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Pfc. Jimmy Hohstead was approaching the end of his scheduled duty in Vietnam when he was killed in action on Oct. 9, 1967, according to his sister, Donna White. Hohstead’s death came as a blow to his sister. The two had just a few years before suffered the death of their parents, but Hohstead knew the risks when he was drafted to go to Vietnam. Before he left at the age of 19 the graduate of House High School had married his girlfriend and moved to Clovis. Hohstead had been a star athlete at House, where he played basketball,... Full story
Cops and courts The 9th Judicial District Attorney’s office has hired a former Texico municipal judge to become the office’s newest prosecutor. Rick Queener, a 1984 graduate of Grady High School who has also served on the Texico City Council, is a graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where he earned his law degree and a masters degree in financial planning, a press release from the district attorney’s office said. He has passed the Texas state bar exam and began working in Curry County on May 10 with a limit...
Members of the Clovis S.W.A.T. team monitor traffic at the corner of Seventh and Walnut streets in Clovis Wednesday after Clovis Police Department issued as search warrant for 701 and 705 Walnut. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. A woman who chewed up and swallowed crack cocaine during a Thursday afternoon SWAT team raid on a Clovis house was taken to Plains Regional Medical Center for emergency treatment, according to Clovis police. Sgt. Jay Longley of the Region Five Drug Task Force said although residue on the woman’s lips test... Full story
Two people were transported to a Lubbock hospital for advanced medical treatment following a one-vehicle rollover Tuesday night near the corner of Brady and Wheaton streets, according to emergency officials. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. Two Clovis residents were transported to a Lubbock hospital after a four-passenger vehicle flipped in Curry County late Tuesday night. All three passengers were ejected from the vehicle, but not the driver. Curry County Sheriff Roger Hatcher said those ejected were “extremely, extremely l...
With little discussion and a unanimous vote, the Clovis Municipal School Board voted Tuesday night to end a long-standing policy requiring board members to gain the approval of the superintendent before adding items to the agenda. The new procedure states that “any board member shall have an item of business added to the agenda when requested in writing and the request is made prior to the publication or posting of the agenda.” Board member Mark Lansford had objected to the board’s procedure at the March 9 meeting when the b... Full story
The newest member of the Clovis Municipal School Board has never held public office before, but that didn’t deter Lola Bryant from applying for a vacant position. Bryant told the school board Tuesday night that she learned about the vacancy caused by George Banister’s April 30 resignation and decided to apply after talking to her family. “I love children and I want to help children,” Bryant told the board. “To me, education is so important to everyone.” Bryant, a third-generation Clovis resident who is a mother of five and...
Police responded about 6:44 p.m. May 16 to a motorcycle crash near Ned Houk Park that sent a 23-year-old man to Lubbock for emergency treatment. Medical staff in Lubbock said the man had been transported by air ambulance while in a coma. After waking from the coma at the hospital he was found to be paralyzed from the neck down. After checking the scene and interviewing witnesses, police determined that the motorcycle spun its tires in the mud and the driver was thrown from the vehicle. • • • Clovis police noticed a white...
A haze of smoke purportedly from a fire in the Capitan Mountains hovered over Clovis on Monday afternoon. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. People looking to the southwest on Monday afternoon may have noticed a dark sky and smelled smoke. The smoke wasn’t coming from anywhere nearby, however — the blazes were three hours away in the Capitan Mountains, according to Battalion Chief Kevin Crouch of the Clovis Fire Department. “I’m looking at a visual satellite map and that appears to be where the smoke is coming from,” Crouch sa... Full story
Two Clovis residents participated in a national conference call with the White House on Thursday regarding improvements in the state and national economy. “All over the United States, different people were on the conference call about how the economy is turning around,” said state Rep. Anna Crook. “There were governors, there were legislators. I asked if they cared if I included the chamber director and they said ‘yes (it would be OK).’” Ernie Kos, executive director of the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, couldn’t be... Full story
A shooting early Sunday morning that sent a Clovis man to a Lubbock hospital may have been gang-related, Clovis police say. Jaime Aragon, 21, was transported to a hospital in Lubbock after he was shot by unknown assailants about 3:20 a.m. Sunday, according to Detective Matthew Solari. The hospital name was not released by police and both major hospitals in Lubbock said they did not have him as a patient. A relative said the family fears retaliation and is afraid to comment, but said Aragon’s condition is deteriorating and h...
Reporter's Notebook Cows, UFOs, and a murdered Singaporean airman all come together in a new fictional crime novel, “The Clovis Incident,” set in Clovis and published by the University of New Mexico Press. Author Pari Noskin Taicher said she wanted to set her novel in a community near Roswell and learned about Clovis by reading an article years ago in The Albuquerque Tribune. Unknown to her, the article was actually about Aztec but by the time she discovered her mistake, Taicher had fallen in love with the small-town feel of...
Curry County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Brockett checks the information of a driver after pulling him or her over for speeding Friday on South Prince Street. (CNJ photo by Eric Kluth) When Curry County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Brockett gets ready for work, he puts on a dark blue-black uniform to patrol the streets and back roads of the county. That’s a different color from what he’s been wearing in recent months. As a sergeant in the New Mexico National Guard, Brockett spent much of the last year wearing green while mobiliz...
Clovis senior Justin Pinckney speaks to nearly 400 fellow graduating seniors about “The Game of Life” during Saturday’s Clovis High School commencement at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. As nearly 400 members of the Clovis High School Class of 2004 prepared to graduate Saturday morning, speakers tried to capture the moment and encourage the students before them to use their high school years as preparation for their future. All three student speakers used sports analogies to show students how they shoul...
