Paperboy longs for hometown

Don Kinzie was a Clovis News Journal paperboy in the early 1950s. On Wednesday, he e-mailed a couple of photos from those days, which we’ll post as a “Photo of the day” in the next week or so.

Kinzie lives in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., now.

“My father was a railroader and moved the family (from Clovis) to Belen in January of 1953,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I left Belen in 1957 when I joined the Air Force.”

Kinzie says he spent 21 years in the Air Force before retiring in 1978.

“During the last 60 years I have traveled through Clovis a number of times. Sadly, I must say I haven’t done much while there except for short visits with relatives and/or driving by my childhood home. Next time through I must see more of my hometown and birthplace,” he wrote.

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Clovis’ Christy Mendoza will be rooting for the New York Giants the remainder of this football season.

“I was in New York for their historic win against the Cowboys and got caught up in Giant Fever,” she wrote in an e-mail. “It was a lot of fun and a few fights.”

Mac McDonald is cheering for San Diego.

“Since one of the backfield coaches for the Chargers (Matt Simon) played four years at Eastern New Mexico University, I think that is the one I would love to see win the Super Bowl,” he wrote.

District Attorney Matt Chandler reports he too is a Matt Simon fan.

“Matt and I ate lunch together with some mutual friends prior to the Chiefs vs. Chargers game,” Chandler wrote. “He is a man of great character and a big fan of Portales!”

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One of the first bills New Mexico lawmakers pass each year is the “feed bill,” which allocates funds for the legislative session.

This year, they’ve proposed almost $5 million for 30 days. Those fees include $144 per day per lawmaker for expenses.

New Mexico legislators are not paid for their work, but that could soon change. Dana Bowley, executive director of New Mexico Press Association, reports a constitutional amendment has been proposed that would establish salaries for legislators – about $25,400 per year.

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Clovis’ historian Don McAlavy reports Gayla Brumfield or Gloria Wicker would be the city’s first female mayor if either is elected in March – “as best my memory tells me,” he writes.

“If you wait a while,” he adds, “you might discover a woman becoming president of the United States. But being the Republican that I am, I’ll not vote for her.”

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