Pages past — March 26

On this date ...

1976: The Floyd Lions Club’s 25th annual Country Jamboree was under way.

Performers included Delman Farris, Ronnie Miller, Johnnie and Barbara Crozier and Kerry Victor.

Portales ventriloquist Zan Bunch also put on her act in the Floyd gymnasium.

1961: A farmer working leased land three miles southwest of Texico had unearthed what he believed was a meteorite.

C. W. Sanders said he struck the object while plowing. It was magnetic, about 6 feet in circumference and weighed an estimated 500 pounds.

Robert Teel, a Texico High School science teacher, told Sanders he believed the object was a meteorite.

1946: Clovis’ Memorial Hospital had 19 newborns in its nursery.

“Hospital attaches are thankful that their nursery has been enlarged, or they wouldn’t have room for all the small fry,” the Clovis News-Journal reported.

1941: The Curry County jail had no prisoners.

Sheriff Bill Collins said it was the first time he’d been without prisoners to watch since he took office two years and three months earlier.

Collins posed for a photo on the front page of the Clovis News-Journal with a sign on the jail door that read, “For rent.”

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

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