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SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com College presidents worry about funding ❏ CCC, ENMU still for higher education is currently anced budget. Since I didn’t have “We think, in the end, the at zero, there’s no doubt uncer- a balanced budget we had to set Legislature and the governor’s recovering from last tainty — and local college presi- things aside. And then we’re office will come to a good resolu- dents are concerned. going to put it back, of course, the tion to the overall state budget, round of budget cuts. “We’re not going to not fund (funds for) higher ed and the and within that budget, we are By Eamon Scarbrough higher education,” Martinez said Legislature.” hopeful that higher education will at a Monday news conference, a Eastern New Mexico be treated fairly,” said Gamble. STAFF WRITER week-and-a-half after vetoing the University President Steven He noted any further cuts will [email protected] state budget. “That is extremely Gamble said the uncertainty is land on top of a 7.5 percent cut As the New Mexico Legislature important to the Legislature and worrisome for him and the col- from which his university is still and Gov. Susana Martinez battle to me. We set (higher ed funding) lege, but he remained optimistic over the state budget, and funding aside because I didn’t have a bal- about a possible outcome. CUTS on Page 3A
CHOICES, CHOICES Incoming, Q outgoing & officials talk A about the job By Stephanie Losoya A: Mostly I will miss working with STAFF WRITER the people. When I got in municipal [email protected] government 25 years ago, I believed working with a fine group of employ- CLOVIS— The city manager ees and officials would make Clovis position is in transition, with Larry Fry leaving at the end of a better place. the month and Tom Phelps less Q: How do you than a week into his interim feel about the appointment in the position. direction Clovis is A reception is set for Tuesday going in? in the city hall assembly room for A: I think it has Fry, who has been with the city continued to move for two years. forward in a posi- Q: What was the most challeng- tive direction on the Fry ing aspect of your role and why? right path. A: It’s a very enjoyable job to have Q: What decision do you most wish you could revisit in your two an impact on your community. There years? are always challenges, but Clovis Staff photo: Alisa Boswell A: Things don’t always turn out the has been cooperative and welcoming Portales Kiwanis Club member Elwyn Hulett helps Frieda Miller pick out some red flowers Saturday way you’d like. You always just try to as a community. during the club’s annual flower sale. The event raises money for the non-profit’s projects for local Q: What will you miss most children, such as the annual pet parade and the Special Olympics, which will be held next month. about your position? Q&A on Page 3A ‘Man does not understand it all’ ❏ Remembering Churchill’s great aunt, and her Oklahoma. He played cards eight children were murdered with his stepson, then shot him the 1926 slaying a few weeks before Christmas to death after he fell asleep. David in 1926. The children ranged in age Stevens of a Farwell family. George Hassell, Susie’s hus- from 2 to 21. ◆ FARWELL — Marlowe band of about two years, said Hassell buried them all next Editor Churchill has heard his family he choked most of his victims to the house. Authorities did story many times. to death. not discover them for almost slayings almost immediately, But it didn’t become real for Hassell told authorities his three weeks after suspicious and surprised authorities with him until Tuesday. That’s wife had accused him of hav- neighbors attracted the atten- another revelation: He had when he placed his hands on ing inappropriate relations tion of law officers. killed another woman he’d the gravemarker, followed the with one of his stepdaughters. The bodies were discovered married, along with her three letters of the nine names After retreating to his barn for on Dec. 24, 1926, soon after children, three years earlier in carved into the stone, and felt a few sips of whiskey, he said Hassell hosted an auction at Whittier, California. Officials the tears. he returned to the home and his house, claiming he was found their bodies where Susie “It surprised me, it really beat Susie Hassell to death selling everything and moving Hassell said they would. Hassell did,” Churchill said about the with a hammer. He then to Oklahoma to join his family. On Feb. 10, 1928, Hassell, emotion that raced through choked to death seven of her One report showed a vehicle was electrocuted by the state Staff photo: David Stevens him when he first encountered eight children who lived with ran over a “sinkhole,” over of Texas. Marlowe Churchill, left, and Farwell native Will his ancestors. them on the farm about three which the bodies were buried. “I would like to announce to Anderson explore the site of the 1926 violence that left miles northeast of Farwell. Newspaper reports show “I guess I just never really the world,” he said, “that I am nine dead. The Hassell home was about three miles fully believed my mom. I just Susie’s oldest son, Aldon, “every able-bodied man” in prepared to meet my God. I couldn’t believe this story of was away at work that night. the area helped re-bury the vic- have made my confession to northeast of Farwell. this family being massacred When he returned a few days tims in Farwell’s Olivet ceme- God and man. Man does not Churchill, 70, a retired jour- when her Aunt Susie was slain. like this.” later, Hassell told him his sib- tery south of town. Nine understand it all, but God nalist who lives in Riverside, She and other family mem- ■ ■ ■ lings had gone with their graves were dug, side-by-side. does.” California, said his mother, Susie Ferguson Hassell, mother to visit relatives in Hassell confessed to the ■ ■ ■ Bonnie Belle, was about 10 FARWELL on Page 5A
