Pages past — Sept. 16

On this date ...

1974: Midwest Video Corp, Clovis’ cable TV provider, informed customers that Eastern New Mexico University’s new educational station was being carried on channel 3. Some fine tuning might be needed, MVC said. “If 3 is bothering 2 or 4, your fine tuning may need adjustment there too,” an advertisement in the Clovis News-Journal read.

1959: Lynetta Crenshaw, 16, of Melrose was named queen of the Curry County Fair. She “won out over four other area lovelies,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Carolyn Tate of Ranchvale was runner-up.

1944: M&H Parts Co., distributors of roller and ball bearings, located at 113 Main in Clovis, was offering to purchase “nice, clean cotton rags” for 15 cents per pound. Call 777-W.

Landslide ...

The election to select the Curry County seat was held in 1910. Clovis received 1,545 votes to 870 for Texico and 16 for Melrose. “Center,” a bare piece of land in the center of the county, received 208 votes.

We’re No. 1 ...

Mayor Chick Taylor Jr. and City Attorney Harry Patton II convinced Clovis voters to approve the first city sales tax on May 20, 1976. The quarter of a cent tax on every dollar purchase was the first enacted by a city in New Mexico, Taylor claimed.

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