Irma Closes in on Florida Prepared and Can’T Forget ❏ Sunday Morning
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SUNDAY,SEPT. 10, 2017 Inside: $1.50 Houston officials ignored chance to stop flooding. — Page 1B Vol. 89 ◆ No. 140 SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com Looking ahead from 9/11 ❏ David Stone, American Legion plan ceremonies. By Zech Lucero STAFF WRITER [email protected] David Stone plans to look back and remember as usual on Monday. But the James Polk Stone Community banker in Portales also is looking ahead. “Back after World War II, America got up and we picked up our heads and went on with life united,” Stone said. “Nowadays we as American people forget how to reunite with one another and (are) quick to label each other.” And so Stone plans to Sun Sentinel: Mike Stocker focus his annual 9/11 cere- Wind and sea batter Miami as the storm approaches Saturday. Florida is expected to take a direct hit from Hurricane Irma Sunday morning. mony — scheduled for 7:30 Monday morning out- side the bank at 109 E. Second St. in Portales — on the future. “After 9/11 we are more Irma closes in on Florida prepared and can’t forget ❏ Sunday morning. how it united us together, The storm struck Cuba overnight Tropical storm-force but we’ve gone off the at Category 5; 20 killed in Caribbean. winds could already be felt path,” Stone said. “Lack of in areas of South Florida. descipline in the U.S. is Nearly 7 million people allowing people to create By John Cherwa at least 20 people as it — more than a quarter of havoc in our country and and Les Neuhaus moved through the the population of Florida — safety needs to be a key Caribbean. LOS ANGELES TIMES have been advised to evacu- factor in the U.S., and we Irma was poised to ate over several states. can do that by being united MIAMI — Florida pre- emerge from northern Cuba “If you have been ordered again, and that is exactly pared for deadly winds and Saturday afternoon and to evacuate anywhere in the what I will address: How to life-threatening storm surge head through the warm state, you need to leave reunite America.” from Hurricane Irma waters of the Florida Straits. right now,” Gov. Rick Scott Sun Sentinel: Mike Stocker Monday marks 16 years Saturday by asking 700,000 From there, it is expected to since four coordinated ter- said at an afternoon news The winds and sea are whipped up off of the more residents to leave their intensify, and then cross the homes in advance of a Keys for a potentially cata- Rickenbacker Causeway in Miami as Hurricane Irma storm that already has killed strophic direct hit on IRMA on Page 6A approaches on Saturday. 9/11 on Page 2A Good day to remember Bobby Field ob Anderson lege football at Arkansas. our conference for sure, and the transition of UCLA Aikman into its Athletics remembers hearing Field said the Razorbacks maybe in the state,” women’s rowing from a Hall of Fame, UCLA Bfootball coaches in became his favorite team on David Anderson said. club sport to a varsity sport Newsroom reported that he Muleshoe complain about Oct. 17, 1964, after he “He was a good runner. — which meant scholar- told Bruins fans he was just watched them beat the Stevens You don’t see many high ships for women athletes as proud of his degree in Bobby Field in the mid ◆ 1960s. University of Texas, 14-13, school quarterbacks as good who might otherwise never sociology. “We’ve got the best quar- in a nationally televised Editor as he was.” have made it to college. “(T)o me, it was just kind terback in the state living game. His name seldom comes And he’s been actively of unfinished business. So here and he’s playing in He started games his up when discussion turns to involved in exploring ways being able to finish that — Farwell,” Anderson laughed sophomore, junior and sen- the greatest athletic success for athletes to earn money and then to fulfill a promise as he remembered the con- ior seasons at Arkansas, and named to the UCLA stories in this region’s histo- without compromising the that I’d made to my mom — versation. played in “The Game of the Athletics Hall of Fame. An ry. integrity of amateur sports. feels pretty good,” Aikman Actually, Field grew up in Century” when Texas induction ceremony is That’s because his work Field is also credited with said. the West Camp community, defeated the Razorbacks, scheduled Oct. 20. since his playing days has helping retired Dallas And so, after helping so southeast of Farwell, near 15-14, for the national Field began coaching at been mostly behind the Cowboys Quarterback Troy many others achieve their the line that separates the championship on Dec. 6, the Los Angeles school in scenes, outside the spotlight. Aikman complete his bache- goals in life — on the athlet- Panhandle school districts. 