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APRIL 23 Clovis senior profiles On this date ... Editor’s note: This is one in a series of What has been your favorite sub- Mexico University to complete a dou- profiles about graduating high school seniors ject in high school? ble major in forensic science and psy- 1992: A National in the area. Definitely chemistry. I want a B.A. chology. She wants to receive her doc- Women’s Study survey, in biochemistry and then go to medical torate and become either a criminal financed by the govern- AARON SELLERS is a section school through the BA/MD program. behaviorist or psychologist with her ment’s National Institution leader in the Clovis own clinic. on Drug Abuse, showed High School marching Who has been your 12.1 million American band, the National favorite teacher? Why did you choose Eastern New women had been raped at Honor Society secre- Mr. Armstrong Mexico University? least once. tary, a food service because he challenges ENMU has one of the best forensic Almost 62 percent of the aide at Plains students in class. science programs in the nation, and I assaults occurred when the play, trailed only Carlsbad, Regional Medical can have a double major there. victims were minors, the which was 6-0. Center, and a student MEGAN WEST survey showed. Portales was in fourth Rotarian. Aaron plans has been a Wildcadette What is the biggest lesson you “Twenty-nine percent of place with a 3-3 record. to attend the since her sophomore have learned in high school? the rapes occurred when the Clovis was led by pitch- University of New Sellers year and is now an West No matter what, the most important women were 10 years old or ing ace Jimmy Reynolds, Mexico through the officer on the team. thing is to be yourself and be true to young and 32 percent hap- while right-fielder Guerry BA/MD program where he will pursue She is also in the National Honor yourself? pened from ages 11 to 17,” Byers led the team in hitting an undergraduate degree in biochem- Society and does community service the report showed. at .379. istry. Next will be the University of with her gifted and talented class. — Compiled by New Mexico School of Medicine. Megan will move on to Eastern New Staff Writer Jim Lee 1962: Clovis High’s Pages Past is compiled baseball team was in second by Editor David Stevens. place in District 4-A. Contact him at: Events calendar The Wildcats, 3-1 in loop [email protected] Monday Information: 575-356-3940 ■ The Devised Project: ■ The Devised Project: Meetings calendar ■ Stitch Addicts — 1:30 ■ Tween program — 4:30 Departures — 7 p.m. perform- Departures — 7 p.m. perform- p.m. Clovis-Carver Public p.m. at Portales Public Library ance at University Theater ance at University Theater Monday Clovis-Carver Public Library. Library. Open stitch, lesson for ages 9-12. Game day: Xbox Center, ENMU, Portales. Center, ENMU, Portales. ■ Parks, Recreation and Information: 575-714-1925 review. Information: 575-769- One free play. Information: 575- Admission: $5. Information: Admission: $5. 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Member: The Associated Press THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS LOCAL SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 ✦ PAGE 3A Obituaries Producer Sandy Gallin dies at 76 Ned B. Henline By Mark Kennedy Diamond, Joan Rivers, Mariah Carey, their Grammy Award after it was discov- September 14, 1953 – April 2, 2017 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Whoopi Goldberg, Renee Zellweger, ered they had not sung on their hit Ned B. Henline 63 years Lily Tomlin, Martin Lawrence, Paul album. old passed away at his NEW YORK — Sandy Gallin, an Lynde and Howie Mandell. On Broadway, Gallin produced the home in Camarillo, Califor- agent and talent manager who guided the He helped produce such films as 2002 Tony Award-nominated revival of nia on April 2nd 2017, with careers of such luminaries as Barbra 1991’s “Father of the Bride” and 1994’s “Man of La Mancha,” starring Brian his loving wife, Patricia Hen- Streisand, Dolly Parton, Cher and Nicole “I.Q” starring Tim Robbins, as well as Stokes Mitchell and Mary Elizabeth line (Padilla) by his side. Ned was born to Wayne Kidman, as well as being a TV, movie the TV shows “Buffy the Vampire Mastrantonio, and a revival of “Hedda and Leona Henline on and Broadway producer, has died in Los Slayer” and “Angel.” He earned a Gabler” with Kate Burton. September 14th 1953, in Angeles. He was 76. Primetime Emmy Award in 1980 for Gallin was raised in New York City Heber, Utah. Ned spent his Gallin died Friday after a long battle producing “The Miracle Worker,” star- and was a graduate of Boston University. younger years in Heber with with multiple myeloma, according to ring Melissa Gilbert. He broke into the agency business in the his family and then moved close friend Bruce Bozzi. “We lost a He also managed Michael Jackson traditional manner, starting in the mail to Vernal Utah and later joined the Army. Ned mar- shining light this morning,” Bozzi wrote after the pop star was accused of room of the G.A.C. agency. He took typ- ried Patricia Padilla on April on Instagram in tribute. molestation and guided Milli Vanilli ing and shorthand in night school, 4th 1985, lived in Carlsbad Other Gallin clients included Neil when the performers were stripped of became a secretary, then an agent. and Portales New Mexico and then made their home in said she will restore higher The cuts themselves are Thomas Newsom, presi- Camarillo California. education. Our concern is painful for CCC, but accord- dent of Mesalands Ned is survived by his wife, Patricia; two children, Michael Cuts that that doesn’t mean that we ing to Rowley, the uncertain- Community College in and Melanie; two stepdaughters, Claudia and Ernestine; from Page 1A two brothers, Bill and Wayne; and 11 grandchildren. Ned's won’t still be cut, and we’re ty adds another layer of diffi- Tucumcari, said he does not in-laws are the Padilla family from Portales, New Mexico. recovering. concerned about receiving culty. yet know what the impacts to Ned is preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, “For us, that is $2.2 mil- further cuts,” she said. “If she and the Legislature his school will be as of July 1 “Higher education’s already restore higher education with Mark and Jay and one sister, Barbara. lion. Any additional cuts (the beginning of the 2017- Ned's cremation was completed by Joseph P. Reardon been cut almost 8 percent very minimal cuts, that would Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Ventura, Califor- would just deepen the pain,” over the last couple of years, be great, and a lot of the 2018 fiscal year), but said nia. he said. and that’s been a lot for us to problem is just the uncertain- New Mexico Independent Those same concerns are absorb. If we’re cut further, ty. We don’t know their time- Community Colleges will shared by Clovis Community then that will eventually start line for coming to any kind of release a statement together Donald Wilburn (Donnie) Leavelle College President Becky having an impact on tuition, agreement. It creates angst in sometime in the next week (May 19, 1950 - April 