The Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 6, 2013

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Prison sparks museum interest State officials seek to turn site of deadly riot into tourist attraction By Russell Contreras The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico state officials are hoping to make a tourist attraction out of an unusual place: a prison where one of the nation’s deadliest riots took place in 1980.

In February 1980, inmates at New Mexico’s “Old Main” prison killed 33 fellow prisoners in a violent clash that included beheadings, amputations and burned bodies. More than 100 other inmates and guards were hurt in the 36-hour riot fueled by overcrowded conditions. The now-closed Old Main prison near Santa Fe would become a permanent museum under the proposed plan.

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RIOT AFTERMATH: Guards clean up cell block six at the state penitentiary on Feb. 4, 1980. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

‘Heroes’ of the roads

24 YEARS LATER: A guard stands in the middle of cell block two at the penitentiary on Sept. 14, 2004. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Sanbusco favored for downtown post office Postal Service moves ahead with relocation plans, citing failure to reach lease agreement in letter By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

SPFS hires private company to train its fleet of crossing guards

ABOVE: Kimberly Craig, a trainer and regional manager for All City Management Services, leads a crossing guard training class Friday for the Santa Fe Public Schools on Camino Carlos Rey by Franklin Miles Park. The trainees included Mariah Louise Montano, Harriet Rosenstein, Ryan Kearney and Joseph Lovato. This year, the school district is contracting with the family-owned All City Management Services to train and manage crossing guards for 29 intersections at a cost of $224,000.

By Kathryn Worrall The New Mexican

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pparently, there’s more to a crossing guard than wearing a neon vest and holding a stop sign. The job is not just common sense. “The difference between a close call and a tragedy is a split second and a well-trained crossing guard,” said Patricia Pohl, director of operations for All City Management Services, the largest private employer of school crossing guards in the country. According to Pohl, crossing guards are “unspoken heroes” who must understand the rules of the road, retain control of the children and handle all traffic distractions — from angry drivers, stray dogs and eager children. Moreover, “This isn’t an office job,” Pohl said. “If you are late, someone else can’t just answer the phone. You leave the kids on their own.” This year, Santa Fe Public Schools is contracting with the family-owned All City Management Services to train and manage crossing guards for 29 busy intersections at a cost of $224,00o. Gabe Romero, director of safety and security for the district, decided to privatize the crossing guards so he could better balance his other responsibilities — emergency

LEFT: Harriet Rosenstein, who is training to become a crossing guard for the school district, reads training material Friday during class on Camino Carlos Rey. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER THE NEW MEXICAN

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Obituaries Duran, Jose Gabriel, 89, Santa Fe, Aug. 2 Gilbert G. Ortiz, 68, Santa Fe, Aug. 3 Myra Romero, 50, Santa Fe, Aug. 3 PAge A-9

Partly cloudy, thunderstorm in the afternoon. High 88, low 57.

Las Vegas falls short of making it to the Little League World Series with loss to Texas West. SPORTS, B-1

Index

Calendar A-2

Classifieds B-6

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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Today

End of a long season

Pasapick Music of Debussy, Stockhausen and Dvorák, including Shanghai Quartet, oboist Robert Ingliss and pianist Haochen Zhang, noon, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., tickets available at santafechambermusic.com, 982-1890, or 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

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Comics B-12

Lotteries A-2

Opinions A-10

Police notes A-9

Interim Editor: Bruce Krasnow, 986-3034, brucek@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Carlos A. López, clopez@sfnewmexican.com

Sports B-1

Time Out A-8

The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is proceeding with plans to relocate its downtown Santa Fe post office, though when and where it will move remains unclear. The preferred site is at the Sanbusco Market Center, according to a Postal Service letter to Mayor David Coss. The same letter said the Postal Service and the General Services Administration, the federal agency that owns the building at 120 S. Federal Place where the main post office currently is located, couldn’t reach an agreement on rental rates. “Unfortunately, reasonable lease rates could not be agreed to and alternative quarters must be pursued,” Angela Kuhl, a real estate specialist with the Postal Service, wrote. In the past, the Postal Service and the General Services Administration haven’t shared information on rental rates for the building. The city, however, leases about 20,000 square feet in the federal building for which it pays a little more than $390,000 a year, or about $19.50 per square foot. The city plans to vacate

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Newspaper titans re-emerge in deal to sell ‘The Post’ By Matea Gold

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The Graham family’s decision to sell The Washington Post to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos underscores the re-emergence of wealthy individuals at the helm of major metro dailies as newspapers seek a refuge from the battering they have experienced on Wall Street. The news of the impending purchase came just days after the New York Times Co. announced that it is selling the Boston Globe to John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox who made a fortune as Jeff Bezos a commodities trader. And several billionaires, including the Koch brothers and Eli Broad, have been eyeing the Los Angeles Times, one of the eight newspapers that the Tribune Co. has been preparing for a possible sale. The mash up between The Post, a 135-year-old legacy newspaper, and an Internet pioneer was cast Monday as a bet on the future. But it also represented a throwback to the era when rich indus-

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INSIde u Billionaire Jeff Bezos adds to eclectic interests with purchase of The Washington Post. PAge A-5

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