Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1983: Texico High School football player Earl Bibbs was named United Press International's Class A Player of the Year.
During the fall of 1982, Bibbs led the Wolverines to an 8-2 record, rushing 886 yards on 160 carries, and scoring 10 touchdowns.
Bibbs' coach David Lynn called Bibbs a "great competitor," and said he was "one of the hardest runners I've ever coached.
"Pound for pound, he is one of the best backs ever to play for Texico," Lynn said.
1953: The Clovis Chamber of Commerce released numbers that showed the population of Clovis and Curry County were both up from estimates done two years previously.
The 1952 population estimate for Clovis was 19,500, up from 17,318 in 1950. For all of Curry County, the 1952 population estimate was 25,500, an increase from the 23,351 from 1950.
Paul Scott, assistant manager of the Chamber of Commerce, said population numbers were arrived at by counting utility connections and multiplying them by 3.2 per family.
For comparison, the 2016 population estimate for Clovis from the United States Census Bureau was 39,373, and the estimate for Curry County that year was 50,280.
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