• • Volume 27-Number 15 Published in the interest of the personnel of White Sands Missile Range Local communities stage · • 4 .t · U ·: home grown celebrations White Sands and its surrounding com­ -t / ~~, , / ' ~ munities have planned a busy weekend to Center in LAS CRUCES July 3 and 4. The· arts ·' ~ -/ - usher in the nations 2ooth birhday. and crafts show will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 ~ /,~ ~ The WSMR golf course is holding a p.m. both days. Bobby Goldsboro will appear -~ ~ --¥ f bicentennial golf tournament today beginning at 9 p.m. July 3. Tickets are available at the at 11:30 a .m . The 7-8-9- Club is hokling an . Pan Am Center. Barbecue plates will be , \ "Uncle Sam Birthday Party" tonikht served from 12:30 - 2p.m. July 4. The gospel , beginning at 5. singing will run from 1-5 p .m. • On Sunday the fourth, patriotic religious IN ALAMOGORDO, the Sertoma club is services will be held at both chapels. The . sponsoring a pancake breafast which will run chapel chimes will be rung for two minutes at from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. in the City Hall noon in concert with a nationwide ceremonoy parking lot. A talent concert will be held in the of simultaneous ringing of bells. park beginning at 6 p.m. ·. The NCO club is holding an old-fashioned TULAROSA'S Optimist club will put on a family picnic Sunday afternoon. Beginning at bicentennial program at 8 p.m., followed by a · 1 p.m. a family affair will get underway at the fireworks display. An exhibition of art is ~ club pool featuring relay races games. At 4 being held in LA LUZ, and Indian dances will J ~ p.m. a barbecue will be served on the patio. be held at the MESCALERO Reservation in I '/I/ - The party will break up at 8 for the fireworks . the evenings of July 2, 3, 4 and 5. Rodeos will \ '­ The Officers Club will have brunch from 10 be held in the afternoons.beginning at 1 p.m; • a.m. to 1 p.m. The 4th of July buffet from 6- on July 3, 4, 5. ~ 8: 30 will feature hot dogs, hamburgers, baked SOCORRO Chamber of Commerce is '",.,.-. beans and watermellon. holding a golf tournament Saturday, Sunday A fireworks display will be presented at 9 and Monday. On the fourth, baseball, football p.m. in the area south ·of the Officers' Open and other games will be held for children, and . Mess. Sponsored by the Recreation services, booths will be set up in Sedillo Park. A 1 the aerial display will include 200 rockets and fireworks display will begin at 8:30 p.m. at ~ last 15 to· 20 minutes. Spectators are required the NM School of Mines. to remain in the area north of the access road AT TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, the \ Sierra County Sheriff's Posse is holding a behind the OOM or Jupiter Drive and north of 1 Raritan Avenue. gymkhana at 9 a.m. Sunday. From 1-5 p.m. A flavor of the Old West will be enjoyed by 4th of July contests will be held including: all at ORGAN'S bicenten.~ial. There will be a tug-a-war, dunking booth, tobacco-spitting, ranch barbecue from 1-6 p.m. at the Com­ egg tossing, horsehoe pitching, and sack and munity Center behind the Standard-Chevron relay races. Barbecue will be served at 5 p.m. • station. At 2 p.m., two skits will be staged And oldtime fiddlers, squaredancers, the reentating a western fight and a 1907 quilting Novak school of dance and a band "The bee. Historical pictures of ranchers and Dukes" will provide entertainment from 5-9 ~ miners of the area, documents concerning p.m. At 9 p.m. a fireworks display will be held Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett and Judge over Elephant Butte Lake. A.J. Fountain will be on display in the center. In EL PASO this afternoon, a Red, White IN CANUTILLO, St. Patricks' Church is and Blue Ball will be held from 2-4 p.m. for sponsoring a picnic in County Park from 1-8 those Yankee Doodle Dandies whose bir- ~ p.m. Bar ue and chile-con-carne will be thdays fall on July 4 or who are 76 years old. \ ( I ~ served along with drinks. Games, contests Singer Marty Robbins will be in the Sun Bowl and other entertainment will be held. At 4 tonight at 8. Tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m. a ~ afl oC p.m. a parade will begin at Trans-Mountain bicentennial parade will make its way Road near the clinic, featuring floats and downtown. bands. On the 4th at 7 a.m. in the Civic Center -==~~~~ ~ '. MESILLA is holding a Fiesta which will run Theater, an interdenominational religious ---- -=- . / 0 ~ ' ~ '~~\\ from Saturday at 8 a.m. until Monday mor­ service will be held. At 1 p.m: the Pony Ex­ ~ "This day should be commemorated as the day ~Vt ning at 1 a.m. Booths will be set