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On this date ...

1975: Navy Seaman Matthew Acker of Portales had graduated from Mess Management Specialist School at the Naval Training Center in San Diego. The eight-week course included instruction and on-the-job training in food preparation, menu planning and food service.

1960: Eastern New Mexico University was committed to a 10 percent budget reduction, but Board of Regents President Clarence Worley said faculty pay would remain the same. Most of the cuts would come in maintenance and supplies, Worley said, and just three new faculty members would be hired, instead of the seven planned.

1955: Tommy Cook of Portales, a freshman at Eastern New Mexico University, had been elected president of New Mexico’s Future Farmers of America. Another ENMU student, Alta Hamilton of Clovis, had been named the organization’s secretary.

Their business ...

1960: Ellerd & Ellerd Feed Store, formerly Ben’s Feed Store at 723 S. Ave. C in Portales, offered “fast, clean production line milking with a De Laval combine milker.” The system was “easier on cows’ udders,” an Ellerd newspaper ad claimed.

Transitions ...

1950: Bob Slone had taken over the Farmers Hatchery and Supply Co. on South Montana Street and would operate it as sole owner. He planned to discontinue the hatchery, but would handle farm implements, The Portales Daily News reported. The business would be known as the Slone Implement Co.

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