Pages past - Sept. 29

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1982: Rosli Hussein, a 22-year-old freshman at Eastern New Mexico University “just off the plane from Malaysia” was making a name for himself as the new placekicker for the Greyhound football team.

Hussein, who had never even seen a football game before coming to the U.S., was on the national soccer team for his home country. In a visit with Wayne Gares, vice president for student affairs, Hussein was lamenting the fact that Eastern had no soccer team and said he was considering trying to transfer to a school that did.

Gares knew the Hounds were in the market for a kicker since theirs had recently been declared ineligible. He convinced Hussein to try out and “all doubts were erased as his booming kicks proved to be just what the doctor ordered for the Greyhounds’ kicking woes,” according to the Clovis News-Journal.

1972: Newspaper Managing Editor Bill Southard offered an explanation for a helicopter that had been seen in the parking lot at Gebo’s in Clovis.

“When you have 10 stores in 10 different cities, the way to travel is by helicopter,” Southard wrote. “H.M. Gebo of Plainview has his own whirly-bird — he flies it himself — to make the rounds.”

The chain of agriculture supply stores was founded by Horace Gebo in 1959.

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