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AUUH EHQl JOURNAL Friday, October 7, 1983 A-3 Albuquerque: A City of Nice Folks Always Ready To Help Jim Arnholz barriers at all four corners of the major intersection nearest my house. Wasn't that nice? I decided to reciprocate in true NW style and I have hung nstras on every barrier. An NE stock broker took the time and trouble to write a list of intersections I should avoid in the area Here is the list: "All." A High Country' (doesn't that sound better than woman writes: "Perhaps a Tupperware party would help you integrate?" It's in the works and already I've received replies asking if I'm serious about combining the Tupperware party with a goat roast. Another High Country' woman writes: "Do nothing you don't want the neighbors to know about. "Don't drink alcohol unless you invite the neighbors to join you.

"Don't stop anywhere on your block to talk to a good-looking woman be she married or single because rumor will have her in your bed before the week is over." Thank you I'm beginning to feel more at home every minute. Fourth, where all those second-hand furniture stores are. I look for a big improvement since you have moved to the NE Heights." And a big improvement is on the way. The secret to writing these columns is considering all the possibilities of an issue; it's a matter of finding time when I can do nothing but sit and think. Having moved to NE, I find that I now have more time every morning.

On the average, I have three-traffic-lights more time at every intersection, because that's how many times the light changes before my part of the traffic jam reaches the front of the line. I now arrive at work bright-eyed, alert, twitching, shaking and wondering if it's possible that those thousands of people who tried to nin me off the freeway had never seen a freeway before. And I'm beginning to consider the brighter side of carbon monoxide. Earlier, I spoke of friendliness. It wouldn't be right if I didn't tell you that my new friends in NE were thoughtful enough to tear up the streets and install orange and white street Call Albuquerque what you will; criticize it till the cows come home; complain about dusty roads and smoke-filled winter skies, but don't ever say Albuquerque isn't a city of friendly people who always are willing to help.

Since I have moved from NW to NE, people have written or called to wish me well, say so long to NW, welcome me to NE and offer helpful hints. A Heights person writes: "I dare say that you may very well have alienated yourself from a certain segment of that population (NE) who have little or no sense of humor regarding their 'class' existence, i.e., "the white bread and mayonnaise population." No problem. I haven't alienated myself from anybody. In fact, the day I moved into NE, the Welcome Wagon came by with trays of white-bread sandwiches with mayonnaise and Velveeta cheese. They were wonderful.

1 can't remember the last time there was so much activity on the roof of my mouth. I'm not worried about class distinctions, either. It's a simple matter of blending NW and NE. I have traded in my car and now, sitting in my driveway, is most of a dismantled '59 Chevy and a new Volvo. I have also taken note of the unpretentious, virtually class-distinction-free homes in NW and I have made plans to have a wagon wheel imbedded in the wall of my NE house as soon as possible.

An NE man writes: "For some time now I have been wondering what it was that gave your column a certain flavor. And now you tell us that you've been driving to work down North Human Services Plans Layoffs, Consolidations House Passes Water-Projects Bill; Includes Animas-La Plata Irrigation Compiled From Journal Wires WASHINGTON The House voted Thursday to spend SI 19 million to start construction on 43 new water projects across the country, from Baltimore Harbor to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass appeared in the House press gal Continued From A-l should be eliminated. Only "non-essential jobs" will be slashed, he said.

He defended the cutbacks as being vital to providing more services to HSD's thousands of clients. "We cannot do for our programs what we want to do without making the department administratively more efficient than it is," he said. Under the plan, programs for children, protective programs and early-intervention programs will be stressed, while programs for adults, non-protective programs and remedial programs will be cut back, he said. Also, Goldberg said he will recommend to the 1984 Legislature that it authorize supplemental financial assistance to unemployed parents whose families participate in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. The supplement, which other 4 I i Officials Find Cocaine Trade Snowballing in Albuquerque Rep.

