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Jaime Garza said his son wanted to be in the military since he was youngster growing up in Portales watching planes take off from Cannon Air Force Base. Army Pfc. Damian Garza, 19, of Odessa, Texas, died Thursday in Afghanistan after his vehicle slid off the road into a river near Jalalabad. It was Garza’s second tour of duty in Afghanistan. “He’d always tell us he’d be flying one of those or a helicopter — or jumping out of one,” said Jaime Garza of Odessa. “We thought he was crazy, but he just said he wanted to be the bes...
Marc Schoder: PNT staff writer Portales football coach Glenn Johnson said that there are no excuses for the way his team finished last year and he plans to do things differently as two-a-day practices started for the Rams. “We are going back to working on the fundamentals of football,” said Johnson, “both teaching it on the field and on the (black)board.” Portales started 3-0 in 2004 and was ranked No. 1 at that point in Class 3A, but the Rams finished by losing their last seven games. “The practice went well today. It...
Helena Rodriguez: PNT staff writer When many people order at a fast-food drive through, they assume they’re talking to a person in that building. In the near future, however, it could be an operator in Clovis taking their orders from around the country. An SEI call center is scheduled to open in Clovis before the end of the year, employing an initial two dozen or so bilingual employees at the old ClientLogic building near Clovis Community College. The center could eventually employ as many as 75 people to man calls in E...
Terry Horton Services: Have been held. Terry Horton, 70, of Edmond, Okla., died Friday, July 22, 2005. He was born on May 6, 1935, in Clovis, to Daisy Mae and E.H. Horton. He was the youngest of four sons. He married Elaine Summers in March 1958. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1958 and master’s of education in 1964. He received a doctorate in education from New Mexico State University in 1969. He was an elementary teacher in Merced, Calif., and Clovis. He was a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma from 196...
Elfigo Montano Services: 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Helen Catholic Church in Portales. Mr. Elfigo Montano, 56, of Portales, died Friday, Aug. 5, 2005 in Portales. Mr. Montano was born June 21, 1949, in Portales to Rosa and Juan F. Montano. He lived in Portales all of his live. He served in the New Mexico National Guard for several years, and was transferred to active duty and served in Germany. He worked for several years as a mechanic and a carpenter, but had been disabled and unable to work for the past several years. He was a...
Staff and wire reports Jaime Garza said his son wanted to be in the military since he was youngster growing up in Portales watching planes take off from Cannon Air Force Base. Army Pfc. Damian Garza, 19, of Odessa, Texas, died Thursday in Afghanistan after his vehicle slid off the road into a river near Jalalabad. It was Garza’s second tour of duty in Afghanistan. “He’d always tell us he’d be flying one of those or a helicopter — or jumping out of one,” said Jaime Garza of Odessa. “We thought he was crazy, but he just said...
Helena Rodriguez: PNT staff writer Many large retail stores in the Clovis-Portales area reported doubling their back-to-school sales during this past weekend’s tax-free holiday. Meanwhile, mostly smaller stores reported little to no impact. “This is the first year that we got to actually participate in the tax-free weekend in the Portales store so we had a great weekend. We had a lot more traffic and sales were double to last year,” said Melissa Bonem, manager of the Beall’s store in Portales. Although some stores in Clovis...
Marlena Hartz: Freedom Newspapers Exhibiting a rare talent for a child her age, Carlee Luscombe, 8, has mastered the skill of being completely still. Every six months, the flaxen-haired cancer survivor needs an MRI. The machine takes magnetic photographs of her brain, only four years ago, home to a malignant tumor. The process requires Carlee remain completely still for sometimes more than 30 minutes. “It feels like you are going through a tunnel and you get stuck, and then someone’s hammering on the side, it’s loouu...
Clovis High outside hitter Aimee Hilburn has returned to the Lady Wildcats volleyball team this year after skipping her junior season to concentrate on basketball. (CNJ staff photo: Andrew Chavez) Clovis High’s Aimee Hilburn decided to skip her junior year in volleyball to concentrate on the basketball season. Brittany Blackmon, who hadn’t played volleyball since junior high, thought about going out last year but also opted to focus on basketball. Their decisions worked out — the Lady Wildcats captured the Class 5A girls...
