Pages past — Jan. 6

On this date …

2006: Newspaper columnist Bob Huber of Portales wrote about his love for a Model-A Ford he’d purchased when he was a young man.

“My longing for (the vehicle) ranked up there with a gnawing appetite for winsome ladies. I figured I’d have access to the latter, if I could just drive the former,” he wrote.

He paid $100 for the car, found a mouse nest under the seat and paid no attention until one night on a double date when a girl in the rumble seat began screaming. “A mou-mou-mouse ran up my leg!” she cried.

Huber said he removed all of the mousetraps from the car just before he traded it for a Studebaker.

1976: Clovis Mayor Chick Taylor Jr. became visibly upset during a city commission meeting when residents suggested plans to reroute U.S. Highways 60 and 84 through the city had not been studied enough.

“We’ve spent $37,000 on researching and drawing up a master plan. If you want to blow this project — blow it!” Taylor said during the meeting.

Debate on the issue continued to another meeting.

1956: A Clovis woman had pleaded guilty to her involvement in a fight at the Yucca Club and was fined $15. The woman she was fighting was scheduled in court later in the week.

1941: Curry County’s last Civil War veteran — 93-year-old Henry Bieler — had died.

Bieler joined the Union forces in the summer of 1864, the Clovis News-Journal reported.

He’d lived at 810 Reid St. Services were held at the Presbyterian church.

Pages Past is compiled by Editor David Stevens. For more regional history, check out his weblog at:

www.highplainsyesterdays.com