0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 48
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                             JOE M. STELL
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     IN PRAISE OF ARTESIA'S MAYOR ERNEST THOMPSON.
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0012|     
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0013|          WHEREAS, the Honorable Ernest Thompson has been mayor of
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0014|     Artesia since 1972, perhaps the longest running mayoral tenure
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0015|     in New Mexico history; and
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0016|          WHEREAS, at almost eighty-seven years of age, he may be
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0017|     the second-oldest mayor in New Mexico history; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, a litany of the accomplishments of his
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0019|     administrations would fill pages, just for the capital
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0020|     improvements; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, he has always been active in civic, church and
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0022|     government endeavors, serving as past president of the 
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0023|     Artesia rotary club, the New Mexico gideons, the Artesia
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0024|     quarterback club and the parents and boosters club and has
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0025|     been active in boy scouts of America; and
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0001|          WHEREAS, he is the recipient of the boy scouts of
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0002|     America's silver beaver award; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, he is a past president and vice president of the
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0004|     New Mexico municipal league and has been a member of that
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0005|     organization and the national league of cities since 1973; and
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0006|          WHEREAS, Mayor Thompson, a native of central Texas, has
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0007|     been a resident of the Artesia area since 1939 and retired in
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0008|     1976 from the Navajo refining company after twenty-five years
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0009|     of service; and
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0010|          WHEREAS, he has been married to the former Grace King for
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0011|     fifty-five years, and has one son, Robert, of San Diego,
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0012|     California, and two grandchildren; 
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0013|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0014|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that Mayor Ernest Thompson of Artesia be
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0015|     congratulated on his long service to his community and his
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0016|     state; and
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0017|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0018|     transmitted to the Honorable Ernest Thompson, mayor of
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0019|     Artesia.
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0020|                              
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