Sophomore backs (from left) Dominique Charles, Jaden Isler and Taylor Muse receive snacks from CHS football booster club member Bessie Lovern during a break on Monday’s first day of football practice. (CNJ staff photo: Andrew Chavez)Clovis High seni Clovis High senior Aaron Simon is changing positions in the offensive line this year, but he says he doesn’t mind. A starting tackle last season, Simon has moved to center for the Wildcats, who began preseason workouts on Monday. “I played center in the ninth grade,” the 6-foot-...
Red planet sighting event is hoax A rumor about the red planet, which claims that Mars will come its closest ever to Earth on Aug. 27, has been racing through cyberspace inboxes. “Three different people sent me the e-mail,” said Carol Nash, secretary of Clovis’ Astronomy Club. “It’s stirring up excitement. But it’s just someone’s idea of a joke.” Mars did pass extraordinarily close to Earth — in August of 2003. According to www.snopes.com, a Web site created to debunk urban legends, the e-mail “is just another example of an i...
Jaime Garza said his son wanted to be in the military since he was youngster growing up in Portales watching planes take off from Cannon Air Force Base. Army Pfc. Damian Garza, 19, of Odessa, Texas, died Thursday in Afghanistan after his vehicle slid off the road into a river near Jalalabad. It was Garza’s second tour of duty in Afghanistan. “He’d always tell us he’d be flying one of those or a helicopter — or jumping out of one,” said Jaime Garza of Odessa. “We thought he was crazy, but he just said he wanted to be the bes...
Music lovers will be traveling thousands of miles to attend the upcoming Clovis Music Festival. Tickets for the Sept. 8-10 event have been purchased by fans from as far away as The Netherlands and England, according to the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce. John Beecher of Gloucestershire, England, is co-owner of Rollercoaster Records with JL Allison, drummer and founding member of the Crickets. “I’m thrilled to be attending the festival this year (a first for me) and it will be great to be back in Clovis. Norman and...
This could turn out to be nothing much, or it could be a major scandal that ends up affecting U.S. relations with Israel. The emerging Larry Franklin-AIPAC story bears watching because it could signify an organized effort to affect U.S. policy in the Middle East — perfectly legitimate — that veered over the edge of legality. Last September the FBI let it be known it was investigating Franklin, a mid-level employee with the Department of Defense’s Office of Special Plans. The OSP had acquired a reputation for inter...
When I was a kid, I lived under a family curse that was common in America in those days. It was called “Relatives Dropping In.” I’m talking here about uninvited guests. You know, out-of-work uncles, religious aunts, outlawed cousins and icy in-laws, and they all stayed for days, sometimes months. By tradition, the welcome mat was always out, and there was no escape. In my role as low man on the totem pole, I occasionally learned of these visitations ahead of time by means of stern lectures about how I should behave in the p...
In 1998 and again in 1999, the Army missed its recruiting goals. But the challenges then were modest compared to what the Army faces today, said Curtis Gilroy, the Defense Department’s director of recruiting policy. “And that’s primarily because of the Iraq War,’’ said Gilroy. “It’s really very, very different’’ than in the late 1990s. The problem then was a budget miscalculation. Recruiting services had too little money for advertising and too few recruiters on the street to compete for volunteers in a thriving economy. “We...
Linda Eggers Services: Have been held. Linda Kay Winkles Eggers, 53, of Great Falls, Mont., formerly of Clovis, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. She was born on Sept. 25, 1951, in Clovis. She was a retired bartender. She was raised and educated in Clovis. Survivors include her partner, Bill Kubas of Great Falls, Mont.; two daughters, Kenda J. and Susan L. Eggers, both of Great Falls; a son, Kenneth Eggers III of Great Falls; her mother, Mary Winkles of Clovis; a sister, Jane Miner of Clovis; a brother, Don Winkles of Yucaipa,...