Silvio Conte Hears Protests Lawmakers With Russian Emigre Maestro Blends Music, Charm Community Briefs Radiologists To Meet The ninth annual meeting of the Society of Clinical Radiologists is be held today and Saturday at Albuquerque's Lovelace Medical Center. Dr. Fredric Blackley, chairman of the Lovelace Department of Diagnostic Radiology, is president of the society. Dance Classes Offered Country-western dance classes for beginners will be offered beginning today by the Italian American Association of Rio Rancho, 1566 Stephanie Road. The classes will be held on four consecutive Fridays from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

For more information call 892-0892. Conference JSears Today is the deadline for pre-registration for annual conference of the Albuquerque Association for Gifted and Talented Students. The conference will be Oct. 22 at the Albuquerque Academy. Registration fees are $15 for association members, $20 for non-members and $25 for registration at the door.

Information is available from Judy Hudenko, 293-4274, or Natalie Wahi, 292-8190. Widows Plan Meeting The Albuquerque chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons, Widowed Persons Service, will host a meeting of New Mexico and Texas chapters Saturday at the Hilton Inn. There will be a $7 registration fee for the meeting, which will begin a 9:30 a.m. All widowed persons, regardless of age, are invited to attend. Reservations can be made with Libby Ancell, 821-0180.

Workshops Scheduled The League of Women Voters of New Mexico will hold its annual fall workshops Saturday. The topic for the sessions, to be held at the University of New Mexico Student Union Building, will be how organizations can improve fund-raising efforts. The fee at the door will be $10.50. Housing Seminar Set "The Basics of Buying and Selling Your House," will be the topic of a two-hour seminar Saturday at the Alameda Community Center, 9800 Fourth NW. The fee for the seminar, which will begin at 10 a.m., will be $5 a person or $7.50 a couple.

News items for this column should be mailed to: Community Briefs, P.O. Drawer Albuquerque 87103. Be sure to include a name and telephone number. archdiocese went on. "He had told us since the beginning of his disease, 'No matter what, make sure everything Finn said.

At 6:30 today, the cardinal's body will be brought to the cathedral in mid-Manhattan for a weekend-long public wake. The mass of Christian burial was scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, followed by Cooke's burial in the crypt under the cathedral's main altar along with his predecessors. Finn said the cathedral would remain open until 10 p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday.

A special schedule of masses was announced for various groups, including young people, Hispanics, the military vicariate and archdiocesan clergy, religious groups and states participate in, requires a one-third state share to match a two-thirds federal share. Fisher said he will appeal to Anaya to save HSD's Home-Care Services Program, which provides basic services to the aged and the handicapped. "They're phasing out that program. It involves 155 employees and a very valuable service. We will oppose the closing out of the program," Fisher said.

Goldberg said that program will be picked up by another state agency. Among employees who will see their jobs transferred in order to consolidate similar functions will be trainers, fiscal analysts and planners who are scattered in different divisions, he said. The last major layoff of state employees occurred two years ago, when more than 100 Employment Security Department employees were laid off because of Reagan administration cutbacks. following their Sept. 22 arrest at an Albuquerque motel and seizure of more than four pounds of cocaine.

Middleton is alleged to have been transporting cocaine from Florida to New Mexico, while Kukal is alleged to have been transporting it from Utah to New Mexico, Lutz said. In another indictment unsealed Thursday, Raymond Montoya, 49, and Sally Heath, 44, both of Albuquerque were charged with exchanging methamphetamines and heroin for food stamps. The two were arrested Wednesday following issuance Tuesday of a sealed a grand jury indictment. Also indicted were Raymond and Juan Chavez, two Albuquerque brothers, age 51 and 37; Raymond's son Patrick, 31; and an El Paso man, David Duncan, 36. In an 11-count indictment they were charged with conspiracy to possess, intent to distribute and distribution of heroin.

