Pages past — Jan. 31

On this date ...

2006: Portales’ Lady Rams clobbered Lovington, 64-20, to run their high school basketball winning streak to four games.

Ashleah Richards scored 18 points to lead all scorers as Portales improved to 16-6 for the season, 3-0 in District 4-3A play.

1976: The Clovis High School drill team took first place in state competition.

The girls also won 11 individual awards, plus the spirit trophy for the second consecutive year.

1956: Clovis’ Citizenship Education Seminar was declared successful by Davenport Beasley, director of instruction at Clovis schools.

Beasley said 43 administrators and teachers from around the region attended the gathering.

“The seminar was organized for the purpose of acquiring teachers with the latest methods available in the teaching of citizenship education,” the Clovis News-Journal reported.

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

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