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f you were born in February, your birthstone is amethyst – the purple variety of quartz that has captivated mankind for millennia.

Its lilac to deep purple hues can be cut into many shapes and sizes, and it can be manufactured in a lab as well as mined. Amethyst, the February birthstone, can be found in the collections of royal families throughout Europe and Asia. Now it’s within reach of most consumers. Consider buying a stunning amethyst for the king or queen of your heart – or treat yourself to a royal present. If your birthday is in February, then wearing an amethyst can also be a symbol of personal empowerment and inner strength.

The name “amethyst” derives from the Greek amethystos, which means “a remedy against drunkenness,” a benefit long ascribed to the purple birthstone.

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wine. Amethyst was also believed to keep the wearer clear headed and quick witted in battle and business affairs. Renaissance Europeans thought it calmed lovers overrun by passion.

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he Roman god of wine and viticulture, Bacchus was the bringer of ecstasies and inducer of frenzied states such as creativity and religious devotion. Also known as Eleutherios (“liberator,” in Greek), Bacchus represented the spontaneous and unrestrained aspects of life. The Romans believed that Bacchus operated through inducing a state of drunkenness into his vessels; this state freed the inebriated from social conventions and allowed new ways of thinking and acting.

Amethyst is the gem traditionally given for the sixth wedding anniversary. Wear it in celebration of your wedding nuptials or as your February birthstone and you’ll be in royal company: Catherine the Great (Empress Catherine II of Russia, 1729–1796) had a penchant for the gem and decked herself in Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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amethyst necklaces, earrings and other ornaments. The famous jewelry connoisseur Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (1896–1986), made a memorable statement when she wore a lavish Cartierdesigned amethyst bib necklace to a gala in Versailles in 1953.

Historically, royals have admired the deep purple hue of the February birthstone since at least the days of Alexander the Great.

Amethyst lore also includes several claims to mystical powers, including that it would convey strength and wit to those who wore it.

If you celebrate a February birthday, wearing an amethyst can be a symbol of personal empowerment and inner strength.

Amethyst is a 7 on the Mohs scale of hardness. This means that it is appropriate for daily use in rings and other jewelry, but over time it may show wear and require repolishing.

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Dr. John Paul Stapp earned the title “The Fastest Man Alive” when he rode the Sonic Wind I rocketpropelled sled on December 10, 1954, to a land record speed of 632 mph in five seconds.

He sustained the greatest Gforces endured by man in recorded deceleration tests up to that time, 46.2 Gs when the sled stopped in 1.4 seconds.

John Paul Stapp was born in Bahia, Brazil on July 11, 1910, the son of missionaries . Both of his parents were teachers and taught John at home until he was twelve.

He was then enrolled in Brownwood High School, in Brownwood, Texas. Initially, Stapp wished to be a writer, but in 1928, the tragic death of an infant cousin convinced him to pursue a career in medicine.

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Dr. Stapp entered military service on October 5, 1944. He completed the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and his medical residency at the Regional Hospital at Lincoln Army Air Base, Nebraska. He was then assigned to Pratt Army Air Base, Kansas as a General duty medical officer. Stapp next attended the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas and received his Aviation Medical Examiner designation.

On August 10, 1946, John Paul Stapp was transferred to the Aero Medical Laboratory of the Wright

Air Development Center in Dayton, Ohio as project officer and medical consultant in the BioPhysics Branch. His first assignment included testing proposed oxygen systems in unpressurized aircraft at 40,000 feet.

Captain Stapp often volunteered to be a test subject himself.

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Rochelle Williams is a familiar face to those in the arts community of Alamogordo, as she sits on the board of Otero Arts and has been involved in arts and other activities in the area since arriving to Alamogordo almost 2 decades ago.

Her fiction and poetry have appeared in, Chokecherries, Desert Exposure, Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection, Menacing Hedge, The MacGuffin, Packingtown Review, and other journals.

Her fiction has won two Southwest Writers Workshop competitions, Recursos de Santa Fe’s Discovery Reading Series, and Women on Writing’s Spring 2020 Flash Fiction contest. She holds an MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is working on a novel about the French early modernist painter, Pierre Bonnard.

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In addition to writing Ms. Williams is a photographer.

Rochelle Williams' photograph titled "Winter, Half-Moon Bay” was featured along with multiple other artists works, recently at the Otero ArtSpace Winter Showcase of regional artists.

Rochelle Williams has taken the next step in her literary journey, with the release of her first published works in a book format that being Acts of Love & Ruin, a collection of short stories and snippets by the author as her first paperback and hardback book release available at Roadrunner Emporium and worldwide on Amazon.

Mark Conking, Author of Prairie Dog Blues and Killer Whale Blues says of Rochelle Williams; and of her newly released book, Acts of Love & Ruin,“Rochelle Williams is a writer with remarkable talent.

She weaves the emotional lives of her characters with a palette of words that results in a true literary art form. Her stories range over life in the way a painter would range over a canvas--brilliant and colorful with striking designs.

Here is an author everyone should read. A fine collection of stories.”

To learn more visit Roadrunner Emporium or visit the authors website at: authorrochellewilliams.com

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”WHERE’S MY SPURS?” Story by Junior Thuman Artesia, N.M.

“Dad blame it Vic,” I told my wife, “Guess you can forget about buying me that horse, according to some guy on “Facebook,” the roping for Saturday for some outfit had been canceled due to high winds and low temps.

There goes my plans, shot to _____, my dreams of a famed life as a “Rodeo Cowboy,” gone with the wind. Guess I’ll just stay home and watch “Gunsmoke.”

Yep, you got it, she gave me the old familiar “eye roll.”

Guess it was just luck, going thru Facebook this morning and seeing the roping had been canceled, saving me a little time, looking for my rope, finding the location of the canceled roping, Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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digging out my old pair of scuffed cowboy boots, etc....I had planned on throwing a few practice loops out back at our cat, kinda loosen up, or my wife if she ventured out.

Ha. Yep, another would be hobby shot down. Living in Southeastern, New Mexico, out on the range where the deer and antelope roam, and seldom is heard a discouraging word (except from my wife), I had often entertained the idea of someday getting “back in the saddle again.”

Looking back, at my cowboy days, I’ll have to admit, I actually wasn’t really in the saddle that much, but as with many hobbies, a little bit of riding goes a long way.

Sure, I’ve told a few cowboy stories, but,.......the old memories of a time when I once rode with the wind re-emerge now and then….

Let’s see, there was the donkey we borrowed from a neighbor, Buck Buchanan to ride in the evenings after school.

We didn’t have a saddle, so we rode bareback, daring little cowboys. My dad bought a sorrel colored pig one time I took care of, ”Trigger,” I called him.

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with an unwanted rider aboard in record time. I recall I got close to the “eight seconds” aboard several times. He was a decent ride, actually, quite a bit faster than the donkey. Can’t remember the donkeys name, we called him a generic name as in, “whoa, you bleeping bleep of a bleep.”

I had actually been in the saddle years ago on a memorable elk hunting trip, a rented stable horse I recall. A crazy horse, talk about “whoa you bleeping bleep of a bleep,” that horse tried every way he knew to get rid of me, I guess figuring he’d make better time without me aboard, getting back to the easy life and oats waiting at the stable.

Apparently, the leisure life at the stable was more attractive to my horse than climbing mountains with a rider on your back who bore a striking resemblance to Clint Eastwood.

But, enough about the old days, ridin the range, a roving, singing, yodeling, gun fighting saddle tramp. Making my way down the dusty old trails. Guess those days are gone.

Hate to miss the roping, but, sometimes we gotta bite the bullet and wade on through the mud puddles. Hmm, I remember I used to have a black, wide brimmed cowboy hat, wonder where that went? Probably lost along some dusty old trail.......

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"ONCE A HUNTER" An original story by Junior Thurman, Artesia, NM

The Sacramento Mountains, in the Lincoln National forest of New Mexico is probably one of the best places in the US to hunt elk. If you've never been in a canyon in the forest, armed with only a "stick and string" , and heard the "bugle" of a bull elk somewhere above you, reverberating thru the canyon, announcing his readiness to fight, to the death if necessary, in defense of his herd and his territory, let me assure you, if you're a hunter, you've missed out on a thrilling, hair raising adventure.

My brother, I, and some friends got into bow hunting back in the eighties, most of us having hunted deer in the low country for many years. We found out quickly, hunting elk with a bow in the high Sacramento mountains of New Mexico required a lot more physical stamina and determination in comparison.

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The Local Bodega presents:

Kathryn Brown of KB Pottery

Out of the over thirty crafters and makers featured at The Local Bodega, one stands out as the only potter. That is Kathryn Browne.

Though an artist from an early age, Browne did not start working with clay until she was fifty. And now the self-taught 77-year-old has caught the interest of the Alamogordo community through her recognizable craft and intentionality in her design.

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pieces, bringing a wider array of color and shape to her fruit and vegetable garden.

Browne, like the material she works with, has a very organic creative process. She lets her studio, the clay, and those she is making for influence what she decides to create that day. But whether or not she is throwing with the intention to have an end product, she works nearly every day in her studio constantly staying in tune with her craft and tending to the need to stay actively making. She draws inspiration from friends, teachers, nature, and the quality of the clay itself while she works.

Browne initially attended New Mexico State University at Las Cruces in 1962 with the desire to be a writer. But after some life changes and travelling, she found herself in California and was introduced to working with clay at Los Angeles City College. She doesn’t have an art degree, but has received instruction from different schools along her travels; following LACC she attended Barton County Community College in Kansas, NMSU Alamogordo, and California State Continues page 26 Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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Our showroom is stocked, and Angel Reyes who has worked here at Maupins since 1990, is ready to deliver to your home or business.

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University in East L.A. Each place influenced the development of her work differently and has kept her working in other fields of art, particularly painting.

She began by selling paintings to co-workers in California in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s then transitioned into selling at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market in Los Angeles most Sundays for 13 years. After her move to Kansas in 2007, she would sell at the Great Bend Farmer’s Market until moving to Alamogordo in 2010.

She currently sells her work at Alameda Farmer’s Market, the White Sands Mall when there are craft events, and now consistently at The Local Bodega. She enjoys working in her home studio the most and has a cat that keeps her company while she throws.