6, 2017) Rowley. the services that we can offer, our students and in our facul- regarding higher education Donald Wilburn (Donnie) “I know she (Martinez) everything.” ty and staff,” she said. funding. Leavelle, age 66, passed away on April 6, 2017, in Covington, Louisiana. municipality for the first time. profit. I want to be an efficient Q: How do you think your Donnie had lived in Florida Q&A Q: What is the biggest dif- steward of our taxes. experience will benefit you? for many years prior to re- ference in public work after Q: What one issues will A: It’s just a matter of delv- siding in Louisiana. from Page 1A you spent so long in the pri- take up more of your time ing deeper into the over all Donnie was born on May do the best you can. The bliz- 19, 1950 to Wilburn Alton vate industry? that expect- operations and making sure I zard (winter storm Goliath), for and Frances Martin A: Well, I’ve been here a ed? understand everything. I want Leavelle. He was raised in example, was a challenge. It grand total of four days. A: At this to provide as effective service Clovis and attended tested our limit see how people Obviously from a private per- point, I don’t schools there from 2nd as I can from a private per- respond to trial and testing. spective, you’re dealing with know. I have grade through his gradua- spective. tion from Clovis High Q: Where to next? profit and generating income. been making Q: How do you like your School in 1968. Donnie A: You know, I’m really not With a governmental agency, the rounds loved music and band, and sure. I’m retiring because of it’s about providing effective meeting with first week so far? he became proficient on his A: It’s interesting. I am instruments, trumpet and the state retirement system. I services. department Phelps french horn. Later, in junior would be making almost as Q: What do you think will heads. I am enjoying it. I am extremely high and high school, he was recognized as a very gifted much retired as working. be your biggest challenge halfway through the organiza- impressed by the people who french horn player. He was a member of the Clovis High moving forward? tions, meeting staff and learn- want to do a good job and School band from 1965-1968, under the direction of Norvil Howell, who was very influential in Donnie's life while he at- Phelps, the former CEO of A: It’ll be a challenge to ing about challenges and serve our citizens. It makes me tended Clovis High. Plateau, is working for a adjust, being directed toward a opportunities they are facing. excited to take on this role. Donnie is survived by his children, Don Patrick Barring- ton, Jr., of Slidell, Louisiana, and Jacquline Barrington of Memphis, Tennessee, four grandchildren: Patrick Barring- ton, Tatiana Barrington, Noemi Lopez and Kierah Barring- ton; his brother Bill Leavelle, sisters, Catherine Leavelle Eastern Lines, Roberta Leavelle Widner, and Jeanie Leavelle Austin, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins on NewMexico both the Leavelle and Martin sides of his family. Donnie was preceded in death by his parents, his grand- News.com daughter, Kymber Barrington and his brother, Thomas Al- ton Leavelle. A private memorial service was held for Donnie in Louisiana.
Funerals Services pending Monday Wilfred Johnson, 87, of Severiano Rodriguez— Clovis, died Saturday, April 10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 22, 2017, at his home. Clovis Arrangements are by Avis Mae Landess— 10 Muffley Funeral Home. a.m. at Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens, Clovis Saturday Lehman Lynn Denison — 2 p.m. at The Chapel, 1500 Thornton, Clovis © 2017
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Viewpoint There’s reason to be skeptical No chance for peace against power According to The keep jobs in Congressional pay teachers more, develop of DOE project Washington Post, President districts and politicians in friend-making projects in hos- y tabling a vote on whether they will Trump is asking for a $54 bil- Wendel office. tile countries and — heresy support a U.S. Department of Energy lion increase in military Sloan Since we are now “America — take in a few more plan to drill a 3-mile-deep borehole on spending in 2018, raising the First” and not supposed to be refugees. B total to $639 billion — while ◆ meddling in other countries’ private property to test the feasibility of burying Local Of course, Ike warned us nuclear waste in deep wells, Otero County com- slashing $54 billion from non- internal or regional affairs, about the military/industrial defense programs. columnist why increase military spend- missioners joined a growing list of skeptics of the complex. project. According to the ing? Department of Defense, there For example, even though Be wary of ominous saber- A nearly identical project is being planned near rattling about shadowy Nara Visa in Quay County, and that County are: 460,000 active-duty United Kingdom, India, Kim Jong-un of North Korea Army soldiers, 335,000 France and Japan. is egomaniacal, he is not boogeymen being existential Commission has come out against the project threats to the most powerful there. National Guardsmen and According to crazy enough to launch a nation on Earth. With the 2010 shutdown of the planned nuclear 195,000 reservists; 182,000 thebalance.com, the defense nuclear missile at us or South waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, active-duty Marines and budget accounts for roughly Korea — knowing we would Just like those foreboding Nevada, the DOE has been looking at other ways 38,500 reservists; 380,900 half of discretionary spending instantly annihilate his coun- tales about non-existent to dispose of the nation’s thousands of tons of active-duty sailors and (which excludes entitlement try. Why not just ignore him weapons of mass destruction nuclear waste scattered at temporary storage reservists; and 491,700 programs such as Social like the bratty attention-seek- in a country that dared not facilities throughout the country. active-duty, National Security and Medicare). ing child he is? attack us, you can be sure mil- DOE has embarked on an estimated five-year, Guardsmen and reservists in By its own estimates, the We might also have fewer itary contracts leading to for- $80 million project to collect data on whether the Air Force. Department of Defense enemies if we bombed fewer eign and American blood are 16,000-foot boreholes drilled into crystalline rock The Navy is increasing its (DoD) operates with 21 per- civilians in countries we don’t lurking behind politicians’ fleet