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RUIQOSO, NM 88345 The best of Lincoln County jun­ Brett Barham of Carrizozo will of Corona will show heifers and The competition is great' at the swine show at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sep­ Youth Hall. ior livestock will be represented at show steers and hogs; 'rye Lightfoot steers; Tracy Stone of Capitan will state fair, as an' example, swine tember 13; the 4-H Horse Show at 7 The Junior Livestock Sale be~ the New Mexico State Fair this of Corona will show hogs; Brent show heifers and lambs and KeJly show participants must compete a.m. Wednesday, September 14; gins at 1 p.m. Friday, September week in Albuquerque. Racher of Hondo also will show Witter of Capitan will participate against at least 800 other hogs, and other shows on Wednesday are 16. Hogs, sheep and heifers will-be hogs; Kyle Traylor of Capitan will in the horse show. Gordon acknowledged. But he the junior market lamb ·shQW at 8 shown by 11 Lincoln COWlty junior show hogs and Troy Stone of According to Lincoln COWlty 4-H hopes some of the Lincoln County a.m. and the junior heifer show at 2 The State Fair Queen Contests livestock exhibitors at the livestock Capitan will show, heifers and Agent Sid Gordon, Witter is leading 'exhibitors do make it to the live­ p.m. begin Saturday, September 17, and barns at the fair. Entering and lambs. in the horse division in the state of stock show Friday. culminate with the crowning at 7 judging began Friday and continues Jeremy Knight of Corona will New Mexico this year. Gordon also The junior sheep shows began On Thursday., September 15, the p.m. Tuesday, September 20 before through this week until the Junior show hogs and lambs; Alethea said Lincoln County hogs and today (Monday). junior steer show begins at 8 a.m. the rodeo. Tanya Payton will Livestor.k Sale on Friday, Septem­ Knight of Corona also will show lambs are as "good as any in the and the Jwrior Awards Presenta­ represent. Lincoln County at that ber 16. lambs and hogs; Sandra Copeland state." Other schedules are: the junior tion will be at 6:30 p.m. in Hanns contest. Simulcast Property owners here of big race said ·success will be paying lTIOre Ruidoso Downs General Man­ ager H. Rick Henson called Labor· by FRANKIE JARRELL Total.. 15.251 Day's simulcast ofthe 30th running Ruidoso News Staff Writer -School District- of the All American Futurity a Ruidoso property owners will be operational.. 0.266 "huge success that continues to assessed an additional three mils debt service 5.887 grow and grow each year." when the tax bills go out in Deeem- capital improvement 1.935 Remington Park, the newly ber. TotaL 8.088 opened super track in Oklahoma The Village Council, in a special TOTAL STATE, COUNTY, City, led the six simulcast affiliates meeting last Tuesday, passed the MUNICIPAL AND SCHOOL across the nation while wagering in three mil levy to pay for the airport DISTRICT: 29.720 excess of $165,000 on the 440~yard terminal building, large hangar -Other: classic. and auto sWlshades. With an ex­ HospitaL 1.748 Blue Ribbon DOWDS, another Ok~ tension to impose the tax after the Carrizozo Health Ctr.0.53? lahoma track, wagered more than . .- ' r- . official Headline', ·the cOWlcil action . $56,000 -followed by The Adams . was submitted to the Department GRAND TOTAL..••••..••32.005 And they're off County Fair, near Denver, with of Finance and Administration The total residential tax rate for $17,000. Other affiliates included (DFA) just under the wire. the Village of Ruidoso Downs is Blue Grass Downs, Kentucky, DFA provided the new certificate $26.749, with the non-res\dential at Four of the fastest mules in the world Track. The Ruidoso Downs Muleskin­ $8,022, Les Bois, Idaho, $9,805, and oftax rates to county assessors last $29.420. Ruidoso Downs has a head out of the gates and'down the ners and Ruidoso Valley Noon Lions Mt. Pleasant Meadows, Michigan, week, with the Lincoln County Tax residential taxable value of track at the annual mule races this co-sponsored" the races. See more $3,645. The race handled nearly $190,000 at Ruidoso DOWDS. Assessor receiving the new rates on $7,365,653; and a non-residential weekend at Ruidoso Downs Race ptJotos on Page 2A. September 8. According to a taxable value of $8,815,182. Not only did the fans at Reming­ spokesperson for the Lincoln The county tax rate, for resi­ ton Park bet the most money of the County Assessor's office, the new dents in the Ruidoso School Dis­ simulcasting