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FINDING LOVE AND GRACE An original poem by Gloria Marie of Globug on New York Ave A time may come when you are cold And you long for comfort in the sun It's a time that's been foretold But now your journey's just begun.

Let me delve into your eyes Come right here where light has shined Let's search for words your brain denies And sort the chaos in your mind.

The shivering in your bones we'll quell Before you lose yourself in your own plot.

We'll pull you from the depths of Hell And fill the gaps your memory forgot.

Here's a path of love and grace To breathe in sync with your own kind You'll find it all at your own pace And leave the Bedlam far behind.

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bugling, and one imitating the mew of a cow elk. Possessing nerves of steel was a valuable asset to have when being approached by an angry, rutting eight hundred pound bull, red eyed, slobbering, tearing down small pine trees, warning the sometimes shivering intruder of the consequences of trespassing.

It took a lot of grit to keep from throwing away your bow and running in the other direction. In this situation, I've learned, the more timid hunter, who can turn into "jello" quickly, is frantically searching for a tall tree to climb, often doubting that the arrow he had nocked in his bow could stop this raging monster, and wondering what the bleep he'd gotten himself into.

In my hometown, Artesia, NM, we had a bow club, and an outdoor range.

I had invested many hours practicing with my bow, setting up a target in my back yard, shooting daily in preparation for the upcoming archery elk season. In my yard, I was limited to twenty yards, but the outdoor range provided me with necessary long shots, limited to about fifty yards. All this Story continues next page Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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practice provided me the confidence I felt I needed to pursue and harvest an elk.

However, .......I discovered I wasn't "mentally" prepared for the "hair raising" confrontation of an enraged bull. The relaxed ease while practicing on the bow range, was almost impossible to come by during the actual encounter. In order to accurately prepare for this situation, I would wholeheartedly recommend, practicing shooting while standing on a vibrating exercise machine. Choosing an aiming point on a mad screaming bull while shaking uncontrollably, has not been covered, or even mentioned in most archery circles, but, in my opinion should warrant a closer look by archers who pursue the screaming, rutting, maniacal, bull dozing critter.

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five arrows in the bullseye of a thirty five yard target. In an effort to further educate them, I then demonstrated my method of randomly peppering the target, exhibiting my strategy for shooting at a moving target.

Apparently outclassed, they walked away shaking their heads.

During the first years of hunting elk, I was just learning to properly use the elk calls (practicing at home is hazardous to your health, drives your wife, your kids, and the dog crazy), ignoring all the negative comments coming from my family and some nearby neighbors, I was, in my estimation, producing a reasonably good imitation of a bugling bull elk, and ventured afield the next September to try it on elk.

One day, out hunting, deep in the forest, excellently executing what I felt was a great simulated elk bugle, I looked around, and alarmingly spotted a black bear apparently stalking me.

He possibly, mistakenly, (obviously an older bear with hearing problems), thought he was hearing a squirrel , or rabbit shrieking, being attacked by a family of bobcats.

My hair stood on end, causing my camouflage hat to fall off, upon realizing I was being hunted by this, apparently deranged, huge, hungry, black bear. Now I've read in outdoor magazines, and have accepted as common knowledge that ninety-nine out of one hundred bears are scared of humans, and are no danger to us.

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yourself in this situation, that this bear is not that one out of one hundred that will attack.

Several times, while hunting, upon accidentally encountering a bear in the wilderness, I've always been the type to respect its territory, and to keep from scaring the sometimes timid creature, have hurriedly left the bears habitat and resumed my hunt several canyons away, proudly displaying a true sportsmans respect for wildlife.

I was introduced to hunting by an old geezer, who would let me tag along on his hunting trips. I learned a lot under his tutelage about hunting.

He was grouchy, ill-tempered, impatient, bossy, smoked, dipped, cussed, drank, lied, and only shaved and took baths once a month, but, I don't recall that he had any bad habits. He didn't have a job, but seemed to live well anyway. All these things put together made him a worthy mentor for me.

I must add, I have friends who regularly eat beef, pork, chicken, quail, dove, and fish who cannot understand how any hunter can venture afield and kill any of those "innocent wild creatures."

I don't hunt anymore, a hobby I thoroughly enjoyed in my youth, but still love to journey to the Sacramentos each September and listen to the bulls bugle.......

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Spicy, hot and nutritious, green chili peppers might just be the best aphrodisiac to heat things up in the bedroom. Rich in vitamin C, Vitamin A and lutien, chili peppers are low in fat and high in nutrients.

Chili peppers contain a chemical compound known as capsaicin. Capsaicin and its cocompounds are used in ointments, rubs and tinctures for astringent and analgesic properties. These formulations have been used for arthritis, naturopathic pain and sore muscles. Scientific studies on animals suggest that capsaicin has antibacterial, anti-carcinogenic, Story continues next page Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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analgesic and anti-diabetic properties. It has also been found to lower LDL cholesterol levels in obese people.

Green chilis are red chilies that haven’t been dried. They are soft, but equally as hot and spicy. The chili plant is native to the Central American region where it was used as a spicy ingredient in Mexican cuisines for several thousand years.

It was introduced to the rest of the world by Spanish and Portuguese explorers during 16th and 17th centuries and now is grown widely in many parts of the world as an important commercial crop.

Among it’s other nutritional virtues, chilies are rich in Vitamin C; an important water soluble antioxidant. It is required for the synthesis of collagen in the body.

Collagen is the main structural protein in the body required for maintaining the integrity of the blood vessels, bones, skin and organs. Regular consumption of Vitamin C helps the body to fight off free radicals and to develop resistance to infectious diseases.

But, it’s the sex benefits of chili peppers that we’re most interested in examining. Heating up the bedroom never tasted so hot!

It stimulates nerves throughout your body and can increase physical sensations. Literally it can make sex feel better!

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us think of better sexual performance and hot arousal. Your mind is used to seeing images of sexual spiciness, so when we eat spicy peppers there’s a good chance we’ll think of sex and get turned on!

Chili Peppers are great for your heart. When you think about it; your sexual organs are directly fueled by your heart, so anything that is generally good for the heart is also beneficial for the penis, the clitoris and sexual health.

Chili, jalapeño, and other spicy peppers tend to have the greatest circulatory effects of all fruits and vegetables. Greater circulation equals greater stimulation of the sexual organs. Stimulation leads to sexual activity.

So if circulation and heat are beneficial to sexual health and chilies stimulate circulation by heating things up; chilies must be one of the best “hot and spicy” recipes for sex!.

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Hatch Chile Peppers Start Spicing Up the Space Station Expedition 66 flight engineers NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Shane Kimbrough, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration) astronaut Aki Hoshide, and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur aboard the International Space Station added some spice to their diets on Oct. 29, when they and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 66 commander Thomas Pesquet sampled seven freshly harvested mild heat chile peppers.

These peppers have been growing since July 12, when Kimbrough initiated the experiment in the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH). This is the first time astronauts have eaten peppers grown in space.

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This experiment, Plant Habitat04, is growing a hybrid variety called the NuMex ‘Española Improved’ Pepper, which researchers selected because peppers are an excellent source of Vitamin C and they performed best in ground tests in the APH. This is the first of two harvests for the experiment, with the second planned for late November.

Compared to the 10 previous space crops NASA astronauts have grown and eaten aboard the station, growing chile peppers has been one of the most challenging experiments. Peppers have longer growing times and, unlike radishes or leafy greens, require pollination before fruit develop.

This experiment is part of NASA’s research into growing crops in space since fruits and vegetables can supplement astronauts’ diet with key nutrients like Vitamin C and Vitamin K, which explorers will need during long-duration deep space missions in the future.

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Some artists are born with the talent and some acquire it during their adult life. I am the latter.

Oh, excuse me, I should introduce myself: Penelope Marsh.

Penelope Marsh: wife, mother, grandmother, fur-mama, flutist and artist. And, although I am very fond of all my roles, today I will tell you about how I became an artist at the age of 50.

There I was, divorced after a 23 year marriage, daughter grown and on her own. I was alone. I’d been searching for a place to worship and had discovered a little home church about a 45 minute drive from my apartment in Rochester, NY. It was a beautiful drive through the rural countryside along the Erie Canal, so I didn’t mind the distance. And the people who met together at the Pastor’s home each Sunday had become like family in the few months I had been worshiping with them. Spring had arrived and I was looking forward to Easter service, so I hit the road Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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in my Jeep Cherokee for church April 12, 2009.

That morning I was destined not to reach the church. I was traveling alongside the canal and there was a curve in the road ahead. A car appeared up ahead coming toward me but it had crossed into my lane.

In a moment, it was clear that that kid was going to hit my car... and he did….head on. I never lost consciousness and every detail is etched in my brain, except for the sound of the crash, I can’t remember the sound. But after the car stopped moving I looked down to assess my situation. And I saw it….my foot, still encased in skin, but now on the side of my leg. I

recall feeling nauseous.

I had a long recovery ahead of me.

There is a Bible passage that I hold onto fiercely. Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

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pretty hard times and will continue to comfort me through the rest of my life. This promise showed itself true very specifically through the time since my crash.

One afternoon about a year later I was just killing time in my

apartment when suddenly my spirit heard God’s voice: “You must paint.”

Being a smart Alek the following words came audibly from my mouth, “I must WHAT??? You don’t like the colors of the walls?”

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boards and a few brushes and I sat down to begin. I had no idea where to start, so I just picked subjects I liked, nature, birds, flowers and in 4-5 months I had completed 17 paintings. I was obedient to God’s calling and He did the rest. I painted from

morning ‘til night, every day for months. It was better therapy than any doctor could have ordered. Painting gave me renewed confidence, a sense of purpose and peace, all which had been stolen from me the day of the crash. It was a fresh and exciting start.

In the past 13 years my interest in different forms of art has blossomed. I have discovered pyrography (wood burning), gourd art, drawing with pencils and pens, and water color painting. I make purses and lamps from gourds and anything else I can think of.

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My art is in shops here in Alamogordo and in Tularosa, but my favorite thing to do is custom work for cients, ie commissioned pieces. That allows me to hear a client’s dream or vision and commit it to a piece of art.

And those who order from me will know that there is a bit of inspiration from the Greatest Artist of All!

