Candice McDonaldFor the Alamogordo News TALES FROM THE TULAROSA BASIN One afternoon during the 1990s, the superintendent of White Sands National Monument, Dennis Ditmanson, telephoned my father, Clif McDonald, an avid historian and collector of photographs, obscure information, genealogy, and tall tales, and told him he had something to show him at the White Sands Monument. Daddy possessed the rare ability to identify abandoned foundations, rust…