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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Services: Have been held. Mr. J.W. Luce, 87, of Portales, died Friday, Oct. 3, 2003, at his home in Portales. He was born on Feb. 4, 1916, in Wellington, Texas, to Ida Pearl and George N. Luce. His family came to Clovis around 1924 before moving to Portales. Mr. Luce helped his father dig the basement of the Roosevelt County Courthouse. He worked as a heavy equipment operator and postal worker. He married Fern Downey in 1933. They had eight children. He married Opal Smith on July 30, 1960. Mr. Luce loved gospel music,...
Services: Have been held. Walter Elbert Ross, 86, of Albuquerque, died Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003, in Albuquerque. He was born on Feb. 7, 1917, in Arkansas, to Walter and Mary Elizabeth Clement Ross. While living in Grapevine, Ark., his family owned Walter Ross and Sons Grocery. After he moved to Albuquerque he was a salesman of fountain supplies for Rocky Mountain Wholesale. He then moved to Portales, where he owned Highway 70 Restaurant. After retiring he moved back to Albuquerque and was a member of Hoffmantown Church. He was...
The Roosevelt County District Attorney’s Office has been so cramped for space that at one point employees there used an area near the kitchen sink to file their cases. A similar shortage of personnel and funds for the district attorney’s office are allowing criminals, especially drug offenders, to receive light sentences and thus get released back into the community sooner than expected, local law enforcements officials said at a Roosevelt County Crime Stoppers special meeting on Tuesday. “We may have a case that we put a...
The Roosevelt County Commission at Tuesday’s meeting discussed the probability of raising taxes to fund additional space for the county detention center. The cost would run between $3.6 to $5.2 million depending on size. A couple of the options discussed to foot the bill would either be an increase of a gross receipt tax or a property tax. The gross receipt tax in Portales is 6.8125 percent, which is in the top ten out of all of the New Mexico community gross receipt tax rates. Out of the 6.8125 percent, 1.56 goes to city, .7...
Local librarians scored a major victory in the never-ending battle to recoup books when the Portales City Council adopted an ordinance that would make not returning a book a petty misdemeanor. The ordinance passed by a 6-1 vote at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. Council member Jake Lopez cast the lone no vote. City officials said they don’t want to use this ordinance as a means to rack up criminal records for unsuspecting teens and unorganized adults. “We don’t intend to make criminals out of everybody who has forgott...
Award winners announced at Tuesday’s Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce annual banquet have two things in common — they’re all successful and they all attribute that success to their community. Robert Encinas, Dennis Edwards and Thom Moore spent the night in the spotlight at the Memorial Building. Encinas, owner of Robert’s Television and Appliance, was presented with the Harley and Faye Borden Memorial Award. “The award goes to someone who has really improved their business,” said Glen O’Rear, the chamber’s for...
Barney Smith, 73 Barney Joe Smith, 73, of Bowie, Texas, a yard supervisor in the oil field, died Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003, at Bowie Memorial Hospital in Bowie. He was born on March 1, 1930, in Floyd. He married Janice Ann Summers on May 25, 1985, in Bowie. He was of the Church of Christ faith. After his discharge from the Marine Corps, he worked as a rodeo bull rider, for El Paso Natural Gas Company in Aztec, the Santa Fe Railroad in Clovis and Condor Drilling Company in Bridgeport, Texas. He retired in 1998. He was preceded i...
BARNEY SMITH Services: Have been held. Barney Joe Smith, 73, of Bowie, Texas, a yard supervisor in the oil field, died Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003, at Bowie Memorial Hospital in Bowie. He was born on March 1, 1930, in Floyd. He married Janice Ann Summers on May 25, 1985, in Bowie. He was of the Church of Christ faith. After his discharge from the Marine Corps, he worked as a rodeo bull rider, for El Paso Natural Gas Company in Aztec, the Santa Fe Railroad in Clovis and Condor Drilling Company in Bridgeport, Texas. He retired in 1... Full story
Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports: Two vehicles sustained heavy damage in a crash about 6:20 p.m. Monday on the corner of 21st and Thornton streets. A 1991 GMC pickup was westbound in the left-turn lane of 21st Street while a 1994 Buick was eastbound in the left lane of the same street when the GMC tried to make left turn and collided with the Buick. The Buick driver suffered a cut on the chin but did not require medical attention. Police cited the GMC driver for...