from 280 to 308 ships. cent excess capacity in facili- understand. formations are a viable storage method. The gilded doors. department has awarded contracts to four private The military’s 10 most ties. Couldn’t we get by with a expensive planes have ranged Even when the DoD wants military budget only as big as Unfortunately, the pipes of companies to provide that data. peace don’t stand a chance South Dakota-based Respec is weighing a site from $94 million to $2.4 bil- to close bases, Congress the next three countries com- lion each. refuses. bined — still big enough to against the déjà vu drumbeat in Haakon County, South Dakota; California- of greed and power. based AECOM is exploring a site near Fort U.S. military expenditures Pushed by lobbyists, the protect us? Stockton in far western Texas; Pennsylvania- exceed the next seven largest military is forced to spend bil- With the savings we could based TerranearPMC is proposing the Otero military budgets combined: lions on aircraft, ships and cut taxes, feed homeless vet- Contact Wendel Sloan at: County site; and Georgia-based Enercon is look- China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, weapons it doesn’t want to erans and hungry children, [email protected] ing at the Nara Visa site. The DOE contracts require that the drilling locations be on private property and the compa- Been fun getting to know Ben and 'pet' Joey nies secure public support for their projects. Two other proposed sites in South Dakota have AMARILLO — One of the of about 2,000 people that lies “All of the family tries to pitch already been abandoned because of local opposi- particularly neat things about 60 miles southeast of in and help. It helps make the tion. my job is the chance to talk Amarillo. Ben's father, Roger, Rob community better.” While DOE officials stress the borehole proj- with people about journalism is the editor and publisher of Ben and I have had our ects will not involve any nuclear waste — and its and the newspaper industry as the paper. Langrell laughs over the course of the ◆ website says DOE will not “use any selected site a whole. By the way, Ben is 10. Yes, three-day conference. Full dis- for the actual storage or disposal of waste in the The conversations always as in a kid who rubs shoulders Publisher closure: He missed the morn- future,” skeptics aren’t buying it. go in different directions and with his fourth-grade class- ing and afternoon sessions on Greg Mello with the nuclear watchdog Los the topics cover the gamut. It's mates on a daily basis. Even Friday. He had school and it Alamos Study Group says the DOE is being fun, invigorating and some- more remarkable, Ben has was class picture day. disingenuous. times even refreshing to hear been writing a column for five personal opinion about what I On Thursday evening dur- “It’s a research project, but the sites being folks' views about today's years now. like and like to do,” Ben told ing a tour of the closed-but- selected for the research are also more likely the newspapers from people His first story — at age 5 — me. “I've written about build- famous Herring Hotel, he and disposal sites because of that research,” Mello young and old, male or wasn't exactly planned as an ing a treehouse, a summer I came across a large, dead told the Albuquerque Journal. “I don’t buy the female, affluent or poor. “assignment.” He was in the vacation in California and pigeon. I joked that he should idea that this has nothing to do with waste dispos- This weekend I've had the backseat of his family's car what I went through as I get take him home as a pet. We, of opportunity to spend a few when they saw a medical heli- al, which is what these communities are being older and am able to do more course, left him behind, but days in Amarillo at the 107th copter land at the site of an we affectionately dubbed him told.” things.” Panhandle Press Association accident. His mom recalls that “Joey.” In contrast to Quay County, DOE might have He said he hopes to work in had better luck in southeastern New Mexico, Convention. Here, a multitude he was taking notes about Joey's name has popped up newspapers as a professional where the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and other of ideas are shared and what was happening at the a few times since as the butt of nuke friendly businesses have sprouted. But exchanged. Some range from scene, what the rescue work- when he gets older. After all, a few jokes. I told Ben he Stephen Hickman, director of the U.S. Geological coverage philosophies and ers were wearing and things it's been a part of his family should write his next column Survey’s Earthquake Science Center, has cau- models to ways to monetize along those lines. for a while. about him. tioned that any area eventually hosting a deep- certain aspects of our busi- That translated into his first Even his sister, 8-year-old Sorry, Ben. I beat ya to the well disposal site should be free of fracking — ness. newspaper byline. As they say, Elaina, is part of the newspa- punch. Joey made it into my the practice of injecting mixtures of water, sand It was at the PPA event the rest is history. He now per team from time to time. column first. and chemicals under high pressure into oil- and where I got the chance to meet writes a pretty regular column She takes photos. gas-bearing formations to extract otherwise Ben Estlack. for the weekly paper in his “I really like taking photos Rob Langrell is the pub- unreachable oil or gas. Fracking is alive and well Ben writes a regular column hometown. of things no one has ever seen lisher of The Eastern New in parts of southeastern New Mexico. for the Clarendon Enterprise, a “I think it's amazing and can't really visualize,” Mexico News. Contact him There’s a reason “I’m from the government, weekly newspaper in the town because I get to express my said Elaina, a second-grader. at: [email protected] trust me” is a punchline — and the bottom line is that communities considering such serious geo- logic projects, be it fracking or DOE boreholes, need to factor in long-term implications with any Mallard Fillmore Bruce Tinsley research project or promised economic boom. Contact us — Albuquerque Journal Letters and columns should be sent to: Via mail Opinion page policies Editor Editorials The Eastern New Unsigned editorials are the opinion of the Clovis Mexico News Media Inc.’s editorial board, which consists of Publisher P.O. Box 1689 Rob Langrell and Editor David Stevens. All other views expressed on this page are those of their authors. Clovis, NM 88101 Letters to the