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1970: Eastern New Mexico University was preparing to host its 23rd annual Sunshine Music Camp with several hundred junior and senior high school students expected to attend.

Instruction was to be provided in dance band, orchestra, concert choir, music theory and more, officials said.

Guest instructors for the 10-day camp were to include Donald Moore, former director of bands at Baylor University.

1950: The Roosevelt County community of Lingo was home to 188 registered voters, up from 185 in 1948, County Clerk B.A. Cook reported.

Registered voters in Elida had dropped from 735 to 505 in the past two years.

In the movies ...

1963: “Hud,” starring Paul Newman and filmed over four weeks around the Texas Panhandle, was released to theaters across the country.

The movie, based on Larry McMurtry’s book, “Horseman, Pass By,” was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won three.

In addition to Newman, who played Hud Bannon, the self-centered son of a Texas rancher, the movie starred

• Melvyn Douglas as Hud’s father,

• Patricia Neal, as the family housekeeper,

• and Brandon De Wilde, as Hud’s teenage nephew.

Water, water, everywhere ...

1975: Amarillo and its surrounding communities were recovering from severe flooding and heavy hail after a night of tornado scares.

National Weather Service officials reported Groom, east of Amarillo, received 6 inches of rain, leaving water 4 feet deep across sections of Interstate 40.

Wheat crops around the region were destroyed by flooding and baseball-sized hail, officials said.

Tornadoes touched down near Midland, Big Spring and Hobbs, destroying a mobile home and a barn, The Associated Press reported.

Eastern New Mexico communities received only sprinkles.

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