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sibility for another important research program, the study of the human body’s ability to withstand G forces during de-acceleration.

Stapp began this research at Edwards Air Force Base, California in March 1947.

From December 1947 to August 1948, he made sixteen rocket sled runs there, enduring up to 35 Gs and suffering a host of painful injuries that he felt were a small price to pay for the invaluable data he was gathering.

After making more sled runs, Dr. Stapp, now an Air Force Major, was sent to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico in 1953, to direct further deceleration projects.

At Holloman John Paul Stapp made history aboard the Sonic Wind I rocket sled on December 10, 1954, when he set a land speed record of 632 mph in five seconds, subjecting him to 20 Gs of force during acceleration. Although he had a surplus of volunteers for the dangerous ride, he chose himself for the mission, not wanting to place another in such a potentially hazardous position. When the sled stopped in just 1.4 seconds, Stapp was hit with a force equivalent to 46.2 Gs, more than anyone had yet Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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endured voluntarily. Though he managed half a smile as he was pulled from the sled he was in great pain, and his eyes flooded with blood from the bursting of almost all their capillaries. As Stapp was rushed to the hospital, he worried that one or both of his

retinas had detached, leaving him blind. Fortunately, by the next day, he had regained enough of his normal vision to be released by his doctors, though his eyesight would never fully recover.

Acclaimed “The Fastest Man on Earth,” Stapp was an international sensation, appearing on magazine covers, television, and as the subject of an episode of “This is Your Life!” He used his public acclaim to pursue his dream of improving automobile safety, as

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he had long felt that the safety measures he was developing for military aircraft should also be used for civilian automobiles. He employed his instant celebrity to push for the installation of seat belts in American cars, as well as for other now standard safety features. The success of his tireless efforts is measured in thousands of lives saved and injuries lessened every year by the safety precautions he championed.

Although Dr. Stapp had hoped to make other runs on the Sonic Wind, perhaps even surpassing 1000 mph, in June 1956, the sled flew off its track during an unmanned run and was badly damaged. Stapp would later ride an air-powered sled known as the “Daisy Track” at Holloman, but never again would he be subjected to the rigors of rocket-powered travel.

Colonel Stapp next planned and directed the Manhigh Project, three manned high-altitude balloon flights to test human endurance at the edge of space.

Conducted in June and August 1957, the project’s highlight was the second mission, during which

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Lieutenant David G. Simons reached an altitude of almost 102,000 feet. Project Manhigh was a tremendous scientific success and helped prepare for America’s initial manned space launch in 1961. . His campaign to improve aviation and auto safety had already borne fruit in 1955 with the beginnings of what was to become the Stapp Automobile Safety Conference, an information-sharing symposium that became a yearly event. On September 9, 1966, Dr. Stapp was present as President Lyndon Johnson signed the Highway Safety Act of 1966, requiring seat belts in all new cars sold in the United States beginning in 1968.

He was next president of the New Mexico Research Institute in Alamogordo, New Mexico, as well as chairman of the annual “Dr. Stapp International Car Crash Conference.” In 1991, Stapp received the National Medal of Technology, “for his research on the effects of mechanical force on living tissues leading to safety developments in crash protection technology.” He was also honorary chairman of the Stapp Foundation, underwritten by General Motors to provide scholarships for automotive engineering students.

Colonel Dr. John Stapp died in Alamogordo on November 13, 1999, at the age of eighty-nine.

His many honors and awards included enrollment in the National Aviation Hall of Fame; the Air Force Cheney Award for Valor and the Lovelace Award from NASA for aerospace medical research.

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methyst is this month’s birthstone. It’s a kind of quartz that carries a wonderful violet hue which ranges from a deep violet to red to a lighter lilac shade.

Ancient Greeks believed that this stone protected the person wearing it from drunkenness and helped keep the wearer clear headed and sober minded.

The name Amethyst came from the Alexandrian word amethystos, which means ‘to not intoxicate’.

Legend has it that god of wine Dionysus wanted to punish men for disregarding his creation because of their overindulgence and mindless drinking.

Dionysus descended from Mount Olympus and punished the first person he came across, turning this person into a white quartz. This human was said to be a beautiful woman named Amethyst.

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saw the woman and began to cry tears of wine over her statue.

As the wine seeped through the white quartz, it changed color from white to purple. It is said that all Amethyst stones originated from this statue.

Because of this association with the Greek god of wine, ancient Greeks believe that Amethyst protects you against intoxication.

However, Amethyst is not just here to stop you from getting drunk. It also works as an emotional stimulant that inspires hidden creativity and awakens worn out imagination.

By soothing your stressed mind that has been intoxicated by worldly passions, Amethyst allows your ideas to flow freely.

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you from physical intoxication but also from emotional and spiritual drunkenness.

Whether or not these beliefs are true, Amethyst is undeniably a gorgeous stone that should be a part of anyone’s jewelry collection!

This February birthstone is used to manifest peace and serenity to whoever wears it.

It concentrates your energy and is an excellent cancer healing stone as well.

It’s recommended to wear Amethyst in the area of the body that needs healing. An Amethyst pendant can be worn near the lungs or the heart to help heal breathing issues and circulation problems.

Amethyst can be placed inside your home, especially beside windows that get a lot of sunlight and moonlight. Doing so scatters positive energies around, dispels negativity, and keeps the peaceful atmosphere.

Amethyst is a symbol of courage and strong relationships.

There was a time in history when only royalty could wear the gem.

Amethyst speaks of royalty, serenity, peace, and temperance.

It’s also a symbol of protection and helps you overcome difficulties.

If Amethyst is your stone, you’re very creative, and you’re a force to be reckoned with. You don’t take things sitting down, especially when other people are in the wrong.

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Picture Cupid in your head. Do you see a fat, cherubic, baby with a quiver full of arrows and a diaper full of… love? Of course you do, because that’s our modern interpretation of the guy.

But this adorable little imp has been called many names, been portrayed in many ways, and been known in as many ages throughout history. There are many cultures with their own origin stories, but the ones we most closely associated with the Cupid we know and love today are those of the Romans and Greeks.

From Roman mythology, we get the name Cupid, which means “to desire”, which derives from the Latin word cupere. Cupid is, quite literally, the child of the goddess of love, Venus. In Greek mythology, he is known as Eros, and, depending on the source, was thought to be a primordial god who came into the world either asexually, from an egg, or the son of Aphrodite (Venus’ Hellenistic counterpart).

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In classical Greek and Roman art, Cupid (Eros) is a slender, winged young boy, but later artistic depictions of the god show him getting increasingly chubbier.

Cupid does not have just one set of arrows, but two. One with a barbed golden tip to make people fall in love, and one with a lead, or silver, blunted tip to make someone fall out of love, or even hate a person. Cupid had the divine power of using these arrows on both mortals and gods, and use them he did.

Of all the forces in the world, love just may be the mightiest of all. According to mythology, the god Apollo found out the power of love first hand one day after bragging about how big and strong and cool he was to Cupid after a battle.

Just as Apollo is struck, Daphne walks by. Cupid used his trusty blunted silver arrow to strike Daphne and ensure that she’s in no mood for a man.

Apollo, hit by the golden arrow, falls in love with Daphne instantly and starts chasing her.

Unfortunately, Daphne wants nothing to do with him.

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Hatch Green Chile Apple Pie iamnm.com

Ingredients For the crust: ● 3/4 cup lightly packed grated Cheddar ● 2/3 cup all purpose flour ● 1/2 teaspoon salt ● 6 tablespoons cold butter, cubed ● 1 egg yolk + pinch of salt For the filling: ● 5 cups peeled & thickly sliced Granny Smiths Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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● 1/3 cup chopped roasted Hatch green chiles, medium hot ● 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice ● 1/2 cup granulated sugar ● 1/4 cup brown sugar ● 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon ● 1/4 teaspoon allspice ● 1/4 cup cornstarch For the streusel: ● 1/2 cup all purpose flour ● 1/2 cup pine nuts ● 1/4 cup brown sugar ● 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted ● Vanilla ice cream, for serving Instructions ● For the crust: Mix cheese, salt, and flour with your hands in a medium sized bowl. Cut in butter, still using your hands, until the dough becomes pliable and stays in a ball when you squeeze it together.

Shape into a disc and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Preheat your ● oven to 425°F. Remove crust from fridge and pat into a 9 inch pie plate, Story continues page 67 Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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The Official Birth Flower for February

BY PETAL REPUBLIC TEAM JANUARY 31, 2021

For those born in the second month of the year, the month of February isn’t just about celebrating Valentine’s Day. February is the shortest month of the year with only 28 to 29 days, and that alone makes it all the more special for February birthday celebrants. Sure, there’s something special about receiving flowers in February for Valentine’s Day, but receiving February birthday flowers for your special day in the same month?

Here we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the Official Birth Flowers for February – the Violet, Iris, and Primrose.

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flowering plants in their own way.

It was named violet or viola in Latin as a reference to the flowers’ traditional violet-colored petals.

But do you know that these fragrant and delicate February birth flowers also bloom in white, yellow, cream, and blue?

Violets come in a whole rainbow of colors. They are most often found in bright jewel tones, but there are softer pastel varieties that make a perfect accent to spring decor. Many varieties also feature multicolor blooms with intricate patterns on their faces that seem to have been handpainted. As an added bonus, violets are a fragrant annual on top of their charming appearance. This diminutive plant can even stand up well as a cut flower in a small bud vase. Plus, edible violet petals can

be used to garnish cakes and pastries, or tossed in a salad for a bright pop of color. A caution: Only eat flowers known to come from a pesticide-free source.

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cold tolerance, they are neither drought-tolerant nor heat-tolerant.

Make sure violets have consistent moisture, especially in warmer months. When growing annualtype violets in containers, be sure to choose a well-drained potting mix. Using a slow-release fertilizer will help encourage continuous blooms.

Although violets tolerate of a variety of light conditions, most will grow best in full sun to partial shade. Some woodland species tolerate more shade; in fact they can be planted in areas considered to be full shade.

In warmer climates plant violets in areas that receive afternoon shade to help keep plants cool in hot summer months.

Even this approach may not be enough to pull violets through because they are cool season plants). For this reason, violets often are treated as cool-season annuals and torn out once summer begins.

