Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1957: Mountain States Telephone Co. had a large advertisement in the Clovis News-Journal introducing the concept of “7 turns of the dial on every Clovis call.”
All Clovis telephone numbers started with the letters “P” and “O,” followed by a five-digit phone number.
“There’s an easy way to say and remember the new numbers,” the ad said. “For example, POrter 3-7665. If you were to give this number to the operator or repeat it to a friend, try breaking it up like this: POrter three — seven-six — six-five. This is the best way to say it — to understand it — to remember it.”
1952: A U.S. Air Force photo printed in the Clovis News-Journal showed some of the 40 Explorer Scouts from Portales and Clovis who had been outfitted with parachutes before boarding an Air Force C-47 plane at Cannon Air Force Base for a flight over eastern New Mexico a few days earlier.
Oscar P. Cantwell, Plains District field executive for the Boy Scouts of America, supervised the outing. Troop leaders were Jack Eichenberger, Bud Cagle, and Art Hutchins of Clovis, and J.E. McKillip of Portales.
The Boy Scouts were visiting their sponsor squadrons in the 140th Bomber Group at the base.
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