Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1977: Yucca Junior High students collected 1,259 cans for the annual Salvation Army holiday food drive.
Student council officers counted and sorted cans after the drive. Mike Gunnels was president, Gregg Burch was vice president, Kelley Roose was secretary, and Michele Loftus was treasurer.
The Yucca student who collected the most cans was Mike Wieland from Jack Burch's home room.
1977: David G. Brown had been appointed the new chief of the Portales Police Department, effective Jan. 3, 1978.
Brown came to the job after serving two years as head of a five-county regional child-support program.
He had previously been associated with the district attorney's office in Portales, assigned to child-support cases. That position became federally funded and he ended up supervising those cases in five eastern New Mexico counties.
Tom Plumlee, Portales city manager, made the announcement of the new chief.
Pages Past is compiled by Betty Williamson. Contact her at: [email protected]