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● taking care to make a uniform 1/4 inch crust.

Prick all over with a fork and bake for 18 minutes until golden brown.

Remove from oven. Beat egg yolk with pinch of salt, then brush this glaze onto baked crust. Place back in oven for 2 minutes until set. ● For the filling: In a large bowl, toss apples, green chiles, and lemon juice together. In another bowl, mix dry ingredients, then add them to apples and chiles and toss until thoroughly coated. ● For the streusel: In a small bowl, mix flour, pine nuts, and brown sugar. Add melted butter and toss together until crumbly. ● Assemble and bake the pie: Turn oven down to 400°F. Pour filling into prebaked crust, then top with streusel. Bake for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 375°F and bake for 30-40 minutes more until filling is bubbling and streusel is well-browned.

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at Apollo’s intense pursuit, runs to her dad, the river god, and asks him to save her. Her dad listens and turns her into a sick, gorgeous laurel tree. Apollo is heartbroken, but still loves the tree and vows to adorn himself with laurels after every victory, and that’s why Olympians wear them.

We all know Cupid can make people fall in and out of love, but did you know he was once in love himself?

According to the story, Cupid’s mom Venus sees that a mortal girl is born with a beauty so great that people forget to worship Venus, the goddess of love and beauty.

Venus starts to miss all the attention and altar sacrifices, so she sends down her son, Cupid, to the unlucky beautiful girl, Psyche, fall in love with a gross monster.

Cupid agrees, but, of course, falls in love with Psyche after “accidentally” hitting himself with one of his own golden arrows.

Cupid begins to visit Psyche in dark every night but tells her she must never look at his face. Which she obviously does, so Cupid gets upset and leaves. Psyche searches everywhere for her mystery lover and finally asks Venus to help her find him.

Venus decides to put Psyche to the test before she’ll help the girl find her love.

First, Psyche has to sort a bunch of grain. Then she has to steal some fleece. For the last task, Psyche is sent with a box to the underworld to get some beauty from the queen of the underworld.

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has to do is not look in it, and bring it to Venus.

She opens the box. Inside is a sleeping potion that knocks her out. Turns out, Cupid had been helping her accomplish tasks all along, so he brings Psyche to Jupiter to see if the king of the gods can help Cupid’s jealous mother chill out. Jupiter agrees to help Cupid and Psyche. Jupiter turns Psyche immortal so she and Cupid can live happily ever after.

In every classic artistic interpretation of Cupid, he’s naked. Naked because love has nothing to hide. Naked because he’s a child and innocent and pure.

So why do we see him in greeting cards and classroom decorations wearing a diaper? Because this is America and the only thing we like bald is our eagles.

Whether you like him chubby and diapered, or slender and nude, whether you call him Cupid or Eros or Amor, this Valentine’s Day, let’s celebrate this bringer of love and affection by showing those close to us we love them

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ONE RODE AWAY An original short story by Julie Lloyd of Tularosa Heavy handcuffs scraped against the metal platform railings of the train’s caboose. Cres Frost leaned his long hard body slightly forward to ease the hot, throbbing pain in his raw wrists. His arm muscles bunched and knotted while he sat uncomfortably on the warm floor. A trickle of perspiration streaked down the middle of his back, absorbing into his faded cotton shirt.

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“She’s gonna be a gully washer,” drawled a man standing beside him. He pointed at the great black clouds boiling into the sky behind them.

Cres concentrated on the clouds following the train westward across the wide expanse of Texas prairie. Jagged lightning spears tore viciously from the sky.

Even above the singing of wheels on rails, Cres heard the thunder roll and grumble, seeming to voice the anger he felt boiling inside his breast. Two separate lightning merged, plunged earthward.

He wished its destructive power would find him, snatch his soul away in a puff of smoke. It would be better than dying at the end of a rope.

“Yep, she’s gonna be a gully washer,” the man with a badge repeated when Cress did not speak. “Mebbe it’ll dump a few tears on you while you do your dance in air,” he added. “Shore a cinch nobody else will waste any water on a killer of your kind.”

Cres’s piercing brown eyes narrowed to slits as an answer flamed hot in his mind. He checked his retort, knowing it was useless wasting words on a man like Sherrif Bartlett.

“I will not give that man the satisfaction of rising to the bait of that treacherous man,” Cres thought to himself. “He knows the murder of that Texas Ranger was a frame. Of that, I am sure. Panton can be thanked for that!”

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Pulled Pork Hatch Chile Stew Ingredients ●2 tablespoons canola oil ●1 yellow onion, diced ●1 cup diced carrot ●2 Hatch chile peppers, peeled and seeded ●3 cloves garlic, diced ●salt and ground black pepper to taste ●1 ½ pounds shredded cooked pork ●¼ cup all-purpose flour ●4 cups chicken broth ●1 (15 ounce) can crushed tomatoes Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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●2 cups cubed potatoes ●½ teaspoon ground cumin Directions Step 1 ●Heat oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. ●Add onion and carrot; cook and stir until almost soft, about 5 minutes. ●Add chile peppers and garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, about 2 minutes. ●Season with salt and black pepper. Stir in pork and all-purpose flour.

Step 2 ●Stir chicken broth slowly into the pot.

Add tomatoes, potatoes, and cumin. ●Bring to a boil; reduce heat and cover. ●Simmer, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are tender, 20 to 25 minutes.

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CONDITIONS PERFECT FOR THE SCHEME Alamogordo News February 8, 1908

The opportunities that exist in the Alamogordo valley for an industrious man are gradually being appreciated and taken advantage of. the latest one having been realized by W. H. Wood-, who has been in the town since the first day the site of Alamo-gordo was selected by CB Eddy ten years ago.

Mr. Woods conceived the idea that the raising of brook trout in great quantities would be a paying and permanent undertaking, and quietly went to work collecting all of the available data upon the subject.

After months of careful investigation he has definitely decided that there is more sure money in trout than in cattle and has made his arrangements accordingly.

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eight miles due east of and at least 4,000 feet above Alamogordo and flowing through his place is the Alamo creek, a mountain stream of pure cold water.

The location of the Woods' place is admirably adapted for trout raising, being a small level tract nestled among the mountain tops, where the water from the Alamo springs is almost ice cold the year round, and where the trout lakes will lie undisturbed, both contributing largely to the success of the undertaking.

Mr, Woods will construct the breeding and hatching beds, the boxes and safety devices necessary, and will start with a hatching of 100,000 trout eggs which will be secured in Colorado, and shipped to Alamogordo in specially prepared box crates of peculiar design, but insuring the safe arrival of the trout eggs.

Alamogordo will probably get few of the mountain trout when, a year hence they are beginning to be marketed, as the better class of hotels and cafés in El Paso and the many dining car routes, will take every trout that Mr. Woods can furnish at a price of from 40 to 50 cents a pound.

Mr. Woods deserves the success that will surely follow his undertaking, as he has had the foresight and business initiative to blaze the way on an untrodden trail.

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A GOOD SIGN OF COMING CIVILIZATION Alamogordo News February 22, 1908

New York Avenue in Alamogordo shows signs of real civilization and considerable pride of the property owners, in the building of a five foot wide cement sidewalk on the west side of the street extending from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets.

With such an excellent example it is hoped that others will follow and extend the cement walks for many blocks in every direction from this one beauty spot.

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CAMP CITY HAVING A BOOM Alamogordo News November 9, 1907 Camp City, twelve miles south of Alamogordo, formally known as Dog Canyon is another striking illustration of the wonderful strides that are being made in New Mexico, and few can realize just how rapidly this wonderful little valley is being settled and new business enterprises launched.

One year ago Camp City was un-heard of, and today it is a thriving and prosperous little town which is growing so rapidly that accommodations for trade are not nearly sufficient to meet the demands.

A new public school has just been completed, built of concrete made with a natural cement obtained on the grounds, and this school will be opened on next Monday, November 11th.

A post office has been applied for and with the endorsement of the Alamogordo postmaster, the request will undoubtedly be plaster material.

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When to Visit your Doctor, Urgent Care, or the ER When you or a loved one is sick or injured, you may not be sure whether to see your primary care doctor, visit urgent care, or go to the emergency room (ER).

If the situation is not an emergency and it is during regular office hours, visiting your primary care doctor is the best option. Your doctor knows you, your medical history, and what medications you take. Having an existing relationship with the doctor may also make it easier for them to fit you in quickly.

Your primary care doctor is the best call for: ● Skin conditions ● A cold, the flu, a cough, or a sore throat ● Low-grade fevers ● Minor allergic reactions ● Digestive troubles ● Sinus pain ● Vomiting If your illness or injury is not an emergency, your primary care doctor’s office is closed (nights, weekends, holidays), and/or you believe the situation cannot wait, urgent care is your best option. Urgent care centers have the equipment to handle severe but non-emergency situations. ● Sprains and strains ● Broken bones that have not broken the skin ● Minor cuts or rashes ● Animal bites ● High fevers ● Pneumonia ● Ear infections ● Urinary infections Story continues page 129 Visit our website at issuu.com/alamodosomagazine Email: AlamodosoMagazineNewMexico@gmail.com

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man stopped at nothing to save his own greasy hide.

Cres turned to face Sherrif Bartlett. His face, browned by wind and sun during years of drifting, appeared calm, masked.

When he spoke, he ignored the sheriff’s remark. His cool voice belied the anger boiling within him.

“How’d you ever get to be a sheriff?” he queried, giving the impression that he did not care for an answer. “Shore now, you don’t look like one.”

“Yeah! Just what do I look like?” Bartlett asked. A wry smile twisted his lips back until his teeth, yellowed and dull, showed beneath a red tobacco-stained mustache. Leathery wrinkles around his eyes seemed to almost crack.

“Reckon you wouldn’t like it if I told you,” Cres replied. He watched the mirth disappear from Bartlett’s face while a red flush crept over it. His neck corded and bulged.

“Yu oughta been strung up from the nearest tree,” Bartlett growled. “Woulda been better.

Saved time and money.

A rope fits just as tight danglin’ from a tree limb as from the gallows at Blue Ash.” Without a word, Cres moved his aching wrists along the railing as far as the manacles permitted.

His weight shifted to ease the strain. He let his gaze go back to the menacing clouds in the west.

