Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1988: Area livestock owners were assessing losses after a storm the previous week that dumped up to 15 inches of snow in the Yeso area, along with freezing rain and winds of 30-50 mph.
The storm passed through Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, and Lincoln counties, and was especially hard on sheep, many of which had been recently sheared.
Yeso rancher Charlie Overton was one of the hardest hit, losing 300 sheep his crew had sheared only the day before.
"It's going to be a great loss come fall when we don't have anything to sell," Overton said. "It's going to cripple the sheep industry in this area."
1973: Cook's Discount Department Store had a full page ad in the Clovis News-Journal. Here are a few of the items featured:
A "rapid data mini calculator" that ran on four AA batteries and promised "addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and chain" for $48.86, instead of the regular price of $69.95.
A General Electric cassette player for only $19.97, with a regular price of $25.76.
A Sunbeam "Iron of Today," with built-in steam for $10.99.
A General Electric "Detangler," that for $13.97 pledged to "glide gently through wet or dry hair," minimizing "breakage and pullout."
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