1969. Field, a strong safety 1978 and spent most of his He was an assistant coach lor’s degree 19 years after ics field and off — it’s good That wasn’t the last time in college, recovered a fum- career there before retiring for seven conference-cham- Aikman left UCLA. After to see Bobby Field receive a somebody wished Field ble that led to Arkansas’ as associate athletic director pionship football teams at learning Aikman needed just little recognition. played for their team. first touchdown in that in 2013. UCLA. Fifteen of the two classes to graduate, After graduating from game. Farwell still remembers Bruins’ teams he coached Field reached out and David Stevens is editor Farwell High School in Today is a good day to him as one of its greatest played in post-season bowl helped arrange for Aikman for Clovis Media Inc. 1967, the highly recruited remember Bobby Field athletes. games. to take those classes online. Contact him at: speedster chose to play col- because he recently was “He was the best player in Even more quietly, he led After UCLA inducted [email protected] Forecast: Today Monday Tuesday Index Calendar............................2A Crossword ........................6A Reach us at: High: 80 High: 85 High: 87 Classified ......................5-6C Obituaries..........................5A Comics ..............................4B Sports ............................1-4D (575) 763-3431 Low: 53 Low: 57 Low: 58 Commentary ..................4-5A PAGE 2A ✦ SUNDAY, SEPT. 10, 2017 LOCAL THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO NEWS SEPT. 10 University considers out-of-state tuition reduction THE STAFF OF THE NEWS state tuition to 150 percent. heard. probably a $4.5 million proj- On this date ... Elwell noted in the letter ■ Regents will consider ect, and then we’re vowing PORTALES — A proposal 1972: Kathy Calder, a that out-of-state students the adoption of a resolution an additional $1 million. We 16-year-old student at Friona to reduce out-of-state tuition “paid an average of $13,819 to issue system improvement have to replace some heating High School, made the news will be heard at Thursday’s more than their in-state bonds. and cooling piping in ... Eastern New Mexico for being the first female peers” in 2014 and 2015. The bonds, which total Curry Hall.” University Board of Regents Also at Thursday’s meet- approximately $5.5 million, student in her school’s histo- ■ The summer 2017 grad- ry to sign up for a vocational meeting. ing, set for 9:30 a.m. in the will be used to fund two agriculture class. The change, according to a Zia Room of the Campus campus-wide energy proj- uation lists for the Portales The Clovis News-Journal letter accompanying the pro- Union Building: ects, according to Vice and Roswell campuses will reported that the junior, who posal by ENMU President ■ A proposal to plan, President of Business Affairs be up for approval. dreamed of being a veteri- University. Jeff Elwell, will reduce design, and renovate instruc- Scott Smart. ■ Regents will consider narian, was “introducing New officers were Leon tuition for out-of-state stu- tion space on the ENMU- “The first one is an energy authorization of the Open women’s liberation into the Williams of Clovis, presi- dents from 203 percent of in- Ruidoso campus will be management project. That’s Meetings Act. Friona High School cam- dent, and Max Hobbs of pus.” Portales, vice president. Calder, who grew up on a Williams was “one of the farm, had “convinced the top sports promoters in east- Meetings calendar high school administration ern New Mexico,” accord- that she was genuinely inter- ing to the Clovis News- Monday profit agencies together with faculty from 575-769-7828 ested in agriculture,” the Journal, which cited his ■ Clovis Master Water Assurance Eastern New Mexico University. ENMU story said. Her instructor experience as a school board Plan District 2 meeting — 6 p.m. at Campus Union Building-Sandia Room, Thursday Benny Pryor said she’d be member, Clovis High ■ the first co-ed he had in a School booster, and radio Fellowship Hall (east side entrance) Living Portales. Information: 575-769-2103 ENMU Board of Regents — 9:30 classroom in his 20 years of and television sportscaster. Stones, 1800 N. Norris St. ■ Clovis Master Water Assurance a.m. at Portales Regents Room. teaching. Membership the previous ■ Portales School Board — 6 p.m.-9 Plan District 1 meeting — 6 p.m. at Youth Information: 575-356-1011 year had numbered 136, but p.m. in the board room, 501 W. Abilene. Recreation Building, 1504 E. Seventh 1962: The ENMU Williams and Hobbs Information: 575-356-7000 Street.