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the caboose railing. Unlike the rest of the unkempt man, his boots were clean. They were polished to a shiny black.

It seemed like hours passed before the train began to slow for Three Forks, a tiny watering station. Blue Ash was the next stop after that. Cress wondered if that would be his eternal destination. Everything within him rebelled at the thought.

His mind screamed, “I will not swing! No man, especially a man charged for a crime he did not commit, wanted the last breath choked from him.

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turned and left the caboose. Cress struggled to his feet when he was certain Bartlett was gone. His shoulders ached. His arms were numb. Blood surged through his arms again and he felt pure relief.

He stood until he heard Bartlett returning, then sat back down again. Bartlett barged back into the caboose and glared down at Cres. “Yu are one stubborn cuss,” he snorted when he saw Cres still sitting. “Now I see why Yu won’t admit to killin’ thet Ranger.”

“I ain’t admittin’ to somethin’ I didn’t do,” Cres fired back.

Bartlett leaned against the railing and looked at Cres.”Yu know, I been thinkin’...” He took a long pause. “Mebbe you’re tellin’ the truth. I got an idea. Suppose I let yu loose when the train starts slowin’ for Blue Ash. Yu could jump and make a run for it.”

“Then what will you do?”Cres asked, eyeing him with distrust.

“Shoot me in the back?”

"Well, what if I missed? I’d have to round up a posse an come lookin’ fer yu.”

“Forget it,” Cress said, “I ain’t falling for none of your underhanded tricks.”

“It’s your neck,” Bartlett said with a shrug. “Give yu sumpin’ to think about.”The train jerked and began to move.

Nothing more was said. As the train picked up speed, flat land slipped by with miles of clay dirt dotted by scrub brush. Gradually dark clouds filled the sky, swirling overhead, blotting out the sun.

Cool, almost chill air, replaced hot summer heat. Rain was imminent.

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Cres squinted at the sky hoping the rain would fall before they reached Blue Ash. Bartlett would take him inside then, and with his hands freed from the railing, he would have a better chance for escape. As if in answer to his thoughts, a bolt of lightning ripped through the dark clouds, followed by roaring thunder, and the first few drops of rain.

“Reckon we best get inside afore thet rain hits,” Bartlett drawled. He leaned forward to unlock the handcuffs, gun in one hand, key in the other. Cress moved to a sitting position on his haunches.

A handcuff fell free from one hand. As Cres pulled his arms free from the railing, he came up fast.

In one swift move, his left hand shot out to fasten around Bartlett’s wrist while his knee crashed savagely into the groin. Bartlett contorted. Cres snatched the gun, tossing it onto the tracks. He swung his legs over the railing, hesitated long enough to glance at Bartlett, then leaped.

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C. P. DOWNS BUYS BOTH NEWSPAPERS Almogordo News November 28, 1912

The Alamogordo News was sold Tuesday afternoon to Chas. P. Downs.

The News is the oldest paper in Otero County. It has been owned for the past six years by the Alamogordo Improvement Company, and for the past three years edited and published under the management.

Mr. Downs bought also the Otero County Advertiser, and effective December 1, the two plants and papers will be consolidated.

The new paper probably will be called The News-Advertiser and issued once a week from the News shop.

In editorial policy The News-Advertiser will be non-partisan and independent. It will keep out of politics.

Its principal business will be to publish all the news and to boost Alamogordo and Otero County.

Mr. Downs is an experienced newspaper man, and under the policy which he has outlined, can hardly fail to succeed.

Those of us who know him best are strongest in the hope and belief that he will succeed. Certainly he has every good wish of the retiring owner and the editor and publisher of The News.

GUTHRIE SMITH, Editor and Publisher.

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White Oaks Paper 1892

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ALONG NEW MEXICO’S “MOTHER ROAD”

Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory 222 E Laughlin Ave, Tucumcari 575 461 3466 Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory displays genuine fossils collected locally by students enrolled in the College's programs. Also on display in our 10,000 sq.ft. exhibit hall are life-sized bronze dinosaur sculptures and skeletons created using the lost-wax method through the Fine Arts/Bronze program at the College. Visitors can watch students and staff clean fossil specimens in our laboratory.

There is parking available for large vehicles.

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Fossils found in the eastern region of New Mexico were excavated and shipped to museums throughout the world.

In 2000, Mesalands Community College established a dinosaur museum in conjunction with its Geology and Paleontology programs. Now, fossils are collected by students enrolled in the College's programs and are displayed in the exhibit hall at Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory.

You'll find plenty of fossils here, of dinosaur skeletons, eggs, and footprints. But you'll also find a rather extensive array of dinosaur-related art, not only paintings, but the largest collection of bronze dinosaur sculptures in the world.

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Carol Nagan works with pen and ink, colored pencil, pastel and wood. About her art she comments “ I love to draw and have as long as I can remember. Since being in the Southwest for the last four or so years, I feel more inspired than I have been for quite a long time.

There are so many natural objects that just seem to call out to me- yucca, dead logs, rocks, trees, lichen on old wood and on and on.

My studio in Nogal gives me the perfect place to lose myself in my art.

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ON THE SCREEN, a massive elk with intimidating antlers and a tuft of grass hanging from his mouth moved over a ridge, keeping a watchful eye over two downslope females.

We’d just begun debating images of bighorn sheep, sandhill cranes, and hummingbirds for our 21st annual Photography Contest, but the trio—bull, cow, and calf, all together, shrouded in greenery—caught our attention.

“I was attracted to special moments this year,” says photographer Gabriella Marks, whose words provided the lens through which we evaluated the more than 1,800 entries submitted by almost 250 amateur photographers (those earning no more than 50 percent of their income through photography).

The elk image also served as a personal reminder: Take time to appreciate the land, people, and experiences all around us.

Follow Marks’s dictum and you’ll see magic in the whirl of the New Mexico State Fair midway, the shifting gypsum at White Sands National Park, the encounter with a coyote during a snowstorm, the grace of Sky City Buffalo Ram Dancers, the tenderness of a girl holding her hen, and the power of summer storms rolling over Albuquerque.

Picking winners wasn’t easy.

Seven judges blind-selected 20 photos each in the six categories.

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Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography, in Carrizozo, and may be included in our 2023 photography calendar. Thanks to our sponsors, the winners also receive some fantastic prizes.

What it often takes to capture these shots can be more difficult than it looks. Consider Kyrie Morales’s Rainbow Over Harvey, which garnered an honorable mention in the Mobile category. In April, while traveling in a converted Blue Bird school bus, she and her partner camped on Bureau of Land Management property near Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

It had been raining, and as the sun set, Morales noticed a rainbow out the window. She went outside and realized the bus was perfectly centered under a double rainbow.

3 Novemberher 1801camera, – 23 September Grabbing she ran1835 through the mud to get the right perspective. But her lens wasn’t wide enough to capture it all.

Yelling that she needed her phone, Morales slopped back and forth to the bus, hoping the scene wouldn’t disappear before she could create her panoramic image.

“By the end of it I was covered in mud, but ecstatic that I managed to capture such a perfect moment on our travels,” she recalls. “This photo is a great reminder to myself to get outside, even for just a moment, and enjoy nature.”

It’s a lesson for all of us too.

Even when things seem messy and chaotic, we should seek out and embrace those flashes of beauty, wonder, joy, and even discomfort, because they’re all part of what makes life here so amazing.

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MOBILE: 1ST PLACE

PEOPLE: 1ST PLACE

Downtown Daze, Abel Espalin

In Omi’s Garden, Joaquin Martinez

"I took this photo in the thick of the pandemic lockdown when downtown Albuquerque was boarded up and a virtual ghost town. I felt like the emptiness and silence of this part of town was something I might never experience again. I had to take full advantage of the situation, and what a more iconic Albuquerque structure to shoot than the KIMO Theatre." —Abel Espalin

"My daughter spends most Sundays with her Omi (grandmother) and helps her tend the chickens and the vegetable and flower garden.

She and the chickens have really gotten to know each other. I took this photo as Luna was singing a sweet song to "Omlette" as she cooed back in a very graceful duet." —Joaquin Martinez

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HONORABLE MENTION North Face Send “This image was taken at the Highline Ridge at Taos Ski Valley. The name of the run is called North Face; and the skier catching air is local phenom Brett Hills. This large feature he is 'sending’ is particularly intimidating as the landing is blind and very steep (45+ degrees) with copious rock features, so no margin for error! Right above is a beginner run called 'Honeysuckle.'

I think what makes the image interesting and somewhat serendipitous is the cascade of cold smoke snow billowing down the rock itself. The challenge for me was to capture as much of the sequence as possible before the cascade ultimately reached me as I was dug in underneath the feature, eventually covering me in snow— camera and all!”—Kevin Rebholtz

Animals: 1st Place Song Dog in the Snow, Pam Dorner

2ND PLACE:Sky City Buffalo Ram Dancer, "Although I live in California, I find myself driving over to take in the magic of the desert Southwest pretty often, due to having family in New Mexico. I had the opportunity to watch a public performance of the Sky City Buffalo and Ram Dancers while in Albuquerque. They happened to be in close proximity to the balloon field, which I was visiting at the time, and made a special effort to spend as much time as I could to take in the mysterious symbolic sights and movements that were being presented. I also aimed to present and show the form and the movement with the imagery that I was making. I tried to get away from a purely documentary representation and speak to the sense and the feeling of it." —Eric Newnam

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3RD PLACE: Tribal Enlightenment

HONORABLE MENTION: Chama 455

“I seldom miss a chance to attend the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque.

Prior to the pandemic, when the event was put on temporary pause, the strong Native American community of New Mexico attracted Indigenous folks from around the world to enjoy dancing, music, and the pleasure of each other's company. Stationing myself in an area with good lighting, I love to photograph the entry processions and dancing. I hope this image captures the spirit of a Plains Dancer after a competition." —Michael Edminster

In the photograph Chama 455, Rio Rancho– based photographer Jim Shepka captures a Cumbres and Toltec train engineer venting steam from Engine 455.

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The Body of Billy the Kid Kidnaped.

Las Vegas Optic July 1881 Scarcely has the news of the killing of William Bonney, alias McCarthy, but known the wide world over as “Billy the Kid,” faded from the public mind before we are again to be startled by the second chapter in the bloody romance of his eventful life - the disposal of his body.