affiliates, they did the rates are not official until approved trict, is $16.754; and for non­ Village Council to juggle agenda,iteITIS best job of handicapping,Jrith the by the Lincoln County Commission. residential property in the county winner Merganser retuixfl:f:tg $8.40 Commissioners were expected to and in the Ruidoso School District, on a $2 win ticket. Other Win prices· approve the certificate last Friday. $18.623. The Ruidoso Village Council will -Public hearing on the Fair -Presentation by the Economic. included: $10.40 at Blue Ribbon, The Village of Ruidoso has a tax­ Capitan, with a taxable residen­ meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Septem~ Housing Ordinance. Development Advisory Board.' DOWDS, $13.40 at Mt. Pleasant, able value according to that certifi­ tial value of $3,655,341 and a non­ ber 13, in council chambers of -Public hearing on an amend­ -Request for public hearing to $9.80 at Blue Grass Downs, $9.20 cate, of $103,016,108 residential, residential value of $1,987,558; has Ruidoso Municipal Administrative ment to the ordinance establishing review Planning and Zoning Com~ at the Adams COWlty' Fair, and and $43,789,770 non-residential. a residential rate of $31.679 and a Center. the economic development fund. mission recommendations. $11.80 at Lea Bois. Merganser The new tax rate for residential non-residential rate of $34.439. Items on the agenda include: The words "community evenis cen­ -Appeal of Planning and returned $11.60 at Ruidoso DOWDS. :property in the Village of Ruidoso is The Capitan School' District INFORMATION ITEMS: ter" will be added as a possible use Zoning Commission decisions. $32.005, and for non-residential the taxes Capitan residents at 3.646 -Sierra Blanca Regional Air­ for the two-thirds reserve fund. -Review of bids on hot tn.i.x rate is $33.966. and non-residential property at port funding. -Public hearing to amend and patcher reclaimer machine and vac­ Commission to meet That residential tax rate can be 3.684, -Update from Lincoln Cablevi­ repeal certain sections of the 198.3 tor truck. broken down: Other tax levies for some areas 81On. New Mexico Uniform Traffic Or­ -Proposal by the Kiwanis Club The Sierra Blanca Airport Com­ mission will meet at 3 p.m. Wed­ -State debt service 1.150 of Lincoln County include Alpine -Minutes of boards and COTI1­ dinance. of Ruidoso for a youth center. -County- Villagp Sanitation District at mittees and monthly departmental -Consideration of a resolution nesday, September 14, in council operational........ 4.731 $18.6;1, Sun Valley Sanitation Dis­ reports. to commend certain persons for Meetings of the council are open chambers of Ruidoso Municipal Ad­ economic development .500 trict at $5.90, Upper Hondo SWCD REGULAR ITEMS: heroic actions. to the public. ministrative Center. TotaL 5.231 at $1 and Carrizozo SWCD at $1. -Municipal- Where applicable, predator con­ operational 1.199 trol assessments are set at five cen­ debt service.. , 11,052 ter per head on cattle and 10 cents Presbyterian pastor here airport 3.000 per head on sheep and goats. accepts call to Roswell INSIDE by FRANKIE JARRELL years as a Baptist minister before Ruidoso News Staff Writer joining the Presbyterian Church. people............ .............._ .....8A Opinion .............. , 1B Winston Presnall will preach his The younger Presnall remembers Sports , , 4A-5A Classified .. 2B-48 last sermon as minister of the First that his decision to. become a minis­ Presbyterian Church' of Ruidoso on ter was made soon after high The ..Dreamer" 11 A TV Outdo Sectlon. B Sunday, September 25. school. His call was more of a Business , , ,." 3A "I've invested seven years of my "growing fondness" than a lightning life here," said the Reverend Pres­ bolt. WEATHER REPORT nall describing his mixed feelings "You look at your gifts and Sunday's low 40 as he leaves this community to ac­ abilities and where they can be Sunday's lllgh 77 cept a call to the First Presbyterian used," said Presnall. Monday's low 52 Church of Roswell. "I wish I hated Before accepting a call to the Monday's predicted high near 70 everybody here," he said with a ,Ruidoso Presbyterian ChUJ'Ch, he Tuesday's predicted low middle 40s smile.. and his wife, Brynda, spent a year Tuesday's predicted high upper 60s "It's hard to leave:' added Pres­ in Amarillo, Texas, where Presnall nall seriously. was chaplain at Northwest Texas Bill Hostetter, Ruidoso meteorologist, predicts today, September Ironically, Presnall preached his Hospital.