Happy Independence Day
JULY 4, 2008
Edward ‘Gonzo’ Gonzales holds a U.S. flag he caught after the finale of a fireworks display at Fort Marcy Ballpark in 1948, when he was
12. He’s kept the 48-star flag in a drawer at his home for 60 years.
Star-spangled memories
Keepsake flag: Lifelong resident uncovers a beloved 1948 memento
By Tom Sharpe
The New Mexican
Today’s Fourth of July celebrations got
Edward “Gonzo” Gonzales thinking back to
the U.S. flag that came floating down after
the finale of a fireworks display in 1948.
For 60 years, Gonzales has kept the 48-star
flag and silk parachute stamped “PKW 1945”
tied up with shoestrings in a drawer at his
home in the 200 block of Delgado Street.
On Thursday, as Gonzales and his wife
were preparing to go to this morning’s pan-
cake breakfast on the Plaza and tonight’s
Pets: Loud noises can
spark survival instinct
By Ben Swan
The New Mexican
The rockets’ red glare and bombs
bursting in air might be great for
patriotic fervor, but for many pets, it
inspires a more classic response: flee.
“For them, it’s scary,” said Nina
Chiotasso with the Española Humane
Society. “In my experience, shelters
get a lot of dogs on July 4th because
with the noise from fireworks, they
jump over fences or break out of
houses. They’ll even go through
screen doors.”
Please see PETS, Page A-8
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FRIDAY 50 CENTS
GALISTEO BASIN
Agency
looks to
extend
drill ban
Reports indicate more time
needed to study possible impact
By Phaedra Haywood
The New Mexican
The New Mexico Department of Energy Minerals
and Natural Resources wants to extend the state mora-
torium on oil and gas drilling in the Galisteo Basin at
least six months and equip enforce-
Natalie Guillén/The New Mexican ment regulations with more teeth.
When Gov. Bill Richardson issued INSIDE
an executive order in January ban- u Feds wonder
ning oil and gas drilling in the Gali- if Colorado’s
steo Basin for six months, he also proposed drill-
ordered relevant state agencies to ing regulations
study the issue and prepare reports apply to them.
for him to review the topic. Page A-7
Those reports were released late
Thursday afternoon by the EMNRD, which oversees
the Oil Conservation Division, the agency that regu-
lates oil and gas production in New Mexico.
That agency — and several others, including the
Indian Affairs Department and the Department of Cul-
tural Affairs — recommended in their reports that no
fireworks display at Santa Fe High School, he went to a fireworks display at Fort Marcy Ball-
oil and gas drilling be allowed in the Galisteo Basin for
got to thinking about his memento and took park. When the final rocket exploded, a flag
a least six months, preferably longer. The agencies say
it out of the drawer. came floating down on a small parachute.
“I don’t know if anybody would like “All the kids started after it, and it just so
to look at it,” he said. “It’s just like an old happened that the wind started blowing it to Please see BAN, Page A-7
memento that you never get rid of and prob- the west and, man, I just started running my
ably should have gotten rid of. But I’ve got a best,” he said. “I just caught the end of it and
grandson who would love this.” just pulled it in, and then everybody tried to
Gonzales, 72, is a lifelong Santa Fe resident grab it from me, and I had to fight my way
who retired from the State Engineer’s Office
in 1983. From 1974 to 1978, he was a Santa Fe
out of the crowd. Then I hid it like I had sto-
len something. …
Raid yields drugs
city councilor.
On July 4, 1948, when he was 12 years old
and a paper carrier for The New Mexican, he
“Things weren’t exactly like they are
now in Santa Fe,” he added. “It was a little
rougher growing up.”
and game heads
Black bear head among items
Fireworks: Keep your seized from La Cieneguilla home
celebration safe, legal By Staci Matlock
The New Mexican
The New Mexican
Law enforcement officers raiding a suspected Santa
Playing with fire is an American Fe County drug dealer’s double-wide trailer Monday
pastime for Independence Day, but found marijuana, cocaine and dozens of mounted game
before you blow it up, keep in mind heads.
that most of the popular holiday A Region III drug task force of state police and Santa
explosives are illegal. Fe city and county officers descended on 50-year-old
Within Santa Fe city limits, “danger- Anthony “Tony” Martinez’s trailer in La Cieneguilla on
ous fireworks” are prohibited, includ- Monday with a search warrant. They found an unspeci-
ing any firecracker, Roman candle, fied amount of marijuana and cocaine, said Peter Olson,
Sarah Welliver/The New Mexican skyrocket, torpedo, bomb, blank car- a New Mexico State Police public information officer.
Santa Fe Community College volunteers Michelle tridge, cone-shaped fountain, bottle “They had information that Anthony was dealing
Roetzer, Aimee Colmery and Heather Nelson hand out rocket and flyer or any other type or cocaine,” Olson said.
T-shirts Thursday in preparation for today’s Pancakes form of explosive. Martinez, who has a police record dating back
on the Plaza. More than 400 volunteers are expected Items that shoot more that 15 feet 20 years and an earlier arrest on felony trafficking
to help with the event, which begins at 7 a.m. See Page
A-8 for a schedule of Plaza events. Please see FIREWORKS, Page A-8 Please see RAID, Page A-7
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& Culture
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TIME’
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Gallery of Photography
POLICE STEP UP PATROLS describes 1968, the
subject of an exhibit TODAY
State police hope superblitz will opening Saturday at
cut down DWI-related crashes. Afternoon
the gallery. It Was thunderstorms
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exposes images areas.
9 WOLVES DIE IN WILD YOUTUBE MUST DIVULGE that seem to speak
of turmoil, pain and High 91,
Agency says three Mexican Judge’s ruling shocks privacy low 57.
things gone wrong.
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