Billy was killed on July 14 and was buried on the 16th in an almost abandon cemetary at Fort Sumner - a long-neglected military burying ground, we believe it was.

When the crude and comely funeral ceremonies were completed and the last cold clod had been heaped upon the rough sand mound, then should have ended the thrilling romance.

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of a companion, dug up the remains and carried them off in a wagon.

The “stiff” was brought to Las Vegas, arriving here about 2 o’clock in the morning and was slipped quietly into the private office of a practical “sawbones” who by dint of diligent labor and careful watching to prevent detection, boiled and scraped the skin off the “pate” so as to secure the skull.

The body, or remains proper, was covered in the dirt of a corral, where it will remain until decomposition shall have robbed the frame of its meat, when the body will be dug up again and the skeleton “fixed up” - hung together by wires and varnished with shellac to make it presentable.

Billy the Kid’s Grave Fort Sumner, N.M. 1929

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From the Carrizozo Outlook March 2, 1917

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ANOTHER BANK IN CARRIZOZO Carrizozo Outlook December 08, 1916

The business of the community of Carrizozo has reached the magnitude that another bank is going to accommodate it.

The new institution is to be known as the Lincoln State Bank, and the organizers are local residents The capital stock is twenty-five thousand dollars. ( Editors note: $25,000 in 1916 had the purchasing power of $638,000 today)

THROWS STONE; KILLS COW. When Rol Parker, of the Nogal community the latter part of last week threw a stone at one of his mother's milk cows he did not realize that such a small thing would kill a cow. The stone struck the animal between the eyes, crushing a part of its skull about the size of a half dollar. Fortunately the cow was in shape to convert it to beef.

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Discover Cloudcroft and the Sacramento Mountains

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CLOUDCROFT IS A SUCCESS People of the Southwest Clamor For the Continuance of the Popular Resort GREIG’S INGENIOUS ADVERTISING Causes the Passenger Agents of Other Roads to Pronounce Him a Prince of Rustler Phenomenal Sale of Lots Alamogordo News July 5, 1900 John A. Eddy's phenomenal success with Cloudcroft this year, looks like a well laid scheme to vindicate himself and his judgment as to the advisability of pushing Cloudcroft into the front rank of western summer resorts.

That Mr. Eddy alone is entitled to the credit for inducing the public to make such a clamor for the continence of the Cloudcroft plan, is past gainsaying. How he succeeded, no one knows.

He had 5,000 pamphlets, the friendship of the press of El Paso and Alamogordo and the recommendations of a few who visited Cloudcroft last year to work on.

He was recognized as practically "out of it."

And everyone wondered what the new management would do for the salvation of Cloudcroft and Alamogordo.

It soon became evident that .Mr. Eddy did not propose to wait on others, but that he would as private citizen, place his shoulder to the wheel and start rolling.

Then, the personal columns of the newspapers showed that from ten to fifteen persons are daily passengers to Cloudcroft from El Paso. and that some of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens had moved their families to the Breathing spot and were building summer cottages on property purchased from the Improvement company.

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Cloudcroft, like Banquo's ghost, would not down. People who formerly had no faith in it, wore-forced to acknowledge that the citizens of El Paso and other Southwestern cities wanted a cool summer resort.

The Teachers' convention in El Paso gave the finishing touch to the opportunities of the public and General Superintendent Greig was literally deluged with letters requesting the road to run excursions to the resort.

With characteristic ingenuity. Mr.Greig fitted up an El Paso office with the green products of Cloudcroft. And visitors were invited to rest ‘neath pine boughs behind which whirring electric fans created a breeze that swayed the artistically arranged foliage and gave an idea of what might he expected in the mountains proper Photographs of woodland scenes, ribbon badges and Cloudcroft literature were the added inducements that clinched the resolve of visitors to see Cloudcroft. and early in the afternoon of each day the offices were closed to ticket buyers. Twice as many tickets could have been disposed of, but the road lacked equipment to accommodate more than 350 passengers per day.

One of the most ingenious advertising schemes imaginable, was a question card which Mr. Greig had distributed to passengers each day. The cards read: “Now that you have seen Cloudcroft. what is your impression of it?”

“Would you come again next year, or recommend Cloudcroft to your friends n case a good hotel which would charge reasonable rates were erected there?”

Passengers eagerly answered the questions and signed the cards and the results of the three days showed a list of 1,200 names of all the owners being enthusiastic admirers of Cloudcroft.

Some of the most extravagant expressions imaginable attested the admiration of the visitors for Cloudcroft.

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WILL WOMEN GET THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON CLOSING? Missionary Union has Resolved to Fight this Summer for Closing El Paso Herald March 17, 1910

What do you think of the Saturday afternoon closing proposition?

That question now faces El Paso merchants. The “Women’s Missionary union, originators of the Saturday closing movement last year, has taken it up again has resolved that Saturday closing must come this year.

Last year it all went on the rocks with merchant disapproval. Some hint that it’ll be the same this year; others that the time has come for a metropolitan system of weekend closing.

“I am for it,” said Myrtil Coblentz, who, as head of the White House Store, should carry some weight. “A few years ago all stores were open until 7 o’clock. Do we do any more business now? It is just the same. The people can be educated to buying on Friday and Saturday morning just as well.”

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History of Weed, Discover Our Cornucopia of Treasures!

New Mexico Tucked away in the Sacramento Mountains You will find yourself coming back again and again!

(The town… not the “herb”)

Welcome To Weed

Weed is nestled in the Sacramento Mountains at 7000 feet surrounded by the Lincoln National Forest. It is 24 miles from Cloudcroft.

Mr. W. H. Weed built the first store and established the Post Office in 1885.

Since that time the Weed Community still carries on many traditions of the early pioneers. The Weed Community's most precious asset is the people who live here.

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a natural crossroads. The post office was named for W.H. Weed, a prominent White Oaks merchant, born and raised in New York City who had come to that mining town about 1882. There is no evidence that he ever visited the Agua Chiquita, but he set up a branch store there which became Weed as others built around it.

The post office changed locations eight times in the next ten years.

The exact date of settlement in the Weed area is difficult to pin down.

Scouts and hunters had entered the southeastern canyons of the Sacramentos as early as 1875.

Cattle companies, looking for new water and grasslands, began running cattle into the mountains by 1880. The attractive qualities of the area were noted and the word was carried out by early visitors back to Texas and other states.

Albert Coe, who scouted for the Army, saw the Weed area in the 1870s and tried to settle on the Rio Penasco at the time. He soon left, got married and returned to the area in 1881, moving to Weed in 1887.

Through the years, the population has declined and the Weed school, which was established in 1885 and had taken the children of the surrounding communities was closed in 1991. The students were transferred to the Cloudcroft district. In spite of this loss and a population of only 65 people, the people of Weed have maintained a strong kinship to each other.

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PARKER SOLAR PROBE TOUCHES THE

SUN

(CNN)Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has successfully flown through the sun's corona, or upper atmosphere, to sample particles and our star's magnetic fields.

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statement.

"Not only does this milestone provide us with deeper insights into our Sun's evolution and (its) impacts on our solar system, but everything we learn about our own star also teaches us more about stars in the rest of the universe."

The sun's corona is much hotter than the actual surface of the star, and the spacecraft could provide insight about why. The corona is 1,800,000 degrees Fahrenheit at its hottest point, while the surface is around 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit.

Before Parker Solar Probe's mission is done, it will have made 21 close approaches to the sun over the course of seven years.

The probe will orbit within 3.9 million miles of the sun's surface in 2024, closer to the star than Mercury -- the closest planet to the sun. This to the probe sitting on the four-yard line of a football field and the sun being the end zone.

When closest to the sun, the 4½-inch-thick carbon-composite solar shields will have to withstand temperatures close to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

However, the inside of the spacecraft and its instruments will remain at a comfortable room temperature.

"Flying so close to the Sun, Parker Solar Probe now senses conditions in the magnetically dominated layer of the solar atmosphere -- the corona -- that we never could before," said Nour Raouafi, Parker project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, in a statement.

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M

ayhill New Mexico a small rural town a café, a post office and a gas station is what makes up the town If you blink, you’ll miss it but the people are respectful and as true as they come.

Three and a half miles up highway 130 from the intersection of highway 82 across the bridge on the right sits Penasco Gravel Incorporated.

In 2006 the housing market was starting to decline with the recession in its early stages Dwayne Lewis a local general contractor owning and operating Triangle S Construction since 1987 saw an opportunity and took a chance on it.

With the purchase of 60 acres of private property that was used as a gravel pit in the late 40’s and early 50’s to build most of the roads in the Weed and Mayhill area Penasco Gravel was started.

There was a learning curve to start an aggregate company and change career paths completely and the school of hard knocks seemed to be the only way to learn it. The first 6 years where hard and there seemed to be a lot of mistakes made learning the ups and downs of buying the correct equipment and setting it up properly to.

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Fast forward to 2021 and things have changed a lot the operation runs much more efficient and produces a lot more material than what the original operation was. Penasco Gravel Incorporated has switched its focus to providing more services than producing aggregates. PGI now works continuously with the USDA and multiple other government agencies. Currently with the purchase of a new tracked mobile impact crusher Penasco Gravel Inc. is working with the Department of Defense to complete some contract specific needs and is proud to be helping the United States of America.

Penasco Gravel Incorporated is now the only aggregate operation running in the Sacramento Ranger district of the Sacramento mountains on private property.

The need for a gravel and earthwork contractor will only grow in the Cloudcroft and surrounding area over time especially with the changes in government regulations limiting the use of public lands for mining.

PGI operating on private land offers the ability to continue operations without needing permits or permission from the USDA or federal government agencies. Penasco Gravel Incorporated looks forward to the future and is always looking to expand their operations and grow their connections they invite any general contractors across the state to contact them with any earthwork or aggregate needs.

They are now offering onsite mobile crushing and demolition recycling needs anywhere in the state of New Mexico.

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HIGH ROLLS

High Rolls Mercantile Mexicans who settled in the Tularosa Basin in the mid-1880s obtained water rights to graze cattle in the fertile canyons of the Sacramento Mountains. By the 1880s, homesteaders discovered the area, bought the water rights and began establishing farms.

