The following is a recap of local events for this time period throughout history.
She has been written up in New York’s Dance Magazine as one of the “25 to Watch.” Now, choreographer and dancer Traci Mann will be teaching a master’s class in Farmington at Mann Dance Academy, which is owned by her sisters, Becky and Judy Mann. The class will focus on rhythm tap, something Traci is very familiar with. “Ballet and tap are her two specialties,” Judy said. Traci actually has her own group of talented tap dancers. The group of seven young men are called The Young Hoofers.
The Daily Times
San Juan County had the state’s third fastest rate of growth during the first five years of this decade according to an Associated Press analysis of a census report released today. The county’s population climbed to 65,300 in 1975, representing a five-year growth rate of 24 percent over the 1970 census. … According to the report, the state’s population stood at 1,147,000 last year, 12.8 percent over the 1,107,055 1970 census figure. The report said 59,000 of the new residents moved to New Mexico from other states.
The Daily Times
Fred Morris Fine, secretary, Public Affairs Department, National Headquarters of the Communist Party, USA, is being sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a charge of conspiracy to advocate the violent overthrow of the government. The FBI has requested alert citizens and law enforcement agencies to assist in locating Fine. Fine has worked as a steel worker, a clothing store clerk, typist and bookkeeper. He is not known to drink. He smokes a pipe and cigarettes. … He was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury at New York, New York, on June 20, 1951. Any person having information which may assist in locating Fine is requested to immediately notify the nearest FBI office. The phone number appears on the first page of the telephone directory, or you can notify the Aztec Independent Review.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The United States’ Communist Control Act of 1954 formally declared the Communist Party USA to be an “instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government of the United States” and stripped it of the rights, privileges, and immunities of a legal body. The 1954 Act aimed to outlaw the party, but was rarely enforced as a criminal statue and parts of it were later found unconstitutional.
Aztec Independent Review
R.G. Graf had a beet topping and digging machine on exhibition Sunday morning at Troy King’s place below town and a good crowd had gathered to see it work. After performing a little a small part was broken that ended the work for that day. On Tuesday the part was brought over from Gallup and the machine again started and it did very successful work. A sample of its topping can be seen at this office. In another year or two there will no doubt be a number of these machines at work in this county.
Farmington Times-Hustler
The Socialists of San Juan County met in mass convention in Allen’s hall on Thursday. The following preamble and demands were adopted without a dissenting voice. “We, the Socialists of San Juan County, New Mexico in a mass convention assembled, re-affirm our allegiance to the International Socialist Party, its preamble, platform and constitution, again declare ourselves as the party of the working class, and appeal for the support all the workers in shop, factory, mine and field, and of all citizens who sympathize with the great and just cause of labor. In the current crisis confronting the people of this Territory, the masses of farmers and other working men and women cannot expect from either of the old parties, dominated as they are by the corporate interests of the country, a constitution which will protect them from the encroachments of the money power.”
Farmington Enterprise
Two families from Texas drove into Blanco Tuesday, coming down the Canon Largo, to locate in the sunny San Juan. Largo is the only gateway into this county from Santa Fe and the east and southeast, and Blanco is the logical place for a bridge, say the enthusiastic inhabitants of that town. Blanco will be covered by the Citizens’ ditch and trees and flowers will replace the aridity of that handsome townsite. It is reported that T.D. Burns will soon build and open up a large general merchandise store at Blanco.
San Juan County Index
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.