editor Via fax They should be on topics of public interest, not private (575) 742-1349 disputes, and no more than 300 words. Email letters to Via e-mail [email protected] or call 763-6991. [email protected] PAGE 5A Sunday April 23, 2017 The voice of Curry OICESHE ASTERN EW EXICO EWS T E N M N and Roosevelt counties V and beyond It’s OK to be just OK sometimes While I waited on my debit taking the survey. goes south whenever some- say. Repeat scenario three Not every day is a 10. There card to be approved, my eyes On a survey I did take for a body asks me how I am and I times in the next 20 minutes are days that are OK, and wandered toward the end of different merchant, I marked Kevin tell them I’m OK. until my reply is, “I’m fine, that’s OK. We need a 7 or an 8 checkout area. down “satisfied” in one cate- Wilson “Why are you just OK?” drop it.” once in a while, because how “Tell us how we’re doing,” gory. Later on ... “We see you ◆ The answer to that going They move in for the kill. “I can we gain an appreciation the card implored. 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Texas and ultimately received a ing remains but old-timers’ trial be moved outside Farwell mutation of the death sentence day when we parted,” Hassell Farwell transcript of the trial that took memories. because of community senti- on the ground of possible said. “I wrote, but a week past place in the Parmer County At the cemetery, the stone is ment and concerns about his insanity, George J. Hassell, 39, before I heard from my wife. from Page 1A courthouse that still stands in so worn by weather the names client’s safety. confessed slayer of 13 persons, Then I received a letter. It stat- bers talked openly about the Farwell. of his family members are no Attorney W.H. Russell told was electrocuted at the State ed she was through with me. tragedy, Churchill said. “After I got the transcript and longer readable. the court that Farwell residents penitentiary here today,” the That ruined my life.” George Hassell’s brother, read about it, I had so many Churchill also visited the were “merely waiting to ascer- story read. questions,” Churchill said last courthouse, which still has tain the verdict of the court ... “Hassell received the first The Corsicana newspaper Thomas Virgil Hassell, had week. some of the original trial and if the said verdict was not shock at 12:29 a.m. He was story ended with this: been kicked to death by a mule “I just came to the conclu- records. to their satisfaction that they, pronounced dead in eight min- “I may be wrong up here,” in 1924. George Hassell went sion that I had to go there and There, he found evidence of meaning said people, would utes.” Hassell said in answer to a to Blair, Oklahoma, to help har- kinda see for myself the court- a longtime family story about attend to the defendant them- The same day, the Corsicana question, tapping his forehead. vest his brother’s crop. house, the courtroom, and, the potential for prairie justice. selves, meaning that there (Texas) Daily Sun newspaper “I don’t know why I killed, I Soon after, he married his most important, I wanted to ■ ■ ■ would be an attempt to mob or published a jailhouse interview simply can’t say.” brother’s widow and moved his visit the gravesite.” Churchill said family mem- take the life of the defendant ...” with Hassell in which he said Churchill said he plans to new family to Farwell, where In Farwell, he met Lana bers had told him residents of The court found no evidence his murderous life had been write a book about his family Hassell was leasing farmland. Payne Barnett, whose book, Farwell were willing to lynch to support the lawyer’s claim, spurred by a broken romance. Susie Hassell was George’s tragedy. If nothing else, he “Lonely Graves: a Texas mur- George Hassell on request. and Hassell’s trial began on He said he fell in love with a wants his children and grand- sixth wife. der trilogy,” included extensive “Just tip your hat,” he said Jan. 6, 1927, in Farwell. young woman in Buffalo Gap, Churchill said he was always research she had done about the Susie’s friends and family were ■ ■ ■ Texas, when he was 18. children to know the story. interested in learning more Hassell case. told, indicating they would kill The Associated Press report- They married in 1909, but about the murders and found Will Anderson, whose fami- George Hassell before the state ed Hassell’s execution on Feb. were soon separated when he David Stevens is editor for time to research them after ly has lived in Farwell for had that opportunity. 10, 1928: found work on a farm in Clovis Media Inc. Contact retiring in 2004. decades, took Churchill to the Courthouse records show “Calmly (accepting) failure Oklahoma. him at: He wrote to the state of site of the murders, where noth- Hassell’s attorney asked the of last minute chances for com- “We promised to write every [email protected] PAGE 6A ✦ SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 LOCAL THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS COMMUNITY CALENDAR Clovis rehearsals — 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. 762-2524 or 575-763-4390 members welcome. Information: Lutheran Church. Information: Class — 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. rehearsals on Tuesdays at First Curry County Health 575-799-5378. Shelley Winn 575-763-4398 Mondays and Thursdays at Matt Clubs/organizations United Methodist Church sanc- Council — 3 p.m.-4 p.m. every Friends of Bluegrass — 7 Martin Luther King 25 Hope Center. Information: American Legion Unit 25 tuary, 1501 Sycamore Street. third Thursday each month at p.m.-10 p.m. Thursdays at Meeting— 6:30 p.m. second 575-763-7725. 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An interdenomi- [email protected] Home at Heart — 6 p.m. third Information: LeeEllen Phipps at RSVP encourages seniors to tion for referrals. Christian national Women’s Bible study. m. Tuesday each month at 21st St. 575-683-5325 bring a lifetime of talents and Believers Center, Fifth and Main Open to women of all denomina- Elida Senior Center— 1 p.m. Church of Christ. Information: United States Civil Air experience, skills and hobbies to streets. Information: Sistar tions and Bible knowledge. meeting first Wednesday of Jana Hudson at 575-639-1581 Patrol Clovis High Plains the community projects and Yancy 575-763-1715. Central Baptist Church, 2501 N. each month, board and card International Defensive Composite Squadron — 6:30 organizations needing volunteer Clovis Astronomy Club — 7 Norris Street. Children's classes games second Wednesday Pistol Association — 12:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. every Tuesday at assistance. 