David M. Sutherland located in the High Rolls area in 1883 and was soon followed by Francisco Maes and Cipriano Tefoya, who came up from La Luz in 1884 and settled in the Mountain Park area.

P.M. “Uncle Button” Nelson, Jack Tucker and William Karr married sisters and moved into the region in 1885. Other early settlers included I.Q. Snow, Hamilton Kimberlin, Michael Mulchay,

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High Rolls Rail Depot

They built and maintained ditches to divert the Fresnal Canyon water to their crops and built the first dirt road from Fresnal to La Luz. Fresnal, later known as Wooten, had the first post office in the area, established in 1894.

The coming of the railroad in 1898 opened up the area for the shipment of goods to market and development of the tourist trade.

By 1899, trains went as far as Toboggan Canyon, where passengers were transferred to stagecoaches for the final miles to Cloudcroft. Freight depots and Wells Fargo offices were built in both High Rolls and Mountain Park. The railroad operated on a regular basis until World War II. It finally ceased operation in 1948.

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Popeye the Sailor Man was a squinty-eyed sailor who was the main character of a comic created in the late 1920s by E.C. Segar. Like many beloved characters, he didn’t begin as the star of the story – he was a minor character hired to be apart of a ship’s crew. While he was only meant to be around for a few strips, the Popeye character quickly became very popular and the focus of the strip.

Popeye eventually won the heart of the originally unimpressed and at times fickle, Olive Oyl and becomes the adopted father of Swee’Pea, a baby he finds in the mail.

Elzie Segar, the creator of the comic, knew a man in Illinois named Frank “Rocky” Fiegel who inspired the character Popeye.

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in fighting, so he had a deformed eye (“Pop-eye”). He had demonstrated his strength in so many fights that he became a local legend. He always smoked his pipe, so he spoke only with one side of his mouth. Like the character Popeye was similar to “Rocky” in that he smoked a pipe and was toothless, but Segar took a few other liberties. Fiegel was

less of a spinach eater and more of a drinker, and instead of a sailor he was actually a bartender.

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Dora Paskel, owner of a grocery store in Chester. She is also described to dress just like Olive Oil. Segar kept in touch with Frank and had always helped him with money. Frank and Popeye also carried some inherent features like courage, chivalry and virility.

Fiegel wasn’t really aware of his role in the creation of Popeye until his final years of life.

An engraving of Popeye’s face is on his gravestone. A statue of Popeye was put up in his honor in Chester, Illinois. He died on March 24, 1947.

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Tularosa--sun-scorched, sandblasted, merciless--the parched desert where everything, from cactus to cowman, carries a weapon of some sort, and the only creatures who sleep with both eyes closed are dead.

Tularosa--the last frontier in the continental United States. C. L. Sonnichsen, an aut-hority on the Southwest, writing from primary records and conversations with survivors of Tularosa's pioneer days, tells the stories of the great cattle ranchers pitted against daring rustlers, elite men against Apaches, desperados against law men.

Here are Oliver Lee, Pat Garrett, and Bill McNew. And here is the feud between Col. A. J. Fountain and Albert Fall.

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The emergency room is for real medical emergencies—the staff and equipment are there to provide life-saving care for extreme cases.

For severe medical situations, you can call 911 or visit an emergency room. Most hospital emergency rooms are open 24 hours per day, seven days a week.

The ER is the correct destination if you or a loved one is experiencing: ● A severe injury or major trauma, including a severe cut or burn ● Overdose ● Stroke or heart attack ● Loss of consciousness ● A seizure ● Difficulty breathing ● Trouble speaking ● Dizziness and loss of coordination ● A head injury ● Broken bones that puncture the skin ● Heavy bleeding

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Spain brought a lot of things to the New World — horses, sheep, cattle, grapes. You may know the history of livestock in New Mexico, but you may not be aware of the role wine played in our history since the first Spaniard rode north from Mexico City. Historians record New Mexico’s first winemaking in 1629, but New World wine is decidedly older. Francisco Urdinola is generally credited with starting winemaking in North America around 1554.

Spanish wine was heavily taxed and costly to ship. Apparently easy to smuggle, vines were brought to Mexico against the wishes of Andalusians, who depended on wine for their livelihood. Winemaking in Mexico subsequently was shut down by royal decree.

However, priests needed sacramental wine for Mass. The sixmonth oxcart journey over 1,000 miles of El Camino Real was the driving force behind winemaking here. Wagons arrived every three years and brought only 45 gallons of wine each trip. The Catholic Church and Governor Francisco Manuel de Silva Nieto, whose government paid to import wine, solved their problem.

They planted the Mission grape, Vitis vinifera, brought to Southern New Mexico in 1580 by Franciscan Friar Agustin Rodriguez, and made their own sacramental wine. If the Spanish king heard of it, he decided not to make a fuss and let the priests have their wine.

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WINE ICE CREAM

Ingredients ● 5 oz fruity white wine like Moscato ● 3 tbsp sugar ● 1 heaping cup of heavy whipping cream ● fresh berries for serving such as blackberries or raspberries

Instructions ● In the bowl of a stand add the whipping cream. Whisk on lowmedium speed for 2-3 minutes, or until it's whipped and soft peaks have formed. ● Add the sugar to a blender or food processor, pulse the sugar until a super fine (but not powdery) consistency is reached. Let the sugar 'dust' settle for a few seconds. ● Add the sugar to a separate mixing bowl and stir in the wine until the sugar's dissolved. ● Pour the sugared wine into the whipped cream and whisk just until incorporated. ● Transfer the ice cream mixture to a rigid container, like a metal loaf pan or a plastic tupperware dish. Cover the dish and place it in the freezer until frozen firm, about 4 hours. ● Scoop the ice cream into bowls and serve topped with the fresh berries.

Splash with a bit more wine if desired.

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Carrizozo Outlook 8 May 1920

What’s become of the prejudice fagainst automobiles because they frightened the horses?

NOW cars are everywhere. The horses have gotten used to them and so has everybody else.

Think of it ! This year the American people will spend nearly a billion dollars on tires alone.

Hardly a Saturday, when you motorists drop in to "tune up" for a Sunday trip, that one or more of you doesn't tell us something of value to our business. Sooner or later it comes back to you in Service.

Service is what the car owners of this community are. looking for nowadays. And especially the small car owners, who put service first in figuring their motoring expenditures.

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should get any less service out of his tires.

We believe that the man with the small car is entitled to just as good tire service as the man with the big car and both are entitled to the best tire service they can get.

That's why we represent U. S. Tires in this community. And why more car owners large and small are coming to us every day for U. S. Tires.

Come in and talk to us . about tires. We're here to' help you get the kind of tires you want.

United States Tires are available from the following shops.

WESTERN GARAGE, Carrizozo, N. M. GLENCOE TRADING CO., Glencoe, N. M. CHAS.F. GRAY OSCURO, N.M.

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f there is one piece of Western wear that has become the ultimate symbol of the American Cowboy, it’s the cowboy hat.

Like all Western wear, hats were made to be as tough as the trail and started off as accessories purchased based purely on function rather than fashion.

A hat provided shade, protection from the elements, and warmth for the wearer, but could also be used to fan a fire, as a vessel for drinking water, or waved from horseback to catch the attention of a fellow rider in the distance.

There were as many styles of cowboy hats as there were people wearing cowboy hats.

Distinct hat styles emerged by region. For example, in the Southwest, cowpunchers donned high-crowned “10-gallons” for ample shade, while in the Great Basin, Buckaroos came to prefer a “flat hat,” often made of straw and designed to stay out of the way of long lassos.

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Cameron Phillips Remembers Ruidoso This Month August 1986 Cameron Philip and his wife, Leona Mae, have lived in Ruidoso since 1945, when they built the curio shop next door to old Dolin’s Mill.

They built it themselves and lived in the back of the building, with the curio shop up front.

Besides the curios, they developed black and white films overnight. “Often, one of us would be up until 4 in the morning…”

Carmon bought the old Dowlin’s Mill from the White Mountain Development Company in the late 1940’s and he oversaw the restoration of it. “ Inside the old mill there was about a foot of silt, cow chips and dirt all over the floor, and lots of discarded junk

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like holey bathtubs. I hauled 11 flatbed truck loads to the dump.” States Carmon.

Today the building is distinctive because it is one of the oldest structures in town.

The outside is adobe and the inside walls are made of the original stones.

The mill was used to grind corn and wheat as it still does today. The old grinding stones are powered by the water wheel which Camron runs in the summer months.

“There were only two or three houses along the Main Road (now Sudderth) from Carrizo to Hwy 70, and the remains of an old gold course with sand greens.

Camron remembers there was electricity but no sewage or city water. We dug wells for our water and used cesspools for sewer. We weren’t concerned with pollution back in those days because there were so few people.”

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Valentines Day Festival at Ruidoso Convention Center February 12, 2022 February 13, 2022 Come out and shop with over 70 vendors from all over New Mexico and some from Arizona.

Everyone who enters will be entered into a raffle for some great items. Drawing will be held Sunday the 13th at 2pm. You do not have to be present to win! We have some great items from Deadly Threadz Design and Robyns Creations for our winners.

Fees/Admission: $2.00 admission fee 10 and under are Free

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Susan Wallace and Billy "the" Kid.

In a letter dated May 11, 1879, Susan Wallace (Lew Wallace's wife) wrote: "The Lincoln County reign of terror is not over, and we hold our lives at the mercy of desperadoes and outlaws, chief among them 'Billy the Kid', whose boast is that he has killed a man for every year of his life".

Source: Lew Wallace, "An Autobiography", 1906, pp. 920-921. It is well known that the first time ever that Billy Bonney was referred to in print not just as the Kid but as "Billy the Kid" was in the editorial of Las Vegas Gazette, December 3, 1880.

The letter by Susan Wallace is dated 11 May 1879, nineteen months before the official birth of "Billy the Kid". Thus, it seems that Susan Wallace was the first person who dubbed Kid Antrim as "Billy the Kid" - at least unofficially.

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The Greater for the Ruidoso Chamber of Commerce 1984

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AS IF THERE WASN’T ALREADY ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT! The Kiss of Death Kissing Bugs are part of the Triatoma rubida family of predatory insects. These bugs are much like bed bugs in the sense that they sustain themselves by feeding on blood. The seemingly innocent nickname comes from their tendency to bite near the mouth and face.

