From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Feb. 9, 1962: Taos County Commissioner Alex Martinez has cause to suspect that he has an enemy somewhere. The Game Department folks got tipped off by some source they're not naming and caught the Rodarte politico red-handed with a bunch of illegal elk meat in his freezer. It cost him $310 in fines.

C.D. Cline, a Hobbs man now serving penitentiary time for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl more than two years ago, went before District Judge Samuel Z. Montoya Friday morning to plead for his freedom. Cline is seeking his release through a writ of habeas corpus, contending in his petition that the chief witnesses against him have admitted they lied on the trial court stand. The convicted man and his attorneys are optimistic, but past experience in these matters indicate Cline has little hope of freeing himself of the sentence. Records in the District Court Clerk's Office show that 60 briefs seeking freedom for a convict have been filed. The plaintiff never really won a single one.

Feb. 9, 1987: At the Children's Museum, the whole idea is to touch the stuff -- make Lego toys and bubbles, draw Lissajous, interlocking patterns, with a Harmonograph, work with a loom, draw filmstrips for a Zoetrope or, if you're not into stuff yet, just crawl along the floor and go goo-goo. Just about whatever children do is OK at the Children's Museum, which opened again Sunday for a two-week run. The facility is temporarily located in the former Mr. D's space at the mall, where it first opened late last year.

The moon took on an unearthly aura Sunday night, leading many Santa Feans to wonder what caused the mystical look. A meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Albuquerque explained that the glowing ring around the moon was formed by the refraction of light by ice crystals contained in cirrus clouds about 30,000 feet above New Mexico. The ring was visible all over the state.