Their indictment came on the heals of a number of heroin sales to Albuquerque Police Department detectives and federal narcotics agents between May and September, according to Lutz. Raymond was on probation for trafficking in narcotics after a 1980 arrest which was accompanied by the seizure of more than two pounds of heroin. The four men were arrested on the latest charges at a Northeast Heights apartment raid in late September. dignity of human life at a time when many clergymen are compromising their views." Cooke also was praised by television evangelists Robert Schuller and Pat Robertson. Cooke's illness became an impetus for what he called the "defense of life." In the last weeks of his life, he wrote a letter condemning mercy killing and abortion.

"Life is no less beautiful when it is accompanied by illness or weakness, hunger or poverty, physical or mental diseases, loneliness or old age," Cooke wrote in the letter, scheduled to be read at masses in the archdiocese on Sunday. The city's Columbus Day parade, scheduled for Monday, was canceled and there were to be no Catholic school classes on Monday. But otherwise the life of the A federal grand jury Thursday handed up four indictments for cocaine dealing in the Albuquerque area, inspiring U.S. Attorney William Lutz to observe that the District Court is experiencing a tremendous increase in cases involving cocaine. "It used to be an ounce of coke here and an ounce of coke there, but now every one of these involve substantial quantities," Lutz added.

More than 100 pounds of cocaine have been seized in the last two weeks on 1-40, he said. Two indictments stem from separate seizures which occurred on the interstate near Santa Rosa. On Sept. 22 in that area. State Police stopped a vehicle that contained 23 pounds of cocaine, resulting in the indictment of Abraham Uribe, 45, of Miami, for intent to distribute and interstate racketeering.

Then, on Sept. 29, State Police stopped a vehicle at the same spot and seized 42 pounds of cocaine. Two men and a woman were indicted for intent to distribute in connection with the seizure. They are Joram Misoschink of Los Angeles, Marquita Telamantes and Kathleen Kasey, both of Florida. The U.S.

Attorney's Office did not have a record of their ages. Stephen Douglas Middleton, 32, and Joseph Kukal, 26, of Park City, Utah, were indicted for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and interstate racketeering. lery in a pink rubber pig mask to register his protest against the "pork barrel" legislation and against lawmakers with their "schnozzle in the trough Only 13 of the 43 new projects were requested by President Reagan. Moreover, only 23 of the projects in the bill were previously authorized by Congress. One of the projects that received approval is the Animas La Plata Irrigation Project that would serve Colorado and Northern New Mexico.

Martin Roche, acting projects manager for the Bureau of Reclamation in Durango, said he did not know the amount of money in the bill earmarked for the project, but that a House subcommittee earlier had approved $1.35 million for it The irrigation system, which has a price tag of $500 million, would supply water for farming, city and Indian users between Farmington and Durango. Two dams, two major pump plants and numerous canals and reservoirs would divert water from the Animas River The money approved Thursday would fund the first phase of the project, Roche said. It would be used to hire a construction engineer, purchase land and relocate pipelines, he said. First authorized by Congress in 1968, the project has been discussed since the 1940s, Roche said. The bill passed by voice vote after the House defeated 271 to 133 an amendment by Rep.

Bob Kdgar, to delete money for the unauthorized projects "The bill is pork barrel and everything else," said Conte through the mask, which had a long snout and big ears. To demonstrate his point. Conte put his snout to a table and made slurping, oinking noises Conte called his mask "descriptive of these congressmen and congresswomen who have their schnozzle right in the trough and slurping up taxpayer expense on these projects" He said it was likely Reagan would veto the measure. But Rep Tom Bevill, the sponsor of the bill, said he had "no doubt" the Senate would also pass the legislation and Reagan would sign it "We do not anticipate having any difficulty," Bevill said. "It's very critical.