The parasite is called Trypanosoma cruzi and it lives in the systems of over 50% of Kissing Bugs. This parasite can lead to potentially fatal Chagas disease.

Chagas disease can be transmitted to children, adults, and animals.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 20% of those infected with Chagas disease develop gastrointestinal and cardiac complications throughout their lifetime.

In children and individuals with weakened immune systems, this parasitic disease can be fatal.

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Although there is no reason to panic, you'll want to make sure to get checked out by a medical professional if you think you may have been bitten by a Kissing Bug. Chagas disease can cause a sudden, brief illness (acute), or it may be a long-lasting (chronic) condition. Symptoms range from mild to severe, although many people don't experience symptoms until the chronic stage.

The acute phase of Chagas disease, which lasts for weeks or months, is often symptom-free. When signs and symptoms do occur, they are usually mild and may include: Swelling at the infection site Fever Fatigue Rash Body aches Eyelid swelling Headache Loss of appetite Nausea, diarrhea or vomiting Swollen glands Enlargement of your liver or spleen Signs and symptoms that develop during the acute phase usually go away on their own. IIf the infection isn't treated, Chagas disease will advance to the chronic phase. Signs and symptoms of the chronic phase of Chagas disease may occur 10 to 20 years after initial infection, or they may never occur. In severe cases, Chagas disease signs and symptoms may include: Irregular heartbeat Heart failure Sudden cardiac arrest * Difficulty swallowing due to enlarged esophagus

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How does Billy the Kid tie into New Mexico's cattle industry? Farm and Ranch Museum exhibit explains.

Leah Romero Las Cruces Sun-News

LAS CRUCES – The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is soon opening a special exhibit, “Riding Herd with Billy the Kid: The Rise of the Cattle Industry in New Mexico.”

The exhibit covers roughly a decade in the latter 1800s when the cattle industry started booming in New Mexico. Meanwhile, the state’s most notorious outlaw, also known as William H. Bonney, was making a name for himself.

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as the Goodnight-Loving Trail. It concludes with the Lincoln County War, a fight over control of the cattle industry, during the late 1870s.

“Early on, we saw this exhibit as a way to tell the very important story of the cattle industry in New Mexico,” said Leah Tookey, history curator for the museum. “Because Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War are two of the most interesting parts of New Mexico history, and both are connected to the cattle industry, we decided to use those stories to tell the bigger cattle industry story.”

Panels of Billy the Kid are scattered throughout the displays to help visitors connect the larger industry happenings with the hired gun’s movements.

Large cattle heads are mounted on exhibit walls and a life-sized sculpture of Billy the Kid created by local artist Bob Diven stands at the front, ushering visitors through the exhibit. Artifacts are also presented, including period guns, running irons used by cattle rustlers, Doña Ana County Sheriff Pat Garrett’s branding iron and the rifle scabbard belonging to John W. Poe — a lawman who was with Garrett when he shot and killed Billy the Kid in 1881.

Various other personalities pop up in the telling of the story, such as John Tunstall, Alexander and Susan McSween, John Chisum and Charles Goodnight. Maps, videos and more guide visitors through this portion of New Mexico’s history, and interactive portions are included for kids.

The Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is at 4100 Dripping Springs Road and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

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variation in hat styles, from silk “stovepipes” and derby “pots,” to sombreros and cavalry styles. In Montana Territory during the 1860s– ‘80s, cowboys drove cattle up the trails from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and other regions, which led to a hodge-podge of headwear across the range.

Also, many cowboys in the late 1800s and early 1900s were immigrants. For herding cattle or sheep, they simply wore the hats they stepped off the boat wearing. The first cowboy hats were made of beaver, rabbit, or other fur, but felt soon became the preferred (and priciest) material.

John B. Stetson, the son of a New Jersey haberdasher, set the standard in the early mass production of cowboy hats with his “Boss of the Plains” model in 1863, designed while on an expedition up Pike’s Peak. His hat became all the rage in the West. However, most Stetsons got pretty beat up on the job and began to curl at the brim and lose their silk ribbons. This distressed look became preferred to the overly-refined, freshoff-the-line Stetson.

So much so that many cowboys even began to intentionally shape their own hats by creasing the crown and curling the brim, making four dents into a peak, two dents, a center crease, two parallel creases, or simply leaving the crown rounded. Stetson soon caught on to this trend and began massproducing creased and curled hats. In the 1940s and ‘50s, Hollywood created its own cowboy styles on the big screen, which then rubbed off on cowboy fashion, carrying homogenized hat styles from the silver screen to the range and far beyond. Contemporary American Country Music stars—whether real cowboys or not—further popularized the wearing of cowboy hats far beyond just big cattle country.

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What Is A Gemstone? A mineral or rock, after it has been cut and polished, and that is pretty and hard enough to be worn as jewelry, is called a gemstone.

Only 70 of more than 3,800 known mineral s are considered gemstones.

About 20 of these 70 gems are commonly found. All gemstones have one thing in common - beauty. Beauty, however, is a rather intangible thing.

The perception of beauty varies from person to person, and from culture to culture. Beauty in a mineral may mean color, luster , transparency, or brilliancy resulting from skillful cutting and polishing.

Much of the gemstone history comes from archeological discoveries, and ancient writings. They are often found in burial sites where they were meant to protect and accompany their owner into the next life Soft, opaque stones were the first gemstone beads. By 2,500 B.C. carnelian, lapis lazuli, and rock crystal were in use.

Colorful gemstones were first found on the earth's surface. There is evidence of gemstone mining of lapis lazuli in Afghanistan as early as 5,000 BC. In 3,000 BC, There was mining of turquoise in the Sinai peninsula and of emeralds in Egypt. Amber was traded in the areas around the Baltic Sea. In North and South America turquoise was mined.

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ince 1998, customers from across the country have been going to Rosemary’s Herb Shop for herbalist Rosemary Casio-Sinclair’s personalized attention, wisdom, and care as she guides them on their herbal and botanical needs. These days, you will also encounter a friendly and extremely knowledgeable staff of Rosemary’s trained herbalists for expert insight, knowledge, and attention to detail.

Rosemary’s carries a wide variety of bulk herbs, powders, capsules, spices, teas, including formula herbal teas, books, ear cones, essential oils, and much more. We are located at 1705 Sudderth Dr. in Ruidoso, New Mexico. We are open Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 5:30pm, Saturdays from 9:30am to 5:00pm and closed on Sundays.

If you have any questions we welcome you in our store to speak with one of us, or call 575-257-0333 and schedule some time to speak with one of us.

We encourage you to visit our website and give us a call. www.rosemarysherbshop.com We are happy to ship anywhere in the United States, and look forward to hearing from you or seeing you in our store!

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Tis the season to pay close attention to our Immunity! Check out Rosemary’s Herb Shop, Herb of the Month….

OLIVE LEAF

Since the beginning of time, Olive Leaf has been used to win the fight against viruses, flu, and bacterial infections.

Used as a cure all for thousands of years, the source of the powerful disease-resistant properties is a phenolic compound known as Oleuropein, extracted from the leaves of olive trees.

It has been recognized by agricul-turalists, herbalists, integrated medicine physicians, and holistic doctors as a totally safe and effective all-natural healer. Olive leaf strengthens the immune system, prevents such viral diseases as HIV, EpsteinBarr, Herpes, and Influenza.

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pneumonia. Olive leaf will eliminate all types of infection including yeast infections, fungal infections, bacterial infections, viral, and other parasitic protozoan. Olive leaf is known to lower cholesterol, treat chronic fatigue, balance blood pressure, lower pain and inflammation associated with arthritis, psoriasis and shingles, and alleviates fungus including athlete’s foot.

This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. For educational purposes. We recommend that you consult with a qualified healthcare practitioner before using herbal products, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing, or on any medications. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

Apple & Sausage Focaccia Stuffing

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● 1/2 lb. Italian sausage, casings removed ● 2 cloves garlic, minced ● 1 onion, chopped ● 2 celery stalks, chopped ● kosher salt ● Freshly ground black pepper ● 1 baking apple, such as Honeycrisp or Jonagold, diced into 1/2” pieces ● 3 tbsp. chopped fresh sage ● 1/4 c. chopped parsley ● 1 1/2 c. low-sodium chicken stock ● 1/4 c. whole milk ● Preheat oven to 375°. Butter large casserole dish and set aside.

Spread bread over two sheet pans and bake until dry, 5 to 10 minutes. ● Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium-high heat, add oil and cook sausage, breaking it up with a wooden spoon until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a plate. ● Return skillet to stove over medium heat and melt butter with remaining sausage fat. Sauté garlic, onion, and celery until softened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and add apples, sage, parsley, stock, and milk. Bring to a boil and simmer 1 minute, then transfer to a large mixing bowl and let cool 5 to 10 minutes. ● Toss bread and sausage into liquid mixture, then transfer to casserole dish. Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.

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The Ruidoso Citizens’ Police Academy is a 10-week course that is designed to give village citizens a working knowledge of the Ruidoso Police Department. The Academy meets once a week, on Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The RPD Citizens’ Police Academy provides attending citizens the information needed to dispel any suspicions or misconceptions about law enforcement and increase rapport between the Police and the Community. The citizens, in turn, make Police Officers more aware of community feelings and concerns.

The Academy is open to everyone who meets the criteria listed below. It would be of special interest to those who live or work in the Village of Ruidoso.

The class fills up quickly and a waiting list is established for anyone who cannot be placed in the immediate class. Interested candidates for the Citizens’ Police Academy must meet the following criteria: ● Minimum age of 18 years ● No misdemeanor arrests or convictions within 1 year of application ● No felony arrests or convictions within 3 years of application ● ·Excellent character The Police Department confidentially reviews all applications for approval. The Chief of Police selects Citizens’ Police Academy students based upon the information contained on the application and the background check. How is the class conducted?

Students meet every Thursday from 6 pm to 9 pm.

They receive approximately 30 hours of instruction.

You will be required to complete a "ride-along" with on-duty Police Officers to graduate the class. The class will also include several "hands-on" opportunities. Students completing this course are honored at a graduation banquet the last week of class.

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