Word: valdez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already taking place in western Colorado is leaving its mark. In Craig, which has doubled to 8,000 since 1975, businessmen boast of the new mall with 26 stores; clapboard houses that sold for $30,000 in 1974 now go for better than twice that amount. But Sheriff S.L. Valdez is handling three times the calls he did two years ago, and Carl Andrews, an Episcopal priest, reports a heavy incidence of depression and child abuse. Says he: "A lot of the hopes and dreams never materialize. All of the fast-moving frenzy, people living crowded in their neighbors...