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Steakhouse, 1600 Mabry Drive. each month at Muffley’s every other month in May, July, 575-769-7828. at 575-763-6991 or email Clovis Community Chorus Information: Judy Jennings 575- Backdoor. Visitors and new September, November at Trinity Youth Services Lifeskills [email protected] Sunday April 23, 2017 Your source for complete REGIONAL local coverage THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS B Relay for Life’s mushball a hit ❏ 18 teams have The second annual co-ed playing softball.’ It’s just ly soft. teams currently registered, it would be a wonderful mushball tournament will friendship. You build great “With the mushball, said Cuevas-Florez, adding thing to participate in. It signed on for the begin at 8 a.m. Saturday with friends, and I really enjoy there’s no need for gloves, that the tournament’s second would just bring the whole teams competing in the name it,” she said. “All of us have because it’s soft. You can year will feature a home run community together,” she Saturday event. of cancer research and hav- been touched by cancer one catch it with your hands. It’s derby with competitors hav- said. ing fun doing it, according to way or the other, whether very hard to hit far with it, ing 10 pitches. Those interested in form- BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS coordinator Consuelo ourselves or a family mem- because the mushier it Cuevas-Florez guaranteed ing a team for the tourna- PORTALES — After a Cuevas-Florez. ber or a friend. I just enjoy becomes, it stays pretty a memorable time to regis- ment can still do so at relay- successful inaugural year, “I call them my softball being part of the Relay for much inside the field,” she trants, and touted the cause forlife.org/portalesnm or by teams will once again be family, the players. 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Trump amplifies SINKING THE PUTT Border Patrol agents’ podcast ❏ ‘The Green Line’ started in 2012. By Paloma Esquivel reflects the routine griev- LOS ANGELES TIMES ances of labor unions: Agents need better pay, SOLANA BEACH, more resources and train- Calif. — On a Tuesday ing, and less unnecessary morning in March, Border bureaucracy. But the “The Patrol agent Shawn Moran Green Line” has also been settled into a leather chair based on the premise that in his recording studio, put agents for years have been on his headphones and, held back from doing their with his co-host Art Del jobs to find and remove Cueto on the line from immigrants in the country Tucson, hit “play” on the illegally. recorded opening for their “I think the job is fairly podcast. straightforward,” Moran The voice of Donald said in an interview. “If Trump, on the campaign you’re in this country ille- trail, sounded from the gally and you don’t have speakers: “We are going to documents to be here, you build a great border wall.” should be removed.” An American flag cov- Immigrant and Latino ered the wall behind advocates say their com- Moran, opposite a string munities are increasingly of Christmas-colored bul- beset by fear in response let casings. To his right, a to the Trump administra- Gadsden flag defiantly tion’s hard-line rhetoric on proclaimed “Don’t Tread immigration. But the way on Me.” And perched on Moran sees it, that reac- his desk, near a Trump tion is the result of the bobblehead in a “Make Border Patrol not being as America Great Again” hat, forceful as it should have was Moran’s ticket to been over the years. Trump’s inauguration. “I would blame the Since its debut in 2012, agency for backing down “The Green Line” podcast every time there’s a has been a voice for the protest or an immigrant National Border Patrol rights group complaining Council, which represents about something we’ve thousands of Border Patrol done,” he said. “I’ve said agents around the nation. it for many years that if Started by Moran, who you cried loud enough and until recently was the long enough about what union’s spokesman, and the Border Patrol was co-hosted by fellow agents doing, they would stop and union officials Del doing it. And I think that’s Cueto, from Tucson, and just wrong.” Chris Cabrera in the Rio That’s a message that Grande Valley, it has been troubles civil liberties an “unapologetically con- activists, immigrant advo- servative” program whose cates and others who have hosts have spent years been arguing that the forcefully arguing that agency is in need of seri- front-line Border Patrol ous reform on issues such agents have been ignored, as use-of-force policies, under-resourced and cast corruption and discipline. aside by their leadership In May, shortly after the Staff photo: Kevin Wilson and politicians of both union issued its presiden- parties. tial endorsement, Trump Cormac O’Kelly sinks his putt on No. 4 during a Saturday morning round at the Greg Skarda Memorial Tournament But all that changed called into “The Green at Colonial Park Golf Course. when Trump, whom the Line” for an interview and union prominently Moran laid out for him Staff photo: endorsed last March, some of the ways he felt Kevin Wilson became president. agents had been held back. Jessy Now, as Del Cueto puts “Over the past 20 years, Carter hits it, “we have a seat at the we have been stopped table.” Or, as he said in an every time we have been towards the episode of “The Green effective at enforcing this green on Line” after the election, nation’s immigration his second “we established ourselves laws,” Moran told Trump. shot on the as big-time players in the “Things like interior city No. 4 hole game.” at the Greg In part, the show PODCAST on Page 2B Skarda Memorial Tournament Saturday at Colonial Park Golf Course. The tournament had 71 players, with proceeds defraying costs for the next Los Angeles Times: Mark Boster Leadership A Donald Trump bobble head is always watching Clovis while Shawn Moran, a Border Patrol agent, runs class. the Border Patrol Union's widely listened to pod- cast out of Breitbart's studio in Solana Beach, California. PAGE 2B ✦ SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 SOUTHWEST THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS SOUTHWEST ROUNDUP Podcast Rio Rancho sets New Mexico’s rate for March was 6.7 percent, a slight from Page 1B Amnesty Week drop from February’s 6.8 per- enforcement, employer sanc- RIO RANCHO — cent. The only other state with tions for those who hire ille- Defendants with active bench an unemployment