The past 100 years May 6

| The New Mexican

5/6/2008 - 5/6/08

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

May 6, 1908: Attorney Juan A.A. Sedillo this morning received a letter from a lawyer in Washington, D.C., proposing that they form a partnership to get Mexican divorces for U.S. citizens. The writer asks Sedillo to write explaining "all about your Mexican courts down there."

May 6, 1958: The place to start attacking the juvenile delinquency problem "is on the seat of the pants," Dist. Judge David W. Carmody said today. "The first place that a respect for authority needs to be established is in the home and if parents would instill that authority with the judicious application of a birch or hickory switch, we would have far fewer of these teenagers appearing in juvenile court."

A quick thinking Santa Fe man yesterday snatched 3-year-old Donna Lee Vigil from the brink of death. Glen Malin took the little girl, unconscious, from the waters of the Santa Fe River on West Alameda, and applied artificial respiration to bring her back to life.