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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(The launch on this date in 1945 was the seventh sounding rocket launched from White Sands. Two weeks following the 12th flight, the WAC Corporal underwent improvement. By 1954 the Corporal rocket went into service, becoming the first surface-to-surface missile authorized to deliver an atomic bomb.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(The Corporal sounding rocket got its start in June 1944 when the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories California Institute of Technology or GALCIT was asked to develop a ballistic missile. The first was launched in September 1945. Since it was “without altitude control” it was dubbed WAC Corporal.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1945 (Oct. 11): The first manmade object to leave the atmosphere, the rocket “WAC Corporal,” was fired from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It reached an altitude of 235,000 feet, or 72 kilometers (44-1/2 miles).

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1939 (Oct. 11): Clyde Elmer Oden stepped down as Chairman of the City Commission of Albuquerque in favor of Clyde Tingley, the Democratic firebrand who returned this year to Albuquerque politics. He remained in this role throughout the coming war years.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“No claim was made by the plaintiff that he had been damaged in a strictly financial manner by the publication of the alleged libelous editorials published by the defendant, Carl C. Magee.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“The award of $1 in damages, while it is not the amount asked for in the suit, is the usual award termed ‘nominal damages’ by the courts, and which in legal phraseology indicates a complete vindication of the plaintiff, meaning that he was right in his position from a moral and legal standpoint.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“Carl C. Magee, a former resident of Tulsa, is now in Albuquerque as owner of a weekly newspaper, which he purchased after the sale of The Journal some time ago.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“The suit against the former editor and publisher of The Albuquerque Morning Journal (he sold it in May to Sidney M. Well for $200,000), which has been on trial since last Friday, was the aftermath of alleged libelous editorials printed in The Morning Journal during Magee’s ownership.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1922 (Oct. 11): The Morning Tulsa Daily World reported from Albuquerque: “A verdict of $1 damages was returned in district court here today in the $50,000 libel suit of A. B. McMillen, prominent attorney and landowner of New Mexico, against Carl C. Magee.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(The Liberty Loan Parade in Chicago was held, despite Philadelphia’s experience two weeks earlier. New cases spiked in the Windy City after that.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“... albeit not without some individual ridicule suggesting that the masks just looked foolish and did no good - gauze bandages readied for the war effort were put to local use in masks.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“Stores and business in Clovis, Roswell, and Gallup were shut down, while Taos and Dawson (where some 79 fatalities, or 1.32 percent of the town, would eventually die by the end of the year) invoked a gauze mask mandate, requiring everyone to wear one while in public…”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(Soon after, towns like Albuquerque and Pecos closely scrutinized every disembarking passenger coming to their towns, while those who had come from cities and states already afflicted were asked “to move on,” and most objected to such treatment.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1918 (Oct. 11): Three days after the arrival of influenza in Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico, “nearly every family and business house of the city had one or more members down,” according to The Carlsbad Argus.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“‘I shall vote for the (alcohol) prohibition amendment at the coming election solely because I believe that the adoption of such an amendment will better conditions in New Mexico.’”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1917 (Oct. 11): The Albuquerque Morning Journal reported: “Former US Attorney, now Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of New Mexico, David J. Leahy of Las Vegas, expresses his view in a letter to dry headquarters in these words…”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“He was also remembered as ‘being one of the most influential men in the State of New Mexico, his gentility and warm-hearted nature endearing him to all who knew him.’”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(His obituary in the Albuquerque Evening Herald read: “Father Splinters was remembered for being very active in church affairs, particularly administration. He was dean of the southern district of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and was a member of Archbishop John Baptist Pivatal’s Council of Four.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1913 (Oct. 11): Rev. Father John George Splinters, parish priest of Our Lady of Sorrows in Bernalillo, died at age 57. Born in Westphalia on Aug. 17, 1856, he was ordained a priest in Santa Fe by Bishop Lamy on July 25, 1880. Father A. Fourchegu officiated at his funeral.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“Mr. Strong is the Chairman of the Mora County Democratic Party Central Committee. The joke, if it can be called that, is rather heavy.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“When he was gone the editor of El Sol de Mayo went and changed the protest, making it appear that Mr. Strong was protesting against the Democratic Party and published it in his paper without Mr. Strong's knowledge or consent.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(“Mr. Strong replied, also jokingly, that if he gave him his chain and watch, he was theirs. Romero then brought out a piece of paper and begged Mr. Strong to write his protest. Mr. Strong did so, but he protested against the Republican Party and reiterated his adherence to the Democratic Party.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1902 (Oct. 11): La Voz del Pueblo of Las Vegas NM reported: “El Sol de Mayo played a topical joke on Charles Strong of Mora. Mr. Strong was talking with several Republicans, and one of them, Don Secundino Romero, jokingly asked how much he wanted to flip his coat and become a Republican.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

(The Odd Fellows fraternity seemed to follow the US Army into New Mexico during annexation. By the time the cornerstone on the first Odd Fellows Hall in Santa Fe was laid in July 1854, two lodges - Montezuma No. 1 and Paradise No. 2 - operated there. Hon. Joab Houghton spoke during the laying.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisDayIn 1899 (Oct. 11): The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) convened a grand lodge meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall on Sixth Street in East Las Vegas. At the time, some 18 lodges existed across the territory, and Mayor Henry Coors proclaimed his welcome of delegates to the city.

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