Editor’s note: This is the 14th in a series of United Way agency profiles scheduled for publication each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday through Nov. 21. When local Salvation Army director Hector Diaz says he already has 400 families signed up to receive holiday meal boxes this year, what comes next isn’t really expected. “I would like to register more. We will provide a box with everything the family needs for a whole meal and a toy for each child in the family,” Diaz said. “We already have 400, but everything we raise goe... Full story
A town in our area harbors deep secrets. A railroad had built from the east to the west in eastern New Mexico prior to Clovis and Texico. Killings were commonplace in this new tent town, which for its first year went by the name of “Six-Shooter Siding.” Ill feelings between the gandy dancers — railroad construction crew members — and the cowboys from the vast ranches in the area led to the killing of 13 men. At first, the sunburned cowboys looked on the budding town as the answer to a cowboy’s dream: saloons, whiskey,...
Leonard Pitts Jr. How long do you figure it would take you to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Not trying to set a land speed record, mind you. Just working at a normal pace, slapping jelly on one slice of bread, peanut butter on the other. How long do you figure it would take, start to finish? Thirty seconds? Forty-five? Do you really have that kind of time to waste? PJ Squares is betting that you don’t. So the company, born — it swears! — in Sandwich, Ill., is offer...
Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico It hasn’t been the most promising couple of weeks for the military campaign in Iraq. But on another important front, the home front, the Pentagon last week scored a quiet but significant victory over forces trying to undermine U.S. military readiness by restricting the use of training bases and emerging technologies. And a victory in the battle here at home may be critical to ensuring future victories in far-off lands. Last week’s approval by Congress of the “Range Readiness and Prese...
The 27th Fighter Wing Maintenance Group at Cannon Air Force Base has won the 2003 Daedalian award, Air Combat Command announced in a news release Tuesday morning. “Winning this award is the culmination of a year-long effort by 1,800 of the finest maintainers in the Air Force,” said Col. Mark Atkinson, 27th Maintenance Group commander. “It was a team effort from our lowest ranking airman, working 12-hour shifts when the mission demanded it, to four of the finest maintenance squadron commanders ever assembled in one location....
The De Baca County Jail in Fort Sumner may soon get a $75,000 state grant to make urgently needed repairs on its jail and buy additional equipment for the sheriff’s office, according to County Commission Chairman Powhatan Carter III and Rep. Jose Campos. Meeting Tuesday afternoon, the commission reviewed Friday’s jailbreak in which an inmate wanted for multiple carjackings and armed robberies escaped for about 10 minutes. “We just talked about the sheriff going through some new procedures which we needed to work on,” Carter... Full story
A Clovis man fleeing police was arrested inside Barry Elementary School on Tuesday morning. Authorities said no one was injured at the school and students were safely locked behind classroom doors as officers chased the man through the hallways. The New Mexico State Police said the incident began about 8:05 a.m. when the Clovis Police Department issued a lookout for a blue Chevrolet Camaro whose driver, later identified as Guillermo Gonzales of Clovis, was a suspect in an aggravated assault that occurred earlier in the... Full story
The movie “The Hulk” plays during Movie Day as part of the Clovis Community College 2003 Homecoming activities Tuesday at the Commons. At left, working the table, are students Carisima Garcia, Gina Martinez, and Tara Winslow. CNJ photo: Eric Kluth Clovis Community College has no athletic team. That won’t prevent homecoming this week. Today’s events include hypnotist Steven Wood at 7 p.m. in the CCC Town Hall and a “find a prairie dog” contest from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. At 11:45 a.m. Thursday, Andy Mason and Brackston T...
Hastings associates make the final preparations Sunday night for their grand opening, which was Monday. CNJ staff photo: Ben Kessler Clovis’ newest business is off to a good start. “I called headquarters (in Amarillo) on the phone and people couldn’t believe it,” said Jessica Ririe, who helps set up new Hastings stores. “We had 50 people here at 9 a.m. and now we’ve got at least that many in the music department alone,” she said about 4:30 p.m. on Monday. The 24,400-square-foot store at 2001 North Prince St., which opened...