Effie Terrill Services: Have been held. Mrs. Effie Belle Terrill, 91, of El Paso, Texas, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005, at her home. She was born on July 12, 1914, in Quail, Texas, to J.W. and Myrtle Jewel Crowley. She married Buster Terrill on Nov. 28, 1935, in Santa Rosa. She lived the majority of her life in the Clovis and Melrose area. She spent the last seven years of her life living with her daughter in El Paso, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and a son, Bill Terrill. Survivors include a...
James Southard Services: Have been held. Mr. James Pierce “Jim” Southard, 70, of Kenna, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005, at Covenant Lakeside Hospital in Lubbock. He was born on Aug. 30, 1934, on the family ranch in Kenna, to Frank and Kathleen McDowell Southard. He spent most of as a cattle rancher. In 1977, he founded Kenna Water Sales, a transport business that serviced the oil fields of Chaves and Roosevelt counties. He married Jean V. Jenkins on June 19, 1953, in Santa Rosa. He married Betty Mitchell on Dec. 30, 1994, in Mor...
Lyna Sego Services: Have been held. Lyna M. Sego, 85, of Albuquerque, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005, at her home. She was born on March 10, 1920, in West Point, Miss., to Charles T. White and Lina M. Worth. She moved to Amarillo at age 2 and graduated from Amarillo High School. She married Ernest A. Sego on Dec. 26, 1937, in Alamosa, Colo. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Martha S. Sego-Calvert. Survivors include her husband; a sister, Martha E Biglow; four sons, William A. Sego (and wife, Irene), Robert M. Sego (Nora),...
Alex King Services: Have been held. Alex King, 73, of Fort Worth, Texas, died Wednesday, July 27, 2005, in Granbury, Texas. He was born on Dec. 7, 1931, in Lingo. He married Delores Laverne Victor on July 6, 1952, in Dora. He was a former resident of the Pecan Plantation near Granbury, Texas. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Granbury. He started his engineer profession at Convair in 1954. He worked for NASA for several years and retired from Lockheed in 1991. Survivors include his wife: a son, Leroy King...
Carmen Kessler Services: Have been held. Carmen Renate Jacklin Kessler, 51, of Portland, Maine, died Friday, July 8, 2005, at Southern Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. She was born on Feb. 26, 1954, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Duane and Anna Jacklin. She graduated from Clovis High School in 1972. She was a beautician for several years before becoming ill. She was a member of the Lutheran Church. Family members said she loved to travel and as a child lived all over the world. Family members said her favorite place was...
Frederick Hale Services: Have been held. Frederick Hale, 78, of Portales, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, at home. He was born on Sept. 5, 1926, in Gettysberg, Pa., to Herbert A. and Fredericka Stalb Hale. He married Lorena McFarland on May 12, 1946, in Farmington. He was the office manager for El Paseo Natural Gas Co. in Gallup. He was a member of the Elks Lodge in Gallup and Wilcox, Ariz., and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Clovis. He was preceded in death by his wife; his parents; and a brother, Bill Hale. Survivors...
Michael Shane Pugh Services: Have been held. Michael Shane Pugh, 41 of Lubbock died July 26, 2005, in Lubbock. He was born on Feb. 20, 1964, in Hereford, Texas, to Michael E. and Sherry Kay (Brown) Pugh. He graduated from Muleshoe High School in 1983. He was a volunteer at the Bowie Elementary School in Corsicana, Texas. Family members said he fishing, music and children. Survivors include his father, Michael Pugh of Muleshoe, Texas; his mother, Sherry Kay Pugh of Clovis; a daughter, Mica Jan Pugh of Clovis; a son, Todd...
Espira Saiz-Sanchez Services: Have been held. Espira Saiz-Sanchez, infant, died Sunday, July 31, 2005, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. She was born on July 31, 2005, in Clovis. Survivors include her parents, Roberto Sanchez and Nancy Saiz; a brother, Matt Saiz; two sisters, Nichole Lujan and Ave Sanchez; her grandparents, Macario and Adela Saiz and Ruben and Eduvijes Sanchez; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. Burial will be at Portales Cemetery. Arrangements are by Steed-Todd Funeral Home of...
