Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1963: A headline in the Clovis News-Journal about the previous night's city commission meeting read, "Water Woes Predicted; Shortage Plans Started."
"We all may not be around to see it," Mayor Ted Waldhauser told the commissioners, "but sometime in the future, Clovis will need additional water supplies."
One plan Waldhauser foresaw was piping water 70 miles over land from the Canadian River.
"One thing is certain," Waldhauser warned. "Sometime in the future we're going to need more water. It may be 50 years from now, but now is the time to start thinking about it."
1953: The deadline was looming for drivers to put 1953 license plates on their cars, and there were long lines at the basement of the Curry County courthouse where car owners waited to get the new plates.
Because the Feb. 28 deadline had fallen on a weekend, drivers were given a couple of extra days to get into compliance, but car and truck owners were warned to not use vehicles that didn't have the new license plates after the coming Monday, or they would face fines.
Mrs. Dee Humphrey was overseeing distribution of the plates in Curry County. She said more than 5,000 car license plates and 1,600 truck plates had been distributed so far.
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