Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 20, 2013

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Equine advocates take to the Plaza to protest horse slaughter and raise awareness about neglected and unwanted animals. LocaL News, c-1

To improve education, we must spend money to close the gap between the haves and have nots. opiNioNs, B-2

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Red Sox advance Boston defeats Detroit, winning the American League championship series and a spot in the World Series. spoRTs, D-1

Remembering the

Marilyn Clagett, right, and Judy Hendricks wait for a showing of Anita O’day: The Life of a Jazz Singer in 2009 at The Screen. The art-house theater is preparing to enter the digital revolution, despite some early resistance.

Dawson disaster A century after an explosion killed 263 men in a coal mine near Raton, all that remains are a cemetery and the stories passed down through the generations

LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO THE NEW MEXICAN

The Screen goes digital to survive Costly conversion critical for art house as production companies phase out 35 mm film By Robert Nott The New Mexican

The Screen, an art-house cinema on the campus of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, has finally joined the digital revolution. Gesturing to a newly installed, state-of-the-art digital projector Friday morning, Screen manager Peter Grendle, said, “If we did not have this, we would not be able to play movies. Art houses are going by the wayside without it.” Hollywood has been urging theaters to make the conversion because studios soon will produce all of their pictures digitally. But converting from 35 mm film to

LEFT: A funeral procession for some of the victims is shown in this photo published in The New Mexican on Nov. 3, 1913. PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS PHOTO ARCHIVES, NEGATIVE NO. 159402

digital is costly, especially for independent theaters. The Santa Fe University of Art and Design paid $70,000 for The Screen’s new projector system. Grendle estimates each of the theater’s two 35 mm projectors cost $35,000. The Screen is holding on to both of them. The 160-seat Screen was initially reluctant to make the digital switch. Grendle laughingly recalled a defiant promise by employees to stick to their 35 mm guns when the theater was pushed by the industry to update its system back in 2011. The cinema received a November 2011 letter from 20th Century Fox’s exhibition department, urging all movie houses to “begin to take steps to convert their theaters to digital projection systems.” That letter cautioned theater owners that they had about a year to make the jump.

White-painted metal crosses that represent each of the miners killed in the Dawson disasters of 1913 and 1923 stand in the town cemetery. The rest of the town was razed in 1950. COURTESY PHOTO BY STUART BOWLING

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BY TOM SHARPE THE NEW MEXICAN

Francis starts cleaning up Vatican bureaucracy Vatican’s administration. Observers say VATICAN CITY — Seven it is too early to months after ascending the throne gauge the depth of Saint Peter, Pope Francis is in the or success of the midst of a crusade against the sins pope’s internal of Vatican City. reform effort. But Since succeeding Benedict XVI, Pope Francis even many longFrancis has publicly sought to time Vatican critics transform the tone of his office, say the new pope extending surprise olive branches has already begun to confront the to everyone from gays and lesbians problem head-on in a way his predeto professed atheists. But much cessor never did. more quietly, Vatican officials and In a place where change is often observers say, the new pontiff has measured in decades if not centualso begun to alter the atmosphere ries, Francis personally moved to inside the Holy See, taking steps oust top officials of the secretive to shed light on the notoriously Vatican bank only days after a opaque Vatican Curia. fresh corruption scandal engulfed Before Benedict stepped down, the institution, officials say. Francis documents leaked to the Italian has also backed a push for greater news media detailed a lurid opera financial transparency, while of rivalries and corruption inside moving faster than many expected the sprawling bureaucracy of to replace Cardinal Tarcisio 2,900 clerics and lay functionaries Bertone — Benedict’s secretary operating in the shadow of of state, who once wielded the St. Peter’s Basilica. Reform is seen power of a vice pope. Bertone, as key to restoring the faith of the world’s 1 billion Catholics in the Please see VaTicaN, Page A-6 By Anthony Faiola The Washington Post

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Geri allen, Terri Lyne carrington and esperanza spalding Jazz trio, 7 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, $30-$60, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

obituaries Aline Herrera, 93, Sept. 28 Carlotta Reed McInteer, 87, Sept. 24 Julia Schneider Marsha Belonsky, 63, Santa Fe, Oct. 7 Shirley Ritter Minett, 81, Sept. 12 Dorothea E.H. “Dee” Hunnewell, 76, Oct. 11 paGe c-2

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t 3:10 p.m. Oct. 22, 1913, a Wednesday, people in the coal-mining town of Dawson, 14 miles northeast of Cimarron, heard a sharp crack, like a high-powered rifle, followed by a prolonged muffled roar, and then they felt the earth vibrate and saw flames shoot 100 feet out of the entrance of the Stag Cañon Mine No. 2. Fifteen dazed coal miners soon staggered from the entrance. Another 10 or so were found injured, but alive, near the entrance. But more than 200 remained unaccounted for. Two members of “helmet crews,” or rescue teams, who entered the mine soon after the explosion were killed by debris falling from the mine’s ceilings. Those who emerged told grisly stories about what they had found inside.

u See historic footage of the aftermath of the 1913 explosion, as well as video of Georgia Maryol explaining her efforts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the disaster, online at www.santafe newmexican.com

iNsiDe u State official says mining practices safer, but “we’re not there yet.” u If you go: Information on commemorative and memorial services. u Santa Fe woman works to honor Dawson’s victims. paGe a-4

“One man, unidentified, was found leaning against a wall with both hands elevated to his face, as though he was striving to ward off a sudden and unexpected blow,” reported the Albuquerque Morning Democrat. “Another was found standing erect with his pick still in his hand, just as he had struck his last flow into the coal.” A Raton Range reporter who arrived the next day found the town of Dawson in shock. “As you look from face to face upon the silent groups about the street, the homes, the mines, you see written but one word — incomprehension,” he wrote. “More than a day has passed, and yet the people on whom the dreadful blow has fallen

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Rock- and mineral-themed decor is part of a fall trend toward nature and natural elements. ReaL esTaTe, e-1

Emmy-winning costume designer prepares for induction into National Cowgirl Museum’s Hall of Fame. NeiGHBoRs, c-7

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do not understand. They cannot as a body grasp the horror, its fullness, and are quiet, stunned. Only now and then is heard the keen wail of a stricken woman as the body at the pit mouth is identified.” At first, no one knew exactly how many miners were lost. But on Oct. 24, two days after the explosion, The New Mexican estimated that the loss of life would reach 263 — what became the official tally — making it the second largest mining disaster in U.S. history. Most were recent immigrants — 129 from Italy, 52 from Greece, 30 from Mexico and the rest from Austria, France, England, Russia and

Renewable energy patents on the rise A Santa Fe solar firm is among companies tapping into growing market in light of climate change concerns. LocaL News, c-1

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