Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1973: Carlos Paiz and Curtis Breshears won the two available seats in a Portales school board election that drew 1,135 voters, a number that Portales School Superintendent L.C. Cozzens described as average.
Paiz, an incumbent who had been appointed to fill out a vacancy created by the resignation of Bob Wood, was easily elected to another four-year term with 796 votes, more than four times the total of either of his opponents.
Breshears won a six-year term, taking the seat previously held by Herman Wallace, who opted to not run for re-election. Breshears had 397 votes, enough to defeat seven opponents in a lively race. His closest opponents were Georgia Blackaby with 198, and Gloria Ortega with 188.
1968: The Board of Trustees for Clovis' Memorial Hospital voted to increase patient room rates to help offset expenses after the national minimum wage was raised to $1.60 an hour.
New rates at Memorial, set to go into effect in March, were raised $2 per day.
With the rates, the cheapest semi-private room went from $17 to $19 a day, and the most expensive private room went from $25 to $27 per day.
Hospital administrator Monroe Owens said that even with the rate increases, Memorial Hospital was still "25 to 40 percent cheaper than any other hospital in the state."
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