This nation cannot be competitive in the international markets if we do not upgrade our harbors and inland waterways." The new water projects for the Corps of Engineers include replacement or construction of new locks and dams on the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon, on the Ohio River in West Virginia, and the Ohio and Mnnon-' gahela rivers in Pennsylvania and West Virginia Other projects are port and channel improvements in Baltimore, Mobile, Norfolk, Sacramento, San Francisco and Tampa. In addition to the Animas-It Plata project, the bill appropriates funds for three other new Bureau of Reclamation projects: the Narrows Unit lood-control-and-irrigation project in Colorado and hydroelectric projects in Wyoming and Arizona. The proposed improvement of the Baltimore Harbor would provide for a uniform main channel, 50 feet deep and generally 800 or 1,000 feet wide, through the Chesapeake Bay from the Virginia Capes to Fort McHenry. I Continued From A-l sum repression would return every time he programmed a conceit. "I always think, how (is it) possible for me to make my program and not (have toi approve this program with some body'" In Russia, the minister of cul ture would review his programs and tell him he couldn't play one work, or had to insert another He said that from IsMS to 154, Soviet conductors were forbidden to perforin works of Prokofiev and Shostakovich the two greatest contemporary Russian composers And even today, he added, it is difficult to get permission to perform certain of their works "Now I am he said.

"I conduct what I like, what I think is good That includes a fair amount of American music Kostropovich is obviously sensitive to the fact he is a Russian conducting the Unit ed States' National Symphony, questioned about his commit ment to American music, he reeled off a long list of works by U.S. composers he has per formed VI1 lavrphnti' Pig Outfit in House Gallery "Schnozzle in the Trough" The only piece of American music in his Albuquerque concert was the very short "Adagio for Strings'' of Samuel Barber But Henry Fogel, the National Sym phonv's executive director, noted that tour sponsors usually prefer a conservative repertoire, so con certs ill have a belter chance of selling out (Censorship can take different forms Kostropovich spends half his professional life conducting, and the other half playing the cello He responded to a question about Inch fit prefers ith an analogy What you like." he asked the inquiring reporter, "something sail or something sweet' Alter dinner, you prefer something sweet, during dinner, something sail In the same way. he he likes both pursuits in different ways "Because I'm conducting. I'm sure I play better cello, because I get much clearer point of view of the music, of the structure," he added "My cello is also a help to it- as a conductor I can talk to my colleagues the string section about bow mg, bout kinds of sounds uled for Dec 1 before Judge Kase in Kstancia Davis, 34, faced a basic three-year sentence for the gun-possession conviction Davis was charged with several crimes in connection with the June sK2 escape of convicted murderer Thomas Wayne Crump from the Torrance County Jail. Crump, who already was serving two life terms, later admitted killing Albuquerque cab driver Ian Smith and wounding cab driver Steve Hewitt after the escape.

A Torrance County jury last summer convicted Davis of possessing a weapon but acquitted him of conspiracy, assisting an escape and furnishing Crump with articles for the escape. World Leaders Laud Cardinal Cooke Former Policeman Robert Earl Davis Gets Deferred Sentence in Gun Case Continued From A-l country and to the church," Roach said. The Pentagon said there are 538,000 Roman Catholics in the armed services. Counting their dependents, along with personnel from the Veterans Administration, the New York archdiocese said the military vicariate includes 2.1 million people. Bishop Walter Sullivan, of Richmond, a member of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi, described Cooke as "a very kind and gentle person.

He had a real power of persuasion through his wonderful demeanor." The Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority based in Lynchburg, said, "The world has lost a strong proponent for the KSTANCIA A judge on Thursday deferred sentencing former Albuquerque policeman Robert Karl 1 avis and placed him on three years' probation for his July 5 conviction of possessing a deadly weapon as a prisoner. The penalty imposed by state District Judge Kdmund Kase in effect means no additional time will be added to the 22-year term Davis currently is serving for his role in a multistate robbery and burglary ring. Assistant Attorney General Jeff Romero said Thursday, however, that the state will prosecute Davis as a habitual offender, which could add four years to the sentence. Romero said a hearinR is sched.