rate above 6 gal aliens and immigration warrants can turn themselves percent was Alaska, the sec- checks on public transporta- in without the risk of being ond-highest in the nation at 6.4 tion are just to name a few. arrested during Amnesty percent. What would the job of a Week, the Municipal Court of Border Patrol agent look like Rio Rancho announced. VA improving, with Donald Trump as presi- Amnesty Week takes place dent?” Monday through Thursday official says “It would be much differ- (April 24 to 27). Defendants SANTA FE — The U.S. ent than it is now,” Trump must appear at Rio Rancho Department of Veterans Affairs responded. The then-pre- Municipal Court, 500 says it’s making progress in sumptive Republican nomi- Quantum NE, and are asked to rebuilding trust with veterans, nee didn’t venture much into arrive at either 8 a.m. or 12:30 streamlining some services, policy details. But he was p.m. each day, according to a cutting the backlog of claims clear about one thing: He was Municipal Court news release. and providing more choice to going to let agents “do their “Defendants with active veterans seeking services at job the way they want to do bench warrants or other out- non-VAfacilities. it.” Los Angeles Times: Mark Boster “I have your back,” Trump standing violations may still be And the system is still trying With a giant American flag as a backdrop, Shawn Moran, a Border Patrol agent, told the hosts. “Believe me, arrested by law enforcement to curb veteran suicides and fill adjusts sound levels while recording the Border Patrol Union's podcast. any time prior to or during this shortages of mental health pro- you are incredible people and week if they do not appear in fessionals. we are with you 100 per- person at the Rio Rancho That’s the assessment from cent.” The day after those orders Customs and Border ber of apprehensions has Municipal Court,” the release interim Deputy Secretary of In November, Del Cueto, were signed, Border Patrol Protection Commissioner Gil plunged from about 1.6 mil- reads. “Additionally, amnesty Veterans Affairs Scott Cabrera and Moran flew to Chief Mark Morgan resigned Kerlikowske, who retired in lion in 2000 to 415,000 in will not be granted for those Blackburn, who was in New York City to attend after having been on the job January. “Mark Morgan had 2016, a drop experts say who are arrested for other Albuquerque on Friday to tour Trump’s election night party for just a few months. an outstanding career at suggests lower migration crimes or violations that would the Raymond J. Murphy VA at the Hilton Midtown. Morgan, who had spent every level … but (the union) flows to the U.S. reveal those active bench war- Medical Center and meet with After Trump declared vic- most of his career in the FBI, didn’t want an outsider. And In the weeks since Trump rants.” veterans, hospital administra- tory in the early morning was hired to bring an out- the White House made their was inaugurated, those tors and employees. hours, the president-elect sider’s perspective to the feelings known.” numbers have fallen even Blackburn, an Army veter- walked up to Del Cueto, Border Patrol, which has Now, with the Border further, a development the Unemployment shook his hand, gave him a an, noted that nationwide 20 faced intense scrutiny in Patrol looking at a massive Department of Homeland high-five and said, “Art, get rate No. 1 again veterans a day commit suicide. recent years after a number expansion, the union is push- Security has linked to the ready to work,” Del Cueto ALBUQUERQUE — New Of them, statistically speaking, of use-of-force and corrup- ing the federal government to administration’s tougher recalled in a podcast after the Mexico, for the third consecu- 14 “are completely outside the tion cases. improve agents’ pay, which stance on immigration. election. His credentials were rou- union officials say will But as the agency has tive month, has the highest VA system;” of the remaining Days after he was inaugu- tinely mocked on “The improve retention — a prob- grown, it has often strug- unemployment rate in the six who are getting care within rated, Trump signed two Green Line” — when his lem that has dogged the gled to hire and keep agents. nation, while neighbor the VA system, only three are executive orders to crack name was mentioned, the agency. There are more than 1,200 Colorado had the lowest rate, seen by a mental health down on illegal immigration hosts would play a recording Since the 1990s, the previously authorized open according to figures released provider. in the nation’s interior and at of Keanu Reeves shouting “I Border Patrol has seen mas- positions the Border Patrol by the federal government the border. He pledged to am an FBI agent!” in the sive growth. U.S. Customs would need to fill before Friday. — Wire reports hire 5,000 additional Border 1991 surfer movie “Point and Border Protection is now embarking on Trump’s pro- Patrol agents, expand the Break.” the nation’s largest federal posed expansion. number of detention facili- Morgan’s resignation was law enforcement agency, “It’s not an easy job,” ties along the border, end a a sign, some said, that the with a budget of more than Moran said. “You’re almost policy that the union has union was successfully flex- $13 billion last year. In 1992, always sent away from decried as “catch and ing its political muscles. there were 4,100 Border areas that you’re familiar release” and prioritize feder- “The union didn’t make Patrol agents in the country. with. And some of the areas al prosecutions of crimes any bones about the fact that In 2016, there were nearly are very remote. That’s why related to the southern bor- they were in the White 20,000. we have a problem holding der. House,” said former U.S. Meanwhile, the total num- on to people for long peri- ods of time.” The idea behind the pod- cast was to tap into some of that isolation by giving agents something to listen to on what can be long drives to and from their posts on the border, Moran said. Moran recently lost his election to the national union’s leadership, and he is no longer with the podcast, but he continues serving as a local union rep. These days the podcast’s audience has expanded as politicians, including Sens. John McCain and Ron Johnson, have been calling in, and media from around the world and the larger public tune in. The show has a number of sponsors — including title sponsor Breitbart News. In addition to streaming, it is broadcast weekly on Tucson-based KNST. THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS REGION SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 ✦ PAGE 3B COMMUNITY CALENDAR Tony’s pic of the week Portales Confederacy — Noon first Information: Monica Hayes at Clubs/organizations Saturday of each month. 