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OUR 5 2ND YEAR IIIIUIIIllllllllllj·VJuJ I I'll t.I;J U1 1 t-'11 -M )UI~ Jli.J ntLkli PUDLlJMl~b JUliiMwt•l 11 LV4l dJi [ !H~Utll V~ tt rHJ'l I; /IYUj-;/£4 oso a 50 CENTS H U I D () S (), NE\V MEXlC() • W E D N E S D A Y, () CT. '1 4 1998 ISSL'E NO. 42 • 36 PAGES ' A new future for the past: Heritage Trust to see changes BY DIANNE STALUNGS close for six months. During that time, we will During the winter, one of the four staff mem­ the 16 people at the gathering came up with a list RUIDOSO NEWS STAR' WRrr£11 have the opportunity to study the financial prob­ bers will stay on as custodian and security to of steps to take in an effort to keep the museum lems and I hope can work it out and then run effi­ ensure items that have been lent to the museum open. Some were moderate and positive, others ln an attempt to stop its financial bleeding, ciently and not go into the red again." are protectOO, the trustee said. The down time will were more extreme, but reflected the frustration of the Lincoln Heritage Trust will close its buildings The Trust was established by oilman Robert give the board time to do some remodeling and people who say they have been kept in the dark in the historic settlement for the winter. 0. Anderson with a $2.5 million endowment to cleaning. about heritage business and who wonder what Trust board members voted Thursday to shut ensure the community wa.s preserved and people News of the closing prompted a town meeting happened to the money meant to keep the muse­ ·the doors at the museum and the· Dr. Wood House had a chance to learn about the history of the area, Sunday. um afloat. from Nov. 1 through May 1, but may push the the Lincoln County War and its most infamous off­ "Saturday the museum was locked and The steps include: November date back by another two weeks to spring, Billy the Kid. chained and a lot of people were concerned," said • Meeting with 'frust board members to offer aaxlmmodate already scheduled tours and a wed­ "Every cent of that money is gone due to mis­ Ralph Dunlap, a shop owner in Lincoln and a for­ volunteer labor at the museum and to talk about ding reception. management," the trustee said. '1t's so shocking." mer county commissioner. "They consider the other ways the town could help to keep the muse­ "The museum is spending more money than it Other sources of financing are being sought to museum an integral part of the town. If people go um open, suggested by resident John McGrath is taking in," a board member, who asked not to be s~y open year-around. The museum may be able there and it's closed, they won't come back and it and Dunlap. The board may meet Wednesday and identified, said Monday ·we've known for some to pay its billa, if it opens only during the summer, will get around by word-of-mouth that nothing is one trustee said Monday that town representa- time that was true, but the trustees never faced up which covers the heavy tourist months, the open in Lincoln." to the issue before. We did Thursday We voted to trustee said. After about an hour and a half of discussion, See TRUST, page 2A School board president alleges 'deals under table' Capitan's Beverly Payne-Calaway resigns BY SANDY SucGITT meeting and left. The remaining four RU/00\0 Nl.W.\ .\TAff WRIHR members went into executive session - . and when they came out, they made a statement to the effect that there Capitan School Roard President was no under-the-table dealing, and Beverly Payne Calaway resigned at that they had reorganized the board, the beginning of the hoard's Oct. 8 naming Tom Trost president and meeting because of "deals under the ,James Hobbs vice president. table," then the board took an appar­ ently illegal action hy reorganizing Calaway pointed out that to reor­ the board, Calaway said. ganize the board, a vote would be needed, but action cannot be taken "I don't make deals and I don't unless it's posted as a publicized play the good-ol'-boy game agenda item at least 24 hours before Several members of the Board vio­ the meeti~_g'- lated the N.M. Open Meetings Act," "They didn't say anything, they she said, citing her reasons for just did it," said Billingsley, when resigning. "They demanded that I go asked about the legality of reorga· along with their dec1sitm which was nizing the board without prior regarding school business. They notice. wanted me to compromise my integrity by doing thiR, which I will "She did an excellent job as not do. My letlPr of rPsibrnation fully hoard