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A group of local aviation enthusiasts is organizing an open house at Four Corners Regional Airport. The event will be held Sept. 22. Organizers are seeking sponsors to help defray costs and participants to show off their airplanes, antique cars and boats. The event will be dubbed “Wings, Wheels & Waves,” said Willie Green, an event organizer and chief pilot for Seven Bar/Four Corners. Basically, the goal is to create a “quality family-oriented experience” and invite the general public up to the city-run airport to see what’s going on, Green said. The event will feature civilian, military, ex-miliary, experimental and commercial aircraft. The event will also show off antique cars and boats.
The Daily Times
About 30 persons have been working 14-hour days since Tuesday in an attempt to clear an estimated 200 tons of mud and debris from Production Equipment Co., which was inundated Monday night when the six-foot wall of an irrigation ditch behind the building broke. Company owners estimate damage to equipment and the building at well over $100,000, and apparently are considering legal action against the city or the Independent Ditch Co., which maintains the community- owned ditch. The city is a major shareholder in the ditch company. “Let’s put it this way,” said PEC owner Bill Hastings, “If there’s no legal recourse, this place is wiped out.” PEC, at its 5104 East Main location since 1961, fabricates oil and gas production equipment. Nineteen or 20 large welding machines were either totally ruined or will require extensive repairs, Hastings said.
The Daily Times
The busy town of Bloomfield now boasts of another business firm with the opening of offices of the T. & F. Construction Co. The Bloomfield firm is engaged in bull- dozer work and earth moving and has good equipment to handle their job. It is owned by C.L. Turner and Wayne Fuller.
Aztec Independent Review
Miss Julia Sundt of Santa Fe will be in our county for the next two or three months, in the discharge of her duties as Sheppard-Towner field nurse. This is a free service given by the United States government tin connection with the state, and will consist of a thorough physical examination of all children of pre-school age. The general plan will be to make appointments for meetings in the various sections of the county, usually in the public school houses, where the mothers will bring their children under six years of age. After the examination Miss Sundt will give a health talk to the mothers of about one hour’s duration.
Farmington Times-Hustler
This Is the time of the year when most weeds have reached their full growth in height and are now setting about their chief business of producing seed for next year’s weed crop. Ditch banks, roadsides, fence rows and neglected corners are now in too many cases a perfect jungle of ragweeds, sunflowers, giant marsh elders and other members of the weed tribe. If left for a week or ten days too long, they will have ripened to a full crop of seeds and scattered a large part on the ground. … This is the critical time, therefore, to act. Mow the weeds now; let them lie until dry enough to burn; then fire them when there is no danger from the fire.
Farmington Enterprise
The second crop of alfalfa is being quite generally harvested this week with favorable weather and a generous yield in most instances. Grasshoppers have not done as much damage as was feared earlier in the season. Nearly a two-ton yield per acre is reported from one field for this cutting.
The Farmington Times
This Week in Local History is compiled by Debi Tracy Olsen, local journalist and volunteer at the Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village. The stories are pulled from newspaper archives and are reprinted as they appeared, errors and all.