up, Mexican press rides again from Las Cruces, through ~of-deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God ~ u-=;: • food will be served and a queen will be Anthony Pass to Wilderness Park. Riders will A Almighty . It ought to be solemnized with · ~~ crowned in Old Mesilla Square. be "attacked" along the way by Indians and /·'/)pomp and parades, with games, sports, ANTHONY will hold a champange brunch outlaws. A time capsule will be buried at sho~s, /~ ~ ~ in the Mayor's restaurant, and put out a Wilderness Park, and beer and barbecue will guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one special bicentennial issue of its paper. be served. In McKelligon Canyon. El Paso del end of this continent to the other, from this time ~, Old-fashioned barbecue, go~pel singing, a Norte premieres at 8 p.m. At 10:30 fireworks forward forevermore." two-day arts and crafts show and an evening will be displayed in the Canyon. Fireworks John Adams (July 4, 1776) with Bobby Goldsboro highlight the becen­ will also be set off in Chamizal Park at 9. tennial weekend at NMSU's Pan American ,.. Civilians to Congressional actions . join review The Range will note its 31st anniversary affect soldiers, retirees next Friday July 9 with a 10 a.m. military • review honoring veteran civilian employes. Present plans call for five Army com­ Action by the joint conference of the Senate · provision would treat the recipients of unused the Secretary of Defense to the committee on panies, paced by Ft. Bliss' 62nd Army Band, and House services committee on the FY77 leave payments in.the same manner. Armed Services of the House and Senate by to pass in review before Major General O.L. DoD authorizations-appropriations bill in­ In its FY77 budget request, the Department Feb. 1, 1977. Tobiason and a party of civilian staff ad­ cludes several legislative changes that affect of Defense proposed to phase out the ap­ The conference committee has authorized visors. Dr. R.H. Duncan, technical director the soldier. propriated fund support to commissaries over the termination of the one per cent kicker in and chief scientist, will head the civilian The bill would permit up to 25 per cent of a three year period. The House of addition to the cost of living increases for any future pay raise to be allocated to Representatives rejected this proposal and retired personnel, contingent upon similar reviewing party. elimination for civilian employes. Four civilian employes, representing all quarters allowance CBAQ). The conferees expressed congressional opposition to any The conference also authorized for FY77 senior civil service workers will receive rejected the administration's "fair market change in the present method of providing special orginal-designed, multi-colored rental'' proposal and included a provision for financial support to military commissaries. the end strength for active army personnel at certificates from General Tobiason during a rebate to single soldiers living in barracks The Senate bill included a provision which 789,000. They agreed on the continued need for the • the ceremony. A similar certificate will be and bachelor officers quarters. would have supported the DoD stand. awarded all Department of Army civilians The conference would limit unused leave Due to conflicting views, the conferees bonuses up to $13,500 per year to retain the with more than 31 years service at their work for repayment to 60 days during a soldier's directed the Secretary of Defense to institute miniumu riumber of doctors for the armed forces. sites. career and would eliminate the authority for economy measures for the purpose of Selected to be honored at John F. Kennedy payment of quarters and subsistance reducing the present subsidies of the com­ In addition, the bill provided authorization Field is .Fernando Mabini, Security Office; allowances for leave accrued. Currently, missaries. for procurement of military equipment, Lyle D. Hackerson, Atmospheric Sciences officers and enlisted soldiers receive different Progress in imporoving efficiency while research and development, training loads and amounts of BAQ and BAS, viewed by the reducing operating costs is to be reported by reserve component force levels. <Con tinned on Page ·4 > conferees as ·an inequality. This new • "Published by the Zia Newspa pers. Las Cruces. New Mexico. a private firm In no and writers herein are their own and are not considered to be a n official u pression by does not constitute a n endorsement by the Department of the Army of the P• oducts or way connected with the Department of the Army. Opinions expressed by the publisher the Department of the Army.