January 8, 1910: The proposed plan of an automobile route from Santa Fe to San Juan and Taos has been recommended as outlined by Jay Turley, well-known civil engineer. The proposal has been referred to a committee headed by Levi A. Hughes. Other members are Surveyor General March and Territorial Auditor Sargent.

Passengers on the main line for Santa Fe were compelled to spend the entire night in the Lamy Depot since the engine on the branch line to Santa Fe broke down.

Next week, former Atty. Gen. and Mrs. George W. Prichard will move into the Otero residence on Washington Avenue while Land Commissioner R.P. Ervien and family will move into the residence on East Palace Avenue vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Prichard.

January 8, 1960: Seattle, Wash. — The man who introduced the income tax amendment in the U.S. Senate died in a nursing home here Tuesday. Norris Brown, 96, had lived in Seattle since retiring from law practice in Nebraska at the age of 80. He was a Republican senator from Nebraska in 1907-13. In 1909 he introduced a resolution which sent to the states for ratification the constitutional amendment legalizing income tax.

Concord, N.H.— The names of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass), Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller (R-NY) were injected into New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary today. Enthusiastic supporters of Kennedy entered him in the popularity poll section of the March 8 balloting, which will provide the first clue to voter sentiment in this presidential election year.

David Cooper Nelson, a Bible on his lap, smiled at witnesses this morning, took a deep breath of cyanide fumes, and became the first man to die in New Mexico's gas chamber.

January 8, 1985: Gov. Toney Anaya will be asked to provide disaster relief funds for the southern portion of Santa Fe County where miles of gravel roads have been rutted, leaving potholes from the melting of December's heavy snowfall. John Balling, county public works director, said county roads were severely damaged from south of Galisteo to the Torrance-Santa Fe county line. Torrance County already has requested disaster relief.