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Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 50. North wind 10-15 mph, becoming south in the afternoon. Clear at night, with a low around 27. South wind 5-10 mph, becoming west after midnight.

Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 64. West wind 10-15 mph. Mostly clear at night, with a low around 33.

Friday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. A 10 percent chance of rain at night. Partly cloudy, with a low around 36.
 

Sunrise ... Sunset
6:44 a.m. to 5:46 p.m.

By Margaret McKinney
Highlands University

An international expert in volcanology from France will shed light on local extinct volcanoes during a series of public talks at Highlands University beginning Tuesday.

New Mexico has the most extinct volcanoes on the North American continent and Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, a geology professor at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France, will decipher local landmarks during his time at Highlands as a Visiting Ballen Scholar.

By Vik Jolly
The Associated Press

SANTA FE — A New Mexico House committee Friday voted to approve a revamped right-to-work bill that tacks on an increase in the minimum wage from $7.50 to $8 an hour.

After some heated exchanges in a six-hour session, the House Judiciary Committee voted 7-6 along party lines to approve the Republican-sponsored revised bill that prohibits requiring workers to join a union or to pay dues as a condition of employment.

The revised bill now moves to a vote of the full House of Representatives.

In 1965
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1965 — A former Las Vegan, Paul T. Nolan, is the author of the lead article in the January New Mexico Magazine. Titled “Captain Jack Rides Again,” it is the story of Capt. Jack  Crawford, an Indian scout after the Civil War, who toured with Buffalo Bill Cody in melodrama of the western frontier. Nolan is now on the faculty of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. According to Nolan, Capt. Jack was the first New Mexican to copyright plays, the first being dated 1888 in the file of the Library of Congress.