A disclaimer sits next to a campaign sign in the yard at the Clovis home of Jennifer and Judge Richard Hollis. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. Both Curry County magistrate judges and a retired district judge have campaign signs in their yards supporting 9th Judicial District Attorney candidate Matt Chandler, despite prohibitions on political activity by New Mexico judges. All three judges — magistrate judges Richard Hollis and Douglas Miller, and retired District Judge Bill Bonem, who still hears some cases — say the signs wer...
Clovis senior Jessica Wymore was in a coma at the beginning of the school year after an auto accident. She graduated Saturday with honors. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. A few months ago, Jessica Wymore never thought she’d be able to graduate with her Clovis High School class on Saturday. About the time school was scheduled to start last fall, Wymore was in a coma on life support at Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock following an Aug. 13 truck crash. Wymore, who had not been wearing a seat belt, hit her head on the inside of h...
A gas station cashier called police shortly before midnight Saturday to report that a man and woman had tried to shoplift two 30-packs of beer from the store at the 1200 block of West 7th Street. The clerk told police she had walked out to stop the woman from getting into the car and keep her there until police arrived. The woman then began pulling her hair and succeeded in shutting the door. Police located a vehicle with a matching license plate at the 1000 block of South Oak. A man at the residence denied having left the...
Edna Pollard of Clovis plays the tambourine as she and Charlene Perkins of Clovis sing a praise and worship song during Tuesday night’s service. CNJ photo: Eric Kluth Shouts of “Hallelujah!” and “We praise God tonight!” rang out Tuesday evening from a church in west Clovis. Enthusiastic praise and intensive teaching are standard fare each year at the state women’s convention of the Church of God in Christ, said Mother Lula Kitchen, state supervisor for women in the denomination. Women from Church of God in Christ congregatio...
Leon Morris wants to hear from local relatives of United States military veterans. Two local veterans’ groups, Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts 3280 and 3015, coordinate the annual Memorial Day placement of American flags on the graves of Curry County veterans. However, Morris said members of local veterans’ groups often hear from relatives that their father, brother, or grandfather doesn’t have a flag on their grave. “The only way we can identify a veteran is the headstone, and if for some reason the family has not obtaine...
New Mexico State Police said a Clovis man flipped his car at least three times south of Clovis on County Road 4. He sustained only cuts and bruises. CNJ staff photo: Darrell Todd Maurina CNJ STAFF REPORTS A 19-year-old Clovis man escaped with only cuts and bruises after falling asleep and rolling his car at least three times on dirt roads, according to New Mexico State Police. Ramon Rodriguez was southbound about 10 p.m. Monday night on County Road H and turned right onto County Road 4 while sleeping, according to Patrolman...
Built in 1890, the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe has a cemetery in the churchyard where the earliest families of the church are buried. (staff photo Darrell Todd Maurina) Northwest of Fort Sumner, a small whitewashed church stands at the end of a one-lane dirt road. Unlike the fallen remnants of buildings around it, the church is carefully preserved. The small sanctuary of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, built in 1890, contains an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe brought from Mexico by the... Full story
Women from N.M. to attend convention Women throughout New Mexico will be coming to Clovis Tuesday through Friday for the state women’s convention of the Church of God in Christ, hosted by Bishop W.C. Green. The convention will open at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday with a musical including choirs and soloists from around the area with Bishop Green speaking. Mother Lula Kitchen, state supervisor of women for the COGIC, has chosen “Holy Women United in Ministry” as the conference theme. The conference will have both daily and nightly servic... Full story
A Cannon Air Force Base pilot dropped two 370-gallon fuel tanks while flying about five miles southwest of the base late Tuesday night. Senior Master Sgt. Stefan Alford, a base spokesman, said no people or livestock were harmed and the plane landed safely. He said the tank release happened due to an unspecified “in-flight emergency” with a F-16 jet from the 522nd Fighter Squadron. Alford said he didn’t know many specific details involving the fuel tank release, which occurred about 11 p.m. “All we can say now is it is unde... Full story
About 9 a.m. Wednesday police responded to Clovis High School where a teacher said she had been collecting money for mothers with children in Iraq and that the money had been stolen out of her desk. A second teacher also reported money missing from her desk. The teachers estimated the total money stolen to be $85. • • • A special education teacher called police about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday regarding abuse of a 14-year-old girl. The teacher reported red marks on the girl’s chest and the girl said her mother had burned her. A... Full story
New Mexico State Police search and rescue divers Sgt. Robert Gomez and officer Ben Hazen help guide a white Subaru Loyale through the water at Chavez Park Tuesday evening. (CNJ photo: Eric Kluth) Children watch as vehicle ends up at bottom of lake. A Clovis man faces drunken driving and reckless driving charges after driving his car into a lake while dozens of schoolchildren watched, according to Clovis police. Police arrested the suspect about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon near Chavez Park, according to Capt. Dan Blair of the... Full story
Gary Graves says he won’t go despite petition. Rex Pope once supported Sheriff Gary Graves and his election campaign. Now, the man who’s lived in De Baca County for 17 years said he has collected more than 300 signatures of people he says want Graves out of the office. “On the petition it says, ‘We, the registered voters of De Baca County, are requesting the resignation of Sheriff Graves,’” Pope said. “He’s caused a lot of problems and cost the county a lot of money.” Graves said he won’t resign. “The history of De Baca Co...
