ARCO RECORD STAFF WRITER
With the winter months soon approaching, focus is put on staying war m and bracing for the freezing weather. And although many have experienced what it means to be cold, few people can say they’ve lived to endure the winter with scant shelter while in the mountains of Belgium. James E. “Jim” Goss happens to be one of those individuals. In the winter of 1944, he was one of thousands of U.S. soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. “It was God awful,” said Goss, who recalled the weather when
Veterans Day. The Roswell resident was bor n in Kansas City, Kan., and moved with his family to about a half dozen other areas of the country while growing
first asked about his experience while serving as a private in the up. “I come from a long line of fiddleArmy during the battle. “It was ugly winter weather, with footed people,” he said, with a snow, overcast and someone shoot- smile before pausing, “Then, the ing at you all the time,” he said. “I Army came and got me.” After registering for the draft on guess the main thing that sticks out in my mind is being scared and his 18th birthday, little time went by before he was called into service cold.” Goss, 84, is one of many U.S. and learned he was to serve in an veterans to whom many others Army engineer combat battalion. “I couldn’t spell engineer, but I have expressed their thanks and knew what combat gratitude this week, meant and I was as Thursday marked See SPOTLIGHT, Page A3
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James E. Goss, a World War II veteran, fought in the Battle of the Bulge.