575-693-5867. 9 to 5 Club meeting — Third Information: 575-742-0307. Tuesday each month. Women’s Community Seniors Information: 575-356-2132 Prayer Alliance luncheon — Portales Senior Dance — 7 Bethel Club meeting — 2 11:45 a.m. third Wednesday p.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays at p.m. second Tuesday each each month ar Victory Life Portales Senior Center, 421 N. month. Information: 575-356- Coffee House. Information: 575- Industrial Drive. Live band and 4519. 359-0050. potluck. $5. Information: 575- Causey Club meeting — 356-8741. Second Monday of each month. Support groups Seniors commodity distri- Information: 575-276-4220 Al-Anon: Serenity Circle — bution — 8 a.m.-noon third Elida Club meeting — 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Wednesday of each month at Second Thursday of each Presbyterian Church, 108 South Los Abuelitos Senior Center. month. Information: 575-607- Ave. F. Information: 575-769- Food distributed to people age 6157 6028. 60 and up. Application: 575-356- Friendship Club Meeting — Alcoholics Anonymous AA 5056 or at the senior center, 1 p.m. second Wednesday of — Willow group — 6 p.m 1515 W. Fir Street. each month. Information: 575- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Square dance lessons — 7 973-2007 Saturday at Central Christian p.m. Tuesdays Starlight High Plains Breastfeeding Church, 1528 S. Main St. Swingers offers square dance Lamplighters group — 7:30 p.m. Alliance — Weekly play group, lessons at the Portales Senior Fridays and Sundays at COC location and times vary. Center, 421 Industrial Drive. Call Staff photo: Tony Bullocks Student Center, 207 S. Ave. K. Information: Heidi Zamora at 575-356-5509 or 575-477-2318. Melrose junior Carson Fraze delivers the heat during Thursday’s game against 575-763-7964. Twisted Sisters group — 6 p.m. women only Mondays at First Gateway Christian at Melrose. It’s my pic’ of the week because you can see the Masonic Lodge No. 26 — Volunteer determination in his face, and because it’s baseball. Presbyterian Church, 108 S. 7:30 p.m. fourth Monday each Interim Healthcare Home Ave. F. Men’s group — 6 p.m. month, regular communication, Care & Hospice — 2300 N Main men only Mondays at COC stu- 117 East 3rd Street. All Masons St., Suite 19A, Clovis. Minimum dent Center, 207 S. Ave. K. welcome. Infomation: Vern requirement two hours per Newlin 575-626-4408 Information: 575-769-6052. Bereavement Group — 1 month. Walk-ins welcome. Mood Elevators fellowship Contact Angela Laumbach, group — 3 p.m. Sunday at p.m.-2 p.m. second and fourth Volunteer Recruitment Bowl-A-Matic in Fort Sumner, Monday each month. Plains Coordinator at 575-763-9728 or 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Calvary Regional Medical Center Home 575-714-5000. Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Health/Hospice, 1701 S. Ave. P. Meetings subject to change. Support group for people whose To update or add items to Information: 575-478-2525. loved ones have died and who the community calendar, Peanut Valley Toastmasters would like help coping with grief, please contact the newsroom — 7 p.m. Thursdays at ENMU loss and living again. at 575-356-4481 or email broadcast center. Information: Information: Sandy Turner at Donna Labatt 575-799-3215. 575-769-7399. [email protected] Portales Lions Club — Noon Brain Injury Support — 6 first and third Thursday of each p.m. Thursdays at Wesley month at Portales Senior Foundation Building. Contact Center, Industrial Drive. 575-359-1964 or karlathere- Information: 575-760-2417 [email protected]. Portales Masonic Lodge No. Cancer survivors/care- 26 — 7:30 p.m. every fourth givers support — 5 p.m. first Monday each month, 117 East and third Tuesdays at Mental 3rd Street. All Masons welcome. Health Resources, 300 East Information: Vern Newlin 575- First Street. Information: 850- 626-4408 797-1153 Portales Traditional Jam — Diabetic Support — 6 p.m. 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Sundays at Tuesdays at the auditorium, La Wesley Foundation, 1417 S. Casa Family Health Center, Ave. K. Old time, bluegrass, 1515 W Fir. Information: 575- Celtic music. All instruments, 356-6695. ages and skills welcome. Divorce Care — 6:15 p.m. Information: 575-356-1051. Wednesdays at First United Promise Keepers — 5:45 Methodist Church parlor. a.m. Mark’s Grill, 1126 W. First Support/recovery for those going Street. Information: John Pugh through divorce. Information: 575-799-2000. 575-356-8597. Roosevelt County Literacy Grief support — 6 p.m. Council — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Mondays at First United Monday-Friday at Portales Methodist Church. Information: Public Library. Free GED, ABE, Dr. Keith Wilks at dr.keith- ESL and citizenship classes. [email protected] or 356-8597. Volunteers needed. Information: Hope for Hurting Women — 575-356-8500. 6 p.m. Tuesdays at 1513 S. Roosevelt County Roosevelt Rd. 3. Prayer, support Association of Educational and encouragement for women. Retirees — 2 p.m. third Information: 575-760-0598. Thursday each month at L.C. Lamp Lighters Women’s Cozzens administrative offices, Group of A.A. — 7:30 p.m. Zia Room. Information: 575-799- Monday, Thursday and Friday at 9615. Trinity Church, 601 Avenue B. Roosevelt and Curry Information: 575-769-6028. County Right to Life — Call for Milagro Group of N.A. — time and place. Information: 575- 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Mondays 714-0455 or 575-714-0160 and Saturdays, 223 S. Ave. K. Seasoned Prayer Warriors Christian Campus House. — Noon each Wednesday at Information: 575-309-7593. Emmanuel Baptist Church. Love Narcotics Anonymous NA the Lord? Non-denominational — 6:30 p.m. Mondays and prayer warriors, Praying for Saturdays at Christian Campus Portales. Information: 575-356- House, 223 South Avenue K. 3588. Information: Rick B. at 575-309- Starlight Square Dance 7593 Club — 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Parents Anonymous — 7 Portales Senior Citizens Center, p.m. Tuesdays at 1411 S. Ave. 421 North Industrial. Information: O. Parents can share their ques- 575-760-1170. tions, concerns, problems and United Daughters of the solutions about parenting. PAGE 4B ✦ SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 COMICS THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS
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