president and I think she put states this." the interests of students ahead of Sandy Suggm!Rwdoso New> everything else, and we're going to Mescaiero High School's fi~ Homecoming Parade marched from an underpass of U.S. Highway 70 down Central Mescalero Boulevard Superintendent Diana Billingsley to the high school around 2 p.m. Friday. said that Calaway read ht>r Jetter of resignation at the bt>ginning of the SL'e RESIGNATION, page 2A Mayor to discuss jail with commission Won1an struck on Sudderth Robert Donaldson says he plans to attend Friday's county con1rnission meeting • Village manager, mayor continue Maddox said. She was taken to pushing the state for two additional Lincoln County Medica] Center hood of $1.1 million more for debt what we've heard - so we started for treatment and released the fol­ BY DIANNE STALLINGS signal lights in the midtown to Rl'lDOWJ .'lEU!\ STAFf WRITER service and operational costs for the investigating other alternatives," lowing afternoon, he said. increase safety for pedestrians. new jaiL When you only collect $2.5 Donaldson said. "Because ifthat'~ the At Tuesday night's council Visitors to the Lincoln County million in property tax, if they use a case, there's plenty of places we can meeting, Ruidoso Village Manager BY TONI K. LAxSON Commission meeting Friday may property tax, it would take 30 per­ take our prisoners and not have to Alan Briley discussed the accident me~ pay that." RU/DO~O NFU'.~ STAFF WR/Tf.R think they're in the wrong place. cent mony.y to make that work .. - both to defuse rumors of the The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Anothe}-""iilternative mentioned In a 4-1 vote last month woman's death and to discuss the has been a gross receipts tax, (Commissioner Wilton Howell voting An 85-year-old Colorado village's on-going efforts to place in the Ruidoso village council meet­ woman was injured Sunday after­ ing room and Ruidoso Mayor Robert Donaldson said. against the motion), commissioners two additional signal lights in the ''I've heard that a 1!8th of a cent approved building a new jail in noon in midtown when a truck midtown. · Donaldson will be voicing his opin­ ions and suggestions on several gross receipts tax will make about Carrizozo, acknowledging that they turning onto Center Street from This spring, a Roswell woman Issues. $300,000, so it would take a half per­ were choosing guaranteed short term Sudderth Drive knocked her down was struck by a car and killed fEverybody's said where's cent gross receipts tax to fraise savings over uncertain long term as she was crossing the street, while crossing Sudderth Drive. the mayor of Ruidoso hf'en (in past dis­ enough to cover the annual debt and benefits that may be gained from police said Thesda,y. Shortly afterward, village leaders cussions about a new county jail!," operation)," Donaldson said. ''I'm building closer to Ruidoso. Ruidoso Pollee Chief Lanny petitioned the state for permission Donaldson said Thesday. 'Well, be concerned about the ovprall. I mav Donaldson also will have some Maddox said the truck that struck to place signal lights at both careful what you ask for. have an alte:-native in terms of apr~­ input during a public hearing to con­ Edith Bauerfeind at about 4 p.m. Country Club Drive and Center sider changes tQ the ordinance creat­ Sunday was "barely rolling." "I'm going basically to talk about posal- not in terms of where the jail Street. Currently, one signal light will be built if one is built, but anoth­ ing extra-territorial zoning in an The driver of the truck, Robert is in midtown, at Eagle Drive. the financing (for a new jail). Once we got the (new jail) study and J er alternative that may he able to area in the county one mile around Fluhart, 58, of Ruidoso, had been Even though the village has started reviewing it and looking at save the taxpayen; and the county Ruidoso. driving west on Sudderth and offered to pay for the two signal the numbers, it woulrl appPar to me upwards of a million dollars a year "I have a letter that I'll present of stopped completely before begin­ lights, estimated to cost $200,000 that they've only been talking ahout over a new facility." concepts we believe need to be ning his turn onto Center because each, the state must approve the what it would take in tPrms of raising He dPclinPd to ,r:sruss sp<'cifics changPd (in the ordinance>, Don­ the sun was shining in his eyes, lights before the-y may be installed taxes to build the jail.

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