Pages past - Nov. 30

On this date

1976: Curry County 4-H had presented more than 200 awards during its annual banquet.

New council officers included President Jay Lynn Blackburn and Vice President Perri Hathorn.

Pam Southard was the new secretary.

1971: A cold front had moved into eastern New Mexico, bringing snow flurries in addition to below-freezing temperatures.

"Most communities in the Eastern Plains were under a thick blanket of fog today following favorable sunny weather (the day before)," the Clovis News-Journal reported.

1966: Clovis pioneer Ernest Marsh had been named chairman of the board and chief executive of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Marsh had moved with his family to Clovis in 1908, when he was a boy.

He began working for the railroad in Clovis as a clerk in 1918, the Clovis News-Journal reported.

He worked in Clovis 14 years before accepting a railroad job in Amarillo. From there, he was promoted to a position in Topeka, Kansas, and then became the railroad's president in Chicago before the promotion to chairman of the board.

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